Looking at his heated eyes, which I knew, no, recognized, I was sure that Seo Jin Woo had returned.
Trying hard to ignore his unabashed words of longing, Ji Na smiled.
“Well, it really has been a while.”
Thinking of his perfect grownup appearance, Ji Na suddenly remembered her own shabby state.
It really couldn’t be any more pitiful… and to think, the way I looked after a full day of writing reports and eating leftovers. It was embarrassing. It was a perfectly disastrous reunion.
“Ah, well, I should get going.”
As if she had remembered something, Ji Na awkwardly waved her hand and hurriedly tried to turn around.
“Sister.”
But Jin Woo didn’t seem willing to let her go so easily.
“What’s your number?”
Whether it was because she met Jin Woo, she only remembered Do Jin and Heo’s incident after coming to work the next day.
‘Right, I didn’t even check if they got home safely yesterday.’
It had been a hectic night. While she was happy to meet Jin Woo, she was also surprised and, for some reason, felt that she needed to avoid him.
‘I have a boyfriend now…’
They had been together for more than five years and one day.
Ji Na looked at the marked calendar with a bitter gaze. It was a special day that only she had thought of.
Ji Na let out a short sigh and turned her gaze to the hastily written report from yesterday. She had tried to concentrate, but due to rushing in such a short amount of time, there were mistakes here and there.
“Miss Ji Na.”
Ji Na’s hand, which was scrolling the mouse wheel, stopped at Do Jin’s voice.
“Yes.”
Ji Na quickly tried to get up and took off the cardigan she was wearing.
It was because she remembered Do Jin’s gaze from yesterday, looking disdainfully at the cardigan that had slid down to her wrist. She quickly got goosebumps from the chill in the air, but she brushed her arm with her hand and turned to Do Jin.
“Yesterday…..”
As always, Do Jin’s sharp eyes were directed at Ji Na.
Her lips curled up, thinking he might ask if she got home safely.
“Did you finish that report?”
At his monotonous tone, Ji Na inexplicably felt dispirited and bit her lip hard.
“I’ll finish it today.”
“Okay.”
Was that all you had to say…… Don’t you have anything else you’re curious about other than the report?
Even after answering, Ji Na looked at Do Jin out of the corner of her eye, as if waiting for something else to say.
Do Jin slightly raised one eyebrow and turned his head towards the monitor.
Ji Na knew well that it was his way of acting when he was done with what he had to say.
“Ah.”
Just as Ji Na was about to turn around, Do Jin quietly spoke.
“I have an outside job this afternoon, so if you bring it later, I may only be able to check it tomorrow.”
An outside job… she remembered when she had gone on outside jobs with Do Jin in the early days of their relationship. It had been rare recently.
“Yes.”
Most of her memories since joining the company involved Do Jin. He was her boss and the person who had guided Ji Na in many ways when she was naive… that’s when their relationship naturally started.
Ji Na, who had returned to her seat, let out a small sigh. As soon as she had barely opened her heart due to Do Jin’s active skinship and wooing, he seemed to have achieved his goal and only talked about work and his promotion.
‘Once I get promoted to section chief, we should get married.’
Ji Na naturally believed that things would go as he mentioned, almost like a habit, at the end of his sentences.
Ji Na thought of her relationship with Do Jin as more like longtime friends who had spent a lot of time together like a family, rather than passionate lovers.
Ji Na lightly shook her head as if trying to stop such unnecessary thoughts.
Above all else, the most important thing to Do Jin was this project. As he was in charge for the first time after being promoted to a section manager, she had to support him well.
‘Focus!’
Who knows, after the project was successfully completed, Do Jin might propose to her.
With renewed determination, Ji Na began to enthusiastically tap on the keyboard.
“Honey!”
The voice of Ji Hye, her office mate and lunch partner, echoed in her ears. With her arrival, Ji Na realized that it was finally lunch time.
“Oh, what’s the matter? Are you risking your life for your work? Trying to waste such precious lunchtime!”
At Ji Hye’s playful rebuke, Ji Na giggled.
“I would have been in big trouble if it wasn’t for you, Ji Hye.”
“Right? Who else but me?”
Ji Hye was Ji Na’s coworker who joined the company the same year. They quickly became friends due to Ji Hye’s bubbly and refreshing personality. She was the only one Ji Na could confide in during the harsh company life.
“I made a reservation on the app. Let’s go quickly.”
Ji Hye had been talking about a newly opened popular restaurant near their office. Not only was it all over popular SNS, but it also consistently appeared in posts by famous influencers. Compared to Ji Na, who was not interested in such places, Ji Hye was sensitive to trends.
‘Right. Our company was like this.’
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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