Company

Several days had passed since my romp with Hana Nuna in the break room.

“That guy… sugun sugun.”

“Wow… He seduced Hana-ssi, a married woman with a kid, in such a short time… sugun sugun.”

“Didn’t I tell you? Those bitches are sluts. sugun sugun.”

“Hey, should I ask her for a piece too?”

Hana Nuna and I had become famous figures at the company.

No, from the start, Hana Nuna had a beauty that anyone could see, and the fact that she was married and had a child at such a young age meant that there was hardly anyone who didn’t know her.

But I had only joined the company recently, and even though I was handsome, I wasn’t handsome enough to be the subject of rumors, so I was just another ordinary new employee. But now, I was more famous than any other man in the company.

Well, even if it wasn’t Hana Nuna, the fact that a new employee who had just joined the company had fucked a female employee in the break room was enough to become famous.

“……”

I ignored the people whispering beside me and moved my feet, arriving at the department where I worked.

At first, people had readily approached me, saying hello and wanting to be friends, but now they just glanced at me and silently started doing their own work.

The only one who didn’t avoid my gaze was Section Chief Lee Jung-wook, who had told me not to touch Hana Nuna because she was his. He glared at me as if he wanted to kill me.

This… well… hahaha.

I tried to act as if nothing was wrong and sat down to start working.

Since then, they hadn’t given me much work.

They were just reducing my workload, so it might not be a bad company life after all.

If it weren’t for the constant stares and the voices whispering loud enough to be heard.

“Um… Ji-hoon-ssi… The department head is calling for you.”

“Ah. Yes.”

A female employee, who clearly felt uncomfortable with me, spoke to me for the first time today.

As if I had been waiting for it, I jumped up from my seat and walked towards the department head’s room.

I stood in front of the door, took a deep breath, and then opened the door and went inside.

Inside, I saw the department head leaning back on the sofa in front of his desk, and Hana Nuna and Sooyoung Nuna sitting on one side of the sofa in front of him.

Seeing the two Nunas, who had woken up early in the morning and gone to the company first, made me feel strangely happy, but also worried on the other hand.

Sooyoung Nuna was one thing, but what had Hana Nuna heard?

Had she been cursed for committing adultery in the company as a married woman with a husband and a child, not even a widow?

How much effort had Sooyoung Nuna put in to cover for her?

Hana Nuna and I were both at fault for liking each other and openly having sex, but I felt that my fault was greater than Nuna’s.

This might be what responsibility is.

“What are you so worried about? Hahahaha.”

But unlike my worries, the department head laughed heartily.

Huh……?

“Well, a couple can have sex. But… even if the place where you had sex was the break room, which employees don’t usually frequent, doing it there is a bit much.”

There was only one way to avoid this worst-case scenario.

That was to say that Hana Nuna and I were married.

We were married in name only, and hadn’t had a proper wedding yet.

Fortunately, Ji-young had used her power to create several marriage certificates, thinking that something like this might happen.

So, if I took out a family relationship certificate and showed it to them, they would have no choice but to believe it, but this would only make things difficult for Sooyoung Nuna.

Because of this, Hana Nuna had shaken her head at Sooyoung Nuna’s suggestion, saying that she couldn’t make only you uncomfortable because of our mistakes, hadn’t she? I had too.

But since there was no other way, it seemed that Hana Nuna had no choice but to reveal that I was her husband.

“Originally, it would have been grounds for dismissal because it disrupted the company’s order due to adultery, but if you’re a married couple, the story changes. Don’t you think?”

“Y-Yes……”

At this point, it would be understandable even if they just gave me a one-sided notice of dismissal, but they’re giving me a recommendation to resign. The department head must be a good person.

“But why did you hide it? There’s no reason to hide it.”

The department head gathered and organized the papers that Hana Nuna and Sooyoung Nuna were presumed to have brought and asked me.

I have to get through this. How can I get through this naturally?!

“Well… even if we’re a married couple, I thought we shouldn’t act like a couple while we’re at the company, while we’re working.”

“Huh…? Why? Is that a reason?”

“Well, we came to the company to work, not to pursue romance or marital love even more, didn’t we?”

“To say that, didn’t you two do it in the break room?”

