“I told you I’d do it all when we register our marriage. Don’t you trust me?”
“I do trust you, but… it’s also how it looks to the people at the company.”
“Having a wedding before Yoon Seo Ha’s funeral is even more inappropriate. Anyway, how are the new employees?”
“They’re good. Well, except for one.”
“One?”
“You know, the high school graduate intern.”
“Jo Seo Ha? Why?”
“She has absolutely no sense. She can’t distinguish between what should be said and what shouldn’t.”
“Hmm.”
“Really. Sometimes it seems like she’s pretending to be clueless because she’s so smart, so she just says everything she wants to.”
“Ah.”
“Whenever she touches something, it turns into a mess, so I told her to stay still. And then, you know, she’s working on a design. The intern.”
“She did a design?”
Seung Oh, who had been showing only a mechanical reaction, showed interest at the mention of a design.
“Yes. There are so many other senior designers, though.”
“Then bring it to me.”
Ji Soo stopped talking and stared at Seung Oh.
“What?”
“You said she’s already done a design. Get it tomorrow and bring it to me.”
“There won’t be much to see, though…”
“She’s the one who got hired after showing a design. Get it tomorrow and come straight to my office.”
I shouldn’t have said anything.
Ji Soo closed her mouth and leaned against the backrest. She didn’t even have the energy to speak because she was so hungry.
“Hello!”
Seo Ha entered the design room with a cheerful greeting. The response wasn’t particularly warm.
“…”
“Uh, yeah.”
Well, it didn’t really matter.
As soon as Seo Ha sat down, she opened her design book. She was planning to leisurely work on her designs and leave for the day.
“Jo Seo Ha, intern!”
Ji Soo, who was always keen on calling her an intern, gestured from her seat.
“Yes.”
“Bring your design.”
Everyone who had been busy suddenly looked up and stared at Seo Ha. Seo Ha was just as surprised.
“The design?”
“I spent all day drawing yesterday. She said she would see the results and to bring them.”
I had a bad feeling.
“Just a moment.”
Seo Ha quickly tore a few pages from her design book, hid them, and handed the rest to Ji Soo.
“Hmm.”
Ji Soo glanced at the designs nonchalantly and gestured toward Seo Ha’s desk with her chin.
“Go sit down. I’ll give it back after I take a look.”
I had a really bad feeling.
Soon after, Ji Soo got up with the design book. Seo Ha checked that no one was paying attention to her and secretly followed behind.
Ding.
The elevator door opened, and Ji Soo got on. Seo Ha confirmed that the elevator stopped at the top floor where the CEO’s office was and returned to her office.
Meanwhile, Ji Soo, who had gotten on the elevator, was busy with her hands.
“Let’s see. This won’t do. Neither will this. This one isn’t great either.”
She had to tear out the good parts from Jo Seo Ha’s design book and hide them in another folder.
Quickly finishing the task, Ji Soo hid the stolen files behind a potted plant and calmly entered the CEO’s office.
“I brought Jo Seo Ha’s designs.”
“Give it to me.”
Seung Oh quickly took the design book and opened it.
However, the results were disappointing. The fundamentals and sense were decent, but there was nothing outstanding. It even looked worse than the design she had brought in her portfolio.
“There’s nothing particularly impressive, right?”
Ji Soo showed a sorry expression.
“She hasn’t received any proper education, after all. I’ll try my best to teach her, but… It seems difficult since she’s so bad at work. It’s only been three months, so the other designers don’t pay much attention to her either.”
“There’s really nothing eyecatching. It even seems worse than her portfolio.”
Disappointment was evident on Lee Seung Oh’s face. Ji Soo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
“I told you there’s nothing special. We have plenty of designers, so don’t worry.”
Just as she was about to take the design book back.
Knock, knock.
Someone knocked from outside.
“May I come in, CEO?”
It was Ryu Kyung Joon.
“Come in.”
As Seung Oh replied, Kyung Joon opened the door and entered. Somehow, he had the files that Ji Soo had hidden in his hands.
“I apologize for interrupting. I found this near the elevator.”
Kyung Joon walked past Ji Soo and placed the files on the desk.
“It seems like Designer Lee Ji Soo dropped it.”
Ji Soo tried her best to maintain a poker face.
“This? It’s not, not mine.”
“How can that be? I saw you drop it behind the potted plant and picked it up.”
That sly person. So, he was watching?
Ji Soo clenched her teeth inwardly.
“Oh, that. Give it to me, brother. It’s nothing important, and it’s cumbersome to carry around, so I left it there for a moment.”
“Wait a minute.”
Avoiding Ji Soo’s outstretched hand, Seung Oh took out the contents of the file.
They were all sketches. Torn from someone’s design book…
“…”
Seung Oh opened Jo Seo Ha’s design book with a stern expression. The paper, drawing style, design style, and even the large torn parts matched perfectly.
“Honey, I mean, Team Leader. Why are Jo Seo Ha’s designs separate here?”
“I, I picked them out first. Because you’re so busy, brother, and you don’t have time to look at each one…”
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Kyung Joon’s hand swiftly reached in and grabbed the target.
“What are you doing?”
“I’d like to take a look. CEO, is that alright?”
As Seung Oh nodded, Ji Soo lost the grounds to protest any further.
Kyung Joon carefully flipped through the design book while fitting the torn parts together. Even to a stranger, it was clear that the design was much better with the torn parts than without them.
“But.”
Kyung Joon’s finger touched the torn page.
“There’s more missing.”
“I, I must have torn it out because it was drawn wrong. Or maybe I didn’t like any of them.”
“Jo Seo Ha’s portfolio submitted during her application was much better than this. If she didn’t like it and tore it out, wouldn’t it be more natural to tear out what’s left now?”
“H, how would I know that?”
Kyung Joon closed the design book with a thud.
“I’ll take this and examine it more closely.”
“On what authority, Mr. Secretary?”
“On the authority of an inhouse director.”
He held the design book in his hand and strode out. He planned to go directly to the design room and search for the missing parts.
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An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
