Chapter 127
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: True Detective
Chapter: 126
Chapter Title: What Is Outstanding Work Ability?
-----------------------------------------------------------------
What is outstanding work ability?
Is it the knack for spotting tasks that need doing without being told? Skill at writing reports? Fluent presentation skills? Or maybe the political savvy to read the boss's mood?
Anyone who's spent time in the corporate trenches ends up with one or two personal survival tools. But out of all those skills, the ones most valued at the company where Hyunwoo worked were planning prowess and political maneuvering.
Given the nature of a public institution, the CEO's term was short. Unlike private companies with a clear owner, CEOs here were external hires picked to suit the current administration's tastes.
From one year to a maximum of three. To someone who was just passing through, visible results during their tenure were key—things that made for good press, flashy topics they could claim as their achievements.
Vision declaration ceremonies or flashy partnerships with big corporations were prime examples.
In the end, what mattered was flashy planning documents with no real deliverables or follow-through, and the politicking to get that empty shell approved.
That was exactly why Hyunwoo had long grown disgusted with this organization: the higher-ups who had neither skills nor substance, just layers of packaging and political games.
All the press releases about innovation and new visions changed nothing in the end. Maybe it was this structural flaw that kept government agencies and public institutions from adapting quickly to changing times.
'That's why Choi Go-eun is so impressive.'
The planning document from the Organizational Innovation TF Team she led was different from the usual ones dressed up in superficial packaging.
'If it had been anyone else...'
It would have been some content primed for easy headlines, with zero execution power. The field staff knew they'd be reassigned to other departments in a few years anyway, so they'd just deliver the bare-minimum shell to appease the bosses.
Projects like innovation or reorganization would end with a slick presentation, only to be scrapped when a new CEO arrived and the cycle repeated endlessly.
Efforts that went nowhere, leaving nothing behind. Just thinking about it made his irritation boil over.
'But not this time.'
Hyunwoo, who had personally presented the TF Team's plan to the board, knew better than anyone that this project wouldn't fizzle out after a pretty speech.
Choi Go-eun had obsessed over the details—workflows, budgets, timelines—to a fault. Her strength had always been her relentless drive to execute.
She prioritized execution over planning, and the CEO trusted her completely to push the project forward. That was why the employees pinned their hopes on the Organizational Innovation TF Team.
But for every ally, there were enemies. Those who had climbed the ranks in the rigid hierarchy through politicking and superficial plans weren't taking this lying down.
That made Team Leader Choi Go-eun's position the most watched in the company—a hotbed of expectations, worries, support, and opposition.
"Haa... Ungh..."
Choi Go-eun, a core player at the heart of it all, was hunched uncomfortably in her office chair that Monday morning, the start of the week, groaning audibly.
"Good morning."
"Hello, Team Leader."
Team members trickled into the office one by one.
"Yes..."
The usual Choi Go-eun would have exchanged bright greetings and eye contact with each one, but today she kept her head bowed, her voice barely audible.
"Haa... haa..."
'Just you wait till Deputy Manager Yi gets here.'
She had two meetings with operational departments scheduled for the morning.
One was with the PR Team to handle press coverage and media responses. She didn't love facing the media, but as a public institution serving citizens, some external promotion was necessary.
Normally, she'd be reviewing materials in preparation, but she couldn't focus on the report in front of her.
'Focus on the meeting prep, Choi Go-eun!'
The truth was, she'd spent the entire weekend at Hyunwoo's place, tormented by him after losing that bet—which explained the T-panties and fishnet bra she was forced into.
Hyunwoo could go all night if he set his mind to it, but this time was different. By the time she came to, it was already Monday morning.
The combination of her voluptuous body and provocative lingerie had driven him to pound away mindlessly for two straight days.
'Haa... I'm exhausted.'
No sleep, no rest—just nonstop sex. Of course she was wiped out. She'd even skipped her dawn swim due to the rough shape she was in.
'I can't keep doing this...'
For over ten years at the company, she'd stuck rigidly to her routines. But ever since meeting Hyunwoo, she felt her life slowly unraveling.
Waxing salons... a man's bachelor pad for the first time... and...
"Haa... ungh..."
This was almost the first time she'd been unable to focus on work in the office.
It wasn't just the physical toll from the weekend romp. She'd always made sure personal matters never bled into work hours.
She could tough out this level of fatigue with her mental strength alone. But the unpleasant foreign sensation from her buttocks—precisely, her anus—was driving her insane.
'Seriously...'
She couldn't fathom why she had to endure this in the office or how it had come to this.
'Heh heh heh...'
Seated at his desk after arriving, Hyunwoo glanced up to check on Choi Go-eun. Her expression was nothing like usual.
'It's working perfectly.'
The moment he'd learned her [Disposition] was anal, he'd stocked up on related toys.
He hadn't been into anal before, but to fully conquer her, he figured it'd be necessary down the line.
