It was a day when the sky was not just blue but also painfully cold.
Once again, Line, standing in front of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, looked at the courthouse with a choked-up heart. Tears seemed to well up in the sunlight that was breaking apart into the distance.
Line wanted to turn around and look back at the dreamlike time she spent outside the fence of the prosecutor’s office… but she clenched her fist tightly and moved forward.
An employee waiting in front of the gate of the prosecutor’s office greeted Line.
Seeing the scars and bruises on Line’s face, the employee was somewhat taken aback, but since rumors about some incident had spread even within the prosecution, he didn’t ask any further.
Maintaining composure, he handed Line her prosecutor’s badge.
“Prosecutor Jin Line, thank you for your hard work. Congratulations on your reinstatement.”
With a new sense of weight, Line extended her hand toward the prosecutor’s badge. It had a different gravity from before. Line fastened the prosecutor’s badge around her neck.
“Prosecutor, Chief Prosecutor Je wants to see you.”
Now that she had returned, it was customary to go and give greetings…
“I understand.”
Line verbally agreed, but she didn’t want to go and meet Chief Prosecutor Je.
As she was about to pass through the gate, a rumbling sound came from somewhere. She turned her gaze in that direction. They were the ones who had put her in such a miserable state.
Seemingly here for an investigation related to the case, they were startled when their eyes met Line’s.
Line stamped her prosecutor’s badge at the gate and entered the entrance. Line walked toward the elevator, and when she saw an unwelcome face, she frowned.
It was Prosecutor Yoon Nansul.
Nansul looked at Line, snickered, and laughed. Line just stared straight ahead, waiting for the elevator to arrive.
“Even after going through this, you still can’t get yourself together…”
At the end of her words, Nansul made a tongue-clicking sound.
Line was thunderstruck. While she didn’t necessarily wish for resentment, it was truly unpleasant to hear such words from a legal professional.
Line pressed the floor where her office was, hesitated for a moment, then pressed a different floor. It was the floor where Chief Prosecutor Je’s office was.
There was no prosecutor’s office employee who didn’t know the floor where Chief Prosecutor Je’s office was. Nansul, seeing the floor Line pressed, wrinkled her forehead with clear anxiety.
The elevator door opened.
The floor Line was going to was higher, and Nansul had to get off first, but she stood there with a pensive expression. Whether she said something or not, Line was staring straight ahead.
As the door was about to close again, Nansul snapped to attention, got off the elevator, and, nervously, quickly walked away.
Line stopped in front of Chief Prosecutor Je’s office.
She just wanted to say hello and leave… She should express gratitude too, but if it were the old her, without any room for such contemplation, she would have gone straight to her desk and sat down…
Suddenly, the things Song Kang had emphasized to the stoic Line came to her mind.
“To change me like this…”
She murmured in a low and small voice, turning away as if avoiding the small changes that had occurred in herself.
“Come in, what are you doing there?”
Chief Prosecutor, who was fetching water for the coffee pot, spoke to Line. It was a modest appearance.
“Ah… yes…”
Line followed the Chief Prosecutor into his office. The Chief Prosecutor turned on the coffee pot and asked Line what drink she would like.
“I’m fine.”
“I bought some good tea on my recent trip. Is green tea okay?”
The answer was already decided. People here were always like this.
Awkwardness flowed between Chief Prosecutor and Line as they sat at the conference table.
“The scent of tea is really nice. Have some.”
It was fortunate that there was a warm green tea fragrance between the two seemingly indifferent people.
“What audacious guys turned the prosecutor’s office into such a mess. After all, you said you’ve lived through life and death, shouldn’t you take it easy a bit more?”
Line sat there silently. Even outside the organization of the prosecution, where she had become somewhat flexible, she did not let her gaze waver as if trying to stiffen herself even more.
“Why did you call me?”
“We need to finish what we started.”
The Chief Prosecutor handed Line a file. Line unfolded the file. It was a document that had already been approved.
“I have one more task for you. It’s the case you originally took, the Taesung case. Finish it up.”
Line knew the fundamental reason why she had to go through this ordeal. It was Chief Prosecutor Je who originally appointed Line to handle the Taesung case.
Even then, the Taesung case was a dangerous investigation, and even now, it was still a case with ample room for external pressure.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
