1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 21



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#21. I don’t know how to tie a tie
2023.08.11.

What Yerin picked up was a soft cushion.

Since it had fluffy cotton inside, it wouldn’t hurt if she touched Lee Hyun with it.

Yerin gently hit Lee Hyun’s arm with it.

“Chief.”

When Yerin hit his arm with the cushion a few times, Lee Hyun turned his body the other way and lay down, probably because it was uncomfortable.

“Oh, really… …”

It was useless to cover him with the blanket all the way to his neck.

Lee Hyun pulled his arms out of the blanket and pulled the blanket back down to his waist, probably because he was frustrated. His

sculpted abs were more clearly visible.

‘Ugh.’

Yerin opened her eyes and checked Lee Hyun’s appearance.

The blanket was still precariously placed near his waist.

After confirming that, the only thought that came to her mind was that she had to wake Lee Hyun up quickly.

Yerin started hitting Lee Hyun’s arm with the cushion in earnest.

It was like a pillow fight with a friend, but there

was nothing she could do. She couldn’t touch him with her own hands.

“Chief.”

“Hmm.”

“You have to wake up.”

Even after touching him for a long time, he only slightly frowned and didn’t respond.

“Should I just go over and really hit him with my hand?”

Yerin was about to do that, but soon changed her method.

She picked up a tissue from the bedside table.

She rolled it up long and held it up to Lee Hyun’s face.

“It tickles, right?”

Yerin rubbed Lee Hyun’s nose with the well-dried tissue.

“Chief, please wake up. If you wake up, I’ll really give you anything.”

That was how desperate she was.

Five minutes had passed since she had already fallen asleep and was trying to wake Lee Hyun.

That meant the two of them only had 25 minutes.

At that moment, she thought that if he didn’t wake up, she would just have to pull him out of bed, but Lee Hyun slowly opened his eyelids, perhaps because he was ticklish.

Yerin was so excited that she let out a loud voice without realizing it.

“Are you awake?”

“Secretary Han?

” “Yes, Chief. It’s me. I don’t have much time right now… …”

“I’ll listen to anything you ask.”

“Huh?”

Lee Hyun grabbed Yerin’s wrist, which was tickling the tip of her nose with a tissue, and pulled it with a snap.

Yerin lost her balance for a moment, feeling an unexpectedly strong force.

Yerin’s body swayed under Lee Hyun’s pulling force.

She had been cleaning the marble floor so diligently that her slippers slid down as if she were at a skating rink.

Where her body ended up.

On the bed, or more precisely, on Lee Hyun’s chest.

“Huh?”

Yerin was so surprised that she couldn’t breathe.

On the other hand, Lee Hyun just stared up at her, smiling faintly as if he was so happy about something.

Lee Hyun reached out and stroked Yerin’s cheek in a sleepy, languid voice.

No, wait a minute.

You were awake?

Since when?

Yerin asked, not even realizing that Lee Hyun’s hand had touched her cheek.

“Director, you were awake, but you were pretending not to be?”

“I heard a secretary talking like that just as I was about to wake up.”

Yerin opened her eyes wide.

Their gazes met at a very close distance.

Lee Hyun slowly closed his eyes as if he was gradually waking up.

“Secretary Han said she would definitely give me anything.”

Since it was something I had said, there was no way to take it back. If I had said

no, Lee Hyun could have resisted by saying he would not go to the breakfast meeting and sleep more.

“Only within the limits of what I can do… … .”

“That’s right. I would never ask a secretary to buy me an island in Hawaii.”

“Huh?”

“Just kidding. That’s just a metaphor. I’m not saying I’ll actually do it.”

Why did she feel fortunate at this moment?

“I’ll think about what I want to ask for later.”

Lee Hyun stared at Yerin, who was on top of him.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

Yerin quickly got up, realizing belatedly that she had been very close to Lee Hyun.

Then she straightened her crumpled blouse and wiped the expression off her face again.

“Chief, if you’re up, you should get ready quickly.”

“Huh.”

Lee Hyun snickered as he looked at the tissue that had tickled my face and the cushion that had hit my arm several times.

“Secretary Han, you’re quite strong.”

“I’m sorry if you were in pain.”

“No. Thanks to that, I woke up completely.”

Lee Hyun didn’t throw away the tissue, but put it on the drawer next to the bed.

“If you give it to me, I’ll clean it up.”

“No. I’ll use it the next time Secretary Han comes.”

“Huh?”

“When she comes to wake me up.”

Lee Hyun tilted his head and asked.

“Aren’t you going to wake me up? Do you mind if I’m late?”

“No… … .”

Why did he think so foolishly that he only had to wake me up today?

Lee Hyun stared at Yerin, who had entered his bedroom with his lips tightly shut.

