6. Resentments From Past

"Guilt, resentment, bitterness, sadness and all the non-forgiveness were caused in past. While he was ready to leave it, she got a hold of it like a soft toy."

"Hello Miss Yohana, welcome to this whole new world. I hope you will be a greater writer for Ryudel." Sang-Tae's voice was heard from the distance when I just entered the main gate of the building. I saw him smirking and his eyes saying that we met again. Reaching upon the reception, Kim Yejin showed me around telling me all sorts of thing and facts about the company.

"You won't see out CEO much as he is mostly on business trips. But our MD and senior director are always present. If you need anything or wanna ask anything, you can contact them." She told me. I got to know about Sang-Tae that he wants and gets everything perfect here and he works fairly here. But how is it even possible after destroying The Matthews in a matter of time. He gotta have so many masks on his face of personality.

"That prick." I whispered under my breath.

"Are you thinking about me." I squealed when Sang-Tae came from behind and exhaled in my ears. "You don't need to think much. Just work here silently and let me do what I wanna do here." Smirking again, he left when my mobile started ringing...

Aah, that was my alarm. I must be dreaming. Been four years and I started again with his dreams. Damn. Can't I live my life peacefully? Why do he have to get in between my life. Might I have been in some kind of bad relationship with him in my previous life that I get to meet his negative soul repetitively. Ugh I don't have time to think about it now or I'll be late on my very first day. I got ready in my formals and had a coffee on my way from a café down the street and arrived on time at the bus stop. Buses, might be crowdy sometimes but are more pocket convenient than taxis here.

Arriving upon the building I met many people, Asian, American, all sorts of them. It felt so good to wear my own identity card written, 'Miss Yohana Matthews, Writer and Editor in charge.' Gets me so excited every time. I greeted Yejin at reception and took an elevator to my office. It too was hella crowded with employees. The elevator door open and everyone left, I too stepped out of the elevator the first thing I saw was Sang-Tae talking to some employees. I wanted to avoid him whim he was looking at some papers and move from aside but, "Miss Yohana, late on your first day hun. Gosh, why do they even hire people who are not even serious about their work!? It really provides a negative impression on every one else here and being an in charge..."

"I'm on time, sir." I butt in. "Either your watch in quite ahead of time or you just got a habit of criticizing people here. And also, I'm totally serious about my work. You don't need to worry." I smiled forcefully at him.

"You should be in your office by 9 in the morning and," he took my wrist to show me, "it's already 9:05 right now looking at your watch. Glad to see your seriousness about your work the first day. But just to inform you, I want everything perfect in this building and on time. So keep that in mind that everything that moves out of your office to get published gets pass through me." He gave me a taunting smile. I bowed and left when couldn't think of a reply. "Let's see for how much she lasts." I heard him saying at my back. Ugh, who can believe that the one I despise the most is my senior now.

Heaven is really mocking me. rather than making up, it's just bitching with me. I can't even leave now. It's my first job, nor I can tell Ryan. He already has scars from that incident and telling him this might open them. Vanesaaaaa, only she can be my diary now like always.

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Within a couple of hours, I got a hold of my work. Publishing weekly and monthly statistics of the sales and position of Ryudel, making articles of the products and creating promotion ideas. Publishing employees' articles in it's weekly magazine called 'Ryuze'. Its really interesting to do multiple tasks, exactly what I wanted to do. I had a team of 7 colleagues with me and three of them were American. Ryudel published two magazines. One is weekly that includes all the work procedure, statistics to be distributed among all the employees of Ryudel worldwide and the other is monthly which is sold in Korea including it's successful employees' articles, products, a bit of sales and some sort of celebrity news with events it holds.

It might seem easy but you can't even imagine how hectic this work can be, writing, editing, proofreading, again editing, using some creativity, writing in a sense of attracting many more, even using pictures and cartoons. Setting up my desk properly, I greeted my colleagues outside my office on their desks. The introduction was brief but was positive and cheerful. On going this greet ceremony, I got interfered by the secretary of strategy department holding a bundle of sheets, "Here, these are sent by Sang-Tae sir, you need to proof read all of them and summarize all these in brief and publish after editing this Monday. Remember to complete this by tomorrow noon. He also added to get it checked by him personally." She stated in one breath and left after I nodded. "Let's see for how much she lasts." Suddenly this statement came into my mind. Who was he to say this!? I must show him who Yohana is... That bundle was really thick. Gotta be having more than 400 sheets. I have only 24 hours to complete these. These were the detailed reports of the work procedure done by Ryudel published regularly to keep the track of its work. The words written were quite technical in these papers. It took me 30 minutes to read 5 papers, highlighting main points, editing some phrases.

I didn't realised the course of time and it was already 2 in the noon and I was really hungry. Giving myself a little break, I reached the cafeteria of the company. It had so many Korean dishes I got confused with. I could just familiarize Korean sushi, lol saw these things online. "Try some bibimbap here. It's amazing." Someone spoke up from behind getting me shrilled. I turned around to see a handsome Asian face smiling at me. He looked like late 20's. "By the way, " moving his hand ahead for shaking "I'm Min Kyu." I reciprocated his gesture by shaking his hand and introducing myself.

He was working as content creator in digital department. We took our food plates and placed on a table. It was crowded with people, so we had it at the last vacant table. "You know our cafeteria's Bibimbap is very famous in this area." I took one bite and it was really delicious. As heard, Korea is really known for it's spicy food. I liked it here. "So, you new here? Never saw you here before."

"Yeah, my first day here in the writer's department. Just took off yesterday from Miami." I answered with food in my mouth.

"Oh, I see. Glad to meet you.." My mobile pinged in between.

