When I found myself in the dreamlike white landscape, Ji Seo-jun was standing there, brightening up and spreading his arms.
Is this not a dream?
I wiped my eyes and looked again at where Ji Seo-jun was standing. For a moment, I worried that this might be a dream. However, Ji Seo-jun was still there.
I rushed towards him and embraced Ji Seo-jun tightly.
“Oops!”
Did I run too fast?
The shock seemed quite significant, as Ji Seo-jun took a few steps back and could barely regain his balance.
“You almost fell.”
“What happened? Today wasn’t the day you were supposed to come.”
“I had crazy meetings and work.”
If there was a sudden change in the schedule, and he had to change his flight ticket, our department would have been informed. However, when I was still at work today, I hadn’t heard such a story.
“What about the plane ticket? How did you get it?”
It would have been difficult to secure a ticket around the year-end…
I looked up from Ji Seo-jun’s embrace. A thick snowflake gently landed on Ji Seo-jun’s patiently waiting eyelashes. Brushing off the snowflake, Ji Seo-jun smiled.
“I waited at the airport all day. Just in case a cancellation ticket would come out.”
Oh my.
I quickly recalled Ji Seo-jun endlessly waiting at Busan Airport, wanting to fly to Seoul for the year-end.
It felt both pitiful and lovely.
I wiggled my toes.
“Aren’t you hungry? Let’s go up. There’s plenty of delicious food inside with the adults.”
“To my place?”
“Yeah.”
Although I said it with sparkling eyes, Ji Seo-jun raised his eyebrows in a somewhat ambiguous manner.
“Oh!”
His forehead flashed. Ji Seo-jun, who had given me a sweet night, looked down at me with a stern expression.
“I wanted to spend Christmas with you and endured all that trouble to fly here. Now you’re suggesting we go to where the adults are? It’s not like I don’t have a sense, but isn’t it a bit too much…”
“No…”
For a moment, I felt a lump in my throat at the fiery forehead, but Ji Seo-jun’s words made my heart flutter.
“I left it on the bag.”
“Ah!”
His forehead glowed. With an imposing expression, Ji Seo-jun, who had given me a sweet night, raised his hand.
“I’m on the bag.”
I quickly sent a message to my mom from the pocket of my coat. I typed a message to my mom, who would probably send it to me with a gentle hand. As soon as the snowflake landed on the phone screen, it melted away.
[I’m going out with Seo-jun.]“It’s already the end-of-year ceremony. I’ll be 37 next year.”
“I’m moving to the front row.”
On the way to the conference room where the end-of-year ceremony was being held, there was me and this manager, shedding the lingering regrets of the year that was now only two days away.
“Jeong-hoon must be happy. He’s still in his twenties, right?”
“I’m almost there too.”
“No way. Let Jeong-hoon stay in his twenties. I’m already done for.”
Our youngest member, who responded to my words with a sigh, was not in his domain. As we entered the meeting room, it was unusually noisy, probably due to the approaching year-end.
“By the way, isn’t the Best Team this time the Bio Team 1?”
“As expected, it’s the Ace Team.”
In the corner, I saw the Bio Research Team chatting. They stood out among many employees, thanks to their 2m-tall team leader and Ji Seo-jun sparkling beside him.
“They always stand out.”
Next to me, this manager made a fist and looked at Ji Seo-jun.
“Is it more noticeable because of Director John?”
“What kind of exercise does Researcher Ji Seo-jun do?”
“I go to the gym.”
“How about you?”
“I do breathing exercises.”
The manager, who had been staring at me expressionlessly, offered me a high-five and extended his hand. He was a comrade.
“Try exercising with your boyfriend. When you turn 30, your stamina changes every day.”
“Even without that, Ji Seo-jun tempts me to exercise every day… I’m strong against such temptations.”
As we knew the importance of exercise very well, our conversation, which was difficult to resolve, was coming to an end. Just as the need for exercise was acknowledged, our difficult conversation was about to end. When the annual closing ceremony began.
“We were able to successfully wrap up this year thanks to the efforts of the S.T family. This year, many things happened…”
After the unusually long greeting from the CEO, the ceremony continued with the awarding of prizes and prize money for concluding the year.
The leader of the Best Team, Bio Team 1. When Director John went up to the stage, he looked even bigger. His cheerful award ceremony made everyone burst into laughter.
After that, when the closing ceremony was over and I was about to return to the office, Ji Seo-jun grabbed me.
“There’s no plan after today, right?”
“Yeah, right?”
At that moment, the big John approached from behind.
“It’s great! Let’s go together. Together.”
“What?”
Ji Seo-jun pressed his temples with one hand, as if he had a headache.
“We’re going to have a company dinner with this money tonight. A company dinner!”
He shook the prize money envelope he had received a while ago in front of me.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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