“Team leader! Can I step out for a moment?”
“Uh, sure.”
The team leader, startled by my energy, gave permission.
I grabbed Ji Seo Joon’s arm and hurried out of the office.
It was a bustling work time, so the rooftop garden was quiet. A few people glanced at us, but I didn’t care about the rumors that would inevitably spread.
It was a crucial moment.
“You did that on purpose, right?”
“Me? What?”
I was shameless too, but I couldn’t beat Ji Seo Joon’s brazenness at times like this.
Ji Seo Joon ripped open the bag of snacks he had intended to give me and put it in his mouth.
“You deliberately came to our team when you could have just said it via email or messenger!”
“How can I give you snacks over messenger?”
Ji Seo Joon said, putting one snack at a time into his mouth.
“Ah! And you’re in charge of my overseas business trips?”
“What?”
“Not that you saw my business trip matter, but you were the person in charge, right? That’s why you called me urgently during lunch to confess.”
My mouth, which had been bravely arguing with Ji Seo Joon, tightly closed.
“While working in a department where we would inevitably meet, what were you thinking when you lied like that?”
“…….”
My mouth, still refusing to open. The sound of Ji Seo Joon crunching on the snacks cut through the noise of the rooftop.
“Well. Whatever. I won’t ask anymore why you only spoke up now.”
Ji Seo Joon spoke as if he was doing me a favor, then opened the mouth of the snack bag and handed it to me.
“Is it okay now if I pretend to know you a lot?”
There was a playful look on Ji Seo Joon’s face that I had seen a lot during high school. I felt I needed to say something, so I cautiously opened my mouth.
“Let’s…. try not to acknowledge each other too much at work.”
“Why?”
“Well…”
“Are you worried it’ll get noisy because of me?”
A heavy voice settled over the back of my head. My eyes, which had been staring at the tip of his shoes, moved to his face.
Was it my imagination that he seemed a bit sad?
“I have no intention of doing that.”
Ji Seo Joon, after leaving those words, turned around and began to walk away, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.
“And my business trip to Japan. I’d appreciate it if you could shorten the duration of my stay there.”
I, who had been living in the company as if I was there but not there, rose to prominence overnight as a close friend of Ji Seo Joon, the lead researcher of Virus Team 1 that the company was pushing.
The vague hovering interest seemed to resurrect the emotions I felt during high school.
Of course, I wasn’t the same as I was back then. A lot of accumulated experience, increased audacity, masks provided by social life, and tips on human relationships. Everything leveled up.
“Assistant Manager Moon. You’re close with Researcher Ji Seo Joon, right?”
People who knew me, even a little, always had a word to say as they passed by.
Yesterday, I almost fainted in the company cafeteria for the first time in my 13 years of life due to the fleeting glances. Today, I absolutely did not want to eat in the company cafeteria, so I called on Baek In Ha.
“In Ha. Shall we eat out today?”
“Yes. Sounds good!”
Inside the elevator going down to the first floor.
Female employees from other floors crowded into the elevator. At the furtive glances or outright stares, I deliberately held my chin higher.
After escaping the uncomfortable elevator, I nonchalantly exited the company with Baek In Ha. At my suggestion to have a quick meal, we ended up in a nearby snack bar. Baek In Ha, eating kimbap, stared at me as if she could see right through me.
“Why? Is there something on my face?”
When I asked, she, who had been shaking her head vigorously from side to side, gulped down her kimbap.
“Now I understand exactly why you tried to keep it so secret.”
I put on an impressed expression at her words.
“Haha. Still, the secret I kept from you is safe.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Can I have another roll of kimbap then?”
“Sure, you can even order the pork cutlet kimbap.”
At her suggestion to take a walk after eating, I shook my head and returned to the office. I came back to my seat with a cup of instant coffee from the break room and let out a deep sigh.
“So, do you think the world is going to end?”
In the still quiet office, Ji Seo Joon entered without a sound.
“Why are you here?”
As I turned my head and glanced around, Ji Seo Joon placed a coffee on my desk with a ‘thud’. It was a large size coffee from my favorite franchise.
After taking a quick look at the paper cup on my desk, Ji Seo Joon said.
“I shouldn’t have bought it. If I knew you were already having coffee, I would have taken it back.”
I quickly moved the instant coffee to the side and took a gulp from the coffee Ji Seo Joon bought for me. Looking at me, Ji Seo Joon chuckled.
“Is there anything you want me to buy when I go to Japan?”
“I don’t need anything.”
“Not you, ask your mom and dad too.”
“You make the call. Our mom will be smiling all day if she gets a call from you.”
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
***
Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
