Jiyu had a firm belief in her heart: always repay kindness and never forget grudges. The timing was perfect. Everyone was too busy eating sausage bread to notice. The teacher and the baker had finished their dangerous tasks and stepped outside for a moment.
In other words, there was no one in the classroom to stop Jiyu. She hadn’t forgotten the flour shower Hana had given her earlier. Jiyu smirked. Her target, Hana, was too absorbed in eating pizza bread to notice anything.
Jiyu plunged her hand deep into a white bowl filled with flour. To anyone watching, it looked like she was practicing wire tricks. She grabbed a handful of flour. Since Hana had earlier smeared flour on her cheek, Jiyu planned to retaliate with a full-face flour attack.
“Delicious!”
“Right, right?”
Hana and Yumi were chatting. Jiyu, like an assassin, sneaked up behind Hana. Her stealth skills were so good that Hana didn’t notice even when Jiyu was right behind her. Then again, Hana wasn’t exactly known for being perceptive.
*Tap tap*
Jiyu poked Hana’s head with her fingers. Hana reflexively turned around.
“Gotcha!”
Jiyu unleashed her flour bomb right onto Hana’s face. The white powder exploded like a bomb, hitting Hana square in the face.
“Ahhh!”
Hana’s face turned ghostly white. She was stunned. Jiyu clutched her stomach, laughing. Revenge always tasted sweet. The only problem was that Yumi, who was sitting close to Hana, also got caught in the crossfire.
“Jiyu, what are you doing?!”
Yumi was covered in flour too. Jiyu froze when she saw Yumi’s reaction. Yumi was Jiyu’s kryptonite.
Flour was flying everywhere, like a white smoke bomb had gone off. It was chaos.
But Jiyu hadn’t anticipated one thing: third-grade elementary school kids are *very* mischievous.
“Jiyu, look! This is so fun!”
As soon as one boy said that, it spread like a contagious disease. The whole class started playing with the flour.
“Ahhh!”
“Take this!”
The kids grabbed handfuls of flour and started throwing it at each other. The classroom descended into chaos. It was like a wildfire—once it started, there was no stopping it. Jiyu realized she had lit the fuse of a massive bomb. But before she could regain her senses, Hana struck back.
“Take this!”
Hana wasn’t one to let things slide. Jiyu, still dazed, got hit by Hana’s counterattack. Jiyu laughed, covered in flour. What’s done is done—might as well join in. Jiyu grabbed the entire bowl of flour and started flinging it everywhere.
“Ahhh!”
Hana was no match for Jiyu. Jiyu was a tank, and Hana was just a soldier with a gun. Hana could only run.
“Stop it!”
Yumi, the only sane one in the class, shouted at the kids to stop, but it was no use. The kids were having too much fun with the flour. It was an unstoppable force. The classroom turned completely white, like a smoke bomb had gone off. You couldn’t see an inch in front of you.
*Creak—*
Amid the chaos, the teacher and the baker opened the door and walked in. They stood there, stunned, like they’d been hit by a stun gun. The sudden change in the situation was too much to process. While the baker stood there, mouth agape, witnessing the carnage, the teacher quickly regained her composure and shouted at the kids.
“Stop—!”
The teacher’s sharp voice echoed through the classroom, and miraculously, the kids froze. They quietly returned to their seats, eyeing the teacher nervously. It was impressive how quickly they obeyed.
The teacher looked around. The place was a mess. The kids were covered in flour, looking like they’d been breaded for frying. It was clear: today was the day to discipline them properly. And figuring out how to clean up this mess was giving her a headache.
“Ugh, you troublemakers…”
Of course, the ringleaders, Jiyu and Hana, stood there silently, lips sealed.
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“Whoa!”
Siyun let out a gasp of admiration, like the protagonist of a famous cooking anime. The wine was simply exquisite.
“This… this is…”
The taste of the grapes in the Starlight Wine kept tantalizing his tongue. The rich grape aroma lingered in his mouth even after he swallowed the wine.
Siyun lamented his poor expressiveness. It couldn’t be helped. If he had been better at speaking, maybe he would’ve succeeded in a different broadcasting field.
Anyway, since he drank, he had to do a review. Siyun closed his eyes and thought about what to say for a moment.
“It’s excellent. As you all know, I don’t often call wines excellent. This Starlight Wine is no exception.”
Siyun poured the wine back into the wine glass.
“Just looking at the color and aroma, it’s easily a 5-star wine, but when it comes to taste, it leaves me speechless.”
Siyun spread his hands and said, “I’d give this wine 6 stars out of 5.”
These days, quick conclusions were the answer. With the rise of short videos, long review videos had long lost their popularity. He used to make reviews that were over 10 minutes, but lately, he’d been making 2-3 minute short reviews.
If it went over 10 minutes, people wouldn’t watch. If it wasn’t a short video, viewers couldn’t handle it. It was an unavoidable phenomenon. Newtubers like Siyun, who weren’t part of big corporations, had no choice but to ride the wave of the times. If they didn’t follow the trend, they’d just fall behind.
“With this level of taste and aroma, it definitely doesn’t fall behind wines in the 100,000 won range. In fact, it might even be better.”
“I heard they’re planning to make a premium line of wines, and I’m really looking forward to it. No matter the price, it’ll probably be worth it.”
“As expected from Starlight Food, the value for money is overwhelming. Honestly, calling it ‘value for money’ feels like an understatement. I highly recommend this wine to all my viewers!”
Siyun ended the recording. Then, he enjoyed the Starlight Wine. After all, he was a wine lover before he was a broadcaster.
“It’s delicious…”
If he had reviewed a bad or mediocre wine, he might’ve thrown it out, but Starlight Wine was so perfectly suited to his taste that he prepared some simple snacks and drank it. A pleasant buzz set in. It seemed like his usual wine choice might change today.
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The wine released by Starlight Food hadn’t caught on yet. In this day and age, consumers had access to so much information that even with advertising, things could easily get buried. For ads to work, there needed to be some kind of trigger.
So, Starlight Food started distributing their wine to restaurants and eateries. They supplied it at a low cost, barely making a profit. They also offered special benefits to restaurants that introduced Starlight Wine. For restaurant owners, it was a no-brainer—they’d only gain from it.
“Boss! Give us some soju!”
At a pork BBQ restaurant, a college student raised his hand and called out. At places like this, soju and beer were a must.
But then, a girl sitting at the table noticed the Starlight Wine poster on the restaurant wall and said, “Oppa! How about trying Starlight Wine instead of soju?”
“Huh? Jiyeon, what are you talking about? Wine at a pork BBQ place? And it doesn’t seem like it’d go well…”
“I tried it once at a convenience store, and it was really good! I think it’d go great with meat!”
Luckily, the college guy was adventurous, so he ordered a bottle of wine after hearing his junior’s suggestion.
“Here’s your Starlight Wine and corkscrew.”
The boss placed the wine and corkscrew on the table.
“If it’s made by Starlight Food, it’s probably reliable… but I don’t know much about wine…”
Even though he’d heard that Starlight Food’s products were hitting home runs left and right… he opened the wine with some skepticism. It was his first time pouring wine into a beer glass.
“Cheers!”
“Yay!”
The senior and junior clinked glasses and drank the wine.
The reaction was immediate.
