1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 39



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#39. Greedy Woman
2023.10.13.

“It seems like you can’t even face reality.”

“What?”

“Why is the family of the woman I’m dating so important?”

Lee Hyun let out a snicker as he thought about it, finding it amusing.

“No matter what her family background is, if you have me, you’ll soon have the Ji Seok Group.”

Seo Yoon’s lips trembled at those words.

“There’s no greater background than the Ji Seok Group in South Korea.”

Lee Hyun seemed to be planning to point out each and every one of the ridiculous things Seo Yoon had said.

“And from head to toe. You can’t be compared to Han Ye Rin. Don’t you really know?”

How could you compare that beautiful woman to someone like you?

Still, he swallowed those words to be considerate of the other person.

“And I look at character a lot.”

“Then Ye Rin wouldn’t be a good fit.”

Lee Hyun stared at Seo Yoon with a deep gaze, as if asking her to say more, curious about what she would say this time.

“Han Ye-rin, ever since high school, I’ve been wanting anything that was mine. Well, she must have thought that anything I carried around would look pretty to her.”

“Is that so?”

Lee Hyun continued, slowly rubbing his eyebrows with his index finger.

“Isn’t it the opposite?”

“… … .”

“They say you stole so many of Ye-rin’s men.”

“T-what do you mean!”

Lee Hyun had no reason to listen to such nonsense anymore. He

stood up, buttoned up his jacket, and stared at Seo-yoon coldly.

“I really hate people who don’t know their place and are greedy.”

“… … .”

“Do you understand why I’m rejecting you?” Even if she

didn’t understand, he didn’t intend to convince her further.

If she had spent the ten minutes she wasted here on Ye-rin, she would have laughed endlessly.

Lee Hyun turned around with a face of no regrets and left the cafe.

Seo-yoon clenched her fists and glared at the door through which Lee Hyun had disappeared. “Han Ye-rin, how much have you been badmouthing me?” Without even thinking

about her past actions. She just thought that it was because Ye-rin had been coaxing Lee Hyun to her side. However, she couldn’t give up here. Men who are easy to get hold of lose interest easily. All the men Ye-rin had met were like that. She had just smiled gently and acted cute in front of him a few times, and he had easily fallen for her. Hee- jun, whom Ye-rin had recently met, was the same. Lee Hyun was even more attractive to Seo-yoon, who had only seen such men. Even the sharp words he uttered because he was not interested in her sounded cool. Maybe it was because of Lee Hyun’s outstanding looks and his glamorous background. Of all the men Seo-yoon had met in her life, Lee Hyun was the most outstanding in every way. Seo-yoon lifted the corners of her lips and picked up her phone. “Lee Hyun is so strong, I have to make Han Ye-rin get tired first and leave him.” It had been so easy up until now. Thinking that way, Seo-yoon busily fiddled with her phone. *** A bar filled with loud music and conversations around her. Na-ri and Ye-rin sat in a corner and took a sip of their freshly brewed draft beer. “What’s going on with the chief?” Ye-rin paused for a moment at that question. She couldn’t say that she was putting in a lot of effort to make sure that Lee Hyun could date without a hitch when the woman he was desperately looking for showed up. And how could she say something so ridiculous that she was Lee Hyun’s fake love interest? “It’s just the same.” “Your chief is also under a lot of pressure from his family to get married. Isn’t going to Kwak Seo-yoon’s recital today an extension of that?” Ye-rin agreed with Na-ri’s story. Seo-yoon was the first woman that Mrs. Yoon had chosen to be Lee Hyun’s blind date. She really hated the idea of ​​the two of them meeting, but there was nothing she could do about it. She wasn’t Lee Hyun’s real girlfriend, and even if the two of them were to date, she never had any vain hopes that it would lead to marriage. The world that Lee Hyun lives in and the world that she lives in are so different.

I also know that Mrs. Yoon’s kindness to me is also applied because she is a secretary who helps Lee Hyun do his work easily.

If I, as a woman, were to stand next to Lee Hyun and start coveting the position of the hostess of Ji Seok Group… … .

It was natural that I would see the true face of Mrs. Yoon, who always smiled kindly at me.

There are things that are possible when you are greedy and things that are not.

Yerin shook her head for a moment to erase the empty feeling that kept coming up.

“You are also secretly worried, aren’t you?”

Yerin couldn’t help but laugh slightly at Na-ri’s sharp question.

“Of course I am worried. It’s not someone else, it’s Kwak Seo-yoon.”

“That’s why. Why her of all the guys?”

Na-ri pouted her lips as if she felt bad just thinking about Seo-yoon’s face.

“What would you do if that vixen girl seduced your chief?”

“Huh?”

“You’re in love with Chief Chae-hyun, right?”

I thought she didn’t show it, but it seems she couldn’t fool

Na-ri, who she had been close with for a long time. “So you must have had a one-night stand, even though you don’t do things that aren’t planned.”

