The Country Life Diary of a Gangster's Secretary

Chapter 20

The Country Life Diary of a Gangster's Secretary - c20

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It was after telling Hyeseong that he would process his resignation and instructing Deok-soo to find out where he was going from now on.

The sense of achievement upon receiving the news of being selected as the redevelopment construction company for Haewon City quickly faded away. Hyeseong left Taesung. The Cheon Hyeseong who always came in at the same time and said good morning with an expressionless face was gone. Until a suitable replacement was found, one secretary was to take over that position, but Ihyeok had no intention of bringing in his successor.

As executives congratulated each other on being selected as the construction company and applauded for their hard work, only Ihyeok was sitting alone. Perhaps it was because the person he wanted to celebrate with was no longer here. Eventually, he went out to the outdoor rest area.

Ihyeok went to the corner where he would be least noticeable and lit a cigarette. He didn’t want rumors circulating among the employees that the CEO was smoking here with a sad face.

“Hey, I heard Manager Kim from PR Team 1 is quitting?”

He thought there wouldn’t be many people in the rest area since it was before lunchtime, but that wasn’t the case. Two male employees were slowly coming out to the rest area with instant coffee.

“Yeah. He said he’s quitting after this month. His reputation within the company was good, so why?”

“What, you didn’t hear?”

The conversations employees had when they gathered were all the same anyway. Complaining about superiors. Gossiping about colleagues. The rumors circulating in the company always got distorted and exaggerated like this. Ihyeok didn’t want to make an issue out of each one.

“It’s because of Manager Kim’s lover, isn’t it?”

“Lover?”

“Yeah. They both used to live in Seoul, but apparently, his lover suddenly said he was moving to the countryside. But you know what? That person is a total romantic.”

“So you’re saying he’s quitting to go down together?”

The conversation that he normally wouldn’t have been interested in strangely stuck in his ears. It might be because it had a similar pattern to one of the many hypotheses Ihyeok was currently forming in his head.

“That’s what I’m saying. It’s amazing. How much do you have to be into your lover to quit a good job and go to the countryside? I could never do that.”

Ihyeok took out the cigarette he was holding and fell into thought for a moment.

“True love and all that. I believe in those things. Enough to want to promise forever with someone like that someday.”

Hyeseong’s words that he heard while attending a wedding the other day. It was truly unheard of, and he didn’t know Hyeseong had such thoughts. Cheon Hyeseong had no interest in the feeling of liking someone, let alone dating.

The Hyeseong he knew, the one he had seen until now, was that kind of kid. Then what was that? It didn’t seem like something he said simply to refute his way of thinking. His eyes looked too sincere for anyone to feel that way.

Then something changed Hyeseong’s mind. The kiss mark. The sudden resignation and saying he’s moving far away to the countryside. It felt like all of that was coming together as one.

Cheon Hyeseong met someone he wanted to spend forever with, and he wanted to move to the countryside because of that person. The answer was clear.

In fact, allowing the resignation was also to gauge his true feelings. He expected that Hyeseong’s determination would crack a little if he, who had been continuously persuading him, said he would process the resignation.

Since he had a personality that always hid his true feelings, perhaps he would reveal his intentions behind his impulsive actions only when the day of resignation actually approached. Or maybe he wouldn’t retract his decision to resign. That’s what he had assumed.

But Hyeseong left without a moment’s hesitation.

“Damn it.”

When he saw the empty desk and the flawlessly prepared handover materials, Ihyeok immediately called Deok-soo. He told him to quickly find out about Hyeseong’s residence and where he had moved to.@@@@

In Ihyeok’s mind, there was an image of Hyeseong enjoying rural life with some unknown person, laughing and having a good time.

* * *

“I fucking hate it.”

Even so, whenever he was given a vacation, he would go on trips abroad or domestically, and Ihyeok naturally thought he would have gone alone or with his aunt.

But he went on all those trips with a guy named Park Dohyun or whatever?

“The first person Hyeseong met as soon as Park Dohyun first came to Korea was also him. It seems they have a regular restaurant they frequently go to together. Some pork belly place.”

That’s right. It was.

On the day he discovered the kiss mark on Hyeseong’s neck, the two of them were alone at a pork belly restaurant. He doesn’t drink with him but has a regular place he often goes to with someone else.

Although he didn’t know when Park Dohyun came to Korea, if they had been meeting even before that, it wasn’t impossible.

“Damn it.”

No, if he had to pinpoint it, that was the most likely possibility at the moment. They say you can’t see what’s right under your nose. There was nothing wrong with old sayings. He thought it would be someone he had just met, but it turned out to be someone he had known for a long time.

“Deok-soo.”

“Yes.”

Deok-soo, who immediately noticed the change in Ihyeok’s voice, answered with a voice full of spirit.

“Find out everything about that guy named Park Dohyun or whatever.”

“Yes. But if it’s an additional request...”

“You think I’d cheat you out of money? Don’t piss me off.”

Then Deok-soo said he understood in a dejected voice.

“Ah, hyung. But...”

As he was about to hang up, Deok-soo spoke again in a slightly unconfident voice.

“What.”

“Is Hyung sick or something?”

“What are you talking about? Why would Hyeseong be sick?”

Hyeseong was also the one who told him to quit smoking if he didn’t want to die early. He knew he took meticulous care of himself on a regular basis.

“Right? Hahaha, no. Just asking...”

“Spit it out. I’ll give you 3 seconds.”

“Ah, wait! It’s nothing else, but while looking into his surroundings, I unintentionally found out about hyung’s recent whereabouts.”

Deok-soo seemed to still feel uncomfortable and bothered by digging into Hyeseong’s background.

“But hyung has been frequently going in and out of a university hospital recently. Yehyeon University Hospital, I think...”

If it was there, Ihyeok knew about it too. There was a time when he took Hyeseong there when he wasn’t feeling well, but he didn’t know he went there regularly.

“Regularly? Are you sure?”

“Yes. What department was it... Ah, the Constitution Department? I think he goes there...”

“Constitution Department?”

Ihyeok’s face distorted as if he couldn’t understand.

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