Chapter 15
Chapter 15
Ch. 15 .｡.:✧ When the Team Leader is Obsessive, There are Many Overtime Nights - 6 ✧:.｡.
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Translator: Chaos
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Her family was poor but she was outstanding.
Therefore, she couldn’t spend a lot of time searching for a job.
She had to earn her keep as soon as possible.
That’s how Lee Mina ended up getting a job at her current company and she sent most of her income home.
The place she belonged to was too shabby to be called a department.
It was a superficial organization run by an executive who had been pushed aside politically.
The executive, who had lost his support base, was not passionate about his work and all kinds of miscellaneous office tasks became her responsibility.
That’s how her superiors and colleagues around her left.
And she was left alone.
She, who had been outstanding, suffered a great blow to her pride.
Yet, there was nothing she could do to resist.
The meager monthly salary that came in at the end of each month was her only consolation.
That’s how the days repeated.
A series of meaningless tasks.
Her body and mind were gradually becoming exhausted.
‘Was this the kind of life I was trying so hard to achieve?’
Self-questioning and self-answering.
Her world was gradually turning monochrome.
Then one day.
A newcomer joined the department.
One executive, her, and one newcomer.
A state that was too embarrassing to even be called a department.
“Hello. I’m the new employee, Kang In-ho. Please take care of me.”
Even though a handsome newcomer had joined, she didn’t think much of it.
She just thought that she had more work to do.
“Why did you apply for this position, In-ho-ssi?”
It was the first personal question she asked him a few days after he joined.
“I thought that if it’s here, the results of my efforts will be recognized as achievements.”
He answered innocently.
She smiled inwardly, thinking it was just a naive ambition of a recent graduate.
But she soon changed her mind.
The newcomer was enthusiastic about everything, and his sociable personality was well-regarded in other departments.
The image of her team as a place with problematic personnel was gradually fading, and the proposals he occasionally brought were somewhat rough, but they were full of brilliant ideas.
For the first time, she started to find work enjoyable.
The amount of time she spent at the company started to increase little by little, and sometimes, she even volunteered to work on weekends with the newcomer, working all day.
She still remembers the taste of the coffee that she shared with him in the empty office.
The iced Americano that he had bought to quench his thirst in the hot summer.
She loved that bitter and cold drink very much.
Just as the time she spent with him was becoming happier, a change came.
As the team she belonged to gradually started to produce results, the higher-ups started to pay attention.
They pushed out the original executive and appointed an executive who was likely to be successful.
And they started to replenish the staff.
Sometimes through reassignment, sometimes through new recruitment.
The size of the team grew, and she became a team leader.
However, he declined any promotion, saying it felt burdensome.
“Shouldn’t you at least be a section chief?”
She asked during his meeting with the executive when he once again refused a leadership role.
“I’m not the type of person who can manage anyone. I know my limits very well. I’m more suited to hands-on work.”
“I see. A person who’s so good at practical work. It would be a loss for the team if we sent you anywhere else.”
She smiled faintly and subtly revealed her inner thoughts.
“Hey, where would I go? Don’t worry, I’ll keep working with Mina-nim. When you think about it, these are the results that we achieved together.”
He answered with a bright smile to her words.
She loved the word ‘we’ very much, and her heart was overflowing.
She thought that this time would last forever.
She firmly believed that only she and him would exist within the boundaries of the ‘we’ that he spoke of.
But that wasn’t the case.
He, who remained just an ordinary employee, was struggling with the increasing workload, and she was often called to leader meetings for organizational management rather than practical work.
The time they spent together gradually decreased, and she didn’t like that.
And she didn’t like those vermins who talked to him as if they were close.
He was her only refuge, her healing.
He was the trophy she had obtained by overcoming her monochrome days.
But the vermins, who didn’t know that, were eyeing her possession with light hearts.
Because he was handsome, because he was kind.
She didn’t like that.
But she wouldn’t show it.
She made up her mind like that.
That’s why she gave him too much work.
Because the longer his overtime was, the longer the time he spent with her would be.
He looked tired, but she thought it was an unavoidable sacrifice.
Then one day.
His attitude changed.
He, who had always smiled at her, looked at her with an emotionless face.
His attitude, which had always been positive, was severely cold.
‘Is it because of me?’
Was he perhaps angry?
She was suddenly terrified.
Her heart started to beat like crazy when she thought that he might suddenly leave.
‘I have to apologize.’
Only that thought came to mind.
When she went to see him and talked to him, he didn’t seem to be as angry as she had thought.
He just looked a little tired.
She thought that she had done well to find him and talk to him.
Thanks to that, she had heard him call her ‘noona’ too.
She would get closer to him while restoring their relationship like this.
She made a resolution as she was returning after giving him the porridge.
But that was her delusion.
That weekend, her phone buzzed with an alert—someone from her team had clocked in for weekend work.
When she realized that he had come to work, she rushed to the company.
Her face was full of unconcealable joy as she headed to the company.
But that was only for a moment.
While sitting at his desk, which he had left for a moment, she noticed something strange while looking at the screen.
“Recruitment site?”
Is this… for a new job?
Why? Why? Weren’t we okay?
You said you would always be together.
That we would work together forever.
Why did your heart change?
Since when did you have these thoughts?
Thoughts consumed her, tearing her apart.
The headache intensified, and she saw him return to his seat.
*Snap.*
It felt as if something inside her had snapped.
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