episode_0143

All of it was merely a misunderstanding that Cha Seonmi was Hwaryeong’s master.

This was due to the title ‘Hwaryeong’s successor’ having become so accustomed.

Even the public, who were external stakeholders, viewed Cha Seonmi as Hwaryeong’s head, but by their father’s last will, the person who actually held Hwaryeong’s most powerful stake was ‘Mom’.

Perhaps worried about his children’s division, or perhaps concerned about the excessively cold-blooded Cha Seonmi’s unilateral actions abandoning the family, he had put a brake on it.

It was simply that Jung Sooran’s heart was weak, so she had lived in hiding, which made her presence faint.

She had been at the top, but the title ‘Chairwoman’ was burdensome, so for a long time, she had only been active within the hotel, resulting in her hiding her face from the public.

“Noona, I understand that you’ve paved the way well all this time.”

“…….”

He picked up the mobile that spun in the shape of the Earth on the table.

Holding it in his hand and playing with it, he casually uttered words that would wound his noona.

“But if you think about it, Noona, you don’t necessarily have to be at the table you’ve so meticulously set, do you?”

Cha Seonmi could not hold back.

Perhaps feeling her achievements were being ridiculed, that cold-blooded person bit her lip until blood flowed, glaring as if she would strangle him right then and there.

A smirk.

“…….”

But that was all.

Other than that, she had no other cards to play in this hand.

* * *

It was but a single step.

Just a single step to turn South Korea into my kingdom.

Since entering the business world, I had heard it ad nauseam.

Comparisons to my father I had heard my entire life, so I didn’t care. After all, it sounded like nothing more than dogs and pigs barking.

‘Damn it…!’

…or so I had thought until now, but it seems I had kept it inside after all.

Being compared to Dad, I wanted to prove to the world that Dad’s final choice was wrong.

To those dogs and pigs who had nothing, yet endlessly sat in chairs flapping their mouths, only ever offering current affairs commentary, I sought to prove myself through action.

If a government-linked project surfaced and demonstrated its capabilities, the world would quiet down.

Hwaryeong would naturally follow me according to the logic of profit, and I would ascend to the top, revered solely for my abilities, not merely this ambiguous stake.

Pressing down the stiff necks of my siblings who dared to challenge me, a picture of them deferring to me willingly.

Alternatively, the pretty picture of my siblings realizing their limits and submitting on their own was also appealing.

But then,

Gritting…!

‘For Mom to appear here…!’

And to end it with such a paltry trick!

As my sibling’s confidence suggested, this was a completely unexpected appearance.

That mother, who had been hiding from the eyes of foreign media all this time, suddenly appeared and raised Doyeon’s hand.

I knew they had been meeting frequently lately.

But I hadn’t considered the possibility that he had charmed Mom, who had consistently maintained an observing stance in the children’s dispute.

And the card that guy confidently believed in… was utterly devastating.

“Ah! You know that urgently acquiring stakes now won’t matter, right?”

Thud!

After Doyeon tossed the mobile he had been playing with in his hand back onto the table,

“If I hold Mom’s stake, this game is over.”

“…Don’t be ridiculous. Mom only holds Hwaryeong’s hotel, doesn’t she?”

“Come on. Hwaryeong’s financial lifeline was designed to flow with that hotel at its core, wasn’t it?

What, should I freeze the funds circulating within the hotel the moment I step in, completely clogging its veins?”

Gnashing…!

…Indeed, Doyeon was no longer the fool he once was.

He knew the strength of the cards he held, neither more nor less, but precisely that much.

He easily saw through my weaknesses.

“For your information, appealing urgently to the shareholders now will be useless.

I subtly leaked a rumor to friendly reporters that I’m taking over Hwaryeong, and Hwaryeong’s stock price is sharply rising. Noona’s foresight is confidential, so it hasn’t even been revealed yet, but the results I’ve shown have been so impressive, haven’t they?”

“Gah…!”

Moreover, he meticulously used his image of surging stock prices.

Practically, even if Cha Doyeon bought Hwaryeong, there wouldn’t be much of a change.

But considering the image of the stock’s upward curve he had shown so far, it wouldn’t be strange if it inflated like a bubble.

I had let my guard down and was caught.

The moment I let go, thinking the battle was over, I instantly plummeted to the bottom, with nails hammered into my coffin.

I realized my own oversight.

That Doyeon’s frequent meetings with Mom, which I had considered meaningless activities, could be applied in such a way.

