Episode 19 – Workplace Manager Authority

In Seo Jin-a’s case, the hotness point came from the conflict between her love for her husband, Lee Byung-joo, and the amplified lust for herself, creating a sense of depravity. So, wouldn’t Eun-seol also need some kind of unusual strategy?

,Hmm, this is a tough one.’

“What are you thinking so hard about?”

Eun-seol was glaring, seemingly displeased that Hyun-woo was lost in thought while sitting right in front of her.

,Hmph, he’s clearly not interested in me and is the very definition of an average Joe, so what’s so special about this guy.’

Not a hottie, just an average Joe. It would be a problem if she misunderstood. Eun-seol couldn’t understand why she kept being drawn to Lee Hyun-woo, who clearly had no interest in her.

“I invited you here, so I’ll pay. Of course, I have to buy the coffee, right?”

“Well, I don’t really feel like coffee.”

“Oh, come on, just go with me.”

Eun-seol was getting pissed off at Lee Hyun-woo’s lukewarm reaction; he had no tact, and she was wondering if she should just take the lead. Eventually, Hyun-woo was dragged to a coffee shop by Eun-seol’s nagging. He stood there blankly at the counter, and Eun-seol, feeling frustrated, ended up ordering two drinks herself.

,Hehehe, this is kind of fun.’

Deputy Manager Eun-seol was generous with both food and coffee. She kept the conversation going, seemingly disliking the awkward silence. Thanks to her, Hyun-woo leisurely sipped his coffee, only occasionally chiming in with a few words.

It was comfortable. Knowing that she had a crush on him made it incredibly easy.

,Damn, women have it so easy.’

Hyun-woo was usually annoyed by the advantages women enjoyed, but thankfully, he could now control them from a position of power with the work system. Feeling pleased, he kept stroking the smartphone in his pocket like it was a precious treasure.

“…So, are you listening, Deputy Manager Lee?”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“Haa… I asked, um… I mean, I think we need to define our relationship more clearly…”

At this point, her face flushed slightly, which was unusual for her.

“Huh? Our relationship?”

“Yeah… well, we’ve seen each other privately several times, right? We’ve talked a lot too… Neither Deputy Manager Lee nor I are twenty-year-olds, and we don’t have time to waste, right?”

“That’s right. Time is always precious.”

“No, that’s not what I mean, haa….”

Eun-seol’s patience was wearing thin with Lee Hyun-woo’s reaction, as if he was deliberately playing dumb or had no tact whatsoever.

“Ugh, what I’m saying is, I’ll go out with you!!!”

Eun-seol shouted. She glared at Hyun-woo, seemingly offended that she had confessed first to a clueless guy.

“No, hahaha… is this a confession?”

“….”

Hyun-woo, who had never heard such a bold confession in his life, couldn’t help but burst out laughing. Eun-seol, also reluctant to admit that she had confessed first, clamped her mouth shut like a clam.

“I understand Deputy Manager Eun’s feelings, but, um… I’m not sure yet.”

Partly to poke at Eun-seol’s pride, but also because Hyun-woo didn’t feel the need to date her. He could call Seo Jin-a, the busty married woman, twice a month. If that wasn’t enough, he could call the plain-looking Kim Ji-young, though her charm was lacking, and she would come out anytime. Especially with the work system, he absolutely refused to be tied down by Eun-seol.

“What?!?!”

Her pride was already hurt by the fact that she had confessed first, and now she was being rejected? In shock, Eun-seol stared blankly at Hyun-woo, as if she had lost her mind. A few minutes of silence.

“Why… why? You said you don’t have a girlfriend. Or is it because of Seo Jin-a-ssi that you mentioned before? Isn’t she already married??”

Unable to accept that she had been rejected, Eun-seol even dragged in Seo Jin-a, whom Hyun-woo had mentioned as attractive before, and clung to him in a pathetic manner.

“It’s not really like that. Deputy Manager Eun-seol also said it, right? That you don’t want to waste time. I feel the same way.”

“What does that mean?”

“Let’s say you and I start dating. What if we have sex later and our chemistry isn’t good? Then it’s a complete waste of time.”

“Then how… do we date?”

“Obviously, we do ‘sex first, date later.'”

“‘Sex first, date later’?”

