Strongest Kim Min-Ja 5
The company dinner table was always uncomfortable so team leader Kang felt comfortable eating alone. Especially, he hated places with a lot of people. Other people’s eyes gave a suffocating pressure.
As he loosened his tie, he leaned his tired body on the chair. Some guests looked at the disheveled figure.
In other words, the production team also took note of Kang. I always thought that Director Byun, who would make fun of his mouth, would say four months at any time, but why now? Everyone was spared to see if there would be a firestorm.
In the midst of this, Director Byeon laughed as if nothing happened.
Besides flipping the pork ribs over, Mija could do nothing. There was music that didn’t go well with the pork rib restaurant. Or that went too well with it.
It was a song she used to listen to with Sung Tae. They used to listen to this song with earphones while sitting in front of a vending machine at the city library.
Soju went into Mija’s mouth one glass after another. The cool liquor turned into a hot ball of fire.
The cell phone in the bag shook. Although Sung Tae’s number was blocked that day, he sent text messages with unknown numbers from then on.
[I opened my closet today, there was a suit you bought me. I was grateful even though it wasn’t expensive.]
I spent half a month’s salary on that suit for a man I’ve only known for two years. The family that had been together for nearly 30 years had only two whole chickens.
[Remember? The bridge that we walked on the first snow. I’m standing here now. It’s really cold.]
For Sung Tae to see me well, I wore a thin coat and a short skirt to look slimmer.
He dressed up in a thick plaid and wandered there for about two hours. Unlike him, who was discussing philosophy and reason under his own skin, Mija was so cold that she was going back and forth between life and death.
[You’re still a young thinker. How long are you going to act like a child? If you’re a mature intellectual, you should talk it out.]
Are the words they said really a conversation? When Sung Tae spoke, Mija listened, and Sung Tae scolded, Mija reflected on her, and when Sung Tae concluded, Mija accepted.
The shriveled text became rough as the Mija did not react.
[You know what I’m good at and you’re good at me? I can’t stand the face. Your face is like bread.]
‘bread. this… … Bitch… .’
Mija wasn’t a gorgeous beauty, but she had her own charm. She had a babyface with big eyes and clean skin, with a small physique but quite sensual. Sung Tae was also well aware. He trampled on her self-esteem for two years and brainwashed her little by little. So much so that you wouldn’t be able to get away from yourself.
There were dozens of unread texts that contained filthy content. Mija pressed the delete button on those messages.
Tears rushed in. It was such a waste to spend two years with Sung Tae. It was because she was pathetic. She wished for her loved ones and herself because of a man like this. She felt sorry for herself.
“Did you finish?”
“Yeah?”
“Meat.”
Team leader Kang pointed to the meat with a blank expression.
Mija nodded a little. If it was said a little late, she would have almost cried out.
“It’s late, but now stop getting up.”
Mija, who had tears in her eyes, forgot about her makeup and rubbed her eyes.
If Ham-soon was as born as a human would it be like this?
Before getting a wrong idea, Team Leader Kang hurriedly left his seat.
Mija’s mood was very gloomy because her ex-boyfriend’s texts and the alcohol she consumed before were somber up. she couldn’t get drunk no matter how much she drank. It is regrettable to turn around as it is.
Just one more glass.
“Deputy Kim, you’re heading towards Seokcheon, right? Let’s move on to my car.”
“Hyunmin, go ahead. I’m going to drink more. Right, Ms. Park?”
Park pushed out the head of the flirting Mija.
“Why am I drinking with Ms. Kim?”
“Let’s have a drink with your colleagues. Huh? I’ll buy them all.”
“No, I don’t want to.”
Even with a firm answer, the Mija didn’t know how to fall.
Deputy Park saw Hyunmin standing still and waiting. I can’t say anything, but he was a suspicious man.
“Hyunmin goes in first. Deputy Kim won’t do anything weird because I’ll be with her. I’m only drinking alcohol quietly.”
“Then I’ll just drink. When others hear it, they think I have a shot.”
“Ms. Kim, I say seriously. Don’t cry again this time. That doesn’t mean you can’t laugh. Don’t do anything. If you sing, I’ll report it as a loud voice. If you make my eyes dirty while dancing, I’ll drop you in the river and go alone.”
“How mean.”
The drinking party started like that. Ms. Park poured alcohol into the Mija glass without saying a word.
Gradually, Mija became liquor, and liquor became Mija.
I felt a lot better so I hummed and moved my shoulders. After crying and grieving, I ended up being dragged home by Park.
She is a loyal Park who pretends not to be.
A new morning has begun. As soon as she arrived at the company, Team leader Kang found Mija.
[If I don’t see you for a day, I’m very anxious. How would he have worked without me in the past?]
I recalled my prepared excuse and went to the team leader’s office. The walk was a lot heavy.
Team leader Kang called ‘Kim’ without taking his eyes off the document.
Today, Mija voluntarily paid taxes.
“The documents you mentioned yesterday, you know, … the analysis is complete. If you give me a minute.”
“I heard you’re close to the city hall staff, right?”
“What? City Hall? Oh…Yes, we’re not close, but we know each other well.”
“Okay, let’s go together today. I just need to sign the contract, but I don’t know them, so I think it’s better to go with Kim. I’ll be in the car first, so get the data from Jeong Hyun Ah and come down.”
“Yeah, I understand. “
Mija’s answer was cheerful.
It’s terrible to work outside with Team Leader Kang, but the payment passed safely.
Meanwhile, Kang looked at Mija, who was excited. How can a human being be so simple?
