I felt confident that the boss knew I was reporting his situation to Wujin’s father. Since when? When did the boss start suspecting her? Did he know from the beginning? Even though she thought it was unlikely, her heart chilled.
“If Mojidra has the ability to acquire Shinshin Motors, it’s certain, right? Edison Motors failed to acquire SsangYong Motors because they couldn’t make the final payment. If Mojidra fails to acquire Shinshin Motors, the mediation we were doing will suffer a big setback.”
“Mojidra is a conglomerate in India with total assets exceeding 130 trillion. It doesn’t make sense for them to fail to acquire a company worth 600 billion due to a lack of payment ability. You know how much Mojidra wants to enter the automotive industry. Since the competing companies have acquired prominent sports car companies, Mojidra can’t afford to be left behind.”
Daewoon dismissed Sehyun’s concerns.
“Indeed, even in the airline acquisition competition, we were outperformed by the competitors. So this time, he must be eager to acquire Shinshin Motors.”
“That’s right. So we’re holding the trump card. You can relax a bit.”
“How did you get in touch with Mojidra’s chairman? Mistri chairman said he entrusted you with the acquisition of Shinshin Motors shares.”
“When I worked at ‘S&B,’ I helped the chairman’s personal investment. When I came to Korea and couldn’t handle the chairman’s work anymore, he asked me to help with work in Korea.”
Daewoon finished speaking and gulped down the coffee in one go. ‘S&B’ was a company Gaeul had heard of.
The largest investment company in the United States. While working under the boss, she learned about that level. It was unexpectedly surprising that the boss had worked for such a company. How much did she not know about the boss?
“Well, shall we go?”
“Like that?”
Unlike the neatly dressed Sehyun, Daewoon was wearing a shirt and cotton pants. The shirt he had tucked into his pants was heavily wrinkled. It was only natural, considering he had been lying on the sofa.
“Just wear it when you go.”
Daewoon casually said and got up from his seat.
“Miss Han Gaeul, you enjoyed the coffee. I wonder if you’ll become addicted to instant coffee at this rate.”
Sehyun also stood up.
“Don’t wait and leave since you’ll be late.”
Without even giving a glance to Gaeul, Daewoon went outside.
“Boss.”
Gaeul, who hesitated for a moment, rushed out of the office and called the boss. She wanted to confess that she had to report the conversation between the boss and Sehyun to Mr. Seon Woojin.
“I have something to tell you.”
“Tomorrow.”
The boss raised his hand as if it were bothersome and got into the car parked in front of the office where Sehyun was. Watching the car leave, Gaeul returned to her place and sat down with a slump.
All her courage had drained away. It felt like the boss’s warning: “I know what you did last summer. If you do the same thing this summer, it might be a good idea to think again. At least you should tell me what you’re going to do.”
Gaeul sighed. Did the boss give her a chance to confess? However, looking at how the boss didn’t even glance at her, she felt caught. Gaeul got up from her seat and started cleaning the office. When your mind is complicated, moving your body is the best.
After finishing the private tutoring and walking home, Gaeul stopped by the convenience store and bought a bottle of soju. Today, she deliberately decided to try drinking. It was a day when she craved alcohol.
She had been fired from all the houses where she was tutoring. Each house came up with different excuses, but it was nothing more than an excuse. Perhaps it was due to Woojin’s mother’s influence. Otherwise, there was no reason for everyone to quit at the same time.
Gaeul thought it was a demonstration of skill by Woojin’s mother because she hadn’t cleanly sorted out her relationship with Woojin.
These were the places Woojin’s mother introduced her to in the first place. So even if the person who gave it took it away, she didn’t feel resentful. Still, her heart ached.
Gaeul stood in front of the convenience store for a while. She couldn’t go home now. Today is Grandfather’s Day. Little Father is coming.
The little father, who thinks his elder brother took away the inheritance by running a business, causing trouble every time he sees me and winter together, becomes uncontrollable.
Avoiding the little father, who cannot handle it, is an unwritten rule for Gaeul and Winter. Winter also only comes home after the little father has left, usually using night self-study as an excuse.
Gaeul went straight to the office where I work. Although it was said to be late, it seemed the boss hadn’t returned yet. The entire building was dark. The second floor, where the boss resides, was also without lights.
Entering the office, Gaeul didn’t turn on the lights. She wanted to hide in the darkness.
As her eyes got used to the darkness, Gaeul went straight to my desk and sat down. She opened a bottle of soju and took a sip. Her throat and esophagus burned. Heat rose even from the empty stomach.
Having emptied one bottle, Gaeul lay down on the desk. She felt unusually lacking in energy. Was it because she skipped dinner, or because she was fired from tutoring?
“The kids keep saying they want to learn from me. Why do the moms ask me that? Now that my skills have improved, they want to send their kids to prestigious academies and top-tier universities. My classes were for preparing for those prestigious academies, you know?”
Gaeul, who got up again, tilted the soju bottle into her mouth. Nothing came out of the soju bottle. It was only then that she remembered she had already emptied it. Gaeul placed the empty soju bottle back on the desk.
“I guess it’s better this way. I had to clean up anyway.”
Gaeul lay down again and started singing. Trot music by Guseongjin flowed from Gaeul’s mouth. It was a song my father used to sing. He said it was also a song my grandfather used to sing.
“I don’t know about life. I’m the granddaughter of a conglomerate. So now I’m going to quit this company. But if I quit, what will the boss do? He’ll probably hire a new employee. That hot-tempered head needs to be fixed for an employee to last. I endured it because I was the boss. No, even though I’m not crushed by debt, I spat and left.”
Feeling the intoxication, Gaeul, who was murmuring alone, suddenly stiffened. She definitely felt like she heard something like a groan. Gaeul experienced a chilling sensation throughout her body as if shivering with cold as she got used to the darkness. No scream came out.
“Ugh.”
A sound came from the sofa. There was someone in the office besides me. Feeling a chill, Gaeul turned on the flashlight function of her phone and shone it on the sofa.
“Boss?”
Daewoon was lying on the sofa. The boss looked like he had drunk again and passed out. Gaeul, relieved, approached the boss.
“Boss?”
Although Gaeul tried to wake him up to send him upstairs, the boss didn’t wake up. The boss seemed to be deeply asleep. Gaeul looked down at the boss and muttered.
“Boss, really, you’re not helpful to the end. I came to get some air to breathe. You’ve even taken up this space. But you know, boss, do you know that?”
Gaeul stopped talking and quietly looked down at the boss’s face. Whether it was the shadow created by the mobile phone’s light or not, the boss, with his eyes closed, looked serene. Since the boss was asleep, and moreover, she herself was intoxicated, Gaeul thought it might be okay to say what was on her mind in such a moment.
So Gaeul opened her mouth.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
