Capítulo 9: Ji Hoon... An Opportunity

The next morning Ji Hoon started his regular routine. He first took a shower in cold water. He specifically had his water pipes surrounded with a temperature control unit, one he used to call a freezer.

He never liked hot baths at all. He never understood what was charming about them.

After that he prepared his pancake for breakfast, drank his cup of espresso, packed his day-work backpack and left.

For him he lived a double life, one at night where he acted as Lasprada, and one in the morning where he worked as a cameraman.

He worked for a mediocre agency. His skills in capturing pictures were unrivalled as he usually used his special abilities to reach places no one normally could.

However he had to start from such a mediocre agency. It wasn't his first, as he worked at much lower agencies before this.

He had a sports car of the latest model of a panther mark. He loved this red car like it was his pet.

"Baby… were you lonely without me at night?"

He took a very expensive piece of silk and started wiping away all the dust from his car. He used to cover it inside his garage, and yet he kept cleaning it with utmost care.

"Vroom… Vroom…"

He loved the sound it made when he rode it. It was fast, reliable, and had some sort of chemistry with it.

It didn't happen once, but thrice that this car gave him exceptional performance that helped him to escape his pursuers at night.

The streets at this early hour of the morning were really crowded with various types of cars and other vehicles. However he used side roads to get to the location of his agency in the shortest time.

"Leo… thanks god! you are finally here."

Just as he was about to pass the front door of his agency building, this sweet voice came from his back, startling him.

"Sh*t! I came early to escape you," he muttered softly to himself while trying to handle his thin black glasses over his nasal bridge.

"Liza, it's a blessing to see you every morning," he said with a fake warm smile. Yet he wasn't convincing at all.

Liza was his work colleague. Since day one of working here and she had a crush on him.

He used to face such situations. Anywhere he went, he had girls crushing at him. However, this little one here was different.

Liza was short, around thirty centimeters shorter than him. She had black eyes but she usually used lenses to change her eye color.

Her face wasn't that bad, a piece of art as many admirers who tried to seduce her always said. In Ji Hoon's eyes she was pretty, but not his type.

And today she had such green eyes which matched her sparkling tight green dress.

"Don't lie to me, you tried to sneak again and evade seeing me," she said before her eyes started to swell up with tears.

This was Liza. She was the daughter of a rich businessman in the country. However she fell for Ji Hoon since she saw him one day while he was working.

And since that day she has put a target on his back. Anywhere he would go she would follow. She even hired people to watch his house and tell her about his moves.

She was even so daring to give him a marriage contract every now and then. Even without the papers, she kept asking him to sign a contract with her.

In his eyes, she was creepy. And yet he couldn't get away from her this easily.

It wasn't a rare thing to bump into her while doing his night jobs. Many times she crashed on bars, discos, even casinos just to see him.

He didn't know, up till this moment, how she managed to track him. She was a headache that he tried his best to evade with no hope.

He even leaked some info about her stalking him to her father. Her father was first angry with him. He tried to bribe, threaten, and even tried more than once to fire him from the agency.

However with time Liza's father learnt the problem wasn't in the young man but in his own daughter.

Ji Hoon thought he would get rid of her this way, however what happened next was a thing he never expected.

Instead of dealing with his own daughter, the old man shifted his mind and started to accept Ji Hoon as his son-in-law. He even met with him more than once to try and convince the young man with power, fame, and wealth… all to just make his daughter happy.

Yet Ji Hoon stood firm in front of all these attempts. The problem wasn't that he didn't like girls, but he had nothing at all towards this particular girl.

He wasn't the type to throw himself over any girl for his own pleasure, even if that girl was already addicted to him.

"Oh, you must be mistaken," he lied, "I came early to deliver the footage from yesterday."

Liza's eyes kept getting redder and he knew she would cry at any moment now. She was like this all the time, a cry baby who would shatter into tears with anything he said away from accepting her.

And he couldn't just say he would just to make her happy. "What about my own happiness?" he repeated this to himself so he wouldn't go soft on her at any moment.

Yet strangely Liza rubbed her eyes and prevented any tears from dropping like usual. She gave him a bright smile as she instantly jumped and held his arm, before swinging right and left like she was dancing.

