You could go to paradise,
See the wonders fill the highs,
Touch the stars and touch the sky,
But they still won't, compare to me.
~Goddess, Jaira Burns

Third Person POV

Today was the day of the Gala and at the moment Nara was the least interested person in the whole of Korea. She had to finish all her work earlier than usual and finishing things in a hurry always annoyed her.

"Nara, you have to be at home by 5 remember?" Her brother's voice spoke through the phone, reminding her that she had to leave soon.

"Yeah Doyoung, I remember." She said, completely uninterested.

Doyoung sighed and tried explaining his sister but in vain, "Nara, it won't be as boring as you think."

"Yeah Doyoung, I'll hang up now." She paused, felt a little guilty that her brother was insisting so bad, "I'll try to have a good time but for now, I got a pile of documents to go through, bye!" And then she hung up, she didn't want to continue the conversation and she also had a lot of work to do before 5.

Nara was too engrossed in her work when she heard a knock. She just replied with a small 'come in' without taking her eyes off the papers spread out in front of her.

Her assistant Jieun walked in and softly placed a file on her table, "Here it is Ma'am, the data reports from the Supply Unit."

"Oh Jiuen, thanks," Nara replied with a smile.

"It's my job Ma'am" Jiuen replied.

She was about to leave when Nara called her back in, "Uh Jieun, I'm sorry for yesterday, I was too harsh," Nara spoke softly but the guilt in her voice for yelling at her yesterday, was still evident.

Jieun chuckled at the young girl sitting in front of her, Nara literally looked like a kid apologising to her mom at that point, "It's okay Nara, I understand that it's a huge thing to handle this entire company, I know that you will never say those words seriously. You were just exhausted, Nara." Jieun said in a comforting tone and gave her a warm smile of reassurance.

Jieun was Nara's assistant and to a lot extent, Jieun was like Nara's elder sister. Nara might get angry at Jieun, but Jieun knew that those harsh words never came out of from her heart. Jieun understood that it was a lot of work for a 23-year-old to handle but she was proud that Nara never gave up.

"Thanks, Jieun, means a lot," Nara said with a smile, now she was at ease. Sometimes even that little bit of comfort means a lot.

"I'll get going now, you certainly give me a lot of work." She ended with a chuckle and walked back to her cubicle.

For the next few hours, Nara didn't leave her work and soon it was 4:30 which meant, it was time for her to go back home. Doyoung walked into his sister's cabin to remind her about her appointment with the stylist, "Nara, it's 4:30, I think you should leave."

"It's just 4:30 Doyoung and it barely takes us 10 minutes to reach home," Nara spoke back, slightly irritated.

"Well that is because we leave at midnight and now it's peak traffic hours kid." Doyoung said and ruffled her hair. "You're like a cute angry puppy Nara." He laughed.

Nara groaned in annoyance that her brother was pestering her so much so she gave up, gathered her stuff and got up to leave, "Ugh! Okay, I'll leave!" Doyoung decided to walk Nara till her car because knowing Nara, he felt that Nara might sneak in again and won't go home.

"Okay and I'll be home in 45 minutes, by that time I guess you will be ready," he told her as she got inside the driver's seat

"Okay bye, don't be late or else I'm not going." She playfully warned and shut her car door.

"Be good to the stylist Nara, don't eat her up." Doyoung waved but was late since her car had already left the building.

Nara got home and saw two ladies in their hall, one was her Mom but she didn't know who was the other one. She smiled at the sight as she walked to her Mom and placed a kiss on her cheek, "Hi Mom." She greeted.

"Hi Sweetheart, how was your day?"

"Oh, it was great Mom!"

"And yes, this is Mrs Han, she is here as your stylist for the Gala you will be attending tonight." Her Mom said addressing the lady who sat in front of them.

Nara stretched her hand out and introduced herself to the lady, "Hello I'm Nara nice to meet you." You could say that she was least interested to meet her but still, her etiquettes mattered a lot.

"Doyoung wasn't kidding when he said you are really beautiful." She complimented her, it was very flustering for Nara to look at her awed expressions.

Nara smiled awkwardly at her, "Uh, well thank you, I guess? Nara said, whispering the last part. Well, she never knew how to respond to compliments, don't we all?

"So shall we get going?"

"Yeah sure." Nara was about to leave when her Mom pulled her back and whispered something in her ear.

She flashed a persuading smile at her daughter, "Be good Nara, I know you hate all this but just for today?" Her mom said, she knew that her daughter was capable of scaring the living daylights out of people

"Okay Mom, I'll try my level best." She said in a monotone and walked to her room

Nara

I walked into my room to see two other girls and a few really elegant clothes and shoes scattered around

I stared at the clothes on my bed for a couple of seconds, they surely were fancy, "I have to wear all of them?" I decided to ask her cause trust me if that's the case then forget the Gala I'm sticking to staying back at home.

"Oh, no Nara, they are just for backups, you know in case if we need it." Mrs.Han chuckled

"Oh." I sighed a sigh of relief. Seriously those clothes and me? Never in a million years.

