A Light Contract (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 48
Yura, returning from lunch with her team for the first time in a while, went to the CEO’s office at Jin Ho’s summons. She politely declined Director Kwon’s offer of coffee and sat facing Jin Ho.
“IF Management’s Director Joo Hye Rim requested to meet you at the hotel.”
“What? Why suddenly?”
“She seems determined to resolve this issue somehow.”
Yura finally realized why she’d never felt at ease about Oh Se Jin’s affair. It was Joo Hye Rim’s appearance when she’d come looking for Baek Lee Hyun. Moreover, the fact that she was now requesting a meeting under these circumstances clearly signaled something significant.
Yura repeated the gossip circulating in the media almost like a reflex. Lee Hyun had insisted it wasn’t carelessly leaked, yet with Joo Hye Rim’s involvement, everything suddenly felt uncertain.
“Could she be trying to sweep Oh Se Jin’s antics under the rug again?”
“No, probably not. At this point, with how public it’s become, covering it up is impossible. That’s exactly why Lee Hyun exposed it so thoroughly—leaving no room for escape.”
Lee Hyun hadn’t stirred things up recklessly; he’d deliberately and meticulously presented evidence. The bomb he’d dropped was woven so tightly that not even the smallest gap was visible.
He’d lined up everything: interviews with victims who named names, documents pressuring them into settlements, and even tracked down eyewitnesses to the incidents.
It was all too flawless to dismiss as false or malicious fabrication. There was absolutely no way Oh Se Jin could wriggle out of this. Yet what unsettled Yura was precisely that woman—Joo Hye Rim.
Yura couldn’t even begin to guess how the mastermind behind countless concealed and incited scandals would handle this.
“But we can’t ignore that woman’s capabilities. That’s exactly why I’m uneasy.”
“She is quite capable, isn’t she?”
Jin Ho’s trailing remark only heightened Yura’s anxiety. Feeling suffocated, she took a deep breath—and suddenly remembered what Yoon Ga Eun had told her that morning.
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
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