The audit was conducted more thoroughly than expected.
Hayley let out a small sigh, hiding from Count Felice who followed her around all day as if to monitor her every move.
“The Jenit Company is very different from other companies.”
“It must be because from the beginning of its establishment, the company had a very different approach from the conventional wisdom.”
“That’s what I’m saying. To think a company was founded and operated by a woman from the start. I really can’t believe it.”
You do know who those ‘women’ are when you say that, right?
Beside Hayley, her secretary Evan silently moved his lips at the rather cynical remark.
Well, even without saying it with his mouth, she could tell what he meant just by looking at his expression.
As Count Felice closely examined every corner of the company as if deliberately trying to find fault, Hayley did not bother pointing out the identities of the ‘women’ to him.
There was no need to give him an excuse.
She moved on, pretending not to have heard his words.
“The meeting room for the support project is this way. From now on, all discussions about the imperial family support project will take place here.”
“Is the location limited to here? Discussions about the project may need to be linked with the company’s other businesses.”
Count Felice responded in a sharp tone.
As if questioning how a nationwide project could be carried out in just one meeting room.
He had been asking to be shown around the company, but now he was complaining about coming straight here without visiting any other places.
Hayley calmly replied to Count Felice with a smile, never losing her composure.
“As I explained earlier, when our company starts a project, we select suitable personnel from each department for that project. And until that project is completed, they do not take on any other duties.”
It’s not that there were no departments, but they were not always devoted to just one task.
Whenever there was a large project that required mobilizing all the manpower, everyone in the company would end up taking on several overlapping tasks.
Therefore, the founder Jenit Vermerian and her daughter Amelia, now Reinhart, recommended the following work guidelines to be followed at all branches of the Jenit Company.
“All employees of the Jenit Company shall not take on more than one task at a time. In case of exceptions, permission must be obtained from the company head or representative. It is our company’s principle.”
It was a unprecedented directive that combined work efficiency and consideration for employees.
It was also the reason why the Jenit Company was the most popular workplace compared to other companies in the empire.
The very concept of excessive work did not exist, so everyone could work happily and productivity increased accordingly.
“So you can think of each department of the company and the teams for the projects the company undertakes as separate entities.”
“Hm, hm.”
“Even if you don’t visit each department, all matters related to national projects can only be handled by the relevant team.”
So you will be able to know everything just by staying in this room.
As Hayley calmly finished her words, Count Felice showed a slightly perplexed expression.
No, perhaps he seemed a little resentful too.
I knew it. He had an ulterior motive.
It would have been stranger for someone close to Lloyd to come all the way here under the pretext of an audit and do nothing, but…
“The Lady’s words were true after all.”
As if Hayley wasn’t the only one thinking that, Evan muttered in a small voice.
Yes. The Lady has never been wrong.
“I need to go prepare for the meeting, so please wait here.”
Hayley slowly nodded and kindly opened the door of the meeting room, passing the stiffened Count Felice.
“Tea will arrive in a little while, and the meeting will start in 15 minutes. If you need anything, please tell Evan here.”
“…I see.”
With a hard expression, Count Felice, who had been standing beside her, abruptly entered the open meeting room.
And Evan also bowed his head slightly to her and followed him into the meeting room.
Watching the backs of the two men walking inside, Hayley recalled the message she received from Amelia in the morning.
[Count Felice will try to stir up the company using this opportunity. He’ll try to draw me out and pressure His Highness the Crown Prince. Don’t give him a chance, Hayley.]It was a short message written in a rather urgent handwriting, but Hayley immediately began preparations to perfectly execute this sudden order.
There was no problem with the work method as it was already set.
The important thing was the location.
Even if there was a one in a million chance, she had to choose a meeting room where Count Felice could not accidentally enter an important place of the company.
She did have a rough idea of where it could be, but Hayley thought she needed a much safer place than that.
So this is where it was decided.
It is the farthest place from the center of the company.
And as if proving that their efforts were not wrong, Count Felice requested to be shown around the company as soon as he arrived.
He may have said it indirectly, but there’s no way she wouldn’t know what he meant.
Hayley refused all his requests indirectly and asked to limit his range of movement to here.
“How dare he, in a place like this.”
Hayley muttered under her breath as she walked down the corridor.
If he thought she would fall for such a transparent scheme, he was mistaken.
At the same time, she thought it was fortunate that someone like him came here.
If someone else had come, she would have had to think about how to deal with them.
