1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 7



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#7. A familiar yet unfamiliar place
2023.06.23.

Nari sat in front of Lee Hyun and looked interested.

“I heard. You want a list of the people who attended the party that day?”

“Yes.”

“It’s personal information, so it’s a bit awkward for us to just give it to you.”

Yerin secretly cheered as she watched Nari draw the line.

‘Yeah, I have to keep insisting that I absolutely can’t give it to you.’

Lee Hyun didn’t back down easily either.

“Woman in her mid-to-late 20s, short blonde bob cut. Can I see a list of women who look like the ones I described?”

“Can I first find out why you’re looking for me?”

Yerin swallowed hard.

Lee Hyun tilted his head and spat out.

“I have a story I haven’t told you yet.”

“What’s your business?”

“I don’t think this is something I should be talking about with CEO Kim Na-ri.”

Nari took a step back when she heard Lee Hyun’s cold voice.

“And I have something to receive from that woman.”

“Did you suffer any financial damage?”

“I can see that you did.”

Yerin’s eyes widened significantly at Lee Hyun’s natural words.

Financial damage? I

only spent one night.

I quickly left the suite without touching Lee Hyun’s belongings, but what kind of damage did I suffer?

She almost shouted out loud that she had never done anything wrong.

Na-ri glanced at Yerin and said softly.

“Then we will first get the consent of the attendees and then hand over the list.”

Lee Hyun just looked at Na-ri coldly, as if she didn’t like the answer.

“Just hand it over. If there’s any problem with this, we will resolve it.”

“No. It’s personal information, so I can’t just hand it over.”

“CEO Kim Na-ri, do you happen to know who that woman is?”

“Yes?”

“It seems like you know who that woman is and are trying to hide it like this.”

Na-ri unconsciously glanced at Ye-rin’s face behind Lee Hyun.

“I understand that the list of people attending the charity bazaar that day has already been published in the news.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Since everyone had participated in the bazaar to show off, each company was busy publishing press releases about the good deed.

A large group photo of the people who attended that day was also published in the news, and the list of attendees was also published in the news.

Lee Hyun was requesting the list to check if anyone was missing.

Na-ri asked cautiously.

“Was the woman you were looking for in that photo not there?”

“She was the only one missing.”

“… … .”

Ye

-rin didn’t attend the bazaar, so she couldn’t have been in the group photo.

Lee Hyun slowly rubbed his eyebrows with his index finger as if he found that really strange.

“Why was that woman not there?”

Na-ri quickly blurted out her words because it stung.

“She must have left the group photo for a moment.”

“Then I will assume you will hand over the list.”

Lee Hyun got up from his seat as if his business was over.

Then he spoke to Yerin, who was standing behind him.

“Secretary Han, please receive the list and contact me quickly.”

Lee Hyun left the conference room and the door slammed shut.

Na Ri made a face as if she was wondering what on earth was going on.

“I’ll explain everything later. So you know my name?”

“Oh. Of course.”

Na Ri, who was quick-witted, must have immediately realized that the woman Lee Hyun was looking for was Yerin.

She was genuinely curious about what had happened that day that had Lee Hyun so bloodshot.

“I can’t keep the chief waiting too long, so I’ll go.”

“Okay. Contact me.” Even

after leaving the Cheto building, her complicated feelings didn’t go away.

On the contrary, her anxiety only grew.

***

Everyone had left work.

Yerin and Lee Hyun were the only ones left in the office.

She couldn’t concentrate, so she couldn’t do a single report that Lee Hyun had asked her to summarize and submit.

“But since this is my first time taking on this job, I have to do this properly.”

Because I won’t be able to find the woman that Lee Hyeon is looking for so badly.

Yerin glanced at the tightly closed door of the chief’s office and began to concentrate.

After some time had passed,

someone knocked on Yerin’s desk.

She slowly raised her head and the handsome face of Lee Hyun filled Yerin’s field of vision.

“Chief?”

“I thought you couldn’t hear me when I called you.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

Yerin suddenly got up from her seat.

“Is there anything you want me to tell you?”

Lee Hyun tilted his head with his hands in his suit pants.

“Are you going to eat dinner?”

Because it was such an unexpected story, Yerin couldn’t answer quickly like a broken robot.

“Secretary Han, was the question I asked difficult?”

“No. Dinner is still… …” “

Let’s go.”

“Yes?”

Lee Hyun let out a deep sigh.

“I don’t want to hear that I starved myself from day one and resigned.”

“That won’t happen.”

Whether he heard Yerin or not,

Lee Hyun left the secretary’s office alone.

Yerin had no choice but to follow him.

