Secretary Jung Wheein | Wheebyul

The Solution

Moon Byulyi was staring at Secretary Jung Wheein's resignation letter sitting on her desk almost all day long.

She still couldn't make sense of why in the world would her secretary would want to resign.

It didn't make sense to her at all.

She can't understand what Secretary Jung meant by living her own life.

Secretary Jung worked 18 hours a day without any day off for seven years, which would mean that she spent 45,990 hours working for Byul for the last seven years. That would be way more hours than the time she spent with her girlfriends. Heck, that would be more time than what an average married couple spends time together.

So how could it possibly mean nothing to Jung Wheein?

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"I want to pick up my life now."

Secretary Jung's voice echoes at the back of Moonbyul's mind as she walks to her friend Jin's office.

She enters Jin's office and sat on his sofa, crossing her legs on top of the other, arm resting on the armrest.

Her friend immediately notices the forlorn expression on the CEO's face.

"What's on your mind? Is it still Secretary Jung?" Jin asks knowingly, sitting across his friend.

"She must really be heartbroken..." Moonbyul whispered to herself, but Jin managed to hear it.

"Heartbroken?" Jin asks, "Who's heartbroken?"

"Secretary Jung." Moonbyul states, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, her face remains serious. "She loved me too much and got hurt badly. That's why she's quitting."

Jin stops himself from physically rolling his eyes as he stares at his friend in defeat. He still can't believe how self-absorbed his friend can get sometimes. "I know Secretary Jung is exemplary at her job, but even so, don't you think you care too much?" he questions, trying to subtly tell his friend to just let it go.

"Are you...in any case...in love with her?" Jin asks, genuinely curious about the idea. He has never seen Byul this concerned about someone else. He thinks that maybe Secretary Jung really is important to Byul if he can't easily let her resign.

The CEO shoots him a daggering look, looking as if she couldn't be more offended. "Do you have a death wish?"

Jin quickly sits straight, lifting both his hands in the air as a sign of surrender. "Then why are you so invested in her resignation?" he asks, trying to make sense of it.

"She's a company's asset." Moonbyul says dismissively.

Jin doesn't believe Moonbyul one bit, but he pretends to do so, and asks further instead, "Then how do you explain not letting anyone touch you except Secretary Jung?"

"I just don't like it when people touch me." Moonbyul reasons.

"Well, Secretary Jung is a person too." Jin replied, as if he needs to clarify it to Byul just in case he's unaware of it.

"Secretary Jung is..." Moonbyul tries to come up with a valid reason, but all she came up with is, "Secretary Jung." she says as if it should explain why she's different.

The CEO knows it wasn't enough for her friend -judging by the unsatisfied look on Jin's face- and he would ask her for further questions, but she's not in the mood to be interrogated as of the moment so she excuses herself. "All right, catch you later." she says without giving Jin any chance to say anything.