Chapter 307 (1/2)
“You should drink some too, oppa.”
Bitna filled Janghae’s glass.
“Weren’t you going to play golf today?”
They were in a relationship where they had to reserve each other’s time to meet, as a form of respect that is. Also, both of them were busy. They couldn’t meet whenever they wanted to. But today, Janghae told her one-sidedly that he wanted to meet her. Bitna accepted since she was free at that time, but she was curious. Why did this meticulous man suddenly want to meet her?
“It got canceled.”
“Now that makes me disappointed. So you called me just because your appointment got canceled?”
“Then should I leave?”
“Whatever,” saying those words, Bitna fell over on his lap.
Although she had said those words, she was very happy that he came to meet her while she was free. Janghae stroked her hair.
“We should’ve met somewhere else. I mean, you seem hungry.”
“We can’t be like this in other places.”
“Is that so?”
Bitna ate the grapes that Janghae fed her. Janghae was the type of person who would immediately voice his opinion out loud if his mind was set on it. The fact that he was keeping quiet meant that he was organizing his thoughts. She didn’t need to urge him to speak.
“It’s very interesting when I think of it as a challenge. It hasn’t been a long time since that last happened,” Janghae spoke after a long while.
“A challenge?”
“Yeah.”
“Didn’t you achieve everything you wanted though? Being a senior managing director is a position everyone would be envious of, isn’t it?”
“Still, that’s all I amount to - a senior managing director. I’m also fifty-five this year. I don’t see a way up so it’s about time I switch lanes.”
“You’re fifty-five already, oppa? You’re really old.”
“I have a young-looking face, so it’s okay.”
“That’s true.”
Bitna stroked Janghae’s face and giggled. When she first met this man, she was very scared of him. He looked like he would shoot lasers from his eyes. Though now, she was able to speak to him warmly.
“Does the company want you to leave?”
“I guess it’s something similar.”
Janghae faintly smiled.
“Hm?”
“It’s kinda what I’ve been doing until now, but I’ve been put in charge of something rather vague. There’s a child company that a subsidiary of our corporation made, and I’m planning to work there.”
“Vague? What do you mean vague?”
“It’s distribution work, but I’ll be mostly dealing with people and music. Perhaps celebrities too.”
“What? Music? Celebrities? Haha, that’s so funny. It doesn’t suit you.”
“So what, you sell albums or the like?”
“I’ll be dealing with web contents and setting up a platform, but I won’t be dealing with any physical media.”
“What the heck is that? That sounds so difficult.”
Bitna shut Janghae up by stuffing a piece of watermelon in his mouth. Janghae quietly ate the watermelon and just stared at her. Just then, the door suddenly swung open and two men entered. There were an uneasy-looking waiter and one little madam behind the two.
“What the heck is this place? Why do you want us to go in here?”
One of the two men entered the room with a disdainful smile on his face. The waiter and the little madam looked at Janghae before bowing their heads.
“Hm, who’s this woman here? Haven’t seen her around here.”
“Uhm, sir….”
The man hit the waiter’s hand away.
“Just wait. I’m a good man here. I don’t do bad things. It’s just that I saw a madam I haven’t seen around here, so I’m just curious.”
“She’s not a madam but….”
“Hm?”
Bitna sighed and stood up to speak in the waiter’s stead.
“Hello? If you entered the wrong room, then just leave quietly.”
“Gee, woman. Look at her mouth. She’s charming.”
The two men giggled. Bitna laughed and walked up to them. She looked at them directly in the eyes and stood there for a while. The two men with bad attitudes suddenly froze stiff.
“What the heck are you doing to your customer?”
“Customer? I don’t need customers like you.”
“Are you fucking crazy, woman? Get the owner here.”
“She’s right in front of you. Go ahead and speak.”
“Wh-what?”
“I said speak. You’re talking to the owner right now.”
Bitna noticed that the little madam standing behind the two men was very uneasy while looking at Janghae. Were these two brought here by Janghae then? When she didn’t say anything, the two men looked at each other before frowning.
“You’re the owner? What about madam Park?”
“That big unni is the big madam of the store, while I own this building.”
Who the heck are you calling madam - Bitna frowned. At that moment, the senior managing director, the head manager and the big madam appeared. The two men looked at both sides before starting to cough awkwardly.
“Big sis. Who are these two? You know them?” She asked the big madam.
Before the big madam even spoke, someone else replied.
“Manager Lee, Manager Cha.”
The two men became shocked out of their wits when they heard Janghae’s voice.
“S-senior director Hong?”
“So the managers of team 1 and team 3 were out because of work to do, but you two were actually here? You put the little duckling on phone duty, while the assistant manager is at a sauna. That’s a good company right there. Don’t you think?”
“S-senior director….”
“Fellas, I told you, didn’t I? That you should stay quiet until I leave? Why do you give menial work to someone who's about to leave on a good note? The newbie in team 3 of store business doesn’t know my face either. Also, when I asked him where the rest of the team went, that newbie asked me ‘who are you’. Also, he blatantly said that some went to the sauna during work. Haa, that was a week ago. Did you know that?”
“W-we didn’t.”
“ARE YOU FUCKING PROUD OF THAT NOW?”
Janghae picked up some watermelon peels and threw them at the two men. A peel hit one man’s head before falling down on the ground.
“Fucking pricks.”
“S-sorry, sir!”
The two men lowered their heads.
Janghae heaved a deep sigh before speaking.
“You don’t have to be sorry. Oh, and I want to say this. I was going to play golf with the president and general manager Kim, but I told them that I canceled it because of two certain people. How’s that, interesting, isn’t it? Why don’t you go to work tomorrow and have a look at general manager Kim’s face? It’ll be quite fun.”
The two managers left the room in a fluster when Hong Janghae told them to fuck off. The little madam told the waiter to call the parking boy.
“Big unni, are those two regulars?”
“No, they’re just casuals. You don’t need to worry about them.”
“Okay then.”
“Rather than that, president, can I talk to you about the band payment and the prepaid salary for the girls?”
“Talk to the senior director for that. I just manage a couple of our aces for fun, so I don’t know that stuff in detail.”
“Okay, sorry for disturbing you. Please rest.”
“Alright.”
The waiter quickly mopped the floor before leaving.
Bitna approached Janghae who was resting his face on his hand with a tired face.
“I was wondering why you wanted to meet me here, so this was the reason. I knew you aren’t the kind of man who’d look for me for no reason. Also, don’t be so angry. It’s not good for your body.”
“Fuu, those idiots cause me a headache.”
“This won’t do. Get up. You look gloomy, and I think you need to eat.”
Bitna pulled Janghae up. Janghae followed her lead and stood up unwillingly.
“How was my restaurant that we went to last time? Wasn’t the steak decent?”