Just then, Yoon Ji found the room and was startled.
She stepped back from the door to avoid Do Jun, who was berating her.
“Don’t drive Hae Joo to extremes.”
Do Jun, who left a warning to Jin Han, left the room with Hae Joo.
Jin Han pulled a beer and drank it amidst the dizzying sensation hitting him in succession.
“Haah!”
The words Do Jun left behind pounded his heart painfully.
He thought he would bow his head and listen because he cherished Hae Joo more than anyone else.
But his method was wrong.
He shouted so much to create a clean and fair film world, but in reality, it was blocked.
“Director, how did Representative Park Do Jun come?”
The other colleagues were having fun.
Yoon Ji, who closed the door and approached, offered ice water to Jin Han.
“He must have known that Miss Hae Joo was here.”
“Indeed.”
“Hong Yoon Ji, did you force Miss Hae Joo to drink?”
“Not me. I ordered a nonalcoholic cocktail, but Seon Young secretly….”
“Call Seon Young.”
“Director, bear with it today. She already got scolded by me.”
Jin Han pushed away the shot glass and took a sip of the ice water.
His nearly drunken mind woke up abruptly when Do Jun appeared.
“Why did you call Miss Hae Joo?”
“I asked her. I asked her to talk to the director.”
Yoon Ji, who had a headache, gulped down the whiskey with melted ice.
She bit her lip under Jin Han’s intense gaze.
“Don’t do this in the future. It was surprising.”
“I understand.”
These days, Yoon Ji was very obedient.
She didn’t talk back like before and looked demoralized.
Seeing this, Jin Han couldn’t scold her anymore.
“Did you find out about Park Do Jun?”
“Do we talk about that here?”
As soon as the words ended, those who had left their seats crowded in.
A considerable amount of time had passed, and it was already looking at midnight.
Jin Han grabbed the watch Hae Joo gave him and stood up.
“I have to go to work tomorrow, so let’s stop here for today.”
“Director, it’s just the beginning!”
“I’ll pay for this place, so if anyone wants to continue having fun, gather separately.”
Everyone hurriedly grabbed their bags.
Seeing that Hae Joo wasn’t visible, Seon Young asked.
“Where did Hae Joo go?”
She seemed worried because she had done something wrong.
Yoon Ji roughly intervened because Jin Han was glaring fiercely at Seon Young.
“She was drunk, so I sent her home.”
“Ah, that’s a relief.”
One by one, they left the room.
After paying, Jin Han came out, and a warm greeting followed him.
When the group left the club, Yoon Ji came out late under the excuse of going to the bathroom and called.
“Director, where are you going?”
At Jin Han’s words that he was at a bar across the street, Yoon Ji moved her steps.
At the bar, he sipped Faust alone.
“What will you drink?”
“Gin and tonic.”
A glass filled with gin and tonic was placed in front of Yoon Ji.
When the cocktail was about halfway finished, Jinhan opened his mouth with a sigh.
“Go ahead and speak now.”
Yoonji felt a headache looming before she even started talking about Do Jun.
He was a character who seemed like a villain but also didn’t, which made her cautious around Jinhan.
“He’s a very peculiar person.”
“In what way?”
“A few years ago, my friend got food poisoning and had to go to the emergency room.”
“What does that have to do with Miss Hae Joo?”
“Just listen till the end.”
Whenever someone passed by, they both closed their mouths. Lowering her voice as much as possible, Yoonji recounted the story as she had heard it.
“In the emergency room, while getting an IV, a man brought in Hae Joo who had collapsed.”
“Was that man Park Do Jun?”
“My friend didn’t know the name, just recognized him as the second son of Chairman Park.”
“So why did Miss Hae Joo collapse?”
“She was trying to jump off the rooftop of a building.”
Jinhan felt as if his nerves were becoming rigid.
The angry outburst Hae Joo had just poured out in the room earlier had torn his heart apart.
“It seems that CEO Park Do Jun managed to stop Hae Joo from jumping.”
“What was the reason for her decision?”
“Because there were bruises and scratch marks on Hae Joo’s body, the medical team reported it to the police.”
“Oh my god!”
Yoonji had also heard this story yesterday.
She had plugged her ears in horror upon hearing about the abuse Hae Joo had endured, which went beyond mere competition.
It was distressing to repeat it.
“Her mother was rambling when she came, but in summary, it was this. ‘The kid stole thirty thousand won from my wallet!'”
“She’s insane.”
“My friend mentioned that Hae Joo’s sister had always had bad habits.”
“Did she shift the blame?”
“My friend thought it seemed so.”
“It’s infuriating.”
Jinhan washed his face with dry hands and leaned back in his chair.
He felt strength leaving his limbs and took deep breaths.
“What else?”
“For some reason, after that, it seems that CEO Park Do Jun went around fighting.”
“To what extent?”
“If people in the neighborhood are calling him a madman, a loser, then that says it all, right?”
“So he started doing this after taking care of Miss Hae Joo?”
“Yes.”
Jinhan ordered more beer and drank.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
