Chapter 865 – #97. Lanna (25)
When he made the decision to leave the company to a professional manager for two years, he felt relieved enough to wonder why he hadn’t made this decision sooner.
When the worries disappear, all that is left is to worry about the three babies in the belly growing up healthily.
Of course, Natalia needed time to take over the company.
‘It’s fast.’
Natalia excelled even at taking over the company in earnest.
“I can see things to fix, but I can see that you took good care of it meticulously in general. The contract part in particular was amazing.”
“What part surprised you?”
“First of all… I thought that the CEO’s network was great.”
“My connections?”
Why are you surprised by your personal connections while taking over?
“What kind of connections do you have? Are you from a great family?”
“No! Am I normal?”
“Then, is it your husband’s network you’ve only heard of?”
“What about my husband?”
When the story of her husband came to Ms. Natalia, she felt uncomfortable.
“Aren’t you aware of these contracts?”
“…What about this?”
“All the companies are good places, and the terms of the contract are good.”
“??”
It’s good if the terms of the contract are good, I don’t know what that is.
Natalia let out a small sigh as she looked at her confused, then explained her.
“When you signed this contract, the company wasn’t that big, right?”
“Uh…Yes. That’s right.”
“As far as I know, there’s no way a big company like this would give a contract like this to a smaller company.”
“Is this a good condition? I think it’s just reasonable.”
I’ve never had a big problem when signing a contract.
She just asked that she want to make a contract like this, and after several meetings with them, she just signed a supply contract.
Natalia, she said, thought it was strange that she didn’t care.
“It’s amazing that it’s a reasonable level of contract! It’s a contract with a small company. If there’s a difference of this level, it’s normal to drag the contract more in favor of your company.”
“!!”
Where she didn’t think it was strange, she explained that Natalia was strange.
“If only one did this, you would have thought it was a coincidence. But all other contracts are similar. This is only possible because someone looked after it.”
“There must be no one looking after you…?”
Who the hell will look after you?
For a moment…?
“No. There must be someone. If not, there’s no way they’ll give you an advantageous contract. Especially, this is a company that’s famous for cracking down on power. It almost monopolizes the market, so if you don’t like it, you’ll come out like a jerk.”
“!!!”
“Does anyone really know? Haven’t you heard anything from your husband?”
“…I’ve never heard of it, but if someone has looked after our company, that person is the most influential person.”
She had never known this problem existed until now, but after hearing Natalia’s story, she had no choice but to agree that this was strange.
Was her husband really looking after the company behind her back?
In the past, I would have passed it off saying “Hey, no way”, But after being introduced to Kanna, thinking about what had happened to the company, I thought that might be the case.
“Go in today and ask. Someone must be looking after you.”
“But… It’s a good contract, so it doesn’t matter, right?”
“That’s right. Did I say something negative? Not at all. However, there are people who are pushing me from behind, but it’s a pity that the company has only grown this much. No, it’s not bad from my point of view. It’s because the picture is drawn specifically.”
“Hmm…”
Natalia-san’s words hit me like an unexpected blow! And hit her chest.
Confused as to whether she felt it too, she said.
“Did I speak too loud? I apologize if I made you uncomfortable.”
Natalia, too, realized too late that she had spoken too hard and apologized to her.
It’s not like you’re saying you’re incompetent.
But Lanna shook her head saying no.
“No, it might seem frustrating to Natalia-san.”
From her point of view, she was just a gay who did her best to grow her company.
Her ability level itself is different, and her gaze is different, so what will she do?
“This company piques my interest the more I get to know it. It could grow even bigger than the plan I outlined at the time. Honestly, I want to get started quickly.”
Natalia saw that her company was a promising place for growth, and she wanted to work quickly.
In her eyes, she said, this place was like a goose that lays golden eggs.
“Did you say listing is your goal?”
“Yes.”
“I hope that at least my last performance can be completed with an IPO.”
It was a declaration that it would grow into a company that could go public within two years.
Even in Lanna’s eyes, the company was growing rapidly, so it was a situation that could not be seen as bad.
However, there seemed to be a big difference between the growth of the company she was seeing and the level of growth Natalia was seeing.
