"Have you heard the rumor?"
"What rumor?"
Cheonghwa High School, right after the lunch break ended.
All around the second-year class one room, girls gathered in twos and threes and whispered.
At this time of year the third-years have their early admission applications in and are quietly preparing for the national exam.
The second-years, about to become third-years, have next year's entrance exams ahead of them, and this is the stretch where they put their heads down.
Today the mood was not like other years. A small commotion started at one side of the room.
"They say Ha Tae-ung's under investigation by the prosecutors~"
"The prosecutors? Why??"
"You know he made trillions on coins?"
"Is there anyone in this school who doesn't know that?"
"They say he used that money to work with foreign capital and attack the Dongmyeong Group. That's become a problem and I hear the prosecutors are even looking into where the money came from."
"Seriously?"
"That's insane……."
That was the moment. Oh Seora, who had been listening quietly from the next seat, cut in as if she had been waiting for it.
A wicked shine came into her eyes.
"I knew it would be like that!"
Several of the girls turned to Oh Seora as if they had agreed on it beforehand.
"Like what?"
Oh Seora felt the eyes on her, folded her arms calmly and leaned back in her chair.
"That Ha Tae-ung was a little strange from the start, wasn't he."
Oh Seora had taken a bad beating from Ha Tae-ung, and she had been storing it up ever since.
On the outside she acted as if it were nothing, but the name alone put her in a bad mood.
"He's only twenty and he made money like that. Do you think there's nothing wrong with it?"
"They say he made it on coins."
"You think he only did coins?"
Oh Seora snorted, letting the confidence show.
"These days you can't say Dongmyeong Group without his name coming out attached to it."
"Isn't that just a rumor?"
"Have you ever seen a rumor start…