Although he tried to act like Violet, he was a completely different person on the inside. When Hayel asked with an anxious expression. "Isn't this going to be discovered?" Winter paused and stood up in a graceful manner and said.
"I need to get some sleep first. You work."
And as he was walking to the bedroom, a large flying insect flew into the sky. Jen, who was behind her, screamed as Winter casually grabbed the bug with his hand and knocked it away.
"Now, I think the Little Lady is possessed by a ghost!"
Flip also nodded at those words. Jen shouted as Winter turned around wondering what kind of bullshit she was talking about.
"My Little Lady can never catch a bug with her bare hands! Who are you, you devil!"
Meanwhile, Flip quickly took the salt and handed it to Jen. When they were about to sprinkle salt, Hayel urgently stopped them and said.
"She is the CEO! Don't sprinkle salt, Jen!"
Then Jen stopped, holding a handful of salt. Hayel continued.
"They two change bodies often. It's been a while."
Then Winter clicked his tongue and scolded Hayel.
"What if you tell them that?"
"You will be falsely accused of being possessed by the devil."
Hayel protested. Winter left the two people who couldn't believe the situation in Hayel's care and went to Violet's bed and lay down.
As he lay down on his wife's bed, he felt like his body and mind were relaxing. As Violet was about to fall asleep until she came back, the girl next door came into the bedroom.
"Violet, are you sleeping?"
Winter answered without even opening his eyes.
"You wouldn't know it if you saw it?"
"Mommy takes a nap too. My mom wants Violet to play."
He even gave money to Pim to take care of his wife, but on the contrary, she is sharing childcare. Winter clicked his tongue.
"No. I'm sleepy."
Unlike usual, when she received a sharp rejection, Lina took off her shoes one by one as if she had made up her mind, climbed on the bed, and said solemnly.
"Am I going to play here? If I don't play with you, are I going to jump up and down and play?"
That girl is clever, to have figured out Violet's biggest weakness. He'll have to hire her in 10 years. An employment contract in advance...
Winter woke up, inadvertently making a vicious plan. Anyway, since it was a hassle to see two possessed people outside as if they had seen a ghost, he thought it would be okay to go to the market. Because Violet lacked everything.
Winter raised his upper body.
"Let's go to the market. I'll buy you something delicious."
"Really? Violet is poor."
"Who is poor?"
The child burst out laughing at his scolding.
"Violet, today is strange!"
His wife's behavior is so different from him that even the six-year-old feels uncomfortable. Winter crawled under the bed where he had hidden the money. Then he patted the floor under the bed and pressed his hand to the middle.
Then, a wooden board tilted diagonally, and the money bag that Winter had roughly thrown on top of the contract for the consideration period came out.
Since Violet didn't know yet, it seemed like she hadn't opened it.
When Winter waved the money bag at Lina as if bragging, the child's mouth fell open.
"Is it treasure?"
"Emergency fund."
As Winter yawned and started walking, Lina followed suit excitedly.
***
Just before his body changed, Hayel, unable to bear Winter's temper, left, and Winter was sitting by the window in his office.
He handed over the list of guests who were to depart from Rockround for the opening party. He had manually excluded the names of his parents from the list, so the Duke and Duchess of Blooming's name could not be found.
Winter suddenly felt an unbearable sense of defeat. The fact that he had no idea his parents were doing such a thing to his wife shook him uncontrollably.
What will happen if his wife finds out about this?
Just as he was losing his nerves and imagining only Violet's worst reaction, fortunately, Nissa, the general manager of the Chiron Hotel, stepped in.
"CEO."
She, who turned 50 this year, had a long history in hotel work, and was a legendary figure in the company, having been promoted step by step from room maid to general manager by Winter, who was not picky about people.
Even though Winter had kicked out his biological mother, she had a tendency to bow down to women of the Kanik clan who were his mother's age without realizing it.
Hayel, who knew this, left the documents with Nissa before running away. She said as she put the papers down.
"Please check again."
"Later."
"Do it now."
Nissa said firmly and stood with her arms crossed. He was in trouble as she snorted and glared at him.
Winter got up from his seat.
"Leave it. I'll see it later."
"No. Right Now... Where are you going?"
Winter pretended not to have heard that and entered the bathroom attached to the office.
Once he got anxious, he couldn't do anything. He felt like he had to contact his wife right now to stop this terrible panic.
If he changes bodies now, she will get angry and come back looking for her own body. Thinking like that, he couldn't wait.
He pumped the sink and filled it with lukewarm water, then cut his arm with a razor and soaked it in it.
"Just look at me for today, Violet."
He felt like he would go crazy if he didn't have any contact with his wife.
Winter, weak as the blood drained out at once, sat down. Only then did he clearly understand why Violet said that changing one's body was easy.
It didn't really matter if he died like this.
The world turned white and at some point, everything disappeared as if a curtain was closing.
***
When Violet, who was being overprotected and surrounded by Jen, Flip, and Hayel at home, came to her senses with a deep breath, she was in the bathroom attached to Winter's office.
There was a mirror right in front of her, so she immediately realized that her body had been replaced with Winter's. Moreover, the throbbing pain she felt in the injured area disappeared, and for a moment, she felt like she was in heaven.