In addition, Count Philipa, who was selected for the audit along with Count Felice this time, was also the person she most wanted to avoid.
Fortunately, since it turned out this way, she would have to be very careful in the future as well.
She put her hand in her pocket and fiddled with the object inside.
The object that has protected her until now and will continue to do so in the future.
[This is the timeline separator]“The messenger has returned.”
At Arnold’s words, Leoprick put down the sword he was holding and let out a long sigh.
The assessment signaling the start of the support project.
The messenger who had gone to deliver the news had returned.
Leoprick put down the sword he had been training with and ran his fingers through his hair.
“What was everyone’s reaction?”
“What special reaction would there be? They probably just said they understood.”
“Hm. They wouldn’t have just let it pass quietly.”
He thought there would definitely be some talk.
It’s quieter than I thought.
Leoprick, who had been pondering for a moment whether there was some ulterior motive, soon straightened his appearance and walked towards the palace.
“What happened to the thing I asked you to find out?”
“Your Majesty was right. They are living under a suitably changed name and appearance.”
Arnold followed behind him and answered in a small voice.
Leoprick pulled down the sleeves he had rolled up and lifted the corners of his mouth.
As expected, his prediction was correct.
“We need to make sure they don’t know we’re watching from this side.”
“I have already ordered the person we infiltrated in advance to keep an eye on them. They probably won’t be particularly suspected.”
Arnold quietly replied and handed a piece of paper to Leoprick.
It was a paper with brief personal information and current whereabouts of the person he had ordered to investigate.
After scanning through it as if skimming, he threw the paper into a torch on the corridor.
“Did you inform the count?”
“Not yet. I thought there was no need to notify him urgently.”
“Yes. It’s not bad to use it at a critical moment.”
The problem is when that ‘critical moment’ is.
Leoprick thought about when would be the most appropriate, recalling the temperament of the person he was targeting.
“There will definitely be a time during the audit period when Lloyd’s side will make the first move.”
“It does seem like they are moving little by little now.”
“Then we can’t give them a chance. Thoroughly disrupt them so they can’t grasp even a small clue.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Leoprick, who had entered the room after walking down the long corridor, gave Arnold a few more instructions.
Most of them were about preventing Lloyd from getting what he wanted, and some of them included instructions to interfere with the audit itself.
“Isn’t this against the rules, Your Majesty?”
“Rules or not, is that important now?”
Originally, politics is petty and underhanded.
Leoprick shrugged, unbuttoning his sweat-soaked top from training.
In his previous life, he thought that if he just worked fairly and honestly, everything would fall into place.
But it didn’t take long for him to realize that it was his arrogance and miscalculation.
Leoprick’s eyes flashed as he recalled his mother’s words that the straightforward method was not always the answer.
“The important thing is that the people don’t get hurt. We also have to think about the damage the country will suffer if Lloyd continues the project as it is.”
“That… is true, but if we get disqualified in the middle, there will definitely be talk.”
“That’s why we dispatched the messenger today. I also told them to clearly inform the auditors.”
If by any chance there was a matter that got caught in the audit, the support would be immediately suspended.
It was an exceptional audit item added to this support project.
Leoprick recalled the contents he had delivered to the auditors and messengers this morning as he took off his top.
“Keep a close watch, and don’t miss a single move of Counts Philipa and Felipe. If the audit is even a little lax, I’ll replace the auditors first.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Arnold answered in a grumbling tone.
Leoprick heard him muttering that His Majesty was too picky and whatnot, but he ignored it.
If he responded to such remarks every time, it would become a bad habit.
Leoprick threw the clothes he had taken off onto the bed and gestured without looking back.
“If you’re done, you can go. On your way, tell them to prepare my bath water.”
“Yes, Your Majesty. I will see you in the office after the meal.”
The sound of the door opening and closing was heard behind him.
Leoprick was about to look back when he noticed the mail placed on the bed.
As he examined the mail one by one, including invitations and newspapers, he heard the door open again behind him.
“Are you here? I’ll have breakfast here, so tell the kitchen that.”
“……”
He spoke, thinking his attendant had entered as he had asked for bath water.
There was no one else who would come in at this hour anyway.
Looking at an article about this support project without even turning his gaze, he realized there was no answer or movement from behind.
“Gale, didn’t you hear me…?”
Finally putting down the newspaper and turning around.
He froze in place, unable to say anything.
His eyes met Amelia’s.
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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