From the morning, Minhyung, who had been summoned to the chairman’s office, felt anxious even as he rode the elevator.
There were occasions when Chairman Jo summoned him, but when he was called right after arriving at work, it usually meant trouble.
What could it be this time?
Minhyung recalled recent events, but whether work-related or personal, nothing came to mind as a reason for Chairman Jo to summon him early in the morning.
“Chairman, Executive Director Jo is here.”
As I entered the chairman’s office following the secretary’s guidance, I immediately sensed Chairman Jo’s suffocating atmosphere.
“Father, you called for me.”
I hadn’t committed any wrong, yet I inexplicably felt deflated, and my voice lost its strength.
Chairman Jo, behind his massive desk, looked at me with an inscrutable expression and slowly began to speak.
“Are you still hovering around Seorin?”
“No! What! Absolutely not! Where on earth did you hear such a thing?”
“Mr. Baek called me last night.”
Mr. Baek, is he already senile!
Minhyung looked at Chairman Jo’s face with a sense of unease, chewing on his lip. The Chairman’s thick eyebrows twitched, and the atmosphere indicated that he was containing his anger.
It was a moment when Minhyung could imagine how Mr. Baek, who never loses in a verbal battle, might have argued with Chairman Jo.
“Father, whatever Mr. Baek said, you shouldn’t take it at face value!”
“Mr. Baek found out about what you did to Seorin.”
“That… ”
For a moment, he was speechless. It was an entirely unexpected turn of events.
Seorin wouldn’t have told Mr. Baek out of pride, so how on earth did he find out?
“Even if he’s pretending to be tough, if something like that happened to his nephew, he won’t stay silent. After all, it’s family. No matter what you do, he’s still my son.”
“Well, yes.”
There was nothing to say, even if he had ten mouths.
“So, don’t mess with Seorin or anyone around her. Yes, Sungwon lost his master, but he’s still Sungwon. It’s a word you should never ignore.”
“I know. I understand. But I feel really unjust. I haven’t been near Seorin since that day. I met Mr. Baek before all of this happened, and he reached out to me first. It’s the truth! Please, ask him once!”
Feeling unfairly treated, Minhyeong’s voice grew slightly louder, but in the face of Chairman Jo’s cold gaze, he silenced himself again.
“Never again should you murmur around Mr. Baek or Seorin.”
“But the shareholders’ meeting is coming…”
“I said, don’t do it.”
Chairman Jo delivered the final warning as if he were launching it. As someone who had seen his father for many years, Minhyeong knew that it was a habit that came out when Chairman Jo’s patience had reached its limit.
It seemed best to step back for now.
“Yes, understood. I’ll do that.”
“And one more thing. Stop tailing after women and focus on your position in the company. You’re in charge of the construction company we recently acquired.”
“Well, I… I’m not really familiar with the construction sector.”
“Who knows everything from the start? The point is to make the project with Pharaoh a success and prove your abilities. Don’t let the word ‘golden parachute’ come up.”
“The Pharaoh project?”
In an instant, Minhyeong’s pupils shook with surprise, and he looked lost. He realized that he had accidentally leaked the information that Pharaoh was a competitor to Seorin. Thanks to that, Seorin had been able to prepare a proper strategy and had already registered as a candidate aligned with Pharaoh.
At that time, he had believed that Pharaoh couldn’t win against Seongwon in the bidding competition, so he had let the information slip. However, he never expected it would come back as a boomerang like this.
“But you know, right? Even the media is saying that Seongwon will win. And how could Pharaoh possibly beat Seongwon? It’s impossible.”
Changing the course was impossible. So, in an attempt to evade responsibility in any way possible, I made excuses, but it didn’t work with Chairman Cho.
“It’s the ability to make the impossible possible. Instead of seeking revenge on Seorin with unreasonable strategies, use your abilities to counter her. If Seongwon fails against Pharaoh in the bidding, what better revenge against Seorin could there be?”
Well, it wasn’t entirely wrong. Except for the fact that it was beyond Minhyeong’s abilities.
“Get out.”
Seeing Chairman Cho turn away as if the conversation were over, Minhyeong suspected that no further excuses would work.
In the end, without a word, he became the project manager, unable to say or do anything more. But just before leaving the chairman’s office, Chairman Cho’s solemn voice resonated in his ears once again.
“Succeed at all costs. By any means necessary, succeed.”
As he left the office with a heavy heart, a message came through on his phone.
It was a message from Seo Jiwon.
[Dash] Oppa, what happened? The drama casting is almost finalized! We need to act fast!Minhyeong furrowed his brow at the text message whining about being cast in the desired drama.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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