[Synopsis]
Certain and Electrifying [Novel Introduction]
Jung Yeoeun, who broke up with her boyfriend
because of her friend’s interference.
Knowing that it was a malicious plan between the
two of them to get rid of her, she was overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal.
Then, there was a man who stretched out his hand
like a savior.
“What should I do.”
“……?”
“I have to get rid of the obstacles in front of me
so I can feel better.”
Yeoeun looked up at the sudden voice.
Looking up at the tall height, her high heels felt
useless.
“What do you mean?”
“I’m wondering if I should make a mess or not.”
“Huh? A mess?”
“In me, you have a lover.”
Director Cha Junwon, a man with a blunt but kind
way of speaking.
Did he really say that he’d join in her revenge,
that he’d willingly be her lover?
In a moment of suspicion mixed with jealousy,
Yeoeun plans a satisfying revenge with the help of
Junwon.
[Characters]
1. Jung Yeoeun
(24, Junwon’s Secretary)
A society rookie who has deep wounds but doesn’t
show them easily and just wants to be a little happier now.
After ending her life in Seoul and wanting to
escape the shadow of her stepmother and stepbrother, she moved to Daejeon and
got a job at a poor printing job without looking at the conditions, becoming
Cha Junwon’s secretary.
She tries her best to work according to the
standard of the company and can communicate with foreign buyers with no
problems through self-taught English.
During her lonely life abroad, she fell in love
with a college senior named Dohyun. However, she was betrayed by Dohyun and her
best friend and now feels frustrated.
After knowing the bitterness of life so early on,
she dreams of true happiness.
To that end, she dreams of a revenge that has never
been done in her lifetime. With Cha Junwon, a strong supporter.
2. Cha Junwon
(31, Executive Director)
One among the talents that large corporations are
interested in.
After graduating from a prestigious university in
England, he decided to take residence in a printing office on the verge of
collapse as soon as he returned to Korea.
His reason for rejecting large corporations is
simple. He thought it would be interesting to raise a company on the verge of
bankruptcy. Only then would he be able to focus on his work without suffering
from his past wounds.
With his extraordinary charisma and impeccable work
skills, he shut down anyone who looked down on him and put all his efforts into
stabilizing a company on the brink of collapse.
If there was one trivial thing he did for fun, it
was observing his only secretary.
He found it amazing that she graduated from a
department that had nothing to do with English but could communicate in English
so easily, and she was a far better worker than anyone else working for such a
low wage.
When he finds out Yeoeun suffers from the same
wound as him, he plans a proxy revenge to make up for the one he could never
achieve.
3. Yoon Jiae
(24, write “friend” but read it as “fox”)
Not a friend but a fox who has known Yeoeun for
over 10 years.
She feels inferior to Yeoeun even knowing the
torture she suffered at the hands of her stepmother after her biological mother
passed away.
Her sympathy is brief, and she becomes jealous of
Yeoeun who becomes entangled with extraordinarily handsome men.
She happened to look at Dohyun’s picture and he
caught her eye. In a situation where he was the man she was dating.
She asks for an introduction and the three of them
meet, and she starts openly criticizing Yeoeun in front of her and doing all
sorts of sly things to Dohyun. She never dreamed that Yeoeun would come back
like a boomerang.
4. Lee Dohyun
(26, Yeoeun’s ex-boyfriend)
Yeoeun’s senior in college. After he hears Yeoeun
is living alone in Daejeon, he works in sweet guy mode. However, after gaining
Yeoeun’s heart he neglected to contact her, and eventually he breaks up with
her after being fascinated by Jiae.
5. Gi Yongseok
(31, Junwon’s former colleague)
He was best friends with Junwon until he stole
Junwon’s other colleague and only lover Jeongin.
Even though they were in a foreign country, he was
on par with Junwon in terms of ability and became fond of Jeongin, a Korean who
joined the company as a new employee.
Jeongin took care of him so that he wouldn’t get
homesick, but it was harder to win Jeongin’s heart than to win a star in the
sky.
After Jeongin was deployed to Junwon’s team, it
became harder to meet and eventually he heard that the two of them were dating.
And then when he saw Junwon was on the promotion list and he wasn’t, he was
overwhelmed with a sense of defeat. Love was more important than friendship, so
when he saw an opportunity, he interfered with the two in a dirty way. In the
end, he succeeded in stealing Jeongin away.
6. Han Jeongin
(26, Junwon’s ex-lover)
Joined the company where Junwon and Yongseok were
working as interns after going to London on working holiday. When she struggled
with English, Junwon helped her bluntly, and she found out through his actions
that he was deep hearted even if he didn’t seem friendly. She was more
attracted to Junwon, who took care of her indifferently, than Yongseok, who
expressed his heart to her, and confessed to Junwon.
