“What kind of relationship could I have with an employee? She was just a staff member who cooked food at the main house.”

Ga Eun watched Do Jun’s expression carefully. Fortunately, he didn’t seem to have heard anything from Oh Jipsa. The car had already entered the apartment complex. Ga Eun wanted to get out of the car and away from Do Jun as quickly as possible.

As soon as the car stopped in front of the apartment entrance, Ga Eun flung open the door. At that moment, Do Jun grabbed her wrist.

“Really, you still don’t remember anything?”

Ga Eun looked straight into Do Jun’s eyes and answered, as if she had practiced countless times in front of a mirror.

“I don’t remember anything.”

Do Jun stared into her eyes for a long time, as if trying to find the truth in them.

“Sometimes I think. Maybe it’s better if your memories never come back.”

Ga Eun’s eyes widened at the unexpected words from Do Jun’s mouth.

“You’re quite charming as you are now.”

Ga Eun and Do Jun’s gazes intertwined in the air. Ga Eun was the first to look away. She shook off Do Jun’s hand holding hers. Do Jun grabbed her hand again and asked persistently.

“You know about the health check-up at the end of this month, right? I hope your condition improves by then.”

Ga Eun immediately understood his intentions when she heard that Do Jun was personally pushing for health check-ups for World Group executives. He still couldn’t shake off his suspicion that she was hiding something.

“I’ll go up first.”

Do Jun immediately replied to Ga Eun’s words.

“I won’t be able to come home today.”

Ga Eun didn’t respond to Do Jun’s words and hurriedly entered through the front door. Do Jun didn’t take his eyes off her until her figure completely disappeared.

“Let’s go to the company.”

The car moved quickly at Do Jun’s command. Do Jun couldn’t shake off the image of Ga Eun’s bright smile as she looked at him.

Her face had always been full of melancholy. She was a woman who looked at him as if she had something to say, biting her lower lip tightly.

Knowing she had something to say to him, Do Jun deliberately didn’t give her any opportunity. He saw his mother’s image in her, who never got angry no matter how hurtful his words were.

Do Jun quickly lowered the window as his mother’s face came to mind. The cold wind seeped into the anger that was about to burst.

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After entering the house, Ga Eun checked again the health check-up notice text message on her phone. If she had a health check-up, it was only a matter of time before Do Jun would know about her pregnancy.

She hadn’t even properly started her revenge yet. But she couldn’t think of a way to avoid the health check-up without raising Do Jun’s suspicions.

As she let out a long sigh, her phone rang. She answered with a bright expression.

“Is everything going well?”

The caller was none other than the manager of the fabric factory.

[Of course. The clothes should all be finished by tomorrow.]

“You’ve worked hard.”

With less than a week left until the new product fashion show hosted by World Fashion, Ga Eun could finally relax her anxious mind as the clothes were being made in time.

“How did the task I asked you to do go?”

At Ga Eun’s question, the factory manager’s voice lightened.

[I did as you said. The fabric samples disappeared without a trace, just as you said.]

“You must not let your guard down until the fashion show is over. There are people who will use any method.”

Ga Eun repeatedly urged the factory manager.

[Don’t worry. You think I’d fall for the same trick twice?]

After hanging up, Ga Eun let out a long sigh. Thankfully, the fashion show was progressing as she had anticipated. If this fashion show ends successfully, they won’t be able to bring up the team leader position anymore.

Her hand moved towards the deep part of the drawer. Hidden there were her maternity notebook and the baby’s ultrasound pictures. Even looking at the pictures, she couldn’t believe that another life was growing inside her body.

She put her hand on her belly and whispered the baby’s prenatal name.

“Taeyang.”

Just calling the baby’s name made her heart swell as if she owned the whole world.

She took out her phone and replayed the recorded sound of the baby’s heartbeat. As she quietly listened to the heartbeat, all the tension in her body released and her mind became peaceful.

While she was immersed in the baby’s heartbeat, her phone rang again. Her stepmother’s name appeared on the screen. Ga Eun waited until the phone had been ringing for a while before answering.

“What’s the matter at this late hour?”

Ga Eun made it clear that she didn’t want to take Yun Sook’s call.

“You turn the house upside down and then go on a date with your husband?”

Seeing Yun Sook’s agitated state, Ga Eun wanted to provoke her even more.

“Mother, you should go on dates with father too. Is work too tiring?”

A heavily angered breath could be heard through the receiver. Yun Sook didn’t back down from Ga Eun’s provocation.

“There’s something you don’t know because you lost your memory. I called to tell you.”

