“Manager, you received several phone calls on your mobile while you were in the meeting.”
Returning to her desk after the meeting, Deputy Joo Yeon informed Ji Yeon.
“Really? That must have been noisy. I’m sorry, Deputy.”
“It wasn’t too bad, but since you received several calls, you might want to check them soon.”
Ji Yeon picked up her phone, which she had forgotten on her desk, to see an unexpected number displayed.
Glancing at the number, Ji Yeon pondered momentarily whether to call back but soon decided to do so.
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“Hello, Mrs. Kim Ji Won.”
At an upscale hotel’s outdoor café, Kim Ji Won was already seated.
“Hello, it’s been a long time. Have you been waiting long?”
Ji Yeon approached and greeted her, taking a seat opposite her.
“No, I haven’t been waiting long. It’s really been a while, hasn’t it? You look very well.”
“Yes, I’ve been doing well,” Ji Yeon replied with a gentle smile.
“Thank you for taking the time out, especially during work hours.”
“It’s no trouble at all. However, I can only stay for about an hour before I need to head back to the office.”
Ji Yeon once thought to be a match for Kim Ji Won’s younger son, Cha Jae Woo, but destiny had other plans, and she ended up with Ju Ran’s son instead.
“I’ve been in touch with your mother from time to time, so I’ve been hearing about how well you’ve been doing. We reconnected a few months ago.”
Kim Ji Won, with an elegant smile, looked at Ji Yeon with a soft gaze.
“That’s good to hear. I knew from my mother that you two were close. But, there must be a specific reason for your invitation today, Mrs. Kim?”
During her time with Cha Min Woo, legally, Kim Ji Won was Ji Yeon’s mother-in-law.
However, with Kang Ju Ran present, Ji Yeon never referred to her as ‘mother,’ always addressing her as ‘Mrs. Kim.’
To Ji Yeon, Kim Ji Won was neither overly affectionate nor distant, maintaining a proper boundary in their conversations.
But they never had a close relationship or met privately, making today’s meeting quite unexpected.
“There is a reason, of course. We weren’t close enough to meet like this. But don’t misunderstand, I never disliked or hated you.”
“I know. In fact, you were always the most comfortable to talk to, maintaining a proper distance.”
“That’s good to know. The reason I wanted to see you is…”
Kim Ji Won paused to sip her tea before slowly beginning to speak again.
Pausing for a moment to take a sip of tea, Kim Ji Won slowly began speaking to Ji Yeon.
“I’ve heard that your brother, the president of Onyu Bio, is accumulating C&C shares. I have many sources, you see. But I can’t think of a reason why your brother would independently accumulate C&C Global shares. So, I wondered if it might be you. Is it?”
Ji Yeon was momentarily speechless at Kim Ji Won’s pointed question.
It was difficult to admit or deny.
What should she say?
“Of course, it’s okay if it’s not you. There’s no need for you to tell me the truth.”
With a calm smile on her face, Kim Ji Won looked at Ji Yeon, who was trying to discern her intentions, but it was hard to get a read.
“I don’t know how much you’ve accumulated, but those shares alone, unfortunately, won’t be enough to wield absolute influence. Of course, you can still have a significant impact.”
Ji Yeon swallowed hard as she listened to Kim Ji Won.
“You might know this, but C&C Global was a company started by my father. Unfortunately, the current largest shareholders of C&C Global are Cha Seung Jo, and the second-largest shareholder is me, Kim Ji Won.”
Ji Yeon faintly remembered hearing about the founder of C&C Global, but the media had mostly focused on Chairman Cha Seung Jo, so she had forgotten the deeper history.
“How about joining hands with me?”
Kim Ji Won had been very intelligent from a young age.
She graduated top of her class from an Ivy League school and had a strong desire to learn business management in her father’s company.
However, her father, Chairman Kim Kwon Jung, was a very conservative patriarch and businessman, with no intention of passing the company on to his daughter.
Although Kim Ji Won swiftly rose from an employee to a director, making notable achievements, climbing higher was challenging.
Cha Seung Jo, whom she met through her parents and was considering marriage, was an executive at the time.
When she helped him achieve remarkable project results, which were credited to him, leading to his promotion to president, she felt a near-despairing sense of loss.
Chairman Kim Kwon Jung, who absolutely trusted Cha Seung Jo, his eyes and hands, arranged their marriage and soon after pushed Cha Seung Jo as his successor.
But something happened. Just before Chairman Kim Kwon Jung’s death, he transferred all his shares not to Cha Seung Jo but to his daughter, Kim Ji Won.
At a time when Chairman Kim Kwon Jung would typically have transferred the shares to Cha Seung Jo, Kim Ji Won and Cha Seung Jo had been married for five years, with two sons and a daughter.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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