But eventually, the vibration sound came from the phone tucked inside his jacket pocket.
It was truly ironic.
“Ahem.”
Shiraek cleared his throat to muffle the vibration sound.
He didn’t know who it was, but for a moment, he thought that someone was calling without hanging up.
Dojun, just as he did on the emergency stairs earlier, gave a chilly smile.
“Manager Chae, it seems like you have a call.”
“Yes. I’ll take it later.”
“It seems like it could be an urgent call. You should answer.”
“No, it’s okay…”
But Shiraek realized.
Whether to answer the call or not was not his choice.
Inside the narrow meeting room, Dojun and the head of the audit team were both staring at Shiraek without uttering a word.
“Sigh.”
Thinking that he should just turn off his phone, Shiraek put his hand into his pocket.
After taking out his phone and checking the caller, Shiraek dropped it more violently than before, looking even more surprised.
“No, why is this person…”
Although an unsaved eleven-digit number was displayed on the screen, Shiraek could recognize it.
That number belonged to Taehyun, the head of the ○○ Food New Business Team.
Why would he call me in this situation? Shiraek awkwardly smiled.
“Haha. It’s just a spam call.”
The call ended right on cue. Sweat trickled down Shiraek’s spine.
When he was about to turn off his phone, the same number called again.
Shiraek awkwardly smiled and said to Dojun, “Spam calls these days are persistent, right?”
He tried to press the reject button, but due to Dojun pushing Shiraek’s arm, Shiraek unintentionally pressed the call button.
“Sigh.”
Shiraek closed his eyes tightly.
Dojun took advantage of the moment and brought the phone he was holding to his ear.
“Hello.”
“…”
Shiraek wanted to doubt whether what he heard was correct.
Dojun’s words from just now were coming through his phone.
In other words,
“Manager Chae Shiraek, why aren’t you saying anything after answering the call?”
“…”
Those words, too,
Came through the phone in a very tiny voice.
“Director…”
Shiraek slowly raised his head and stared at Dojun.
Hehe
He slightly pulled the corner of his lips, but his cold smile made Shiraek close his eyes tightly.
It seemed like the moment when he judged that everything was over.
“It’s quite amusing.”
After ending the call, Dojun tossed the phone onto the table.
“He said he didn’t know the owner of this phone at all.”
“…”
“You’ve had a lot of calls.”
Shiraek slowly lifted his eyelids.
Shiraek’s pupils, which had been filled with conviction, lost focus and wandered around.
“Especially on the day our company’s confidential information was leaked, until 6:30 PM.”
“…”
“You had a very intense conversation.”
Shiraek just bowed his head deeply.
Then, Dojun put another item on Shiraek’s desk.
“Ah…”
Checking the item, Shiraek couldn’t say anything and just pursed his lips.
“This is the fountain pen you treasured so much.”
As Dojun sat on the edge of the meeting room desk, he pressed a small button on the fountain pen.
Then the recorded conversation between Dojun and Taeyeon flowed out.
Thud
Pressing the button again, the sound stopped.
“You even illegally recorded inside the company.”
“…”
“Will you testify that Jin Taejin ordered this too?”
Shiraek remained silent, unable to admit or deny anything.
Dojun placed the fountain pen with a recording function on the table and stood up straight, showing an emotionally detached and intellectual gaze like never before.
“Now, this incident will not be handled by our company’s internal audit team.”
The head of the audit team immediately stood up.
“From this moment on, we will hand it over to the police for proper investigation.”
Shiraek let out a sigh.
It was a moment when he deeply regretted the words he had said to Dojun today.
How foolish he was in the past to dismiss the existence of evidence.
Dojun had too much evidence that Shiraek couldn’t deny.
Everything was in Dojun’s hands.
Shiraek muttered in a low voice, “I will hire a personal lawyer.”
He could sense that everything was coming to an end.
Dojun heartlessly lifted only one corner of his mouth and said, “That seems like a good idea.”
Leaving a cold gaze behind, Dojun left the meeting room first.
Elsewhere, Taehyun stood anxiously by Secretary Choi’s side.
As Dojun walked past Taehyun, he abruptly stopped and quietly uttered a few words.
“You should also consider hiring a lawyer.”
It was advice, but the words were so sharp that they could freeze the listener in an instant.
Dojun, who had been walking briskly, opened his phone before informing Taeyeon of the situation.
After a few refreshes, Dojun found what he was looking for, smiled faintly, and immediately called Taeyeon.
“What were you doing?”
Dash “I’ve been waiting for your call, Mr. Dojun.”
Dojun’s rigid eyebrows, which had been tense for a long time, relaxed in an instant upon hearing Taeyeon’s elegant voice.
There was only one woman in the world who could manipulate him like this.
“Did you read the news?”
Dash “The news? No.”
“I hung up; it’s better to check the portal site.”
Dash “Sure, I’ll do that.”
After ending the call, Dojun gazed at the now darkened screen as if it, too, was adorable.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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