“I’m sorry. I didn’t want to make it hard for you.”
Ji Soo let her shoulders slump even more and hugged Lee Seung Oh.
“Do whatever you want, whether it’s a design room or a brand. It’s all yours, after all. I just need you to do one thing for me.”
“What is it?”
“You’re going to cut some of the existing team members to put in the design room.”
“That’s right.”
“Don’t force them to leave, though. Just let those who want to go volunteer. That’s okay, right? I’ve grown quite attached to my team members…”
Ji Soo added in a tiny voice, “There’s nothing I can do if you don’t like it…” After a moment of thought, Lee Seung Oh hugged Ji Soo more affectionately and whispered.
“Let’s do it that way. If that’s what my princess wants, I should grant her wish.”
“Get in.”
Seung Oh got into the back seat that Ryu Kyung Joon had opened for him. It should have become more familiar by now, but it still felt uncomfortable every time.
It was because he knew that Kyung Joon was not only acting out of pure goodwill or a sense of responsibility as a secretary but also to monitor and tame him by acting as his driver.
“There’s a general executive meeting in the morning. At 3 PM, there’s a meeting at Y Department Store.”
“The design room.”
Seung Oh grumbled in a reluctant tone.
“Do you really think it’s necessary, Secretary Ryu? Especially just for Jo Seo Ha.”
“I’ve told you several times already. The chairman is not the type to buy a company with no performance at a low price. If you can’t show growth potential, even if you successfully merge and acquire, you can’t expect a good price or a position as an executive in Taeyang Group. If you’re okay with those conditions, then I have nothing more to say.”
The last comment Ryu Kyung Joon added in passing was the key point for Lee Seung Oh.
“If you were Secretary Ryu, you might have been able to get better conditions even with the current situation.”
“There’s no reason to do that. You should remember that I am thoroughly a person of Taeyang Group.”
Kyung Joon skillfully turned the steering wheel. Inside the luxury sedan smoothly making a right turn, Lee Seung Oh always had to feel the same discomfort.
Boring meetings continued from the morning. There were more than enough matters to discuss besides the design room.
Kyung Joon, who attended the meeting not as a secretary but as an internal director, listened to the pointless chatter with one ear and let it pass through the other, only opening his mouth for the most important matters.
One of them was the preparation of a new brand.
“We can’t delay it any longer. Kang Yoon’s existing brands are too stagnant, and there’s no influx of new customers. Water that doesn’t flow is bound to become stagnant.”
Although he was an internal director, Kyung Joon’s remarks held more weight in the practical meetings than the representative, Lee Seung Oh.
As soon as he spoke, the bustling meeting atmosphere quickly calmed down. It was something that Lee Seung Oh didn’t particularly like.
“Will the new design room be responsible for planning the brand?”
Someone asked. The answer was already prepared for the obvious question.
“No. Of course, the representative’s opinion will be important, but”
Kyung Joon glanced at Lee Seung Oh sitting next to him and continued.
“We will use an inhouse competition. All designers who aspire to be the main designer can participate in the contest, and not only the related departments but all employees will vote. What do you think, Mr. Representative?”
On the surface, Lee Seung Oh was the representative. Moments like this, when Kyung Joon expressed his opinion and then asked for his thoughts as if it was a favor, were the most humiliating for Representative Lee Seung Oh.
“Well, the key is whether we can trust the discernment of the general employees.”
“Even if they are general employees, it’s a clothing company. They’ve seen and heard things. Moreover, when you look at the employees as a whole, they’re the customer base, so they might know the public’s taste better than the designers.”
It was because his opinion was clearly going to be silenced by such a retort.
At the end of the meeting, the matters regarding the new design room and the brand were roughly decided. Of course, it was still confidential to the employees who didn’t attend the meeting.
“What should we do for lunch, Mr. Representative?”
While Lee Seung Oh wanted to take a break, Kyung Joon entered the representative’s office and asked.
Lee Seung Oh often thought of Kyung Joon as a snake.
A snake with slitted eyes, hiding powerful fangs, a very large snake. He sometimes felt a fear that he would be coiled and suffocated without realizing it.
“I don’t have much appetite. I’d rather not go out and just have a sandwich or something.”
In fact, he wanted to go out and have a proper meal. However, there was no excuse to go alone without getting rid of Ryu Kyung Joon.
After all, wasn’t Ryu Kyung Joon the one managing all of Lee Seung Oh’s schedules as the head secretary?
He wished Yoon Seo Ha would handle the work quickly. Was she doing well?
There was a way to find out. Seung Oh took out his phone from his pocket and pressed the call button.
[Yes, Mr. Representative.]Yoon Seo Ha answered the phone in a very businesslike tone.
“Ms. Yoon Seo Ha. You’ve come to work, right?”
As soon as he heard the name Yoon Seo Ha, Kyung Joon momentarily paused his steps to leave.
[Yes. I’m on duty.]“Can you have dinner after work today?”
[… Just the two of us?]“Do you want to eat just the two of us?”
[…]“I’d like to eat just the two of us if possible. But there’s the public gaze… Wait a moment.”
Lee Seung Oh chuckled and casually spoke to Kyung Joon.
“How about dinner tonight? If you’re busy, Yoon Seo Ha and I can just eat together.”
“Dinner…”
Kyung Joon muttered quietly and then slightly nodded his head.
“Understood. I’ll find a place for the three of us to have dinner and make a reservation.”
It seemed she was doing well. While feeling relieved, Lee Seung Oh also experienced a strange sense of discomfort and spoke into the phone again.
“Secretary Ryu will be joining us as well. I’ll send you the address, so come there after work.”
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Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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