Internal Affairs | Lee Haechan

Pilot

"you were right...this relationship was never going to work."

—— 3 months earlier ——

"Fuck sake!" Haechan stated with a hiss, ripping his helmet off his head angrily before parking his motorcycle. The screech that was heard a few seconds agp ripped his eardrum to shreds.

"Shit...i gotta get this repainted" he grumbled, looking at the faint scratches on his bike before turning his head swiftly, only to be met with harsher scratches on the neighbouring car.

"Shit..." he said, squeezing his eyes shut, realising he had just scraped his bike, his baby, onto a tesla, parked at the parking space of the manager

The amount of litigators haechan had met due to careless incidents like this would go unmatched.

Straightening out his black blazer and tie, he used a clean tissue to wipe the points of his sleep black shoes before heading towards the parking lot exit.

"ID card?" The security guard asked and Haechan sighed

"Does it look like I need one?" Haechan asked, gaining the attention of the guard who then widened his eyes

"Not at all sir" the guard quickly let him through the doors, after all... he was the son of the man who owns the company.

So did he own the company? You ask. But the answer was a bug fat no. Haechan's dad couldn't trust this boy ever since he had "run away from home" at the age of 14 to "marry the girl that he was destined to be with". Haechan still cringes at the story when he thinks about attempting to move away to Europe with the girl he once had feelings for.

The elevator dinged as he reached the specific floor he was called to be on. The doors opened to reveal and white and grey themed office, each cubicle having a high wall so workers couldn't get distracted by each, the constant murmurs of each employee talking on the phone.

"Hello, how can I help?" The receptionist chimed as she greeted Haechan who had the most uninterested look on his face. She soon realised who it was.

"I'm here to see the regional manager" Haechan said to her and she bowed, nodding to him. It was surely a new sight for the interviewees.

"Did you not hear?"

"Hear what?"

"He's the CEO's son, we're screwed"

"Ah! I was really looking forward to working here!"

The employees whispers soon died down as he took a seat in the row near them, the polished Hugo Boss suit not going unnoticed by anyone.

He tried to hide the smirk on his face but he couldn't. He was quite the cocky bastard, money could get him anything but most importantly, it gets him respect. Haechan ruined all his chances of the family business being placed in his hands on a silver platter due to his hedonistic behaviour. It was probably the worst part about it, yet to some people, especially girls, it wooed them. upon hearing that the current regional manager is girl, that's exactly what he planned to do.

"Hey could you send Lee Jeno to my office asap, i want to hear his pitch on the product recall before he meets with the board, is that meeting still on by the way?" Jia, short for Jiayi, asked to her assistant, huang renjun.

"it's been rescheduled for 3pm, you have a meeting with the finance team scheduled this morning but the interviews have been pushed up, will i reschedule that meeting to tomorrow?" renjun asked and she turned to look at the long line of interviewees waiting on the chairs by the hallway her office was in.

"can't you get the HR manager to do it, this is a Human Resources issue" she said pursing her lips into a thin line

"The Directors asked for you to oversee it personally, something about nepotism and filial partisanship" renjun said, whispering the last few words and she raised an eyebrow

"they want it to be an unbiased opinion" renjun said

"fine, reschedule the finance meeting to tomorrow 10am" she said, collecting her hot cup of coffee from his as he followed her into her office, the interviewees bowing to her out of respect as she passed them, all except one who was too busy playing a video game on his phone.

"need anything?" Renjun asked as he placed a chair infront of her desk directly across from her and she shook her head. renjun went outside and called Jeno to her office which he arrived at almost immediately, dressed extremely dashing in a suit with his hair gelled for the important board meeting this afternoon.

"the phones are busy huh?" she asked and he nodded

"500 boxes have gone out with the words 'artificial colouring' on the outside label, the board is thinking of holding a press conference on the issue" he said

"i need a list of those on the quality assurance team the night that was shipped out and the supervisors, I'll hold a meeting with the warehouse later today regarding the issue" she said

"are there going to be cut backs on employees?" Jeno asked and she sighed

"i'm not too sure yet, if needs be then yes but this incident is going to bring our sales down big time regardless of the press conference, employees will probably be made redundant to cut costs for the business but let's keep that between you and me until the board meeting. anything else?" she asked

"Jaemin is still adamant on having the ice sculpture present at the employee dinner-"

"unless he wants to pay for it, you can tell him no" she said chuckling and jeno smiled, bowing to her out of respect before leaving her office. and one by one, each interviewee stepped in and out of her office, most not lasting more than 3 minutes