episode_0049

Scanning through the news, my head grew hot.

No, it wasn’t just hot; it felt as if my very brain cells were melting from the heat in my forehead.

Currently, the theme park construction site was suspended, locked in a standoff with the Cultural Heritage Administration.

As the media fervently debated the issue, the government even dispatched officials to determine how to proceed. Yet, the more the true nature of the ruins was revealed, the more despair filled my eyes.

Examining the area where the artifacts were spread, reports quickly streamed in, indicating it could become the largest historical site ever discovered.

At first, I’d thought it would span only a few pyeong, but the more they dug, the more damned pottery and relic fragments ceaselessly emerged.

The excited archaeological community kept clamoring that it absolutely had to be fully excavated, and if I could, I wanted to slap them across the face.

Goddamn it, what kind of excavation nonsense are they spouting about land I poured my hard-earned money into!

If they were going to leisurely excavate relics, I’d want to tell them to pay the enormous construction costs for the delayed time, but of course, that would fall on deaf ears.

Because this country’s laws are so screwed up, offering no compensation for a losing venture.

‘……Should I really go through with it?’

Though the media chattered ceaselessly, in the end, that place was my land, where the down payment had already been made.

Ignoring the media’s criticism and bracing for a slight hit to the company’s image, I could resolve the issue by covering everything with cement.

No matter how much they tried to block it with regulations, laws, or cultural heritage, since my money was in it anyway, if I told them to ‘sue me,’ they’d have nothing to say.

If I pushed through forcefully and completed the work, eventually even those barking dog-pigs would be forgotten with time.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

“Fuck, fuck! FUUUUUCK!”

As if seized by a sudden fit, I slammed the desk and kicked the floor hard enough to shatter my high heels.

I cried out in despair, pouring out my fury.

The problem was, I couldn’t do any of that.

To be frank, given my current situation… I didn’t even have that money.

The minimum funds required for lobbying to entice the higher-ups, even the capital needed to complete the construction in the first place, had already been depleted.

Because I had been severely cornered by Cha Doyeon, my liquid cash was critically depleted after paying a massive down payment.

Now, no matter how much I emptied my pockets, only dust fell out, and even if I tried to patch things up using other affiliates, the capital encroachment from funds pulled in so far was immense.

With things in this state, banks—who knew what rumors they’d spread—slammed their doors shut the moment they heard the name .

Even some bank managers who used to fawn over me like flies whenever I visited had now cut off all contact.

And today, the ultimate backstab: an official document demanding repayment.

It meant I was thoroughly abandoned.

“Damn it…!”

Having reached beyond the edge of the cliff, a blade was now almost at my throat.

At this point, the words flickering before my eyes were ‘bankruptcy’ and ‘prison’.

If I couldn’t complete the construction, the accounting fraud undertaken to conceal a massive investment failure would be exposed, and my entire network of affiliates would collapse like dominoes.

In short, if there was no financial lifeline, it meant the end.

If I couldn’t find someone to save me, my life would meet its end with corporate bankruptcy due to unimaginable embezzlement.

I racked my brain.

I racked and racked it ceaselessly.

Crrunch…!

The answer was soon derived.

No matter how many times I thought it over, there was only one person I could rely on immediately.

With trembling hands, I gripped my phone and slowly pressed the dial, a number I hadn’t touched in at least five years.

The call tone I held to my ear rang more than five times before it was answered.

“……It’s me. Alright, I have something to say, so if you give me a separate appointment, I’ll come meet you. …………You want me to come all the way to your house right now?”

An utterly arrogant voice from beyond the receiver.

His tone, indicating he’d already figured out my predicament, was grating, but there was nothing I could do.

Because before the current problem escalated further, the only option left was to raise a white flag to my younger brother.

To save my life, even setting the company aside, my only pillar of support was my brother.

Just four months after declaring war, I admitted defeat to Cha Doyeon.

* * *

“Welcome, Noona.”

“…….”

The moment I stepped inside the front door, a subtle twitch rippled through his narrowed eyes, brimming with anger.

He had made me come to him in person, and I couldn’t even meet his gaze, feeling the humiliation.

The housekeeper, Seong Yura, had already left for the day, leaving the house empty.

As I stood by the front door, hesitating to move, he urged me forward.

“What are you doing? You said you had something to tell me. Come inside.”

Only then did I very slowly take off my heels.

Somehow, the heel length didn’t feel perfectly balanced, but I figured I must have broken it earlier, unable to suppress my foul temper.

Just like that, we walked to the living room sofa.

As I comfortably sat on the sofa first, Cha Hwaryeon glanced around, then uneasily slid herself onto the cushion.

“What are you doing?”

“……Why?”

That part, I found utterly absurd.

To my sister, who dared to sit beside me, I evidently needed to say something, so I threw it out with a smirk.

“Why are you shamelessly trying to sit with me? Noona should be kneeling in front of me.”

“What?!”

“Well, you couldn’t hold out, so you came to surrender to me, didn’t you? Hurry up and kneel, then grovel.”

Though I threw it out with a smirk, my words were utterly cold and calm.

Of course, from my perspective, it was an utterly natural thing.

“No matter what, a loser and a winner can’t sit side by side as if sharing a meal, can they?”

Because this side is clearly a seat for the winner.

Isn’t it the ancient order of war for the vanquished to kneel before the victor?

Gnash─!

At my single word, Cha Hwaryeon gnashed her teeth.

Her sharp canine teeth, reflecting the fluorescent light, seemed ready to tear at my throat right then and there.

“This bastard…! I was going to overlook your disgusting arrogance on the phone, but─”

“The debt-ridden company ”

“……!”

For her education, I stood up from the sofa again.

“Will a scion of Hwaryeong, who once commanded the Republic of Korea, only come to her senses after being dragged to prison as a debtor who can’t even repay money, on top of having blown away that massive company?”

I pointed out the reality.

Her hasty mistakes, her errors and abuses committed in the past.

“…….”

At this point, Cha Hwaryeon seemed to realize her miserable position once again, clutching her skirt hem and flinching.

Her momentum not yet completely broken, she pouted like a scolded child.

“It’s true the company is in trouble right now…… Hah, but there are several affiliates, so it won’t completely collapse like this─”

“No, it will collapse. That was made possible by your insane negative investment, wasn’t it? With deficits that will devour all market capitalization, how are you going to finish the construction you started?”

“I, I just lack money! If I can just find someone to lend me money, this crisis…!”

“Mo~ney?”

I approached right in front of her and sneered to my heart’s content.

Because she was spouting such obvious and pathetic nonsense, I scoffed right in the face of the arrogant bitch who was biting her lip.

“Easy to say, but who are you going to borrow that enormous money from? Are you going to lean on Mom like a child running to Mommy for pocket money?”

“…….”

“For Mom to pay such money, she’d have to sell all her hotel shares, and more importantly, aren’t you practically estranged? I don’t know what makes a daughter who cut off contact as soon as she inherited property so ‘pretty’ that she’d be helped?”

I greatly exaggerated, but the content was true.

It was the truth that Cha Hwaryeon had also desperately agonized over this matter before contacting me.

“Or are you going to borrow from our eldest Noona? Are you going to beg our eldest Noona, who prioritizes money over blood, to invest in or acquire a debt-ridden affiliate about which ominous rumors are circulating?”

The eldest daughter of Hwaryeong Group, Cha Seonmi, was, in a word, a cold-blooded miser obsessed with money.

If she saw the reality that I had turned that huge conglomerate into a pile of debt, contempt and a firm rejection at the door would be obvious.

“Ah! Soeun might be able to. She could probably bail you out for now.”

At this point, I grabbed Cha Hwaryeon’s trembling jaw.

Looking down at Cha Hwaryeon, who kept awkwardly shifting her eyes to avoid mine, I delivered the finishing blow.

“She’ll probably dismantle all the profitable remaining parts of the company, pin all the wrongdoings on you, and hand you over to the court. She’s that kind of person who thoroughly only takes care of her own share, after all.”

“…….”

Cha Hwaryeon dared not retort a single word.

She seemed to have already run the simulation herself, for she was even lost in thought, gripped by fear.

There was no family member who would handle the massive debt she had accrued beyond her ability to manage.

Other than me.

Cha Hwaryeon, who had made several blunders, wasn’t a complete idiot, so she bowed her head and came to me at this point.

“I mentioned it before, didn’t I? The promise I made before is still valid.”

