Private Secretary - Chapter 9

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Private Secretary Episode 9

Lee Seol stared at Tae-san, who looked different somehow, as if entranced.

Tae-san’s expression was complex and subtle. Anger, jealousy, and sadness could all be read at once.

The man seemed to be organizing his thoughts while looking at the white ceiling, and Lee Seol held her breath, worried she might disturb him.

Tae-san was the first to move.

When his gaze, which had been looking elsewhere the whole time, turned toward her, Lee Seol averted her eyes like a girl caught stealing glances at her crush.

“I want to ruin a wedding. Do you think that’s possible?”

“…What?”

“If I wanted that woman’s marriage to fall through, could you make that happen?”

Lee Seol froze at the unexpected question. As if finding her reaction amusing, Tae-san chuckled.

“Why are you surprised? You’ve done everything I’ve asked you to do so far.”

Tae-san put his glass down on the table and leaned toward Lee Seol.

He was still on the sofa while Lee Seol was below it, but strangely, a suffocating tension washed over her.

“Are you serious?”

“If I said I was, what would you answer?”

Looking at that face still wearing a smile, she couldn’t tell at all whether he was joking or being serious.

Lee Seol moistened her dry lips with her tongue and revealed her honest thoughts.

“…I’m prepared to do anything you ask me to do, but I don’t want to become a saboteur who ruins other people’s lives.”

Since she was told she was honest without pretense, she decided to be a bit more brazen.

When Lee Seol flatly refused, Tae-san laughed again as if he had expected as much.

But now even that laughter somehow felt bitter, making her heart ache strangely.

“I was going to fire you if you had agreed, so that’s fortunate.”

He shrugged and put on a serious expression again.

“From now on, if I give you such irrational, absolutely unacceptable orders, firmly refuse and say no. Disobey me.”

“…”

“Since you handle even difficult tasks so well every time, it makes me want to ask you to do ridiculous things too.”

Tae-san suddenly swayed his head as if the alcohol was hitting him hard.

Before Lee Seol could try to support him, the man collapsed with his head leaning on her shoulder.

“Department Head?”

“…”

“Department Head.”

“…”

“Department Head Kang Tae-san.”

Whether he was really drunk and unconscious, there was no response even when she called his name.

Lee Seol carefully grabbed his arm. It was hot and firm.

But why was her heart beating wildly like some pervert?

In her head, she knew she should carefully lay him down on the sofa, but her body remained frozen as if stiff.

It seemed she was nervous because it had been a long time since she’d been this close to a man.

But Lee Seol soon tried to come to her senses by poking her own leg.

‘Why am I nervous? This is work, work. I’m taking care of my boss.’

Lee Seol, who had scolded herself inwardly, grabbed his shoulder as if supporting him and slowly stood up.

However, the unconscious man’s body was much heavier than expected.

She had only tried to lay him down on the sofa, but Tae-san’s head tilted back and his center of gravity shifted suddenly.

“Ah!”

Her unstable posture collapsed as it was, and Lee Seol fell forward without even having time to swallow her scream.

As a result, she bumped her nose into his chest.

Due to the throbbing pain, Lee Seol couldn’t immediately get up and remained still for a moment.

The moment she barely managed to step on the ground with her twisted foot and raised her head, the man who was still lying with his eyes closed like he was dead came into view.

‘He’s not waking up even after all this.’

She was relieved for a moment that her unseemly appearance hadn’t been discovered.

Lee Seol, who became aware of herself being held in Kang Tae-san’s arms, suddenly held her breath.

“I, I must be crazy!”

She hurriedly placed her hands on the sofa and lifted her body from the man’s embrace.

Lee Seol, who had barely regained her balance and stood up, felt her gaze naturally drawn to Tae-san’s face.

Perhaps because he was no longer speaking.

The sleeping man’s face was noble and quite pretty.

Especially the curve that fell from his forehead through his nose to his chin was ridiculously perfect.

Lee Seol unconsciously raised her finger in the air and traced the line from his forehead to his chin. That’s when it happened.

