The office was awakening due to the clear keyboard typing sounds.
It was the keyboard YongHo was using.
Was it due to the keyboard being a brand name? Or was it because the programmers typing were brand name? The sounds coming from the keyboard sounded like a piano melody.
Both of them coded while looking at the monitor as if they were slightly drunk. They found out that the sun has risen after the night thanks to the cleaner lady coming.
YongHo stretched his arms and stood up from his seat first. When he looked to his side, Na DaeBang was immersed in typing.
‘He’s amazing the more I look at him.’
YongHo put his hands on Na DaeBang’s shoulders. Which boasted of a wider shoulder than your typical health trainer.
Finally, Na DaeBang raised his head and looked at YongHo. YongHo posed as he was drinking.
YongHo meant to drink coffee but Na DaeBang seemed to have taken it differently as he stood up delightedly.
When YongHo brought some coffee, Na DaeBang expressed his disappointment straight away.
“I meant to drink coffee, you mean, you want to drink some alcohol?”
Na DaeBang sipped the cup of coffee and he creased his face as if he drank some alcohol. He drank some alcohol while having dinner the day before yesterday. Yesterday being the same. YongHo could only be amazed at the fact that Na DaeBang wanted to drink again despite that.
“Isn’t there some saying? ‘You can’t live without being drunk’.”
“Hey, seonbae. I’m not that much of a lunatic.”
“Don’t you want to date someone?”
“Even though I look like this, I’m really kind. But the women… the women……”
Not only Na DaeBang, YongHo also thought about a girlfriend. He was still in his 20s. He dated someone once during college and after that, there was neither time nor opportunity for it.
YongHo thought up of Choi HyeJin while saying this. She always said that she liked people like Ma DongSeok and whenever she spoke of this to YongHo, he thought of Na DaeBang.
And just like that, a meeting was held that day. It was a lonely morning for YongHo.
A week ended and a new Monday morning had started. The people who won against Monday disease came to work.
Every time, the elevator wa full with people. It was no exception that day.
An atmosphere where no one should speak.
The first one to speak was Jeong DanBi.
“Because I’m busying myself like that, I can take charge of the design team at my age. I’m unlike a certain someone, who is sitting in this seat due to her background.”
Yu SoHyun, who finished speaking, stepped out of the elevator without even greeting. Compared to the other employees greeting Jeong DanBi even slightly, it wouldn’t be exaggerated to say that she was rude.
Bang!
“Mr. YongHo, please come in for a sec.”
Jeong DanBi, who went inside, took off her coat and hung it. The blouse couldn’t show off her curves.
While YongHo was thinking something different, Jeong DanBi sat down while saying.
“Yes. It’s today.”
Jeong DanBi shouted. There weren’t many times when she explicitly ordered someone. YongHo could only guess that she heard something unpleasant.
Today.
Was the deadline for the promise with Yu SoHyun.
Coincidentally, Yu SoHyun was also checking the schedule.
Honestly, she didn’t have a lot of expectations. They were in a situation where even the development team couldn’t edit properly. She thought that what one person could do was extremely limited.
She also inwardly disdained YongHo. She had never met a Korean developer who she deemed as ‘having ability’ until now.
Employees who were all urgent to meet the schedule and were busy defending themselves – Even the word ‘programmer’ was wasted on them.
‘I will know soon.’
Yu SoHyun seemed already used to such gazes as she just focused on work.
./startup
YongHo fixed the last bug and ran the web application which was uploaded on the test server.
Now, he only had to meet Yu SoHyun.
Clack Clack.
“This way.”
“Then can we start?”
The designers tested the S Mall on the laptops they brought. Passion to not miss out 1mm of error boiled inside the conference room.
“I had some time left while editing so… I solved all the requestsso take your time to see it.”
That thought was shattered in less than one hours.
“What is it?”
“……”
‘D, don’t tell me he really……’
‘No way.’
That ‘no way’ had become reality.
The closed mouth indicated that she still didn’t believe the current situation.
“Then can we now talk about how the project OH from our team will fit inside the S Mall?”
It was a strong gaze, but YongHo didn’t have anything to say to her. And so, he silently gazed at Yu SoHyun.
Yu SoHyun was glaring at him so strongly so YongHo felt slightly uncomfortable. However, there was a reason for it.
Yu SoHyun didn’t easily answer YongHo’s question. This was something that couldn’t be accepted within common knowledge.
She was full of suspicions that this was all planned beforehand. It was very possible if she thought how people had acted on her way up the ladder.
‘Quickly speak the truth!’
Yu SoHyun spoke with a stronger gaze. However, YongHo had nothing to speak about. He could only receive her gaze.
There was no one who spoke inside the conference room so only silence took place. While everyone was thinking different things, Yu SoHyun finally opened her mouth.
“Did team leader Jeong DanBi order you to do this?”
She thought that they purposely interfered the design team’s work, and use that to their own project.
Jeong JinHoon was already interfering with Joeng DanBI’s work. It was a reasonable judgement to think that Jeong DanBi used a scheme like this.
YongHo spat out the words as if he stifled. Determining truth or lies was simple. Check whether it was YongHo’s ability or not. Yu SoHyun turned the laptop monitor towards YongHo.
On the monitor that Yu SoHyun was showing him, there were some UI screens designed. It was a type that YongHo had never seen before while using his smartphone.
“You already know that Koogle announced a new design concept called ‘Material Design’, right? This is a design which we have made for the S Mall app. However, the S Mall development team said that they couldn’t do it. If it was truly Mr. YongHo who edited all the requests, then make this. Then I will believe you.”
She thought that if this man’s ability was real, then he would be able to free from that suffering.
From YongHo’s perspective, he already had a lot of work to do, and now he was about to add another one on top of it. Cold sweat flowed down from YongHo’s back.