“You don’t know? I’m disappointed. You act all cool and sophisticated. You have sex first, and if it’s good, then you start dating. That’s how everyone does it these days. Because they don’t want to waste time.”

Eun-seol was speechless, still reeling from Hyun-woo’s words. In her mind, sex was the last resort. It was the same when she dated Jae-hoon, a doctor, but she always played hard to get, always holding the man in her grip. Of course, this was possible because of her attractive figure.

A sleek body and clear skin achieved through rigorous management. A capable career woman at work and somewhat popular on social media, and she was being told to do ‘sex first, date later’? To have sex before even dating? She wasn’t that kind of easy woman, and Eun-seol’s pride wouldn’t allow it.

“Well, of course, Deputy Manager Eun-seol wouldn’t like that, right? Then, goodbye. Thanks for the coffee.”

– Ttalang

Hyun-woo, having said all he wanted to say, left the café. Even after Hyun-woo left, Eun-seol couldn’t bring herself to leave the café for a while.

[User: Eun-seol]

[Age: 28] [Height: 168] [Weight: 54]

[Stamina: 7/10] [Charm: 7(+3)/10] [Lust: 5/10] [Mental: 1(-8)/10]

[Satisfaction: 0/10] [Affection: Locked]

[Psychological Messages]

[Desire] to be promoted within the company

[Longing] to appear attractive to Lee Hyun-woo – Amplification Activated

[Yearning] to receive attention from colleagues

[Affection] for Lee Hyun-woo – Amplification Activated

[Anger] towards Lee Hyun-woo – new!

Hyun-woo, having rejected Eun-seol and returned to his studio apartment, immediately turned on the work system to check Eun-seol’s status.

“Oho, so her pride is really hurt, huh?”

The psychological messages clearly showed her state, as she was beyond shocked and angry at being rejected by Hyun-woo. Of course, he could have accepted her confession and started dating her. After all, Eun-seol had a crush on Hyun-woo.

“But that’s too predictable. No fun, no fun.”

What Hyun-woo wanted wasn’t a normal romantic relationship. Having a girlfriend would only be a hassle. Everything could be solved with the work system.

What if he turned the aloof Eun-seol into a fuck buddy he could have whenever he wanted? Breaking down her haughty attitude could be fun in its own way.

“Hehehe, but she can’t be angry for that to happen.”

[Psychological Messages]

[Desire] to be promoted within the company

[Longing] to appear attractive to Lee Hyun-woo

[Yearning] to receive attention from colleagues

[Affection] for Lee Hyun-woo – Amplification Activated

[Anger] towards Lee Hyun-woo – Decrease Activated (new!)

Since he could amplify/decrease a maximum of two psychological messages per female employee, he turned off the [Longing] to appear attractive to Lee Hyun-woo, which he had previously activated, and decreased her anger towards him. Since he had already amplified her affection, it wouldn’t be a big problem.

“Calm down, Eun-seol.”

Having finished the manipulation, Hyun-woo turned off the lights and lay down on the bed. The day he had spent dating Eun-seol as he pleased was now coming to an end.

* * *

For several weeks after rejecting Eun-seol’s confession, Hyun-woo didn’t hear from her. He might have been anxious in the past. But now, Hyun-woo had the work system.

,It doesn’t matter how much you play hard to get, it’s all predictable.’

Hyun-woo wasn’t worried because he had amplified her affection for him with the work system. In the meantime, whenever the cooldown was up, he called Seo Jin-a for a [Private Meeting] and fucked her senseless in a run-down motel until she passed out.

There was one reason why he insisted on the run-down motel. It didn’t matter if Seo Jin-a paid for the accommodation anyway, so he could have used a 5-star hotel. But it wasn’t fun.

Seo Jin-a hated the perverted owner’s blatant gaze at the counter. She had even asked him once if they could change the location. But the more she did, the more Hyun-woo insisted on the run-down motel. The lack of soundproofing and the perverted owner’s gaze were all ways to shake Seo Jin-a’s mental state.

,And there’s a certain pleasure in subtly showing off to the perverted owner.’

Because of that, he would deliberately pretend to calculate the accommodation fee to stall for time, or slightly lift her tight dress while Seo Jin-a was taking out her money, humiliating her in front of the motel owner. The owner wasn’t normal either, as he openly shook his junk under the counter, which made Seo Jin-a, who had suffered from men’s lecherous gazes since she was young, even more disgusted.

