Startled, Hye-won frowned and turned around to retort, only to see a sleek, red, streamlined sports car.
Not a guy, but a girl.
Hye-won, recognizing who it was from the car at a glance, turned her head away.
Heo Semi, Planning Team 2 Team Leader.
As Hye-won and So-young moved to the side of the road, the driver’s side window rolled down beside them with a whirring sound.
“Lee Hye-won, Ms.
So-young, Are you just coming to work now?”
Black sunglasses for work first thing in the morning.
What was that about?
Semi, as full of pretense as her name suggested, acted as if she knew them.
“Can’t you tell by looking?
Do I have to explain every single thing?”
Hye-won replied in an ambiguous tone, neither formal nor informal.
So-young bowed politely to Semi, but when Hye-won, without even looking, threw out a resentful remark, Semi pouted and, as if to show off, stomped on the accelerator and drove away. This story is hosted at novelping.com.
Vroom-
Hye-won clicked her tongue in disapproval towards the rear of the sports car, which kicked up dust as it left.
Well, no matter what, the unavoidable bane of my existence in my life is you, Heo Semi.
She was the same age as Hye-won, not a ‘perfect daughter’ but a ‘daddy’s girl’, and the Team Leader of Planning Team 2 at Studio Oz.
As a typical example of a nepotism hire, she was also the CEO’s daughter.
They had opportunities to meet often since childhood, but they always maintained a distance like oil and water, so Hye-won neither liked nor disliked her.
And since Semi didn’t really excel at anything beyond her looks, she didn’t cause Hye-won any self-doubt or damage.
But wasn’t it said that if you stick together, your true colors are revealed?
Since Heo Semi joined this company three years ago, she and Hye-won have been openly hostile towards each other.
It would be better if their hostility stemmed from professional disagreements.
At Oz, Hye-won was the one who prepared the table for Semi, who only came to “just show up and take credit” and sometimes had to clean up the mess Semi made.
Moreover, in this day and age, being a Nepotism Hire usually brings uncomfortable scrutiny, but whether she was incredibly bold or simply lacked a conscience in her DNA from the start, she didn’t even pretend to work hard. This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
She wondered if she should praise her for being so consistently herself.
Filled with an ominous feeling since morning, Hye-won shivered as she entered the company entrance.
“Little Otters Choco and Brown!
Let’s go on an adventure with our best friends!”
As soon as she entered the entrance, a cheerful and cute song sung by children’s voices emanated from the first-floor lobby speakers.
It was the title song for the animation ‘Choco and Brown’.
‘Did you sleep well, my cute little ones?’
A pleased smile appeared on Hye-won’s face, which had been frowning just moments before.
To her, these characters were like her own children.
She first joined Planning Team 1, and everything from planning to production and launch passed through her hands.
The product is also Studio Oz’s main revenue generator to this day.
Every morning, her mind and body, crumpled by the hellish commute, would brighten up as if nothing had happened when she entered the entrance adorned with ‘Choco and Brown’ posters.
Of course, it was only for a fleeting moment, as short as a fingernail.