Last Chapter Recap:

Femme magazine was once the no:1 woman magazine in South Korea but lately the revenue is declining. So the Chairman is trying to persuade his grand daughter that currently lived in Paris to go home and take the Director's position. Park Shin Hye the heiress and Park Hyung Shik the heir of the company tried everything they can to avoid the responsibility. Jung Yong Hwa is the secretary of Director position that has been vacant for 7 years since Park Shin Hye's father and mother passed away. He is confident and capable in what he does. His friends are: Jung Il Woo from HR Department, Kang Min Hyuk who is a tech savvy, Yoo Seung Ho, a new employee in Femme Magazine. Park Shi Hoo is the creative director and Park Shin Hye's cousin, he has ambition to take the Director's but also close with Park Shin Hye. Min Hyo Rin is the fashion editor, the cold fashionista who has trouble in socializing. Because the revenue kept declining, the BOD requested the chairman to immediately appoint a Director; however on the day when Shin Hye was supposed to go home, she went missing.

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Jung Yong Hwa ran like crazy to the Meeting room where all of the Board of Directors were gathered, he dramatically opened the door and walked hurriedly to Secretary Choi and whispered something to him. The older guy looked shocked and nodded to Yong Hwa, he then faced the crowd that by now already sensed something was wrong.

"I'm Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen. We have to cancel this meeting. Chairman just now collapsed in his room." Secretary Choi announced the bad news. The people inside the meeting room stood up all at once, looking concerned by the news. "Don't worry, Secretary Jung has arranged to transport Chairman to the hospital, please refrain from talking to the media since we are not sure yet about the problem. I will arrange the next meeting, for now we seek for your understanding. Excuse me!" With that, secretary Choi went out of the office.

He went straight to the basement where Yong Hwa waited inside one of the company car, once Secretary Choi got inside the car he stepped on the gas and immediately left the building.

"What happened?" Secretary Choi said while struggling to put on his seatbelt.

"Director Park is missing from her apartment in Paris!" Yong Hwa said seriously.

Secretary Choi reactively looked at him, "Mwo? How could you know?" he asked while taking out his phone.

"I was on my way to set Chairman's phone for the teleconference, I accidentally overheard his conversation with Creative Director Park. He said he went to her apartment but nobody was there, no clothes, only credit cards, hers." Without letting his attention off the street.

"Oh No!" Secretary Choi stopped at mid-sentence, "Is she running away for real this time?" He continued, worried.

"How many times did she run away, actually?" Yong Hwa asked seriously, "There should be a clear reason why she hates her grandfather so much!"

"Jung Yong Hwa-shi, don't say something you don't really understand... she doesn't hate her grand father, she just doesn't want to take over the Director's position." Secretary Choi said firmly.

"Then stop making her the Director and move on already!! Don't jeopardized the bread and butter of thousands of people in the company." He said without knowing why he was furious.

"Jung Yong Hwa-shi, don't make me repeat myself again... Don't give opinion if you don't know the fact." Secretary Choi scolded him, one thing that had not happened before.

Yong Hwa remained silent afterward though still fuming because of what happened inside the Chairman's room... He was outside of the room when he heard the conversation, suddenly the door opened and a seriously angry old man went out of the room making Yong Hwa jumped. They stared at each other in the eye and the Chairman got even angrier.

"Who are you???!! What are you doing outside of my office? Where is Secretary Choi?" He said, screamed on top of his lung. Yong Hwa was shocked to see the ever-friendly Chairman became that violent.

"Calm down, Chairman! Secretary Choi is in the meeting room. I'm secretary Jung, the Director's secretary." He said trying to calm the Chairman before the people in the office heard him.

"Don't tell me to calm down, young man! And don't just stand there like a Donkey! Go find secretary Choi!! If we don't act now, we might not have Director at all!" Chairman said while banging the door.

"Woah! He's pretty strong for a 70 year old?" Yong Hwa thought. "I can't go there, Sir. Not before we have a plan." Yong Hwa said while pushing Chairman back to his office. He shrugged Yong Hwa's hand off ofcf him.

