Acts We Shouldn't Do (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 102

“What on earth possessed you to bring that child into this house!”

“She’s going to be my daughter-in-law. I couldn’t possibly let her drift from hotel to hotel.”

“This is—this is absurd…!”

“She said her situation suddenly worsened and she had nowhere else to go. Isn’t it our family’s duty to take her in?”

“Chairman Kang!”

“Since you, Director, weren’t present, I simply acted as the elder I am. The room the Managing Director used as a child is vacant, so I told her she could stay there comfortably and prepare for the wedding.”

Even faced with Director Im Hong Jin’s furious voice upon returning from her business trip to Jeju, Chairman Kang Shin Jae remained perfectly calm. Inside Kang Shin Jae’s study, sharp tension crackled across the large mahogany desk between them.

“The Managing Director should start his own family now. My children are grown, and it’s time I fulfill my role as a father—what’s wrong with that?”

“Father…? Playing the father?”

These were words Chairman Kang Shin Jae had never once used when speaking of Kang Tae Seo. That very reason made Director Im Hong Jin’s anger toward her son—who now deliberately chose to utter them—even fiercer.

“You ignored that child your whole life, who struggled just for one glance from you, and now, all of a sudden, you want to play father? And is this pathetic act what you call ‘being a father’?”

“Are you dissatisfied because she doesn’t meet your standards as a daughter-in-law? Because Hyun Yang Construction has fallen so far? The Kang Seon Group no longer needs to force marriage alliances for business expansion. So…”

“So let Tae Seo live the way he wants to!”

“Live the way he wants…?”

Shin Jae, who had been calmly tracing the rim of his teacup, lifted his head. His usually icy eyes flashed with sudden, fierce rage.

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