“Phew, I was almost late.”

“You should’ve headed out early,” Giwoo scolded her.

She was about to tell him about how her elevator suddenly stopped working just as she left her house, and how the credit card machine suddenly stopped working when she was refueling her car, but she just responded by drinking a glass of water instead. Today was the day the first episode aired, but things weren’t looking good. Everything was not going well since morning. Even though she had turned the alarm on, it did not ring. The whole grain bread that she had left out on her table to eat had turned bad overnight, and her hairdryer kept turning off as though it had bad contacts somewhere inside. Looking back at everything that happened until she got to this restaurant made her wonder if one of the three disasters of her life had struck. Although she did not believe in religion or any other deities for that matter, all these bad things happening made her pick up the newspaper, and the first thing she saw on it was ‘the three disasters of life.’

“Is something on your mind? You don’t look good,” Giwoo said as he filled her glass.

“It’s because I’m having a bad day. Usually, I don’t believe in things like fortune-telling, but what happened today made...