“……Hey, what do you mean by that! What does that mean right now!”
Tae Beom followed her down.
Yang Hoon, who had been sitting in his personal office, went out. It was soon time for Tae Beom and Hye Won to leave for their business trip.
It was suspected that there was a problem with the Gimhae Airport, so he thought it was a business trip, but Tae Beom made an unexpected suggestion to stay in the company.
Due to the large scope of the homework given by Chairman Ha Baek Seung, Yang Hoon readily accepted Tae Beom’s proposal.
The problem was Hye Won, who had to follow Tae Beom’s solo business trip.
‘Tae Beom. Do you have to take Ms. Yoon Hye Won?’
‘Even dung is not there when it needs to be used for medicine. There might be a use for her if I take her.’
“It doesn’t look useful to me at all.”
“Well, someone was saying that about Deputy Yoon Hye Won. A human shield.”
“……”
“Well, if that’s her use, I should take her with me.”
Human shield.
Yang Hoon chewed over the word that had sprung from Tae Beom’s lips, then tilted his head.
They had been inseparable for a long time, so he thought there was nothing he didn’t know about Tae Beom, but his attitude towards Hye Won was somehow vague.
The reason Tae Beom could not personally dismiss Hye Won was because he did not want to give Ji Seok any room.
The moment he dismissed her, Ji Seok would be sure Tae Beom had caught onto his scheme, so Tae Beom could not dismiss her until Hye Won left on her own.
But yesterday, Tae Beom had stayed two hours more at the afterwork gathering from which he had disappeared first. It was a result of checking the corporate card payment details.
Given his defiant personality, it was likely that Hye Won was with him.
He thought Tae Beom would chastise him for leaving the gathering without a word, but when he saw him in the morning, Tae Beom didn’t mention anything about yesterday.
He seemed not to want to talk about yesterday’s gathering.
Yang Hoon tilted his head and looked at Hye Won, who was filing the business trip payment.
What had happened yesterday?
“Ah, Counselor. Is there anything you need me to do?”
Hye Won, who was submitting the payment, stood up from her seat. Yang Hoon just shook his head with a smile.
“No. I just came out to see you off, as it seems time for your trip.”
“Ah…… yes……”
“Miss Hye Won.”
Yang Hoon sat leaning on the desk. He looked at Hye Won while twiddling his thumbs.
“Did you get home alright yesterday?”
“Ah, um, yesterday.”
Something had happened.
Yang Hoon quickly sensed it.
“I had to leave suddenly because something came up.”
“Ah…… yes…… yesterday was umm……”
Hye Won hesitated to bring up the embarrassing story about yesterday. Just then, Tae Beom appeared as the executive room door opened.
“Deputy Yoon Hye Won. Let’s go if you’re ready.”
Tae Beom came out and cut her off, as if he had overheard the conversation. Yang Hoon raised his eyebrows and stood up from his seat.
Yang Hoon smiled thinly and patted Hye Won’s shoulder.
“Take care. Call me if there’s any problem.”
“Yes. Counselor. I’ll be back.”
With a grim look, Hye Won followed Tae Beom out of the office. Yang Hoon, who had been watching with a bittersweet expression, returned to his own office with narrowed eyes.
Because he never mentioned the fact that he had slept on a newspaper, Yang Hoon’s imagination had taken off in all directions.
To know, Tae Beom was not the type to stay and drink alone with a female employee. Even if he had stopped drinking, he was not the type to stay alone and converse for two hours.
If there was a remarkable point, there was no reason for Tae Beom to keep his mouth shut from the morning and ponder about yesterday’s events.
If he had been bent on driving Hye Won out, Tae Beom would have caught even a small flaw, but it was disturbing that the process was neatly omitted.
“I’m going on a business trip. Without me. With Deputy Yoon Hye Won.”
Tae Beom leaves on a business trip with the internal spy sent by Ji Seok. Without me.
What on earth was Tae Beom thinking? Did he really want to kick out Hye Won?
At that time when question marks were piling up because he could not know his friend’s intentions, the internal phone rang.
The expression of Yang Hoon, who answered the phone without thinking, quickly stiffened.
“Yes. Yes, I understand.”
It was the call of Vice President Ji Seok, which started as soon as Tae Beom left his seat.
Tae Beom, who arrived at Gimhae Airport quickly without a hint of dawdling, moved.
As soon as he came out of the domestic welcome hall, the waiting branch officials gathered like iron filings to a magnet.
Hye Won, who had been knocked around here and there, naturally got pushed to the very end.
When Tae Beom extended his right hand, a man who had been just looking around handed over a tablet PC with the data screen open.
“What is the reason for the defect?”
“The malfunction of the inflight temperature control device is the cause. A replacement flight has been arranged, but the connecting route from Guam to Gimhae Airport is the fastest one….”
“What’s the delay time?”
