116 Blue Eyes

The content market is a strange thing.

With the sudden emergence of this thing called OTT, television dramas and movie theaters began walking the road to ruin.

Global hit content watched by people around the world began flooding the market.

And no one could have predicted that, amid all this, the thing standing out most would be Korean dramas—the ones people had always cursed out as garbage.

For several weeks, one drama had been racing to No. 1 in every country on N Company's OTT platform, setting a record for success unprecedented in Korean history.

Its title was something like Whatever Game, I think, but I didn't watch it.

I have an unnecessary case of hipster syndrome when it comes to this sort of thing…

Even so, I roughly knew the story and could recite every iconic scene and famous line.

Because it showed up on Shorts like crazy.

It had reached the point where it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I'd watched the whole thing through Shorts...