The chief's office at Ilseong Hotel.

"What brings you here today?"

Go Mihui greeted her sister with a smile. Go Miyu set her bag down beside her and took the teacup.

The scent of warm black tea spread between them.

Outside the window, the winter sun lit the buildings downtown.

"I came to have a cup of tea with you."

"That doesn't seem to be it."

Go Mihui looked at her younger sister with a smile. They were sisters, but they didn't see each other often.

Beyond family events, they only asked after each other when they had to.

They ran different businesses, too. After the inheritance split the management of the affiliates, Go Mihui had taken the hotel and Go Miyu the apparel business.

Their businesses hardly ever collided. That made some things easier, but it also left fewer reasons to meet privately.

Above all, the two of them had different personalities.

When something didn't sit right with Go Miyu, she asked the people around her first.

Once enough voices agreed with her judgment, her certainty only hardened.

Go Mihui knew that side of her sister well. Tea wouldn't be the point today either.

"Do I need a reason to come?"

"If you came all the way here at this hour on a weekday, there's a reason."

"Your problem is you know people too well."

Go Miyu set down her teacup. She'd said it lightly, but there was no smile on her face.

"That boy Ha Tae-ung. You know him well, don't you?"

Go Mihui's eyes fixed on her sister. So the name had come this far.

She'd had reports lately that strange stories were going around among the wives of the business world.

A student with no manners. A boy who'd made a little money and looked down on even the family's elders. A hooligan who'd hurt a sunbae and never apologized.

She could guess where the stories had started.

Min Seoyeong had already come to see her and even brought up Junu's future.

What she didn't know yet was what her sister had heard, where, and who…