Absolute Advantage - Chapter 70.1

“I’m disappointed” Chairman Seo clucked her tongue.

“I raised you like my real child.”

Haewon kept her mouth shut.

Chairman Seo, who was watching Haewon sitting foolishly like a broken machine, turned to a teacup.

“The tea is cold.”

“I’ll pour it for you.”

The employee who was waiting next to her answered quickly.

The tea filled the glass with a crash. Chairman Seo looked at the employee’s thin and white wrist exposed out of her sleeve.

“Hold on.”

Chairman Seo grabbed the employee’s wrist.

“I’ve never seen her before.”

Chairman Seo turned his head obliquely and looked carefully at the employee’s face. Then she asked Butler Kim.

“Butler Kim. Don’t you know I don’t like increasing staff?”

“She’s the second daughter of the Gimcheon family. As her mother quit, this person came in. She’s been working for three months now.”

“Really?”

Gimcheon House was an employee who worked at Seo Hwa-ok for quite a long time. Chairman Seo muttered as she tore apart the face of the new employee.

“You look alike.”

Chairman Seo was suspicious and let go of the hand she was holding. The employee who stepped back carefully smoothed her wrist.

“Keep your mouth under control.”

“Yes, Chairman”

Butler Kim bowed politely. The employee also took a step back and bowed politely.

While Chairman Seo tasted the tea after the meal, Haewon was frozen without even touching the tea cup.

* * *

“Ugh.”

Haewon threw up everything she ate. She was in a bad condition, so she could not return home and stayed in Seo Hwa-ok. She took her body off the toilet. Hae-won gasped with her back against the bathroom wall.

“Ha, ha….”

She had a throbbing headache. Her body was heated up. It wasn’t a heat. She only felt the pain as if her bones were going to break.

Hae-won, who barely rinsed her mouth, stumbled out of the bathroom.

‘From today, this is your room.’

The face of Gimcheon House’s employee, who was guiding the room on behalf of Chairman Seo, was in her head.

The employee felt sorry for Hae-won, who was bullied by her sisters, and Hae-won also remembers relying on her who took care of her like a child.

Haewon staggered to the front of the bed.

Her body collapsed on the bed.

The sheet smelled of fabric softener whether the employee had washed the blanket. It was the same scent she smelled when she first came to Seo Hwa-ok. It still seemed to be using the same product.

‘Things are the same, but only people have changed.’

Hae-won lay down with one cheek on the pillow.

When she was young, she lived with her father in a house smaller than this room. So when she first saw the room, she thought of her father first.

Her father used to tell her to endure the hard living conditions for a while because he would buy her a big house, nice clothes, delicious food – everything.

What was he thinking? She wondered how he felt.

Did he really take her with her as his last cash cow?

It was not until she became an adult that Hae-won had a lot of things she wanted to ask her father. But there was no one to answer, so it was a mystery that would never be solved.

Old memories kept coming to mind. It was not because the appearance of the room after several years stimulated nostalgia.

Haewon just didn’t try to stop thinking. Rather, she thought of it more desperately. She was running cowardly into the past to turn a blind eye to the present pain.

‘I’m trying to move up the wedding schedule and have a child as soon as possible.’

‘I’m going to use Sera’s genes.’

As Chairman Seo’s voice brushed against the brain, she came up again. Haewon bounced out like a spring and ran to the bathroom.

“Ugh…!”

She was nauseous but had nothing coming out of her mouth.

Drip. Drip.

The only thing that finally fell to the surface was tears. Sobs leaked out of the helplessly open lips.

“Heuk, hic, ugh.….”

Hae-won’s hand, which was holding the cover of the toilet, slipped. Hae-won curled up like a shrimp on a bathroom tile and sniffed.

She doesn’t like it.

Adam’s connection with others.

* * *

“We planted a new garden tree at the eastern entrance. It will be much brighter in spring. And the basement equipment…….”

Chairman Seo received a report from Butler Kim while walking along the trail in front of the pond. Then she found Haewon’s car and stopped.

“Miss Haewon is sleeping in the main house.” Butler Kim, who noticed Chairman Seo’s gaze, answered quickly.

“She didn’t go back?”

“Yes, she said she was going to sleep one night, maybe because she wasn’t feeling well.”

“…….”

Chairman Seo was quiet for a moment. “I’ll watch the rest and listen to it next time.”

Chairman Seo turned around quickly. Butler Kim bowed politely to Chairman Seo’s back heading to the main building.

Chairman Seo climbed the stairs alone.

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