“Ms. Baek In Ha, where do you hear such news from?”
When I asked her out of half curiosity and half surprise, Baek In Ha, seemingly embarrassed, laughed and answered.
“Well, I tend to wander around here and there. So, I end up hearing a lot. Ah! I’m diligently working on the task you assigned me today!”
The way she was awkwardly saluting with her left hand was adorable.
“Haha. I understand. Then, can I expect the draft guidelines for the domestic seminar travel plan of the Tech Research Team to be ready today?”
“Ah. That is…….”
She rushed back to her place at my words.
The biggest plan Baek In Ha had been in charge of since joining the company was a domestic business trip, but because there were many people, it was quite a big travel plan.
Looking at the back of Baek In Ha’s head as she quickly immersed herself in work, I turned my gaze back to my monitor with a satisfied smile.
The goddess, huh……
I’d never actually spoken to her, but her noticeable appearance had led to clear memories of running into her a few times within the company.
She was quite famous among the male employees, and the fact that she liked Ji Seo Joon……. gave me a rather bothersome feeling.
Could it be, jealousy?
As I pondered my emotions, I vehemently shook my head at the word ‘jealousy’.
The next day. Today, I was particularly unwilling to go to work. The persistent rain seemed to weigh heavy on my reluctance, weighing down my body.
Having arrived at work, I was looking at vacation photos to shake off the stifling mood a bit.
“Deputy Manager!”
Baek In Ha burst into the office in a fluster.
Could there be another office couple in the company? Most days when Baek In Ha made such an entrance, that was the kind of news she brought.
“Deputy Manager! You remember what I told you yesterday.”
“Did you rush here? You’re out of breath,” she said, panting.
“Yesterday? What about yesterday?”
“Oh my goodness! With the Goddess and Researcher Ji Seo Joon!”
Could it be… they’re dating? I hadn’t heard anything from Ji Seo Joon.
“The, the two of them are dating?”
There was a slight tremble in my voice due to the tension, but it seemed Baek In Ha didn’t notice. That was a relief.
“No! It’s just that……”
She bent closer to me after looking around the office, which still had many empty seats.
“Yoo Na Ra, she’s been dumped!”
“Pardon?”
This was shocking in its own way.
“Why?”
I perked up my ears.
“Well, this is a sad story… Ji Seo Joon has a girlfriend……”
Huh? He had a girlfriend? This was news to me.
Could it be……
A scene from the distant past flashed in my mind.
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“Who here is Moon Da Yul?”
A high school sophomore girl, with a skirt showing off her hips, wearing a jacket that looked about to burst, and sporting voluminous shaggy hair, asked as she roughly opened the classroom door.
All eyes in the room instantly turned to me.
“Is it you?”
As I stood dumbfounded, unable to answer out of fear, the sophomore girl strode over to my seat.
“You chewing gum? Are you Moon Da Yul?”
“Me? Yes……”
When I responded with a barely audible voice, she looked me up and down, then gave a satisfied laugh.
“I was wondering how impressive Ji Seo Joon’s girlfriend could be, but it’s you?”
“Pardon?”
I couldn’t understand what she was saying.
“Seems like you’re not only ugly, but also stupid… Always mumbling ‘pardon?’ ‘pardon?’ like a fool.”
At her words, I clenched my jaw again.
“So, you’re Ji Seo Joon’s girlfriend, huh.”
As she said this, the senior girl, who had been snickering with one corner of her mouth raised, kicked my desk with her foot.
“Ah!”
Startled, I jumped up from my seat.
At that moment, someone shouted ‘Teacher!’ and headed for the hallway. The girl, who had been watching this, turned to me.
“You, I’ll be watching you.”
And indeed, she watched over me until she graduated.
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I rubbed my goosebumped arm with the palm of my hand.
As it turned out, he, who had been driven crazy by the frequent calls and confessions from seniors, had declared, ‘Moon Da Yul from Class 12 is my girlfriend!’, and from then on, there was a ridiculous incident where all the female students in the school, including that senior girl, came to see me.
I wondered why that incident was coming to mind now. Trying to hide my anxiety, I asked Baek In Ha.
“Who is the girlfriend?”
“I don’t know either… She must have saved the country in her past life.”
The deflated girl turned her body, returned to her seat, and listlessly turned on her computer.
For some unknown reason, I wanted to ask him right away, but it didn’t make sense, not a bit, to ask about the story of him confessing and rejecting the girl who confessed to him, this morning.
“Ah… I’m anxious. So anxious.”
I mumbled as if praying and shook my legs nervously.
The rumor spread to S.T. in no time.
The two of them were quite a hot topic. I learned later that she had shown quite obvious interest in Ji Seo Joon, and that the place of her confession was none other than the company’s rooftop.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
