Feeling the atmosphere freeze, a sense of confusion swept over Deputy Director Jung’s face.
“Ah…… that’s because I……”
“And isn’t it mandatory to have an employee card in the company.”
The look that seemed displeased at Deputy Director Jung, who wasn’t wearing an employee card, seemed to be shooting a question, “Where did you lose your mind and go around?”
At Jae Oh’s gaze, Deputy Director Jung, who was at a loss for words, stuttered.
“Ah…… the employee card is……”
With a cluck of his tongue, Jae Oh, who had shrugged, turned his back on Deputy Manager Jung, shaking his head.
Deputy Manager Jung’s face turned red with embarrassment.
In her moment of not knowing what to do, Jae Oh, keeping his gaze elsewhere, asked,
“Where are you going?”
Chae Yoon, who was about to leave through another entrance as the employees blocked Jae Oh’s sight, abruptly stopped.
She felt as if she was drawing attention, an uncomfortable aura. Somehow, even the back of her head felt hot, and Chae Yoon knew without having to look back that her team members’ attention was on her.
Her pale face turned mournful. Chae Yoon bit her lip hard and sighed.
‘Ah, how did he see me leaving?’
Although she regretted being caught by Jae Oh just at the moment of leaving, Chae Yoon quickly thought about how to escape this situation.
Then, a deep voice asked again,
“Where are you going without eating this?”
Chae Yoon, who was thinking of escaping, realized that she couldn’t just leave like this.
Chae Yoon, taking a deep breath, turned her body and looked at Jae Oh.
“Ah, I just wanted to go to the bathroom for a moment.”
The tone of her excuse was quite natural. If she could just open the door and go out smoothly now, the situation would naturally come to a close, but Chae Yoon couldn’t move.
“……”
It was because of Jae Oh’s intense gaze looking at her.
Chae Yoon, unable to take a single step as if his gaze were shackles, averted her eyes with an awkward smile.
Won’t he say something, is he just going to leave me standing here like this?
The attention focused on her because of Jae Oh was burdensome. Feeling like she was sweating cold sweat, Chae Yoon reluctantly opened her mouth.
“Can’t I go?”
The tone of her voice was heavy with her desire to escape this situation quickly.
Then, Jae Oh, who had been staring at Chae Yoon quietly, took his eyes off her.
Chae Yoon, seeing him again fix his eyes on his phone, exhaled a sigh of relief and quickly left the office.
The moment she left the office, her anxious heart felt suddenly relieved.
“Phew……”
Chae Yoon, releasing the breath that had been filling her chest, took a step while muttering to herself to ‘calm down’.
The place Chae Yoon was heading to was not the bathroom, but an empty meeting room nearby.
She walked there absentmindedly, planning to kill some time before going back, but her thoughts drifted back to Jae Oh.
‘But, why did he lose so much weight?’
It wasn’t that bad when I saw him at the hotel for lunch…
But that was from a distance, and it wasn’t even his front view, so Chae Yoon remembered Jae Oh’s face she had seen in the office once again.
“If you lost that much weight… Could you be, possibly, ill?”
As the thought of Jae Oh being ill flickered in her mind, her steady stride halted.
Her heart sank heavily.
Feeling a chill creep up her spine, Chae Yoon bit her lip tightly.
“What if he’s sick?”
If he’s this emaciated due to illness…
Her swiftly spinning train of thought abruptly stopped.
Noticing the thought that popped up in her head, Chae Yoon let out a soft sigh.
“Ah…”
She was still like this.
Chae Yoon rubbed her forehead, which was full of worries about him, independent of her will. Her beautiful face tightened.
She thought she had managed to shake off the man named Han Jae Oh to some extent in a month. She thought that she would regard him as just ‘a brother I know’, but as soon as she saw him noticeably thinner in just a month, her head was filled with worry about him.
No matter how long her unrequited love has lasted, isn’t this a bit too much?
Disappointed by her uncontrollable thoughts, Chae Yoon closed her eyes and stood still for a moment.
It was to erase the thought of him that filled her mind.
As she was doing so, a deep voice suddenly rang near her ear.
“Is this a restroom for you?”
“Aaah!”
Startled by the unexpected voice, especially Jae Oh’s, Chae Yoon screamed, dropping the phone she had in her hand.
Jae Oh, seeing Chae Yoon’s surprised reaction, was also taken aback.
“What’s up, why are you so surprised.”
“Ah… Well…”
The reason for her surprise was because she heard his voice while she was thinking about him.
Unable to verbalize her answer, Chae Yoon hesitated for a moment.
In the meantime, Jae Oh, who picked up the phone Chae Yoon dropped, stared at her.
“What were you guilty of here?”
At the word ‘guilt’, Chae Yoon’s eyes widened.
“What sin did I commit here.”
Her elongated eyes narrowed thinly.
“From your stutter, you were up to something, right?”
“No.”
“Why were you surprised if not?”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
