| “ | That would be the one sentence description of the QNW story. At least that should have been the story… |
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— Jung Yese, about QNW's original plot,
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on Chapter 19
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I Quit My Job and Ended Up as a Noble Young Lady in Another World (shortened as QNW) is the name of the in-novel novel that Jung Yese transmigrates into, where he wakes up in the body of Jesse Venetiaan—the second male lead of the story and the prince of the Venetiaan Holy Kingdom, who was sent to the Riester Empire as a diplomatic hostage.
The main character of QNW is Ham Ga-in, a 31-year-old office worker who, after quitting her job, transmigrated into the body of Christelle de Sarnez, the daughter of a Duke. Through a series of events, she ends up falling in love with Cédric Riester—the male lead of whom she got entangled with because of a politically arranged marriage—after getting through their initial stage of mutual disliking.
Although Jung Yese wasn't a reader of QNW, his younger sister of nine years, Jung Eunse, was an avid fan and the novel often became the main topic when the three Jung siblings sat down to eat together. Because of this, Jung Jesse was able to realize fairly quickly the world in which he had transmigrated into.[1]
- Chapter 2 – A person’s crash landing (2) :
[ ‘I quit my job and ended up as a noble young lady in another world’ aka ‘QNW.’ It was a bestseller romantic fantasy novel that was extremely popular in Korea. The romantic fantasy genre is called ‘RF’ for short but QNW pretty much rewrote the history of RFs and was a super extra mega-hit series that continued to achieve new record sales day after day. QNW was number 1 in the RF category on any platform with web novels, and it naturally took the top spot in the live, daily, weekly, and monthly best charts.
Even people who did not read RFs knew about the QNW title and its cover image.
As the first-ever novel in the RF world to reach the unprecedented height of being a million-seller, it quickly expanded into other mediums. Its webtoon was the start, and it was so popular that Korea’s top webtoon platform server went down before the first chapter was released. There were even talks about an animated series with a significantly high monetary investment. The QNW drama CD filled with major pop stars sold out two minutes after it started taking pre-orders, and the fans complained so much that they had to increase the production by 300%. They even took top actors and recently recorded an audiobook, which was where QNW’s official OST was included. ]
Summary[]
On April Fools, the author replaced the summary of TWSB on Munpia with that of QNW's :
X 같은 회사.
아이스크림도 서른한 가지 맛 중
아무거나 골라 먹을 수 있는 세상에,
만으로 서른하나씩이나 먹고
이따위 집단에 매여 있는 게 X 같았다.
그래서 사표를 썼다.
마지막 퇴근길.
X 같은 팀장의 벤츠를 시원하게 걷어잤다.
그랬더니 골 때리는 세계에 떨어졌다.
References
- ↑ Chapter 2