You look fine.
Team leader Kang did not start his car last night under the pretext of monitoring Hyun Min. All the employees left, but they didn’t even think about calling a chauffeur service.
Rather, I just looked out of the car window as if I were waiting for someone. The last thing I saw was a crying Mija in Park’s arms. That was why I called Mija as soon as I got to work.
Seeing Mija, who looked really good, I was grumpy for no reason.
Kang spoke to Mija back, who was about to close the door.
“I’ll go over the documents I asked for yesterday after work outside.”
As soon as he finished talking, Mija’s face immediately became sullen. The face was Hamsoon itself, whose food was taken away in front of his eyes.
Team leader Kang seemed to be laughing, so he only looked at the documents.
‘You haven’t forgotten, Dog Team Leader…’
Earlier, Mija called him the dog leader.
I’m out of my mind. I grabbed my dizzy head and went to Hyuna.
“Would you give me some papers to take to the city hall?”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
She gave out a pretty thick yellow envelope.
“Here you go. Don’t I have to make a separate copy?”
“Yeah, well, it’s just a contract. All the data is kept.”
Hyun Ah laughed her mouth off.
Hahaha, I had a hard time.
The back of Mija’s head was cold, but she ignored her sixth sense and hurried down to the parking lot.
Team leader Kang arrived first and opened the passenger door.
It was a business car, so the interior was desolate.
But today, I could see the gypsum air freshener on the side mirror.
“Huh? I haven’t seen it.”
Team Leader Kang purchased the air freshener. He concentrated on driving but focused on the next thing the Mija would say.
“Who was sweet? Did manager Lee go on a business trip yesterday and buy it? If it’s sweet, it’s pretty sweet. What is a stupid rat, a rat.”
As always, Mija spoke alone. Normally, there should be no response, but Kang suddenly responded with an agitated voice.
“That’s not a rat.”
“What?”
“Hamster, Ham. Ster.”
“Isn’t a hamster a mouse?”
Have you seen such an ignorant woman?
Although it belongs to a rat family, it was strictly classified as a hamster species. Isn’t it different from how it looks?
At the traffic light, Team Leader Kang took off the gypsum air freshener nervously.
“It smells good. Why?”
“I hate the artificial smell. “
“But Mr. Lee bought it because he thought…”
In the end, the smile faded away. This is because I knew that talking to a cold-blooded man would not work.
Instead, I chose to shut up and go blankly.
When I’m in a daze like this, I think about the future. When I was a kid, I thought I’d be both president and Miss Korea.
As a baby, the dream was a spacious house, which was everything in the world. It became a narrow space as I grew older and the dreams became smaller and smaller as time went by.
It’s only going to get smaller. The time was also burnt.
Exterior walls with incontinence all over the place, yellowish wallpaper, cracked floorboards, boilers spinning with cannon noises, moldy veranda…
Forgetting the glistening past like her home, the color faded old and ruined just like the heart of twenty-nine-year-old Mija.
Someone shakes my shoulder out of annoyance. I threw my hand back hard.
It was calm for a while and this time it poked my cheek.
“Hey, stop it!”
When I opened my eyes, I saw a sharp nose.
“I’d like to stop.”
Team leader Kang replied with his arms crossed. Mija blinked as she tried to wake up. Strangely, it was a mija who fell asleep whenever she was in a car driven by Team leader Kang.
“Hum, I think I’m tired because I’m so busy with work these days.”
“Why didn’t you drink moderately with Deputy Park yesterday? You looked really drunk.”
“How do you do that?”
“I saw it by chance. “
How can I see it by chance? What did you see?
Yelling to turn all the guys into XXs? Fought with the stall owner about the small amount of chicken feet? Holding Deputy Park’s arm and wailing?
“Even from afar, Deputy Kim’s singing sounded loud.”
“Didn’t you go after the get-together?”
“I left late because I had business nearby.”
Mija avoided the Team leader Kang and looked far away.
It’s like my way forward.
The front looked foggy due to fine dust.
“Let’s get off now.”
At Team Leader Kang’s words, she corrected the crumpled clothes and got out of the car.
Every time I saw a warm-faced chief and a few people, and today, there was the mayor, who I had only seen at the local event.
When the mayor and team leader Kang shook hands, a photographer approached and flashed.
I couldn’t confirm my face because I was back with him, but I wish for a hope that I couldn’t fulfill, saying that I would come out ugly.
The mayor led the building by wiping his forehead with a handkerchief.
They sat in a decorated place like a typical civil service room and drank sweet coffee. She passed the necessary documents next to Team Leader Kang.
It was about supporting low-income families and hiring at the company level.
The mayor explained a short story that he hoped the contract would serve as an opportunity for the economy and welfare of the community to develop together.
There was nothing to write about, but a reporter from a local newspaper enthusiastically recorded it on the tablet.
“Shall we wrap this up?”
The mayor knocked on the bulging belly.
As if it were a sign, Mija quickly pulled the contract out of a yellow envelope. Team leader Kang said, handing the contract to the mayor.
“What about the other one?”
“Yes, here it is… it should be”
None, if I tried to shake off the envelope, the contract was one copy.
Before leaving the office, Hyun Ah said, copying. But now I only realized the meaning of copying.
Dozens of eyes looked only at Mija who smiled awkwardly and reached out to the mayor.
“Mayor, can you give me the contract again?”
Glad it was City Hall. There must have been a lot of copiers here… … I’m screwed up.
Team leader Kang called her name aloud today.
“Deputy Kim Mija”
