It was a normal workday for Torio Raniko, a 23 year old girl who was quite unsure of what she should do with her life. She got up early, thanks to her cell phone alarm, didn't bother to have breakfast, took a 15 minute bath, and went off to Yamada Network where she worked as an assistant to the formidable news anchor Mrs. Chen Kwan.
Raniko has been in YN for three months, a temporary assistant actually, for she applied for the position of feature news writer but there were no vacancies at that time. She was offered the assistant job and was reassured that she will eventually get the position she desires after some time. She was still waiting for that time to come. Meanwhile, she have no complaints with being an assistant to Mrs. Kwan because the pay was good and all she has to do was to follow the rules set by the anchor and do a lot of errands for her while learning about news editing and research.
Now, Mrs. Kwan was a very powerful woman in the media industry. She was very influential and liked to be on top of things. She has a lot of enemies, and thus she trusted no one. She can destroy or built a person in the industry. She has an only son from her first marriage, Yeojun, who she loved him dearly. The problem was her son Yeojun don't have a girlfriend and don't want to date women she had arranged for him to meet. And also, she noticed that Yeojun has always been nice to her assistant Raniko, whenever the two come across each other. Sure, she liked her assistant Raniko because she never failed to meet her standards and many times she even surprised her. But, she didn't want to entertain the idea of her son and his assistant being together. That would be awful to her image! It wouldn't be a real problem if the two won't see each other everyday, but according to her son, he will be working as a director and co-producer of one of the shows in the same network, and he specifically asked if she can let Raniko work for him as one of the writers of the said show. Mrs. Kwan just smiled and gently shook her head. "Why hire her? She doesn't have any experience on that area?" to which Yeojun replied, "I have talked to her several times and she has great ideas for a show." Mrs. Kwan was surprised but acted unaffected. In her mind, she was concocting a plan that would surely make Raniko as far away as she can from Yeojun.
Night came but Mrs. Kwan didn't have anything yet in her mind. She knew she cannot fire her because Yeojun would be immediately seeking for her and they'll work together. What she needed was: Put her some place, unreachable to Yeojun; or find a boyfriend for her; or make her bad side surface so that Yeojun won't be interested in her anymore. She puffed smoke and sighed. She really needed to think fast or else Yeojun would - ... Her attention was caught by the news on the TV. A large crowd of girls of different ages and walks of life have gathered in front of Yamada Network in the midst of the night. They were waiting for hours to get an audition for the upcoming reality TV show which also includes the talented, handsome, and popular idols called Tangent Cloud or T.C. for short.. Immediately, Mrs. Kwan got the phone and called the producer of the said reality show. The producer was more than happy to accommodate her request but he said that her "protegee" should still come to the building for an audition. Mrs. Kwan hang up the phone and called Raniko's cell.
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