Chapter 126

Pretending I couldn't refuse, I gave a light smile and took the seat beside Ryu Do-gyeong, and the air across the table froze over instantly.

A quick glance showed Joo Su-yeon's face turning a sickening shade of pale with fury and humiliation.

When she'd tried to sit there herself, he'd thrown up a wall and called it his bag's seat — and now she'd had to watch, live, as Ryu Do-gyeong openly shut her out and sat me there instead. No wonder she looked ready to combust.

And the seating wasn't the only reason Joo Su-yeon's stomach was boiling over like that.

It was probably because the plan she'd meant to use to push me off a cliff had just failed, spectacularly.

So, how exactly had this happened…

The situation traced back to right after Secretary Park had passed along their little scheme to me.

Joo Su-deok had gone through…