The employee asked again, doubting his ears.
“Be careful when picking it up. Try not to mix it too much. I’ll come to help soon.”
Line made a puzzled expression as if asking, “What are you doing?” The employee started the puzzle game of the shredder.
Line, while organizing case files, received a notification that there was no more space on the USB.
“USB…”
Line opened the cabinet where items were stored. She felt a familiar fragrance and was moved.
What is this…
It was a situation that she couldn’t understand herself.
Line, suppressing her overflowing emotions, raised her heel and pushed her hand into the cabinet shelf.
At the touch of her fingertips, Line’s eyes froze. Line stretched the fabric, pulling it until the veins stood out.
It was a man’s coat.
“It’s not Joo-hyuk senior’s size…”
It was a coat that seemed to fit his physique perfectly. And it was his style. Line judged that she should stop being interested in the coat with her head, but her hands had already turned it inside out.
And then, she saw his initials embroidered inside the coat.
“Line…”
Joo-hyuk, who returned from the trial, stiffened at Line’s expression and the coat in her hands.
“Senior, it seems like you need to explain.”
Joo-hyuk couldn’t hide his confusion at Line’s sharp reaction to the chilly wind.
“Well…”
Line raised her eyes, staring at Joo-hyuk as if urging him to explain.
“Should I ask Director Na Song-kang directly?”
Joo-hyuk sighed deeply, lowering his head.
“Ha… I went that day. The day you caused a commotion at the fountain…”
Line’s forehead wrinkled deeply as the truth revealed belatedly. Joo-hyuk approached her.
“Line… I’m sorry. I’ll explain everything.”
Line took a step back. Just by seeing her disappointed expression, Joo-hyuk’s heart ached too much. He stood there without approaching Line any further.
“I’m sorry for lying. I had no choice but to lie for you… because I didn’t want to see you shaken.”
Line wondered if he had visited her on the day of the kidnapping, even if it was an unconscious situation, his figure remained in the passing traces.
There was a long silence between the two.
With one hand on her waist, Line took a deep breath and blinked her eyes very quickly.
It also meant that her emotions were very confusing right now. He couldn’t do this or that in response to her reaction.
“Line…”
When Joo-hyuk tried to approach Line a step further, a prosecution office employee knocked and entered the office. The employee, feeling the unusual atmosphere between the two, hesitated to say something.
“Uh… Shall I come back later?”
“No. Speak.”
Line said, heading back to her seat.
“Director Na Song-kang’s summons investigation. I will attend right away.”
“Then do so.”
Firmly determined, Line answered calmly.
At that moment, another employee entered the office.
“Prosecutor Choi, the next trial is about to start. You need to leave now.”
Joo-hyuk’s stomach turned upside down, like pouring oil into a burning house. Why was the trial schedule so tight today… Joo-hyuk left the office, chased by the trial schedule.
Line didn’t know what to do with the coat she was holding. She couldn’t cut it decisively like cutting fabric.
She needed some time to think calmly, but Line wasn’t given enough time. Pushed by the continuous summons investigation schedule, she headed to the statement recording room.
In the statement recording room, Director Taesung and the summoned executive were already seated. The next vice president and manager, all underwent the investigation as the legal director’s defense, each repeating the same words.
“Other than saying Director Na Song-kang ordered it, there’s nothing else to say, right?”
Line stared directly at the legal director.
“What can I do if the facts are like that? We plan to conduct the investigation until Prosecutor Jin gets the answer he wants, no matter how much we squeeze…”
“If you’re going to blame everything on Director Na Song-kang, do you think nothing will come out about the corruption at Geum Moran?”
When Line cut off the legal director’s tail, she touched on his feelings.
The legal director immediately showed an uncomfortable expression on his face. However, today, Line was determined to bother him only to the extent that it made him uncomfortable.
“Well, if that’s what you want to do. Lawyer, are you going to handle the defense for Geum Moran’s head as well? While you’re at it, schedule the summons investigation.”
“Why Geum Moran…!”
As soon as the mention of ‘Geum Moran’ was pressed like a button, the legal director reacted violently.
“I’m a bit busy, so you can listen to our investigators outside. If you keep delaying on this pretext or that pretext, we will request an arrest warrant. Feel free to go back.”
After Director Taesung and other executives left, Line felt drained. She stretched her body, took a deep breath, and checked her wristwatch.
How many hours has it been since she started wrestling…
When Line tried to get up from her seat, she heard a knock on the door, and a prosecution office employee entered.
“I’ll go to the office and check some documents.”
Behind the employee’s shoulder, familiar faces appeared. It was Director Na Song-kang and Lawyer Cha Hae-in.
“Ah, Prosecutor…”
“Isn’t it not yet time for the appointment?”
Knowing her personality, the employee, feeling embarrassed, stood there with an awkward expression. Line pushed the chair in and picked up the files on the desk.
“We don’t seem to have a reason to adjust our witness schedule. Tell them to wait or come back later.”
“Yes…”
Even Song Kang and Hae-in, who were standing right in front of the door, heard her clear intention. Line, once again, walked past them and left the room.
Standing in front of the restroom sink, Line woke up by washing her face with cold water. She stared at her reflection in the mirror and became absent-minded.
In fact, she hadn’t rushed out because she didn’t keep the appointment time. It was because she hadn’t yet decided on the thread of her emotions.
Returning to the office, Line hesitated in front of his coat that was placed on her desk. She wondered why she couldn’t be prickly about the coat she was looking at.
But she couldn’t embrace or reject it. Line pushed the coat aside and forced herself to focus on her work.
So much time had passed. Although the prosecution office employee notified her that the time was up, she didn’t easily get up from her seat.
The pale face of the employee, growing paler, was enough for Line to understand without even looking at him.
“Yes, I’m going.”
Only then did she rise from her seat and head towards where he was.
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.”
