The first commute of the New Year. The moment Yeon Woo entered the elevator, she faced Jun Hwi directly. It was a refreshing start to her new year.

Somehow, she felt uneasy while preparing for work.

In all honesty, due to the big accident at the end of the year, she was considering sending a text message to quit her job and then disappearing.

But her crumpled conscience and sense of responsibility, which had been lodged in a corner of her heart, insisted that she should at least go to work. So, she reluctantly came.

And the first person she sees is Kwon Jun Hwi!

Yet this insensitive man seemed to be as usual, judging from his absence of basic manners. Yeon Woo breathed a sigh of relief inside.

Wrestling all night over how she would see him now, Jun Hwi arrogantly raised his chin and casually accepted others’ greetings, only doing his own thing, even when it was just the two of them. Ignorantly.

It’s a distance she could tolerate until her resignation.

Having found some ease, Yeon Woo rushed out as soon as the elevator doors opened. She was rummaging through her bag to get her access card with a light step.

“Where did it go? Strange.”
The wallet with the access card was nowhere to be seen.

She always kept it in her bag, where could it have gone?

Next to Yeon Woo, who was rummaging even in the coat pocket with a troubled face, a long arm in a dark grey suit passed by indifferently. Jun Hwi swiped the access card for her.

Ah, she showed a weakness in front of Kwon Jun Hwi again.

Yeon Woo bit her lower lip quietly without showing any embarrassment. Then she saw the object he was holding, a very familiar item.

‘My wallet!’
Why is it in his hand!

Jun Hwi, who was looking at her with a blank face, casually extended her wallet.

Here, take it. He urged her with a twitch of his eyebrows.

“I left it at home”
“Ah! I’m sorry!”
The expression on Yeon Woo’s face as she snatched her wallet at the speed of light and ran inside was imaginable even without looking.

Even if she ran away like that, she’d be in his sight all day long.

With a leisurely stride, Jun Hwi followed the sweet scent she had left and went inside.

But her will to resign was crushed without any satisfaction from having forced herself to go to work.

On the first day back to work in the New Year, Yeon Woo sat down at her desk and clicked the ‘Resignation Interview Request’ button on the company portal.

According to the company procedures, she had to express her intention to resign through an interview before writing her resignation letter.

Only in dramas could one leave a sealed envelope containing a letter of resignation on the boss’s desk.

If there was a problem after several days of consecutive work, it would probably be Yeon Woo herself, who was intoxicated and excited by the alcohol and the yearend mood.

Maybe 1% of the blame was due to the fact that he was too goodlooking for her taste.

Anyway, it was Yeon Woo who stirred him up first, revealing her secretive desire that she had been nursing alone. It was an excuse for her impulse and curiosity, even though she was not sure about her feelings for Kwon Jun Hwi.

It was understandable if he only saw Yeon Woo as a light person.

Moreover, looking at him… Not to mention the secret escapades with him that kept flashing back, I was frightened that I might interpret the ambiguous emotions I had been feeling toward him in a convenient way.

It wouldn’t just be embarrassing to attach meaning by myself when I don’t even know what the other person’s feelings are.

Perhaps Kwon Jun Hwi just enjoyed the moment because the timing and atmosphere were right.

A fine and perfect man who was consumed by work would hardly have the time to sincerely care for someone.

The prospect of me, someone ordinary with nothing to boast of, being that person was something that should not be taken lightly.

Wouldn’t his act of revealing his dark and private situation be of a similar context? Because instinctively, one would want to show only their best side to the woman they truly want to see and possess.

In any case, Yeon Woo was determined to resign as soon as possible. She wanted to take responsibility for crossing the line between a lawyer and a secretary.

Suppressing her complicated feelings, she prepared herself to return to the tough life of a jobseeker, and with her eyes closed, she clicked the button to request a resignation interview.

‘But why on earth! Is there no response?’
Surprisingly, when the time to leave work was approaching and nothing happened, the frustrated Yeon Woo called the head of the secretary team.

Deputy Yeon Woo. I was going to call you.
The team leader muttered in a gloomy voice as soon as he answered the phone.

With the current atmosphere, we can’t approve your resignation request.
“What?”
Yeon Woo, taken aback, asked in a loud voice without knowing it.

Oh, I can’t say the details. Anyway, take care of yourself.
Why does someone who wants to resign have to take care of themselves?

Regrettably, the team leader’s hint ended there. The call ended without anything else to glean.

So a day was wasted, and the next day, Yeon Woo clicked the same application button. And again, there was no response.

What on earth is happening? Is there a problem with the system? Has something big happened to the upper management? I can’t figure it out.

No matter how hard she tried to move forward, she couldn’t do anything because the procedure was blocked.

She had to waste another day, waiting for the team leader’s contact.

Focusing all her attention on the phone, Yeon Woo was sorting out the greeting cards poured out to the lawyers at the end of the year. Lawyer Yang Ju Yeon approached and leaned on the partition, starting a conversation.

“Deputy, are you busy?”
“I’m fine. What’s up?”
“Why are you trying to resign? What happened all of a sudden? If something is hard, you should talk to me first.”
The rumors had already reached that far.

“······ How did you know?”

“Deputy Kim, you applied for a resignation interview, didn’t you?”
“I did…right?”
“When you apply, an automatic message is sent to the department head and the responsible attorney for an interview.”
Really? I didn’t know the responsible attorney also got the notification.

“I oppose your resignation. Let’s have a drink for the interview. Shall we go today?”
“I’m a bit… I’m sorry for today.”
“Oh, understood. Don’t force yourself. Who would like to drink with their superior at work, anyway.”
“But I do like Attorney Yang.”
“Uhhuh, then keep that feeling and continue to work. If you have any difficulties, talk to me. You get it? I’m not joking.”
I nodded, smiling, but my worries would remain untold until my dying day.

‘So, why hasn’t the team leader, who should have received another text, contacted me?’
As Yeon Woo was puzzling over this, she suddenly stopped typing. A bad feeling swept down her spine.

‘No way.’
Her gaze stuck to the empty office of Kwon Jun Hwi, who said he would stop by the courthouse in the morning and go straight home.

He should have also received the text that Yeon Woo wanted to resign.

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