“Jae Ha, what brings you here?”

The vice chairman looked at Jae Ha, who was standing leisurely smiling at the door, as if surprised.

“I don’t know how you found out, but I’m having a conversation with my daughter-in-law today. Step aside.”

His wide-eyed surprise was only momentary.

The vice chairman quickly hid his surprised expression and gestured for Jae Ha to leave.

Silence filled the room for a moment.

Jae Ha, who had been looking at him with a sharp gaze, approached me.

“I have something to say as well.”

The vice chairman stared at Jae Ha, who sat next to me as if he owned the place.

I glanced sideways. Unlike me, who was already tense, Jae Ha, sitting upright, seemed to enjoy the situation.

“Next time! Do it next time.”

He curtly brushed off Jae Ha, who was unusually persistent.

To him, Jae Ha’s business was not that important at the moment.

Because in front of him was the only heiress to the W Group and his future daughter-in-law.

He glanced at Jae Ha, who had appeared in the midst of an important situation to win me over for Hojin, as if he was annoying.

To the vice chairman, Jae Ha would have been a quick and intelligent son, always on top of things.

Today, however, he crossed his arms and watched Jae Ha, wondering why he was acting this way.

“Okay, I give up. What is it? What did you come here to talk about?”

Eventually, the vice chairman raised both hands and feet at Jae Ha’s persistent gaze.

While asking Jae Ha, he glanced at me, his eyes wide open in curiosity.

‘You must be curious. Why I called Jae Ha here.’

If he was the vice chairman, he would have figured out that it was me who told Jae Ha the meeting place.

As he put down the glass he had been holding to his mouth, the half-filled water inside it wobbled.

Jae Ha, who was looking at me sitting calmly, spoke softly towards him.

“I will get married.”

The vice chairman stared intently at Jae Ha, who was looking straight at him.

His eyes wavered for a very brief moment.

‘It must be very confusing.’

Considering Jae Ha was skeptical enough about marriage to give up his position as the successor.

The vice chairman straightened his body, which was tilted suspiciously at Jae Ha’s words.

“With whom? Which family?”

He frowned, looking at Jae Ha with his eyes narrowed.

Soon, curiosity sparkled in the vice chairman’s eyes, wondering who the marriage partner Jae Ha was talking about was.

Then he glanced at me, sitting next to Jae Ha.

“No, it seems like the wrong place. Let’s talk separately.”

He seemed to recall that he was in the middle of discussing the divorce between me and Ji Han.

He didn’t seem to imagine at all that the marriage partner would be me.

Jae Ha spoke to the vice chairman in a smooth voice.

“She is a woman with a perfect family background and education. I even like her personality.”

Jae Ha, who had been indifferent to women enough to throw away his position as the successor.

The vice chairman looked surprised at Jae Ha, who was smiling as if he was satisfied with everything about his partner.

The deep curiosity that clouded his eyes.

The vice chairman asked Jae Ha, pretending to lose to him, with a few coughs.

“Hmm, who is this young lady that made you so eager, Jae Ha? Bring her to Pyeongchang-dong for a meal.”

“Ah.”

In the end, he took the bait Jae Ha had thrown.

Jae Ha slowly nodded with a satisfied smile.

“There’s no need to see separately. She’s right here.”

As if questioning what he meant, the vice chairman froze in his spot upon hearing Jae Ha’s words.

“It’s her. I want to marry Ms. Yoon Yeo Jin.”

Jae Ha, who had thrown such a bombshell, quietly held my left hand resting on my lap.

Unlike surprised me, Jae Ha gave a relaxed smile and lifted my hand that he was holding.

“……What?”

He choked as if he was drinking water when he heard the news. Then he looked alternately at me and his hand holding mine, then paused.

His eyes, filled with a sense of betrayal out of surprise, turned towards us.

“You, you two……!”

Before he could even close his wide-open mouth, the vice chairman slammed down the water cup he was holding.

“Are you joking with your father now? How can you and Yeo Jin get married? She is going to be my daughter-in-law, not you…….”

“She can become the first daughter-in-law.”

He was so shocked by Jae Ha’s words that he tilted the bottle of alcohol into the empty glass.

However, seeing the bottle that ended without even half filling, he nervously put it on the table.

“What kind of talk is that!”

Eventually, he shouted nervously, clutching his forehead as if he had a headache.

Jae Ha responded to the vice chairman with a smile full of triumph.

“From the beginning, it was a marriage proposal for me.”

It was an old story that had been hidden.

His hand trembled as he looked at Jae Ha, who was talking and laughing calmly, different from his feelings.

“You refused it long ago!”

Despite the cold and indifferent reply that cut off any possibility, Jae Ha did not back down.