Chapter 37.1

The man standing alone in the elevator looked very precarious. The slowly narrowing elevator door seemed to eat a man.

“Seo Haewon? Why are you here?”

Ellie asked in astonishment.

Hae-won quickly straightened her head. Ellie was huffing and puffing like a patient. As Hae-won stood, Ellie strode up.

“Don’t stand there, stupid! Come inside for now. What?”

Ellie tiptoed over Haewon’s shoulder. It seemed as if she was monitoring who else Hae-won had brought.

“Close it! Hurry!”

“Oh.”

Hae-won reached for the door late, and Ellie couldn’t wait for that short time and closed the door herself.

Bang!

Hae-won shrugged his shoulders at a violent sound. Then she asked, calming her startled heart.

“What’s going on? Who is that person who just left?”

“It’s a sudden question. He’s annoying.”

“Did you– did you drink?”

Hae-won took a breath and looked at Ellie with astonishing eyes.

“Yes, I had a drink.”

Ellie replied timidly.

“You promised not to drink when you’re working.”

She once lent money on that condition, and it was before Adam became her fiance. Of course, Ellie didn’t pay back her money or keep her promise. Even with money, alcohol was a real problem.

“Did I?”

“You did.”

“I don’t remember.”

“Well, you are drinking like that at the meeting.”

Hae-won followed Ellie back to her seat and continued to question her sibling. Standing in front of the desk, Ellie gulped down cold water.

“Tell me why you’re doing this. What’s with the text? What’s going on?”

“Oh, you’re my sister. Yes…….”

Ellie, raising her voice, stuttered and blurred the end of her words.

‘Don’t touch Seo Haewon. Did you understand?’

‘Oh, I got it……! I won’t even talk to her!’

Even if she wants to not talk to her, what should she do when she comes and picks a fight? Ellie chewed her lower lip.

Let’s make her join the team. Ellie immediately looked down at Haewon.

And she started to make excuses.

“Yeah. I’m having a hard time these days.”

“?”

“The actor in our company got caught drunk driving. Because of that, his drama was canceled, and I went in and out of the police station several times to be investigated with him.”

“It was half a year ago, right?”

When Hae-won asked, Ellie tapped her chest with her fist as if she were angry.

“These days, broadcasting companies send problems out all day and night. I’m a pushover here. Damn……!”

Ellie shot back as if she was wrongly accused.

“So you were drinking?”

In fact, it was Ellie who drank and drove that day. However, due to the quick action of the HR team, the actor sitting in the passenger seat became a victim. Naturally, Haewon would not have known this.

“That’s why you took it out on someone who just left?”

“Hey, w-what do you think I am……! He came to me to help him with his work, so I bothered him. He’s not a kid from our agency.”

Ellie asked back with her eyes wide open. Still, when Hae-won gave a distrustful look, Ellie made a loud whine.

“Tsk. I also sent that text to you because I wanted to live well. I don’t want to cause trouble everywhere…! Don’t you believe in my words that you’re an older sister?”

Ellie’s voice trembled slightly.

It was a great performance that would have been really refreshing for a stranger to watch. In the case of Haewon, she knew Ellie, so she was even more shaken by this.

“And, Seo Hae-won.”

“?”

“You have a problem too. Why do you keep accepting my foolishness? You are the way I am!”

“That’s,”

Haewon bowed her head.

Others would have retorted, asking what nonsense that was, but Hae-won felt like she was to blame.

Ellie, who usually treated Haewon as an invisible man, sometimes came and made a wail. The reasons were varied. But in the end, she always asked for money.

She’s afraid she will let her down if she visits her mother, and Sera will scold her. The only thing to believe in is Seo Hae-won; at that time, she blamed herself for everything.

Seo Hae-won was the only one.

When she heard that, she was happy that Ellie recognized her as an older sister and a family.

When she was a student, she was a member of a family who was willing to do anything for her, but she was excited that she could take care of her younger sister only when she became an adult.

I think I’ve done my part right.

So she readily lent her the money.

But the result was disastrous. After all, Ellie came to borrow money the other day and had a fight with her fiance.