The Secretary's Power (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 21

“Yeah. Why didn’t I think of that?”

Hye Won stopped abruptly as she entered the company lobby on her way to work.

Her eyes, bloodshot from a sleepless night, suddenly sparkled with realization.

“Yeah. Exactly. Why didn’t I think of that sooner…?”

After Ji Seok’s visit, her guilt had only deepened, making the dark night feel endlessly long. She’d dreaded coming to work, fearing she’d cause Tae Beom even more harm.

Just as she was sinking deeper into the thought that it would be impossible to keep working in the Managing Director’s office, a sudden idea struck her.

“Just get fired.”

If she got fired from the Managing Director’s office, that would solve everything. Instead of desperately clinging on, getting dismissed would make it impossible for her to continue acting as a spy, no matter how much she wanted to.

Why had she only realized this simple fact now? Hye Won was genuinely shocked by this shift in perspective.

She recalled that nowhere in the confidentiality agreement was there any clause specifying what happened if Tae Beom himself fired her.

“Good grief.” She gasped aloud and immediately clamped her hands over her mouth. Blinking rapidly, she mulled over this shocking discovery again and again.

“Chills. Serious chills. Serrriouuus chills.”

Yes. This was it—the Vice President’s tiny vulnerability.

If things went exactly as she planned, she wouldn’t have to pay that enormous penalty fee, and she could escape this painful role as a traitor.

It wasn’t her responsibility to get reassigned back to her original department. That was up to the person doing the firing, not the one getting fired, right?

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