"Have you no sense at all?"

Hyeon-ju Bang's outburst broke out from the moment the car started for home.

"Why couldn't it occur to you that President Chung-do Lee would have gone to Father first!"

"Nngh."

Mun-jong Lee could not answer, and only made a groaning noise.

Hyeon-ju Bang went on at him as though the whole thing were maddening.

"Didn't you notice the second brother-in-law — short-sighted as he is — catch himself and break off mid-sentence? You should have had the sense to stop there too. Why get carried away and step forward at that of all moments!"

"If I'd known, would I have done it? I'm frustrated enough myself, so that's enough!"

Unable to take it, Mun-jong Lee roared.

But Hyeon-ju Bang was undeterred and went on pouring out her scolding.

"What are you going to do now? Father does nothing but show more and more disappointment in you — what are you going to do about it?"

"How was I supposed to know President Chung-do Lee had fallen out of Father's favor? He's one of the main forces that built Ilhyeon Electronics up to what it is — who could have guessed he'd lost trust to that extent!"

"The second brother-in-law didn't know either! And he had the sense to back out on his own, while you were the only one who didn't know and got carried away and had to add that you'd stopped them writing their resignations — that's how it ended up like this!"

"Nngh…"

Mun-jong Lee could not have answered with ten mouths.

Because failing to break off at a reasonable point had been, exactly as she said, his own blunder.

Mun-jong Lee shut his mouth firmly and looked out the window.

The water was already spilled.

With no way of gathering it back, all he could do was do better going forward.

Hyeon-ju Bang seemed to know it too; she stopped her sniping and sighed as he had.

"Hoo. All right. It's come to this, so what can be done. We'll simply have to do well from now. But setting that…