Chapter 36.1

Thinking about the humiliation suffered from Adam, her teeth cracked even in her sleep. However, when she talked behind her back with her sister like this, her congestion went away as if she had taken digestive medicine.

“I’m really pissed off.”

“?”

“Everything looks gloomy.”

“What happened to you?”

Ellie paused at Sera’s sharp question.

“What happened? Haha, nothing.”

Ellie, who was awkward for no reason, reached out to the cup, stirring one hand. She’s thirsty because she thinks she has been caught.

Clink!

However, the water cup fell to the floor as the hand slipped. The sister’s conversation was interrupted with a loud burst.

“Are you all right, madam?”

“Why are you making a glass, damn it!”

Ellie burst into a rage as the waiter approached. The employee sat on the floor and repeatedly apologized, clearing the glass pieces with his bare hands.

“I-I’m sorry.”

“Oh, come on. Call the manager. Are you one?”

“No, I’m an employee…….”

“A part-timer or a staff member. Do I need an apology from a guy like you?”

Ellie snorted.

“I’m sorry…….”

The waiter bowed his head again.

“You’re a funny guy, too.”

Sera, who was watching silently, stepped in.

“We’ve never asked you to apologize, but why do you keep apologizing and turning us into overpowering people?”

The employee, who was saying sorry, shut up. Sera rose from her chair and stood in front of the waiter.

“Call the manager.”

“Ugh!”

Sera stamped on the employee’s hand. She leaned over and whispered.

“I can’t feel the sincerity when I hear 100 apologies from a part-timer.”

Red blood spread under Sera’s feet.

Sera smirked, took out a check out of her purse, and flung it on the floor.

“This is the cost of treatment.”

* * *

[You don’t have to lend me money. And don’t contact me for a while.]

Hae-won was upset all day by the text from Ellie.

What’s the point of saying this after a week? Is there something going on?

Eventually, she decided to visit Ellie. As soon as Hae-won got off work, she drove to Gangnam.

Seohwa Entertainment’s headquarters were located at the Seohwa Group’s office, but Ellie, the CEO, commuted to an office set up in Gangnam.

It was an open secret that Seo Ellie, a promiscuous person, set up a branch to avoid Chairman Seo’s surveillance. It is also true that Chairman Seo turns a blind eye to the fact.

“CEO Seo Haewon.”

“Hello.”

When she entered the building, an employee who recognized her greeted her and pressed the elevator button.

The representative office was on the top floor.

Hae-won checked her reflection in the elevator mirror. There was a red mark on her neck.

Last night Adam left a trail of love affairs all over her body, and the nape of her neck was no exception.

Haewon pulled her turtleneck up slightly.

It was fortunate that it could be covered with clothes. But it was hard to walk, too. Her stomach and inner thighs were throbbing with every step she took.

Ding.

The elevator door opened with a bell.

The wide corridor led coolly to the edge of the building. There were frames on the hallway wall, not pictures of celebrities but movie posters.

Hae-won looked at the woman in the poster from afar.

Strongly raised seagull-shaped eyebrows and half-curly hair were her trademarks.

An actress of the time.

Seo Kwon-jin.

With her neutral appearance and generous personality, she enjoyed sensational popularity regardless of age and gender.

Not to mention her acting skills. She had a wide range of acting, from authentic historical dramas to modern movies, and dangerous action acting was also performed directly without stunts.

However, Seo Kwon-jin temporarily retired from the film industry after winning the lead award for the first time in Korea at a prestigious international film festival.

Since then, rumors have been circulating that Seo Kwon-jin has argued with Seo Woo-hee over the succession of their group’s management rights.

But Haewon did not believe the rumor. Ellie wouldn’t have decorated her office building with Seo Kwon-jin’s poster if there was a real disagreement.

She plastered the hallway with pictures of her eldest aunt purely to look good to her mother in power.

‘Mother…’

Hae-won looked at her ‘real’ mother.

Standing in front of the portrait of her dead mother, she was filled with indescribable emotions. Is she really the child of a person who shines like this? There’s no resemblance.

As a child, Haewon didn’t even know her mother’s name, let alone her mother’s face. She was only vaguely aware that adults who sometimes came in suits and paid her father were people on the mother’s side.

The original longing for the existence of a mother. It was not until Chairman Seo collected her that the faint feeling began to gain weight.

“Your father was a piece of crap. On the other hand, my sister Seo Kwon-jin was a great alpha.’

Chairman Seo blatantly disdain Haewon’s father, Jeong Eun-chan. The word “brother-in-law” seemed terrible to say.