After showing the company, Han Seo Young bought Na Ae Ra to the CEO's office. She opened the door for her and escorted her inside. As the door opened, Ae Ra looked at inside of the room. It instantly bought flashbacks to her of the day when she had visited her father.
**FLASHBACK**
"DADDY!" Ae Ra screamed joyfully and hugged her father.
Her father, Na Young Dal was on his phone talking when he felt his daughter's warm hug.
"Alright! I will talk to you later, Mr. Zhang." He hung the phone and looked at his daughter who hugged him.
"Why didn't you go back home?" He asked while caressing her open hair. Ae Ra hugged her father more tightly and said "Because I missed you!"
Her father laughed at her. And Ae Ra looked at him in confusion. "Why are you laughing, Dad?" She asked doubtfully.
"Because my daughter is making silly excuses!" He complained and looked at her with a doubtful gaze "Say what do you need this time?" Ae Ra didn't let go of her father and continued hugging him. She didn't required anything from her father. It was just that she missed him, that is why she had hurriedly come.
She didn't answer to her father's question and just hugged him. Resting her head on her father's shoulder, she said with a shaky voice "I just miss you, Dad!"
From her voice, Na Young Dal understood that something was wrong with his daughter. He lightly patted on her back and asked "Did someone hurt you?"
Ae Ra slightly nodded her head.
"So, what did they say?" He pulled her away from the hug and looked her here and there. "Where did they hurt you?" He asked looking at her worried.
And with a small drop escaping through her eye, she said "They hurt my heart!"
Today, at school Ae Ra was mocked by her classmates. It so happened that the teacher was assigning work for all the mothers of the students and when Ae Ra said that her father was also her mother, everyone laughed at her.
She had felt bad about this. Ae Ra had lost her mother at a very young age. She couldn't even clearly remember as to how her mother looked.
Ae Ra was very sensitive towards her father. And when everyone laughed at her father, she couldn't help but cry. She ran out of her class crying and immediately reached her father's company and hugged him.
She tried being quite in front of him but, with her father's warmth she couldn't control herself. And, she cried. Her father's heart ached on watching his daughter's sadness. He wanted Ae Ra to be happy and not cry like this.
He wiped her tears and comforted her. "Shh... Shh! It's okay! My princess can't cry like this. She shouldn't cry."
"But, Dad they all told bad things about you! They... they.... said too much bad about you!" Ae Ra annoyingly said to her father. She rubbed her running nose with her index finger and involuntarily her body hiccuped.
"They.....all are bad! Very bad!" Ae Ra continued again. She took a tissue and blew out her nose.
Na Young Dal laughed at his child's childish behavior. 'She is really naïve!'
Ae Ra took another hiccup and she felt calm after crying out loud. Her father ordered a glass of water for her and looked at her.
He ruffled her hair and pulled her face up. "Listen! Just remember this one thing, no matter what they say to you or about others, you just have to stay strong. You can't cry in front of them to let them know that you are not bold enough! You have to be bold and brave.
This is how the world looks at us, but we have to stay strong and never give up.... No matter what, you will always stay strong, got that?" He comforted Ae Ra.
Ae Ra smiled. She nodded her head and said "I will be bold and brave, Dad! No matter what, I won't let others see me cry anytime. This was the last time that they saw me cry, now they won't see me cry anymore!" Ae Ra said confidently.
"Promise?" Her dad asked bringing his pinky finger towards her.
"I promise, Dad!" Ae Ra linked her pinky finger with his and made it into a promise...
**END OF FLASHBACK**
Ae Ra walked inside the room and touched the head of the chair. "I will stay strong, Dad! Just as I had promised, I will be strong and brave!" Ae Ra sat on the swivel chair and gave a deep sigh. 'I am here, Dad! I'm back to take revenge!' She said through her mind and looked at her Secretary.
Her look was so cold that Seo Young felt a chill run down her spine. She took one step back and gulped. Those innocent eyes were gone. All that what Han Seo Young could see in Ae Ra's eyes was anger, intense anger, eyes looking for revenge!
"Secretary Han, are there are any meetings for today?"
"No, boss. Since, it is your first day at the office, I kept your schedule free for today!" Seo Young said.
"I want all the information regarding my dad's case!" Ae Ra instructed Seo Young. She got up from her chair and said "ASAP!"
"Yes! Right away, boss!" Seo Young bowed and got out of the room...