Slowly, but decisively, Eun-woo spoke.

“No, there isn’t an engagement partner. I haven’t seen one, and there are no plans for it. I don’t know why this happened in the article.”

However, the article was discussing actual companies. As if it were true.

But once again, unsure of its credibility, Eun-woo raised his phone to check the contents. Then he shook his head nervously.

“Even my brother has a long-time girlfriend. She’s an ordinary person. An ordinary person, one year older, who worked at WS International for a long time.”

“…….”

“Just a company employee.”

“Really?”

“Yes. They’re planning to get engaged in a couple of weeks. They’re planning to get married soon.”

Seol-hee bowed her head and looked at her phone.

“Then, what about this article?”

“In the business world, things that don’t even happen can become news and rumors. Mergers between companies that won’t happen, uncertain personnel changes, business plans that haven’t been discussed yet. Such things sometimes become news with intentions, sometimes by mistake.”

“The two people mentioned in that article…”

As he murmured the names, he nodded after thinking.

“One is probably just a simple schoolmate of my brother, and the other, I really don’t know. Maybe she’s an acquaintance of my brother. Anyway, they have no relationship. As far as I know.”

“…Really?”

“Yeah.”

He nodded firmly.

“Don’t you trust me?”

“…….”

“How can I make you believe? Should I have our father meet you right away?”

“Oh, no. That’s…”

His words were sincere up to a point.

“Because I met you, I have no intention of meeting another woman. It’s not a nice thing to say to make you feel good. But, even if I hadn’t met Seol-hee, I would never have engaged in a chaebol marriage or a strategic marriage. Even if it were something that would greatly benefit the company.”

His words were sincere.

There really is no engagement partner, as he said. She wanted to believe his forcefully spoken words.

“As for matters related to the company, I didn’t try to hide anything. I just didn’t want everyone to know that I’m from the WS Group. It’s not just Seol-hee who doesn’t know, but everyone.”

“Nobody knows?”

“There are people who found out by persistently investigating, but we’ve blocked them from going to the media and places like that at the company level, at the family level.”

“Why?”

Eun-woo narrowed his eyebrows slightly. To speak or not to speak. After careful consideration, he opened his mouth.

Ok Eun-woo was born to attract attention.

“Why is he so handsome?”

“That’s right. Why do his eyes look so cute?”

From an early age, he was exceptional, and his sculpted face was not much different from now. In the case of his brothers, Seon-woo and Hyung, they were also good-looking with good grades, but Eun-woo was in a completely different league.

Since childhood, inheriting his father’s brilliant brain and his mother’s model-like appearance, he attracted people’s attention.
“Maybe it’s not Seon-woo leading WS but Eun-woo.”

The turning point in his life was in the sixth grade of elementary school. One day, Eun-woo stopped talking. He was originally quiet, but he gradually spoke less, and some days he didn’t speak at all.

“Eun-woo, you got 100 points again. Congratulations.”

“…….”

To the child who did not respond to praise, a diagnosis of ‘selective mutism’ was given. Although he understood language well and had no problems with language skills, he couldn’t speak in certain situations.

Wherever he went, attention turned away from Eun-woo. Teachers, classmates, even family members.

This was a disease that developed due to the excessive expectations placed on delicate Eun-woo, who received too much attention.

“If treatment continues and stress decreases, the condition can improve.”

In an environment like this, especially Eun-woo’s grandmother, who cherished him more than anyone else, made a decision.

“It won’t work; we have to raise our Eun-woo differently.”

She took Eun-woo to her hometown, Jeju, and raised him there until he became a high school student. There was also the option of studying abroad, but at that time, Eun-woo was too young.

“The house we went to was where I spent middle and high school.”

There, Eun-woo was almost unknown as a person from WS, and people who knew him didn’t pay much attention.

His serious symptoms, to the point where he couldn’t utter a word, improved in less than three months, and he spent his school days freely and went on to college.

“If it were the original plan, I should have chosen a major that would help the company.”

Typically, chaebol heirs chose a lot of business administration. It was advantageous when becoming a manager later on. Sometimes, heirs of electronics companies chose engineering, but what Eun-woo chose was a completely different field.

Veterinary medicine.

There were many questions about why he wanted to become a veterinarian. Why was that? Before entering college, Eun-woo had never properly raised an animal. However, perhaps.

“I was a coward.”

Eun-woo said calmly.