Badrutt's Palace Hotel. Emilia Lorenz was sipping wine in a private room.

"Ms. Lorenz."

A man in a black suit approached. Officially he was with the hotel's security team, but in fact he was the head of the security detail sent by Atlas.

"Go ahead."

Emilia set down her glass.

"Director Eisenberg went up to Mr. Ha Tae-ung's suite a few minutes ago."

"Johanna?"

Emilia reacted at once.

"Yes."

"Alone?"

"That's right."

"What for?"

"We weren't able to confirm the exact reason."

The head of security paused, then added one more thing.

"But she took wine with her."

"Wine?"

An odd look crossed Emilia's face.

Johanna, bringing wine herself to the suite of a man staying alone? And to an Asian man she'd never met?

What Johanna was doing made no sense.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

The head of security answered briefly. Emilia sank into thought for a moment.

Ha Tae-ung.

The man she'd met briefly when she went to Korea herself to deliver the invitation. Her first impression of him had definitely been appealing.

He was young. No, he was just a kid. And he was handsome.

He was as clean-cut as the Korean idols so popular in Europe these days. But that alone wasn't enough to explain it.

Johanna……

Johanna von Eisenberg. A promising woman from one of the most distinguished noble families in Europe.

It wasn't just her looks. She was smart, too.

She had the education, the ability, and the power of the family behind her.

Nothing was missing. Her standards for choosing a man were very high, too. She'd never been the type to take much interest in men in the first place.

And a woman like that had brought wine and gone to a man's suite herself.

To see some mere Asian, a man from Korea, a small country in Asia, of all things!

Why?

However she turned it over, she couldn't figure out the reason. Because he was handsome? Ridiculous.

Johanna was surrounded by men far more attractive than that handsome Asian.

Money?

Talking about money in front of an Eisenberg was a…