First Date

The days of summer are hot and sweaty, but many people make various memories within this hot time. Some have enthralling moments while some wish that summer never came in their life. And whenever summer arrived, Byeon Da-Jung hoped that she would either run away from this season or just forget her past which made her hate the beautiful summer sea and the sun shining bright on her face.

As Byeon Da-Jung looked at the huge blue ocean which sparkled due to the bright sun, she couldn't help but think about that one person because of whom her life had turned upside down.

And currently, she was going to interview that man who had changed her life.

As the phone rang, Da-Jung looked at the caller Id and instantly picked up. "Please, Team Manager Sina... Can you not make me go there? I really don't want to go." Before hearing the person from the other line, Da-Jung began to plead.

"If you want to start working as a full-time employee, you must get this interview done well. I don't want to hear anything unlike last time."

Hearing her manager's stern orders, Da-Jung grunted and hung up the call.

"Let's get this done if you want a permanent position in the company, Da-Jung!" She encouraged herself and took a cab to reach JH Entertainment Company.

JH Entertainment Company was a top leading entertainment company in country A. It was founded in the year 2019 by a man named Yang Woo-Jin. Although it was a very small company that just had only one artist working under it.... now, in the year 2022, the company had expanded globally with multiple artists.

Yang Woo-Jin, the 29-year-old founder of JH Entertainment Company had arrived to Country A yesterday, after performing a two-week concert in Country X. He was a very talented young man with a beauty and a brain.

His attractive looks, his melancholic and sorrowful voice, heart-wrenching lyrics, amazing production was what attracted billions of people, worldwide.

And he was also having a concert in his own country after a long time... so, his fans were eagerly waiting to see him perform live again.

Seeing various posters of Yang Woo-Jin everywhere while being in the cab, Da-Jung couldn't help but frown. "TSK! Yang Woo-Jin here, Yang Woo-Jin there.... can't I not just go through a place where his posters aren't around?" Maybe Da-Jung hadn't realised that she was speaking aloud and that the taxi driver who was a huge fan of Yang Woo-Jin looked at Da-Jung through the rear-view mirror and frowned.

"You seem to not be a fan of Yang Woo-Jin..."

As Da-Jung heard the taxi driver ask with an angry tone, she scratched the back of her neck and gave a sheepish smile. "No... No... it is not like that... I do like Yang Woo-Jin Oppa! He is the best in the world!"

'Yang Woo-Jin Oppa? Are you serious, Da-Jung???' She frowned upon her stupid words and immediately stopped the car. The temperature in the car had driven to the lowest and she could feel the taxi driver throwing daggers at her through the mirror.

She quickly paid for the cab and stepped out.

"Yang Woo-Jin Oppa, my ass!" Da-Jung kicked the empty bottle which was lying on the street out of frustration. And maybe it was her bad day or an omen... as she kicked the empty bottle, that bottle had gone flying and hit a middle-aged man on his almost bald head who was reading a newspaper while enjoying the warm coffee in his hand.

"WHO WAS THAT?" When the man roared in anger, Da-Jung looked at where the bottle had gone and to avoid any hassle, she immediately ran away from there.

Gosh! Her luck was just rotten. Life had just been unfair to her... Da-Jung grunted with annoyance.

While looking at the picture of Yang Woo-Jin on the huge advertising board ahead of her, Da-Jung felt her chest tighten. "I never knew that you would turn out to be so successful, Woo-Jin Oppa!" As warm tears escaped through the corner of her eyes, Da-Jung remembered the day where she had first met this handsome face.

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It was the summer of 2014... Da-Jung was just nineteen-year-old and she wanted to be in a relationship with a man. She wanted to know about love, about those beautiful things which were filled in her head. She wanted to meet a man just like her father who loved her mother dearly and never let anything happen to her mother and always protected her.

Da-Jung knew that what she was thinking of was very early. Despite of her friend telling her not to, Da-Jung went through a dating app and found a man with whom she would want to date.

And when the day came for the two to meet, Da-Jung got dressed as beautifully as she could and waited at the café for the man to come. What she read in the profile of the man was that he was twenty-four-year-old and that he was working in a confectionary...

Why Da-Jung had chosen this man was because if she was to fall in love with this person, she wouldn't have any difficulty in saying it to her parents.

Da-Jung's parents owned a restaurant and she knew that her parents would choose someone who worked in the same field as them. So, being dressed up in a cute floral blue outfit, Da-Jung waited for the man to come.

However, it had already been two hours and that man was nowhere here. Instead of leaving and going, Da-Jung had decided not to. It was because it was her first time coming on a date and she wanted to meet the man, at least have a little conversation with him...

A long time had passed and she heard the shop owner say her to go because it was the closing time. With a heavy breath, Da-Jung drank the remaining water in her glass and left. She looked at the phone in her hand and she realized that she was a fool to have waited for so long.