"How dare you telling me what to do? You don't know anything about the whole situation!! Don't be a smarty-pants and just do as you told!" The Chairman started to hyperventilate.

"With all due respect, Sir! If those people in the meeting room knows that Director Park is missing and you being like this, you can kiss the Director's position good bye for your grand daughter!" He said while getting a chair. "Please sit down and stay calm while we come up with a plan..." He said in gritted teeth.

Chairman sat down though clearly insulted by the way Yong Hwa acted. He never once interacted with the young man eventhough he saw him several times during the BOD meeting. He never would have guessed that the playful looking man that he once caught playing with his phone during a meeting would talk loudly towards him. He once had a-not-so-impressive first impression of that man, and now he doesn't know whether to respect him or agitated by him.

"We need to stall the meeting..." Yong Hwa said while pacing back and forth, after awhile he snapped his finger, "I have an idea!!"

Once the Chairman agreed to play along, everything was smooth sailing. Yong Hwa made sure that Chairman had left the building before running to the meeting room; he made sure that he was a bit dramatic to create a panic effect so that the BOD would not asked question. Luckily Secretary Choi was quick in handling the matter. So after a long drive, Yong Hwa stopped at the Park Mansion. Secretary Choi looked at the house in confusion.

"What are we doing here, I thought we're going to see the Chairman." He said

"Chairman is inside, I told the driver to drive to the hospital, go to the basement and then straight home after 5 minutes. Now I think we need to inform his personal physician to back up the story." Yong Hwa told the older man.

Secretary Choi lit up to the explanation and hurriedly dialled a contact from his phone. "Aiishh!! Why didn't you say so from the beginning?!" He exclaimed, he went out of the car to talk to someone, "Hello Doctor Lee... this is Chairman Park's Secretary." Yong Hwa could not heard the rest of the conversation. He let out a heavy sigh and rested his back on the driver's seat. He was trying to recovered from the adrenaline rushed because of what just happened.

Secretary Choi knocked on the window, Yong Hwa opened it. "Let's go inside, Chairman wants to meet." He said. Yong Hwa took a deep breath before opening the door and followed him inside the mansion.

---o0o---

The next morning, Creative Director Park Shi Hoo who looked like he was just landed from a long flight walked hurriedly towards his office. All of his staff bowed to him but did not have the courage to greet him. He went pass the fashion department which caught Min Hyo Rin's attention. She went outside of her office and looked at him, considering whether she should soothe him or not.

Park Shi Hoo opened his door, grabbed a brown envelope from his desk and immediately read the documents inside it, his face turned even more sour. He crumpled the documents and tossed it away out of frustration. He went to the buzzer and pressed it rather roughly.

"Deh?" Yong Hwa's voice was heard through the speaker.

"Weekly meeting in 10 minutes!!" He said and then disconnected the intercom as soon as he finished talking. He took off his plaid shirt that he wore since Paris and changed into one of his collection of work attire that was kept inside the closet in his office.

Ten minutes later he was already in the Creative floor meeting room looking sharp in his suit, and one by one people was arriving hurriedly. They knew their Boss would be in a very bad mood, so the last thing they wanted is to be on his bad side today. Park Shi Hoo stood in front of the room, looking sullen. His arms were across his chest and he was looking down.

Min Hyo Rin came and gave him a pat on his shoulder, he looked at her and they exchanged weak smile to each other. Jung Yong Hwa arrived at that very second, squinted his eyes for witnessing a suspicious interaction between the Editor and the Director. He took a seat beside Min Hyo Rin.

"What was that?" he asked curiously.

"None of your business." She answered coldly

"Did you plan the downfall together?" Yong Hwa stared at her reaction.

"Watch it! That's a serious accusation!" She scream-whispered her defense.

"Ani! I didn't know you guys were that close to give encouragement. " Yong Hwa still putting his best effort to dig.

