Chapter 1

1 The Loser Known As Han Luo

He was the sort of person that people would never look at twice.

Han Luo was your average run-of-the-mill man with brown hair and black eyes. He had a dull face and an even duller atmosphere about him. He was the sort of person you could pass on the road and forget about immediately after. The kind of person people kept away from in high school because they were scared of being called uncool for hanging out with him.

He was a second-class existence.

"I only gave you this small assignment and you can't even do it right!? Aren't you useless!?"

The person who shouted was his superior at the H&C advertising firm. A large advertisement company run by Kim Park. The most influential woman of the century.

Some people said that she had been given the company by her family to use in honing her management skills after college, and some just said they used it to keep her busy whenever she was bored.

But the company employees knew the truth. She was a hardworking woman who everyone admired for her skills. She had taken the small firm and made it into one of the most influential ones in City C.

"If you can't even do something like this, then I'm going to fire you!"

Han immediately bowed.

"I'm very sorry sir! I'll make sure I do it right this time!"

The boss looked down at Han with hatred in his eyes. He knew that this was not Han's fault. Han had been put in a team of people who all had skills surpassing his own and then they made him the leader to see him fail. It was just for the laughs and the members of the team were already having the time of their life watching Han beg.

"Well, I suppose I'll give you one more chance! Make sure you do it better or you're fired!"

"What's going on here?"

"Ah! It's miss Kim!" A random worker shouted.

Miss Kim Park. A beautiful woman who every man couldn't help but admire openly. She had a luscious figure and long legs that just went on for dayyyys. Her cold look coupled with her large breasts made her look like a cunning villainess. Han was sure her three sizes were at least 80-45-70. His guessing skills once won him a lottery for a free meal! He was confident in himself!

"I asked a question,"

Miss Kim waved her black hair to one side and looked down at both Han and his boss. The man gave a smile that looked like a lizard smiling. He rubbed his hands together and stood up.

"Miss Kim. This worker failed an assignment I gave him to do. I was just making him learn the right way to do things. didn't I do well?"

Miss Kim's gaze moved from the boss over to Han. She eyed him from top to bottom and found him lacking. It wasn't right to bully people, but she couldn't have anyone pulling her company down.

"If he cannot work then fire him. We have the REACH group coming later today. Anybody that cannot work will be removed immediately!"

Han felt like his world was crashing down. Was he going to lose his job here? He had only been following the advice of his seniors in his team. He thought they were giving him good advice since they were older and had been on this job for longer. How was he supposed to know that they were leading him to lose his job!

"Ah, Miss Kim, maybe we should give him another chance?"

Han turned towards the newcomer. He was a handsome man with a brilliant smile and bright blonde hair. It was obvious from how he looked that he also fancied Miss Kim, but just like everyone else she never gave him face.

"Why is that, Jin Ham? I will not allow such trash to remain in my company"

Jin threw one of his hands around Han's shoulder and Han frowned in distaste. Did this man not know the meaning of personal space?

"I just don't think we should remove anyone now since we will need every hand on deck to handle the REACH group. Getting rid of him just removes one more worker when we can be using him!"

"I wanted us to go to an anime convection together. As Vegeta and Bulma"

"Sorry, I have to be at the meeting. But I don't have anything to do next tomorrow, maybe we can go then? My treat"

Rina's eyes lit up like stars and a beautiful smile appeared on her face.

"It's a date!*

Han just shrugged.

"Yeah. I'll get you by 8, okay."

Han threw some money on the counter with a very generous tip before saying goodbye to Rina and walking into the dark streets. He walked towards his home. A run-down apartment that didn't have water or constant electricity. He didn't have much money to move to a new place since he only started working at H&C last year. He was still a junior at the firm and his pay was very low.

'And even if it wasn't, I still have my parents debt to pay off,'

Han thought this while entering the bathroom. He couldn't believe it when a loan company came to his doorstep a year ago, telling him that his family had a large debt of $5000 to pay off. Apparently, his father and mother had secured the loan to buy a small farm outside town to use it in making some money for their family, but now that they were gone Han had no idea where they left the farm. He didn't even know that they had been trying to buy it in the first place, so how was he supposed to know the location.

If not for his parent's signature on the contract Han would have thought the loan company was trying to cheat him!

He came out from the bath and fell on his bed with only his boxers on.

He thought back to how he had almost lost his job today and he felt angry again. This wasn't the first time something like this was happening. That boss and Jin were always trying to use Han as the scapegoat in order to make Jin look better in Miss Kim's eye.

Even when he was a new employee, he could already tell that He was being singled out by the way Jin looked at him. Everyone knew Jin fancied Miss Kim, but why would he want to use Han for the scapegoat? Had Han done anything bad to him in the past?

'Time of Departure - 24hrs'

Han blinked and sat up in bed. There was a small screen floating in front of his face with a small timer at the bottom, counting down from 24:00:00. What in the world was this? This can't possibly be a prank, right? Han waved his hand across the screen and his hand passed through it like it was smoke and the screen reformed back.

Was this a hallucination? He hadn't drunk that much so it can't be a dream. Han was thinking of the possibilities of him being drugged at some point in the day. Maybe when that Jin put his hand around his neck!?

"But this is too real to be a hallucination. I can still feel my little junior and I can feel pain. It's impossible to feel pain in hallucination and everybody knows your little junior doesn't follow you into weird dreams that don't involve beautiful girls,"

Han thought about what the blue screen could be for a while longer, but he couldn't come up with anything. All the screen did was show him the numbers counting down at the bottom.

23:55:00

23:54:00

"What will happen if it reached zero?"

Han thought. Maybe it's some sort of clock? At this thought, Han looked towards the clock at his side and realized that he was late to bed. If he didn't sleep soon then he would be a zombie tomorrow morning.

"Ah, this thing isn't important. I can worry about it tomorrow. I need to go to sleep so I can wake up early for work tomorrow,"

Han quickly went to sleep and forgot about the screen.

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