Regardless, as a result of regularly fucking her in the run-down motel room,

[User: Seo Jin-a]

[Age: 25] [Height: 163] [Weight: 48]

[Stamina: 8/10] [Charm: 7/10] [Lust: 8(+2)/10] [Mental: 6(-2)/10]

[Satisfaction: 0/10] [Affection: 9/10]

He was able to raise Seo Jin-a’s affection to 9.

“Hmm…”

The problem was that her affection didn’t seem to want to go up from 9. Now, Seo Jin-a often begged him to fuck her, and was repeated practice the shortcut to improving skills? Her services, such as oral sex and paizuri, were so high-level that they put call girls to shame.

“Does she need some kind of trigger?”

If it was Seo Jin-a, it would definitely be related to her husband, Lee Byung-joo. It was thanks to the fact that he had designed it so that her love for her husband, Lee Byung-joo, would be amplified at the same time, in order to create a more arousing situation, even though her body had been defiled.

“Ugh, I’m really tired of fucking Kim Ji-young now.”

Because of the [Stamina: 7/10] amplified by the system, having sex with Seo Jin-a twice a month was far from enough to satisfy his lust. Thanks to that, he had been using Kim Ji-young often, but it seemed like he had reached his limit because of her plain appearance.

“Kkaet-tok”

– Let’s talk on the rooftop during lunch break.

“Oh!”

Just in time, Eun-seol’s message arrived. The first message he had received since rejecting her at the café.

“She lasted three weeks, impressive. I have to give her, no, her pride, credit.”

Hyun-woo, who had stopped Seo Jin-a’s affection and was tired of Kim Ji-young, started looking forward to lunchtime, seeing the Kkaet-tok as a welcome rain in a drought.

Unlike his excited feelings, Hyun-woo slowly ate his meal, had tea time with his team members, and leisurely went up to the rooftop. Eun-seol had already arrived at the rooftop terrace and was waiting for him.

“Why are you so late?”

Eun-seol had come up as soon as it was lunchtime, so she seemed to have been waiting for Hyun-woo for quite a while.

“Why did you call me?”

“Haa… you’re really…”

Eun-seol sighed deeply at Lee Hyun-woo’s answer, which lacked any consideration. Why had she become interested in a man like this? She had pondered countless times, but she had no way of knowing the answer to her question. Could she even imagine that Lee Hyun-woo was controlling her emotions with the work system?

“Do you remember what I said at the café last time?”

“‘Sex first, date later’?”

“S-stop using such vulgar words. Anyway, I’ll accept Deputy Manager Lee’s proposal. Because I’m confident.”

,She’s so embarrassed that her face is about to explode, but her pride is still there.’

Eun-seol, who knew very well what she was saying, had a face that had long since turned as red as a beet.

“I don’t know if you know, but I’ve never lost in terms of body shape, no matter where I go. I’m in the top 10 percent. No, 1 percent. And… and everyone on SNS acknowledged it. Do you know?”

“Yeah, yeah, I already touched you all over at the motel to check, so you can stop bragging.”

“Hiiiik…”

Eun-seol shuddered slightly in shame as she recalled the memory of being groped in the motel room to check her figure.

“Since we’re on the topic, let’s go straight to Deputy Manager Eun’s house today.”

Hyun-woo thought it was a good thing, as it had been a while since he had been with Seo Jin-a, and his lower body was itching thanks to the [Stamina] stat that had been raised by the system.

“Huh?”

Eun-seol, who had been mentally preparing herself, but never imagined that the day would be today, was startled and asked again.

“Why? You were so confident, but were you just talking?”

“Hmph! W-what are you talking about? Of course, I don’t mind. Let’s do it today.”

As he gently poked at her pride, she snapped and lunged at him as expected. Eun-seol regretted it as soon as she answered.

,To suddenly call me to his house like this… Haa… I haven’t even cleaned the house.’

But her pride wouldn’t let her take back what she had said. And so, the ‘sex first’ of the ‘sex first, date later’ was suddenly set in motion.

And after work, Hyun-woo headed to the house address that Eun-seol had given him with a happy heart.