146 Workaholic

Typically, in Korea, the phrase ‘We’ll give it favorable consideration.’ isn’t used in particularly favorable circumstances.

That made Lee Ha-jun’s behavior all the more difficult to understand.

He was the one who had told me in the first place that it would be good to take on this project.

And he was also the one who had arranged this meeting.

By now, I had no reason not to do it and every reason to do it, so of course I intended to accept.

Setting aside the exact schedule, of course.

Director Hideyoshi took Lee Ha-jun at his word and left, saying he would visit the company again tomorrow with a concrete proposal.

And later, when I was alone with Lee Ha-jun, I finally got to hear why he had acted that way.

“There’s a fairly big project that came in a few days ago.”

“…For Seo Si-yeon?”...