Chapter 339:

Chapter 339:

Chapter 339

Director Kwon Sung-hoe smiled brightly as he faced his subordinate.

“So, how was Han Yoo-hyun’s expression?”

“Huh? Oh...”

The subordinate hesitated, and Director Kwon laughed loudly.

“Haha. I should have seen that bastard’s frustrated face myself, but I was too lazy.”

“Director, the thing is...”

“What? Come on, tell me.”

Director Kwon urged his subordinate as if he already knew the answer.

The subordinate, who had looked around the 12th floor office, opened his mouth after some hesitation.

“That bastard was smiling?”

“What?”

Director Kwon’s eyes widened.

Two weeks later.

Yoo-hyun finished his long vacation and drove south in his car.

There were not many cars on the road, probably because it was a weekday morning.

The weather was unusually clear today.

Yoo-hyun felt the cool air-conditioning breeze and listened to the sound coming from his earphones.

His colleague Kwon Se-jung explained what had happened at the company while Yoo-hyun was away.

-It seems that the HR team investigated it themselves and caught the problem. So Seong Woong-jin Assistant Manager...

The HR team uncovered various irregularities committed by Seong Woong-jin Assistant Manager.

He had manipulated documents or stolen data from his juniors to achieve results. That was the basic.

He had also created fake results by receiving kickbacks from vendors and intermediating them to clients.

In the process, he had gained quite a lot of money.

But why did the HR team move instead of the investigation team?

Yoo-hyun pretended not to know and asked.

“But how did the HR team find out?”

-Seong Assistant Manager is a core talent, right? They got a clue while doing a performance interview, I guess?

“I see. The HR team is very meticulous.”

Yoo-hyun answered casually and recalled what Assistant Manager Park Doo-sik had told him on the phone a while ago.

-I checked Jang Joon-sik’s personnel evaluation last year as you asked me to, and there were more than one or two strange things. So I decided to interview some related people.

The mark on the personnel evaluation of the first year of employment usually followed one throughout their company life.

Yoo-hyun wanted to correct at least the wrong parts.

He didn’t want to make Jang Joon-sik successful, but he wanted to give him a fair chance as a senior.

While Yoo-hyun was thinking that, Kwon Se-jung said.

-Anyway, thanks to the HR team, people got to see Seong Assistant Manager’s true colors. He’ll probably be disciplined.

“Didn’t you suffer a lot too?”

-More than me, Joon-sik suffered a lot. He got completely marked for saying one right thing and was ostracized. Actually, I was one of them, too.

“Why are you having a repentance time all of a sudden? Why are you making such a depressing sound when you call me after a long time?”

Yoo-hyun tried to lighten up the mood with a joke, and Kwon Se-jung dodged it.

He brought up some memories that he had forgotten for a while.

-Sorry about that. Oh, I owe you a meal too.

“Why?”

-You said you’d buy me a meal if you changed Joon-sik, remember?

“Oh, right. How is he now? Did he change a bit?”

-Of course. He’s like a different person these days. I was amazed when I saw him at the last meeting. And he comes early every day and greets me too.

Yoo-hyun felt more ticklish when he heard his junior’s praise than when he received praise himself.

Maybe that’s why Yoo-hyun teased him.

“That kid is a bit ignorant.”

-Haha. He seems to be especially nice to me because I’m your colleague.

“Then buy him a meal instead of me. He’ll like it.”

Kwon Se-jung readily agreed.

-Sure. I’ll take care of that. By the way, how do you feel? Going on a long trip?

“It’s good. I feel relieved.”

-You’re such a positive guy. Did you prepare well?

“What’s there to prepare? I just live casually.”

Yoo-hyun said his true feelings and glanced at the empty seat next to him.

There was a thick report with information on Yeontae Factory and its surroundings that Jang Joon-sik had investigated.

He dug so deep that there were many things that Yoo-hyun didn’t know either.

Thanks to that, Yoo-hyun was more prepared than he intended.

-Sure. I believe you can do well.

In the end, Yeontae Factory had no use other than accommodating abandoned staff.

In fact, there weren’t many people who lasted long here.

It wasn’t easy to live in such an isolated place with poor geography and eat dog food.

Yoo-hyun shook his head as he thought about it.

He tried to clear his mind, but he already had the factory situation stuck in his head.

Yoo-hyun muttered a phrase that he had been saying habitually lately.

“Let’s live comfortably, comfortably.”

As Yoo-hyun climbed up the narrow road,

Kang Jong-ho was wandering around in front of the factory yard as usual.

His face looked even more fierce today because of his short eyebrows and sharp chin.

He wanted to vent some stress on the newcomer in this remote place, but the boss told him not to touch him.

And he was an office worker.

He worked at Hansung Tower in Gangnam, no less.

He could imagine him acting arrogant and fussy.

“Unlucky bastard.”

He spat out his inner thoughts about the transferee he hadn’t seen yet.

Vroom vroom

A black mid-sized car came up the narrow road.

A Hansung Electronics Factory pass was attached to the front windshield that was heavily tinted.

What did that mean?

Suddenly, Kang Jong-ho ran inside with a startled face.

“Boss. It’s an executive inspection.”

“What? An executive inspection?”

Park Chul-hong, who was playing janggi in the break room, jumped up in surprise.

Jo Ki-jeong, who was facing him, ran out with his messy hair flying.

The three of them cleaned up the inside of the factory as if there was a war.

Clank

As soon as they heard the sound of parking in front of the factory,

Kang Jong-ho called Park Chul-hong with a shocked face.

“Boss, look at his outfit.”

“Oh crap.”

Park Chul-hong realized too late that he was only wearing a running shirt and ran into the break room.

He took out his work clothes from a corner and put them on. He ran out with lightning speed.

His movements were agile despite his big belly.

There was an unprecedented tension in Yeontae Factory.

Yoo-hyun was organizing his luggage in the car.

He had a lot to clean up because he had stopped by various places on the way.

He put the snacks and drinks he had bought at the rest area in a plastic bag.

He put the report that Jang Joon-sik had made in his bag.

He hummed along to the loud song playing in the car and tidied up.

He looked up.

He saw a man saluting in front of the front glass.

Two other men were standing next to him with serious poses.

“What’s that?”

It was too much to welcome a newcomer.

Did Vice President Yeo Tae-sik do this for me?

Even so, there was no need to salute.

The three people standing in front of him looked like security guards guarding the entrance when a high-ranking executive visited the factory.

Clank

Yoo-hyun opened the door and got out with an puzzled mind.

“Hello... Huh?”

The people who greeted him with a loud voice as if they had rehearsed froze when they saw Yoo-hyun’s face.

He looked around with his bag and greeted them.

“Hello.”

“...”

He approached them and reached out his hand.

“Haha. You didn’t have to come out to greet me.”

“...”

“Anyway, nice to meet you. I’m Han Yoo-hyun, the transferee.”

“Transferee...”

Park Chul-hong, who had his hand grabbed by Yoo-hyun, was speechless.

Meanwhile, his hand was shaken vigorously by Yoo-hyun.