“Unnie! You really like the event bookshelf. Once when you come to work in the morning, once when you leave work, and once when you have some free time.”
“Did I do that?”
“You did.”
The theme of this month’s event bookshelf was [The Ugly Duckling]. Ji An pulled Mi Kyung’s arm and looked up at the bookshelf together.
A bookshelf with dozens of [The Ugly Duckling] translated into languages from around the world.
Each book with its own cover contained languages that looked different but held the same meaning. That fact alone made Ji An marvel at the bookshelf.
“On my first day of work. When I looked here, I felt like I had received a gift.”
Ji An added, pointing to the banner in front of the bookshelf where a passage from The Ugly Duckling was written.
“That passage there is my favorite part. The scene just before the duck becomes a swan. So it can only be better.”
“The original theme was ‘Brothers Grimm’. The CEO suddenly changed it.”
Mi Kyung added, pulling on Ji An.
“We have to rush today because we’re going to see the additional chores. … Let’s just go.”
Instead of responding, Ji An lifted her lips in a smile.
The weeklong preopening was over and Play Round store number 1 was just a day away from its official opening. Today’s inauguration was the event announcing that beginning.
The term “those chores” referred to attending the inauguration as part of the customer support team.
Seeing Ji An’s bright smile, Mi Kyung added.
“Unnie, I told you yesterday too, but our job is closer to customer chores than customer support. I don’t understand why you always have a bright smile here and there.”
“It’s not that I’m bright, it’s that I’m getting old in the wrong way.”
Everything looks good because I didn’t get social experience earlier. Swallowing the rest of her words, Ji An smiled brightly again.
Mi Kyung, to Ji An who was a firsttimer in temporary work, let out words like a maxlevel office worker.
“Do you know how lightly the world looks at temporary workers like us? Especially since this is an event where bigwigs are coming, remember to stick together even more. Okay?”
“I will.”
Before heading to the event hall, Ji An received a headset with a clear wire. After wearing the headset, she sat down in the conference room chair and opened the pamphlet for the inauguration ceremony.
When the sound of the mic gathered attention, Deputy Manager Lee Eun Seol’s voice echoed in the conference room.
“From now on, in three hours, there will be an inauguration ceremony and banquet in the multipurpose hall on the 4th floor. Today’s event is to officially introduce the representative of Play Korea to dignitaries from the political and business circles and the heads of partner companies.”
The conference room was quiet, only filled with the voice of the deputy manager.
“You should not trust the external event team too much. They do their job, we do ours. I hope you do your best in the positions you’ve been assigned. … Let’s move to the multipurpose hall on the 4th floor.”
The multipurpose hall on the 4th floor was busy with the external event team’s final preparations for the banquet.
Under the brilliant chandelier, the logos of Ace Sawa and Play Round were carved into ice, boasting their grandeur.
On the table covered with a white tablecloth, a centerpiece and nameplates that marked seats were placed, and chairs covered with slipcovers were organized.
Estimating the remaining time until the start of the event, Ji An searched for the waiting room of Genesis. Since the current situation was being reported through the headset, she thought she could briefly meet her father.
She headed towards the waiting room behind the stage.
Knock. Knock.
“Come in.”
The person who opened the waiting room door was, unexpectedly, Genesis. Usually, someone else, not her, would open the door.
Genesis was wearing a dress that clung to her body. Her small, white face looked even more charismatic with makeup.
Her eyes widened in surprise at Ji An’s arrival, but soon curved like crescents.
“Did you come?”
“What makes you so happy? … Where’s dad?”
Ji An asked while looking around the waiting room. At that, Genesis blinked her eyes as if she didn’t understand what was being said.
She noticed late that her sister’s clothes looked like a company uniform and asked something else.
“What is that outfit? Didn’t mom call you over? It was inconvenient.”
“Where did dad go? I don’t have time.”
“Dad? You don’t know?”
Genesis repeated the same words with a rising intonation. Ji An trembled inexplicably.
Genesis spoke up in place of the speechless Ji An.
“Dad’s not at home. He said he wanted to quit working and rest. …… I thought you were living with dad? That’s what I thought.”
“No. It’s just that……”
Ji An couldn’t finish her sentence and closed her mouth.
After the last visit to the main house in Samseongdong with Ha Jun, her heart had actually been heavy. Even during the phone calls with her dad, she acted awkwardly, contrary to her feelings.
There was no mention of him quitting his job, so Ji An was careful about what she said about her father.
“Sis. Can you explain in detail? When exactly did he quit? There was no talk about it when we went home last time.”
“That’s… Dad and mom had a big fight. There wasn’t a day when your name wasn’t mentioned during the fights. We had dinner together that day, so I thought the fight was over. But then.”
“But then?”
“After you left, they fought again. And then dad got pretty agitated. He got angrier than usual. And about two days later, he said he was quitting his job, which caused another fight with mom.”
Genesis added while bending over and scratching her leg.
“He seemed to have asked the agency to take care of the remaining work for two days.”
Genesis called Ji An urgently while scratching her leg harder.
“Ji An, can you take a look at my calf here? It’s so itchy. Call Manager Jung, I can’t even perform like this.”
“Are you still asking for such things? You have your fingers, mouth, and cell phone, all three.”
“It’s because it’s itchy. …… I’m going crazy. Please check it out.”
As Genesis scratched her calf, Ji An couldn’t bring herself to leave the waiting room. She exhaled shortly and knelt down in front of Genesis.
“Lift up your skirt. I’ll take a look.”
“You can see it there. Something’s already bulging up.”
When she lifted up the hem of the skirt, there was an allergy the size of a small pimple bulging on the revealed calf.
Ji An asked while looking over the vanity.
“Do you have allergy medicine? Take that first. I also came here while working, I can’t stay long. I have to go right away.”
Ji An, who had sat down completely on the floor, turned the hem upside down. Then, she examined the lace.
“The lace material doesn’t suit you, sis. Do you have scissors?”
“They’re on the vanity over there.”
“Got it. Just hold on for a bit.”
Ji An grabbed the end of the lace and put some strength into her hand. Seeing the lace of the hem getting torn off, Genesis screamed loudly.
“Hey! What are you doing! This is something mom chose.”
At that moment, the waiting room door was roughly opened and Eun Ji rushed in. It seemed she had heard Genesis’s scream.
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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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