Nam Yuri had been curious about this Ha Tae-ung for a while now.

When his name first started coming up at home, she hadn't paid it much attention. She'd more or less written him off as some odd hoobae at Cheonghwa High School.

But from the moment his name surfaced, the mood at home shifted in strange ways.

Her mother, who had lived quietly in the MG family with no real voice, was the first to come back to life.

Little by little, her usual habit of anxiously watching the family's every mood fell away too.

Even her younger sister, who had lived so quietly you could forget she was there, was changing.

It started the day she put a red imported sports car on their mother's card.

She hadn't even asked permission first.

And their mother had acted differently that time, too. Far from getting angry, she had smiled and praised her for it, and Nam Yuri couldn't believe her eyes.

She found out later that a boy called Ha Tae-ung was at the center of every one of those changes.

"Who exactly is this Ha Tae-ung?"

"My friend."

"What kind of friend?"

"He's younger than me, but, like, a friend for life~"

"Doesn't sound like an ordinary friend."

"We're not ordinary friends, no."

Nam Jisu wouldn't say any more.

But Nam Yuri learned about Ha Tae-ung through other Cheonghwa people she knew.

A second-year at Cheonghwa High School, and a charity case! No, he had been a charity case.

Now that was old history that meant nothing.

Ha Tae-ung was two years older than the other students in his year.

He'd been twenty last year, so this year he'd turned twenty-one.

Everything beyond that was hard to believe. He was a student and an investor, and he mixed freely with the children of famous chaebol families.

Rumor had it he'd even gone into businesses grown adults didn't dare touch.

The most shocking was the Dongmyeong Group affair that broke last Chuseok!

Even thinking back on it was chilling. It had turned the chaebol world upside down.

Nam Yuri…