Her third attempt was ignored too.
At this rate, she might not be able to resign. Anxiety gnawing at her, Yeon Woo, who had been restlessly biting her thumbnail, stood up abruptly.
“Team Leader Park, can I come see you now?”
Planning to directly confront HR team leader Park, she decided to maintain the last bit of courtesy by announcing her visit via phone.
Oh, Deputy Kim, I was just about to come to your place.
“Excuse me? Ah, okay.”
Finally, it seemed the resignation talk was about to happen. ‘Just hold on for five minutes’, thought Yeon Woo, who felt foolish for rushing things, and sat down to wait for the HR team leader Park’s visit.
However, Park arrived with a new employee, who seemed to have nothing to do with the resignation and was frozen stiff with nervousness.
“Hello! I am the new employee Kang Ji Eun!”
Could it be that they have already found a replacement? Yeon Woo’s hopeful imagination started spinning.
“I look forward to working with you! I’ll do my best!”
“Our Deputy Kim Yeon Woo is the best mentor in our company, so learn as much as you can before you get placed.”
Wait, a new mentee to take over from Hye Jin? For someone planning to resign…?
Now she was beginning to suspect. Somehow, it felt as if there was an organizational effort to block her resignation.
“Excuse me, Team Leader Park!”
As soon as the introduction of the newbie was over, Yeon Woo stopped Park who was about to leave the office nonchalantly.
“Dep, Deputy Kim! I’m busy right now. I have to go.”
Yeon Woo blocked Park’s way.
“Are you avoiding me?”
“Huh? Me?”
As he said that, Park’s eyes darted around. He evaded Yeon Woo once more.
“Team Leader Park. When is my resignation interview?”
“Well, that is, Deputy Kim.”
“The head of the secretarial team said he couldn’t solve it at his level. Please just process my resignation without an interview.”
Park’s pupils shuddered like an earthquake. Her suspicion became conviction.
Determined to hear the answer, Yeon Woo watched Park nervously licking his dry lips.
Eventually, Park, who had been on guard and looking around, pulled Yeon Woo’s arm and went to the emergency stairs.
“Deputy Kim, save us.”
“Huh? I need to save… who?”
“You can’t resign. At least not right now.”
What on earth, why!
Since when was quitting a job so hard?
“From the first day of the new year, Attorney Kwon Jun Hwi visited the HR team and completely froze us. Asking why Deputy Kim Yeon Woo wasn’t promoted.”
She had suspected it, but to think that man was actually involved…!
“He gave the highest score during the evaluation, but now his opinion is being ignored. Why can’t they promote him to a secretary position, why are they making him look incompetent, really… Oh! The director even took a halfday off that afternoon and laid down because of this.”
That scene floated up again, causing Deputy Manager Park to shiver his shoulders and shake it off his arm.
“And then he threatens. Can you believe it? A lawyer threatening an employee.”
“A threat?”
“He says he can’t stand being treated like this at Roan & Yule. He’s going to Yulewon.”
Probably mentioning the rival law firm that the CEO especially hates.
“Honestly, isn’t that a bit forced? What exactly is he hooked on that he’s pulling at straws? Hmm. Could it be…?”
Suddenly, Deputy Manager Park’s eyes narrowed as he looked at Yeon Woo. Feeling awkward, Yeon Woo discreetly avoided his gaze.
“Did you get a scouting offer from Yulewon? Deputy Manager, did you feel any hint of that?”
“Uh, no. I don’t know anything.”
“Anyway, imagine if the word got to the CEO that Lawyer Kwon is going to Yulewon.”
Ah. Deputy Manager Park’s story was so Jun Hwilike that just hearing it made it vividly real, as if his icy eyes were glaring fiercely.
A throbbing began in Yeon Woo’s temples.
“He says he’ll watch. He’ll see how the HR team handles things from now on and then decide… Anyway, if we approve your resignation while Lawyer Kwon is acting like this…”
Squeak. Deputy Manager Park even mimed slicing his throat with the blade of his hand.
“Manager, there’s no such thing! Just let me resign.”
“Let’s talk about it later, later. Right? We have to promote you to section chief, no matter what.”
She was so dumbfounded she couldn’t find the words.
He’d obstructed Yeon Woo’s promotion and now he was stopping her resignation.
“Only you know the full story. I’m telling you because I feel sorry. The official reason is, we’re holding onto you because your mentoring of the new secretary is excellent and your reviews are good. Got it?”
“But, Manager, I.”
Was this a matter she should take up with Jun Hwi?
The more she mulled over it, the more perplexing it was.
Why on earth? While they coolly let the other secretaries go, why did they block and stop Yeon Woo?
“But Deputy Manager Yeon Woo, you’re really amazing. How do you work with Lawyer Kwon?”
Deputy Manager Park, regaining his usual calm demeanor, suddenly shot a look of admiration at Yeon Woo.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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