Chilling and frightening. The young man in front of her was quietly backing Jang Jonghun into a corner.

Go Mihyeon couldn't take her eyes off the documents on the table.

Suddenly she remembered the moment she had signed her contract with Ha Tae-ung.

He had set her just one condition.

—There's one condition. Don't betray me.

At the time, she had taken him for a man who simply valued trust.

Now she could see that wasn't it.

That one remark, let drop so lightly, had held countless meanings.

Embezzlement, breach of trust, private use of company funds…….

It was a warning against using one's position for fraud or improper gain.

The condition covered every act that harmed DMC or broke Ha Tae-ung's trust.

To him, all of it was betrayal. And the result of that betrayal…….

Go Mihyeon's gaze slowly moved to Jang Jonghun. His face had gone ashen, and his whole body was visibly shaking.

This wasn't the Jang Jonghun who had screamed and flown at her, and hurled abuse at Chairman Ha.

The overbearing Jang Jonghun was falling completely apart before the stack of documents in front of him.

A chill ran down Go Mihyeon's spine.

So this…… is the price of betrayal.

Ha Tae-ung hadn't demanded anything. He hadn't asked her to put him on a pedestal.

As things stood, he wouldn't hound her to grow the company or turn more profit, either.

Just one thing! All she had to do was not betray him.

For Go Mihyeon, it was the easiest condition in the world to keep.

But cross that line, and…….

There would be no hoping for mercy. Go Mihyeon glanced at Ha Tae-ung, sitting beside her.

He was twenty, an age when you know nothing. A young man young enough to be her grandson.

And yet for a moment, she couldn't tell how old he was.

He trusted people first, handed them the work and backed them with everything they needed.

The trouble came when that trust was broken. Then he took away everything they had enjoyed and built up.

It wasn't a matter…