Ga Eun tightened her grip on the phone, waiting for Yun Sook’s next words.

[Seo Yu Jin and your husband were in love.]

Ga Eun had known about the relationship between Seo Yu Jin and Ji Do Jun for a long time.

The hotel scandal photos of the two on the eve of her wedding were etched in her heart, impossible to erase.

Ga Eun knew all too well why Yun Sook was saying such things. She was probing to see if her memory loss was real by digging into her deepest wounds.

“Is that so?”

Yun Sook was the one taken aback by Ga Eun’s calm voice.

[Aren’t you bothered? Knowing your husband has a woman he loves?]

Yun Sook didn’t give up and continued to stab at Ga Eun’s heart, hoping she would feel greater pain.

“Right now, I’m the only one Do Jun loves.”

Yun Sook was momentarily silenced by Ga Eun’s haughty and confident voice.

“Surely, you didn’t call just to give me this useless information?”

Struck at her weak point by Ga Eun, Yun Sook attacked more fiercely.

[It’s all because I’m worried about you. Once a man’s heart starts to wander, there’s no end to it.]

As Ga Eun was about to hang up, deeming Yun Sook’s words no longer worth listening to, Yun Sook belatedly played another card.

“How are the fashion show preparations going?”

Ga Eun quietly waited to see what Yun Sook’s next card would be.

“They’re going well.”

At Ga Eun’s answer, Yun Sook’s voice became more relaxed.

[Everyone’s expectations are very high. You know that, right?]

If this fashion show were to fail, Yun Sook would use any means necessary to remove Ga Eun from her position as team leader at World Fashion.

“Don’t worry. There won’t be anything to tarnish World Fashion’s name.”

Even as she spoke confidently, an ominous feeling brushed against one side of Ga Eun’s chest. The fact that Yun Sook had called directly to mention the fashion show meant that she had already put her plan into action.

Ga Eun quickly ended the call after saying her piece. After receiving Yun Sook’s call, Ga Eun promptly called the factory manager again.

“There’s no problem at the factory, right?”

The factory manager responded to Ga Eun’s question with a flustered voice.

[I was just about to call you. I heard that Ja Young Fashion is holding a launch show tomorrow with clothes made from the same fabric as ours. I didn’t expect them to move this quickly.]

Ga Eun’s voice quickened with urgency.

“Ja Young Fashion?”

Ja Young Fashion was run by her stepmother Yun Sook’s elder sister. It wasn’t that she hadn’t anticipated something like this, but she hadn’t expected them to move so quickly.

“The dress samples are all finished, right?”

The factory manager answered with a bewildered voice to Ga Eun’s unperturbed tone.

[Yes, they’re done.]

“I’ll come to the factory right now.”

[Now?]

The factory manager’s gaze turned to the clock on the wall. It was past 10 PM.

Ga Eun quickly changed her clothes and left through the front door as soon as she hung up. As she hailed a taxi in front of the entrance, a black car followed behind the taxi she got into.

“Please take me to Yoon Il Factory.”

As the taxi started, Ga Eun quickly searched for Ja Young Fashion on an internet portal site. News articles were already pouring in about Ja Young Fashion’s show being moved up by two weeks, with Yun Sook having made the first move.

It seemed they had moved the time up by two weeks in consideration of World Fashion’s show. The taxi, which had been driving for a while, stopped in front of a factory located on the outskirts of Gyeonggi-do.

As the sound of the car was heard from outside, the factory manager who was inside came out personally. Ga Eun exchanged greetings with the factory manager and hurriedly entered the factory.

A man got out of the black car that had been following the taxi. He quickly made a call somewhere.

“The madam has just arrived at Yoon Il Fabric Factory.”

The person the man called was none other than Ji Do Jun.

Do Jun, who had arrived at the company, frowned as he received the man’s call. He immediately called for his secretary.

“Have you looked into the obstetrician?”

The secretary immediately answered while flipping through his notebook at Do Jun’s words.

“She was a college classmate of Yu Jung Ah. There was no connection with the madam.”

“Are you saying the two didn’t know each other?”

“Yes. It seems the two were strangers until recently.”

Hearing the secretary’s words, Do Jun’s long fingers tapped on the desk.

“Haven’t you found the witness to the car accident?”

“We’re asking around, but haven’t found them yet.”

Do Jun’s brow furrowed deeply at the secretary’s words.

“You may go.”

As soon as Do Jun finished speaking, the secretary bowed to him and hurriedly left the executive office. Do Jun’s head was so full of thoughts about Ga Eun that he couldn’t focus on the approval documents.