"Silla Future Asset says 120 billion won has been deposited into Fourth Brother's account."
"120 billion — deposited?"
Mun-jong asked again and again whether it really was 120 billion, unable to accept it.
Sang-jong and Jeong-eun, wearing bewildered faces, looked at each other and said —
"That's quite a sum. Did he have that kind of money?"
"Where would he have money like that?"
Jeong-eun snorted as if the whole thing were absurd.
"If he'd had that kind of money, he wouldn't have colluded with vendors and stolen."
"True… Then where on earth did that money come from?"
She turned to Seong-ho.
"Aren't you mistaken about something?"
"It's true. And the strange thing isn't just that 120 billion was deposited."
"There's more that's strange?"
Sang-jong asked with a puzzled face.
Mun-jong and Jeong-eun looked at Seong-ho with the same what more expression.
Only Tak-hyeon, brows drawn together, called Do-beom over.
Seong-ho, having confirmed Do-beom's approach to Tak-hyeon, slowly opened his mouth.
"The depositor on the account isn't Fourth Brother."
"The depositor is off…? You mean somebody other than Chang-jong put the money in?"
"Someone else deposited it? Who?"
"Was it his father-in-law?"
Sang-jong was the first to think of Chang-jong's father-in-law, Chairman Chan-pyeong Jang.
But Jeong-eun snorted at him.
"Ha. Chairman Jang, lending Chang-jong 120 billion? Absurd. Not 120 billion — not even 120 million. Chairman Jang isn't a man who'd lend him anything."
"Jeong-eun's right on that."
Mun-jong agreed.
"If Chairman Jang were the type to lend money, he'd have lent it to Chang-jong long ago. That he'd lend it now — none of it makes sense."
"Then who put the money in?"
Sang-jong, his suggestion dismissed, wore a displeased expression. He asked Seong-ho in an irritated voice —
"Who deposited it? Don't drag it out — say it."
Even with the irritation aimed at him, Seong-ho didn't so much as move a brow.
"It came in… under Ilhyeon Electric's name."
"What?"
"Where did you say? Ilhyeon Electric?"
Sang-jong's irritation stiffened into something else. Mun-jong and Jeong-eun, sensing the strangeness, echoed the question.
But everyone in the room knew…