Chapter 40: I only tried to show about 80% of my sincerity

Youngjun lightly swept the collar of his neatly ironed suit and glanced at Jina, who was walking side by side.

Jina had her usual languid expression, but she seemed a little uncomfortable.

The black two-piece suit seemed to be pressing on her chest, and she frowned slightly with each step.

“The suit doesn’t seem to fit well.”

“I borrowed it in a hurry. I don’t usually have many occasions to wear it.”

Of course, Jina also has a suit.

It’s just that it’s a men’s suit.

She borrowed Hyoin’s suit because it was a hassle to get a new one.

…Of course, the size didn’t fit.

The chest area was the biggest problem, more than anywhere else.

She somehow squeezed her body into the clothes.

When she first wore the suit, she grumbled that the top button wouldn’t close properly, and Hyoin gave her a good smack on the back.

Jina deserved it for saying that.

“How about getting a new one on this occasion? I think you’ll have a lot of opportunities to wear it in the future.”

At Youngjun’s words, Jina shook her head lightly.

“This time, I happened to come out, but I won’t have any more occasions to come to places like this in the future.”

At the same time, Jina added that she was grateful to Youngjun for coming with her.

She’s not good at negotiations or business talk. She doesn’t know how reassuring it is to have Youngjun, an expert, by her side.

“I’m more grateful. I’m also sorry for handing over a bothersome task to Jina.”

“It’s okay. I told you. It looked interesting.”

Jina turned her head slightly and looked at Youngjun.

“Besides, it’s for making a product that Summer and Winter will be the main advertising models for. It made me more motivated.”

“Haha… That’s right.”

Youngjun was touched by Jina’s words.

He was deeply moved by Jina’s appearance, thinking of the 3rd generation members, Seasons, as her own daughters.

Cosmo Live really met a great person.

When the headquarters building of Free Rose Lingerie came into view, Jina stopped for a moment and fiddled with her pants pocket. Something hard was caught in her hand.

“…It’s a shame. I was originally planning to come after finishing the prototype perfectly.”

When Youngjun looked at her with a puzzled face, Jina took out a USB memory stick and shook it slightly.

“Time was tight, so I don’t think I’ll be able to do a perfect demonstration.”

“…Did you finish the development just by looking at the PPT I sent you?”

“Not finished… roughly 80%? 90%? It would have been better if I had polished it more… Well, I think this will be enough to surprise them.”

She may not know about Free Rose Lingerie, but at least Youngjun was definitely surprised.

What kind of freelancer roughly hears an idea and makes more than 80-90% of the product before the first meeting?!

‘This is… a former graduate student…? Jinaemon…?!’

Jina, on the other hand, was smiling indifferently, as if it was nothing.

There was no sign of tension.

Rather, she seemed a little excited.

On the other hand, there seemed to be a playful expectation.

‘I think Jina could turn the meeting room upside down even without me?’

Youngjun was seriously 고민 whether he needed to come along.

“Let’s go in, Jina.”

When they arrived at the headquarters building, Youngjun walked one step ahead as if to escort Jina.

Because Jina is pulling Cosmo Live.

He feels a little more comfortable doing these little things.

A meeting room with calm classical music playing.

A digital screen on one wall shone quietly.

Tables neatly placed with colorful brochures and sample fabrics here and there subtly revealed that this was a fashion company.

“Thank you for coming all this way.”

The person who spoke in a light and cheerful tone was Lee Hyun, the sales department manager of Free Rose Lingerie.

“You’re Jina, right? You have a really good style.”

Jina, who was about to sit down with Youngjun, bowed her head slightly and smiled softly.

“Well… thanks to my junior who lent me good clothes.”

The suit is tight because of the forcibly fastened buttons.

The gradually pressing stuffiness was faintly revealed on Jina’s face.

Hyun noticed that fact and laughed lightly.

“But it really suits you. Your junior seems to have a sense of fashion.”

“My junior will be happy to hear that. Oh, I came with Youngjun, the general manager of Cosmo Live.”

At Jina’s introduction, Youngjun, who was standing next to her, lowered his voice and briefly introduced himself.

“Ah… Welcome. We also need to talk about the advertising model contract for Summer and Winter.”

“There’s also the advertising model issue, but I also needed to check Jina’s schedule, so I came along.”

Invisible sparks flew between Hyun and Youngjun.

It’s a subtle war of nerves between people whose job is to deal with people.

“Actually, I didn’t want to come because it’s a hassle to go far… but they said it’s better to talk while looking at each other, so I had no choice.”

Feeling the tense atmosphere, Jina casually added a word with an indifferent expression.

At that, Hyun relaxed her expression and laughed lightly.

“It’s the place where a new project is officially launched. It would be troublesome if information about the new product leaked out, right?”