“By the way, when did Secretary Han come?”

“Not long ago.”

Yerin checked her watch and let out a businesslike tone.

“Director, you have to leave in 20 minutes. You’ll have to shower and get ready, but… … .”

“Don’t worry. I’ll wash up quickly and come out.”

Yerin quickly turned around as Lee Hyun tried to get out of bed. She

wasn’t sure if she was dressed or not.

“I’ll go down to the first floor. Please get ready so I don’t get late.”

“If you delay.”

“Huh?”

“Secretary Han will be in a lot of trouble, so I can’t do that.”

He really was a man who would pick me up and put me down with just a word.

Soon, she heard Lee Hyun putting on slippers.

“Then I’ll prepare clothes suitable for today’s breakfast meeting in the dressing room.”

And Yerin quickly left the bedroom as if she had no regrets. She

closed the door and stood in the hallway, her legs giving out, barely able to breathe while leaning against the wall.

“Haa.”

It was truly an incredibly difficult morning.

Her heart was beating like crazy for some reason.

***

Lee Hyun turned on the hot water and stayed under it for a long time.

It felt really strange.

When she heard Yerin’s voice in her sleep, she thought it was a dream at first.

After spending the night with her, Yerin visited him in his dreams without fail every single day and tormented him.

There were more than one or two times when he opened his eyes and realized that it was a dream and felt empty.

Today, too, when I saw Yerin’s face, at first I thought it was a dream.

So I almost kissed her naturally as I always did.

“If I had, I would have gotten slapped.”

Then suddenly I remembered that starting today, Yerin, not Secretary Choi, would wake me up.

Then I gradually came to my senses. If

only I had kept thinking it was a dream.

“I almost got in big trouble.”

Yes, I almost did.

In my dream, he wasn’t a caring man who cared for Yerin.

A wild beast.

That was the perfect word to describe Lee Hyun in my dream.

I couldn’t understand why I could still smell Yerin’s scent even though I was getting splashed with water.

Lee Hyun was also very surprised when he saw Yerin’s face. He

recalled the events of that day so naturally that he strained his strength, but he tried to act cheerful.

In reality, he was more nervous than anyone else.

As I looked at Yerin, who was in my arms with her eyes wide open, I felt as if I had gone back to that day.

I couldn’t stop laughing.

“You thought I was crazy.”

Well,

he was crazy. He was

crazy about Han Yerin.

After quickly finishing his shower, Lee Hyun covered his lower body with a large towel and went outside.

When he entered the dressing room, the suit and tie that Yerin had already taken out were already on one side.

“You really know my taste.”

As he was putting on his suit jacket, he heard Yerin’s urgent voice from outside.

“Director, you really have to go now.”

Lee Hyun opened the dressing room door while wearing the clothes that Yerin had taken out and holding the tie in one hand.

Yerin’s face, which had been waiting for her because she was very anxious, smiled broadly.

“Are you done?”

And Yerin asked, seeing his empty neck.

“Director, I also packed a tie. Have you seen it?”

“Here.”

Lee Hyun naturally handed the tie to Yerin.

“I wish a secretary would do it.”

“Why isn’t the director doing it?”

“I have to button it up.”

Only then did the half-upper-body-revealing dress shirt come into Yerin’s sight.

“What are you doing? You said you didn’t have time.”

“Oh, yes.”

Yerin put her bag down on the floor and took the tie in Lee Hyun’s hand.

“And actually, I’m not good at tying ties.”

“… … .”

It was a complete lie.

Then who was the one who had been tying the tie neatly around his neck all this time… … .

As if he had read Yerin’s mind, Lee Hyun opened his mouth.

“Until now, I’ve been asking Secretary Choi to do it, even though I was aware of it.”

“Is that so?”

That meant that Yerin, as Secretary Choi’s successor, would be in charge of tying Lee Hyun’s tie from now on.

“I’m not very good with my hands.”

Lee Hyun slowly began to button up his buttons as if there was nothing special about it.

He smiled faintly, as if he was trying to save time since he only had two hands.

‘This is just work.’

Yerin told herself that tying her boss’s tie was one of her basic duties as a secretary, and she stood on tiptoe.

Lee Hyun bent his knees to adjust the height so that Yerin could comfortably tie her tie. They

could feel their breaths very close together, but neither of them spoke first. They

were so nervous that their whole body felt like it would burst at any moment.

Yerin tried to ignore Lee Hyun’s hot gaze on her face and wrapped the tie around his neck.

Her fingertips were trembling from nervousness, but she tried to act calm as she moved.

After a while, Yerin stepped back after tying her tie neatly.

“It’s done, chief.”

“Then let’s go.”

The tense atmosphere surrounding the two of them showed no signs of disappearing.