***

Yerin said she would drive, but Lee Hyun grabbed the steering wheel without even pretending to hear.

It was the first time in her life as a secretary that she had ever been in a car driven by her boss, so she felt strange and uncomfortable.

She thought he would go to a nearby restaurant, but his car was moving further and further away from the company.

“Director, weren’t we going to eat?”

“Yes.”

After driving for a while, Lee Hyun’s car entered a very familiar place.

‘Why here…?’

Yerin unconsciously tightened her seatbelt.

Lee Hyun entered the KK Hotel, handed the car over to the valet, and headed to the lobby.

‘Of all the places, why here?’

The KK Hotel was the very place where she had spent a passionate time with Lee Hyun.

‘You didn’t come here on purpose, did you?’

There were many hotels close to the company, even if it wasn’t this one.

Even if it wasn’t this one, there were still plenty of places to eat.

Yerin followed Leehyun at a brisk pace, not even being able to figure out why he had come here.

Pressing the elevator button, Leehyun turned around and stared at Yerin.

“Why do you think I came here, Secretary Han?”

“I don’t know.”

“I first met that woman here.”

“… … .”

The two got on the elevator that arrived just in time.

Perhaps because it was late, there were no other passengers in the elevator.

Being together like this made me think of that day.

That night when we were so close together in the elevator that we could feel each other’s body heat.

Just thinking about that day brought up many secondary thoughts and feelings.

That was the first time I realized that such cold eyes could contain such hot desire.

That was also the fact that I learned that such affectionate words could come out of a mouth that only spoke cold words.

Ding-

The elevator that the two got on just in time arrived at the rooftop restaurant.

“This is… … .”

It was the place where Leehyun and I first met.

That day, the tables had been rearranged for the after-party, so it looked different than it does now, but the feeling of the same space made her very nervous.

Lee Hyun looked interested as he watched Yerin, who was shaking.

“Have you been here?”

“No?”

Who knew lying would be this hard?

Yerin tried hard to act as if nothing had happened and got off the elevator first.

Lee Hyun’s earnest gaze was glued to her behind her.

Yerin tensed her legs as she walked into the rooftop.

Then, her foot caught something and her body swayed.

‘Oh, how ugly it would be if I fell here.’

As she thought that,

of course she thought her body would touch the cold floor, but in contrast, she felt a warm warmth from her waist.

And a very familiar body scent brushed the tip of Yerin’s nose.

‘No way.’

Yerin slowly opened her eyelids.

As she had expected, Lee Hyun’s sculpted face was right in front of her.

“Chief?”

Lee Hyun was holding Yerin’s waist and staring at her with his dark eyes that could not read her inner thoughts.

　
Thump thump-

her heart started beating fast.

Was it because of the close distance?

Or was it because of the familiar scent coming from him?

That night came to mind so naturally.

“What are you going to do when you’re so pretty?”

“You make me unable to take my eyes off you.”

“You’re the one who made this happen, so I think you should take responsibility for it.”

　
It seemed as if Lee Hyun’s soft voice whispered above her was in her ear.

Yerin unconsciously shut her eyes tightly.

It was only one night, but it was a day she couldn’t forget either. She

took a deep breath and slowly pushed her eyes up.

Lee Hyun was still looking at Yerin with dark eyes.

“Director, you have to let this go…”

“Secretary Han, no matter how much I think about it, I think I’ve seen you somewhere.”

It was those words again.

Yerin pushed Lee Hyun away with both arms and straightened her body.

“There’s a high chance that we ran into each other at the company…”

“No. I think I saw you somewhere else.”

“…”

Lee Hyun’s words made her heart start to pound like crazy.

Yerin lowered her head to the floor to hide her trembling eyes.

Fortunately, she wasn’t speaking with certainty, but rather with a tentative tone.

“I guess you think I’m a similar woman… … .”

So here, I had to be more assertive.

Yerin spoke without meeting Lee Hyun’s eyes.

“I look like a common person, so I often hear that kind of talk.”

There was no answer.

She wondered what she could say if he kept asking her like that.

“If a secretary said so, then so be it.”

Lee Hyun left first, as if he had no regrets.

Haa.

Yerin took a deep breath and walked back to the rooftop restaurant.

As she entered, the table layout was completely different from that day.

The employee guided the two to a corner seat.

“It’s the seat where I drank champagne with the director.”

It might have been a coincidence, but this little thing made her feel tense.

As soon as Yerin stood nearby, Lee Hyun, who was sitting down, called her in a pleasant low-pitched voice.

“Why don’t you come quickly?”

Lee Hyun’s lips rose lazily.

Just like when he had seduced Yerin that day.