Private Secretary - Chapter 37

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Private Secretary Episode 37

 

Just when she thought the conversation was going longer than expected, the two people stood up. Lee Seol thought their meeting was over and tried to approach Tae-san, but he stopped her.

 

The next place Tae-san moved to with his blind date partner was the restaurant on the upper floor.

 

While they had an early dinner, Lee Seol waited outside.

 

After eating for over an hour, the two moved upstairs again. The pair who went to the observation deck smiled brightly while watching the evening sunset like people on a date.

 

“Sigh…”

 

Although Tae-san had said she couldn’t overlay personal emotions onto his blind date, her feelings kept interfering.

 

It stung as if someone was poking at her chest.

 

In fact, just seeing Tae-san smile while looking at another woman hurt Lee Seol.

 

She even resented Tae-san, who engaged in intimate acts with her but had never given her a proper smile even once.

 

Only then could Lee Seol know for certain the answer to the question Tae-san had asked last time.

 

She hated that Tae-san was going on blind dates. Even more so that he was smiling while looking at another woman.

 

* * *

 

They only parted when night fell. Tae-san personally escorted his blind date partner down to the first floor.

 

Then he watched until she got in her car and disappeared, which was the first time this had happened since he started going on blind dates.

 

Only after the vehicle vanished did Tae-san turn around, hardening the face that had been smiling all along.

 

It was confusing because Tae-san seemed to genuinely enjoy this time, too much for it to be just special courtesy due to the Chairman’s instructions.

 

Could it be that he really liked that woman this time?

 

Tae-san looked directly at Lee Seol, who was watching from a distance. He tilted his chin as if telling her to come closer, and Lee Seol finally approached him.

 

“How was today?”

 

“You’re asking as a secretary, of course? This is also part of your job?”

 

Somehow Tae-san seemed to be mocking her. Even though there was no reason for that at all.

 

“…Yes. I need to report to the Chairman. He actually called earlier. When I said you were still together, he seemed satisfied, but…”

 

Lee Seol trailed off. Even someone as oblivious as herself could tell that Tae-san wouldn’t be pleased with what she just said.

 

As expected, Tae-san looked at Lee Seol coldly before heading back into the hotel.

 

She naturally thought they would go home now, but apparently not? Did he perhaps leave something behind?

 

Lee Seol followed behind Tae-san without understanding why.

 

Tae-san went to the front desk and only turned around after a few minutes. In his hand was a card key.

 

“Are you going to stay here?”

 

“Even the time to go home is precious. Thanks to someone, I couldn’t work all day.”

 

It sounded like he was blaming her. Strictly speaking, it was the Chairman who arranged this meeting.

 

Though she felt a bit wronged, she didn’t want to detain the busy Tae-san any longer.

 

“Well then, please just tell me if you have any intention of meeting her once more.”

 

“Why. If I said yes, would you apply for the follow-up meeting on my behalf?”

 

“The Chairman asked about it…”

 

“Can’t you stop with the Chairman talk? Are you the Chairman’s secretary?”

 

“…I’m sorry. If you could just answer that question, I’ll disappear right away.”

 

Instead of answering, Tae-san handed her a spare card key. The leather case wrapping the key had a room number written on it.

 

“Go to the car and bring my laptop and tablet.”

 

Tae-san turned around first, and Lee Seol sighed quietly. She was in a bad mood too.

 

The difference was that Tae-san could express his irritation, but Lee Seol couldn’t.

 

Lee Seol went down to the parking lot, gathered the items he asked her to bring, and headed to the hotel room where he would be.

 

Beep-.

 

As soon as she opened the door and entered, she saw Tae-san standing in front of the wide-open window.

 

He must have noticed her presence, but seeing no reaction meant he was still in a bad mood.

 

Lee Seol swallowed her dejected feelings and placed the laptop and tablet PC on the desk in the office-style room before approaching him.

 

“Then I’ll be going first. I’ll see you on Monday.”

 

“Go sit on the sofa.”

 

“…Excuse me?”

