Jiwon flopped onto her bed with a sigh of exhaustion.

“Whoooooo.”

The company had originally been small, but dungeons had caused its business to prosper. Her workload increased daily, and it only felt more daunting as time passed. 

Behind her, the door to the dormitory opened to admit her roommates, Haejin and Nayoung.

Haejin sighed as they closed the door behind them, “Uh-whew. Older sister did a good job.”

Jiwon tilted her head out of her blanket to reply, “Yes. You guys also did a good job.”

Haejin and Nayoung were both twenty-one years old. Even though Jiwon was only slightly older at twenty-four, the two of them were always aware of the age difference. They never spoke of it, but they were also slightly uncomfortable with her appearance. They tended to exclude her when they did things, but got along well with each other.

Nayoung stretched, “Older sister? We will wash first.”

Jiwon agreed easily, “Yeah. You guys do that.”

Jiwon opened her phone to take a brief break. After a hard day of work, she always read webtoons to take her mind of things. When she wanted more, she read romance novellas.

“Hoo hoo.”

Jiwon let her imagination run wild as she pictured herself as the protagonist inside her romance novella.

The Dungeon Shock had killed her parents out of the blue when she was in her third year of high school. It had nearly killed her too, but she’d been saved by an unknown Awakened. She remembered his face, but she hadn’t any way of meeting him again. 

But her life had come at a price. She had lost too many things. 

She...