Stepping up on the footstone, Tae Seok Kyu surveyed the quiet hallway.
The smallscale Korean restaurant Ri Won, isolated on the dark outskirts, never entertained other customers whenever Chairman Tae had confidential discussions to conduct.
“Is the area around all cleared?”
“Yes, Chairman.”
“Make sure not a single ant can wander around.”
Jo, always at Chairman Tae’s side dealing with dirty work, respectfully bowed.
“They’re here.”
Upon opening the woodenframed window and stepping inside, Representative Kim Seok Hyun, anxiously drumming the table, rose from his seat.
After a light greeting, Tae Seok Kyu took off his jacket and sat down, casually sorting through the menu.
“I didn’t get to have lunch till this time. I thought it would be a great seat as long as you were sitting, but how could there be so much work? Representative Kim, please eat too. The mountain herb steamed here is very exquisite.”
“My daughter fell ill after stopping by Executive Tae’s house. What the hell happened? What did you say when I said I would assign someone? Didn’t you guarantee that you would handle it well?”
So Ye, who had rushed into the office without warning, kept repeating that she had seen Han Seo Yoon with a pale and sick face.
Although she hadn’t taken the lead in the matter, she was a accomplice nonetheless, so it seemed difficult to endure the mental pressure.
“Too many cooks spoil the broth. People will notice if there’s someone on this side, and that side, no matter how obtuse they may be. President Gu Se Jun will handle it.”
“What can such an ignorant person do? I trusted and helped you, Chairman.”
“That’s why we should leave it to the ignorant. For now, it’s been confirmed that the child’s memory has not returned.”
“If Executive Tae finds out, can you handle it?”
Seok Hyun’s narrow chest was pressed against the table. Seeing his flushed face and impatient demeanor, it seemed the alcohol he had been drinking to calm his anxiety was having the opposite effect.
“It’s a risk we took from the start. It’s a pity that my daughter couldn’t be by Executive Tae’s side for four years.”
“Who would have known that everything would crumble like this because a girl, whose origin we don’t even know, died.”
The decision at that time seemed a bit regrettable. He thought he could secure Tae Kang Hyun exclusively for his daughter if he handled the accident according to Chairman Tae Seok Kyu’s suggestion.
But the prediction was completely off the mark. He neither gained Tae Kang Hyun as a soninlaw nor wasted four years in vain.
It was hard to keep a clear head while walking on thin ice, especially when he was already frustrated and beating his chest over it.
“Kang Hyun was more special to her than her family. Don’t worry too much. The one who killed Han Seo Yoon is Gu Se Jun. We’re completely unrelated people, aren’t we?”
Tae Seok Gyu, who burst into a hearty laughter, lifted up the teapot made of white porcelain.
With a gurgle, a thin stream filled Kim’s cup generously and then subsided.
“Don’t forget that Goo Se Jun is a card that can be discarded at any time.”
As the porcelain bowls clinked cheerfully for a toast, his eyes, thin as a snake’s, held a glint of intrigue.
Kim Seok Hyun, who had met his gaze that seemed capable of accomplishing anything, let out a sigh of relief.
“I will only trust the chairman.”
Confidently nodding, Seok Gyu picked up the teapot again.
Even if his nephew Kang Hyun belatedly realized the fact, there was no power to defeat me, who had long been trusted in the chairman’s position.
Attempting and failing to pull out Ji An’s medical records, Seok Won repeatedly pondered, even while riding the elevator up.
While he wondered if it was really right to make the report, he wished it would be the trigger to pull his boss out of the abyss.
“She definitely seems to be hiding something.”
Standing in front of the front door, Seok Won moved left and right, unable to easily press the door lock.
“Huh? Chief.”
“……Are you going home?”
“Yes, there’s nothing to do and the person I’m attending is clearly showing intentions for me to leave, so I’m going home early.”
“I see. Uh, Ms. Seo Ji An.”
“Yes?”
“No, never mind. Please go home safely.”
He wanted to ask about the accident Ji An had experienced, but it was difficult to admit that he had investigated it.
“Chief, can I go to work at the company? The executive director said so, and I have to learn my job.”
“Yes, that’s right. I understand, I’ll talk to the executive director again.”
“Then, see you tomorrow.”
Having finally gotten the chance to do proper work, Ji An left the corridor with an innocent face.
Repeatedly sighing, Seok Won finally passed the front door.
“Executive Director.”
He lightly knocked on the bedroom door, and not long after, Kang Hyun showed up.
“What is it.”
“I’ve looked into Ms. Seo Ji An a bit.”
Kang Hyun, who stepped back from the hesitating chief, opened the refrigerator’s home bar without any particular reaction and took out milk.
“She was in the hospital four years ago.”
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.”
