“…”
“Yes, Mr.
President.”
Unlike Hye-won, who remained silent, Team Leader Seo, perhaps because he was in front of the President, readily answered with a capitalist smile.
Next to him, Semi, a lookist, was smiling even more contentedly as she gazed at him.
I can’t stand any of them.
Hye-won bowed her head to the President without an ounce of sincerity, then hurried towards the emergency stairs, hearing footsteps follow her.
“Um.
Assistant Manager Lee.
So, if we go down, we can brief right away…”
“Oh, Team Leader.
I’m afraid it’ll be difficult for me this morning due to checking storyboards.
Would it be all right to do the briefing this afternoon?”
Hye-won interrupted him with the most polite and apologetic expression she could muster.
It was a high-level skill she used to put up an impenetrable wall against others. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
“Well.
Alright then.”
“Yes, thank you.”
Hye-won’s expression, as she had been smiling sweetly and bowing her head, completely changed the moment she turned her back.
Her insides were still boiling, and she felt she couldn’t possibly brief him face-to-face right away.
As Hye-won returned to her seat and slumped down, the sound of his scoff still echoed in her mind.
At that moment, she had been so angry that she almost stormed out of the conference room to confront him, but seeing his face, she felt awkward to directly ask why he had scoffed earlier.
If he were to deny it, she would just look like she was throwing a tantrum because she’d been passed over for promotion, which was exactly the kind of talk she wanted to avoid.
Hye-won glared at the back of Team Leader Seo’s head as he passed her desk, looking as if she wanted to hit him.
Ugh.
* * *
“Assistant Manager Lee?”
Team Leader Seo came out of his office and called out to Hye-won as he approached her.
It was obviously about the briefing.
Hye-won gathered a stack of storyboards, stood up from her seat, and said.
“Oh, what to do?
I just got a call from the Production Department.”
Inside, she thought, ‘It won’t be easy to get this briefing out of me.’
It continued like that.
“Assistant Manager Lee?”
“I’ll just hand this over to Team 2 and be right back.”
She said, shaking a clear file.
“Assistant Manager Lee?”
This time, Hye-won pointed to the phone at her ear with her finger, mouthed ‘I’m on the phone,’ and smiled it off.
Hye-won rebuffed Team Leader Seo several times in this manner.
It was a bit of a petty method, but for now, it was the best revenge she could exact.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Team Leader Seo nodded each time as if he understood and let it go without much fuss.