‘That’s right. Now that things have turned out this way, let’s just work hard at it.’

I sat at my desk with a serious expression after returning home.

‘Anyway, this is an opportunity.’

I had been worrying a lot about how to bring Ji Seung Hyun and Seol Yu Bin together, but now things have worked out like this.

It’s infuriating, but I guess I have to thank Ban Ha Min.

‘But simply going to the amusement park together is not enough.’

Even with the suspension bridge effect or whatever, if that was enough for love to bloom, Seol Yu Bin wouldn’t have suffered so much.

‘I need some kind of impactful solution….’

I opened my diary and started flipping through it.

Not long after possessing this body, I had organized all sorts of romance and webnovel clichés in my diary.

Just in case it might come in handy later.

‘Is there anything useful here?’

Regrettably, most of it was useless information.

Things like ‘These days, possessions are actually not possessions if you look closely, but have a deeper meaning’ or ‘Let’s try to become one of the rare cases of a possessed person returning to their original world’.

‘Why on earth did I write these down?’

I must have really lost it mentally when I first got possessed.

‘There’s no way I only wrote down such stupid things.’

I continued reading through the diary with patience.

After reading for quite a while, I was able to draw one conclusion.

‘Hmm. I was an idiot.’

There wasn’t a single piece of truly helpful information.

What the heck was I doing when I first got possessed?

‘If I knew it would be like this, I should have thought harder back then.’

The diary was just filled with scribbles and nonsense. I know it’s a bit much to say this about myself, but… it’s really useless.

‘Sigh.’

I closed the diary and lay down on the bed.

‘Isn’t there really any way….’

That’s when it happened.

Yeah, I can see that…

It was a statement I could trust, as the system had only ever shown a sincere passion for webnovels.

"How are you going to help?"

At my words, the system showed me through actions rather than words.

What, there was a feature like this too?

Looking closely, there seem to be many hidden features in the system. I should check it out now.

‘Let’s take a look…’

I lay on the bed and flipped through the window here and there.

The system’s ‘Webnovel Cliché Encyclopedia’ was, as the name suggests, an alphabetical compilation of webnovel clichés.

For example, things like this:

The male lead emits a cool water scent.

That darn cool water scent.

I think it’s been over 10 years since I first saw that phrase in a webnovel, but I still don’t know what a cool water scent is. I wonder if Ji Chan would smell like that? I’ll have to check later.

Men can also die from uterine cancer in this world, so be careful.

What the heck is this now?

Clicking on it revealed more details.

There is a legend passed down about a famous webnovel author who, after failing an exam, got pissed and killed off the male lead with uterine cancer…

As expected, it’s a scary world setting.

‘I need to escape quickly.’

There were various other clichés as well.

The male lead sometimes pretends to date the villainess because of unavoidable circumstances.

The female lead’s friend is deeply loyal.

The popular hair dye color is blue-black.

‘Is it going to be like this to the end?’

It was a list that was neither helpful nor unhelpful.

No, honestly, it wasn’t helpful.

‘Well, I’m sure I’ll find something if I keep reading.’

I scrolled down the list with patience.

And finally, I found one line I could use.

Even loners can become beauties if they take off their glasses.

I snapped my fingers.

“Alright, this is it!”

Saturday.

After class, I headed to the nurse’s office to meet Seol Yu Bin.

You’re wondering why there’s class on a Saturday?

Surprisingly, in the early 2000s, students had to go to school every other Saturday.

Well, not exactly every other week… I’ll skip the detailed explanation.

“Yu Bin, hi.”

At my greeting, Seol Yu Bin shyly greeted me back.

“Hi.”

Last night, after going through my diary, I had called Seol Yu Bin using her contact information I had received beforehand and set up a meetup.

The plan was to go shopping together before heading to the amusement park.

Fortunately, Seol Yu Bin didn’t refuse my suggestion. Perhaps because of what happened yesterday, she seemed to have let her guard down a lot around me.

I smiled brightly and looked Seol Yu Bin over.

‘Hmm, good.’

My goal was a makeover.

‘I’m going to change everything from head to toe.’

Right now, Seol Yu Bin had what you might call ‘outcast styling’.

Frizzy hair with thick, round glasses.

A baggy uniform with a long skirt that went down to her calves.

‘Those things are hiding Seol Yu Bin’s face.’

Then I can’t just sit back and watch.

‘I’ll give her a complete transformation.’

This kind of scene was common in old webnovels.

The cliché where a plain-looking kid suddenly goes to a salon and comes back as a stunning beauty…

‘Since Seol Yu Bin is the female lead’s twin sister, she’ll become a beauty just by taking off her glasses.’

Then should I buy contact lenses first? Or go to a salon?

Whichever we went to first, we had to head downtown.

Speaking of downtown… it’s a word I haven’t used in a really long time.

I smiled brightly.

“Alright, let’s go.”

Seol Yu Bin nodded.

