Company

Lee Jung-wook continued his efforts to win Kim Hana’s heart after that incident.

Then, finally, Kim Hana, unable to bear it any longer, burst out and shouted.

“Section Chief! I’m married. I’m a married woman with a kid. It’s going to be difficult if you keep doing this!”

Kim Hana had always endured and tried to end things on a good note, but today seemed to be her limit.

That was because Lee Jung-wook’s hand was naturally reaching for her waist, so she pushed it away and shouted.

The gazes of the office employees gathered at her shout.

Those at the same level as Lee Jung-wook or higher seemed used to it, leisurely watching as if they had popcorn in their hands, thinking, “Here he goes again.”

However, those below him seemed to sympathize with Kim Hana.

It’s said that a woman’s enemy is another woman, but even women found Lee Jung-wook’s actions towards Kim Hana disgusting, silently cursing him.

No matter how young and pretty she was, it wasn’t right to do that to a woman who had a husband and a child.

But it felt a bit unfair.

It’s all a lie. And you’re the ones who don’t believe me even when I appeal to you knowing it’s a lie.

“What’s wrong? Hana-ssi.”

Isn’t that how social life is? She’s not some woman with a head full of flowers who doesn’t even know that.

Even if not in high school, these things must have happened frequently in university, so I was curious how she managed to get through it.

Instead of apologizing, the section chief brazenly appeared, and Kim Hana’s eyes became moist as she bit her lower lip hard, seemingly resentful.

Then, just as she was about to open her mouth as if she couldn’t take it anymore and had something to rely on.

“Huh? What are you doing standing here?”

The department head came in, filling the quiet, spacious office with his voice.

“It’s nothing. Haha. But…”

Lee Jung-wook didn’t usually interfere with what he did, but he hated it when things got too weirdly twisted.

So, when the female employees Lee Jung-wook bothered complained, he would call him in and give him a light scolding.

Lee Jung-wook didn’t want to listen to the old department head’s lecture, so he brushed it off as nothing and glanced at a man who had followed the department head in.

“Who’s behind you?”

“Right. If it’s nothing, then it doesn’t matter. But don’t go too far, and let’s get back to the main point and introduce him.”

The department head was suspicious but decided to move on for now, patting the man’s back.

“This is a new employee who joined us. Teach him well and treat him well.”

A new… employee? Didn’t we just hire a few employees last time? The company is growing so fast that the workload is increasing accordingly.

So, it seems the company has hired another new employee.

It’s a bit of a shame. It would have been nice if another pretty female employee had joined us.

Anyway, it didn’t matter much to Lee Jung-wook, but the regular employees with lower ranks seemed happy that a newbie had come to take on the grunt work.

“What’s your name?”

Lee Jung-wook asked, extending his hand to him, even though he could see the name on the employee ID card around his neck.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Kang Min-hoon. Please take care of me.”

“Ah, Min-hoon-ssi? Nice to meet you. I’m Lee Jung-wook, the section chief.”

“Yes, nice to meet you.”

“Ugh…?”

They shook hands.

But strangely… no, his eyes were openly hostile.

Moreover, he seemed to be putting strength into their handshake, and the hand he was holding was starting to hurt.

“Ah. I’m sorry. It’s my first job after graduating from university, so I was too excited and grabbed a bit too hard. Hahahaha.”

Excited because it’s his first job? His eyes don’t seem ordinary for that.

If I had to say, it was clear that he was glaring and putting strength as if he was trying to kill someone. Me. The department head, who didn’t know any better, chuckled and patted Kang Min-hoon’s back.

“All the men here are weaklings. You can’t grab too hard like Min-hoon-ssi, who exercises.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Yes, yes. Jung-wook-ah. It wasn’t intentional, so don’t get angry.”

“Yes…”

What is it? What is it that made him look at me like that and take some unknown revenge? It’s so frustrating.

Could he be a friend or family member of one of the girls I’ve been with?

But those girls were so infatuated with my position that they took off their clothes and threw themselves at me.

There’s nothing else.

I didn’t scam them out of money or do anything malicious like insurance fraud, and I didn’t take or distribute any hidden cameras or photos of us having sex.

It was just a one-night stand, so there’s no need to get this angry.

“Hana-nuna… Hana-ssi? If it’s not too much trouble, could I ask you to show me around a bit?”

“Show you around? Yes, of course.”

“I’ll go too!”

Out of the blue, Kang Min-hoon approached Hana, who was wiping away tears with a strangely brightened face, and asked.

