"Cretinous bastard! Couldn't handle one single thing……."

Baaang!

The NC Tower in Yeoksam-dong! The director's room at NC Investment Finance, on a floor with a good view.

Eom Donggyu brought his fist down on the table.

The outer corner of the right eye that twitches like a live insect when his mood turns.

A face people usually find pleasant, twisted like an evil spirit's.

A business graduate of a university in the capital region, he is by his own lights an elite of the gangster world.

Short of money, he threw himself into the world of the organisations early.

At the time of the IMF crisis his family was ruined outright.

His father, driven into a corner, went first to the banks and then to the private lenders, and ended his life by his own hand.

Until then Eom Donggyu had been an ordinary man. Taking the fallen house on his own back, he hardened from that day.

He went himself to Oh Nakcheon, the man whose money his father had borrowed.

Of his own accord, on the spot, he became one of his men.

After that he turned into a man with neither blood nor tears in him.

He did not only get back the money that had gone out; he took an active hand in any interest that had money in it.

The connection with Ha Donggeon of Haryun came while he was working as demolition muscle.

Now, of course, he is a senior officer of NC Investment Finance, which has risen into an investment house in the proper sense of the word.

Dress it up in the post of director, and the nature underneath has gone nowhere.

Eom Donggyu — a good man's face, and behind it a buried record of convictions with several men done in on it.

Taking the directorship at NC Investment Finance, he went through the senior executive programme at the Seoguk business school as well, to launder his standing.

He widened his connections with the useful people he came to know at the business school and spread the business out.

With the…