Jeongin corrected Junwon’s pronunciation, as he was
not good at Korean, and Junwon helped with Jeongin’s Korean and slowly fell in
love. However, Yongseok tells her that Junwon is acting strange, and she
becomes confused when she hears him talking badly about her. Even with Junwon’s
explanation, she doesn’t believe him and instead turns to Yongseok.
7. Kang
Nakyeong (51, Yeoeun’s stepmother)
When Yeoeun was 10 years old, she married her
father and brought her middle-school-aged son. She tried to love Yeoeun more
than her own son, but her arms were bent as Yeoeun refused to follow her.
The stress of hearing the word stepmother
constantly around her was enormous, and eventually she took out her anger on
Yeoeun. Whenever Yeoeun’s father was away for a few days on a business trip,
she would neglect Yeoeun, and sometimes she would slap her as a form of
discipline.
One day before her husband leaves on an overseas
trip, she finds a note from Yeoeun in his bag that says “my stepmother hates
me” and punishes her with bad food.
Later, she plans to marry Yeoeun off to fulfill her
husband’s wishes as his body is deteriorating.
8. Jung
Yoonbeom (30, Yeoeun’s stepbrother)
Nakyeong’s real son. His surname used to be Cho,
but he changed it to Jung after Yeoeun’s father.
He doesn’t think of Yeoeun as his real sister, but
since they grew up together, he thinks of her more specially than others. When
he learned that Yeoeun was teased for living with her stepmother, he scolded
the children who teased her harshly. However, when Nakyeong heard about it, her
anger was unintentionally directed at Yeoeun.
Even if he tried to correct the facts, he couldn’t
stand up to his mother and decided not to interfere with Yeoeun’s affairs
anymore. He thought it would be better for Yeoeun if he didn’t come forward.
However, compassion for Yeoeun is deeply engraved in his heart.
[Summary]
A man and a woman who are united in revenge.
Coincidentally, they have in common that they both broke up with a lover due to
a friend’s meddling. Junwon readily holds out his hand to Yeoeun, who dreams of
revenge. Rather than being selfish, he wanted to live a vicarious revenge
through her. That was all.
Through Yeoeun’s revenge scenario, he only feels
satisfied when he takes away the parts of Jiae and Dohyun’s relationship one by
one. Yeoeun is sincerely grateful to Junwon for playing the part of her boyfriend.
On the day they toasted to celebrate a successful
revenge, Junwon suddenly said he would get paid by Yeoeun. Junwon smiled
bitterly while Yeoeun looked at him as if he were absurd.
“If the same thing happens to me, then you have to
be my girlfriend.”
With that single sentence, Yeoeun realized that
Junwon held the same pain as her. The two, whose relationship has become more
intimate than that of a boss and his secretary, work well together as a
fantastic combination.
One day when Junwon and Yeoeun travel to Seoul for
work, they run into her stepbrother Yoonbeom. Yeoeun never knew that Yoonbeom
had stood up for her, she only thought he hated her. Not wanting her family
history to be revealed, she tries to leave, but Yoonbeom stops her by grabbing
her wrist. Then, Junwon immediately takes his hand off and stops him.
Yoonbeom introduces himself as Yeoeun’s brother,
but Junwon is suspicious as Yeoeun doesn’t say a word. After asking her to send
a message saying she is doing well, Yoonbeom leaves, and Yeoeun confesses her
family affairs to Junwon.
Junwon feels a sense of kinship with Yeoeun as not
only are their relationship problems the same, but their family problems are
too. He didn’t have a happy childhood either. After losing his father, he had
to stay in England with his rich stepfather. He grew up dreaming of success and
independence while enduring racism from his peers and coercive discipline from
his stepfather. Having become completely economically independent, he had
basically lost all contact with his mother and stepfather.
At first it was just sympathy. He wanted to be
nicer to Yeoeun, who seemed to have a lot in common with him, and he was
worried about her being neglected by her family. He never thought that the
feeling would develop into love.
Even when Yeoeun confessed to him, he thought that
what he felt was only pity. Perhaps he was conscious of the feeling of love
deep in the depths of his heart, but he refused to see it. He wasn’t ready to
love yet. He knew he would be hurt and didn’t have the courage to start.
After Jeongin is dispatched to Korea and Junwon
meets her, Yeoeun notices the two have similar speech patterns and realizes she
is the one he wanted to get revenge on. However, Junwon’s gaze seemed to
permeate longing rather than anger, and she realized he didn’t actually want
revenge. It seemed like he was just confused by his memories. She decides to
give up on Junwon, thinking there was no room for her to intervene.
