“I understand if you’re angry, Secretary Ryu.”
Jo Seo Ha spoke carefully. Her tone and observant gaze strangely captured his attention.
“Who said I was angry?”
As Kyung Joon spoke without confidence, Seo Ha leisurely looked at him with a smile.
“How much?”
“…”
Had he picked up a mocking ghost somewhere?
“I’m not angry; I’m annoyed. I clearly told you not to get involved with the idiot and to focus on the design.”
“I didn’t get involved. The idiot did.”
Jo Seo Ha took a few gulps of her beer, then wiped her mouth with a satisfied ‘kya’.
“Well, anyone would misunderstand. Besides, Secretary Ryu is taking care of CEO Kang wholeheartedly, and the idiot is CEO Kang’s soninlaw. Of course, you’d be upset. But it’s not something to be angry with me about.”
Was that why he was angry? Kyung Joon mulled over Seo Ha’s words for a moment. They were definitely correct, but it didn’t seem like that was the reason for his anger.
But let’s just leave it at that. Roughly, if Jo Seo Ha said so, it must be something like that.
“I broke the vase on purpose.”
Jo Seo Ha spoke quietly.
“I thought you might be outside. I believed that if I broke it, you would come running. And you actually did.”
It was really strange. Upon hearing her words, his frozen heart melted away like snow. It was funny to think his heart was frozen in the first place, but anyway, it was.
“I just opened it because the sound was too loud.”
“I know. That’s why I broke it with all my strength.”
Seo Ha crossed her legs and rested her chin on her folded knees.
“There will be many times when I’ll annoy Secretary Ryu in the future. I’ll also need your help a lot. There’s no one else who can help me except you.”
“How much more do you plan to annoy before you lay the groundwork?”
“Please bear with me. For Yoon Seo Ha.”
Seo Ha unconsciously stretched out her hand and looked down at it.
Yoon Seo Ha’s hand had a callus on her right middle finger from using pencils too much, and it was even bent to the side. There were many scars here and there from being cut by scissors or pricked by needles.
However, her hand seemed more lively than Seo Ha’s. There were no scars or calluses, but Jo Seo Ha’s hand was somewhat dry and lacked moisture.
“I believe Yoon Seo Ha will come back.”
Seo Ha’s murmur was a message to Kyung Joon and to herself.
“But before that, I will protect Yoon Seo Ha’s company. I won’t choose my means or methods. I’ll have to see two shameless parasites biting and tearing each other apart.”
“Did you hear? The design team leader got disciplined?”
“Disciplined? Why?”
“They say they were caught hitting the youngest designer who joined recently, so they got suspended for workplace violence.”
“The evaluation meeting is just around the corner… And besides, that person has a special relationship with CEO Lee Seung Oh, right? And they still got disciplined?”
It was well known in other departments that all the existing designers had quit because they couldn’t stand it when Lee Ji Soo became the team leader.
Even though Lee Ji Soo acted so unscrupulously, they had never been disciplined, let alone written an apology or a selfreflection letter. The fact that they were suspended naturally became an issue within the company.
Rumors spread and rolled around. As the person involved was absent, those who spread the rumors didn’t hesitate.
The problem was that the rumors started to involve Seo Ha as well.
“Is it that person?”
Seo Ha was tense all day due to the whispers. It was strange how her ears were so sharp when her body was so weak.
“I heard Deputy Jo from the accounting department saw them having lunch together yesterday.”
“They even had coffee, right?”
“Are they openly dating while the team leader is gone?”
“Well, they don’t really need to worry about the team leader. The CEO has been a married man from the start.”
That was true. The accident happened before filing for divorce.
It was easy to listen to all the gossip with one ear and let it pass through the other. There wasn’t any truth in the gossip, so it wasn’t worth paying attention to.
Seo Ha, who had been tormented by rumors all her life, wasn’t bothered by that level of gossip.
It was nothing. It really was nothing.
Why was it like this?
Seo Ha wondered what kind of expression she should make while looking at Lee Seung Oh, who was lazily sitting in the CEO’s office chair.
“Jo Seo Ha was quite a remarkable person.”
Click.
Click.
Lee Seung Oh clicked the pen in his hand rhythmically.
“What… are you talking about?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know? Or are you pretending not to know even though you do?”
Seo Ha shook her head a few times. She didn’t know what that idiot was talking about, and she didn’t want to know.
“You really have a clueless expression.”
Because I don’t know, you idiot.
Lee Seung Oh slowly pushed back his chair and stood up. Thinking that he might come to bother her again, Seo Ha put up her guard and took two steps back.
“Don’t be scared. You look like some stray cat.”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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