"It's fine, today we are going to have a turning point in our lives."

"Really?" Ji Hoon didn't like her words. Yet she kept gluing to him and refused to let him off until the two of them entered the building.

It wasn't a fancy building at all. It was a private villa in a remote location of the city surrounded by green trees of the nearby forest.

Ji Hoon was sure the low price of this villa was because of its remote location. And yet it was still a spacious place that could be used for any agency to do good business.

The moment Ji Hoon went inside, he checked the cameras around out of habit before his eyes landed over the models working at this early hour.

Hot swimming suits, bikinis, and lingerie were dominating the space inside. Hot models stood next to muscular men, with naked upper bodies, chatting and laughing.

They kept switching their places and posed for the two cameramen who were taking endless photos.

"They are still working on the summer collection till now, tsk," Liza couldn't help but grab Ji Hoon arm and shift him to the side to avoid looking at the models.

"We should help," he said before slipping his arm with some force away from hers. "You should go to start your calls."

Liza sucked at anything actually except for her influential father. The manager here couldn't say no to such a rich girl whose father donated a lot to the agency to get her in.

Yet she failed in writing scripts, preparing the shot scenes, even in taking photos or writing reports. She worked once as a secretary but she failed as hell.

The only thing she excelled at was to negotiate with customers and try to convince new ones to hire the agency for their work.

Using her father's name and few laughs here and there, she managed to seal many deals for the agency. Even the director started to call her his golden goose.

And that director just came out of the blue to stand behind the two of them.

"Where do you think you are?" he said in his sharp tone that didn't suit his fat physique.

"Mr. Nim…" Ji Hoon found his saving ship in this man, "I came as you requested."

"I did?" The forty-six years old man seemed oblivious to what Ji Hoon said. After all it was a lie, a white lie.

"I heard you wanted to see me early," Ji Hoon tried to push the old man to pick the line off him.

"Oh… it must be my secretary who did that," the old man scratched the few white hairs he had in his head, "anyway, it's good the two of you are here. I have great news for you."

"For… us?" Ji Hoon turned to see Liza who seemed calm and collected. He recalled what she said earlier, that this was going to be a turning point, a huge one in their careers.

"Yeah yeah, this is a great day for the agency as well," the old man rubbed both hands together. Even the fat of his belly started to shake. "I just got the call… you two are damn lucky to get accepted there."

"There… Where exactly is it?" Ji Hoon felt he was going to have a hard time today. He didn't know what the old man was speaking about, and it seemed Liza devised all this.

And she never did anything to his favor at all. Everything was for him to stick closer to her and tie his fate with hers.

"Do you know of the Ravner corporation?" the manager said with sparkling eyes, "you two are accepted as their workers from this moment."

"W… What?!!" Ji Hoon was well aware of the number one corp in the country. It was like a giant octopus, doing business in everything.

Construction, media, newspapers, TV, and even filming… Simply put they were the biggest giant among all the big names in the field.

Yet he also knew they had their dirty business behind the curtain as well. He tried so many times to infiltrate them, even applied to work there.

And yet every time he did so he got his cold rejection letter in the email.

He had many leads saying that the mysterious boss was actually owning the corp. He wanted to work there and get to know their dirty secrets, and find that boss.

"You can thank me for that," Liza proudly said with a wide smile on her face. She looked like a little girl happy for her new gift or dress. "I pulled some strings when I heard about you applying there. And viola… we are both there."

"Both?" Ji Hoon was acting shocked while trying to cover up his happiness inside. He finally got his golden chance presented to him by Liza.

If he had to thank her for anything, it would be this one help here.

"No time for that," the manager pushed the two out, "you should leave now and start working there. It's a great day for the agency. It's not easy for a small one like us to supply a single worker to one of the big names. This will definitely spread in the field and we'll have our name shining in gold for a long time."

Ji Hoon knew why the manager was acting in such a way. It wasn't easy to create a name for yourself especially when you lack money and power to support yourself.

Providing success to not only one but two of his workers would make anyone crave to work here.

And that would help to make a bigger name and good fame for the agency.

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