“Th-That’s! It was lunchtime, and it was my first job, so I was very stressed and tired, so I asked Nuna for some… ha, haha.”

I scratched my head, letting out an awkward laugh.

Hana Nuna added to my answer.

“No. Department head. I just wanted to relieve my husband because he seemed to be having a hard time.”

It was a word that didn’t need to be said, but it was enough to make the department head see them as a couple with infinite love.

“Hahahaha. It’s good to see. Good to see. I used to be like that with my wife too. I miss it.”

The department head closed his eyes for a moment with a wistful look, then opened them.

“Well, I won’t dig any deeper. You must have had your own thoughts. But even though the company regulations don’t specifically say not to have sex, there is a regulation that excessive displays of affection are not allowed. I think that includes sex.”

“Yes……”

It’s true that sex is included in the expression of affection itself, so there’s nothing to say.

“You won’t have to leave the company, but there will be disciplinary action. You’re also receiving a recommendation to resign, but what can you do? This condition is valid even after you receive the disciplinary action, so you can take your time to think about it.”

The department head is sure that you will choose to resign, and that even if you don’t choose to resign, you will eventually choose to resign later.

That’s because the rumors have already spread throughout the entire company. Even if you endure the disciplinary action, the employees who have heard the rumors will subtly ostracize you and the gossip will continue, so it’s clear that you won’t be able to endure it mentally.

That’s what I think too.

Even if we’re a married couple, I’m a man, so it’s one thing, but Hana Nuna, who is a woman, is in a difficult situation. Especially since Hana Nuna, who has no problem with her visuals even if she becomes a celebrity right now.

A woman’s enemy is another woman, and now that there’s something to bite at an already jealous and beautiful Nuna, how could the women stay still?

Ji-young also said that women are more hideous, disgusting, and creepy than you think, didn’t she?

“Nuna……”

I decided to follow Nuna’s opinion.

It’s not something I can decide.

No, I want to tell her to choose the latter like crazy, but I want to respect Nuna’s opinion.

“I’ll just… keep going to work.”

“It’ll be hard.”

“It’s okay… If we reveal that we’re a married couple, it’ll die down a bit.”

“Hmm… maybe. Well, tell me anytime. I’ll wait.”

“Thank you……”

All the higher-ups seemed to have problems, but the department head was a really good person.

The three of us bowed to the department head, who was smiling helplessly, and left the department head’s office.

“Haa……”

As soon as we came out, Hana Nuna let out a deep sigh that contained many meanings.

“Nuna… are you okay?”

“Huh…? Me?”

“Yes.”

“Well… to be honest, I’d be sad. But I hate seeing you two having a hard time even more, and I want to go to work with you two, but it’s a bit weird to go alone, right? So it’s okay.”

Sooyoung Nuna would also want to live in the company as if she was close to me, beyond just being friends, but as if we were married.

But because of Hana Nuna, a line that shouldn’t be crossed has been created.

Well, in the first place, the two of them are married women, so there would be problems later, but we could have just ignored the rumors.

But now we had to keep our distance completely.

Think about it. How can a wife stay still when her husband is close to another woman?

Even if the wife says it’s okay, if the three of them are together all the time between the couple, only Sooyoung Nuna, who is naturally oblivious, will be cursed at.

That’s enough. This problem is already over, so let’s just move on and now it’s time to explain.

“Shall we go? Nuna.”

“Yeah……”

I held out my hand to Hana Nuna.

Hana Nuna smiled and took my hand.

With our hands clasped, we walked back to the department and told everything to the employees who were working hard but kept looking at us.

I tried to pretend that the company was just a place to work, not a place to blossom love, but I couldn’t stand it, so I covered Nuna. Nuna couldn’t stand it, so she covered me, and after explaining, we were officially accepted as a couple.

Now, Hana Nuna is not the kind of person who would do that, so something must have gone wrong, and she is more daring than she looks, so they talked to Nuna and approached her.

Male employees also approached me.

They couldn’t erase the fact that we had sex, but since we were a married couple, and since my wife was a very beautiful woman like Hana Nuna, they could do that, and the male employees had faces that they fully understood.

Still, not everyone stopped talking bad about us.

But since I’m not completely isolated, I feel like I can live my company life enough.

Except for one person. Lee Jung-wook, that bastard’s eyes are unusual.