Kim Hana, who had always put up an iron wall against men approaching her, nodded with a smile on her face as if her solid fortress had crumbled in an instant, no matter how high their position or influence.

And even Lee Sooyoung, who had been helping to fend off men approaching Hana, joined in.

“Oh… When I was a newbie, I wasn’t so confident and was awkward and anxious, so I just stayed still, but these days, kids are so bold.”

The department head thought about the past and was pleased as if he were watching his own child.

In contrast, Lee Jung-wook, who was aiming for Kim Hana, trembled with anxiety as she showed a smile that she only showed in front of Lee Sooyoung.

His face wasn’t particularly handsome, and he didn’t seem to have a lot of money.

The only things he could boast about were his height, which was definitely over 180cm, a decent physique, and noticeable muscularity even when he was wearing clothes.

With just the position of section chief, he could cover all of that.

But why, why is Kim Hana acting like that?

“I’ll show you around, Min-hoon-ssi.”

“No, how could I ask the section chief to do that?”

“I said it’s okay.”

The section chief is offering to show him around the company. Why is he refusing so much instead of just gratefully accepting?

When I was his age, I would have said, “Thank you so much,” and even bowed. Tsk. That’s the problem with kids these days.

They’re so loose that there’s not a single virgin among the twenty-year-old girls I’ve met, and they don’t know any manners.

“Section Chief. We’ll show you around.”

“No. I wanted to try exercising after a long time as a new employee… no, not a long time. I just wanted to ask Min-hoon-ssi, who seems to exercise, about various things.”

“Is that… so?”

“Yes, that’s right. So, I’ll borrow him.”

He’s not just borrowing him.

He’s going to let them know that Hana is his woman, who he can give to Sooyoung but never to Hana.

But if they still want to crawl up, he’ll make sure they can’t stand it unless they leave on their own.

He vowed to make sure they learned and left their first company life better than anyone else.

*

Ha… That son of a bitch is worse than I thought.

As I followed that section chief bastard Lee Jung-wook, I almost smashed his balding, unsightly head several times.

Hana Nuna, who gave birth to a beautiful daughter, complained that there was a section chief at the new company she joined half a year ago who kept hitting on her. It seems to be even worse than that.

That’s why Hana Nuna, who doesn’t usually cry, had moist eyes when I entered the office.

“You’re Min-hoon-ssi, right?”

“Yes, Section Chief.”

“Min-hoon-ssi. Just so you know, I’m after Hana-ssi. So, don’t mess with her. It’s your first job, and it’s a company you worked hard to get into, right? You should be comfortable. Don’t you think?”

I’m sure she told him that she was a married woman with a child on her first day of work with Sooyoung Nuna.

There were still men who hit on her, but when she showed them pictures of her baby and pictures of her with the baby, except for the picture of me, they gradually fell away, but only one person persisted until the end.

No matter how much I think about it, even if Hana Nuna is an ideal woman who is pretty, sexy, pure, and has a cute charm, does it make sense to hit on a married woman with a child?

And I’m even more pissed off that he’s saying that to the baby’s father and husband.

If there was really no one around, I would have punched him in the face.

“Section Chief.”

“Do you have any questions?”

A small, scrawny guy who doesn’t seem to have ever exercised, with an ugly face, opened his mouth with a satisfied look when I called him. He must have understood by now.

“I think Hana-ssi is a married woman with a child?”

“Huh? How do you know that?”

“I saw a picture of Hana-ssi and her baby on her desk. It’s too old to be a niece or nephew.”

“Can you see that from there? In the first place, it’s quite a distance, isn’t it? Hmm.”

He tilted his head with a puzzled look.

“Well, that’s what she says, but it’s a lie.”

“A lie?”

No, it’s not. It’s real. She even received my semen yesterday and might be pregnant with our second child?

“Of course. No one here has seen Hana-ssi’s husband’s face. She doesn’t show it even when we ask. So, what is it? It means she doesn’t have one. She’s just using the setting of being a married woman with a child as a means to fend off annoying people who hit on her.”

“……”

Wow, shit. There’s nothing to say when he takes it that way.

The reason I didn’t show my picture in the first place was simply because if only Hana Nuna said that I was her husband, Sooyoung Nuna, who works with Hana Nuna, would also be my wife, and she would fall into the unfairness of not being able to brag about her husband.

That’s why I hid it. I didn’t know the situation would get this twisted.

“Whether you believe it or not, don’t even think about hitting on her if you want to have a comfortable company life.”

Haha. I glared at the back of the section chief… no, the bastard, hard enough to set it on fire as I smiled and moved my feet to follow him.