“Are you really going to proceed with this meeting?”
Sodam narrowed her brows as she asked Tae Joon’s intentions again. But she still had to confirm his unwavering decision.
“When have you seen me make nonsense talk?”
“But… We usually don’t do premeetings. Besides, why meet President Baek if we’re going to side with Executive Baek anyway? And even changing our principles for it?”
“Who said we’re changing the principles?”
“You just did.”
At Sodam’s bold complaint, Tae Joon took his gaze away from the laptop and looked at her.
She narrowed her eyes at his slow motion of leaning his upper body forward and propping his chin. This was because he always tried to suppress the other party with his eyes first when he wanted to confirm his unchanging intentions.
Despite the distance that was unreachable, Sodam instinctively pulled her upper body back. It was to get out of his range instinctively.
However, despite her tearful efforts, she couldn’t avoid his voice, slowly reaching and stimulating her eardrums.
“No, nothing has changed. The meeting that will take place today won’t have any influence on my decisionmaking.”
“But why? Why meet? You’re the one who hates wasting time, saying time is money.”
She asked, but she couldn’t hear the answer. Instead of answering, he turned his gaze back to the laptop and scrutinized President Baek’s resume that Sodam had handed over.
President Baek’s resume was more impressive than he thought.
Although he did not hesitate to use irregular methods for the company’s profit, the projects he always promoted brought substantial profits to the company. Therefore, he could understand why the board of directors and shareholders support President Baek.
How could it not be overwhelming that Seo Rin, who was more moral and rational than anyone, was dealing with this bulldozerlike man alone?
He was newly impressed by her.
And he also understood why she looked so tired last night.
The meeting that was to take place today couldn’t have any influence on his decision, as he had told Sodam. Regardless of how great President Baek was, he was going to side with Seo Rin.
However, it was just necessary to have a disruption operation to tie the hands and feet of President Baek, who had a bulldozerlike drive, so that he couldn’t create another variable.
The meeting with The MG would provide President Baek with unparalleled stability.
People who are stabilized like that tend not to try to create other escape routes and settle down there. Tae Joon was trying to delve into the psychology of such people.
There were three days left until the temporary shareholders’ meeting.
If President Baek trusts The MG and stays quiet for these three days, the game is over.
That’s how important today’s meeting was not only to President Baek but also to him.
“Well, you should get ready now? It’s almost time for the meeting.”
“Yes. I guess I should.”
“But, is it okay for you to show your face in such meetings unexpectedly? It could be a fatal blow to the mystique that you, as the representative, pursue.”
Tae Joon had a look and atmosphere that once seen, could never be forgotten. In other words, once his face starts to sell, it would be unstoppable.
Sodam found it strange that Tae Joon was willing to endure such discomfort to proceed with this meeting.
However,
“Who said I was going?”
Tae Joon started to talk nonsense.
Then who is going if not you? William, who was scheduled to attend as a representative, is now in England due to a sudden cancellation?
While an endless question mark of anger was being drawn in Sodam’s mind, Tae Joon slowly moved his dark gaze to look in her direction.
For a moment, Sodam felt a chill run down her spine at his gaze and slowly turned her head to check behind her.
There was no one.
Nevertheless, Tae Joon’s leisurely gaze was still stuck on her and wouldn’t leave.
Only then did a huge storm rise in her pupils as she understood his gaze.
“Me…me?”
It was really an absurd story.
“H, how…”
“My name is Michelle Shin. In Korean, it’s Shin Sodam.”
When Sodam extended her hand, President Baek shook it in surprise, but his face was still in shock. Upon this, Sodam opened her mouth, her eyes sharp as if she expected it.
“Are you surprised because I’m Korean, or because I’m a woman?”
Both. But what was even more surprising was that Sodam was not even thirty years old yet.
President Baek was someone who didn’t doubt that skills and knowhow come from experience. Over the course of time, he realized that what one gains from a direct hit is more than a hundred words or overflowing information.
But this woman, who looked younger than Seo Rin, was in a ridiculous situation where she had to explain his vision to such a woman, and the fact that the fate of the company was in this woman’s hands was an unbelievable reality.
How should he manage his expression?
Would she be able to understand what he was saying?
However, contrary to his worries, President Baek quickly composed his expression.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
