For a moment a silence hung in the study.

"To begin with, it is Solar Group that is close to the North. I hear they plan to put up a solar generation complex in the North."

It was something Tak-hyeon Lee knew already, it seemed; he gave no reaction at all to what Seong-ho Kim said.

Seong-ho Kim saw how Tak-hyeon Lee took it. A low smile escaped him, and he went on.

"And second brother and my sister-in-law and our fourth brother all seem to want Ilhyeon Construction to build the generation complexes."

"And you have no thought of doing it yourself?"

"None at all."

Seong-ho Kim shook his head flatly.

"Your reason?"

"I do not trust the North."

"That is the correct reaction, certainly."

Seong-ho Kim's reason must have struck Tak-hyeon Lee as sound, because he nodded.

"But the second one does not seem to see it that way. Nor do the rest of them……."

"I do not know what they were told in the North, so I cannot say…… but it looks as though they caught sight of a large opening."

"Haha. In the North, of all places?"

Tak-hyeon Lee let a low laugh escape him.

"So they want to take in Ilhyeon Construction too and build Solar up with it?"

"That is how it looks."

"This is……."

Tak-hyeon Lee stopped what he had been about to say. Gyeong-eun Lee had been doing nothing but listen quietly, and he turned to her.

"What do you think?"

"What do I think?"

"Yes. Are you content to hand Ilhyeon Construction to your eldest brother?"

"I said from the start that I was content with it, did I not?"

Had she not said so? It was on Gyeong-eun Lee's face as she looked at Seong-ho Kim, and then she turned to Tak-hyeon Lee.

"I really am content."

"Really content?"

"You can ask as many times as you like and it will be the same. It is one affiliate among the many in Ilhyeon. If it goes to Eldest Brother……."

"One among the many?"

Tak-hyeon Lee's face creased, and Gyeong-eun Lee's…