The Office Proposal
Having failed to adapt to police life, Lee Chae-habecomes an 8th-grade prosecutor and is assigned as an investigator at the Danhyeon Branch Office. Although he has lived his entire life suffering from bullying by friends and violence from his uncledue to the label of "son of a murderer," this time he strives to adapt to his new workplace. Even after reuniting with Prosecutor Joo Tae-sun, whom he respects and who helped clear his name from the false accusations he bore during his police days , he finds himself merely hearing news of him from a distance.Then, one day, following an incident where they were on duty together, Prosecutor Joo begins to show interest in Lee Chae-ha. Prosecutor Joo selects Lee Chae-ha as his partner to investigate a murder case he has been pursuing for a long time and proposes that he join his office as an investigator… [Excerpt]Prosecutor Joo Tae-sun had always tested me, but for the first time, I felt the opposite. I held out the white cigarette between my fingers to him. "Would you like another cigarette?" "…Yes." I had a hunch. I thought he would refuse. After all, he said it weighed on his mind that we had shared a cigarette. However, Prosecutor Ju took a wet cigarette filter into his mouth and slowly took it away from me. With the sound of a deep inhale, white smoke rose into the air like mist. We looked down at Dan Hyeon-si from the rooftop in silence, but in reality, it felt as though we were mobilizing every nerve in our bodies to look at each other. +
