Impure Wedding Night - Chapter 91



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#91. Leave me
2024.04.12.

“… … Ms. Han Ye-rin.”

Ye-rin belatedly came to her senses when she heard her name being called.

“Oh, when did you come?”

Lee Hyun was standing in front of her desk, as if the planning team meeting had already ended.

“What are you thinking so deeply about? I didn’t know even if you called me.”

“I’m sorry.”

Ye-rin bowed her head and apologized.

“I didn’t mean to scold you. If you’re done with your work, should we leave work now?”

“Yes, fine.”

Ye-rin’s heart was heavy as she followed Lee Hyun after gathering her belongings.

Seo-yoon was the type of person who would do anything if she had to.

She didn’t want Seo-yoon to hear that she was the woman who had attended the Cheto brand party.

“When should we talk?”

Ye-rin slyly suggested as she got on the elevator that arrived just in time.

“Chief, there’s something I’m curious about.”

“What is it?”

“You don’t talk much about the woman who disappeared at the Cheto party these days.”

Lee Hyun, who had been looking straight ahead, slowly turned his head.

“Ah, that woman.”

Lee Hyun continued speaking while stroking his smooth chin with one hand.

“I was thinking about that woman today anyway.”

“Is that so?”

Yerin asked cautiously, observing Lee Hyun’s changing expression.

“Are you still looking for that person?”

“Yes. I definitely want to meet her someday.”

At those words, Yerin couldn’t help but bite her lips.

Lee Hyun’s face was so serious as he talked about wanting to meet her.

“Haa. How can I tell her that I was actually that woman when she says that?”

At least not today.

It wasn’t something to talk about while standing in an elevator like this.

“Why are you suddenly talking about that woman?”

“Oh, no. I’m just curious.”

Lee Hyun just snickered at the question.

When should he tell her that he knew that Yerin was her?

Lee Hyun was also having similar worries.

“Considering how he’s been hiding it until now, I think there must be another reason.”

So it was hard for Lee Hyun to show that he knew first.

The fact that he wanted to meet that woman meant that he was willing to listen to Yerin’s story seriously if she told him directly.

Of course, that didn’t get through to Yerin very well.

***

“Chairman Cha, Chief Cha Soo-hyun attended the blind date that we were planning to have with Assemblyman Kwak’s daughter naturally last time.”

Chairman Cha sighed deeply after receiving the report from his secretary.

“Lee Hyun is really quick-witted.”

That’s why he must have sent Soo-hyun instead of himself.

“Chief Cha Soo-hyun did show up at that restaurant that day… … .”

Looking at his secretary who trailed off, Chairman Cha gestured as if to tell her more.

“Chief Cha Soo-hyun had dinner with his personal secretary that day.”

Chairman Cha’s brow furrowed at the unexpected mention of her being with someone.

“Dinner with his secretary on a weekend evening.”

This was something that Lee Hyun normally wouldn’t do.

“Chief Cha Hyun-i attended the KK Foods founding ceremony with his secretary Han Ye-rin.”

“Huh.”

Chairman Cha’s worries deepened.

“Lee Hyun-i is about to cross a river from which he cannot return.”

When he asked who the woman he had a crush on was, Chairman Cha was certain that she was the child of a family that did not fit his class, seeing that she did not tell him.

But he left it alone because he thought that Lee Hyun would come to his senses after meeting her a few times.

He was the most rational and cool-headed son of all.

However, Lee Hyun’s behavior these days did not seem like the son he had known until then.

“If we leave it like this, rumors will probably reach Assemblyman Kwak’s side.”

“They might have already gotten there. Hehe.”

That made him even more worried.

Right now, there is no one better than Assemblyman Kwak’s daughter for Lee Hyun to marry, so he could not understand why he was kicking away such a good opportunity.

“Chairman Cha, what should we do?”

Since Lee Hyun couldn’t communicate at all, it was time to try another person.

“You said Secretary Han Ye-rin?”

“Yes, Chairman.”

“Tell her to come up.”

“Understood.”

***

“I heard a huge rumor recently?”

Hyejin shouted as lunch was ending.

Seolgi, who was next to her, showed interest.

“What’s the story?”

Yerin sat down and kept her ears slightly open while organizing her afternoon work.

She thought it was probably some trivial story about who was dating who in which department.

“I think there’s someone among our company’s secretaries who frequents hotels with the executive I’m working with.”

“… … .”

However, it was a more surprising story than she had thought.

Yerin pretended not to care, thinking that it was really fortunate that she had kept her eyes fixed on the diary.

“Oh my, this is crazy. Who is it?”

“I didn’t even hear who it was, but isn’t it really creepy? It’s a sponsored relationship.”

