The vice president’s office fell into silence.
“Haah……”
Leaning against the sofa, Ha Joon let out a deep sigh repeatedly.
[I need some time to think.]
Su Ah’s final words stuck in his ear and wouldn’t leave.
“…Time to think. Time to think.”
He muttered her incomprehensible words, recalling Su Ah’s expression as she coldly turned away, brushing off his hand.
“Could it be……”
His heart started to beat irregularly due to the surge of anxiety.
Could it be that she needed time to sort things out, not to think?
Could it mean that she wanted to end our relationship as it was?
Could it be that I… would be abandoned?
The moment his thoughts reached there, his heart sank with a thud, and he felt dizzy as if everything was spinning around him.
“I should have told her beforehand……”
He regretted the past days when he couldn’t speak out of fear that his position as vice president might burden her.
“No. She won’t say we should end it. Yes. She wouldn’t.”
Despite the anxiety surging like a tidal wave, Ha Joon struggled not to let go of the thread of hope that it couldn’t be.
“Haah……”
Hope and despair, anxiety and impatience.
His emotions were all jumbled up, leaking out between his lips with a deep sigh.
Then, knock knock.
Secretary Park entered with a knock.
“Vice President. The marketing team leader and the new employee, Lee Su Ah, have arrived.”
‘Lee Su Ah.’
At the sound of the name, his body, which had sunk heavily like a soaked cotton ball a moment ago, sprang up like a spring.
“Let them in.”
“Yes.”
Not long after Secretary Park left, the door opened, and Su Ah revealed herself.
“Vice President. I came to greet you.”
“Yes. Welcome.”
While addressing the team leader, Ha Joon’s gaze was fixed on Su Ah.
Would you look at me…….
Would you just look at me…….
Looking at Su Ah, who still wouldn’t meet his gaze with her head lowered, Ha Joon couldn’t hide his disappointed expression.
“Miss Lee Su Ah. As you saw at the award ceremony yesterday, this is our vice president of Hyun Sung Group.”
At the team leader’s words, Su Ah finally lifted her head.
“Hello. I’m Lee Su Ah, who joined the marketing team by winning the contest. I look forward to working with you.”
“…….”
Seeing Su Ah calmly greeting him as if they had returned to the times when they didn’t know each other, Ha Joon was at a loss for words.
Would it have been easier if there was resentment or hatred in her eyes?
What were you thinking last night?
What kind of…….
“Vice President?”
While he stood there blankly, the team leader’s voice reached him.
“Yes? Ah. Yes. Welcome, congratulations on your admission.”
Although he should have apologized, explained that he didn’t mean to deceive her, the only words Ha Joon managed to say were congratulations.
“Thank you. Vice. President.”
“…….”
Her cold voice didn’t hit his eardrums but flew straight to his heart.
“Vice President, you must be very busy with work, so we’ll take our leave.”
After finishing the greetings, the team leader wrapped up the meeting, and Su Ah, following him, turned around without regret and left the vice president’s office.
Thud.
As the door closed, Ha Joon’s body collapsed onto the sofa as if all strength had been drained from him.
That expression must be your answer.
That voice must be your decision.
The moment of desperately held hope turning into despair.
[Vice President.]
As the single word caught in his throat, his breathing sped up, and soon the world seemed to flip, and his vision became dizzy.
Ding dong.
“Chairman. It’s Executive Director Choi Jae Hyun.”
Choi Jae Hyun, the executive director, was one of the few executives that Hyun Sung relied on in growing the company together.
At the words of the housekeeper who had checked the intercom, Hyun Sung, who had been reading the newspaper, widened his eyes.
He wasn’t the type to visit suddenly without contact.
Wondering what was going on, Hyun Sung quickly instructed her to open the door.
A moment later.
Jae Hyun, who had taken a seat on the sofa opposite Hyun Sung, brought up a matter he earnestly wanted to discuss.
He said he had learned that Team Leader Lee Kang Hyuk of the marketing team had submitted his resignation, and the reason was that he had to rush to the United States for treatment of his sick child.
Jae Hyun said he had been watching Kang Hyuk, who had a high job performance evaluation, and came to ask to assign him to the U.S. branch until the child’s treatment was over.
“If you regard him as capable, he’s already verified, and losing such a talent would be a loss for the company, so it would be best to do so.”
Hmm…….
At the end of his thought, Hyun Sung responded.
“Then we need to hurry to recruit a new team leader.”
“That’s why I’m telling you this…….”
Jae Hyun’s tone was cautious.
“As you may know, the ongoing beauty line marketing is such a big project that we would like a proven person to succeed.”
“A proven person? Who would that be?”
“That would be……. What about Ji Hoon.”
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