“21 hours and 27 minutes. There was an issue with the delay in parts labor.”
Tae Beom stopped looking at the data screen on the tablet PC. The middleranking officials who were walking in line A around Tae Beom also stopped all at once.
“Where are the passengers?”
“Most of them agreed to the subsequent compensation and left the airport, and only one passenger remained and moved to the customer counseling room.”
“Was a vehicle provided for the passengers to move?”
“Yes. We arranged for a limousine bus and guided them. They traveled to a total of seven destinations including Incheon, Suwon, and Pyeongtaek.”
When Tae Beom started moving again, the middleranking officials matched their pace.
The flights coming into Incheon Airport from London Heathrow Airport were currently once a week, so if a defect in the aircraft was found, it was practically no different from cutting off alternative transportation.
They had managed to arrange a flight departing for Guam, but they couldn’t avoid the hassle of having to stop over, and the passengers were delayed again for six hours there.
Tae Beom, who was looking at the tablet PC with a furrowed brow, opened his mouth again while turning it over.
“What are the demands of the strongprotest passenger?”
“The claim is for a significant loss due to a delay in contract execution caused by the flight delay.”
“Have you assessed the loss amount?”
“Well, from what I hear, it’s about 16.8 billion.”
Ha Tae Beom stopped again in his tracks. He looked at the male executive who answered, and the man bowed his head.
Tae Beom stood still as if thinking for a moment, then loosened his tie.
“We will hear the rest of the matter in the meeting room.”
“Yes, executive director.”
Tae Beom called for an emergency meeting.
Yoon Hye Won, who had been walking at a distance, simply stared at Tae Beom’s back as he quickly disappeared.
It was then. A branch office employee approached and came close to Hye Won.
“Did you come from the headquarters? You’re accompanying the executive director, right?”
“Ah, yes. I’m assistant Yoon Hye Won.”
The employee touched his forehead as if it was a difficult situation.
“The customer service room is a mess right now. I heard the employees have been on their knees begging for two hours.”
“Ah….”
“Since you came from the headquarters and you’re accompanying the executive director, I think you should go to the service room first.”
Hye Won had been staring at Tae Beom’s receding figure, completely forgetting about her own presence.
Then, after swallowing her dry saliva, she looked at the branch office employee.
“Where is the customer service room?”
When male lead is the homewrecker
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
I’ve read the novel below twice already. Girls, I’m highly recommending it to you!
The female lead? Not a good person.
The second male lead? Not a good person.
The male lead? Willingly plays the third party, breaking up the female and second male lead’s relationship despite all the warnings from his friends—so yeah, he’s definitely not a good person either.
Basically, nobody in this novel is simple-minded or without scheming.
The female lead starts off as the male lead’s secretary, but don’t worry—later on, she takes over the company while the male lead steps back to support her. He won’t steal her spotlight, overshadow her, or dull her shine.
I love novels where men are out here snatching wigs, tearing each other down, and going to war just to win the female lead’s affection. And this is exactly that kind of novel. Most of Hai Dai Ran’s works have this dynamic. You’ll see the male characters’ emotions being pushed to the absolute extreme.
There’s even a scene where the second male lead exposes the male lead online for being a homewrecker. The brotherhood immediately gangs up on him, dragging him through the mud. I find it compelling —it completely flips reality on its head, where usually, women are the ones fighting over a man and getting torn apart by the sisterhood.
For me, female leads in the novels I read should only struggle in their careers, not in love. But if the brainless romantics in the story are all men? I have zero complaints.
I’ve pretty much read all of Hai Dai Ran’s novels and even translated all of them—her works are just my thing. I’ll slowly upload everything here. One day, when my website is official, I hope I can invite her to join as one of the star authors.
Here’s the story synopsis:
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Intro 1:
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
With blood trickling from his clenched fist, Rong Xiu gazed at the woman before him, his eyes clouded with anguish. Hidden in the wardrobe, he had witnessed Fan Xia – the woman he desperately loved – in an intimate embrace with her fiancé. Yet his heart still yearned for her, defying all reason.
Fan Xia, the elegant and composed assistant, carried something mysterious in her eyes whenever she looked at her fiancé, Wen Lan Sheng. Strange occurrences began to surface – secret meetings with the young Gu Jin Yi, an unexplained withdrawal of 5,000 yuan… Then suddenly, her fiancé’s sister, Wen Jing, violently attacked her.
In this matriarchal society, Rong Xiu had risen to become the chairman of a powerful healthcare conglomerate, breaking through gender prejudices. But for the first time, he willingly stepped into the shadows as the other man, disregarding his friends’ warnings to become her secret lover.
Because he had discovered the truth – Fan Xia wasn’t the pure angel everyone believed her to be. And perhaps, he was the only one capable of helping her execute her mysterious plan…
Intro 2:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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