“Why, shouldn’t you obviously be in contact with her?”
“Why should that be obvious. You’re about to divorce Chae Yoon.”
At the word ‘divorce’, his thick eyebrows twitched.

The sound alone was enough to annoy Jae Oh, who slightly frowned in response.

“What does my divorce have to do with Grandfather taking care of Chae Yoon?”
“You may not have known, but I cherished Chae Yoon more, thinking of her as my granddaughterinlaw.”
This was something he hadn’t considered.

Ji Phil had cherished Chae Yoon greatly, even before she had entered the world. Yet, to hear such words from his mouth.

Jae Oh was considerably shocked at this unexpected revelation from his grandfather. His surprise was so great, he stared at Ji Phil with wideeyed disbelief.

On the other hand, Ji Phil spoke with his usual calm expression.

“Also, Chae Yoon needs to learn to live alone now. If she divorces you, she becomes a complete stranger. I can’t take care of her forever.”
Even though Ji Phil brought up ‘divorce’ again, Jae Oh had no energy to resist those words.

“Were you always this heartless, Grandfather?”
“Didn’t you know? That’s why a guy like you turned out to be my grandson.”
Where do genes go?

He added those words in an indifferent voice, even his expression while saying so.

Jae Oh felt as if the Ji Phil sitting before him wasn’t the grandfather he knew.

As Jae Oh stared at him with a shocked face, Ji Phil leaned back on the sofa and brought up Chae Yoon’s name.

“If you’re so worried about Chae Yoon, you should contact her.”
Jae Oh, who had been staring blankly at Ji Phil, blinked in surprise.

“Who said I was worried?”
“Really? Your face looks so worried about Chae Yoon, I had to ask.”
“……”
Ji Phil seemed ready to burst into laughter at Jae Oh’s loss for words, but he forced a nonchalant expression and stood up from his place.

“If there’s nothing more to say, I’ll take my leave.”
Having finished his words, Ji Phil started to work at his desk.

Jae Oh, after staring blankly at Ji Phil who didn’t seem to care about how Chae Yoon was living, soon left the office.

Outside the office, Woo Jong was waiting for Jae Oh.

Seeing Jae Oh come out, he approached and asked.

“Did the conversation go… well, Executive Director?”
Woo Jong, finding Jae Oh’s blank face strange, tried to call him, but Jae Oh mumbled to himself, as if he didn’t hear Woo Jong’s words.

“……So that’s why he’s so thin.”
It must have been because he couldn’t eat properly, shocked by Ji Phil cutting off ties as if slicing through grass.

“What? Who’s thin?”
“Well……”
Seeing Jae Oh not listening to his words and mumbling to himself, which was something he’d never seen before, Woo Jong stopped reacting to his words.

As he stood silently by Jae Oh’s side, the usually seriouslooking Jae Oh finally fixed his gaze on Woo Jong.

“What’s the next schedule?”

“From 1:30, there’s a hotel management team meeting, and at 3 o’clock…”
As Woo Jong recited the next schedule, the expression on Jae Oh’s face gradually crumpled.

By the time the 6 o’clock schedule came out of Woo Jong’s mouth, a sigh mixed with irritation burst out from Jae Oh’s mouth.

“Ah, why is there so much of this damn schedule?”
When Jae Oh suddenly lost his temper, Woo Jong’s eyes widened.

Why so many schedules.

“This is all arranged by the director.”
Woo Jong was right.

Woo Jong had merely organized according to his instructions; the major schedules were arranged by his hand, so Jae Oh had to swallow his rising irritation.

“Who said what?”
“No? I just said it because the director is annoyed. Let’s go.”
Jae Oh, annoyed at himself for arranging so many schedules, chewed himself out once and moved his feet.

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3 PM.

The time when a moderately hungry energy was felt after lunch.

Chae Yoon, who had finished the meeting, sat down in her seat and sighed deeply.

A close colleague approached Chae Yoon and whispered.

“Chae Yoon, hang in there.”
The reason why a team member gave Chae Yoon such a word was because of the work that Chae Yoon was in charge of during the meeting.

It was a task that the deputy manager, Jeong, was originally in charge of, but it was a bit tricky for a newcomer.

However, Deputy Manager Jeong persuaded the team members to let the newcomer try once, saying that he had too much work to do.

The team members, knowing that Chae Yoon was already substituting for most of Deputy Manager Jeong’s work, did not give any opinion. But the team leader was not unaware of this fact.

[Chae Yoon, you’re good at work, and you’re learning, so try it once.] That’s how the job distribution ended futilely.

Chae Yoon was not dissatisfied with being given the work. She would have to learn to grow.

However, the process of taking on the job was unpleasant. More precisely, Jeong’s intention to make her suffer was clearly visible, so Chae Yoon couldn’t smile happily.

But she couldn’t show this to the team member who was comforting her, so Chae Yoon gave a faint smile to the employee who approached her.

“Thank you.”
Pity rose in the eyes of the employee looking at Chae Yoon.

“Sigh, either Deputy Manager Jeong gets transferred somewhere else, or you should change departments, so you can breathe a little. Right?”
“No. It’ll be okay after a while.”
The employee who comforted Chae Yoon patted her shoulder as if to comfort her and returned to her place.

Seeing that, Chae Yoon let out a deep sigh, dropping the corners of her mouth that she had forced up.

She had been having a bad day since lunch, and now this had happened.

[Jae Oh.] Thinking of the cause that made her mood the worst, Chae Yoon quickly shook her head from side to side.

“‘Don’t think about it.’
Han Jae Oh meeting someone else or not, it’s none of my business now, I vowed to just worry about my path, but my thoughts naturally trailed to ‘divorce papers.’

‘If you’re going to do it anyway, just sort it out quickly.’
I thought the day of contact wasn’t far off, but maybe because of my troubled heart, the lukewarm arrangement of the relationship suddenly felt annoying.

“Haah…….”
That’s when the eyes of the tired Chae Yoon drooped gloomily.

Someone came into the office.

As soon as that happened, the inside of the office began to buzz, but Chae Yoon, who had no energy to care about other things, didn’t show interest.

Then a familiar name reached Chae Yoon’s ears.

“Huh? No way, Director Han Jae Oh……?”
Chae Yoon’s eyes widened at the sound of Jae Oh’s name.

Who?”

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