HATE Before LOVE
Must choose.

True Teddy said, Yanuar was in a bad mood. In the lobby, the man continued to rage at anyone who tried to calm him down. He did not even hesitate to curse Ardan as an arrogant, hypocritical and shameless man, to the point of making everyone so astonished, who was he who was so brave to grab the hair of a sleeping lion?

"Dad!" Elif approached Yanuar. "Dad what are you doing?" Elif asked frantically looking at her father who was at the peak of emotions.

"Where is he?! Where's she?!" yanuar shouted. Elif was so uncomfortable, as everyone was now swarming around those standing in the middle of the lobby. Elif tried to calm his father.

"Who, Dad?"

"Ardan! Your future husband!"

"Dad, there's ap-"

"Don't you dare call me dad!" Yanuar snapped as Ardan came and was about to ask.

Ardan looked at Teddy, asking, "What's wrong with Elif's father?" Only through the eyes.

And Teddy answered it by shaking his head slowly. Stick with his flat expression.

Seeing the Elif who was panicked and confused was clearly not going to pay off if he asked. Ardan sighed, seeing almost half of all the staff working there gathered in the lobby, not wanting to miss the live broadcast drama.

"Teds,"

"Yes sir."

"Make them all disband and get back to work, or I'll fire them all without severance." Ardan said so coldly. To make almost everyone shiver.

Teddy immediately turned around to instruct all the staff to disperse without leaving the noise and curiosity.

Yanuar was about to want to nag again, but firmly Ardan raised his hand to ask Yanuar to hold back his emotional outburst until everyone left. Somehow, Ardan who for these few days in front of Yanuar always looked friendly, now suddenly turned into a figure so cold that shrunk his guts.

After everyone disbanded back at their respective jobs who of course were still curious about what would happen next. And they just found out that the man who dares to curse their CEO is the father of the CEO's future wife. Curious, right, sure. Ardan finally asked Elif to take his father to the meeting room on the second floor.

Without saying anything, Ardan turned his body walking ahead of Elif and Yanuar. Teddy certainly walked right behind Ardan. Even while inside the elevator, neither Elif nor Yanuar said a word. Ardan's cold aura really gave off goosebumps.

"So, what did you come to this office with such a disrespectful attitude?" ardan asked as soon as the four of them entered the meeting room and sat on a chair with a large meeting table in front of them.

Ardan's attitude is completely different. It is like not talking to prospective in-laws, but more to subordinates who demand rights even though their obligations are not done well.

His eyes stared intently at Yanuar and Elif.

Yanuar cleared his throat for a while to dispel his nervousness that suddenly struck him. "Tell me, do you know PT. Diamond Contractors?" asked Yanuar cynically.

"Ted, do we know the company?" Instead of answering directly, Ardan instead asked Teddy.

"Yes, sir, it's one of the companies we've acquired" Teddy replied.

"Hmmm," Ardan's brain immediately turned around and got an answer to what made the father of the girl he loved cursed him in the lobby earlier.

"Do you know, I'm one of those people you're PHK unilaterally!" Yanuar's voice was rising. "Do you know this guy who fired Dad and Dad's friends?!" he asked Elif.

"I. i..." Elif was confused as to how he should answer his father. He was also confused as to where his father knew. "Dad, since when did you know?"

"Since you told him to," Yanuar nodded his chin at Teddy, "Explain who Ardan is to Daddy's family. Cih, MD Group Company! Dad felt familiar with the name of the company, and it was true that as soon as I asked my friends, they were the ones who had done unfair!"

"Now, tell me, do you know I'm the one you're PHK?!"

Yanuar laughed sinisterly. "Truely said the people, you are a man of conscience, arrogant, arrogant and arbitrary!"

Ardan just grunted.

"Dad..."

"You, don't defend him!" Yanuar jerked at Elif until he threw the hand of Elif who touched him very roughly. "Don't you know who he is? Don't you fool me? Answer!" Yanuar gripped Elif's arm until it made Elif grimace in pain. Yes, the warm and loving figure of the father who a few days ago had apologized for each of his rude attitudes had already disappeared and returned to his original figure.

However, the grip of Yanuar's hand did not last long on Elif's arm, as Ardan had stood up and released Yanuar's hand in a single pull and bang.

"Elif doesn't know anything" Ardan said defending Elif in a low and stressed voice. Then Ardan pulled back the Elif chair so that Elif was now behind Ardan.

"You're saying I'm a man with no conscience? Then what about you? Treating your child harshly without affection is that a conscience?"

"You!" Yanuar pointed his index finger at Ardan.

"I'm giving double the severance pay you're supposed to receive, isn't that more than enough?" ardan. "Where is my injustice?"

"You fired us unilaterally!"

"One-sided?" Ardan raised one eye eyebrow. "You think I fired without weighing someone's performance? One week is enough for me to observe and get reports, who is unproductive, or can just do the whole thing without mastering the job."

Yanuar started to look nervous and misbehaved.

"I have a criterion for who is on the GHG list before retirement, namely those who are over 45 years old who are unproductive, those who are unproductive even though they are under 45 years old, and those who have received a warning letter from the company for negligence to work."

"I'm not. I..."

"Now say, which criteria do you fall under?"

Yanuar.

"And those people including you who should only get company policy money in accordance with your company rules that I learned, but I instead gave you the severance that I gave you double. Tell me now, where is the absence of my conscience?"

Checkmate!

Even Elif was dumbfounded to listen to Ardan's explanation. The regret of having cursed Ardan immediately overshadowed him. His heart was so sorry. After what he said to Ardan earlier, the man still defended him in front of Yanuar and protected him from his father's rude attitude.

He really does not know that Ardan has a rule of criteria in choosing people who have been terminated working relationship. Elif also did not expect Ardan to have made any observations before making his decision.

"Do I have to ask Teddy to take the observation documents that I did before entering your name as one of the GHGs, so that you know which criteria you belong to? Or if I am indeed a person who has no conscience, can I ask back the severance I have given?" Ardan raised his eyebrows. There was no emotional overflow in Ardan's expression and tone of voice.

He just said flat but low and full of pressure.

Then he turned to Elif, whose tears had calmed down and was waiting to spill.

"Now tell me, do you still want to end all this?" tanyakanya. Ardan's sharp gaze that locked Elif's eyes made Elif feel so regretful and a sense of tightness filled his chest. On the other hand, Yanuar had been looking at him with great ferocity and was full of threats.

Who should Elif choose? Her father who had never loved her? Or a man who has shown his love for Elif?

"I'm..." The Elif sound vibrated