"What's wrong with encouraging your leader?" She wished he could just drop it.

"Nothing! When it's not coming from the ice queen!" He teased.

She was now annoyed, "You know, just because you lived with a lot of woman, doesn't mean you have to be one. Stop being nosy!! The meeting is about to start."

"Ouch!!" He said while clutching his chest, pretended to be hurt.

When the last person came in, Park Shi Hoo closed the door. He waited for awhile until the room was completely in silence. Then he looked everybody straight in their eye, one-by-one, and each one immediately looked away from that deadly stare except for Yong Hwa and that agitated him.

"Do you have anything to say to me, Secretary Jung?" He asked suddenly.

Yong Hwa jerked a little, "Excuse me? No, Sir... I'm not the one who called this meeting." He immediately regretted saying that, because of the pain on his thigh caused by Hyo Rin's pinch-hit.

Shi Hoo fumed a little more, "That's right, I called this meeting... why? Because of this." He held the infamous documents that was known by every employee in that company. "How can our sales be dropped forty-one percent than last month?" he continued while tossing the papers onto the table.

"I think we need to call in Sales and Marketing department to analyze that, Sir." Yong Hwa said. The other attendees secretly exchanged nervous glance.

"Just shut up, will you!?" Hyo Rin said without moving .

Shi Hoo took a deep breath trying to control his anger. "That's a great idea Secretary Jung! Why don't you do it." He said.

"Deh?" Yong Hwa was taken a back with the sudden assignment.

"Why don't you try to investigate with Sales and Marketing department, why our sales dropped so significantly, which means you don't have to be in this meeting. Am I right?" He said, creating a higher level of tense in the air.

"What a petty guy." Yong Hwa thoughts, but what can he do when he's the one with the "Creative Director" name board on his desk. "I'm sorry, Sir!" He said forcefully.

When he thought he was able to tame the naughty fox of Secretary Jung, Park Shi Hoo turned his attention to the floor. Let out a defeated sigh and said "Look, I know it's not fair to blame you all for this failure. But we need to work together to get things right. Let's not fuss over a spilled milk, let the sales department think how to save the august sales. Let's focus on September, start early, strategize and create a masterpiece for next month edition. Can we do that?" He asked expectantly.

"Yes, Sir!" They answered all at once.

Yong Hwa jerked a little at the sudden cheer, "Why does the creative team sounded so much like the army?" He thought.

Park Shi Hoo on the other hand satisfied with the unison, "Take 5 to gather everything you need, we are not leaving this room until we found our theme for next month." He said and immediately left the room.

The attendees let out a sigh almost at the same time, it was as if they were holding their breath during the entire meeting.

"Why can't you just shut your mouth once in awhile?" Hyo Rin turned to him.

Yong Hwa shrugged his shoulder, "Why? What did I do wrong?"

"He was angry, he needed to blow off some steam. Why can't you just let it slide?" She defended her boss.

"That's just not right, we need to find solutions not to become a punching bag for our boss!" Yong Hwa exclaimed, "If anything, I was his punching bag for you all! Because you guys are too afraid to stand up against that dictator!" He added, clearly agitated for having someone defended his arch nemesis.

"You are such an arrogant prick!" She screamed while leaving him, but she turned around "Where's my clothes?!"

Yong Hwa remembered that he had not return the clothes that he borrowed, but he was in no way bowed down to the ice queen. "You'll get it when it's time." He said, leaving her instead. She wished she could wipe that arrogant smirk of his face.

---o0o---

Shin Hye was standing in the middle of HR Department without knowing what to do. Each and every staff of the HR Department were busy minding their own business, they ignored every person that came into their office. She tried to talked to a few of them but kept on getting the same rejection. Finally a man came out from one of the office and asked her to come.

"So you are the new trainee?" Jung Il Woo said while sitting down to his chair, "Come in, close the door behind you!"

Shin Hye walked timidly and stand in front of Il Woo. She kept on looking at her toes, hoping that he would not recognize her.

