Impure Wedding Night - Chapter 55
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#55. It’s Enough Now
2023.12.08.
At Chairman Cha’s request, Mrs. Yoon, who had been quietly beside him, added in a graceful voice.
Since she had a rough idea of who Lee Hyun’s unrequited love interest was, it seemed necessary to prevent Chairman Cha from intervening.
“Honey, Lee Hyun is doing well on his own, so why don’t you just watch from the side?”
“No, it’s been quite some time since you mentioned that you have a crush on him. There are no results, no results.”
Mrs. Yoon smiled faintly as she gently grabbed Chairman Cha’s hand.
“If a third party interferes, things could go wrong. How about trusting him and waiting a little longer?”
Chairman Cha, who had been fiery a moment ago, became a gentle lamb after hearing Mrs. Yoon’s words.
“Instead, you must set a wedding date this year. Whether it’s the girl you have a crush on, or the blind date I set for you.”
It was still spring, so there was still plenty of time.
Lee Hyun answered coolly with a confident expression.
“Of course.”
***
Yerin, sitting in the office, let out a sigh without realizing it.
Even though a cool breeze was blowing in through the window, the heat on her face didn’t seem to go away.
This was because she kept thinking about the scene where she kissed Lee Hyun last night.
“Why do I become so bold when I drink?”
She wasn’t usually the type to enjoy drinking, and when she got drunk, Yerin’s only habit was to quickly go home and sleep.
That’s why the stories of people who drank and made mistakes at this age used to feel like stories from a distant land.
Now, they weren’t someone else’s story.
“I’ll never drink with the chief anymore.”
While she was making that resolution,
Hyejin, who was late again today, came into the secretary’s office late.
She looked at Yerin sitting in her seat and asked,
“Secretary Han, isn’t today the day of the Jinheonjae breakfast meeting?”
Up until now, whenever there was a breakfast meeting at Jinheonjae, Secretary Choi would accompany Lee Hyun.
Hyejin, who wasn’t very interested in practical matters, remembered it because she had heard that the place was quite uncomfortable.
Of course,
Mrs. Yoon also showed off her charisma, and Chairman Cha was nothing to be ashamed of.
If she became Lee Hyun’s personal secretary, she would always have to attend such uncomfortable events.
That was a huge disadvantage that would offset the advantage of being able to spend a lot of time by the talented Lee Hyun’s side.
However, Yerin didn’t attend that meeting today, as she was in the office.
After hearing Hyejin’s question, Secretary Choi answered instead.
“I heard that the director suggested that we change the breakfast meeting from now on to not have a secretary accompany us.”
“Huh? Why?”
“I think he thought it was unnecessary.”
“Oh, really?”
Hyejin cast a look at Yerin as if she was envious.
“What, Secretary Choi has had such a hard time. If you don’t do that, isn’t the position of personal secretary too sweet?”
The tone was sharp and sarcastic.
“Yerin, that would be nice.”
Yerin didn’t know how to respond to that story, so she just smiled awkwardly.
“Secretary Choi, if I knew this would happen, I would have applied to be the director’s personal secretary.”
When Hyejin stuck out her lips, Secretary Choi spoke very firmly.
“Secretary Shin, you haven’t forgotten how I handled the work when I was away for a week, have you?”
“But I wasn’t lacking in anything, was I?”
“Are you talking about double-booking the meetings that the director had to attend, and then scheduling the Busan meeting after the Gangnam meeting?”
“Oh, did I?”
‘I remember all that.’
Since he had brought up the facts and was pointing them out, Hyejin couldn’t say anything else and just kept her mouth shut.
The quiet secretary’s office was filled with the sound of keystrokes.
Before Yerin came, Hyejin had never coveted the position of personal secretary, seeing that all the people who came to succeed Secretary Choi quit after less than a week.
She thought she would be satisfied with just helping with simple office work like now and seeing Lee Hyun’s face. Then
Yerin showed up, and she had been doing very well by Lee Hyun’s side for over a month.
‘It’s because the chief was particularly kind to Han Yerin.’
Thinking about that, she felt strangely envious and jealous of Yerin.
‘I could have done well if I had done it properly.’
After witnessing several instances of Lee Hyun, who always spoke coldly and indifferently to others, being an exception to Yerin, he found himself increasingly envious of her position.
In fact, since he was second in seniority in Lee Hyun’s secretary office after Secretary Choi, if Yerin hadn’t meddled, he would have been given the position of executive secretary.
‘Anyway, she was no good from day one. I don’t like her.’
Before Yerin came, Lee Hyun had been desperately searching for the missing woman.
Then, for some reason, after Yerin came, he started acting very relaxed and gave instructions that she could take it easy.
