Korean drama number 31 added to the "shows to ban when I become president" list.

Ren thought to herself as she put on her workout clothes and headed out the door. Thankful for the brief respite she gets every day from her current work of analyzing the popularity of K-dramas that her boss assigned her to a couple of weeks ago (no matter how much she protested), Ren took in the cold, crisp air and tried to clear her head of the latest series that she painfully had to watch that day.

"Watching K-dramas should be considered a form of torture", Ren complained in her 12pm check-in call earlier with her best friend Aemee, who is German but considers herself an honorary Korean because of her devotion to anything related to the Korean culture. 

Despite being complete opposites, Aemee and Ren have been each other's confidante ever since Aemee introduced herself to Ren at a café years ago as someone who has been riding the Korean wave since she was in utero.

Shocked at Ren's declaration, Aemee chastises Ren and tells her that K-dramas are the second best thing next to live K-pop idol concerts and that she knows millions of people who would want to take over Ren's work of watching K-dramas all day.

"It's not like I just watch K-dramas 24/7, Aemee. I'm an analyst which means I have to find out which shows are trending, why they are trending and what can be done to apply the statistics to-," Ren stops talking as she hears Aemee make snoring sounds at the other end of the line. "Ugh, Aemee- Okay, fine, I'll stop. I'm just saying that K-dramas are so unrealistic and illogical that they would never happen even once in a million, no trillion years! The probability just does not add up."

Aemee laughs and says, "Probabilities, Schmobabilities, Ren. I know you like your routines, your 79-degree Celsius coffee, your manifesto that everything in the world has to be logical and that everything should make sense. But one of these days, you're going to realize that life is not all about logic or statistics and numbers. And when that happens, I want you to call me and-"

"Oh, Aemee- Ae-? You-you're breaking-" Ren ends the call, still feeling mildly annoyed at Aemee taking a jab at her for wanting everything to be logical. In her opinion, it is the best and the only way to live life. As Spock from Star Trek says, "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it." 

Ren shakes her head as she sees Aemee's smug smile whenever she uses Star Trek references. 

Focus, Ren, focus. Ren takes a deep breath and looks up at the sky, which was dark and gray as usual, as it always has been whenever autumn rolled around in the city, where she has been working as an analyst for the past three years. 

Stressed at work, going for a run has always been a habit of hers after a 10-hour workday, and she was used to the routines she has been following ever since she was young. From the way she styles her hair to the brand of clothing she wears, Ren has kept it the same throughout the years as she sees it as the most efficient AND most logical way of doing things. 

Her straight black shoulder-length hair is always tied into a ponytail to keep it in place while her daily outfit is usually a pair of jeans, a white t-shirt and a blazer with casual sneakers, not forgetting her wide-rimmed glasses that cover her pale blue eyes. The only time she changes her clothes when going out is when she changes into her running outfit, a standard black training suit, which is, of course, what she had on now.

It was drizzling when she started her run but the rain was pouring even stronger now as she reached the street crossing near her home. Half an hour of running at 9pm every day, rain or shine. Ren smiled as she said to herself, today is just like any other day. 

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