The hastily prepared news test ended without any major incidents.
Jae Ha, who seemed to receive a phone call during the broadcast, left and didn’t return.
With an anxious heart, I glanced at the area behind the camera from time to time, but his seat remained empty until the end.
[We will now conclude the news.]As soon as the camera light went off, I let out the breath I had been holding.
It felt like the tension that had filled the studio suddenly snapped.
Only after the tension was gone did I feel the countless gazes fixed on me.
“Anchor Yoon does do a good job.”
A staff member who had been blankly staring at me from afar mumbled.
Seo Rin quickly turned her head in the direction of the voice.
“That’s true. She used to be a news anchor, so it’s different, right?”
“I’m looking forward to seeing who will become the anchor.”
“Exactly.”
Admiration burst out from here and there.
I caught Seo Rin’s resentful gaze and smiled slyly.
With an angry face, she left the newsroom.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
I greeted the staff and got up from my seat.
A missed call appeared on my phone screen.
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Hello. This is Daejin Hospital. The patient’s condition suddenly worsened.
The missed call was from the hospital. The nurse’s words echoed in my head.
I heard that my parents’ condition had become critical overnight.
My steps to return to the news department became more and more urgent.
As soon as I put my hand on the office door, I hesitated at the sound of the voices coming from inside.
“She’s really ruthless. Does she want to return to being an anchor that much?”
“Living off her parents’ fortune and still doing that, can she really?”
So this is what being ostracized in the company feels like.
Though it wasn’t my first time hearing such things, my eyes trembled at the words that followed.
“What are you doing not going in?”
As I turned my head, Senior Young Joon was standing there with a puzzled look in his eyes.
“No, I was about to go in.”
He, who had been looking at me with narrowed eyes, opened the door and went in.
At first, the gazes directed at Senior Young Joon poured onto me as I followed him in.
I swallowed the sigh that came out involuntarily under the stinging glares that were different from those directed at my senior.
“Right, I heard about the camera test. What happened?”
“Where did you hear that?”
I questioned him, wondering if the news of me being trapped had already spread.
Senior Young Joon shrugged his shoulders as if to say, what’s the big deal?
“Isn’t the rumor already out? They say that CEO Seo Jae Ha was present.”
“Ah. I thought… it was about that. It must have been a coincidence.”
I thought he was talking about the incident when I was trapped in the basement set, but he was talking about the audition Jae Ha attended.
“What? Was there something else?”
“Yes, there was. It was an amazing incident.”
I answered him as he looked at me as if curious.
‘How brazen, even after causing such an incident.’
As I answered him and glanced at Seo Rin, who was sitting in her seat, she quickly turned her head away.
I checked the news assignment chart on one side of the office wall and confirmed that today’s schedule was over.
“Where are you going?”
Senior Young Joon, who was already sitting down, asked me as I gathered my belongings.
“I have something urgent today, so I’ll leave first.”
I turned away from my senior, who was looking at me with a confused expression.
As soon as I got out of the car, I hurriedly ran into Daejin Hospital.
Despite the text message from Dr. Kim saying that my parents had entered a stable period, my heart still thumped painfully.
Various thoughts crossed my mind as memories of my parents’ tragic departure in my past life overlapped.
It was when I was desperately pressing the elevator button to go up to the VIP ward.
“Anchor Yoon Yeo Jin?”
Someone called my name from behind.
Turning around at the sound of the voice, a familiar face approached with a happy expression.
“I knew it was you, Anchor Yoon.”
“Ah… it’s been a while.”
“I saw you from time to time, but I never had a chance to talk to you.”
He was a staff member from the news team I had worked with until I resigned.
I noticed his patient’s gown and asked him.
“Why didn’t you say hi? Are you hospitalized?”
“Ah, yes. I had surgery. But it’s a simple surgery, so I’ll be discharged tomorrow.”
The elevator door opened as we were talking.
The staff member also seemed to be going up, so he naturally got in with me. He reached out and pressed the 10th floor.
“I’ve been listening to your radio broadcast. You’ve returned to work, right?”
“Yes, it hasn’t been long.”
I gave him a faint smile while answering and pressed the close button.
He looked at the 8th floor button I pressed with a puzzled expression.
It seemed that way because the VIP ward was where quite serious patients were.
“But why are you at the hospital? You seem to come here often.”
“Ah… well.”
I hesitated over whether to answer honestly or not, but then I suddenly remembered him saying he would be discharged soon.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
