"Thirty billion won feels like pocket change... heh heh."

Son Dae-gyun laughed in disbelief at the dollars that had landed in his secret offshore corporate account.

It came to exactly thirty billion won.

"A monster. The kid's a monster."

His junior was only a college freshman.

Within a few months of starting school, every one of those fussy professors plainly adored Jang Tae-san.

That kind of favor was unheard of.

On top of that, he'd seen with his own eyes how popular the kid was in the department, too.

That could never happen at the Hanguk University law school, proud as it was.

And his talent for making money went beyond exceptional into the realm of the gods.

Jang Tae-san had piled up a massive fortune out of nowhere, starting in high school, and he'd kept his promise.

Every month, he deposited the investment profits into the account.

As a price for wiping out Ana and guaranteeing his safety, it was generous.

Of course, you could say it was thin payment for handing over a whole group, but the Ana Group was a jar with its bottom broken out.

Patching it up and filling it with water again would take serious outside capital or bank investment.

"Five billion dollars of investment in hard times like these... just how far does his reach go?"

The kid had brought in overseas capital and stabilized the group at once.

A large share of the stock had gone to foreign capital, but the public liked it.

By anyone's measure, it was a bold investment.

The timing was perfect, too.

The unexpected candlelight protests had thrown the administration into crisis.

At exactly the right moment, Chairman Oh's corruption had broken and taken the heat off.

They'd rallied the press to widen and publicize the Oh Seung-hyeok family's corruption.

They'd applied pressure through the Minister of Justice.

They'd set the organization's special team loose to seize Chairman Oh Seung-hyeok's ledger and burn it.

And then they'd bargained with his family's lives.

Even the venomous Oh Seung-hyeok had shown affection for his newborn illegitimate son.

He'd agreed…