There were people watching, so he couldn’t dismiss him outright. Tae Seo had just done his job, there was no loyalty to Kang Sun Construction. If he had any, he would have asked for a retraction of the disposition, worried about the work he was handling.
But Kang Sun Construction was no small family business. The company wouldn’t falter without him. Moreover, since he started working in Korea, he hadn’t really taken a proper break. So, being told not to come to work was rather welcome.
If the chairman isn’t worried about the company and just wants him out, why should he, a mere department head, worry about the company? What does it matter to him what happens to Kang Sun Construction?
The call was abruptly ended. Tae Seo, who had been silent for a moment, gently placed the receiver back on the cradle.
“I’ve become unemployed.”
He muttered to himself and wrinkled his nose in a smile. His eyes softly folded into a smile that would have made anyone’s heart drop if they had been there.
His father was greatly mistaken about something. He seemed to think that Tae Seo coveted the Kang Sun Group and wanted Shin Jae’s chairman position.
The deeper the frown on Shin Jae’s brow became whenever Tae Seo displayed his abilities, and the more people praised Tae Seo, the clearer it was.
The chairman of Kang Sun Group was wary of his young and smart son usurping his position, even though Tae Seo had no such intentions.
“Hmm…….”
Tae Seo, lost in thought as he stroked his thick eyebrows with the tip of his finger, picked up his personal cell phone. Among the few contacts, he pressed the one for Ted.
“Tae Seo, stop rushing me.”
{Finish up what you’re doing and come back to Korea right away. Oh, and it might be better if you sort out the house you’re living in before you come.}
“Sort out the house?”
{Yeah. There’s a lot to be done here for the time being.}
Having finished a brief call in fluent English, Tae Seo opened a portal site on his cell phone. He smiled, pulling up the corner of his mouth as he checked the headline articles about Hyun Yang Construction plastering the economic section of the news.
“Well, then.”
Pocketing his phone, Tae Seo grabbed his coat and gazed into the distance, towards the direction of the yoga studio where Jae In would be working.
“Maybe I should go drop by and disturb my girlfriend at work, like a proper unemployed man should.”
Cheered by the prospect of becoming a shutterbug, Tae Seo headed towards the office door with a light step.
“Turns out he wasn’t completely indifferent after all. Does it make sense for a man set to be a son-in-law to compete with his future father-in-law?”
Jo Dae Hoon laughed heartily as he received early congratulations calls, while Ji Seung Hee bit her lip next to him. Even though the construction company for the redevelopment and reconstruction would be announced tomorrow, it was as good as decided since Kang Sun Construction had withdrawn.
“Yeah. I’m benefiting from Kang Tae Seo right now. He may be taciturn but seems to be a deep thinker. That’s how a man should be.”
Thanks to Kang Sun Construction’s early morning announcement of their non-participation in the bid, Hyun Yang Construction’s stock prices soared as soon as the stock market opened. Dae Hoon was busy receiving congratulatory calls without even going to work.
Seung Hee was curious about Tae Seo’s true intentions. Did Kang Tae Seo really do Hyun Yang a favor? Why did he suddenly declare non-participation in the bid? Especially when he had no intention of marrying Yu Ri.
“Yeah. Thanks for the congratulations. Let’s meet up soon. I’ll arrange a nice spot.”
Regardless of her husband finishing the call or not, Ji Seung Hee did not give him any attention, only fiddling with the phone in her hand. She had been so anxious lately that it was driving her crazy, unable to sleep because of the worry that gripped her.
She regretted the days she thought of Kang Tae Seo as a mere child. A child, what a joke, she found her husband ridiculous for being blind to the wily ways of a man like a wolf.
“What are you thinking, exactly?”
“What do you mean?”
“…Never mind.”
“Why that look on your face? On such a good day.”
“…I have a headache.”
At the sight of his wife not matching the mood on such a good day, Jo Dae Hoon frowned in displeasure, just as Yu Ri came down from the second floor.
Normally, she would have run to Dae Hoon immediately to congratulate him, cooing and pestering for things she wanted. But today, Yu Ri didn’t even glance at her parents sitting in the living room and headed for the entrance.
“Are you just getting up now?”
“I’m going out.”
“You can’t even greet your elders properly. How have you raised her?”
Dae Hoon shouted at Seung Hee with a scowl.
“Is it without reason that Yu Ri is acting this way? Don’t scold her when she’s troubled! Yu Ri, where are you going?”
“To meet a friend.”
“You’re really just going to meet a friend, right?”
“So what if I am!”
“Don’t go stirring up unnecessary trouble. Just meet your friend and come back, okay?”
Yu Ri rolled her eyes and left through the front door, understanding the implication to not meddle with Kang Tae Seo or Yoon Jae In. Ji Seung Hee, sneaking a glance at her husband, gripped her trembling hand around her phone even tighter.
Dae Hoon clicked his tongue and turned around sharply, leaving the room. While he was talking to someone in the study, Seung Hee waited for nothing but a call from Secretary Choi.
“Jae In. Yesterday, I went to your house, and then…”
It was just about lunchtime when Sang Hwa arrived at the yoga studio, intending to pick up the scarf she left at Jae In’s house the night before.
After staying with Tae Seo, Jae In had started going to work early and had decided to take charge of the morning classes and leave work early from today.
As Sang Hwa, who was supposed to take over the afternoon classes, arrived and started talking, Jae In, who was reviewing messages exchanged with Tae Seo, looked up.
“Couldn’t find the scarf? I’m sure I put it in a paper bag next to the TV?”
“No, it’s not that. I saw a man in front of your house door.”
“A man…?”
The first wave of anxiety that hit Jae In made her think of Jo Dae Hoon. It was unlikely that Dae Hoon would take action himself, so it could have been his secretary, Mr. Kim.
“Yeah. He looked neat but a bit sleazy. It was strange. He looked quite handsome and well-dressed, but also somehow shady, you know?”
“Huh…?”
Jae In tilted her head at Sang Hwa’s further description, because the man Sang Hwa described was not Mr. Kim, who would be about her father’s age.
“He was loitering in front of the door, and when I asked him who he was looking for, he seemed flustered.”
“And then?”
“He asked if I lived here, and when I said yes, he asked why he was blocking someone else’s door, then he opened his phone and seemed to be checking something again. I told him to move because it’s no entry for outsiders here, and if he didn’t, I would report him, and then he said he was planning to move into the apartment and was just checking out the place.”
“Okay.”
“But, is it common for someone to check out a house alone without a real estate agent? And if you’re going to see a house, you’d do it at the house you’re planning to live in, not loitering in front of someone else’s.”
After a moment of contemplation, Jae In picked up her phone. Although she hadn’t checked in a long time, she still knew what the son of a well-known conglomerate family was up to. She quickly searched and showed Sang Hwa the face that came up.
“Was it this person?”
“Oh, maybe? It does look like him. He had a sharper look in his eyes than in the picture, um… Yeah, that’s right. It seems right. Yes, that person. That person also had a scar on his chin.”
Sang Hwa’s confident nod turned Jae In’s face pale in an instant.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
