Carrot Girl
Biography
Inspiration at the award ceremony
Carrot Girl is Korea's most commercially successful romance novelist, but fame leaves her creatively trapped. She wants to write horror and resents producing only the stories readers expect, making the Grand Prize ceremony another obligation rather than a triumph. She arrives furious with her manager, insults Bom's hair, and isolates herself from the other writers. Seeing Yu Jitae interrupts that stagnation: his exhausted, dangerous presence gives her the tyrannical horror figure she has been unable to imagine. (Chapters 238–239)
She pursues Jitae and secures three meals by offering compensation and access to her professional connections. During those meetings she studies his face, voice, gestures, and military past while filling notes with ideas. The arrangement improves her mood and restores her creative drive, but she also develops personal attraction. In return for the inspiration, she introduces Bom's manuscript to Hinari Pictures and uses her influence to obtain a proposed movie adaptation. (Chapters 239–241)
At the ceremony, Carrot Girl mistakes Bom's controlled jealousy for useful character inspiration and deliberately pushes the conversation further. She then presents the adaptation contract as a gift, only for Bom to rip it apart and pour champagne over her after learning that Carrot Girl likes Jitae. Carrot Girl responds with fury, but her later rampages settle after another short meeting with a man. The encounter leaves the adaptation rejected while revealing that her generosity, provocation, ambition, and attraction had become inseparably mixed. (Chapters 241–244)
Appearance and personality
Carrot Girl is a twenty-nine-year-old superhuman woman whose late-twenties face appears even younger. She has orange or carrot-coloured hair, decorated with a red-and-yellow hairpin, and first appears in a one-piece dress and clicking heels. She carries herself like a celebrity, crossing her legs apart from other writers and expecting managers to rearrange rooms around her preferences. (Chapters 238–239)
She is short-tempered, arrogant, perceptive, and compulsively creative. A lack of inspiration makes her abusive toward staff, while a new idea can redirect all her attention within seconds. She studies people as potential characters and deliberately provokes emotion when it feeds a story. Her support for Bom's adaptation shows real professional generosity, but she presents that help possessively and fails to understand the household's emotional boundaries until the ceremony explodes. (Chapters 238–242)
Powers and abilities
Superhuman condition
Carrot Girl is identified as a superhuman, which accounts for her youthful appearance, but no combat rank, blessing, spell, or physical feat is demonstrated. Bom's momentary dragon-like gaze frightens her, Jitae's voice silences her, and ordinary restraint from nearby writers can hold her back during the ceremony. Her superhuman status therefore should not be treated as evidence of combat specialization. (Chapters 238–242)
Creative perception and authorship
Carrot Girl constructs stories from intense impressions of other people. Jitae's appearance suggests a tired soldier and tyrant, while tiny changes in Bom's eyes generate entire romance plots. The narrative does not identify this as a supernatural mind-reading ability: she repeatedly calls the images inspiration, makes incorrect assumptions about Bom's emotions, and treats the visions as artistic interpretations. Its strength is speed and abundance; its limitation is that she can mistake projection for knowledge of the person observed. (Chapters 239–241)
Her demonstrated professional power is exceptional. She has roughly ten successful works, five drama adaptations, two channel-leading ratings, and about 750 million e-book downloads. She can reach major production executives and secure review of Bom's manuscript, but even her influence cannot force Bom to accept the contract. Her latest creative state is improved after meeting Jitae, though no completed new work is shown. (Chapters 238–244)
Relationships
Yu Jitae
Carrot Girl sees Jitae as both creative material and an attractive man. She chases him, pays for meetings, studies him in detail, and uses professional help for Bom to make the arrangement worthwhile. Jitae participates only to benefit Bom and shows no romantic interest, but Carrot Girl interprets his indifference as part of the appeal. Their unequal understanding of the meetings triggers Bom's jealousy and the ceremony conflict. (Chapters 238–243)
Bom
Carrot Girl first dismisses Bom as an inexperienced awardee, then becomes fascinated by the emotions visible beneath her calm manner. She genuinely advances Bom's manuscript to a major film company, while also teasing her about Jitae to gather inspiration. Bom rejects both the contract and Carrot Girl's interference. The relationship ends in public humiliation and an apology letter rather than professional collaboration. (Chapters 238, 240–244)
Her manager and company
Carrot Girl's manager absorbs her anger, rearranges seating, offers compensation on her behalf, and tries to keep her on schedule. She threatens to leave the management company when pressured to produce another profitable romance novel, giving her leverage but also revealing dependence on the staff who convert her work into adaptations and public appearances. (Chapters 238–239)
Items
Notes and business contacts
Carrot Girl records observations during her meals with Jitae as ideas arrive. She later gives him a Hinari Pictures vice president's business card and supplies Bom with an adaptation contract from her own company. These papers embody her practical exchange with Jitae: his presence restores her ideas, while her industry access creates an opportunity for Bom. (Chapters 240–242)
Hermes Birkin bag
At the award ceremony, Carrot Girl carries the contract documents in a paper bag inside a Hermes Birkin bag. The handbag has no magical function; it reinforces the wealth and celebrity status produced by her publishing career. (Chapter 241)