“Dad?”
Hyeju, who had come up to the conference room alone, let out a hollow laugh.
“So, Ruby was the famous daughter of Taeyang Foods? It’s such a small world, so small….”
Seeing Ruby dragging Boseok away in a haggard manner made a shock wave hit her. Boseok occasionally mentioned his youngest daughter, but Hyeju never imagined it would be Ruby.
“It was a bit strange from the beginning.”
Only after it was all over did she realize that there were many suspicious aspects to this contract from the start. The peculiar behaviors of the three brothers from the first meeting, where they pryingly asked about the internal atmosphere of Data’s Korea and various aspects of the business team.
At first, she thought it was just an interest in the partner company, but in retrospect, it seemed like an attempt to figure out if Ruby’s workplace was a proper place.
Moreover, Ruby spoke as if she knew Sinwoldo well. From the ferry times to ticketing knowhow, and even the best restaurants in Sinwoldo, she knew them all.
“Now that I see it like this, the pieces fit perfectly. And come to think of it, the names too!”
Goldseok, Silverseok, Copperseok, and Ruby.
They were all mineral names, making it obvious like an advertisement.
“We are siblings. Our dad is none other than Boseok!”
With it being so obvious, she felt foolish for not even suspecting a single bit.
“Well, how would I know that the youngest was that much of a youngest?”
Hyeju grumbled and exhaled a deep sigh.
Actually, the reason she didn’t notice their relationship was because of the age difference. With Boseok, who had crossed the seventy mark, he was so senile that the word “grandfather” naturally slipped out. From his snowy white hair to the sparse eyebrows, he clearly resembled a grandfather more than a father to anyone who saw him.
In contrast, Ruby was even younger than Hyeju. Considering that the three brothers, Goldseok, Silverseok, and Copperseok, were well into their forties, Hyeju thought Ruby must have been in her midthirties as the youngest daughter. It felt like a blow to the back of her head.
“But why didn’t Ruby say anything to me?”
Hyeju raised her chin and looked up with a puzzled expression.
Since they were in the same business team, Ruby knew about all the progress since Hyeju first sent the proposal to Taeyang Foods.
If she didn’t want to get involved with Taeyang Foods in any way, she should have honestly spoken up and tried to stop it….
“Well, even if I tried to stop it, we couldn’t just cancel the contract.”
The annual contract with Taeyang Foods accounted for 10% of the business team’s target sales. It meant that it wasn’t a contract that could easily be overturned due to an employee’s personal circumstances.
As someone like Ruby, who knew that fact better than anyone else as a member of the business team, pretending not to know might have been the best option.
Thirty minutes later, Boseok entered the conference room.
“Sorry for being late. Who would have thought I’d run into my daughter in front of you? Haha.”
His face seemed much more worn out, as if a lot had happened in a short time. Hyeju quickly handed him the prepared pumpkin red bean tea.
“Did you have a good conversation? I never thought Ruby would be the boss’s daughter.”
“Conversation? No, I’ve been bantering all the way here.”
“Bantering?”
“He came rushing at me like a fierce rooster, almost sending the old man to his grave.”
Boseok shook his head. Seeing him sigh deeply, Hyeju’s worries grew.
There was concern that the animosity between the two families was deeper than expected, but more than that, it felt like this contract was somehow precarious.
Judging by how things had been going so far, it seemed that Jewel’s personal ambition was deeply involved in this contract.
It could be because he was worried about his estranged daughter or it could be an excuse to keep an eye on his daughter, who had cut off contact. In any case, the contract didn’t seem to have been made with pure intentions.
As Hyeju was intoxicated with the sense of accomplishment of securing a major contract that boosted Data Korea’s annual performance, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of impending danger.
“Then, because of Ruby…”
“That’s absolutely not the case!”
Jewel interrupted Hyeju’s low voice.
“When we first received the email from the company, I was a bit surprised. Wouldn’t you be surprised to receive a contact from a company where your runaway youngest daughter works?”
Jewel reminisced about that time as he spoke.
“At first, I didn’t even know where the company where the youngest daughter worked was. One day, Dongseok mentioned it. That boyfriend of Ruby’s? I saw it on his SNS. They were dating near this company, he said. That’s when we found out about the company where Ruby worked.”
“I see.”
“When I first received the email from Manager Oh, I thought my sons were right. I thought it would be a good opportunity to see what kind of company Ruby was working for and to hear some news. However, as you know, I opposed it.”
“Why did you oppose it?”
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
