“Did you call? Representative.”
“Oh. You’re here. Secretary Kang.”
At the appearance of the awaited visitor, Baek Sara lowered the mirror she had been looking into.
Lately, with the eldest son contacting her more frequently, irritation had deepened, and dark circles were growing day by day.
“So, is the immigration preparation going well?”
“…Thanks to you.”
Her secretary barely managed to answer in a voice crawling in.
Two restless hands were anxiously wandering in the air.
Even though she prepared herself, this lukewarm attitude was still inadequate.
“Why the long face? You should think about your son and daughter studying abroad and your wife. Didn’t you say it was Secretary Kang’s lifelong wish to quit the role of ‘Goose Dad’ and immigrate together? I promised to fulfill that wish, so there’s no need to stand as if the world is about to collapse.”
“No… Thank you for considering.”
“Hmph. Of course. You should. Secretary Kang should know how many checks I handed over.”
When Baek Sara glanced down and smirked, Secretary Kang just nodded without saying a word.
He was the substitute she had meticulously prepared.
Baek Sara was well aware that during his time working by her side, he always struggled sending a small amount of money to his family abroad.
Lately, he even incurred quite a large debt due to investment failures.
Not looking at others’ difficult situations was Baek Sara’s specialty.
It was useful at crucial times.
After sending away the weak man that Baek Jae-young had stuck to like glue, she needed someone to act faithfully in his place.
Fortunately, she had an abundance of the ultimate weapon to move people – ‘money.’
So, she ordered Secretary Kang to cause an accident with a truck, using that as an excuse to involve him in this matter.
It was not easy to withdraw from a bad situation once it started.
“Now, here’s the map.”
Secretary Kang’s feelings were not something she needed to calculate.
She gave him money, and he did the corresponding task.
“The place is scheduled for demolition, so there should be no one around. Take the child there and do as I instructed.”
“…Are you really determined to do this?”
“Then, really do it, right? Why do you think I gave Secretary Kang such a large sum of money?”
The complexion of Secretary Kang, who received the map, seemed so pallid that he might collapse with just a tap.
It was understandable, as the location marked on the map was a place he knew very well.
“But… Isn’t this building owned by Myeonghan? If anything goes wrong here…”
“Secretary Kang.”
Baek Sara’s chilly voice settled heavily on the floor.
“To ensure that nothing goes wrong, isn’t doing it properly Secretary Kang’s job from now on? You can start anew overseas once you successfully finish this task, can’t you?”
“But this is too risky…”
“Don’t worry too much. It’s an abandoned building, no one sees it as important, and there are no CCTV cameras. It’s just the right place, truly.”
With a triumphant sparkle in her large eyes, Baek Sara flashed a malicious smile.
The place where Secretary Kang was trembling was a stage she had specially selected.
It was an abandoned construction site that Myunghan Construction had abandoned a long time ago, and it had been neglected for a while before the decision for demolition was made.
Intentionally chosen to give a hard time to Myunghan’s eldest son, who dared to covet her without knowing the consequences. If an accident involving a child occurred and caused a stir in the media, there would be no time for him to think about getting married, tangled up in rectifying the situation.
“…I understand.”
Perhaps realizing that arguing was futile, Secretary Kang finally nodded.
Might as well go through with it like this. She couldn’t bear the sight of Baek Chae-ha and Min Seol-won being the only ones happy, considering the miserable state she had put herself in.
She knew very well that Min Seol-won’s father was a fallen firefighter.
So, she intended to gift them the most suitable tragedy.
With a faint sense of satisfaction, Baek Sara’s red lips trembled, rising like a snake. Simultaneously, a malicious intent flowed through those lips.
“Hey, why not let the son experience the fire, not just the father.”
“Are you Uju?”
“Hmm? Who are you, mister?”
With glittering eyes under the autumn sunlight, Uju looked up at the man who called her.
To Uju’s confused expression, Secretary Kang forced a friendly smile.
“I’m a friend of the pretty grandmother. You know the pretty grandmother, right?”
“Oh! Uju knows the pretty grandmother~.”
“Yeah, yeah. You’ve been to the pretty grandmother’s house before. Remember?”
“Yes! It was really, really fun~.”
Confirming that Uju’s guard had dropped, Secretary Kang, who had been lurking in front of the Ilsa Children’s Center, made good use of the information he had seen.
He extended the same snacks that Huh Young-joo used to bring for the child.
“Here, this. The pretty grandmother told Uju to have it. She wants to play at home with Uju today too.”
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
