What's Wrong With Assistant Kang?

20. How Much Things Have Changed

Jumin raised a confused eyebrow when he heard Jaehee sneeze quite loudly as she was about to leave his office. "Assistant Kang... are you okay?" he asked with instant worry.

"Y-yes, I'm fine." She attempted to hide her upcoming cold, "It's just, I'm, huh... allergic to dust," she lied with a wide, fake smile.

Jumin narrowed his eyes at her, clearly suspicious. "Really? You didn't have any allergies before."

"Well... there's many things you don't know about me, Mr. Han," she told him with nervous face, clearly trying to change the subject. If she got sick and was dismissed from work, then her pity days at C&R would last even longer until her resign...

Then she tidied up the documents in her hands neatly, and marched off.

Meanwhile the Ceo-in-line stared at her with a guilty expression. "She's right... there's many things I don't know." This fact made him unhappy, and he clearly wished to change it.

He turned on his chair and grabbed his phone before entering the RFA chatroom. He decided that would be no longer the case, as he tapped on 707's number. Nobody better than an eccentric hacker with too much time in his hands to uncover someone.

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During lunch break, Jaehee sat next to Mi-Cha while each of them had a lunch box in front of them. Before, Jaehee wasn't eating properly and Jumin had become deeply concerned about her health, so he built an entire cafeteria in the building so she wouldn't have any problems getting healthy, high-quality food and replenishing her energy. Other employees were allowed, but even to the five-star cooks he had stated his assistant was the main priority.

Jaehee found out about all this literally five seconds before it was inaugurated when Jumin "casually" told her about it and that they both should go eat there sometime. Jaehee stared at him and called witchcraft on his actions, but he just looked at her with an innocent, confused face and sweetly said "he was merely worried about her well-being." Pfft, right! As of Jaehee would believe that!

She didn't believe it... did she?!

"Oh, God, I believe it," she mind-absently muttered, mouth full of rice. "Just goes to show how much things have changed between me and Jumin. Wait. Did I just call him Jumin?!"

"Eh? Believe what?" Mi-Cha asked with a tilted head, looking at Jaehee like she was crazy (which she kind of was at this point).

"H-huh...! Nothing!" She immediately contradicted herself, turning her face away with a bright blush that told MC the truth. The long-haired girl stared at her friend hopelessly: Jaehee really denied obvious things too much for her own sanity!

Suddenly, as if luck struck Jaehee, her phone rang. This time she swallowed before speaking, "Hello?"

"Jaehee!" She heard a familiar, yet kind of distant male voice through the other line.

"This is...?"

"Jaehee..." The young man sounded disbelieving she didn't recognize him. "It's me, Zen."

Jaehee quickly did a double take, nearly jumping on her chair. "Z-Zen?!" she stammered, taken aback as her blush spread even further.

"Yeah." She could imagine him smiling charmingly. "I'm kind of disappointed you forgot about me so quickly..."

"No, no!" She accidentally shouted. "No, I-I mean- I'd never forget you, Zen," she sincerely told him, a happy smile forming on her face. Her all-time idol had called her! He was speaking to her!

Sure, Zen had always kept contact with her since they both were RFA members, but he had never called her personally! The sudden fluttering inside her heart was an understandment.