— Karma points acquired—red-hot.

— Karma points have been paid out as a bonus.

— Several gods have gladly transferred karma points to you.

The moment Chairman Oh Seung-hyeok was thrown out, the notices went off one after another.

He must have racked up a mountain of sins, for red-hot karma points like that to come pouring in.

It was the biggest haul of karma points I'd ever gotten.

"Whew~. So this is the famous chaebol chairman's office? It's killer~."

Attorney Jo whistled in amazement.

"Incredible. If number ten in the rankings lives like this, the other chaebol must be even fancier."

I was just as amazed.

The place was easily twice the size of the CEO's office at L.O.R.'s Gangnam headquarters.

Black marble floors, a table in matching black, and built-in bookcases in the same color along the walls, lined with decorative books and porcelain, picture-perfect.

On the walls hung paintings that looked like serious money at a glance.

The big, sturdy chairman's desk gave you a taste of a chaebol chairman's authority.

"They plastered every inch of the place with money. This is why they say you've got to be born a chaebol's son or grandson in Korea. Honestly, as the kids say these days, I'm fucking jealous."

"If you say that, Attorney Jo, where does that leave everybody else?"

"Envy's always relative. Honestly, these days even an ordinary household lives better than the kings of old. Kings didn't have air-conditioning in summer. We eat more meat, too, and milk used to be so precious it went into porridge for royalty. Travel abroad? In my day, getting a passport was like plucking a star out of the sky." (TL Note: The Korean saying for something next to impossible is "picking a star from the sky.")

In a lot of ways, the generation gap was huge.

Attorney Jo was definitely an old-timer.

"I know the young generation has a lot of complaints these days. But... every era has had inequality and discontent, and in every era there've been people with the grit to stand up for equality and justice.…