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A month passes and the chaos lessens.

Its repercussions, however, affect Wings on every level. Loyal employees leave, the sales lessen, the reviews become worse and all the reputation and hold on the industry it had, painfully became a grudge against Minhee. It is awful the way she always hears murmurs in every room she enters, she feels like she has let down not only her dad but thousands of other people.

But she is glad that Jeongguk and Bam go to lengths to make her feel better. Little honey kisses she gets on either of her cheeks as soon as she is out of the shower because the father-son duo is big on hygiene. Initially, Jeongguk used to play movies and deliberately criticise everything to keep Minhee's mind distracted but when things worsened, it stopped working on her.

So he opted for handing chores to her instead.

"You'll do the laundry, I take care of the cooking. You wash the dishes and I take care of Bam."

"Why do I get all the washing stuff and you get all the interesting stuff to do?" Minhee crosses her arm in front of her, raising an eyebrow.

Jeongguk mimics her pose, clearing his throat. "Do you know how to cook?"

"..no?" Minhee uncrosses her hand.

"Would you like to clean Bam's poop day and night?"

And that's enough for Minhee to give him a complete bow with her hands in front of her. "Will you like your coat dry-cleaned, Sir?"

Yesterday, Jeongguk bought a bookshelf to place in his room and took Minhee to the library to get the shelf filled up. Minhee realised that Jeongguk isn't a big book reader. She too, isn't so all they buy is comics and magazines, along with some fun puzzles.

They still fight, Minhee often sleeps in the room when she doesn't want to feel better but at the end of the day, they wake up as if nothing happened because they realise their differences are just two sides of the same coin. Misunderstandings and circumstances made them dislike each other and the same is making them grow closer.

As if things can't afford to get better, she receives a call from Jeongguk one afternoon saying her mother had come to meet him. He told her she didn't say much but still looked shaken by her dad's death.

Minhee knows her mother truly loved her father, despite everything.

She wants to be there for her, comfort her and also take her warmth in for her own soothing but the betrayal is fresh in her mind and in a way, she can't help but blame her for everything she is going through.

...

"I am really sorry for vanishing without any notice like this."

"That's okay Mrs Yoon, I can understand," Ryu says, placing her cup of tea on the table. "For the record your daughter could reduce the penalty but still has to pay a hefty sum."

"I know..." Mrs Yoon says, licking her lips. "That's why I am here...to ask for a favour."

Ryu raises an eyebrow up. "A favour from me?" Unexpected but interesting.

"Let me continue working here. I am okay with working in a lower position if you'd want me to." Mrs Yoon says, her voice quivering in between phrases.

Oh the sense of pride Ryu gets to hear a member of the Yoon family beg to her like this. It feeds her ego, satisfies her hunger for power. After all these years and efforts, Miranda will be announced the top cosmetic company in Korea, opening doors to all international markets that initially questioned the brand.

A domestic brand like Wings could have easily used its power to spread the sensation of the K-cosmetics in the world better, making it more popular than the plastic surgery industry. But never mind, Ryu is here and she'll make that happen. She'll rule all the markets and she'll set the trends.

"Is your daughter okay with it?" Ryu asks.

"She has no choice either," Mrs Yoon says, "If I don't do something, Wings will fall."

A company named Wings, with the motto that the sky's the limit and has the tallest building as its office...it's ironic that only one gunshot and two weak birds were needed to hunt it down.

Ryu first met Mrs Yoon at one of her kitty parties and instantly recognised her. It was five years back or so, she didn't pay much attention because she was forced to be there for creating affiliations with the wives of the rich. But interestingly, Minhee came into the picture four years later.

The CEO of Wings is a kid with absolutely no knowledge or training on how things work? That's all she needed to approach Mrs Yoon again. Initially, it was difficult to hang out with her because she was busy with work or was loyal to her friends. Ryu must have asked her to have a cup of coffee, tea, dessert or drink countless times and all she heard was a no. But that day, the day when Minhee messed up her event, there was a slip-up.

Mrs Yoon called Ryu for a drink.

She has a good hold of her liquor, Ryu noticed. She still spoke carefully but Ryu could make out that there had been an issue in Minhee's event.

However, it was too late. Daejun had those matters hidden deeply, things she only found out after a month of Jeongguk and Minhee's marriage, which also was one of her failed plans of "exposing" Minhee. Once Paris' deal was out of Minhee and Jeongguk's hands, she got Mrs Yoon in complete confidence and convinced her to earn more money the 'real businessman' ways.

The money which Ryu got from her as compensation went all in bribes to bigger sponsors and investors to get them working with her instead of them and so far her plan has worked. Though the timing of Minhee's so-called scandal was bad.

But with Daejun out of the picture, it still made it easier. Minhee is completely crushed with only little hope to get back up and Jeongguk? He's part of her doom anyway. The poor boy does make a space of sympathy in Ryu's heart but not enough to keep him out of her target.

"Alright, Mrs Yoon. Nothing has changed, we've kept your desk still the same," Ryu says, smiling.

Ryu has achieved her goal, proved herself worthy of leading the entire Sono group that owns her brand. She just has to maintain her position, which doesn't seem difficult now, until the headquarters deem her a candidate for the President of the Sono group.

"We knew you'd come back to us. Welcome back, home."

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