Ji-Ah felt a skull-crushing headache followed by blurry visions of the previous night.

'Last night was fun.'

Despite her headache, Ji-Ah couldn't hold back a smile while thinking of last night. They were able to get closer while drinking.

She laughed and talked a lot more than their first time out. Ji-Ah felt a connection with these two that she hadn't felt with anyone in a long time.

They seemed to have warm hearts. Ju-Hyeok would joke that only dead bodies were cold-hearted if she said that.

How else would she think when all the people in her previous workplace were like dead people? Maybe the whole country was full of dead people. Perhaps the country was built for dead people.

They treated those alive worse than those who were dead. No one listened to anyone alive. Only the dead had weight to their words.

Ji-Ah’s company only stopped working their employees overtime when a co-worker died from overwork.

The first thing she felt when she heard the news was relief because, finally, something would change. Finally, someone would listen to that person.

That was the first thing that came to her head. She was...