Seol Yu Bin and I headed to the shopping district near the school.

Even though I say shopping district, it’s nothing special, just the only place around here where you can hang out.

‘In other words, it’s the holy land of delinquents.’

By the way, this is where Yoo Hee Na’s kidnapping incident took place.

‘I pray that nothing happens today…’

I prayed earnestly in my heart.

Before getting into action, Seol Yu Bin and I went into a café to start a strategy meeting.

“First, the most important thing is…”

I asked with a serious expression.

“What do you think of Ji Seung Hyun?”

“Huh?”

Perhaps it was an unexpected question, as Seol Yu Bin flinched in surprise and blushed slightly.

“S-Seung Hyun?”

I nodded.

It may seem out of the blue, but this was an important question in its own way.

Not only for Seol Yu Bin’s sake, but also for my goal of an early conclusion.

It’s not simply to hear Seol Yu Bin’s determination.

‘I need to brainwash her.’

To be honest, the chances of Seol Yu Bin’s confession succeeding right now are low.

Because there’s too little time for a dramatic change.

No matter how much you dress up or do anything, a person’s core doesn’t change, and Ji Seung Hyun isn’t a fool who would just go along with it.

‘I’ll be lucky if he even takes her seriously.’

Of course, there’s a possibility that Ji Seung Hyun is a hopeless pretty face who falls for looks, but… if he were that kind of person, things wouldn’t have gotten this bad in the first place.

‘So I have to be prepared for the case where she gets rejected after confessing.’

Actually, it’s a bit much to say this, but I was half convinced that Seol Yu Bin would get rejected.

‘If she’s going to get rejected anyway, the blow should at least be small.’

Seol Yu Bin, who didn’t know what I was thinking, just smiled with a troubled look on her face.

I’m sorry, Yu Bin… It’s come to this.

For that reason, I decided to give Seol Yu Bin mental training before the makeover.

So that instead of causing a suicide scare after getting rejected like in the original work, she could overcome the pain of heartbreak on her own.

“Seung Hyun is… kind and cool… a good kid.”

Seol Yu Bin just stammered shyly as she spoke.

“He’s always been nice to m-me too… He’s treated me really well since we were young. Th-the only one who thinks of me is Seung Hyun.”

Doesn’t seem like that lately. You sure?

I wanted to object, as I had often witnessed them fighting recently.

“I see… He’s a good friend.”

I carefully brought it up, reading her expression.

“But now I’m your friend too, you know.”

“Huh?”

I spoke in a roundabout way, afraid that being too direct would make her uncomfortable.

“I mean… It’s not like Seung Hyun is the only one who thinks of you.”

So please, don’t cause a suicide scare if you get rejected.

I was desperate to avoid the original storyline.

But Seol Yu Bin just tilted her head with a clueless expression.

“You might make more friends besides me in the future too. You don’t only have Seung Hyun.”

“Yeah, thanks.”

Seol Yu Bin smiled brightly.

Ah… I think she didn’t quite get it. I guess I spoke too indirectly.

As expected, brainwashing in this short time was impossible.

Can’t be helped. I’ll just say one last thing and give up.

“Yu Bin.”

Feeling sorry for this kid with low self-esteem who believes Ji Seung Hyun is her entire world, I just said it bluntly as a last resort.

“There are many people in this world who will respect you besides Ji Seung Hyun. So don’t be too discouraged, and you need to respect and cherish yourself first. Got it?”

“Huh? Uh… okay.”

Seol Yu Bin seemed a bit confused as to why I suddenly said that, but she nodded anyway.

And with that, we roughly wrapped up the conversation.

Now it was time to get into the actual makeover.

I asked Seol Yu Bin.

“By the way, do you know Ji Seung Hyun’s type?”

Seol Yu Bin spoke carefully, reading my expression.

“Um… probably someone confident?”

“Anything else?”

“Hmm… a kind person?”

That wasn’t helpful at all.

‘I have no idea what style I should do.’

Naturally, I didn’t know Ji Seung Hyun’s type in women either. I didn’t even know his name properly in the first place.

‘Hold on, let me think. In the original work, Ji Seung Hyun liked Seol Yu Hwa.’

Then should I style her like Seol Yu Hwa?

I propped my chin with my hand, deep in thought.

‘But wouldn’t it be weird to blatantly imitate Seol Yu Hwa?’

The kid already has an inferiority complex towards her sister.

‘I think it would be better to differentiate from Seol Yu Hwa…’

Differentiate… What kind of vibe would be different from Seol Yu Hwa? Something pure and innocent?

I stared intently at Seol Yu Bin, pondering seriously. Seol Yu Bin flinched, looking flustered under my intense gaze.

That’s when it happened.

“Lee Ju Eun?”

A high-pitched voice called out to me.

Huh?

Who is it?

I raised my head to find the person who called me.

And I flinched.

“What are you doing here?”

Surprisingly, the owner of the voice was Yoo Hee Na.