Jeongyeon came to Nayeon's office right after she made the phone call to CEO. Her face looked serious.

"What happens, Jeong? Don't tell me something bad had happened to Seoyeon!" Nayeon asked, worried and panicked.

Jeongyeon didn't say anything, only handing a newspaper to Nayeon, pointing to the article about Nonghyup Bank robbery incident.

"What is it?" Nayeon asked.

Jeongyeon let out a heavy sigh.

"Mr and Mrs Hahm were dead. They were killed in the robbery incident."

"WHAT!?" Nayeon's eyes bulged out. Her heartbeat increasing rapidly again and her breath shuddered in an instant.

"How about- How about Seoyeon?" She asked, panicking.

"Seoyeon is alright," the lawyer said.

"She's alright? Oh thank God!" Nayeon closed her eyes and let out a deep breath. She was trying hard to maintain herself.

The CEO then began to read the news slowly and carefully.

"But Jeong, this is bad. How is Seoyeon now? Where is she? Who's taking care of her? Jeong, we need to get her soon!" Nayeon said, looking so worried.

Jeongyeon paused for a moment and stared into Nayeon's eyes.

"Right now Seoyeon is being taken care of by the Myouis."

"Myoui? She's with them?"

"Yes. I did inform you before that Chaeyoung and Dahyun have been babysitting Seoyeon very often before. So now Seoyeon is being taken care of by them." Jeongyeon said while kept staring at Nayeon, seemingly being careful at what she was going to say to Nayeon.

"Oh, that's good. And now, we don't have to wait anymore to adopt her, right? Can we adopt her now?" Nayeon asked with her eyes full of hope.

"I'm afraid we can't, Nayeon. At least not now." Jeongyeon shook her head.

"Why?"

Jeongyeon paused again for another moment before answering,

"Myoui Family adopted her yesterday."

Nayeon's jaw were dropped literally upon hearing that.

"W-What...?"

Jeongyeon continued. "Their mother, Yejin, had adopted Seoyeon legally yesterday. I'm sorry Nayeon, we're late."

Nayeon could only stare helplessly at Jeongyeon. agaped.

"So we can't adopt her?"

"No. I'm afraid not. Yejin had already requested a license to adopt Seoyeon. If you want to adopt her, the only way is to make them cancel the process. And that means you have to talk to the Myouis, and explain to them why you want to adopt Seoyeon. Of course the easiest way is to announce publicly that Seoyeon is your birth daughter. But even so, they will require us to give them a proof, for example, a DNA test. And they will ask who Seoyeon's father is, amongst other things. Are you ready to disclose all of that, Nay?"

The CEO suddenly found her legs weakened. She sat down and sank herself on her chair, unable to say a word.

"Nayeon?" Jeongyeon called.

"....."

"Nayeon, what do you want to do?" She asked.

The CEO took a deep breath, thinking for a moment.

"I can't, Jeong. I can't announce my daughter publicly, for now." Nayeon said, running her hand over her face.

"Nayeon, look, I understand your feelings. I am sorry for not being able to find your daughter sooner."

"No, Jeong. It's not your fault." Nayeon spoke weakly. Her eyes seemed to be losing their light.

"Nayeon, do you want to talk to me about this? About Seoyeon's father, perhaps? I know this might be too private but-"

"No. I can't talk about it right now. I don't wanna talk about it."

Jeongyeon stared into Nayeon's eyes. "So what do you want to do now?"

Nayeon shook her head. "I don't know. I need time to think. This is so unexpected, Jeong."

"Okay."

"Jeong, is there a way to take my daughter from Myoui without announcing her as my birth daughter?" Nayeon asked.

The lawyer thought for a moment.

"Hm, I'm not really sure. In Myoui case, it will be much harder for us to negotiate with them. If we told them that Seoyeon's birth mother is