“Yes, Ms. Jung Sea is here on the first floor requesting to meet Mr. Cha. Ah… Yes, I understand.”
After finishing the call, the employee smiled at Sea.
“Mr. Cha Min Woo is currently out for a lunch meeting and won’t be back today as he has external work afterwards.”
“Really? If you’re just making this up to not let me in…”
“No, you would get the same information if you contacted the secretary’s team directly.”
The employee responded to Sea’s frustrated question with an unchanged expression.
“Understood.”
Sea, though frustrated, walked away, believing the employee was not lying.
“Is it really true? If you’re lying just to keep me out right now…….”
“No, it’s not. You’ll receive the same information if you contact the secretary team directly.”
Se Ah, visibly annoyed, asked the question, and the reception desk employee answered without changing her facial expression, like a machine.
“Understood.”
Se Ah, though bursting with indignation, didn’t believe the woman was lying and turned away.
‘Today’s not the day, but I can always come back tomorrow. I’ll keep coming back every day until I meet him.’
She had just stepped out of the C&C Global building, looking around for where to hail a taxi.
“Wow……. I didn’t expect to see you wearing this dress outside, Ms. Jeong Se Ah.”
She thought she had misheard, but turning around, she saw Eun Ji Yeon standing there, with a C&C Global employee badge around her neck.
‘Could it be that Eun Ji Yeon works at this company? And Min Woo has been hiding that from me all this time?’
Overcome with confusion and shock, Se Ah shook her head, trying to regain her composure.
“I gave it to you out of pity, but I never imagined you would actually keep wearing it. Ms. Jeong Se Ah, you are quite something.”
Ji Yeon’s face, smiling with a mix of contempt, pity, and sympathy, was evident.
While heading to the bakery to buy a sandwich for a working lunch, she noticed someone in a dress.
It was a dress she recognized instantly, even from a distance.
A dress that only three were imported into the country.
The dress she had given away to Jeong Se Ah, almost like a charitable gift.
There was only one person who would wear that dress to this company.
Despite it being somewhat thick for the season and likely hot, wearing it suggested a deliberate attempt to look more presentable.
To Ji Yeon, it just looked like someone wearing an out-of-season dress.
It didn’t make her look more dignified, beautiful, nor sophisticated.
Moreover, it seemed too tight, as if Se Ah had gained weight, making her look even more mismatched in the dress.
“You, you…….”
“Ms. Jeong Se Ah, ‘you’? You should be careful with your language in your boyfriend’s company.”
Seeing Se Ah flustered, Ji Yeon approached her and continued to provoke her in a low voice audible only to her.
“Oh, right. Isn’t Cha Min Woo soon to be engaged to the daughter of PP Confectionery? Next Sunday at 2 PM at the S Hotel… You know about it, right? As his live-in girlfriend, were you invited? This news is quite a topic at the company; most employees know.”
Se Ah’s face turned red at Ji Yeon’s words.
“Anyway, if you two are still dating, you should talk it over. Whether to continue or not. Even when Cha Min Woo had a wife, you two were inseparable, living together without caring about her. Technically, a fiancée is legally a stranger, so… continuing your relationship should be fine, right, Ms. Jeong Se Ah?”
After speaking rapidly, Ji Yeon stepped back.
“Anyway, if you two are still dating, talk about it. Decide whether to continue or not. Even when Cha Min Woo was married, you two were inseparable, living together without caring about his wife. Technically, a fiancée is legally a stranger, so… continuing your relationship should be fine, right, Ms. Jeong Se Ah?”
After speaking rapidly, Ji Yeon stepped back.
“Well, I’m an office worker who even has to work during lunchtime, so I should be going. I don’t have a boyfriend who gives me millions in allowance like someone. It was not at all pleasant, but take care.”
With those final words, Ji Yeon nodded her head and turned to leave.
Se Ah stood trembling with the humiliation she had just endured from Ji Yeon, staring in the direction she had disappeared.
“Wow… I really hold grudges longer than I thought! But what~ This is nothing. And Jeong Se Ah should know, about her boyfriend getting engaged to another woman… at least the place and time!”
She was surprised at herself.
“That way, I can do something at the event. It’d be good to sprinkle a bit of pepper at the feast, Ms. Jeong Se Ah. That way, even someone with long grudges like me, and Assistant Manager Kang Ji Hyun… would feel a bit relieved, right?”
Ji Yeon suddenly yelled out.
“Wow, Cha Min Woo is really the worst of the worst.”
Telling his girlfriend he loves her, then announcing his marriage to another woman when she’s gone, blaming his wife.
Blaming his wife for the absence of his old girlfriend for three years, then living with the old girlfriend when she returns, without settling things with his wife.
Then quickly getting bored and having an affair with another woman at the office.
Now getting engaged to yet another woman without properly settling anything!
“Apart from the plan I’m preparing, I hope God takes away something precious from you. For the sake of all the people who suffered because of you.”
Muttering to herself and shivering, Ji Yeon shook her head as if to shake off something dirty.
After Ji Yeon disappeared, Se Ah stood motionless for a while before coming to her senses and heading towards the main road.
The dress, which looked so elegant and beautiful, was too hot for the season, and since becoming pregnant, she had gained weight, making it too tight for her.
Simply put, the dress no longer fit her.
She needed to go home to get out of this uncomfortable dress.
As she hurried towards the main road, a familiar large sedan pulled up in front of her.
She recognized the car at a glance.
Cha Min Woo’s car, in which Se Ah had often ridden.
She stopped walking and stared at the car, and as the sedan’s door opened, Cha Min Woo stepped out.
“Min Woo…….”
She was about to gesture and call his name but stopped herself.
Cha Min Woo got out of the car and affectionately kissed the woman sitting inside without getting out.
His words floated to her.
“Please take good care of my Min Kyung. I have an outside appointment at 2 PM, so I’ll be right back to wait. Please call me when you arrive.”
As if her feet were glued to the ground, she stood motionless, unable to move, just watching the scene unfold.
Cha Min Woo, who was once my man.
Cha Min Woo, who seemed like he would give the world to me.
But now, he was kissing another woman.
When the sedan departed, Cha Min Woo turned and headed towards the C&C Global building, soon noticing Jeong Se Ah.
“Jeong Se Ah, how are you here…….”
His face changed color as if he had seen a ghost, and Se Ah almost laughed at the sight.
Now, he only showed expressions of horror, not happiness, to Se Ah.
“I came to see you because you’ve been avoiding me, Min Woo. Don’t we need to talk?”
“I… I’m too busy right now. Let’s talk later, Se Ah.”
Clearly trying to avoid the situation, he attempted to walk past Se Ah.
“Do I need to cause a scene in your company’s building before you find time to talk to me?”
“What?”
“Just one hour. Make time now.”
Annoyed, he scowled, but eventually, Cha Min Woo nodded in agreement.
The two then took a taxi to a hotel lounge, about a 10-minute drive away.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
