No matter how much she refused, the liver-spotted hand handed her the white envelope.
“Thank you, I’ll use it wisely.”
“Maybe, could you… talk with our Cheoljun?”
“Yes, I will. I’ll do that.”
Chairman responded with an awkward smile to Lajin’s cool answer.
It was time to leave. Lajin recollected the information she saw in Chairman Kim’s study and pondered her next target.
“Lajin.”
“Yes, Chairman.”
Lajin smiled gently at his affectionate call.
“Yoojun is off-limits.”
“!”
Had he heard something from somewhere? Or had Director Im Jae-yi complained to him? Confused, Lajin’s shoulders trembled.
“I’m not scolding you.”
Suddenly, Lajin felt like she had been hit in the head.
Who is Chairman Kim?
A strategist who turned Myungjin Group into a top-notch corporation. How naive she had been to think he wouldn’t know. This was beyond naivety; it was a foolish delusion.
‘What to do? How to explain…’
There was no time to explain in detail, not knowing when Kim Yoojun might show up.
Moreover, ‘blood is thicker than water,’ blaming a legitimate successor like Kim Yoojun might backfire. Should she apologize, or not? An unbearable burden overwhelmed her.
“I’m sorry to have disappointed you.”
“It’s not that, Lajin. It’s not that.”
Tap tap, Chairman’s palm tapped her hand, dry like autumn leaves.
“I mean… I’m not coveting the Executive Director.”
“It’s not about you, it’s about Yoojun.”
“?”
“Do you understand what I mean without me having to spell it out?”
There was something mysterious about the Chairman’s words. As if the reason was not with Lajin, but with Kim Yoojun?
“The advisor, before he died, he had a request.”
A request from her stepfather. It was the first time Lajin had heard such a story, leaving her mind blank.
‘If there’s something I don’t know, should I ask the Chairman for help?’
The shadow of the still-powerful Chairman, the overwhelming weight of life. Words couldn’t express the heartfelt sincerity that poured out like stars, but that was it.
Lajin couldn’t rashly step forward.
Kim Chairman, ever unpredictable. Lajin steadied her tumultuous emotions, thinking of Prosecutor Kang Jiho as a talisman.
“If you ever need my help, feel free to contact me.”
Just as Lajin was about to answer, the door opened with a bang.
“Park Lajin.”
Startled by the sudden noise, Lajin’s shoulders jerked up.
Where had Yoojun been listening from? His eyes were rippling like angry waves.
“Even if Lajin feels like a younger sister, it’s not right to burst in without knocking!”
“Father, did you create some secret about my birth?”
“What!”
Chairman Kim’s eyes, full of fine lines, widened tautly. The coldness in his gaze was almost suffocating.
“Lajin is a sister?”
“What nonsense are you spouting?”
“Then, did you and Im Jae-yi conspire to scare Lajin?”
“I didn’t scare anyone.”
“Then why is it okay for bedridden Kim Cheoljun and not for me?”
She heard it, heard it all from the beginning.
Kim Yoojun, already harboring complex feelings towards his brother, could make things terribly complicated if he misunderstood.
“I’m not getting any younger, so why act like this now?”
Yoojun chuckled at the scolding that seemed to suggest he was acting out of character.
His faint smile grew, eventually leading him to giggle. Laughing in this situation. Was he out of his mind?
Caught in the middle, Lajin could only clench her fists.
“Lajin.”
Yoojun’s eyes, blazing like he’d swallowed fire, shot a look at Lajin. She almost collapsed on the spot.
“I can’t eat dinner today.”
His voice sounded like a stern warning.
“You ditch me as soon as you arrive and now you’re here listening to nonsense. Right?”
“I liked listening to the Chairman and Father talking. That’s why…”
“Father? You feel such a strong bond with Oh Jong-hyuk’s father?”
Yoojun let out a hollow laugh.
“Your deceased father would be upset to hear this, Lajin.”
At Yoojun’s clicking tongue, a surge of heat welled up inside her.
“You don’t understand.”
“What?”
“Both my stepfather and biological father are precious to me.”
Unable to hold back her emotions, Lajin added her piece.
“Really? Then I should talk to my precious father too. Why I turned out to be such a weirdo.”
“Kim Yoojun!”
Despite Chairman’s shout, Yoojun’s chin defiantly rose towards the ceiling.
“I’m the only one who’s easy for Father.”
Chairman Kim’s sharp reprimand followed.
But Yoojun didn’t even blink. He turned his head slightly to look down at Lajin and gave a sly smile.
“Lajin, did you hear that?”
“Huh?”
“Father seems to know everything about us. Right?”
He grasped her cheek as if seeking agreement.
“From now on, we should see each other more often. Just to show Father and Im Jae-yi.”
His eyes, filled with the hue of autumn, drew close and softened.
He looked almost happy, as if he had been waiting for this moment. Why was he doing all this? Lajin couldn’t understand.
“We’ll make it so no one can interfere. Just the two of us. How about it, Lajin?”
A sigh escaped through Chairman Kim’s teeth.
“Are you staging a protest in front of me now?”
“Director Hyun!”
Yoojun’s face contorted as he yelled.
“Yes, Executive Director.”
“Take Lajin home. Right now!”
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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