Office Romance Scandal (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 25

The rabbit that fell for its own trick had nothing to say. If there had been at least a passerby, she could have somehow changed the mood, but nothing was going according to her plan.

Hae Jin, calm down. Don’t get dragged in. After comforting herself, Hae Jin forced an awkward laughter and opened her mouth.

“What… do you think that was?”

Since there was nowhere to run, pretending not to know was her own little strategy. She saw the corner of Tae Hong’s mouth twist diagonally upward, yet she smiled brightly as if nothing was wrong at all.

The moment she showed even the slightest hint that she knew what it was, he really would pounce.

“Do you know, Team Leader?”

His hand smoothed the wrinkles on his forehead at the counter-question. Since she had asked so openly, was he planning to take a step back? She cheered inside.

With no answer coming, she naturally assumed the topic ended there. She greeted him triumphantly and tried to head into her room, but there was no way she could overcome Tae Hong’s grip.

Having no choice, she turned her barely escaped head back toward him.

“Let’s put that aside for now and have a drink.”

She could clearly read the thought that this time he absolutely would not let it slide so easily. Right now, she didn’t trust herself to think straight about anything involving him. She had barely dodged it with the ignorance strategy, but how long could she keep avoiding it?

On top of that, he was her superior, someone she had to stay beside the entire business trip—no, even after returning to Seoul.

Hae Jin had no choice but to nod. Only then did the ends of his mouth curl up in a strange way.

“Thirty minutes should be enough?”

Tae Hong asked while looking at the watch on his wrist.

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