‘There wasn’t a moment when I didn’t regret it. It was so terrible that I wanted to deny every moment.’

A self-mocking smile lingered at the corner of my mouth. I stared at him with unwavering eyes.

“Why should I regret it?”

As I slowly shook my head, Ji Han’s mouth twitched.

“That’s not my part.”

I was so happy to not have married you, to be able to end our tedious relationship, that I felt like I was going crazy.

I barely swallowed the words that were about to slip from my mouth.

“Do you think our families will allow us to divorce?”

“…”

“Do you think our relationship will change just because of this?”

Anytime.

I had already experienced the shattering of the marriage life I had barely maintained overnight.

It was amusing that he didn’t know marriage was a very fragile promise that could break at any moment.

I looked up at Ji Han, who came up to me and glared, with a calm face and asked,

“Why can’t it?”

Wasn’t he the one who had ended our married life with a single word?

It took him just one stroke to cut off five years, how easy would it be for a mere one-year engagement?

“You have a legitimate reason.”

“…Ha. I said I wouldn’t do it again. It was a mistake!”

“Talk to my lawyer about that. Did you receive the belongings I sent?”

Ji Han seemed to recall the day when my secretary came to pick them up, and his eyebrows twitched.

As my words continued, intense anger rose on Ji Han’s face.

“Look. As you can see, the house is empty.”

Pointing to the conspicuously empty living room with the tip of my chin, I continued speaking.

“Do you have any more belongings to take, or should I leave?”

“You.”

Ji Han approached me, pressing his body against mine and lowered his head.

His eyes, now closer to me, were sharp as if they could cut me at any moment.

“If I leave like this, you might get together with your junior. Are you okay with that?”

Unable to contain my disbelief, I laughed, and Ji Han’s cold gaze met mine.

“I don’t know what you want, Ji Han. Do you want me to be jealous? Or angry?”

“…”

“Do whatever you want with Chae Seo Rin. I don’t want to be involved with you anymore.”

Realizing his words wouldn’t get through to me, he clenched his teeth.

“I said the regret isn’t your part, but you’ll definitely regret saying that.”

With that, he slammed the door shut and left.

The company cafeteria.

I poked at the side dishes on the tray in front of me and put my chopsticks down.

“Shall we get up if we’re done eating?”

The image of Ji Han’s angry face from last night lingered in my thoughts.

The voice brought me back to reality, and Young Joon, my senior, asked while looking at my empty tray.

“Huh? Yeah, I’m done eating.”

I got up from my seat.

Ji Han’s constant intrusions were irritating, and I became more certain about that after last night’s incident.

I thought I should put my apartment up for sale soon and look for a new place.

At the end of lunchtime, I went back to the planning department office with my senior.

As I walked through the noisy office, I felt the piercing gazes of people following me.

“Uh, wait a minute. What’s this?”

“…?”

In the middle of turning on the computer to check the afternoon schedule, my senior suddenly spun his chair around.

Looking at his phone, Young Joon’s face turned to one of horror.

And at the same time, the screen of my phone, placed next to the keyboard, lit up brightly.

“Don’t you use the broadcasting station app? Delete that. No, don’t even turn it on.”

My senior reached for my phone.

But before his hand could touch it, I picked up the phone and checked the content.

“What’s going on?”

“Ah… I told you not to look. Why does the popular post notification have to show up?”

My eyes were quicker to read the post than his words.

A popular post on the broadcasting station’s anonymous community.

By the time the post was uploaded before lunchtime, it already had over a hundred comments.

“Ugh, seriously… They’re calling you a venomous woman whose parents don’t even know.”

Coincidentally, I had talked to Young Joon about the rumors concerning me during lunch.

He too was aware of the unkind stares and stories from people.

“I guess I must be really hated, senior. Anyone can tell who the main character of this post is.”

The content was outrageous.

The post blatantly described the rumors about me that were spreading among people.

[Honestly, there’s no problem with ㅇㅇㅈ becoming an anchor, right? The rumors are all out there already. Anonymous 12:29:13] [No way. If it’s on the community, it’s just a matter of time before viewers find out. Anonymous 12:29:56]

I was in the middle of checking the messy comments one by one.

[Check the bulletin board now. Anchor appointment is out. News9 is screwed. Anonymous 12:49:59]

My eyes stopped at the word ‘anchor appointment.’

‘Appointment?’

And right after, I heard the urgent voice of Young Joon, my senior, looking for me.

“Wait a minute. Yoon, my junior!”

I looked up from my phone screen.

He looked at me with wide-open eyes and pointed to his monitor.

“Look at this! You’ve been appointed.”

I turned my body and looked at the monitor screen he was pointing to.

The moment I saw the anchor position appointment posted on the electronic bulletin board, I covered my wide-open mouth.

[Transfer. Radio news team announcer Yeo Jin Yoon – KBC News9 team announcer (anchor) position change]

I didn’t expect the results to come out this quickly.

The gazes directed at me were even more intense than when I returned to the office.

‘Did it really happen…?’

I guess I wouldn’t know the results until they were officially announced.

Jae Ha’s voice, who had said he would cheekily congratulate me last night, came to mind.

“Ha, haha.”

I let out a hollow laugh without realizing it.

‘I should call him on my way home.’

I gasped at the thought that came to me unconsciously.

I was surprised to find that his face was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about my anchor appointment.

‘I must be crazy.’

I fiddled with my lips, feeling awkward even though it was a thought that wouldn’t be discovered by anyone.

“Congratulations! It worked out. See, I told you it seemed like it would.”

“Thank you.”

My senior spoke, perhaps thinking that the community post from earlier was causing confusion.

I awkwardly smiled at his congratulatory words and made eye contact with Seo Rin, who was sitting diagonally across from me.

Her face was extremely angry.

‘She couldn’t win even with such tactics.’

It must be unbearable for her.

Seo Rin clenched her fists tightly, knowing the meaning of my smile.

That’s when the door to the production office opened.

The person, who seemed to be looking for someone, glanced around and then her gaze met mine.

“Announcer Yoon?”

A familiar face waved at me.