She arrived at the agency office, but Se-kyung couldn’t meet Tae-jo right away. Someone had occupied his office before her.
“Unnie, have this.”
Je-hoon, who had gone out in the meantime, placed a drink in front of Se-kyung. It was a savory and sweet grain powder latte.
“Thanks. You said you need to go out.”
“Yes. Someone took a half-day off because they were sick. I decided to fill in for that person today.”
With no schedule, Se-kyung thought she could take a break for the first time in a while. However, Je-hoon seemed busier even when she was free.
“Then go and come back without worrying about me. Drive safely.”
“I will. If you need anything, ask the guy over there.”
Je-hoon pointed to an employee inside the partition with his finger.
“What could I need? I’ll meet with the CEO and be back soon. Go quickly. It might be late.”
“Yes. I’ll contact you tomorrow.”
Se-kyung shook hands with Je-hoon, urging him to leave. Then, she walked out into the hallway and looked around.
Since the managers followed the actors’ schedules outside, there were not many people in the office. Director Song seemed to be in the meeting room downstairs.
Se-kyung, who was peering in the direction of Tae-jo’s office, went back into the management team’s office when she saw no sign of anyone coming out.
While thinking about how to spend her free time, she casually glanced at the bookshelves, where files organized by year caught her eye.
“Are these profile files?”
Se-kyung skimmed through the files organized by year and took out the most recent one.
Starting with Seok-joo’s profile picture taken earlier this year, the last page had a photo of Yuna, who recently signed a contract.
“So, they took new profile pictures this time.”
Se-kyung went through the files in reverse order, one by one. As there were quite a few celebrities affiliated with the agency, there were people Se-kyung knew well and those she didn’t.
“Oh, this was taken right after signing the contract.”
Seeing her own photo, Se-kyung smiled subtly. Perhaps it was because she was in a slightly tired period, but her appearance in the photo seemed strangely refreshing.
“I should have smiled a bit.”
Se-kyung lightly tapped her own lips in the photo. It was when she was looking at the files from the time of the company’s founding.
When she flipped through Seok-joo’s profile picture from back when he was a bit slimmer than now, a vaguely familiar woman’s face appeared.
“Oh, this person…”
As Se-kyung tilted her head, she found the woman’s name on the profile pinned next to the photo.
“Oh Ye-ri?”
Was there such a person among the actors?
Se-kyung immediately searched for her name on the internet. However, a namesake’s profile dominated the top of the portal site, indicating that she might not be active recently.
“I’m sure I’ve seen her somewhere…”
Digging into her memory, Se-kyung slightly covered the woman’s eyes in the photo.
It seemed similar, yet not quite.
Oh Ye-ri vaguely reminded Se-kyung of the face of the woman who bumped into her shoulders in front of the cafe last time.
“If there’s Je-hoon, you can ask.”
Thinking that she would ask later, Se-kyung took a picture of O-ye-ri with her phone.
And it was while she was deeply engrossed in looking at the photo, someone tapped her shoulder.
“What are you doing?”
When she turned around, Director Song, with a tablet hanging on his shoulder, appeared.
“I was just killing time.”
“Did you come to see the CEO? But what are you looking at now…”
Director Song stretched his neck and, looking at O-ye-ri in the photo, made a slightly puzzled expression.
“Do you know this person?”
“A little. I don’t know very well. When this person was here, I was a rookie.”
“Is she not active now? I searched the internet, and it seems her photos have been taken down.”
“After leaving our company, she stopped her celebrity activities.”
“Why?”
“She got involved in something not good…”
Director Song hesitated to finish his sentence, as if reluctant to speak.
“Not something good? What happened?”
“Well, I don’t exactly remember, but didn’t she get involved in a violence incident at a drinking party? Anyway, something big happened back then, and the company was turned upside down. I had just joined the company, so the seniors didn’t tell me everything properly.”
A violence incident. If such a thing happened, the entertainment industry would have been noisy.
“If it was such a big deal, wouldn’t there have been articles about it? I don’t remember seeing any articles about O-ye-ri being involved in a violence incident.”
“Articles wouldn’t have been published. The company made great efforts to prevent it, and I heard that O-ye-ri comes from a pretty well-off family. Maybe they threw money to prevent the article from coming out? But why O-ye-ri now?”
“Oh, that… I think I saw this person recently.”
“Really? I heard that O-ye-ri terminated her contract with our company and went abroad at that time.”
“Abroad?”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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