The data created by the existing research team is data that can be created by grabbing any graduate student and asking them to analyze this topic.

That’s why Hyun showed it to Youngjun without any burden.

But future research.

No, the words that will come out of Jina’s mouth.

It must be handled in strict secrecy.

Jina also knows that fact well, so she didn’t say anything else even though she showed a sign of annoyance.

“Then, can I know what the schedule is for today?”

Youngjun asked carefully.

“First, we’ll briefly look at the meeting materials we prepared…”

“Before that, I have something I prepared, so let’s talk about it first.”

Jina said that she had roughly heard about this matter from Youngjun, and took out a USB.

“What kind of data is it?”

Jina connected the USB to a large monitor installed on one wall of the meeting room.

When Jina opened the browser window, a program execution window with the label ‘JINA-engine’ appeared on the large screen.

On the normal-looking GUI, there were spaces requesting bust circumference, underbust circumference, and upper body image attachment.

Hyun’s eyes sparkled after checking the screen.

Although Hyun is just a non-expert, she had an intuition that something great would come out.

“It’s still incomplete, but it won’t be a problem to see the overall flow.”

Jina entered appropriate values into the UI, attached a normal woman’s photo with a visible chest curve, which she scraped from the internet, and pressed the ‘Generate’ button.

About a minute later? Three 3D breast models of different shapes were output on the screen.

“Wa, wa… Wait a minute!”

Hyun stood up from her chair, unable to suppress her excitement.

This is an emergency.

“I’ll call the lab director. I… I can’t judge by myself…”

Hyun hurriedly picked up the company’s internal phone and pressed the number with trembling hands.

“Yes, Lab Director. Please come to meeting room L3 right now… What? You’re in a team seminar? That’s not important right now! You have to come right away!”

She lowered her voice, but she couldn’t hide her agitated tone.

Soon, the door to the meeting room opened and a middle-aged woman in casual clothes entered with urgent steps.

The woman Hyun called the lab director, took a quick look at the program screen connected to the big screen as soon as she came in, and swallowed a chuckle.

Like an expert, she recognized at a glance what was reflected on the screen.

“Are… you Jina?”

“Ah, I’m the manager. Jina is…”

Jina leaned back in her chair and nodded with a languid expression.

“This… is the model that Jina made herself.”

“Yes. For now, I made it in a flow that outputs approximate breast shape candidates if you have bust circumference, underbust circumference, and an upper body photo.”

When Jina clicked the mouse a few times, detailed menus and simulation graphs began to appear on the screen one after another.

Seeing various breast models being reproduced close to real life each time each button was pressed, the lab director stared at the screen as if she had lost her soul.

“The technology that our research team was trying to implement… is almost perfectly realized.”

Hyun also nodded at that. It wasn’t for nothing that she urgently called the lab director.

“It’s still a long way off. It can only produce 3 types of candidate shapes, and the image analysis rate is low.”

Jina, on the other hand, still shook her head as if she was not satisfied.

“Of course, the accuracy will increase if you put in a picture of the upper body wearing only underwear, but you can’t ask the user to upload a picture of them naked, right?”

“Haha…”

What’s more, this person was conducting research considering the usability of the product.

Above all, the ultimate goal is not just to extract the shape of the breast, but to provide a framework for custom-made underwear.
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There’s still a lot of work to be done.”

“That, that’s true, but…”

The lab director couldn’t continue her words with a surprised expression.

This alone has already drastically shortened the research and development period that the company was holding internally.

“I think Jina is much better than our research team.” Haha.

“…Should we have called HR too, Director?”

It’s a whispered word like a joke, but it’s also a word full of sincerity.

Hyun realized once again why researchers get a high salary.

Meanwhile, Youngjun was slowly examining the atmosphere of the meeting room.

Free Rose Lingerie, which says it’s already perfect.

And Jina, who keeps fussing that there’s still a lot of work to be done.

Looking at both sides alternately, he soon let out an exclamation in his heart.

‘There was a reason Jina brought me.’

Youngjun was sitting in this place not as Cosmo Live, but as Jina’s manager.

‘In the end, it was an agency.’

Youngjun’s role is.

To help Jina get the maximum benefit from this work.

‘While we’re at it, remove the toxic clauses in Summer and Winter’s contracts. And add one or two more favorable clauses.’

Youngjun smiled meaningfully, slightly raising the corners of his mouth.

Thanks to Jina, the atmosphere has completely shifted.

The company wants to hold on to Jina somehow, and Jina doesn’t have anything to be in a hurry for.

If push comes to shove, she can just take this and go to a competitor.

If you can’t do anything even though the table is set so deliciously?

Then, well, you have to take off your clothes right away.