She was about to suggest leaving it at the reception desk.
Since I’m here, there are some things I want to ask.
What are your parents doing? Do you have a sister? It seemed like she was going to do a thorough investigation.
Wow, what kind of company is this, so luxurious? It feels like a palace in a foreign country, seriously.
The marble floor sparkled so brightly that it reflected people’s faces.
“But what if I just go without any plan? I should at least make a phone call beforehand and come.”
What if I bump into my father?
“Grandma, wait right there. I’ll go.”
“Don’t. You’re busy. Just tell me which floor it is. I’ll personally deliver it to the team leader.”
“No, you can’t. The security there is strict, and they don’t allow outsiders in.”
Hyo Jin was already running out of the hallway with her phone in hand.
“Grandma, I’ll go right away, so wait.”
“Well, it’s better if you deliver it than me, I guess.”
Since it was lunchtime, Hyo Jin couldn’t ask the driver for help, so she rushed out to the front gate, gasping for breath, and hailed a taxi.
“Driver, please go as fast as you can, hurry!”
“I just received a call from the security team. Mr. Bong took a taxi and went out.”
Gyo Hwan, who was signing the payment sheet brought by the team leader, looked up.
“He went out? Did he say where he was going?”
“Yes, he ran out so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to ask.”
“Where could he be going at this hour?”
As Gyo Hwan was tilting his head, he heard a beep. The team leader took out his phone and checked a text message.
“Who is it?”
Could it be Mr. Bong?
“Oh, someone came to the first floor.”
“Who is it?”
Could it be Mr. Bong?
“I’ll go down for a moment and come back.”
I was even more curious when I saw the team leader leaving the office without revealing who it was.
He went out. Could it mean he took a taxi to come to the company to meet the team leader?
“Team Leader Nam~!”
Hyo Jin, holding a lunchbox filled with eel rice, stuck her head out from the corner, trying not to be seen.
“What brings you here at this hour, Teacher?”
There was an undercover agentlike tension on the face of Team Leader Nam.
“I’m sorry for coming during work hours. I guess you really enjoyed the food when my grandmother visited last time. Please don’t ever, ever mention that I brought it. Enjoy it with the CEO. I’ll take my leave now.”
Before my father finds out.
As if it were a bomb, Hyo Jin threw the bag with the lunchbox and turned around, but she was startled.
“What’s going on with Mr. Bong at the company?”
Huh, it’s not even a special occasion.
“Team Leader, what happened? I specifically asked you not to mention it to the CEO in the text message.”
Hyo Jin resented the flustered Team Leader Nam while looking at Gyo Hwan in front of her.
“I also came out alone for that reason….”
When did he follow me?
Team Leader Nam couldn’t believe Gyo Hwan standing in front of him.
Acting like nothing happened in front of me.
“I came down to have lunch, and coincidentally, I noticed a familiar person.”
The look in his eyes sharpened as he saw the lunchbox in Team Leader Nam’s hand.
“What’s in the lunchbox?”
The fragrance of the perfectly cooked eel filled the air, even reaching where Gyo Hwan stood.
“…Is it eel?”
Ha, Hyo Jin’s voice trembled as if she had been caught, as if she had brought in prohibited food.
“It seems like my grandmother was really grateful when you drove Team Leader Nam home from the hospital. So, as a gesture of gratitude, I prepared a lunchbox…!”
“Well, not only did you generously treat him to breakfast, but you also packed a lunchbox as a gesture of gratitude. And it’s an eel lunchbox…?”
Seeing the determination in his fierce eyes, Team Leader Nam exclaimed, “Oh, my goodness!”
“Teacher, what should I do because I feel sorry? I have a lunch appointment today.”
How can I eat that? I’d rather starve.
“Do you really have a lunch appointment?”
Under Gyo Hwan’s pressing inquiry, Team Leader Nam straightened up like a trainee just enlisted in boot camp.
“I really have an appointment. I’m sure of it.”
Team Leader Nam let out a sigh of relief.
“But why are you holding your breath?”
He kept being suspicious.
“Oh, me?”
Team Leader Nam was so tense that he didn’t even realize he had stopped breathing.
“Did I do something wrong to you?”
“No, not at all.”
“You’re sure you didn’t do anything wrong?”
“Of course. I stake the honor of the Republic of Korea Army on it. I have no shame.”
Team Leader Nam tried to widen his eyes, as if to prove his innocence.
“It’s okay, Team Leader. It’s my fault for coming without any contact.”
Then why did Grandma pack a lunchbox and bring it?
Hyo Jin turned away, resenting Lady Yang Soon Hye, but her view was blocked by Gyo Hwan’s broad shoulders.
“Then let’s eat together. Since you’ve come this far.”
“What? With my father?”
Hyo Jin, clutching the lunchbox tightly like a country bumpkin, looked up at Gyo Hwan and blinked her eyes.
“What should I do? It’s a lunchbox that my grandmother carefully packed for you to eat. I can’t just send it back.”
Gyo Hwan let out a sigh as if it was a headache.
“I guess I’ll have to cancel the lunch reservation I made for my secretary. Even if I want someone else to eat it, Team Leader Nam has a prior engagement, and everyone else has probably already left for lunch.”
In the end, it means there’s no one else to eat it but me.
“No, sir. Father, there’s no need to go that far…!”
As Hyo Jin withdrew her head, did he use super glue? The lunchbox in his hand didn’t even budge.
“That’s fortunate. Teacher Bong also told me to enjoy a delicious meal with the CEO.”
“That was meant for you and Team Leader, right?”
Why me too?
“Let’s go before it gets too late.”
Gyo Hwan blocked Hyo Jin’s line of sight, as if indicating that visiting hours were over, and stood facing Team Leader Nam.
“CEO, I have an appointment, so I’ll take my leave. Please enjoy the eel dish with the CEO.”
As if it’s an intimate meal. Hyo Jin’s face grew hot at the thought of others overhearing.
“Team Leader, do you really have a lunch appointment?”
It’s not because of the CEO that you’re lying, right?
Gyo Hwan looked at Hyo Jin, who was silently pleading inside, while Team Leader Nam moved farther away.
“Please go ahead.”
The security guard, observing Hyo Jin being dragged along as if she were a criminal, gave a curt greeting and guided them to the executive elevator.
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
