Chung-seop was shown into the Restructuring Headquarters.

"Please wait here a moment."

A headquarters staffer told Chung-seop to wait outside the door and went into the Head's office. A moment later he came back out and told Chung-seop he could go in.

"Thank you."

Chung-seop thanked the staffer who'd opened the door and went into the Head's office.

"Come in."

Seong-ho, seated at his desk, rose and welcomed Chung-seop warmly.

"Head. Have you been well?"

"I've been well."

Seong-ho took Chung-seop's hand warmly and led him to the sofa.

"And you've been well too, CEO?"

"Thanks to you, Head, I've been well."

"Hahaha. What have I got to do with it? Here, sit."

Seong-ho laughed easily and gestured for him to sit on the sofa.

Sitting down, Chung-seop looked around the office. "This is the old Chief's office, isn't it? I never thought I'd see the day I'd come to the Strategic Planning Office's Chief's office."

"Yes. In the Strategic Planning days, this was used as the Chief's office. Does it feel like a moment out of time?"

"Of course it does."

At Seong-ho's question, Chung-seop looked around the office once more and said, "For me — once a low-level clerk at Ilhyeon Securities — to end up here, in what was once the office of the Chief of Ilhyeon Group's famous Strategic Planning Office, I feel like an enormous success."

"Hahaha."

Seong-ho burst into laughter and instructed his assistant to bring tea. Then he said to Chung-seop with a smiling face, "As it happens, I was meaning to ask to see you, CEO."

"Me? For what…"

Seong-ho rose from his seat a moment and went to his desk. He opened a locked drawer and brought out a check. To Chung-seop, looking back and forth between the check and Seong-ho's face, he held it out and said, "I know it's money that barely matters even if I just leave it parked, since there's nowhere much for it to go right now — but I've nothing particular to use it for either, so I thought I'd just have it parked alongside…