I finished all the articles that needed to be sent out and looked at the monitoring screen.

Since only the weather forecast remained, I gathered the scattered scripts.

‘Almost done.’

Seo Rin, standing in front of the green chroma key screen, came into view.

After hearing the voice of the staff signaling standby, Seo Rin returned to the studio.

With a resolute face, she didn’t even glance at where I was sitting.

Just before the broadcast started, I made eye contact with Seo Rin who turned her head towards me.

She was glaring at me with a greatly irritated look.

Seo Rin’s melodious voice echoed in the studio as she continued the weather forecast.

The weather forecast ended, and today’s news was successfully concluded.

“Good work, everyone.”

“You too, announcer.”

“How can you be so natural, even with today’s breaking news?”

There were many news reports, but there was one special report in the middle.

It was an article that came in suddenly, but it went smoother than expected, making it a satisfying broadcast after a long time.

“Natural? I thought I did better than I expected.”

With compliments being exchanged, the studio was unusually warm.

Unlike the cold production department members, the news team treated me the same as before.

“It wasn’t just okay, it was excellent. We can’t feel your hiatus.”

While sharing laughs and conversations with the staff gathered around me, I turned my head at the voice coming from behind.

“Should we all have a drink after cleaning up today?”

“Director, that sounds great. Seo Rin, would you like to come too?”

The staff and director around Seo Rin, who were organizing the scripts, asked her.

Seo Rin showed a troubled expression at their suggestion.

“Ah, what should I do? I am sober now.”

“Sober? Are you taking herbal medicine these days?”

“Seo Rin quit drinking? She was our news team’s main drinker.”

Seo Rin smiled mysteriously at the people who looked surprised at her.

Then, she locked eyes with me, who was standing behind the director, and answered.

“Yes. Unfortunately, I can’t drink anymore.”

‘Why is she looking at me while saying that?’

Unconsciously, my brows furrowed.

The reason Seo Rin was close with the broadcasting station staff was precisely because of her drinking capacity.

She liked alcohol as much as the average male employee.

‘Sober now?’

“It’s a shame. Yoon, would you like to go?”

Disappointedly, the staff’s target shifted to me.

“I have a promise today. Let’s drink next time.”

I replied with a regretful face to the people looking at me with hopeful eyes.

And when I turned my head back to where Seo Rin was, she had completely disappeared.

Did you get off work? You haven’t forgotten me, right?

“How could I forget Jae Ha? I am on my way now. I’m almost there.”

When I arrived at the lobby, Jae Ha called me.

I hurried out of the broadcast station at his words, urging me without really urging me, asking when I would arrive.

“Where are you?”

Can’t you see me? I can see Yeo Jin.

While I was looking around for Jae Ha’s car.

“Ah, found it.”

I spotted his car parked about ten steps away.

I was just about to walk towards where he was.

“Yeo Jin.”

I was startled.

“You got surprised.”

At the sudden voice calling my name, I turned around.

Seeing Seo Rin emerging from the darkness, I brushed off the surprise in my heart.

“Were you waiting for me here?”

It was late into the night, well past 11 o’clock.

From the car, Jae Ha was looking at Seo Rin and me alternately with an interested face.

When our eyes met, he slowly nodded at me.

Perhaps planning to watch what Seo Rin was about to do, he was tapping his phone.

‘Don’t hang up?’

Jae Ha, who read the question in my eyes, nodded his head.

Reluctantly, I put the phone I was about to call back into my jacket pocket.

“I had something to say to you.”

“What is it? Can you make it quick? I want to rest after the broadcast.”

The mango cake and the standoff in the restroom. I was slightly tired after several confrontations with Seo Rin just today.

She fluttered her eyebrows with a strange expression and then smiled.

“I, live with your fiancé. No, am I now the fiancé?”

I lifted my head as if I had heard wrong.

While I was speechless and looking at her, Seo Rin added more.

“Thanks to you.”

Seo Rin, who seemed to have made up her mind to come out, boldly claimed it was thanks to me.

At her somewhat triumphant expression, I burst into hollow laughter.

Seo Rin furrowed her brows, seemingly surprised at my reaction.

She finally caught me to say she’s living with that guy……

It was ludicrous that she had waited for me just to say this.

I didn’t want to follow the beat of her words, so I glanced at her with a cold gaze.

“So?”

Deeming it not worth mentioning any further, I asked back briefly while snorting.

Where Ji Han, who had been divorced, would go was all too clear to me.

Given the situation where she couldn’t even return to her hometown in Pyeongchangdong, it must have been either her own residence or my house.