I quickly got ready and headed to the broadcasting station after seeing the message on the screen asking, “How about now?”
Arriving at the broadcasting station, it was bustling, probably because it was just after lunchtime on a weekday.
When I got off at the familiar floor, I saw the KBC Programming Headquarters’ director’s office.
“One year… No, it’s been four years.”
After holding a wedding ceremony with Ji Han, I took a year-long leave from my announcer job and eventually resigned.
I wanted to continue working even after getting married, but I had no choice but to quit due to a sudden family accident.
‘I wasn’t in a position to continue working back then.’
But now it was different…
I knocked briefly and opened the door.
The familiar interior of the office I frequented countless times during my days as an announcer came into view.
Director Kuk Hyun, the director-general of the news programming department, was sitting at his office desk.
He glanced at the approval documents and then looked at me with a faint smile as I entered the director’s office.
“It’s been a while.”
With a happy face, he took off his glasses and placed them on the table to welcome me.
It seemed both interesting and somewhat sharp that a former announcer who had taken a leave of absence had boldly sought him out.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, Director.”
I bowed and greeted him as he looked at me with his thin eyes.
This person was absolutely necessary for revenge. To be precise, the power that the director had to give back the main anchor position was needed.
“I know it must have been hard for you to come all this way. As you know, I don’t have much time to go out.”
“That’s fine. I’m fine. It’s nice to be back at the broadcasting station after a long time.”
I sat on the sofa in the middle of the office, offering pleasant words.
He got up from his seat and approached the coffee machine.
And soon, he placed a warm cup of coffee with steam rising in front of me.
“Everyone is asking why Yoon Announcer isn’t on the 9 o’clock news.”
“It’s been a long time since I saw your wife.”
The director’s wife was the daughter of the president of a W Group affiliate and also my distant relative.
Because of this, we were acquainted and often had meals together.
After taking a leave of absence, it had been a long time since we had any contact, as there was no occasion to meet.
“Isn’t being an announcer the most enjoyable when you’re on air?”
“Yes, it is.”
With a faint smile, I picked up the cup in front of me in response to the sharp question.
He, too, had an expression that knew I hadn’t come just to catch up.
I put down the teacup again and smiled playfully.
“That’s why I wanted to see you.”
“…Huh?”
“Director, I want to work again.”
Returning to work – it was fair to say that it was the sole reason for coming to this uncomfortable place.
Although he might have thrown out the bait lightly.
When I swallowed that bait, the director looked at me with wide-open eyes, seemingly flustered.
“Will you let me return to work?”
Instead of answering my question, the director drank from his cup, observing me.
It was known as a leave of absence at the broadcasting station, but it was a leave of absence close to a tentative resignation.
Knowing the inside story of my marriage, he seemed to be trying to figure out my intention to return to work with his busy eyes.
Then, he put down the half-empty cup on the table.
“Returning to work… Come to think of it, it’s been almost a year since Yoon Announcer took a leave of absence.”
“…”
“Is it about time to return?”
However, not knowing my intention yet, he rubbed his chin and casually asked.
“You’re planning to return as an announcer, right?”
The director was in a position to have a significant influence on the selection of anchor positions.
That’s why I came to see him, but he mentioned the announcer position instead of the original anchor position.
It was as if he hadn’t considered the anchor position from the beginning.
“Oh, come to think of it, we need a reporter for a new program we’re reorganizing.”
“…”
“Upon reflection, that program seems to fit Yoon Announcer’s image quite well.”
I wasn’t interested in the program he was enthusiastically describing.
As I silently looked at him without any response, his eyes slowly widened.
“Don’t tell me you’re talking about the anchor position?”
“I am talking about the anchor position. I want to work on News9 again.”
When I subtly revealed my intention to return to the anchor position, the director frowned and waved his hand.
“I don’t know about being an announcer, but there’s no opening for that. You know that, right?”
He had the look that he only had when he was truly in a difficult situation.
“It’s not that I don’t want to give you a position when there is one. I, too, want to work with Yoon Announcer again.”
All he offered was a perfunctory statement with a regretful expression.
“…I heard that Anchor Jeong is retiring soon.”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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