3 P.M.
Sa Rang was busy with her work, but she couldn’t help but be concerned about Do Han, who was sitting next to her.
It was normal not to have any tasks on the first day of work.
When she was a new employee, she had spent her first day anxiously waiting for her mentor to assign her work.
For about a week, it had been so leisurely that she wondered, ‘Is it really okay to do nothing?’
Everyone was too busy with their own work to pay attention to the new hires.
Occasionally, someone would stop by to chat or invite them for coffee, and that was about it.
Therefore, there was no need to worry about Do Han sitting quietly for two hours, reading a book about his job.
They had just finished a project and were enjoying a brief period of downtime, so it made sense that he didn’t have any immediate tasks.
Yet, Sa Rang couldn’t shake the feeling that she was neglecting him for personal reasons.
She would have left anyone else alone in the same situation.
Sa Rang sighed internally.
Why did she, who joined the company earlier, have to be mindful of the new guy?
But then again, it wasn’t like an employee could ask a senior for photocopying tasks.
While she was pondering these things, Dong Sik approached them.
“Should I buy coffee to celebrate the new guy’s arrival?”
“I’ll go get it, boss.”
As Na Young stood up, Dong Sik handed her his personal card.
“Oh, take the junior with you since you can’t carry it all alone.”
At the mention of ‘the junior’, both Sa Rang and Do Han stood up simultaneously.
Dong Sik looked a bit startled as he glanced at the two of them.
He habitually referred to Sa Rang as the junior, but since Do Han was her mentee, he was technically the team’s junior for the time being.
“Oh, is Ji now the junior?”
“I’ll go.”
As the routine of being the junior was ingrained in Sa Rang, she prepared to leave, and Do Han followed suit.
“I’ll go.”
Na Young and Dong Sik felt as if the two were competing to be the junior.
Sa Rang, usually cheerful, seemed a bit sharp today, adding to that impression.
“Just go together. It must be boring for Ji to just sit there without anything to do.”
Eventually, the three followed Dong Sik’s order.
They went down to the café on the first floor, where Na Young ordered thirteen cups of Americano.
As it seemed to take a while, they sat at a table to wait.
Na Young led the conversation.
With a new team member, there were many things she was curious about.
“How old are you, Mr. Ji?”
“I’m thirty-one.”
“That’s the same as me. Which university did you attend? Just wondering if there are alumni from our team.”
“I attended Korea University for three years and Myeongseong University for three semesters.”
“What?”
“I dropped out of both.”
Na Young was slightly surprised but then nodded.
“Ah, I see. I heard you started a business with a college friend. Is that why you dropped out?”
“No, the dropout was…”
Do Han paused and looked at Sa Rang, sitting opposite him.
He remembered the time he had bid her farewell with a clumsy lie about going abroad for studies.
Unable to speak easily, Sa Rang seemed uninterested, looking elsewhere. Do Han turned his gaze to Na Young.
“It was for a different reason.”
Na Young nodded again.
In just a short conversation, she felt, ‘This is someone who succeeds for a reason.’
After just a brief conversation, she felt, “This is what makes a person successful.”
His confidence shone through his upright posture and the depth in his eyes.
This was why, without any air of arrogance, he seemed like a person of stature, commanding respect.
An aura not found among those who boast about their prestigious education or wealthy background.
Na Young had a hunch that Do Han would be a great addition to the team.
Then suddenly, as if remembering something, her eyes widened.
“Wait, Sa Rang, you graduated from Myeongseong University, right?”
“Yes.”
As expected, Sa Rang wasn’t overly surprised.
She was glad she had previously advised Do Han to act as if they didn’t know each other.
She was even thankful that he played his part well, like they were meeting for the first time.
“Since Mr. Ji only attended for three semesters, perhaps you never saw each other at school?”
“We didn’t.”
“It’s a pity. If it had been the same time, you might have run into each other. Both of you would have attended engineering lectures, right?”
Na Young felt more regret.
With his extraordinary looks, Do Han must have been quite popular at the university.
If they had attended lectures in the same building, they might have bumped into each other in the hallways.
Wouldn’t that have made college life more interesting?
Na Young reminisced about her own university days, devoid of such experiences.
“It’s a shame. If you two knew each other, I would have asked Mr. Ji about what Sa Rang was like in college. She seems like she would have been popular with the boys.”
“I wasn’t really popular.”
Sa Rang was preoccupied with glancing at the vibrating bell on the table.
Wishing it would ring soon.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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