Tak-hyeon looked around at Mun-jong and the others seated there and spoke first.

"Chief Hwang has gone out to block the article, but there's a sense that it's already too late. We mustn't try to block the article—we have to prepare for the situation after it's out."

"Too late?"

"Yes. Too late."

Mun-jong pointed a finger at the magazine on the table and said,

"It's already printed, set in type and out. And the magazines slated to hit the market tomorrow and the day after, and even the places preparing their own articles—the story's already spread past any hope of stopping it."

Squeezing his eyes shut for a moment, Tak-hyeon bit his lip and slowly opened his mouth.

"With every nerve pulled toward Doa Motors, we missed the chance to respond. Now we have to think not about blocking it, but about how to respond after the story spreads."

Finishing, Tak-hyeon raised his head and looked at Mun-jong.

"Say how you'd handle it."

"I…"

At the sudden question, Mun-jong hesitated. Because he hadn't imagined it would spread like this, he had nothing at all worked out as a countermeasure. Chang-jong was the same. Tak-hyeon's gaze left Mun-jong and turned to Chang-jong, but neither could say a word.

Having looked at Mun-jong and Chang-jong with a gaze that called them pitiful, Tak-hyeon at last turned his eyes to Seong-ho.

"Do you have a thought?"

"If we can't stop the article, I think we ought to correct its content."

"Correct it?"

When Seong-ho spoke, Mun-jong and Chang-jong turned their eyes to him as well.

Seong-ho looked back and forth between the two and said,

"The article now has it that the child is the eldest brother's. Since that isn't true, we should correct it."

At his words, Mun-jong and Chang-jong looked at each other and nodded.

"That's right. The child is… Chang-jong's child."

"It's my child… yes."

The two answered, gazing at each other with something awkward in it.

Seong-ho looked at them for a moment, then turned back to Tak-hyeon.

"So I think we have to set the article straight."

"That…