Through the gap of the opened door, she heard Si Heon’s cold voice.
“Is there still no contact from the chef?”
A heavy silence flowed in the dark meeting room due to the screen.
The members of the C2 Korea team remained silent, intently looking at the documents on the table.
“The rest are matters that are difficult to proceed without the chef, so let’s end today’s meeting here. Secretary, please schedule another time.”
“Yes, President.”
Ye Seul felt as if she couldn’t lift her head, thinking about how the others had to attend the meeting twice because of her.
“Secretary, have you contacted Chloe?”
“I tried contacting her, but she didn’t pick up her phone, and she wasn’t in the sample room. Maybe she forgot?”
She said with a troubled face.
Ye Seul could no longer delay and pushed the door open.
“I’m sorry.”
She bowed her head and apologized.
Her face tingled under the gaze of the others.
Ye Seul, who was strict about keeping time commitments, was not accustomed to such mistakes.
Ever since she came to Baek Song Confectionery, she kept messing up the schedule, repeatedly getting the time wrong or entering the wrong meeting room, causing inconvenience to everyone.
Even the ingredient orders kept coming in wrong, and she had to reorder, causing a series of trivial mistakes.
Seo Rin was in the middle of all these events.
Ye Seul stared at Seo Rin, but Seo Rin avoided her gaze as if she didn’t know.
“Chloe.”
Ye Seul lifted her head in surprise at Si Heon’s voice.
“It would be nice if you could keep the meeting time.”
“I’m sorry. I will be careful next time.”
Ye Seul was relieved that Si Heon did not ask why she was late.
It was too early to conclude that Seo Rin had done it on purpose.
“Then let’s continue the meeting.”
The team members, who were packing up, awkwardly put their stuff down and took their seats.
“I will talk about the product lineup of C2 Korea.”
The meeting went smoothly.
The preparations for the opening of C2 Korea were going well as if they had set sail with a favorable wind.
The interior work was finished, and only the showcase check and kitchen inspection remained.
The chef and assistant, who would match breaths with Ye Seul, said they had finished their training.
Only the opening day was in sight.
“The product to be offered on the first day is……”
She stared at Si Heon who was sitting across her.
The light from the screen in the dark meeting room made the shadows on Si Heon’s face more pronounced.
In his long, sharp eyes, not even a trace of a smile could be found.
She suddenly thought that this might be the real face of Baek Si Heon.
She brushed her tightly closed lips with her fingers from time to time.
She turned her head, remembering when those fingers had touched her.
Crazy. Concentrate. Concentrate.
Ye Seul recited like a chant in her mind while looking at the documents.
“Chloe. I need to see you for a moment.”
Si Heon called for Ye Seul as soon as the meeting was over.
“I’m sorry for being late today.”
Ye Seul bowed her head and apologized to Si Heon.
Things unanswered by Chloe.
Since meeting Si Heon, she kept losing her composure.
She kept getting nervous.
She wanted to show him her best.
Not an ignorant figure during the meeting.
“You seem to have a problem with schedule management… This is problematic. Since Chloe is the main part, please feel responsible.”
“I’m sorry.”
Instead of making excuses, Ye Seul chose to apologize.
“You didn’t work like this in France, did you?”
Ye Seul gritted her teeth and raised her head.
“What do you mean by that?”
The thought of Si Heon doubting her qualifications made her seethe, her body trembling with nervousness.
‘Do you think it’s easy for an Asian woman who has nothing to get recognized in France? Even for a French person who does their job perfectly, it’s a difficult task… It’s hard to get there in that time without a sponsor.’
Juliette’s words brushed past Ye Seul’s mind.
“I meant it literally. It’s difficult to be considered competent in a company solely based on your technical skills.”
“…..”
“There might be bosses who would overlook being late, but this is not France.”
Was he referring to Sebastian? Ye Seul bit her lower lip. She had claimed not to care or have interest…
“Please always remember that the entire team could suffer because of one person, Ms. Ye Seul.”
“There won’t be a repeat of this.”
Ye Seul clenched her fist.
“Good. Let’s not embarrass each other over such trivial matters.”
Ye Seul gave up on finding an excuse.
“Yes… I’ll be careful.”
With her shoulders drooping, Ye Seul left the conference room.
Everyone at Cidou adored Chloe, who was diligent and did her job well.
She had been punctual unless a rare accident occurred, like her skirt getting caught in a bike.
She missed Cidou.
How scary it was to work at someone else’s company, feeling like a foreigner…
She was enduring because she thought she should, as an adult, as a professional.
Adapting to a strange environment was not an easy task.
It hurt her when Si Heon seemed to deny the things that Ye Seul was enduring.
“Am I being too sensitive? Over this…”
Trying to suppress the heat welling up in her eyes, she saw Seo Rin as she walked.
“Hey, secretary.”
Seo Rin stopped on her way and turned towards Ye Seul.
“Did you call me?”
“You came to the sample room earlier and said the meeting was postponed to 4 pm, didn’t you?”
Seo Rin spoke nonchalantly with a smile.
“Oh my. I’m sorry. I must have confused it with another team’s meeting.”
“You also informed the interview time wrongly…….”
‘Whether she’s a recognized patissier in France or not, isn’t she a bit too arrogant?’
‘We have Sebastian Ruffe, the artisan of Cidu, right? He was made to wait, so what about journalists like us….’
It was the conversation the journalists had while Ye Seul was in the bathroom.
Ye Seul couldn’t come out of the bathroom until the journalists left.
“Didn’t you see it when I sent it by email yesterday?”
“The time you sent the email to correct the time overlapped with the interview time, you couldn’t help but be late, right?”
“Oh. I must have rushed and set it to be sent later, I’m sorry.”
Seo Rin lowered her eyes and made an apologetic face. Right, that could be a mistake.
“The order frequency is duplicated differently from the order list…….”
“It seems the youngest secretary made a mistake. Since you will do it directly at the store when it opens, don’t be too strict. We’re not patissiers, but secretaries. It’s not an ordinary task to input the names of difficult ingredients.”
Seo Rin’s words strangely upset her.
Was this the sharp feeling Ye Seul had felt towards Seo Rin from the beginning?
“Miss Secretary, you don’t have any other feelings towards me besides work, do you?”
If it was intentional, where did she start looking bad to Seo Rin?
“It’s a coincidence, Chloe. You’re an artist, so you’re sensitive.”
Seo Rin said with a very pretty smile.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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