Even after returning to a strictly business relationship,
she only felt unhappiness. Her healthy father was suddenly diagnosed with
cancer. The fact that he didn’t drink or smoke made it harder for her to
believe. She tries to go to Seoul right away, but her stepmother prevents her
from going, saying he is not in very critical condition. Then she said, “If you
want to be a good daughter, get married. Your father wants to hold your hand
and walk you down the aisle. I’ll look into your marriage, so don’t worry about
it.”
Yeoeun defies her stepmother’s orders and
immediately goes to her parents’ house.
As soon as she sees her father who is about to
undergo surgery, she sheds tears. Although she may have not taken good care of
her father because she was busy at work, she volunteers to now as they are still
blood.
Even so, her stepmother tries to call a caregiver,
but Yeoeun affirms that she is the only blood relative of her father, and asks
her stepmother to reaffirm the details or her marriage.
She immediately submits her resignation, but it is
differed. President Seo Hyunoh says “As soon as your father is well, come back
down”. However, Yeoeun firmly conveys her resolve to stay in Seoul as there is
no reason for her to return to Daejeon.
Junwon, who followed Yeoeun, asks if she will
return. But Yeoeun told him that regardless of her father’s health, she was
about to get married.
Only then does Junwon finally feel like the sky is
collapsing. Even when he asked why she was getting married at that age, her
answer was consistent. If he let her go like this, he thought he would never
see her again, so he grabs onto her.
Yeoeun asks Junwon to tell her what it means for
him to hold onto her. As soon as he tries to answer, Jeongin appears and
approaches Junwon in a friendly manner.
Junwon shakes off Jeongin’s hand and clearly
conveys his thoughts to Yeoeun.
“Jung Yeoeun… I mean I can’t let you go. What I’m
trying to say is… I love you.”
Junwon finally realized that letting go of Yeoeun
would bring him greater pain than being hurt by love.
Yeoeun, who goes back to Seoul with his
reassurance, starts a long-distance relationship with Junwon. After the
surgery, her father’s biopsy reveals that he has stage 2 colorectal cancer, and
he immediately undergoes treatment with Yeoeun by his side. At this time, she informs
her family of her boyfriend’s existence, but her stepmother is skeptical.
She thinks Yeoeun is lying because she doesn’t like
the man her stepmother introduced, so she secretly inquires about a proposal.
When Yoonbeom noticed his mother’s plan, he remembered the name of Yeoeun’s
company and calls her directly. Yeoeun is finally able to resolve her
misunderstanding and realizes that there has been someone silently protecting
her since she was young.
She visits her parents for permission to get
married, but seeing who Yeoeun plans to marry, her stepmother insists on
getting permission from Junwon’s parents first.
Junwon calls his mother on the spot for the first
time in a long time.
His mother, who couldn’t hold Junwon to her heart’s
content because of her husband controlling the strings, agrees to his marriage,
saying, “Your happiness comes first.” Yoonbeom tells his mother, who is lost
for words, to stop fighting, and she agrees. Junwon, who didn’t know the
meaning of ‘brother-in-law’ before, shakes hands with Yoonbeom.
Meanwhile, Yeoeun’s father endured the sixth round
of anti-cancer drugs with the determination to walk his daughter down the
aisle, and quickly regains his health.
The newlyweds originally planned to get a house in
Seoul, but one month before the wedding, Junwon took over the Cheongmyeong
Printing Office from President Seo Hyunoh.
Of course, he had looked into large companies now
that he would be raising a family but decided he would have no issue running
the company as he easily achieved 6 billion won in annual sales and increased
the number of employees. And Yeoeun hoped that Junwon would make such a choice.
So, the newlyweds decided to live in Daejeon.
A few days before the wedding, Yeoeun’s stepmother
asked her if there was anything else to prepare. As she was about to say there
was nothing, her mother asked, “Why do you always look at me like that?” Yeoeun
sighed and answered softly.
How could a ten-year-old child have a good
impression of an old lady who suddenly told her to call her ‘mom’? She was only
ten years old. If she had comforted her more she would have followed her well.
She didn’t know if her relationship with her
stepmother would be restored. Unlike in the past, when she thought she was
alone, now she had a strong husband who gave her the power to overcome the pain
and stand up tall.
[Profile]
Name: 서아랑 (Seo Arang)
Published
Works:
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Protect Me, Oppa
Close Relationship with a Judge
Lustful Sheep
