Episode 4.2
My sister smiled reassuringly as she added, “I was sure you’ll be fine. You understood my intentions immediately.”
She was humming with delight as if she’d just gotten something exciting.
She looked uncharacteristically childlike. Of course, the thoughts racing through her head could never be considered childlike.
“So, what can I, I mean this older sister give her as an introduction fee?”
“If there is something you want, I’ll do my best to prepare it for you.”
“Oh my!”
* * *
I assured her that the Jecheon Group would never be held accountable for anything regarding Han Seo Ri, that I would take the time to go on an overnight trip with Sun Hye to her Swiss villa, and that my chin would forever be hers to touch.
I was able to skip the hour-long farewell that I had planned and returned to work, thanks to her assistant’s coaxing of Sun hye, who hugged me, stroked my hair and refused to let me go.
I can still see my sister’s face, full of regret, looking forward for the next time.
She asked me to have dinner with Mr. Park sometime, but I felt a subtle uneasiness in my stomach, and I knew I shouldn’t do it.
When I returned to work, I was busy reading another mountain of work reports and concentrating on my work, when I received an SOS from my father’s secretary.
-“Ms. Cha, can you please come to the chairman’s office right away?
“Ms. Kim, what was wrong?”
-Ms. Cha, the chairman is having a temper tantrum, and I need you to came quickly and stop him. He was going to break everything in the office, Mr. Chairman!
It was been a long time. What was it?
Cha Se-hoon, the chairman of Jecheon Group and Cha Ye-ryun’s father, is a man who, with his usual gentle charisma, swayed all the directors as soon as he took the chairmanship of Jecheon Group and firmly established the family’s management philosophy.
When Cha Ye bin broke off his engagement to Sun-hye and announced that he was marrying Han Seo-ri, he didn’t even flip out and throw a fit.
What the hell was going on?
I stopped what I was doing in a hurry and started to run to the chairman’s office, but I could hear my father’s gruff yelling in the distance.
As I got closer, I saw Secretary Kim standing outside the chairman’s office, shivering and looking at me with eyes that were begging for salvation.
“Chief Cha, please save me, I was am so scared!”
“Secretary Kim, why was the chairman suddenly acting like that?”
“I don’t know, just now, Han Seo-ri from Marketing Team went off on her own, and he was been acting like that ever since!”
Han Seo-ri?
Was that the scene? The scene where Han Seo-ri drops the genetic test results on Chairman Cha’s face and tells him to stop being a father?
I was about to say something, but Cha Yebin stopped me, so I guess the scene went ahead.
But I did’t think Chairman Cha would have gotten that angry in that scene.
Rather, the shock of witnessing the disaster of his past negligence right in front of his eyes causes him to lose all motivation and step away from the front line for a while.
Feeling vaguely guilty for Han-seo-ri, a child he never knew existed, Chairman Cha accepts her as a member of the Jecheon Group family, even though she was only an illegitimate child.
That was how Chairman Cha should have felt in the original drama.
But why was he so angry?
I felt uncomfortable with the incomprehensible situation. I patted Secretary Kim’s shoulder reassuringly and grabbed the door to the office.
“Go, Chief Cha, you can do it ……!”
I could hear Secretary Kim’s quiet cheer from behind me, and I giggled and tried to push down the discomfort that was slowly rising in the back of my throat.
“Mr. Chairman? It was Cha Ye-ryun. I am coming in!”
Boom!
As soon as I opened the door and entered, I was greeted by the sight of shards of broken glass flying around.
Chairman Cha’s office, which had always boasted an elegant
atmosphere, had turned into a trash dump.
Chairman Cha, who was holding a golf club, began to breathe deeply as if trying to calm down when he saw my face in the door.
“Ye Ryun, it is dangerous, stay away.”
But I couldn’t resist, so I stomped my heels on the broken pieces of porcelain lying on the floor and ground them into powder.
I had never seen you so angry before. If you took a full swing with a golf club at a piece of china, the shards would fly in all directions and injure your face, limbs, and other parts of your body, but you didn’t have one of those common fits.
That was not a trick I’ve seen him do once or twice.
“Deputy Han Seo-ri just came and went, did you have any trouble with her?”
“Nothing. I was tired, I should go back inside and get some rest.”
With a very awkward gesture, he quickly picked up the genetic test on the table in his office, crumpled it up, and threw it into the trash can.
