Chapter 14

"Nicholas, are you really not going to tell me what's going on?" John asked Nicholas, for the fourth or fifth time, only that day.

Brener was genuinely worried about his friend and his strange behavior. Of course, Nicholas still remained the same kind and courteous person as always, but the good humor that usually accompanied him in work situations had vanished exactly a week ago. Since the day of Nicholas' first visit to the program's mansion, when he had individually talked to some of the girls, he hadn't been himself.

One would expect him to be even more cheerful and excited than usual, considering he was in the role he loved as the station's administrator, and he had created the program to meet a girl and marry her, and everything seemed to be going as planned. However, in the following two days, he seemed distant while he should have been getting to know the other nine candidates better, and throughout that week, during the daily visits to the house, his best friend could tell he