"The law department came here too?"

"Yeah. They just piled off buses and went into the banquet hall."

"Really?"

"I don't know what's going on, but a whole train of food carts went in after them. Some foreign cook, the executive chef or whatever, went in too."

"What? The executive chef came out?"

"Uh-huh. It looked like they were setting up a buffet in the banquet hall. And the smell... unreal."

A Yu-ra, freshly elected class rep for business administration, frowned.

The law department again?

She wasn't happy.

Her family expected a lot of her, and they'd spared nothing to support her.

In its early days, the company had been Korea's number-one ramen maker, but a rival's calculated scheming had left it stuck at number two for good.

It had been framed for selling ramen made with industrial-grade beef tallow, and it took eight years to be cleared.

The whole thing had been rigged against them by a competitor, bought-off newspapers and the people in power. Even so, the damage to the company's image in the food business was enormous.

When the Asian financial crisis brought hard times on top of that, the company had to file for court protection, but her grandfather's stubborn leadership pulled it through.

That was why Oyang Foods had gritted its teeth and thrown itself into grooming its heirs.

They wanted to catch the Nonggyeong Group, which had started out as an affiliate of a huge conglomerate and shot up overnight from latecomer to leader.

But they were short on everything: money, talent and political connections.

Then A Yu-ra, the third-generation heir, got into business administration at Hanguk University with the top score in her class.

The company threw its full support behind her.

It had even rented her a hotel banquet hall for her party as class rep.

Oh Dong-seong isn't around anymore, so who's backing them? If the executive chef came out, that's a hundred thousand won a head, minimum...

At a rough guess, the bill would top a hundred million won.

A Yu-ra's own party would have been impossible without the company's…