After Jeong-eun and Cha left, Mun-jong's office held only Seong-ho, just as it had before Jeong-eun arrived.

"What did I tell you? I said she'd accept it, didn't I?"

"Madness. Sheer madness."

Mun-jong shook his head.

"What in the world is the reason for going so far as to issue CBs to grab Il-gyeong Dan's stake?"

"Because Ilhyeon Card only gains strength once it secures Ilhyeon Securities somehow, and through that she can fight you on equal footing."

Bang!

Mun-jong slammed the desk.

"She's just a woman, for all that! Does she think Father would pass over me, the eldest son, and hand the group to a daughter? Is she out of her mind?"

"It's because she knows the chairman will hand the group to whoever's capable, regardless of things like that."

"Tch. As if someone like her has any capability worth speaking of."

Having jeered to his heart's content, Mun-jong smiled as if none of it had happened and said,

"Anyway, you've come to grab the Ilhyeon Precision stake just as you wanted."

Satisfaction welled up in him at everything flowing along on its own, just as the plan they'd discussed before Jeong-eun arrived.

"The Ilhyeon Precision stake was something Jeong-eun didn't need anyway. Digging into that well and securing the Ilhyeon Precision stake was well done. Had I asked for it, she'd surely never have handed it over."

"As long as she regards you as a rival, she wouldn't do a thing to help you if her life depended on it. And since Gyeong-eun has already stepped back a pace from the succession process, Jeong-eun's guard against me is lower than against you, too."

Hearing Seong-ho, Mun-jong raised the corners of his mouth to his ears.

"Right. That you're helping me is something she'd never guess if her life depended on it."

Seong-ho only smiled without a word at Mun-jong's words.

"So next is Chang-jong, then?"

"You will have to raise the fourth brother to the president group. Whatever else, the fourth brother holds the biggest secret, so we have to make him firmly one of ours."

"That's…