A restaurant in Cheongdam-dong.

The room was thick with year-end cheer. Ah Yura and Seo Jian sat across from each other at a window table.

"Tonight's on me."

Seo Jian closed the menu as she said it.

"All of a sudden?"

"You introduced me, didn't you?"

"To whom?"

"Chairman Ha Tae-ung."

Ah Yura raised her eyebrows a little, as if she couldn't believe it.

"And you're only buying me dinner for it now?"

"I've been way too busy."

With Ha Tae-ung leaving on his business trip to Switzerland, she'd been given year-end vacation, as if to make up for all the busy days.

For Seo Jian, it was her first real break since she'd joined the company.

Ah Yura raised her wineglass.

"So how's life at the company?"

"It's a dream~"

The answer came faster than she'd expected. Ah Yura blinked, privately surprised.

"That good?"

"Mm-hm."

Seo Jian spread all five fingers, then folded them down one at a time.

"The pay's great."

"……" "He gives bonuses for what you actually do."

"……" "No pointless office politics."

"……" "And above all, the chairman looks like he stepped straight out of a comic. Just looking at him is healing."

Ah Yura almost laughed, then hid it.

"Sounds like that last one's the most important."

"It is."

Seo Jian didn't deny it.

"There's no end to our Chairman Ha Tae-ung's charms."

"Like what?"

"You know. He's twenty, but he's absolutely nothing like a twenty-year-old."

Seo Jian thought of the boss she worked for and kept counting his good points.

"And…… somehow he makes people trust him."

Ah Yura nodded without meaning to. She'd seen a little of that herself.

She hadn't met him in person many times, but the young master, no, Chairman Ha Tae-ung had a strange power to draw people in.

"I'm jealous."

"Of what?"

"You found a good boss."

"That's why I'm buying tonight."

"But……"

Ah Yura asked, as if something had just occurred to her.

"Why did the chairman go to Switzerland?"

"Switzerland? No idea."

This time Seo Jian shook her head at once, as if it were…