"Nara, this is what we have selected for you, can you please go try it on?" Mrs.Han said, handing me a black cloth case which contains the dress inside.

"Yeah sure." and I walked into my washroom.

I opened the zip to the case and carefully took out the dress. It was like a black jumpsuit and it looked decent but elegant. So I wore it on.
(a/n: picture is given in the end)

I opened the door of the washroom to see that three pair of eyes were already fixed on me, "Umm, is this okay?" I asked stepping out of the washroom and turning around a bit to show the back of the dress.

"Oh wow,' Nara you look amazing and powerful. It suits your personality." she said admiring me from head to toe, really?

"Thanks."

"Okay now, let us get to the hair and makeup!" She chirped excitedly and proceeded to grab the things she needed.

The next 50 minutes were given to my makeup and hair. Makeup didn't take that much time because I usually go for a much sober and natural makeup. It was my hair which took time.

"Okay done!" One of the girls said as she placed her brush down. I looked into the mirror and no kidding, my feminine side was out. I looked pretty.

"Ah lovely, now wear these shoes and take this clutch!" Mrs Han said handing me a pair of silver metallic pencil heels and a white clutch.

I took one final look into the mirror and I might say I was looking good, "Thank you Mrs.Han, this is perfectly my style! Simple and Elegant!" I thanked her with a warm smile, I honestly felt bad for thinking wrong about her and probably cursing her a million times in my thoughts.

"Your brother did tell me that you don't prefer extra heavy things, so I prepared accordingly," She said.

"I think now we should get going, thanks for having us here." After that, they left and I sat in my room for Doyoung to come back! He said 45 minutes and it's an hour already. But when you think of the devil.

"Nara! I'm ready and I know I'm late, please don't be mad at me!" A Doyoung barged into my room.

As soon as he entered he saw me all dolled up and was clearly surprised, well even I myself was surprised"And whoa you look good!" He said and walked inside.

"Are you ready, can we leave so that we can come back fast?" I said and got up from the couch

"Yeah sure, let's go!" And we walked down to our front door where Mom waiting for us

"Oh my! You two look so good!" She said hugging both of us

"Oh Nara, you look beautiful." Mom said as brushed away a strand of my hair and cupping my face in her hands.

"Thanks, Mom."

"It really feels great being the adopted one, "Doyoung said, giving a sarcastic curt smile as he looked at us, he was always the jealous sibling.

Mom laughed and walked up to him as she fixed the cloth in his pocket, "You look just like your father Doyoung, you have every feature he carried." She said, now fixing his collar.

"Thanks, Mom, that's nice to hear." Doyoung smiled at her words.

"Okay now, you guys better leave, you don't want to be late!" And then we bid our goodbyes to Mom and drove off.

The car ride was pretty quiet as Doyoung was watching something on his phone with all his attention devoted as if his life depended on it. But then after a few minutes, we reached the venue and for heaven's sake, there were just too many lights!

Doyoung linked our hands, "Let's go inside" We entered the place and it was really lavishly decorated, kind of like a ballroom, the Lees surely did spend a lot.

The only problem was the lights, "Why is it so bright, jeez" I could seriously feel my eyes burning away that point.

"This is how a Gala works kid." He said and dragged me inside.

Doyoung took me to meet some people, few of them I could recognise because they were a part of our board meetings but the rest were new. Soon Doyoung left to speak to the other people and I was sitting at one place with a glass of wine desperately wanting to get out of this place!

I was just randomly playing with my wine glass when my eyes caught something, rather someone like us who looked too young for these events. His face looked carved and I could bet that his skin was smooth as velvet. My eyes started to follow his every action and I couldn't stop myself, that's when Doyoung came and nudged me.

"Hey, What you looking at?" He asked me, taking a sip from his scotch.

I pointed at the guy who caught my serious attention, "Doyoung, who is that guy?" I asked.

"Oh him, he is Yuta, Nakamoto Yuta. He is also the CEO to the Nakamoto Corp, from what I've heard, he will soon take over his father as the Chairman." Doyoung explained, our eyes still fixed on him.

But the name 'Nakamoto' did ring a bell, "Nakamoto, wait! weren't they the ones who were in debt to us?" I asked.

Doyoung placed his scotch glass on the table and looked at me, "Uh well yeah, they are. But we didn't ask them for the money back because Yuta's father was Dad's close friend so yeah." He said calmly.

"What do you mean by Dad's close friend! Doyoung, this is Business we are talking about! Personal relationships have to be kept at bay while dealing with Professional problems!" I raised my voice a little, emphasising on the words 'Personal' and 'Professional'.

"Well Nara, Dad and Uncle Hiro were close friends and I guess they aren't financially that stable yet to pay us back." He said and walked away to greet his acquaintances, with his scotch glass still intact in his hands.

Well for me, it wasn't just a matter of debt. I cannot let that masterpiece go away that easily, he is too rare of a species to be found so easily. So I took out my phone, dialled Jieun's number and concluded upon making the first move, the bold move.

"Jieun, fix me a meeting with the CEO of the Nakamoto Corp tomorrow."

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Here's the dress Nara was wearing: