Yeoksam-dong, the NC Tower. Walking down the corridor toward the chairman's office, Ha Donggeon cursed under his breath.

The gangster bastard's come up in the world.

He'd put up a forty-five-story building in the heart of Gangnam and even hung out the respectable sign of a finance company.

It was dressed up like a legitimate investment firm, but Ha Donggeon knew perfectly well where the money flowing into NC Investment Finance came from.

Oh Nakcheon was the boss of the Nakcheon faction.

It galled him, too, that the man had a flashier building than a director of Haryun Construction like himself, and a luxurious office to go with it.

The punk used to come running whenever Ha Donggeon called; now he'd made him come all the way here.

Sliide.

When the door to the chairman's office opened, Oh Nakcheon was at his desk, signing documents.

Whenever the pretty secretary beside him passed him a page, he skimmed it and signed again.

With gold-rimmed glasses on, too, he was every inch the chairman of a finance company.

Every time Ha Donggeon saw those glasses, they struck him as ridiculous and turned his stomach.

However respectable he made himself look, those gold-rimmed glasses couldn't hide what Oh Nakcheon really was.

"That'll be all. And two coffees, please."

"Yes, Chairman."

The secretary gathered the signed documents and went out.

Oh Nakcheon put down his pen, rose from his seat, came over to Ha Donggeon and pointed to the sofa.

"Have a seat, Director."

His words were polite, but Oh Nakcheon took the seat of honor first.

When they met outside, he'd always given that seat to Ha Donggeon; on his own company's ground, he took it as a matter of course.

Sitting down across from Oh Nakcheon, Ha Donggeon gave a twisted smile.

"Chairman Oh Nakcheon."

"What's this, Director?"

"Well, everybody calls you that~"

Oh Nakcheon shot back evenly.

"Naturally, since it's a company."

He couldn't have missed Ha Donggeon's sarcasm, yet his expression didn't change in the least. He regarded Ha Donggeon indifferently over the gold-rimmed glasses.

"So what brings you here…