Thus Began Your Regret (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 49

It was high noon under bright sunlight. Someone had come to the Allen estate.

The man who knocked on the mansion’s front door introduced himself as Jeffrey Curtis, in charge of the Allen Research Institute.

“President!”

He stomped up the stairs, his heavy footsteps echoing toward the bedroom of the estate’s owner on the second floor.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Open the door, President! If you don’t, I swear I’ll break it down myself!”

The Allen Research Institute had been effectively shut down for several days now.

The cause was simple: the president had vanished as if he’d evaporated into thin air.

Normally, their president insisted on personally reviewing every employee’s work and conducting all critical experiments and developments himself.

His deep-rooted distrust of others made him someone who couldn’t bear not knowing every detail of every task. This chronic skepticism had driven him to exhaust himself, meticulously managing every moment of his time.

Of course, thanks to this, the company had run smoothly and efficiently, without a single cog out of place. Every researcher at the institute readily admitted that the president’s personality had greatly contributed to Allen Corporation’s success.

But that only held true when he acted like a workaholic, burying himself in tasks all day.

The president’s near-obsessive distrust, once he disappeared from the scene, had instead become a serious poison threatening the entire company.

“Ugh, honestly, President! It’s clearly not just the institute that’s in trouble—do you really plan to keep this up?”

Frustrated, Jeffrey shouted loudly.

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