Humanly Asshole ; 'why didn't you tell me you are moving to Korea? Atleast you have to take permission. Ain't I nothing to you?' He finally found out. Rather than getting pissed off, I found his text quite humorous.

'Aww my baby, do you think I would ever take your permission for anything? You should've known me by now. But you're not at fault in this when you're too naïve and empty headed to understand anything.' I replied smirking.

"Sorry, what were you saying?" I asked Min Kyu realising him staring at me. "It was just some moron pestering me."

"No worries. I understand." At that moment a few of his colleagues joined us. We were enjoying our meal while chitchatting. "Yohana, you met our new senior manager?" Min Kyu asked.

"You mean Sang-Tae? Yeah I did yesterday." I replied rolling my eyes. What's there to meet him. You'll just get agitated by him.

"He's so cute when he talks. And when he explains something or give a presentation, his expressions always get me off guard." One of the female employee said drooling over him when I just made a face. I mean what's there to like about him. There are million others better than him. "By the way I saw him with a girl the other day in super market shopping groceries." Everyone turned their eyes suspiciously at her. "It's truth. Last Sunday I saw him with her. She looked like his girlfriend or something because they seemed so close. Aisshhh... I thought I could pursue him. My bad luck."

Suddenly Sang-Tae approached our table and just passed by my side whispering in my ear," Meet me in my office." And shoo.. he was gone making everyone look at me. All of them, including me got confused for a moment.

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SANG TAE'S P.O.V.

You can either be nice or too nice. I was neither of them for her. Yohana knocked at the door twice before entering in my office. I was into a bunch of files setting up this month's finance schedule and checking stock prices of Russian branch of Ryudel. It was going down in the market because of corrupt employees and some other companies are trying to partnering up with it or dissolving it up in their companies as per se. "You called me?" God, was she rude to me.

"I thought you should give your superiors some respects, don't you?" I asked focussing on my work. "It's something called etiquettes or work attitude."

"That's for who deserves respect. Since when did you started getting respect from me?" She asked back cross armed smiling hard.

"Since the day I became your superior at your work." Finally looking up I said further smiling. "Since I'm a senior manager here. Since I get to be liked and respected by others." Raising my brows I put forward.

"Yeah, because they don't know what you did and are capable of doing yet." Her expressions turned sour, her voice ruder. "Because they don't know what I know. Because they don't know the real person behind this mask and because I Know what you did four years back." With that she fled out of the office. She was still holding back the past without knowing it's actual existence. Her words moved me back to what happened then and what it seemed.

... "You sure it's right to do this?" I asked.

"Trust me for this and help me help you. You're the only one I can rely on right now. Just trust me and call the cops. " He pulled my shoulders in an alerting way for me to do this. This move fell upside down and became disastrous for The Matthews reputation. "We have to end what he started." was all he said to this. ....

I realised Yohana left without listening to what I had to say. I texted her, 'I never permitted you to leave then why did you go first. You really need to get disciplined about how to act as an official employee.' I smirked clicking the send button.

In an instant, Yohana was standing in front of me gritting her teeth, "What do you want?" Her voice sounded irritated. "Look, I have a bundle of work to do, so I don't have time to waste here arguing with you." I rose my brows at that.

"You think I get salary for being idle here?" Picking up a bundle of papers I continued, "Here, make separate report from these by tomorrow evening and sent me by mail. Make sure you capture all important details. Do it by yourself only." I detailed her and she left with that grunting under her breath. Thinking her for this is quite a risking task but I couldn't find anyone else at the moment. Also I already changed the basic detailed in the papers with Ryudel's information.

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YOHANA'S P.O.V

What the heck, another bundle by tomorrow. And that too, doing alone. Although I love these kind of works but it's way too much on the first day. And the way he said to do it by myself, I felt suspicious. What is it that doesn't need to be known by others? I thoroughly checked those papers, 'collection of proofs and detailed analysis.' What kind of proofs? I further read, 'Dates of suspicion and product manufacture.' It seems like some sort of manufacturing details and problems created in these. Then again it occurred to me, if it was something suspicious, then why would he give ME this pile to work on. "Let's see for how much she lasts." His comment came to my mind and then I realised, he might have given me these to fulfil his thought. It was already late and I collected my things to work at home. Seems like I won't be sleeping today to complete these.

I bought some Ramen noodles on my way home, can't afford to spend time cooking meal today. It's good that supermarket is near my apartment, I don't have to go far away to buy necessities. No matter how much work I got today, it still felt good to finally have work. I rushed towards my apartment when my mobile starting ringing. It was Ryan so I decided to talk to him at home only. Was about to just reach my apartment when I got bumped into someone and all the things fell down, "The fuck!"

"Hey mind your words." My fortune has really got a grudge against me in this life. Again it was Sang-Tae.

"What the hell are you doing here? By any chance are you stalking me? How did you know I live here?" My voice rising by every word. Why does he have to be every where I am!

"OH, you live here?" He sounded clueless. "Then you should have known how to talk to your neighbours," crossing his arms he continued. " rather than just shouting at them."

What? Neighbour? "What do you mean neighbour?" He stepped aside pointing at the apartment number 2021. 'Lee Sang-Tae' was written there. I mean How? How did I not see that earlier. First, same firms. Now, same building. "When did you.."

Before I could complete he replied," I'm an early bird here. Been living here for three years now. You are new so you don't hold any place to show your grudges me here. You're just wasting your time here. Go and do your work. You gotta submit the report by tomorrow." He said entering his apartment. Whoa, teaching me etiquettes and didn't even help me pick my things. Rolling my eyes I picked my things and entered my apartment and giving a call to Ryan. Avoiding any topic about him, I just told him everything while having my Ramen. Hurry up Yohana! You have to do a lot today.