During the meeting, the director was instructing from the front.
Everyone was paying attention to the director’s words.
“There are particularly many articles today, so prepare for the broadcast carefully.”
There were many important news articles that day, making the director’s speech longer than usual.
Looking down at the manuscript filled with densely packed news articles, it made sense.
“Let’s finish the meeting now.”
The director’s announcement marked the end of the news item meeting.
The director left the meeting room immediately, as if he had a pressing schedule.
‘Ah, there’s a mountain of work.’
Only after watching the director leave the meeting room did people stretch out their stifled yawns.
“Good job.”
“Thanks for your hard work.”
Watching people disperse, senior Young Joon also started to tidy up his space and stood up.
“Senior, the pen worked well.”
“You can use more pens if you need.”
“No, there are many pens in the office.”
Only then did he pick up the pen I had extended towards him and headed outside the meeting room.
“Okay. I need to go to the editorial department, so I’ll leave first.”
“Okay. See you later.”
It was strange.
He always had a fountain pen in one corner of his diary, but at some point, it was empty.
“Where did the pen go?”
It was a precious pen, and it was indispensable…
“Did someone throw it away after I left it at my desk in the office?”
Feeling anxious that I might have lost it, I stood up from my seat.
I felt like I had to go and check.
As soon as I entered the scheduling department, I was taken aback by the attention focused on me.
Their gazes were still full of suspicion.
‘Why is the office so empty?’
The office was noticeably empty, and the few juniors who were left sneaked glances at me.
I put down the bag I had been carrying along with the meeting minutes and looked around.
I took out the diary from my bag, wondering if I had dropped it, and thoroughly searched under the chair, but there was no pen.
The thought that I might have really lost it naturally made me anxious.
‘I mustn’t lose that…’
At that moment, the office door opened, and a group entered and came straight to my seat.
Then I saw a whole cake that a junior was carrying.
“Senior, it’s late, but congratulations on your return.”
“Congratulations on your anchor appointment as well.”
“Ah, thanks…”
The people who had approached me extended a cake with lit candles towards me.
At first glance, it was a cheerful surprise event, but the people in the office were watching the situation with displeased eyes.
“Blow out the candles, they’re going to melt.”
Ugh.
I barely held back the urge to vomit from the overpowering scent of ripe mango mousse that wafted from the cake that had come right before my eyes.
The faces of the juniors holding up the cake, which looked like the wax was about to drip, were not very happy.
Anyone could see that they were doing it because they were told to.
‘Who did this…’
Of all the things, a mango cake.
Mango was a fruit that I absolutely couldn’t eat because smelling it made my head dizzy and I felt like vomiting.
“The director insisted that we get this for you. Please accept it even if it’s embarrassing.”
Why would the director do such a thing?
The glances of the people in the scheduling department were not good these days, and it was obvious that they would be more disliked because of this.
Somehow, the glances of the people clinging to me seemed to bear more malice.
“We had it custom-made because we heard that you like mango cake.”
“Me? Who said that?”
They said I liked mango.
Unknowingly, I frowned and my eyes met with Seo Rin’s as she walked out from among the juniors.
She approached me next to the junior holding the cake and gave me an extremely sarcastic smile.
“Unni, you’re a mango ghost, right? So we went far to get this.”
At Seo Rin’s words, those around nodded.
The smile that had been hanging on her lips gradually stopped, and she stared at me with a cold gaze that only I could see.
“You’re going to eat with us, right?”
…
…
…
I sneaked into the bathroom while people were distracted and threw up.
The more I thought about it, the more upset I was.
It was because I remembered Seo Rin, who was pushing the cake at me even though she knew I couldn’t eat mango.
‘How petty.’
I wiped the moisture from my mouth with a tissue.
Just then, the bathroom door, which had been closed, swung open and Seo Rin walked in.
“Unni, the cake tastes good, right? We got it from a famous place.”
Seo Rin came over to the sink to wipe her hands and gave me a sly smile in the mirror.
“Isn’t it too childish? You should know that I hate mango.”
“Childish? Do you know how much trouble I went through to get that cake?”
At my words about being childish, she turned around as if she was offended.
Seo Rin, who came towards me with clattering footsteps, curled up the corners of her mouth.
“Could you consider that I picked something for you to eat?”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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