That said, after seeing her writhe from just fingertip teasing around her anus, the contrast with her usual charismatic self made him crave tormenting her more.
Like how his sadistic side had awakened with Eun Seol, watching Choi Go-eun grit her teeth against the shame, her buttocks trembling with unwanted pleasure, sparked an interest in anal play he'd never considered before.
So, over the weekend, once sex had left her utterly exhausted and defenseless, he'd inserted the prepared anal plug into her rear.
As a total novice who squealed from even a single knuckle, he chose the smallest size, slathered it in gel, and eased it in gently with careful twists.
And then—
- *Sloooorp*
Thanks to the prep, the plug slipped fully into her tightly puckered chrysanthemum-like hole.
"Kyaaak!"
A cute, uncharacteristic whimper escaped the passed-out Choi Go-eun.
Still unaware of what had been done to her, she cautiously reached back toward the unfamiliar sensation in her buttocks. Cold metal touched her most shameful spot, where it absolutely shouldn't.
"Wh-what the hell is this, Deputy Manager Yi?"
Though utterly spent from his torments, Choi Go-eun was still herself. She tried to pull out whatever was causing the discomfort from her anus. But Hyunwoo blocked her hand.
"We had a deal, Team Leader. You agreed to wear whatever I wanted. Forgot already?"
He whispered into her ear.
"Th-this isn't clothing!"
She squirmed beneath him, but...
"I said wear what I want. Never specified it had to be clothes."
Pinning her down from above, Hyunwoo spouted sophistry.
"Th-that doesn't even make sense."
His argument was blatant nonsense to anyone. But it was true he hadn't explicitly said "clothes." She'd slipped up by not pinning it down.
She nitpicked every word in contracts at work, but around Hyunwoo, her defenses crumbled.
She was fed up with being dragged along by him like this.
'Again... this feeling...'
Yet the indescribable lewd sensation from below... it wasn't entirely unpleasant. From such a dirty, shameful place. She felt twisted for it.
The mystery intruder in her anus kept making her clench involuntarily, sending waves of strange pleasure rippling from her core through her whole body.
"Can't take it out, Team Leader. We even bet on it—surely you're not backing out?"
"Don't worry. I'll keep my promise."
"Wear it all the time, like underwear. Heh heh heh..."
But wait—she'd need to use the bathroom. How was she supposed to go with this in?
"Th-then... what about the bathroom?"
Even saying it embarrassed her, flushing her cheeks.
"Tell me if it's urgent, Team Leader. I'll make a special exception to remove it."
"Kgh..."
Report even her bowel movements to him? Shame bit into her lower lip hard.
[User Choi Go-eun's Pride decreases by 2.]
The thought of reporting even bathroom trips ahead crushed her pride. An unexpected bonus for Hyunwoo.
'Heh heh heh...'
Resigned, Choi Go-eun stopped resisting. Hyunwoo savored the view of her rear from above.
Her firm, bouncy buttocks hid her anus unless forcibly spread. Yet there, between those luscious cheeks, something gleamed unbidden.
The violet heart-shaped bead decoration on the anal plug sparkled under the fluorescent lights, flaunting its presence.
If she'd seen it in a mirror, she might have fainted. Luckily, his place had no full-length mirror, so she only felt the foreign object inside.
No way she knew a tacky heart bead was twinkling from her anus.
Hyunwoo slipped the T-panties on her next. The skimpy fabric barely covered essentials, so the sparkling bead protruded from both sides, fully exposed.
The heart peeking through the T-panties turned her lewd-to-dizzying rear into pure madness for Hyunwoo.
He ached to thrust into her tightly clenched folds right then, but held back his lust. Any more stimulation on her hypersensitive, first-time-plugged state might break her—and she still had to go to work.
- *Rustle*
As she rose from bed for work and reached for her skirt suit...
"Hold on, Team Leader. Not what you wore here—put this on."
Hyunwoo handed her a tight skirt and blouse that hugged her figure blatantly.
Shorter than her original knee-length skirt, it bared her toned thighs. The blouse strained against her massive bust, buttons threatening to pop, while the black fishnet bra showed through the white fabric like sheer.
"..."
Shocked by the plug? Or the revealing outfit? She said nothing.
- *Clack clack*
Stepping out of his place, the men's stares hit differently—intensely so. Even oblivious Choi Go-eun noticed; everyone on the street was ogling her.
"Doesn't it bother you that other guys are leering like this?"
Annoyed by the eyes, she asked Hyunwoo beside her.
"I... I'd rather only you looked at me..."
"Pft..."
She mumbled bashfully, uncharacteristically vague.
- *Squeeze*
Too adorable—Hyunwoo couldn't resist grabbing her ass over the skirt.
"Kyaaak!"
The plug-amplified stimulation inside made her yelp in shock.
"Oh right, that was there. Heh heh heh, sorry, Team Leader."
- *Zap*
Glared at him with clear displeasure, she shot daggers his way.