Tae-san moved slightly as if his position was uncomfortable, and Lee Seol was startled like someone caught doing something wrong and stepped back.

With a premonition that it would be dangerous to stay in the same space, Lee Seol began to tidy up the surroundings.

She put the scattered items on the floor back in their places, then brought a pillow and blanket from the bed and placed them on the sofa.

When she slowly laid him on his side while cradling Tae-san’s head, he moved limply and lay down with his head on the pillow.

Lee Seol, who had covered him with the blanket, cleared away the nearly empty whiskey bottle and empty glass.

Then she gathered her things and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

The space wasn’t hot, but her heart had been beating rapidly due to the series of events that had just occurred.

But now her heart raced just from looking at Tae-san’s face.

“Why am I like this, really…”

Looking at him from a distance, his earlier forlorn face naturally came to mind overlapping.

Just as movies with plot twists are interesting, people are also more intriguing when they show unexpected sides.

Seeing someone who seemed to have lived looking down on love suffering from heartbreak was surprisingly fascinating and interesting.

Now that she knew that even someone like Kang Tae-san had imperfect parts, something he yearned for but couldn’t have, and that deficiencies existed.

Lee Seol looked at Tae-san and revised her previous assessment of him.

She didn’t know if this was romantic interest. However, what was certain was that Tae-san wasn’t as difficult as before.

Lee Seol recalled some writing she had seen somewhere.

That humans can’t help but love other humans because we are all imperfect.

She felt like she could now empathize with words she couldn’t understand when she first read them. Through Tae-san.

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All the way home, the words Tae-san had said and his lonely face wouldn’t leave Lee Seol’s mind.

As if there were aftereffects from facing her boss’s unexpected deep side.

At first, she thought it was because she was worried about his pitiful appearance, but when she realized her mood was still gloomy even after washing and lying down, she was confused.

Kang Tae-san was the one hurt and struggling with love, so why was her heart heavy too?

“Stop thinking about it. It’s surprising that he said such things, but so what? What are you going to do about it? Why do you keep thinking about it and making a fuss?”

Lee Seol looked at the ceiling and muttered reproachful words to herself.

She closed her eyes to sleep early, but various curiosities kept growing in her head.

What kind of person was the woman her boss had said he liked for a long time?

His attractive appearance alone seemed sufficient for him to fall in love, but somehow she felt there must be something more to her.

What kind of charm did she have that made her boss, who seemed like he wouldn’t bleed a drop even if pricked with a needle, think about marriage?

To think that the great Kang Tae-san was actually a pure romantic who only looked at one woman. There’s no plot twist like this…

Lee Seol, who thought going to sleep early was hopeless, eventually picked up her phone and accessed a portal site.

When she searched for her name, a profile surprisingly came up.

Looking at the photo, it was indeed the same person. She was currently working as a division head at a major corporation’s cosmetics subsidiary and was a fourth-generation chaebol.

She looked to see if there were any articles reported about the marriage, but there wasn’t a single article yet, perhaps because it was still confidential.

‘Then who could the groom be?’

To Lee Seol, Tae-san was also a perfect person with incredible specs, yet she was trying to marry someone else instead of him.

Just how amazing must that man be?

“But why am I like this?”

Since when have I been so interested in other people’s affairs? Why am I trying to dig into someone else’s private life?

Am I crazy? Are you going crazy too from working with that crazy Kang Tae-san?

Lee Seol belatedly came to her senses and put down her phone, but still couldn’t fall asleep.

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Bzzzz- Bzzzz-.

I didn’t know when I had fallen asleep, but I woke up to the vibrating sound of my phone.

I checked the screen, thinking there was only one person who would call me so suddenly like this.

I naturally thought it would be Tae-san, but an unfamiliar 010 number was displayed. What?

“…Yes, this is Han Lee Seol.”

[Sorry for contacting you so suddenly without any warning. This is Kang Tae-san’s father.]

I felt completely wide awake in an instant.

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