“He calls that woman ‘sis’ and shows great respect, it seems like he’s quite serious about her. Senior, do you happen to know anything?”

Eunseo almost made a gasping sound.

…It’s me!

She recalled something Naeun had said before.

It seemed she had become an ‘older woman’ using the same calculation. Looking at her muttering at the cemetery, someone must have seen her with Seungju.

Eunseo desperately managed her expression.

“I’m still just an ordinary employee, not even a manager yet. How would I know the CEO’s private life?”

“Well, that’s true.”

Fortunately, Kwon Seunghyun seemed to understand.

A beep sound came from the coffee machine behind Eunseo. It was a reminder to quickly bring it down.

“Then, excuse me.”

Turning around to take the coffee cup, Kwon Seunghyun spoke again from behind.

“If you happen to have different feelings for my brother, tell him to give up. It’s because of you that he’s rejecting now.”

“What?”

“It’s because of you that he’s rejecting now, isn’t it?”

Eunseo was dumbfounded. Even if I openly say that I’m not interested in you, he’s rejected me so far…! Where on earth did this self-confidence come from?

“Thanks for your useless kindness.”

Responding coldly, Eunseo avoided him and left the break room.

The writer expressed her frustration, penning furiously.

“Look at this, Mr. Chris. Why on earth do you dislike it even though it’s an opportunity? How important is the narrative in a survival show? Do you think storytelling is something anyone can do?”

“I have no intention of debuting by selling out my family.”

Chris finally declined.

Surviving the first vote by a narrow margin, they were now preparing for team tasks, but suddenly, the production team called them and made a proposal. They suggested using Chris’s status as an adopted child to create a story about his supposedly deceased sister coming back to life, and the search for her story.

‘I came on this program because I want to find my sister.’

Chris, who was adopted at the age of six, couldn’t even remember his name accurately. He only remembered the name Yoonho. Originally, he remembered it as Yuno, but Koreans said it was probably Yunho or Yoonho. The possibility of it being Yunho seemed most likely.

The six-year-old sister was mature and affectionate. Always playing with him, comforting him instead of their mom who was always sad or drunk because of dad’s affairs, and she often carried him on her back.

So, Yoonho missed his sister more than his mom.

All memories were vague, but he still vividly remembered his sister’s bright laughter. He thought his sister was much prettier than his mom or the kindergarten teacher.

The most beautiful sister in the world.
There is never a need to give a specific name to my only older sister. So, I always called her just ‘sister’ and can’t remember exactly, but her name was probably Yoonseo. I vaguely remember Mom calling, “Yoonseo!” The likelihood is high because my name is Yunho, as Koreans have told me.

Memories from the time of adoption were like this. My sister was playing in the neighborhood playground, waiting for me to come back from school when suddenly Dad appeared.

At that time, my parents had already divorced and were living separately. Although Dad, who had never even bought me a snack, Yoonho was just happy to see his dad after a long time.

“Mom and sister died in a car accident.”

Dad bluntly said that and pretended to slit his throat.

“Do you know what it means to die? It goes like this.”

Surprised, Yoonho burst into tears, and Dad hugged him and went somewhere.

“Since I can’t raise you alone, send you to much better parents instead.”

So Yoonho spent a few days in a facility like an orphanage and was then adopted to the United States.

After becoming an adult, he tried to find the institution that adopted him, but it had already disappeared, making it impossible to find related documents. The only thing known was the death of his biological father. When Chris was about ten years old, his adoptive parents received word from the institution, which was still in existence at the time, that his biological father had died. This fact was only revealed by his adoptive parents after Chris became an adult.

In other words, his Korean family had become otherworldly figures for a long time. Yet, despite this, he appeared on a survival program, hoping that perhaps some distant relative might recognize him. He wanted to find the graves of his mother and sister, or at least offer flowers.

However, he had no intention of exploiting that for the broadcast. Pretending that his deceased sister was alive and searching for her on air would be a clear disrespect to the dead.

If his sister really were alive, he would kneel and beg for a chance to find her. But that wasn’t the case.

“Hyung, just listen to the production team. You’re only going to get in trouble for nothing.”