The fact that Natalia, who was still only a third person to her, was seeing what her own eyes couldn’t see, depressed her.
‘I can’t see it, but that person can see it well…?’
These are the things that he missed out on even when he had the opportunity.
From the company’s point of view, Natalia taking her interim representative position would be a very positive thing, but from Lanna’s point of view, it was a sad and dangerous thing.
‘What if I think it’s better with Natalia than when I’m the representative?’ She had a childish idea to do.
‘Actually, no matter who sees it, it’s better for the company to work for Natalia than for me.’
Even if you come back two years later, the staff may not welcome you.
She hoped that the new CEO would manage the company well, but on the other hand, she had a double thought that it would be better for her to be worse than herself.
Of course, these nasty thoughts were soon dismissed.
How precious is her company to her, does she want it to go out of business?
Instead, she decided to have a different resolution.
‘Okay, let’s try something like this once.’
She graduated from college, but now she is working on something that has nothing to do with what she majored in.
She was belatedly planning something that should have been done sooner.
She just happened to be taking a break for two years, so it was perfect for the work she had been putting off.
She confided to her husband what she had been thinking about.
“I don’t know if it will work, but I want to study while taking a leave of absence for two years.”
“If you are studying, do you mean studying management?”
“Yes.”
It can’t be easy having to take care of triplets while studying.
I didn’t know that even studying would be too greedy.
But with the help of her husband, it might be possible.
As long as her husband takes care of her children while she is studying.
“I think studying while raising children is nonsense, but I still really want to study business management. Like a hobby.”
Parenting is war.
It must be difficult to find time to wash your hair. Studying?
Having already experienced her own parenting, she was well aware of how absurd she was.
It was true that it was a burden to others.
But she thought that a husband she knew would be more than happy to support her wishes.
In fact, her husband asked if it would be okay to take her tutoring as an extra drink to study.
“Then why don’t you take a tutor?”
“Training?”
“Wouldn’t it be more efficient to take a tutor than to spend time studying on my own?”
“Yeah, that’s true… Isn’t tutoring too serious?”
“I have to do what I’m already doing in earnest.”
Her husband asked her what to do and if she decided to do it, she supported her to do it right.
“Actually…As I was talking to Natalia-san this time, I realized that I lacked a lot. She pointed out the things I didn’t know one by one, but she didn’t have anything to say. It was very embarrassing. I also thought that people who studied properly are different. Still.”
How easy is it to start a part-time job at a coffee shop and start a franchise company?
Because she hadn’t studied properly, she had no choice but to confront her honestly with her body.
Her husband must have felt sorry for it and secretly helped her behind her back.
“I couldn’t help but think that I should have studied management a long time ago.”
“That’s why you’ve been depressed these days.”
“Are you showing off? You said you were pretending nothing was wrong…”
“You just have to learn what you can’t do. As long as you have the will to learn, there’s nothing you can’t do.”
“Is it really so?”
No matter how much she studied, it seemed impossible for her to become a competent businessperson like Natalia.
Still…
‘It’s better than giving up and doing nothing.’
Didn’t her husband tell you too?
That you should try
It was far better than being scared and doing nothing.
“By the way, do you have anything to say to me?”
“…What do you mean?”
Lanna narrowed her eyes and pressed her husband’s side tightly.
Then her husband asked, swallowing her dry saliva.
“Looks like there’s something stabbing. Seeing how nervous you are all of a sudden. What are you hiding from me and for how long?”
“Tell me?”
She shook her head when her husband asked if she was going to say it all.
She knew what he was misunderstanding.
“I didn’t ask that. I heard something from Natalia.”
“Did she say he was talking about me?”
“Exactly, Natalia noticed what you did.”
“…I don’t know at all, could you tell me something? What did I do?”
“Contracts.”
“Ahhh!”
Her husband tilted his head at the word contract, then widened his eyes to see if he remembered anything belatedly.
“You noticed that?”
“Yes. I was surprised that all the contracts were so good. After hearing the story, I knew it was strange. Having a reasonable contract with our company, a small company, can itself be a huge benefit.”
