"So what you're telling me is that a younger cousin I've never heard of has gone up against the Dongmyeong Group. Is that it?"
Chairman Ha Cheolgon's house in Seongbuk-dong, quiet until now. The large second-floor room Ha Donghun and his wife generally use.
It is where the two of them lived before they moved out to a house of their own.
Ha Seungu, Chairman Ha Cheolgon's eldest grandson, had summoned the cousins.
With the tiger away from his seat, the fox is king.
Ha Seungu is the eldest grandson of the main line of the house. His internship is behind him and he is working in earnest now in the group's strategic planning office. Every cousin who had not yet started in group work was watching him for a sign.
"Semi-ya."
"Yes……. Oppa."
Outside this house Ha Semi is prickly. With the family all present, though, good-girl mode came on by itself.
"That bastard. Does he actually carry an Atlas Express black card?"
"Yes……"
"You've seen it?"
"I confirmed it."
"Heh heh heh. This is unbelievable. A second-year in high school, a bastard all of twenty years old, and he's got an Atlas Express black card? And he made trillions on coin? And he's running a big business too~?"
He was laughing, but Ha Seungu was in pain, as though his body were burning with jealousy.
A grandfather cold even toward him, the eldest grandson. Today that grandfather had called a cousin he had never laid eyes on our Tae-ung.
Everyone who heard it doubted their own ears.
Nobody in the house can put a smile on their grandfather's face. And Ha Tae-ung……
News brought by one phone call had been enough to turn up the corner of the old man's mouth.
Ha Seungu's fingertips trembled.
The whisky in the crystal glass he was holding shivered in small ripples. The title that is his — Haryun's true-blood eldest grandson of the main line!
He had gone through Cheonghwa High and on into the Ivy League. From graduation to his entry into the group's strategic planning office, Ha Seungu had…