Violet looked around to see how her body had changed, but there was nothing to see. As Violet walked out of the bathroom, feeling both puzzled and bewildered, Nissa frowned at him and said.
"Do you think I'd give up just because of this? Stop and do some work!"
"Work?"
Violet's mouth naturally opened at the enormous amount of documents Nissa pointed to.
It seemed like Winter had left work behind her and went out to play. She knew that Hayel had been idle these days due to his complaints, but she had no idea that he would do such a mean thing as leave work to her.
"At least give me a salary..."
Nissa twitched her eyebrows at Violet's muttering to herself.
"What are you talking about?"
"No."
Violet smiled faintly and absentmindedly checked the report. It was signed by Winter, who seemed to have written it in his sleep.
She narrowed her brows and immediately began to focus on the report. Fortunately, most of what Winter took over was understandable. This was because it was about open parties and gardens.
Meanwhile, Nissa was surprised to see the CEO not crossing his legs or leaning back on his chair with his feet on the desk for some reason. The thought of him coming out of the bathroom to compose himself made her feel proud.
At that time, Violet stood up, collecting part of the report. Nissa asked, widening his eyes.
"Where are you going?"
"I should check the garden. Something is not priced right."
As Violet waved the garden-related documents as if she were curious, Nissa took the lead, looking at something interesting.
After a while, Violet looked at the garden and smiled involuntarily. Beautiful ornamental trees were growing in a large space.
"And..."
As the CEO crossed the garden with an enthusiastic expression on his face, Nissa laughed heartily.
"No, the secretary was making a fuss about the CEO not making a move, but it was a harsh punishment, wasn't it? Ah, it's awkward that your tone of voice has suddenly become more polite. Is it your mindset?"
Violet answered with a smile and walked through the garden. And while checking the contents of the report, she stopped under a tree.
Then she picked up the yellow leaf that had fallen on the ground and said.
"Termites built a nest."
"Why termites?"
"If there are Chiron termites roaming around in the Chiron garden, it means that the entire quarantine needs to be redone. I think we should check all the benches here."
"We are doing enough quarantine. Oh my. Is it possible that the gardener is eating it in the meantime?"
"I think it would be a good idea to find out."
Violet said, shuffling through documents again.
"I guess a lot of the things I bought are very expensive."
"I'll find out. Look, you're so good at once you start working!"
Violet looked back and forth between Nissa's leaving and the documents.
Just by looking at the numbers, you can tell that the gardener is embezzling. A person like Winter who never loses money could not have missed it.
Hayel's words that Winter had let things go were proven. And that too at a serious level.
He says he can't sleep well and drinks too much.
"I'm worried..."
Violet returned to the office, muttering to herself.
Although she was worried about her husband's condition, it was unfair that she was brought here to work instead of resting.
On the day of the party, Violet, who was writing a letter asking for permission to use a nearby beach, couldn't bear the frustration and put down her pen.
"Why do I have to do this?"
She felt like she wanted to go home right away, but at the same time, she felt uncomfortable, as if she had to finish her work.
Finally, as she picked up the pen again and was writing a letter, the door burst open and a woman carrying a large luggage bag came in.
It was a woman with long uncut silver hair and gray eyes.
Violet thought she was probably the co-vice president. Eglin, whom Hayel had heard about.
"What's going on?"
"Everyone is flocking here and I am the only one taking charge of the waterworks. I'm so pissed I'm going to die. Are you all excited to see the sea?"
"But at least knock..."
"If you contacted me and said you would come, you wouldn't let me come. I'll go take a look too."
Fortunately, Eglin is a person who says what she wants to say first, so she took care of filling in the gaps, she asked, looking around.
"What about Hayel?"
"He ran away, my house... No, to my wife's house."
"That guy is really patient too. I've written my resignation letter 10 times and I haven't submitted it even once."
Thanks to the fact that Violet explained the information in her own words every time she said a word, the appearance of this stranger did not feel awkward. Violet, feeling at ease, spoke as if joking.
"You have to work while I'm here, right?"
"Ugh, don't say that. For a while, I'm going to go and drink at a secret bar that the Kanik clan frequents around here. The CEO doesn't feel like working either. If you're going to drink a lot, plan your route so you don't overlap with me."
Eglin also seemed to like drinking a lot, so she took out paper and a pen from her bag and started writing down the locations of secret bars nearby. Her expression was somber the whole time, but her actions seemed full of passion.
Looking at her like that, her smile, her deceased face, Eglib made an impression on her.
"Why are you looking so happy? Where are you going to send me to the polar region? Yes?"
"It's not like that, so don't worry."
"But why are you like this... Besides, you're not happy when I tell you my list of bars. You always pressured me to let you know. Ah, well, it's strange considering what that guy Beryl did."
Thanks to Eglin continuing to say things without asking, Violet heard a name she hadn't thought about for a while. As Violet was silent, Eglin sat down on the chair and continued speaking, as expected.
"Why on earth are your parents like that? They gave her medicine to fool her into thinking she was pregnant. Does that make sense in common sense? To their daughter-in-law?"
"..."
"Beryl, I wanted to beat that guy up. If it weren't for that guy's confession of conscience, you wouldn't have known, so I understand what you're thinking"'
Violet's expression froze at her words.
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