‘What the hell was that vixen X talking about.’
As she began to hate Hana, everything Yerin did began to annoy her.
***
After the external meeting in the afternoon, Yerin drove Lee Hyun’s car smoothly.
Until now, the bosses Yerin served always rode in the back seat, but Lee Hyun insisted on the passenger seat.
The excuse was that he wanted to hear the answer right away if he had any questions while checking the documents here and there.
“Director, if you’re tired on the way back to the office, you can close your eyes.”
Lee Hyun must have been on edge because of the meeting that had been packed in without a break since the morning, following the Jinheonjae breakfast meeting.
Yerin handed him the eye mask she had prepared separately.
“I bought it in a hurry nearby, so it looks a bit weird, but I think it’ll be comfortable.”
Lee Hyun was fixated on the documents when he suddenly noticed a cute cat-shaped eye mask that came into his sight and let out a snicker.
“Where did you get this?”
“I waited and bought it at a nearby prop shop.”
“It looks like Secretary Han.”
“Where on earth is it…?”
The traffic light changed just in time and Yerin slowly slowed down the car.
Lee Hyun seemed to really like the pink cat eye mask Yerin had given him and quickly took off the wrapping.
“Anyone can tell it’s Secretary Han.”
Lee Hyun snickered and smiled briefly before putting on the blindfold Yerin had given him.
The cute cat with its eyes closed covered Lee Hyun’s handsome face.
Even that appearance seemed to shine.
The handsome eyes were already covered by the cat blindfold, and beneath them, the prominent nose caught her eye.
And Yerin’s gaze lingered on the plump lips beneath them for quite a while.
At that moment, when she felt the soft texture of those lips.
‘Oh my, what’s wrong with me?’
Yerin shook her head quickly to shake off the sudden thought.
Then, a low voice was heard from the side.
“You can look around more.”
“Yes?”
Yerin quickly turned her head.
Lee Hyun was lying comfortably, still wearing the blindfold and leaning back on the chair.
That meant that she couldn’t have known that she had stared at him just a moment ago.
‘I’m surprised that you’re talking as if you saw him in person.’
“I can’t see anything right now.”
Lee Hyun spoke slowly while wearing the blindfold.
“So I’ll pretend not to know what Han Ye-rin wants to do.”
“… … .”
“Even if you secretly kiss me like last night and run away.”
Lee Hyun’s lips rose gracefully and Ye-rin bit her lips.
“That won’t happen.”
Fortunately, the light changed just in time and Ye-rin quickly started the car.
“That’s why you covered my eyes on purpose, right?”
Ye-rin glanced at Lee Hyun’s face at the playful words.
Of course, he wouldn’t know because he was wearing a blindfold.
Ye-rin quickly spoke up, holding the steering wheel with both hands.
“No. And that day, I was drunk so I really won’t make any more mistakes.”
Lee Hyun looked disappointed at Ye-rin’s firm line.
“I have you.”
“… … .”
“Sometimes, it’s nice to have a secretary who makes mistakes.”
Lee Hyun was also very surprised after saying that.
Up until now, Lee Hyun had been a very strict person who couldn’t tolerate even the slightest mistake, not even his own or others’.
So, the words he had just said had given him quite a shock.
Lee Hyun thought to himself,
‘Love can make people into completely different people.’
Surprisingly, it was a change he didn’t dislike.
If it was a mistake Yerin made, he welcomed it.
Yerin looked ahead and let out a small voice.
“I want to be the perfect secretary to the director.”
She was sincere.
Even though she sometimes showed weaknesses as a woman when she was with him.
When I hired him as my secretary, I wanted to be a person like a knife with no errors and help Lee Hyun.
As if he had read Ye-rin’s mind, Lee Hyun answered softly.
“It’s enough even now.”
“… … .”
“So you don’t have to work too hard to be perfect.”
It was the first time.
Someone had told me that I had no shortcomings.
My father, President Han, would always criticize me for not being able to earn enough money when he sent me pocket money and for not being able to give it to my parents. The
managing director I had worked for before I met Lee Hyun had always ignored me, saying, “You haven’t learned much, so you’re just a secretary or something.”
That was the kind of position a secretary was.
If you worked hard, it was natural for the boss you were working for, and if you showed even the slightest lapse, you would hear things like, “You should just sit there and be a secretary. ”
That’s why Lee Hyun’s words were so touching.
“Thank you for saying that.”
“I mean it. Even Secretary Han knows that I don’t talk nonsense, right?”
Knowing this made a bigger impact.
“Yes, of course.”
It felt like cotton candy was filling my heart.
It was a big change since I met Lee Hyun.