Of course, since she couldn’t imagine an executive and a secretary dating, she assumed it was a sponsored relationship.

“Oh, shouldn’t we report this to HR?”

“Wouldn’t that person be me?”

Hyejin and Seolgi shook their heads as if they were creeped out.

“People who are so greedy are always a problem, right?”

Hyejin was the most greedy person in the world, but she really liked talking about others.

Hyejin continued to say something, but Yerin couldn’t hear

what she said. She just kept lingering in her ears.

“People who are so greedy are always a problem, right?”

　
Lee Hyun and I considered our relationship as a genuine exchange of feelings, but when I thought that others might see us as sponsors, I became even more upset.

At that moment, Secretary Choi’s desk phone started ringing loudly.

“Yes, I’m not at my desk right now. Okay, I understand.”

After answering the phone, Secretary Choi looked very upset.

Secretary Choi approached Yerin’s desk and carefully spoke.

“Secretary Han, can I see you for a moment?”

***

Yerin and Secretary Choi left the secretary’s office and went into the conference room next door.

After a brief pause, Secretary Choi spoke.

“Secretary Han, I just got a call from the chairman’s office.”

Yerin’s heart sank to the floor at the mention of the chairman’s office.

“They’re asking me to send Secretary Han up… … .”

It seemed like Chairman Cha had found out that Lee Hyun and Yerin were dating and was calling them.

Secretary Choi must have sensed the reason as well, and spoke carefully.

“I lied about not being in Secretary Han’s position.”

Yerin thought for a moment and slowly raised her head. She

had expected this day to come, so she was upset, but not shocked.

“I’ll go up.”

She didn’t want to avoid it.

It wasn’t something that could be solved by avoiding it.

“Instead, please keep my meeting with the chairman a secret from the head of the headquarters.”

“Okay, I understand.”

Secretary Choi looked at Yerin’s back as she left the conference room first, as if she was very worried.

***

The elevator arrived at the highest floor of Ji Seok Electronics.

The door opened with a ding, and Chairman Cha’s secretary was waiting in front of it, probably knowing that Yerin would come.

“Ms. Han Ye-rin?”

“Yes, I am Han Ye-rin.”

“Come this way. Chairman Cha is waiting.”

Knock-

knock, and a deep voice inside told her to come in.

“You can come in.”

As Ye-rin entered the chairman’s office alone, Chairman Cha, who had been looking out the window, slowly turned around.

It was a face she had seen once at Jinheonjae’s breakfast meeting.

Ye-rin slowly bowed and greeted him.

“My name is Han Ye-rin.”

“Yes, I know.”

Chairman Cha gestured with one hand to a chair in the center of the office and told her to sit down.

“What should I bring you for tea?”

Ye-rin carefully opened her mouth.

“I’m fine.”

Ye-rin knew very well that he hadn’t called her to have a leisurely tea time anyway.

“Yes, then.”

Chairman Cha cleared his throat once and stared at Ye-rin.

“I don’t know if Secretary Han knows, but I’ve been married twice in total.”

The first was a political marriage, and the second was to Mrs. Yoon, whom he fell in love with at first sight.

Yerin just quietly listened to what Chairman Cha was saying.

“Love, it’s good. That kind of thing.”

“… … .”

“When I do, I feel like I own the world and I feel like I’m the master of this world.”

Chairman Cha said that he also experienced such passionate love and that he knows it well.

“I’m seeing Lee Hyun.”

Yerin’s eyelashes fluttered because he got straight to the point.

“If Lee Hyun was an ordinary man, I wouldn’t know, but even Secretary Han knows him well.”

“Yes, Chairman.”

“He’s the successor to the Jiseok Group, which will lead the economy of the Republic of Korea.”

In fact, Chairman Cha had hoped that Lee Hyun would take charge of the Jiseok Group rather than Soo Hyun.

Lee Hyun was much better at work than Soo Hyun and always made cool-headed decisions.

That’s why he was so obsessed with Lee Hyun’s marriage. He

wanted her to meet the perfect match and build a family without any shortcomings.

“I want my daughter-in-law to be someone who will give Lee Hyun wings so that she can grow bigger.”

At those words, Yerin lowered her head as if she were a sinner.

“I may not be able to help you fly higher, but I shouldn’t clip your wings, right?”

It meant that if Lee Hyun met her, he would have a lot to lose.

“That’s why I kept trying to set you up with the daughter of a great family.”

Lee Hyun had gotten away with the ridiculous excuse that he had a crush on her.

Yerin clenched her fists on her knees.

“You know why I called Secretary Han today, right?”

Sitting in front of Chairman Cha like this was really embarrassing.

“Lee Hyun, leave me.”

The words she had expected fell from Chairman Cha’s mouth.

Yerin couldn’t move, frozen like a stone.