“Sorry I’m late. I had an urgent call.”

Maru greeted Sooil with his eyes and then looked at him. His cheeks were pale due to the cold. It seemed that the call was so personal that he couldn’t tell Byungchan about it.

“You should drink this. It should warm you up.”

Maru gave Sooil his drink. After drinking the coffee, Sooil sighed out.

“I’m Choi Miyeon.”

“I’m Yoo Sooil.”

Miyeon had waited until Sooil caught his breath to introduced herself.

“It’s quite cold, isn’t it?”

“Yes. Even though it wasn’t this cold just a few days ago,” Sooil said as he put down his coffee cup.

“The weather has gotten really whimsical lately. One of the editors at my office is down with a severe cold.”

“I’m also taking some medicine because of a slight sinus cold.”

“A sinus cold? Oh dear, are you okay?”

“Yes. It’s somewhat bearable.”

Miyeon smiled and spun her notebook 180 degrees so that Sooil and Byungchan could read it.

“First up, I tried narrowing down some of the interview questions I’m going to write in the column. I’m going to remove any if necessary before we get to it so that we don’t break the flow of the conversation. Oh, I also want to record the whole conversation. Will that be okay with you?”

“That’s a little…,” Byungchan said with a difficult expression.

“I’m not going to reveal it to anyone. I’m just recording so that I can recap when I actually start writing the column. Due to the nature of interviews, I’ll end up putting some of my own opinions...