“… … .” “You don’t like things

that interfere with work, so you don’t have company dinners with your coworkers, but you still go to work.”

Ye-rin could only laugh because everything she said was true.

“Don’t you want to develop seriously with Director Chae-hyun?”

“No.”

Na-ri widened her eyes as if she was puzzled by Ye-rin’s behavior of refusing a serious relationship despite clearly admitting that she had feelings for him.

“As I said before, we live in different worlds.”

“Hey, you can overcome that with love.”

Ye-rin shook her head at that.

Overcome, yes. Well, let’s say you can.

But will the process be smooth?

She couldn’t easily answer that question.

If she didn’t get involved with me, he would have found a much better match and would be a help to the future of the Ji-seok Group.

It was too reckless to throw away that huge thing in exchange for simple attention.

“You know that well. I don’t get greedy for things that aren’t mine.”

“Oh, you know too well. I wish you were a little greedy sometimes.”

The glasses of beer clinked in the air again.

Yerin slowly drank the beer as if trying to forget her bitter feelings.

“Huh? You’re crazy.”

“What’s wrong?”

Na-ri, who had been checking her phone for a moment, blurted out in disbelief and showed the screen to Yerin.

“Ah… … .”

What Na-ri had found was a photo that Seo-yoon had posted on her SNS.

“Wow, you two are already this close?”

Yerin couldn’t take her eyes off the photo Seo-yoon had posted.

Her gaze kept lingering on Seo-yoon’s face, leaning on Lee Hyun’s arm, smiling brightly in a hanbok.

And a little longer on Lee Hyun, who was staring at the camera with an expressionless face next to him.

“Shouldn’t you tell your chief about Kwak Seo-yoon’s true appearance?”

As soon as Na-ri finished asking her question, Ye-rin’s cell phone on the table started ringing.

The caller was Lee Hyun.

When Ye-rin hesitated to answer the unexpected call, Na-ri urged her.

“Answer quickly.”

Since the bar was quite noisy, Ye-rin got up from her seat and walked out onto the street.

“Yes, Chief.”

-Why did you call me so formally again? It’s not business hours.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

-I didn’t mean to scold you. What were you doing? Maybe it was

because I saw the intimate photos you took with Seo-yoon a little while ago. For some reason,

I felt strange.

Before it was too late, I was glad that Lee Hyun called me.

However, Ye-rin felt like she needed to be on guard for feeling that way, so she answered calmly.

“I was having a quick beer with a friend near my house.”

When Ye-rin said she was drinking, Lee Hyun quickly blurted out his words.

-Where are you?

“Are you coming here?”

-Yes. It would be very dangerous to let Han Ye-rin drink alone.

Those words naturally brought up the day when she drank wine with Lee Hyun.

Maybe that’s why Ye-rin’s cheeks quickly turned red.

“I won’t drink as much today as I did that day.”

– Then you’re even more welcome. I’m going to where Yerin is, so give me the address.

　
And then the call ended.

A faint smile appeared on Yerin’s lips when she heard that Lee Hyun was coming to see her.

She even thought it was fortunate that she wasn’t spending a long time with Seoyoon.

‘Why am I like this?’

Lee Hyun must have just come to practice dating that he couldn’t do today. Why am I

getting excited by myself for no reason?

After sending a message to Lee Hyun and going inside, Na-ri looked very curious.

“What did you say? Why did you call?”

“I don’t know why, but I think you’ll come here.”

“What?”

Na-ri quickly got up from her seat at that.

“Then I shouldn’t be here.”

Lee Hyun probably knew that Na-ri and Yerin were just meeting for work to find the missing woman.

Na-ri let out a deep sigh.

“It’s really hard to lie, isn’t it? I didn’t know that spending time with you would be so restricted.”

Yerin agreed.

Since high school, I’ve spent a lot of time with Nari, to the point where I’ve met her every other day and chatted with her.

“I’ll tell you later. I got along well with CEO Cheto Nari, so we decided to be friends.”

“Oh, that would be great. Then we can just do what we always do without worrying about what others think.”

Nari quickly packed her belongings and left the bar first, saying she didn’t know when Lee Hyun would arrive. Yerin

was quite a distance away, and even after Nari left, Yerin was still sitting there alone.

“Should I go out and wait?”

As Yerin was about to get up from her seat,

a man with dyed yellow hair appeared and plopped down in front of Yerin’s table. He

then spoke with a sly smile.

“I kept watching, and it seems like your group left first. Aren’t you bored?”

“No. I have someone coming soon.”

“Hey. That kind of lie is so common. Do you want to go out with me? I’ll give you a wonderful night.”

As she was about to reject the man’s offer,

she felt a warm sensation on her shoulder.

And the familiar woody scent tickled Yerin’s nose.