The audition was about to start soon, and instead of asking me to come to the director’s office, he wanted me to come to the set.
The second basement set was a small one, used exclusively for drama production.
Scratching the back of her head, as if understanding my confusion, she said, “I also received a message about it. They said it was urgent and asked you to come right away.”
“Really? Can you call the station director for me?”
I took the phone she handed me and dialed the station director’s number, but only the ringtone kept playing.
“They’re not answering?”
“Seems like they’re busy. I’ll go down and check anyway. Thank you.”
In the end, I handed the phone back to her.
I thought it might be urgent, and since my audition turn was towards the end, I figured it wouldn’t matter if I went.
‘Can’t be helped.’
At that moment, my eyes met Jae Ha’s, who was among the people in the distance.
He pointed at the studio with his chin, as if asking if I wasn’t going in.
I slightly nodded my head to him.
Then, I turned around and headed towards the set on the second basement floor.
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I opened the door marked “Set at the end of the hallway.”
As I turned on the switch outside the door, the surroundings lit up.
Since it was the studio of a drama that had just finished airing, the props used for filming were still there.
“It seems they haven’t cleared it out yet…”
The set was empty, as the station director hadn’t arrived yet.
While I was looking around, the door opened.
“What are you doing here?”
I thought it was the station director, but the person who entered the studio was none other than Jae Ha.
He strode towards me, who was standing alone.
“Ah… The station director was looking for me.”
“Here? Isn’t the audition starting soon?”
He let out a hollow laugh, as if he thought the situation was strange.
Then, he looked around the set and sat down on the sofa in front of him.
“That’s true. It is strange. But how did you know to come here, Jae Ha?”
“I asked a staff member I was with.”
Wasn’t he the one being guided inside the broadcasting station just a moment ago?
He leaned back on the sofa, looking unconcerned, and met my gaze.
“I got bored, so I escaped.”
“Excuse me…?”
His indifferent face flashed through my mind as he listened to the explanations.
Though those boring explanations were all for him.
“I received an urgent call and left. One of the secretaries must be having a hard time listening to the explanations on my behalf.”
“Ah…”
“Anyway, it seems like the station director isn’t coming, so let’s go?”
As I looked at him with an understanding expression, Jae Ha quickly stood up.
And then, it happened.
Clunk.
The sound of the door closing echoed through the silent set.
No, to be more precise, it was the sound of the door locking.
“…?”
Feeling the encroaching anxiety, I hurriedly rushed to the set door.
I turned the doorknob multiple times, but it was locked from the outside and wouldn’t open.
And soon, the lights on the set went out, and complete darkness enveloped us.
“Uh, wait a moment!”
I desperately knocked on the door, but only silence returned.
“There’s someone in here!”
As I turned the doorknob and shouted, the unfamiliar footsteps gradually grew distant.
The windowless set was soon filled with pitchblack darkness.
“Who on earth would do such a thing…”
It was strange. Someone came all the way to the set in the basement, locked the door, and left.
In the pitchblack darkness where nothing could be seen, I heard shuffling footsteps.
“Jae, Jae Ha. Where are you?”
My voice trembled as I tried to find him.
Feeling as if I would be swallowed by the darkness, strength unknowingly filled the hand gripping the doorknob.
“I’m here. Are you okay?”
“Yes… I’m fine, but it’s too dark to see anything.”
As his voice reached me, a faint light soon shone on me.
It was the small light coming from Jae Ha’s cellphone.
Upon finding him, I sat down, overwhelmed with relief.
“Can’t we open the door from the inside?”
He approached the door, turning the doorknob while asking me.
“No… It’s a double lock. It seems to be locked from the outside.”
“This is ridiculous. Can we turn on the lights from the inside?”
“This is a temporary studio. There should be a light switch on the wall. No, I’ll go.”
Thud!
Following Jae Ha, I tripped over something on the floor and fell.
“Ouch! Ow.”
At the loud noise, Jae Ha, who had been walking ahead, rushed back to me in surprise.
“Are you hurt? Sigh, I told you not to move in the dark.”
In the light from the cellphone he placed on the floor, Jae Ha’s grimacing face was revealed.
“Your hands are bleeding. You need to fix your impulsive nature, Yoon Yeo Jin.”
My palms, which had scraped the wooden floor of the set, were bleeding.
Though I was the one who was injured, why did his pained face seem more hurt?
“Coming here alone like this, too. Without any fear. What would you have done if you were trapped here without me?”
After checking my palms, he carefully helped me up, holding my arm.
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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