"You can sit down, this is just to formalize your application." Il Woo stared at the new employee. The girl was about his age, maybe one or two year younger. She wore a knee-length A line skirt that looked similar to his halmoni's, a blouse that was one size bigger, a big-Turtle-shell eye glasses and her wavy hair could use a bit of conditioner. In conclusion, she looked lost being in a Fashion Magazine office where every employee was demanded to dressed to the nines. She kept avoiding eye contact and looked down almost all time, making her face covered with her long hair. That girl slowly walked to the visitor chair and sit, still looking down.

"Park In Ha-shi?" Il Woo asked. The girl nodded. "The company decided to accept your application to be a trainee, you will start today. Basically you will be rotated to different Department within this company and will support whatever needed by the employee. Is that clear" He said again.

"Deh!" She said, her voice was actually nice.

"Do you like media or fashion industry?" Il Woo asked again

"Deh!" She answered

"Is that why you apply in Femme Magazine?" He tried to probe

"Deh!" She answered without looking at his eye.

"Can you answer something else beside "Yes"? Il Woo felt a bit annoyed with the shy trainee.

She thought for a moment, "Deh!" she eventually said, Il Woo rolled her eyes.

"Look Park In Ha-shi. I understand that you might have a shy personality, but I need you to work hard during your trainee period here. You can not avoid eye contact with people, and you need to be proactive in supporting the employees here. Do you understand?" Il Woo asked again.

"Deh!" She gave a little nod this time.

Il Woo let out a defeated sigh, "It's my own fault for even trying!" he scolded himself. "Anyway, your first assignment is here in HR... your task for today are..." He was about to gave her several documents when his office phone rang. He picked it up, "Hello, this is Assistant Manager Jung Il Woo of HR! Yoo! Whats up, bro?" He was surprised that he tried to look cool in front of the new trainee, he immediately regretted saying that. "Why do you need that? Of course I need to know, that is kinda confidential, you know! Arasso... Arasso! I'll send it to you in 5 minutes." He put the phone down and looked to Shin Hye. "Well here's your first assignment, go find Ms. Kim Min Jung and asked her: the portfolio of our model, do you know what that is?" He asked, "Three guesses of what her answer will be.." He thought to himself.

"Deh!" she said

"Maybe I'm a psychic" He thought, "Go take that portfolio to the meeting room down at Creative Floor, you need to do it in five minutes. Arasso?" He said in a fake firm tone, he wanted to test the new trainee.

"Deh! Thank you Assistant Manager Jung, I'll be going now." She bowed to her boss and got out of the office before he could even respond and went straight to a girl in one of the cubicle, in no time she got the documents that needed to be delivered and went to the emergency stair. Jung Il Woo observed the whole thing and was a bit impressed by the girl agility.

Shin Hye ran one story down to looked for the meeting room, she was glad that during the time when she was being ignored, she got bored so she memorized the name of the employee that plastered on the cubicle so she knew exactly which one was Ms. Kim Min Jung. Now all she had to do was to find the meeting room at the Creative Floor.

"Oh God! I hope that Assistant Manager did not recognize me, he looked pretty sharp. Shin Hye-a, lay low!! Don't stand out!! Don't draw attention!!" she gave a pep talk to herself while looking around for the room.

She was so engrossed in finding the room that she did not see a low table with piles of papers on top of it, she tripped herself over that table and fell to the floor. To make matter worse, all the paper on the table and the documents that she brought was scattered on the floor. A total mess. People were starting to look at her direction because of a loud thump they just heard.

Shin Hye closed her eyes in embarrassment, "So much for not drawing attention Park Shin Hye! Pabo!!" She scolded herself. She stood up and bowed to all direction without looking at their eyes. Everybody started to divert their attention back to their work. "Work it Shin Hye! you only got 2 minutes to deliver the documents. You can not afford to get scolded in your first day." She said as she hurriedly putting back the paper and collected her documents.

