“Where did you hear such a thing?”
“Haha. Relax your face. It seems our Sara heard it somewhere, understand. As you know, she’s the child who lived staring at oblivion only at Chae Ha.”
Chairman Baek gave a twirling look at Kwon Kang Ho’s hardened face.
Whether in the past or now, he had an exceptional talent for laying out and leading the situation.
As he got older, this aspect became awkward, gradually causing him to distance himself.
Moreover, Kwon Kang Ho was well aware that Chae Un was the first company that Baek Young Group wanted to swallow.
If Kwon Kang Ho hadn’t grown rapidly to the point of being untouchable, Baek Young would have gobbled up Chae Un at any time.
“Don’t worry too much about the land. My immature daughter is blind in love, and I’m scolding her.”
“I wish you could scold her on some other things as well. What good is it to covet a man who already has an owner? You wouldn’t feel comfortable watching your daughter, who you raised in a golden cradle, go out barefaced, would you?”
When he blatantly touched the nerve, Chairman Baek’s face rapidly darkened.
For Kwon Kang Ho, it was a word he had always wanted to say, so it felt subtly refreshing inside.
Regardless of what happened, Kwon Kang Ho was always a person on guard against twisted desires he harbored blindly.
A silence wrapped between the two for quite some time.
At the end of the meal, filled only with the sound of chopsticks, Chairman Baek threw a weighty final remark.
It was a warning concealed behind a guise of consideration at first glance.
“Don’t mess up the work with personal feelings. You and I are businessmen to the bone. We should be able to judge what’s important.”
“Dad! Why did you come home so early?”
“Sara, why are you here then?”
“Ugh~ The smell of alcohol!”
Baek Sara, who was sharp only to him, supported Chairman Baek vigorously and sat him down on the leather sofa.
Then she quickly brought honey water and a hangover remedy.
“Dad, if you drink like this every day, your body will get ruined~? You need to consider your age now.”
“Listening to my youngest nag feels good, why. Why don’t you move back home.”
“Ugh. You know I can’t bear mom’s nagging. By the way, where is mom? She wasn’t home when I came a while ago. I wanted to see her since I’m here.”
Chairman Baek gazed at his grumbling daughter’s face.
He lamented over the thought of his perfect daughter, who would not be lacking anywhere, falling for the son of Kwon Kang Ho.
‘What good is it to covet a man who already has an owner?’
The words Kwon Kang Ho said earlier swirled around in his head, and a wave of anger surged up with his drunkenness.
Chairman Baek clenched his fist and pressed the leather sofa, and a faint sound of air escaping was heard.
“Your mom will be late because of her work at the museum. It’s rather fortunate. If she saw you like this, she would be upset.”
“You’re quite drunk, Dad. You should take a hangover remedy quickly. I’ll help you to your room.”
Baek Sara reached out to take the empty glass from him.
However, Chairman Baek pushed her hand away and stared at her intently.
It was clear that his youngest daughter, who had undoubtedly visited home out of curiosity about how the day’s events had unfolded.
“Sara.”
“Yes, Dad.”
“….I really don’t understand. You have promising young men from both the business and political world lining up for you, Sara. Why do you need to grovel to Chaeun? Tell me. Is Kwon Chae Ha a man worth doing that for?”
Baek Sara’s eyes gleamed sharply, like a cat’s walking on a midnight wall.
Upon facing her gaze, Chairman Baek realized that he had asked a futile question.
Eventually, Baek Sara parted her red lips and answered the question.
“If you’re born into the world and you can’t have the one thing you should have, everything else is merely supplementary. You’re ambitious, Dad. You should understand my feelings better than anyone else, right?”
“Is that a threat?”
“Why would it be~ It’s obviously aegyo (sweet talk).”
With a big smile on her face, Baek Sara helped Chairman Baek up and lovingly wrapped her arm around his.
Just as he cherished her because she had inherited much of his temperament, Baek Sara also loved her father who understood her ambition.
He was someone who, without need for verbose explanation, instinctively understood desire.
She had no stronger ally.
Chairman Baek became even more furious at his daughter’s cutesy tone.
At the stupidity of Kwon Gang Ho who rejected such a daughter and brought in a worthless woman as his daughterinlaw.
“Honestly, it seems like things didn’t go well. Things won’t be easy.”
“……Well, as expected.”
“Chairman Kwon has also grown weakhearted with age. If he had become our relative, his business would have returned to profit in no time. I don’t understand why he wants to go slowly and honestly. A businessman shouldn’t speak like a frail, old man.”
“He’s a longtime friend of yours, though. I really don’t want to pressure him.”
Even though she offered a sly smile, Baek Sara was fuming inside.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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