Semua Bab My Boss is a Secretive K-Drama Freak?!!: Bab 31 - Bab 40

~ Hailey Park ~I wake up with three problems:My boss, Ethan Jang, is a K-drama freak.My boss, Ethan Jang, is jealous of anything with a pulse.My boss, Ethan Jang… almost kissed me yesterday.Three times.The office should give me hazard pay. For emotional trauma.I walk into work praying—BEGGING—that today will be normal.Peaceful.Quiet.A day without heart palpitations, near-kisses, or his weird CEO-wants-to-sit-closer-to-me-all-the-time energy.But the moment I step onto the floor—Everyone turns.Not subtly.No.Full dramatic telenovela swivel.As if I’m the leading actress walking into my own scandal press conference.Someone whispers, “She’s glowing.”Another: “She came in late. That means something.”Another: “Do you think he kissed her yet?”I trip over AIR.“I—IT’S—NOT— WHAT—YOU—THINK—” I stammer to literally no one in particular.A voice behind me says, “Stop defending something that’s true.”I nearly launch myself into orbit.ETHAN.Of course.He walks past me, calm, co

~ Hailey Park ~I wake up the next morning with three very clear, very horrifying thoughts:Ethan Jang almost confessed to me last night.I almost LET him.I am a coward with the emotional stability of a broken vending machine.I roll out of bed like a tragic heroine whose destiny is to trip over her emotions indefinitely, grab my phone, and—14 unread messages.From Ethan.I scream into my pillow.Not because he messaged me.But because the preview says:“I rewrote the confession scene. You need to memorize your lines.”WHAT.WHAT LINES?!WHY DO I HAVE LINES?!WHY AM I BEING CAST IN A CONFESSION SCENE LIKE A TRAINEE ACTRESS WHO NEVER AUDITIONED?!I fling my pillow across the room, brush my teeth aggressively, and march to work, already prepared to fight God, gravity, AND Ethan Jang.But when I step into the office—Everything stops.Everyone stares.And I mean everyone.Marketing. Finance. HR. Even the INTERN.They all freeze like I just walked into a battlefield wearing a wedding dr

~ Hailey Park ~If someone had told me this morning that I’d end the day in my boss’s penthouse, inches away from kissing him, only for everything to be shattered by a phone call from his mother—I would have told them to stop drinking expired energy drinks.But here I am.Standing in his apartment.My heart still thumping in my throat.Watching Ethan answer a phone call with a face so tense it could cut metal.He turns away from me.His shoulders stiffen.“Mother?” he says quietly.His tone changes—soft, strained, uncertain.A tone I’ve never heard before.He paces.Listens.His hand curls into a fist.“…When?” he whispers.Pause.A long, breaking pause.“…I’ll be there,” he says.Then he ends the call with shaking fingers.I swallow hard.“Ethan? What happened?”He doesn’t turn around immediately.He just stands there, breathing too slowly for someone who’s calm, but too quickly for someone pretending to be.Finally, he looks at me.And it hits me like a punch.He’s scared.Truly sc

~ Hailey ~If Chapter 36 was chaos…Chapter 37 is war.Heart-pounding, breath-stealing, toe-curling, K-Drama war.I walk into the office the next morning trying my absolute best to look normal.Normal = not looking like someone who was kissed senseless by her terrifyingly gorgeous CEO less than twelve hours ago.Spoiler alert: I am failing.Badly.Everyone looks at me weird.The receptionist stares at me like I’m glowing.Someone from finance gives me a knowing eyebrow.And the intern—oh God, the intern—nearly drops his iced coffee when he sees me.Because apparently, someone recorded us leaving the café yesterday.Together.Close.Too close.I pull out my phone.Breaking Rumor: Ice King CEO Seen on ‘Suspiciously Intimate’ Lunch With Employee 👀I choke on air.Before I can spiral into oblivion, a shadow suddenly covers me.Ethan.In all black. Coat, suit, mood.Like a villain.A hot villain.A “ruin-your-life-but-you’ll-thank-him” villain.He leans close, voice velvet and danger.“Yo

~ Hailey Park ~Chapter 39 begins with the kind of tension that makes your lungs seize. The kind of tension that makes a K-drama villain CEO suddenly look like a puppy—and then turns him back into a hurricane. Because this chapter is war. Corporate war. Media war. Heart war. And Ethan Jang is not holding back.I arrive at the office dressed in a blazer that feels far too professional for the chaos that’s about to explode. The moment I step through the glass doors, I know something is wrong. Everyone’s eyes are glued to the monitors—social media feeds, live streams, company chat logs. It’s a feeding frenzy, the type that makes you want to crawl back into the elevator and pretend you don’t work here.Kevin rushes toward me, whispering with eyes wide like he just witnessed a ghost commit tax fraud. “Hailey… it’s everywhere. Twitter, Insta… even the LinkedIn comments are exploding.” I groan into my palm. “I didn’t sign up for this.” But before I can process the digital wildfire, the eleva