"Gwenchana-yo?" she heard a voice of a gentleman, she looked up and saw the most handsome man she had ever seen. She unconciously held her breath.

"Deh!" She said immediately, back to looking at the floor to hide her face.

"I know! It's dangerous to put a table here, isn't it?" He said while helping her to collect the paper. "I've told them so many times to get a filing cabinet to store this paper and not causing accident like this." He continued, he raised his voice a little bit to get attention to whomever was responsible to fix it. "Ani! What if it's creative Director Park, or the new Director... or worse! The Chairman... what if he tripped and got a heart attack, we would be doomed, right?" He said.

"Please stop talking! Please stop talking..." Shin Hye prayed hard while hurriedly collected the mess, she felt a pain on her knees but ignored it just so she could avoid the talkative handsomeness in front of her.

"Are you sure you're alright?" He asked again while putting the last paper on the table and got up. 

"Deh, Kamsahamnida!" She said while also stood up.

"Ooh! Blood!" He exclaimed, while pointing at her knees.

"! Why are you shouting?!" Shin Hye mentally screamed at him, while looked around. People were starting to put attention back at their direction. Yong Hwa tried to touch the wound, Shin Hye reflectively lifted her knee as if she was Danny LaRusso, the karate kid. She held out her palm to stop him from nearing. "Aniyo! I'm okay. Thank you for your help!" She said and quickly ran towards one of the hallway after bowing to the man that was left open-mouthed. "Oh My God! That shaved off 10 years of my life, how can there be a man that talkative?" She wondered.

Luckily she went to the right direction, because she saw the meeting room full of people that was working with their laptops. They all looked exhausted and stressed out, one guy had already loosen his tie, a girl put off her shoes and sat cross legged on her chair, she wondered who they were and why they looked so miserable. She knocked on the door glass and open the meeting room.

"Excuse me! I'm from HR Department, someone asked the portfolio of the models?" She said in a low voice.

"Ow!? That's secretary Jung's request. He stepped out to go to the restroom. Oh There he is!" Said the girl in pink. "Secretary Jung! Your request is here!" She shouted.

Shin Hye turned around and gaped, the man who just helped her were standing in front of her with a confused look. She could not believe her luck that day, in her head she cursed a thousand times already.

"Oh! You were delivering those for me?" He said innocently, he looked at his watch. "Well! I guess he would have been on time if you didn't tripped on the table. Give that to me... it's heavy isn't it?" He said while taking the folders from Shin Hye. "Yaah!! Jung Il Woo! Telling a woman to carry such a heavy thing in a short time... He's not really a gentleman, is he?" He winked at her, Shin Hye startled with the show of cuteness.

"Then, I'll be going now!" She said immediately, rushing to the door.

"Wait!" He shouted, the people in the room jerked from his loud voice. Shin Hye gritted her teeth to prevent from bursting. "You should get your knee treated!" He continued.

"Deh! Kamsahamnida" She said and dashed to the elevator.

Her legs was about to give up on her due to the stress, she was so nervous people would remember her face or know their name, not when she was trying hard not to stand out. But what happened so far was she encountered the noisiest man in the company more than once, that should be enough for him to take notice, not to mention that he seemed to have a high rank in that company. She made a mental note to get information about that man so she could avoid him. She decided to take the stairs again to go back to HR Department. Just as she closed the door of the emergency stair, the elevator opened and Park Shi Hoo stepped out of it.

---o0o---

Shin Hye walked towards her apartment building, a small three stories building that used to be a normal house but turned into small housing. There were only four units in that building, the first story was occupied by the owner, the second and third stories had two units and hers; she lived at the rooftop, which actually was a warehouse on the roof that was now turned into a studio apartment. The former warehouse was made of wood and was just in the shape of simple square, but she loved the empty yard in front of it which was perfect for star gazing. It was empty at the moment, but the owner told her that she could do whatever she wanted to do to that space.

She stopped at a small convenience store beside her building and bought two packs of kimbab fo