Just when she was trying to sneak a peek at the barely visible photo, Jun Hwi’s big hand picked up something in front of the frame.
‘….!’
Kwon Jun Hwi’s silverframed glasses. The ones that upgrade his handsome face to Yeon Woo’s liking!
“Set up a meeting. Let’s see each other. There’s no time until the end of the year, so let’s make it January.”
“Eh? Ah, yes……”
With glasses perched on his nose, Do Jun’s face took on an even more refreshing look that had me spellbound, unable to listen properly.
“Excuse me, sir, when did you say we should schedule the meeting? I missed it. I’m sorry.” Yeon Woo, who was desperately trying not to think of Yoon Ji Woo, ended up stammering, her mind caught up in something even more troubling.
“I said January next year. It’s the B Construction case that you brought in.”
“Really? Are we actually going to have a meeting with B Construction?”
Ah, I’m screwed. That slip of the tongue betrayed my distracted state.
Jun Hwi’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. What authority did a secretary have to interfere with a lawyer’s business meetings, he must have been thinking.
“Is there a reason we shouldn’t?”
“No, no there isn’t.”
“…….”
“…….”
The quickest way to move on was to leave the room immediately. As Yeon Woo turned to leave, bowing her head slightly, his deep voice followed her.
“Deputy Kim Yeon Woo.”
Ah, the approval panel. Yeon Woo quickly reached out and grabbed the approval panel that was shaking vigorously in front of her.
But this man played a prank using the approval panel as bait. Just like the glasses, he seemed to have made it his mission to torment Yeon Woo today, applying force to the hand holding the approval panel and making a nuisance of himself.
Somehow, trying to wrest the approval panel from his grip that was as strong as a tiger’s paw, her eyes met with Jun Hwi’s, who was on the brink of bursting into laughter.
“What’s so funny, again?”
He didn’t finish his sentence but gave a small chuckle, admitting defeat. He dramatically shrugged his shoulders and released his hands.
The woman who snatched the approval panel from Jun Hwi quickly disappeared. Left alone, he scanned the surroundings with a still amused expression.
There was no reason for his face to turn red again, in this room.
“Hello, senior.”
“Oh, you look great, Attorney Cha. I regret it every time I see you.”
Cha Han Bin encountered Attorney Yang Joo Yeon as he walked towards the office on the opposite side of where Yeon Woo was, and he greeted her warmly.
As always, Attorney Yang, who praised his good looks and even better character, started their conversation.
“What exactly do you regret, senior?”
“My daughter is too young. Attorney Cha, what do you think of a woman 25 years younger?”
“Ah. I think I’m the one who’s going to regret.”
He took that in stride. Attorney Yang laughed heartily and made room for Yeon Woo and Cha Han Bin to talk.
“Did you get home okay during the weekend? I’m sorry. I’ve been so busy, I only now had the chance to ask about what happened a few days ago.”
“Yeah, I got home fine. That’s why I managed to come to work fine.”
Cha Han Bin asked gently after confirming that the rookie secretary, who sat behind Yeon Woo for mentoring, was not there. This was their first conversation since their awkward parting in the parking lot of the dinner party.
“Ji Woo arranged a meeting with Attorney Kwon.”
“I didn’t know she was actually going to arrange it. Brother should have stopped her.”
“How was I to stop him. I just told him to do it. Lawyer Kwon does his job well. It will also help Ji Woo’s company.”
How can someone objectively assess the situation and speak so eloquently. What on earth had Han Bin done to make such a strange noise about him being messy.
“But you didn’t really tell me?”
“What.”
“With Lawyer Kwon. Why did you go to the party together? What’s going on?”
“I went to work…. There’s nothing more to say.”
A shadow fell on Cha Han Bin’s laughingly bright face.
“I’m worried about you, Yeon Woo.”
“Oh, it’s not like that.”
“Lawyer Kwon Jun Hwi, his chauvinism is severe. The rumor is really bad.”
“What are you talking about.”
Suddenly, Cha Han Bin lowered his voice, propped his elbows on the low partition of Yeon Woo’s seat, and came close. Yeon Woo also tensely moved a little closer to him.
“He had even brought her to his office and behaved indecently while at the prosecutor’s office.”
“What? Really, it doesn’t make sense.”
Even though Yeon Woo laughed it off, Cha Han Bin was serious.
“Why, why do people believe that, leaving a decent house or hotel?”
“There are witnesses. Be careful, Yeon Woo. Never fall for it.”
Who would fall for what, she wondered, but there were about a million big question marks in her head.
Really? He? ……I don’t think he’s the kind of person.
Suddenly, Cha Han Bin abruptly stopped talking and straightened his body. It was because his eyes met with Jun Hwi, who was walking towards his office from the opposite side.
“Hello, Lawyer Kwon.”
As expected of Kwon Jun Hwi, he ignored the greeting with ease. He quickly walked past the two, after indifferently scanning the scene of Yeon Woo and Cha Han Bin together.
“Anyway, it’s lunchtime now. Deputy Kim, shall we have lunch together today? Do you have any plans?”
“Huh? All of a sudden? I don’t have any plans today.”
Surprised by the unexpected question, Yeon Woo answered as if she was talking to a neighborhood brother, momentarily forgetting that she was at work.
Cha Han Bin, like any other Lo and Yul lawyer, would have a packed schedule with meetings and entertainment every lunchtime. It was the first time he had proposed having lunch together on the day.
“Then let’s have lunch together. Is there anything you want to eat?”
“Um, should we? What to eat.”
“Deputy Kim Yeon Woo!”
When had he been standing there like that. Jun Hwi, who had been leaning awkwardly against the wall in front of his office door, suddenly growled, interrupting their conversation.
Yeon Woo sprang up like a spring.
“I’ll see you in a bit.”
Wait a moment! She sent a signal to Cha Han Bin with her eyes, Yeon Woo, holding her notebook and pen, quickly followed him as he entered the room first.
“Did you need me, sir?”
“C Pharmaceutical’s new drug manufacturing secret leak case, is it not the day of evidence submission today?”
“Yes, it’s today.”
“Why was the notification omitted.”
“What? …I printed it as soon as we received it from the court last week and left it on your desk. Didn’t you see it?” Yeon Woo was confident that she hadn’t missed out on a routine task, and questioned back.
A droplet of sweat rolled down the man’s immaculate forehead who was facing her.
“It wasn’t there. That’s why we missed the last date for submission of additional evidence, which was today.”
“That, that can’t be possible.”
In a state of panic, Yeon Woo quickly went to his desk and started rummaging through the stacked files.
She could feel Jun Hwi’s gaze, who was staring at her intently. She was frantic. Her hand trembled as she rummaged through the files.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
