Younger Man at Work (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
“I’m a second-year high school student, eighteen years old.”
After being speechless for a while, Eun Seo brought Kwon Seung Joo into the house. He stared in surprise at the large apple tree standing tall right in the middle of the yard.
“What’s that tree? Who planted it? When?”
Eun Seo first pulled him by the arm and sat him down on the wooden veranda, then sat down herself. Even as she did so, he kept asking questions nonstop.
“What’s going on? Who even are you that you have the key to our house?”
Instead of answering, Eun Seo just stared firmly into his face.
“…….”
There wasn’t even a hint of playfulness on his expression. Not that he was the type to joke around anyway.
Far from joking, he looked extremely uneasy and anxious—an expression Kwon Seung Joo would never normally make, even if lightning struck his head.
Though they weren’t close enough for her to know all his facial expressions, one thing was certain.
He was completely serious right now.
Which meant this was… something she’d only ever seen in dramas.
Eun Seo took a deep breath and asked,
“Um, what year is it right now?”
“It’s 2007, isn’t it?”
A dull throb hit the back of her head. That was a full fifteen years ago.
“Why are you suddenly asking that?”
Apparently realizing something was off, Kwon Seung Joo’s expression grew even more anxious.
“How much do you remember… no, what were you doing just before coming here today?”
He answered her question in halting fragments.
“I was waiting for a bus to go to cram school, and then I don’t remember anything after that. When I woke up, I was in a hospital, and some strange auntie told me my mom had come… I was so shocked I think I fainted again. When I came to, there was no one around. Since my body hurt, I figured I must’ve been in an accident, but I didn’t seem too badly injured… There were some clothes nearby, so I just changed into them and came home. I lost my wallet and phone, so I walked back.”
Only then did Eun Seo understand why Kwon Seung Joo’s clothes looked unusually small—he must have picked up spare clothes a secretary had left in the hospital room for him to change into.
“Um… President.”
Eun Seo swallowed hard before speaking.
“It’s actually 2022 now. You’re thirty-one this year, and you’re the CEO of Dae Won Construction.”
“What?”
His eyes widened as he stared at her, clearly thinking, What are you even talking about? Of course, anyone would find it hard to believe they’d jumped fifteen years overnight.
How could she make him believe this? After a brief moment of thought, Eun Seo quickly pulled out her phone, searched for a news article, and held it out in front of him.
“What’s this?”
“It’s an online article from two years ago, when you became CEO.”
“No, this thing.”
He pointed at the phone with his finger, and Eun Seo belatedly understood his question.
“Oh, it’s a smartphone. Think of it as, uh, a phone and computer combined.”
Only then did he hesitantly look at the screen.
The man’s face stiffened as he saw his own photo right beneath the article headline. After all, the face he remembered was still that of his eighteen-year-old self.
After staring intently at the article for a while, he suddenly looked around suspiciously and said,
“You’re joking, right? This is some kind of photoshopped prank, isn’t it?”
She wished it were a joke herself. How could someone with his looks and build possibly be eighteen? If she hadn’t known Kwon Seung Joo’s original personality, Eun Seo herself would’ve thought he was the one pulling a prank.
“It’s not a joke. It really is 2022.”
Eun Seo quickly grabbed a few newspapers from a pile stacked in the corner of the veranda. Though she’d stopped recently, she used to deliver newspapers for a nearby supply station, so they’d kept giving her free copies all this time.
Perhaps the printed text in the newspaper seemed more credible than some mysterious machine. When he saw the date printed clearly on the paper, his eyes finally filled with shock.
“……!”
“I’ve been living in this house as a tenant for fifteen years, and I’m also your employee.”
Kwon Seung Joo remained silent for a long time, his handsome face completely overwhelmed with confusion.
After a short while, he began muttering disjointedly, as if his mind had snapped.
“I did think something felt off… Suddenly all the neighborhood houses are gone, replaced by huge buildings… Even the gate’s been repainted…”
Kwon Seung Joo stopped there, his mouth clamping shut. He looked as if his soul had left his body.
Waking up to find fifteen years had vanished overnight—who wouldn’t be utterly disoriented? Not knowing what to say to comfort him, Eun Seo simply waited quietly beside him, giving him time to calm down.
After a long pause, he suddenly asked urgently,
“Then… what about my mom?”
“Huh?”
“Mom and I were living here alone, but she left home and hasn’t been heard from in a year. It was all over the news—the disappearance of a chaebol madam… Do you know if they ever found her?”
Eun Seo closed her eyes. She wished she didn’t know the outcome.
Unable to bring herself to say it aloud, she turned once again to the internet. She pulled up an old news article on her screen and handed it to him. His hands trembled violently as he took the phone.
