“Ahem, ahem.”
I hope you’re very uncomfortable, Department Head.
Ding!
As the elevator doors opened with the display showing ‘3rd floor’, Hye-won turned around, met Department Head Park’s eyes, and smiled sweetly.
“Well then, Department Head, have a good day.”
“Oh.
Oh.
You too, Lee Assistant Manager.”
Department Head Park waved his hand in a half-hearted greeting, neither truly smiling nor truly not smiling.
As soon as the elevator doors closed, Hye-won’s expression immediately hardened.
As if her anger hadn’t fully subsided, she stomped energetically towards the office, saying:
“Ms.
So-young.
You’ve heard that proverb, right?
A rolling stone displaces a rooted stone.”
“Yes.
I have.”
“That’s all a lie.”
“Huh?”
“Tell them to try it.
See if it comes out or not.
No chance.
Most Rolling Stones just bounce off the Rooted Stone.
I don’t know who came up with such an ignorant saying.
Humph.
It absolutely doesn’t come out.
In short, it’s just some person who’s never actually tried it spouting nonsense.”
So-young, seeming to understand what Hye-won was alluding to, nodded and smiled.
“Ah-ha.
Hehehe.”
Hye-won, upon reaching her desk, checked the tall stack of storyboards on her desk without even sitting down.
Hye-won, who was checking the number of storyboards by scanning each cover, said discontentedly:
“So where’s the new team leader?
Still not, surely?
Is he late on his first day?
This person really…”
“Uh.
That is…”
When So-young suddenly stammered in an embarrassed voice, Hye-won, still focused on the storyboards, asked again:
“Why?
What?”
Just as she was about to lift her head, finding So-young’s silence strange, an unfamiliar man’s voice, one she wouldn’t normally hear in the office, reached her ears.
“Are you looking for me?
I am The Rolling Stone.”
Hye-won’s hand, which had been busily flipping through the storyboards, abruptly froze.
Her eardrums vibrated pleasantly, and at the same time, the hairs on her neck stood on end.
Though it sounded gentle at first listen, sarcasm was sharply embedded within it.
Even though Hye-won hadn’t yet seen the owner of that voice with her eyes, she could feel his presence directly behind her.
There was a distinct feeling that he was looking at her with a subtly mocking smile, ready for an argument.
‘Ah-ha.
Is that you, the new team leader, Mr.
Rolling Stone?’
Hye-won, still facing away, curled one corner of her mouth into a smirk.
With just one sentence, she instantly knew he was not someone to be trifled with.
But Hye-won wasn’t easily pushed around either.
I’m a Rooted Stone, not just any stone, but a solid rock.
Hye-won, with an expectant expression, wondering what words she would use to retort, her face alight with anticipation, turned around sharply, fully intending to unleash a torrent of words.
Then, as if to make a point, she lowered her gaze and slowly moved her eyes upwards, scanning the man from his feet.
“Ah… so you’re the one…”
Just as Hye-won’s gaze reached the man’s face,
Her sentence unfinished, the words died in Hye-won’s mouth, and she involuntarily took a sharp breath.
Because the Rolling Stone…
Gasp- was incredibly handsome.