 

Tae-san, who had been staring out the window that had grown dark, picked up the hotel phone.

 

He ordered salad, pasta, steak, and coffee and cake. Lee Seol sat on the living room sofa and awkwardly looked around the room.

 

He had clearly finished ordering, but Tae-san didn’t come to Lee Seol. It seemed like he had work to assign her, but apparently not.

 

After waiting a few more minutes, Lee Seol carefully approached the office space. He was working.

 

When did he tell me to go sit on the sofa, and now what am I supposed to do when he’s working over there?

 

Bewildered, Lee Seol quietly approached and stood in front of him.

 

“Do you have any more work for me to do?”

 

As if he hadn’t heard Lee Seol’s words at all, he remained motionless, only staring at the tablet screen.

 

“…Department Head.”

 

“I told you to go sit on the sofa.”

 

“If you could give me instructions now…”

 

“I did give you instructions. To go sit there.”

 

For a moment, Lee Seol couldn’t contain her surge of emotion either. His coldness wasn’t just from today.

 

For four days, from when she brought up the blind date topic until today, there had been a constant cold wind blowing.

 

In some ways, he was even colder and more frigid than when she first joined the company. So much so that even Yang Secretary found it strange.

 

Still, Lee Seol endured it.

 

He has a lot of work, and having to follow his father’s orders on top of that could be frustrating.

 

He doesn’t show any emotions himself, but he might be displeased that Lee Seol, his secretary, doesn’t approach him first.

 

That was the only way to explain it. Tae-san’s current behavior.

 

Then what exactly does he want me to do?

 

If she were to cling to him asking to date, he would be the one who’d be troubled.

 

But since she couldn’t honestly voice these thoughts, Lee Seol only said this:

 

“I only did what I was supposed to do, so why are you so angry at me?”

 

“…What?”

 

“For four days straight, you’ve treated me like a ghost, and even when you had to give instructions unavoidably, you were excessively cold. I could still understand that. There’s no reason for you to treat me with special kindness.”

 

“…”

 

“But I can’t stand it now. If you were so dissatisfied with going on blind dates while having so much work, you should have confronted the Chairman directly. Why take it out on me…”

 

“Who was it that stopped me from calling my father?”

 

Certainly, when she brought up the blind date topic, Tae-san had tried to protest to the Chairman. It was Lee Seol who stopped him.

 

At the time, she thought it was already decided and he shouldn’t overturn it.

 

But if she had known his resentment would last this long, she regretted not just letting him make the call.

 

“…Fine, I’ll admit that was my mistake. But you seemed to quite like the person you met today, so do you still need to be angry?”

 

“Lee Seol.”

 

“Just give me work instructions. Don’t make me wait around aimlessly.”

 

“Just as I did what you told me to do, you do what I tell you to do.”

 

“…”

 

“What I told you to do is go sit on the sofa and wait.”

 

“You’re dissatisfied with me. If I’m making you uncomfortable, I wish you’d just tell me honestly. Don’t make me read between the lines…”

 

“Yeah. I’m making you uncomfortable to the same extent that you made me uncomfortable.”

 

Tears almost burst out from frustration and hurt feelings, but Lee Seol barely held them back by clenching both fists tightly.

 

This wasn’t like the Tae-san she knew.

 

The Tae-san she knew would express his opinions without reservation if something bothered him. Not in this way that made her have to read his mood.

 

When he was so sparing with words like this, there was nothing Lee Seol could do about it.

 

“…I’m sorry.”

 

In the end, Lee Seol backed down. It was natural. As a secretary serving him, just protesting now was already overstepping her bounds.

 

It was when Lee Seol was about to return to the sofa in resignation.

 

Ding dong- Ding dong-.

 

“Bring the food and set it on the table.”

 

Was that why he made her wait on the sofa? To do that task?

 

Then couldn’t he have just instructed her from the beginning to wait until the food arrived, set it up, and then leave?

 

Even though anger was rising in her heart, Lee Seol couldn’t show it and nodded instead of answering before heading to the door.

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