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( song of the day :
goodnight n go - ariana
grande )

| 2:19 PM

💭 KIM JUNGWOO
5:21

". . my ex by the way," during the silence of the call, kiki decided to bring the topic up, which grabbed jungwoo's attention right away, "he wants to make up again."

from the other side of the screen, his cheerful face visibly got covered by an expression of gloom, but he tried to hide it under a bitter grin. "oh? well i guess that's . . good for you? but kiki you gotta think this through because he hurt you so many times. if i were you i wouldn't go back, but what makes you happy is okay . . i guess. go ahead, make up."

if you only told her your feelings earlier, you coward, things might've been different.

"i'm not going back to him."

jungwoo scrunched his forehead in confusion, since he could still recall how undeniably desperate she was a couple weeks back in making up. "what? i thought you said you wanted to the day you broke up?"

"i did, but i like somebody else now," kiki replied, her smile growing wider once she continued her statement with that certain person in mind, "and i'm sure he'll treat me so much better."

"what's the name?"

"kim jungwoo."

oh my god, for real?

a few seconds of processing passed while he made sure that his ears weren't deceiving him. jungwoo's happiness was basically jumping all around his heart, the feeling comparable to one when you win the lottery.

. . but maybe a little better than the lottery.

after cooling down a little from his current euphoric state, he managed to say, "i'm pretty sure kim jungwoo likes hanada kiko more."

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while jaehyun was peacefully working, a woman in her fifties barged in angrily, even haneul being unable to calm her down and instead, was pushed away violently.

"what the hell, mom?"

without any greetings whatsoever, she slammed a folder onto his desk, messing up the neat stacks of paper. she didn't even care at all. "this was sent to me earlier. how do you expect to fix this, huh?"

the pictures.

the leaked images which included him with haneul, yuta with nixie, kiki with jungwoo, ahn with doyoung, and johnny with seoyeon that everyone received in text blasts back then were inside, including two new pictures that weren't broadcasted yet.

saerom and haechan during his singing competition after the announcement of his success, their arms wrapped around each other,

then taeyong and ryot inside the clinic, her gently cupping his face.

this is getting out of hand.

despite his avid dismay to topics like this, jaehyun knew that he had to stand up for the people included. "come on, they're people. they need to be happy too."

"those people are employees. they need to make clients happy before themselves and are they even doing that? have you seen the percentage drop of networkly's csat?

[ hello : csat - customer satisfaction ]

"you know, i expected this from ahn, from those sales agents, from everybody . . but you? for christ's sake, jaehyun, your father and i entrusted the company to you and you're doing this? how special can your yoon haneul be?"

he rolled his eyes in irritation, running a hand through his hair. "stop bring her up━"

but mrs. jung acted like she didn't hear anything to continue her statement. "for the entirety of your title inside this office, i don't wanna see you with her again. ever."

"or what?"

"or i'll make sure to ruin her life, and i'm not exaggerating."

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♤ gabrielle's note

if i finish this book under two weeks, I'll do a wack handwriting reveal 😌🤚🏻

- chapter republished because of spacing problems !