Younger Man at Work (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 78

Seeing Kang Hye Sun bound in shackles, Yeon Hwa was inwardly startled. The once elegant and refined madam now had her head shaved clean, her body shriveled like a skeleton, with only her eyes strangely glinting.

The woman instantly recognized Yeon Hwa—whom she hadn’t seen in ten years—and snapped at her immediately.

“Just kill me! Why are you keeping me alive? I told you to kill me!”

The woman, who used to be nothing but graceful, had clearly grown venomous over the past decade. Strangely, that pleased Yeon Hwa. It finally felt like she might actually be able to reason with her.

She even felt a twisted satisfaction at having dragged that haughty madam down to her own level.

“Killing you easily wouldn’t be fun, would it? You’ll live just as I did—shamed as a concubine, never daring to look up at the sky—for as many years as I endured.”

Consumed by rage, the woman shouted back,

“You had it coming for seducing another woman’s husband! What sin did I commit that I deserve to live like this?”

“The sin of failing to protect what was yours. The sin of being weak.”

The woman stopped breathing for a moment.

“When you first found out I’d started a household with him, you should’ve made a huge scene. Filed for divorce, taken everything from me, and ousted me from the chairman position with your shares—then none of this would’ve happened.”

“……!”

“But no, you kept waiting for our dear Seung Joo’s father to return home, clinging to that fragile dignity of yours—so of course you ended up like this!”

Yeon Hwa laughed mockingly to her heart’s content.

Born into poverty, Yeon Hwa had grown up without proper clothes, food, or education, and had climbed her way here solely through beauty and cunning. Yet even as the chairman’s wife, she was still sneered at for her vulgar airs.

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