After lunchtime, I received a message that he had arrived and left the broadcasting station.

As I entered the cafe on the first floor of the neighboring building, a familiar figure was not far away.

“You’ve come a long way, sir.”

“No, it’s not far from the company headquarters.”

Uncle Hyun Ik, seated by the window, picked up his teacup, looked at me, and then put it back down.

The reason he stopped by here was because of a favor I had asked for in the past.

“Is it about that favor I asked for?”

He took something out of the envelope next to him and handed it to me.

“I’ve brought the things I’ve researched.”

What he handed over to me was a USB card.

“Investigating a company called Intek all of a sudden……”

As he handed over the USB, he looked at me with uneasy eyes.

I had asked him to investigate the project Ji Han was in charge of at Hojin Group.

He didn’t know the whole story yet, so I could understand his concerns.

However, it was hard to explain everything here.

“What are you planning to do after seeing all this? Moreover, it seems that this company is in contact with Hojin.”

“Yes, that’s right. This is the company that Ji Han is interested in.”

So, it was also chosen as bait.

The moment I picked up the USB he handed me, my eyes met with Seo Rin’s, who was seated not far from here at a table.

‘She always visits this cafe at lunchtime, just as she always did.’

It seemed like she was having tea time with a fellow announcer before an afternoon meeting, as usual.

She too turned her head in surprise when our eyes met unexpectedly.

‘Hmm.’

The current Seo Rin wouldn’t know the identity of the man sitting in front of me.

Moreover, having been stripped of her anchor position, she would be desperate to grab onto something.

In the meantime, as I watched her stealing glances at the man sitting in front of me.

“Yeo Jin, are you really thinking of divorcing? No, I should first ask if you’re going to make Hojin your enemy.”

I turned my head once again at the sound of his deeply worried voice.

“For whatever reason, Hojin and Double U have a cooperative relationship that has been symbiotic for a long time, beyond the close relationship of the chairmen.”

“That’s right.”

“I’m curious why you would specifically want to make Hojin your enemy.”

I smiled faintly at him, then picked up his cell phone and handed it to him.

“Check the email that came in.”

“Email?”

A single email appeared on the screen of his phone.

As he read down the email, his eyes began to flicker aimlessly.

“Is… is this true?”

“Yes. He has prepared quite meticulously. He intends to swallow up the Double U Group by marrying me.”

The email he received contained photographs of several meetings between Ji Han and Vice President Kim Young Min.

His response to my continued words was unmistakably one of sorrow.

“Oh, really… Surely the chairman’s accident wasn’t staged too?”

“No, that’s not it. It was an unfortunate accident, all three of them.”

I firmly shook my head at him, who was beginning to speculate further.

The accident involving my parents and grandfather was not something they had orchestrated. It was tragically an unexpected accident.

“Uncle, it’s hard to explain everything here, but Hojin won’t last long. Not unless it merges with Double U.”

Behind him, my eyes met with Seo Rin’s, who seemed to be getting up from her seat as lunchtime was coming to an end.

She glanced at me and the man suspiciously, then turned away.

The screen of the phone he was holding, as he read down the email, showed pictures.

They were scandalous pictures of Ji Han and Seo Rin that I had received from a person I had hired.

“This is why I want to divorce that man.”

“How could he leave you and… No, would CEO Seo willingly step down?”

The man rubbed his temples as if they were aching.

“That man absolutely can’t make a big deal out of a divorce. He knows that he would be at a disadvantage as the already unstable successor.”

Watching the retreating back of Seo Rin, I stood up from my seat.

Smiling faintly at him, who still seemed unable to believe it, I said,

“I need to go. I’ll get up first.”

“……”

“Thank you for coming. Take care, uncle.”

The camera in front of me focused on me sitting at the newsroom desk.

A breaking news subtitle about the scandal of a wellknown figure in politics and business, Mr. A, appeared on the screen.

Seeing the messy scandal article, it naturally reminded me of someone.

I looked at Seo Rin standing behind the breaking news script appearing on the prompter.

Our eyes met as she was waiting for the upcoming weather forecast.

Her cold eyes scanned over me and moved on.

Not flinching at all while watching such breaking news.

I thought she was quite shameless and thickfaced.

If the scandal involving Ji Han and herself were revealed, it would cause an even bigger stir. Didn’t she feel anything?

I turned my gaze back to the front.