“……Promise?”

“Do you want me to repeat myself? Well, if you forgot, I’ll have to tell you again.”

I gently pressed on Cha Hwaryeon’s shoulder as she squirmed.

With a refreshing smile, I directly ordered my second eldest sister.

“Immediately get naked, prostrate yourself, and beg.”

The declaration of surrender I had given her back when I declared war at Mom’s hotel.

Cha Hwaryeon’s eyes trembled.

To save the collapsing company, and to save herself, she seemed to be suppressing her temper as much as possible, but a vein still bulged on her neck again.

“A-are you sane? This isn’t a joke, really… No matter what, we’re fa, family!”

“Now you’re talking about family? In fact, we were worse than strangers, weren’t we?”

“Still, this is too much! No matter how crazy you are about women, suddenly telling your Noona to get naked─”

“Ah~ you’re running your fucking mouth. Damn it.”

I didn’t want to hear it anymore, so I picked my ear.

Tapping the area above her chest with my index finger, I clearly stated that she was the shameless one.

“Isn’t it more of a fantasy to save a bitch burdened with trillions in debt, with just one naked bow?”

“…….”

“If you really don’t want to, then stop here. My interest has cooled, so at this point─”

“W-wait!”

A realistic point.

And she stopped me, seemingly realizing her miserable position once again.

Just like that, a silence of about a minute followed, with her head still bowed.

She swallowed repeatedly, as if replaying something in her mind over and over, until,

Click, click…

She gently moved her hands to unbutton her dress shirt, which had been curved due to her bust size.

Finally breaking her stubbornness and admitting her defeat, Cha Hwaryeon began to move in order to survive.

A smirk.

At that point, I also leisurely sat back on the sofa.

With a humiliated expression, I enjoyed the striptease of my second eldest sister, her pride broken, as she unbuttoned her shirt one by one, right before my eyes.

With each piece she removed, her clothes stacked neatly beside her.

Folding them neatly was an act to buy time, but since the remaining clothes were limited anyway, she couldn’t stop the process of her alluring skin being revealed.

“Noona, you wear quite amazing underwear normally, don’t you?”

“…….”

Thus revealed: her breasts filling a thin, black bra, and underwear that rose high in a proud, high-leg V-style.

As she finally exposed herself to a state of semi-nudity, she squirmed uncomfortably, trying to cover her body.

“Um… please just the underwear─”

“Take it all off. Otherwise, I can’t acknowledge your surrender.”

“…….”

At my words, Cha Hwaryeon agonized for a few more minutes.

Click.

Then, with a flushed face, she sent trembling arms behind her back to unfasten the hook.

She shyly slipped off the bra she had unfastened and placed it on the pile of clothes, then tremblingly pulled down the remaining panty straps.

“Well done.”

“Ugh…!”

She literally undressed in front of her younger brother, like a prostitute getting paid.

Enjoying her face, flushed bright red with humiliation and shame, while clutching my dick, I gave the next instruction.

“Now, you have to take care of the remaining task.”

“Please, stop here…!”

“Hurry and do it. You don’t really want to go to prison, do you?”

Cha Hwaryeon, who had rashly overused company money on reckless moves like short-selling, had no more ground to retreat.

There was only one escape route, so she slowly leaned her trembling body forward, then curled up on my living room carpet.

It was a bow inevitably offered to the victor, and due to her pride, she begged me in an awkward posture of submission.

“Please save the company…. I’ve lost, Cha Doyeon-nim…!”

A grin.

The bowing posture was awkward due to her pride, but the message was properly conveyed.

The bitch, born a scion of a large corporation and entirely made of pride, groveled naked in a dogeza to take responsibility for her defeat.

‘Hah… Fuck, this is why I earn money.’

This sight was more exhilarating than the moment I earned trillions.

Seeing the complete defeat of the female who was entirely made of pride, I smirked and scoffed, then,

“Very well done, Noona.”

“Fuck… fuck!”

“Now that you’ve submitted, you have to wear a collar too.”

“……?”

Click!

While her view was blocked as she had her head bowed, I put a collar on Cha Hwaryeon.

Not just a ‘collar’ by name, but a red dog collar that anyone could immediately recognize as such.

Moreover, on the dangling pure gold tag, I had even specially engraved a name.