secret(ary) - nct, jaeyong & yuwin

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"yes, dad, i know..." the young ceo of jung corporation sighed loudly as he walked inside his office, his phone tucked between his ear and his shoulder while he tightened his grip on the few files he was carrying.

"son, i am repeating it again, but never underestimate your own employees. some of them could be even worse to you than your enemies." jaehyun's father insisted, repeating words that the ceo had heard over and over again since the beginning of his life.

right after throwing the stack of papers he was holding on his wooden office desk, the ceo put his phone on speaker and let himself slump on the expensive armchair in front of his desk, his eyes rolling to the back of his head as he listened to his father rambling about how to manage a company.

it seemed like they kept having this speech. even before jaehyun acquired the level of ceo, his father was constantly telling him about managing a business, the dos and don'ts, what to fear and what not to be impressed of. and now that jaehyun had become the new ceo, his father took even more pleasure trying to explain to him how everything should and shouldn't be done. 

"son, can you understand what i'm saying?" the father stopped in his rambling for a second, somehow weirded out by the lack of response from his son.

"yes, of couse, i do." jaehyun replied immediately, letting his eyes travel across his desk on which a few papers had been dropped earlier that day.

"good. so, as i was saying..."

jaehyun didn't bother listening to what his father was saying, knowing very well that he surely had already heard about it five times – if not more – in his previous 26 years of existence. instead, the young ceo focused on the documents someone had placed on his desk.

most of them were reports he had asked for, eventually a few quotes that he would need to sign, but nothing too interesting – well, aside from the black envelope that was hiding in between two sheets of papers.

the ceo delicately took the envelope in his hands, studying it carefully before turning it around and letting out an indiscreet snort at the sight of the logo.

"son! are you snorting to what i just said?!" the ceo's father exclaimed, annoyed by his son's unbelievable's behaviour. "this is not a good ceo's behaviour!"

"no, no." jaehyun mentally scolded himself for letting this noise out carelessly. "i was snorting because i received another letter from nakamotors."

"oh..." there was a small silence. "wait, nakamotors? what do they want?"

jaehyun shrugged even though his father wouldn't be able to see through the phone. "how would i know."

"well, open it and tell me!"

not needing his father's invite to do so, jaehyun grabbed a pair of scissors on the desk before tearing open the top of the envelope and revealing a black cardboard piece of paper on which some words were calligraphed in an silvery ink.

"so? what is it?" jaehyun's father asked again as his son silently read the letter he had received.

his answer came only a few seconds later, after he had finished his reading and rolled his eyes a few times. "it's nothing." he said. "just an invite to the congress he's holding for the anniversary of his success next week. but i'm definitely not going so it's useless any- "

"wow, wow, wow!" jaehyun's father exclaimed, causing the ceo to lower the volume of his phone a bit. "what do you mean you're not going?! of course you are!"