A moment later, tears welled up in his sharp, masculine eyes.
“Mom…”
The phone slipped from his hand and hit the floor.
Eun Seo watched with a heavy heart as the large man covered his face and broke into loud sobs.
*
Pyeongchang-dong, residence of Chairman Kwon Yong Chul of Dae Won Group.
As she took her husband’s suit jacket upon his return from work, Ji Yeon Hwa spoke carefully.
“Honey, shouldn’t you go visit Seung Joo at the hospital?”
Chairman Kwon replied curtly,
“You already went, so why do I need to? He’s not seriously hurt, and they say he’s regained consciousness.”
“But he seems really shaken. You should go and comfort him yourself.”
Kwon clicked his tongue at Yeon Hwa.
“Honestly, you should be taking better care of Seung Hyun instead of constantly saying ‘our Seung Joo, our Seung Joo.’ That brat hasn’t even called you ‘Mom’ once all this time.”
Annoyance surged within him again, and he ground his teeth.
“What’s this, ‘auntie’? What an impudent kid!”
He’d already received a report from the secretary who’d accompanied his wife earlier that day—the brat had reportedly yelled right in front of doctors and nurses, “Why are you calling her my mom?!”
Seeing his husband flare up again, Yeon Hwa tried to calm him.
“Don’t be so harsh. He must’ve been desperate for his late mother since he’s unwell.”
“Who’s calling her ‘madam’? You’re his madam now!”
His angry eyes immediately softened with sorrow.
“You’re not some hidden mistress anymore. You’re the proper lady of Dae Won Group now, and Seung Hyun is my rightful son. How long are you going to keep shrinking away like this?”
Tears welled up in Yeon Hwa’s eyes.
“Honey…”
“You silly thing. At your age, you’re still crying over every little thing.”
Though his words sounded gruff, Chairman Kwon gently pulled his wife into his arms and patted her shoulder.
“Hic…!”
Only then did Yeon Hwa finally burst into tears—a sorrowful, long-suppressed cry.
No matter how gentle and uncomplaining a woman she was, being publicly humiliated by her stepson in front of everyone was undeniably painful. Her weeping silently tore at Chairman Kwon’s heart.
‘This tender, kind-hearted woman.’
She’d given birth to his child at barely twenty, in the bloom of youth.
Because she’d loved him, she’d spent decades hiding away, unable to look the sky in the eye.
Though over ten years had passed since she’d officially become his wife, the world still pointed fingers and called her a concubine.
And that only deepened his affection for her.
Ji Yeon Hwa had entered the household about a year after Seung Joo’s birth mother disappeared and had taken on the role of mother. At the time, Seung Joo had been a second-year high school student.
Foolishly kind-hearted, she’d cared far more for her stepson Seung Joo than for her own biological son. When he was preparing for college entrance exams, she’d even hand-packed his dinner and delivered it to his study room herself.
Yet Seung Joo had never so much as glanced her way. He routinely ignored her whenever she spoke kindly to him.
[What kind of manners is that?]Whenever Chairman Kwon tried to scold him for it, Yeon Hwa would fiercely defend him.
[He’s still just a child. How hard must it be for him, losing his mother so suddenly?]Seung Joo had joined the company right after graduating university and immediately moved out. Even now, living separately, Yeon Hwa faithfully sent him side dishes and health tonics—knowing full well he’d probably just throw them straight into the trash.
And yet, he’d openly embarrassed her in front of everyone. His eldest son, already a source of displeasure, now seemed even more infuriating.
“Hic, hhh…!”
With every tear his wife shed, Chairman Kwon’s heart drifted further from his eldest son.
After a long while, Chairman Kwon gently pulled Yeon Hwa away from his chest, looked into her face, and wiped her tears.
“Come on, that’s enough now. Your pretty face is all swollen from crying—looks like a traveling peddler might ask you to be friends.”
At her husband’s joke, Yeon Hwa let out a soft laugh despite her red, tear-streaked eyes.
“Oh dear, they say if you laugh while crying, something bad will happen.”
“You really!”
Yeon Hwa playfully pounded his chest with her fists, and Chairman Kwon dramatically pretended to collapse.
“Oh no! The peddler’s killing me!”
Chairman Kwon would turn sixty next year, and Madam Ji Yeon Hwa had just entered her fifties. Yet here they were, quarreling like newlyweds and forgetting their age, when suddenly a knock came at the door.
Before they could even respond, the door opened. Chairman Kwon frowned at his secretary, who had entered quickly.
“Why are you so ill-mannered?”
“I’m sorry, Chairman. It’s just that…”
Chairman Kwon’s expression changed instantly upon hearing his secretary’s words.
“What? Seung Joo’s gone missing?”
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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