“Now you understand, Noona? From now on, Hwaryeong will be—”

“Do, Doyeon-ah!”

To Doyeon, who was taunting the infuriated me, Mom suddenly raised her voice.

She then glanced at me, then pinched her son’s thigh and whispered.

“Now… present the compromise to your Noona.”

‘……A compromise?’

I wondered what she was talking about.

I had thought she had come to personally join hands with my sibling and suppress me as retribution for my past disregard of Mom, but then the word ‘compromise’ suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

“I was just about to do it all now.”

Doyeon, in response, arrogantly embraced Mom’s shoulder.

He draped his arm over the sofa and leaned back his upper body, then dropped the expression he had used to taunt me and faced me seriously.

“Well, that was merely the situation explanation up until now.

Mom agreed to my plan, but she said she would only help me if I accepted this condition.”

After adopting a very serious tone,

“First, I will take the Chairman position.”

“Hey! How does that change anything in this situation—”

“However, in three years, I will transfer the Chairman position to you, Noona. Depending on the conditions, it might even be shortened from three years.”

“……!?”

The prize I coveted was instantly put forth as a condition for exchange.

I had no idea what kind of deal this was.

He pushed me to the very brink, so why was he setting such conditions now?

“What’s your game…?”

“I made a promise with Mom. That family comes first to me.”

“……♥”

‘……?’

Doyeon embraced Mom.

After embracing Mom’s shoulder with a suspiciously intimate grip,

“Honestly, the Chairman position? I don’t want it either, because I no longer want to work harder. But I’m taking it because there’s much to handle.”

“Things to handle, you say?”

“That would be the integration of and .”

“!”

“The divided enterprises will become one again.

Including Hwaryeon Noona’s and Soeun’s enterprises, for the family to no longer quarrel and instead combine all their strengths to walk the path together.”

Each step he took was indeed unconventional.

If that happened, the stake issue could resurface, but if coordination were managed, it would appear clean even from an external perspective.

“It wouldn’t be bad for you either, Noona, would it?

If you just wait for this process to conclude for three years, you’ll gain the most formidable investor.”

…If it proceeded exactly as my sibling claimed, that was certain.

Hwaryeong, which required capital for upcoming national projects and colossal plans, and HR, which strangely held a large cash reserve.

Because cooperating would be much easier than pointing knives at each other.

If they all united now, they could easily surpass even the former bastion of that Father had built.

However,

“Even so, with the stake you hold, you could torment me at any time, couldn’t you?

…How can I believe such a unilateral claim that you’ll complete the promised term and then step down?”

“If you want, I’ll even write a written pledge.”

After answering immediately and without hesitation, as if he had no lingering attachment to the Chairman position, he dramatically spread his arms and said,

“I’m genuinely impressed by your abilities, Noona.

You don’t necessarily have to hold a prominent title; it’s fine if you remain an investor holding the Hwaryeong family’s stake.”

It could be an act.

But my intuition, honed from years of grinding in the corporate world, told me that my sibling truly seemed to mean it.

It was an attitude of truly being fed up with such matters.

So,

“So, what’s the condition?”

“Huh?”

“If you’re going to do all that, there’ll naturally be a condition, won’t there? Tell me your true intentions.”

At this, Mom somehow hesitated and averted her gaze.

She wrung the hem of her clothes on her lap as if wringing out laundry, and remained silent.

“A condition, you say?”

A smirk.

“……?”

At this point, my sibling smiled cunningly.

He pulled Mom’s shoulder closer, as if enveloping her, while she averted her gaze, and declared it right in front of her.

From this point on, the real beginning started.

I had to witness my sibling’s true colors, which I had never imagined until now.

The true nature of my sibling, whom I had thought had grown into a businessman.

“Noona, the condition for accepting such an unprecedented proposal is—”

It was none other than—

+ + +

“Alright, Noona, begin.”

“Ugh…!”

I humiliatingly lowered my head.

Feeling uncomfortable in the underwear that tightly squeezed my butt crack, which I was wearing for the first time, it was hard to specifically express my feelings about the current situation.

“What are you doing?”

My sibling, on the other hand, was audacious.

With his naked body proudly exposed in front of his own elder sister,

“You said you’d willingly do it, didn’t you, Noona? Hurry and suck your dongsaeng’s dick first, Noona.”

My younger brother is… presenting that between his legs.

That thick thing, like the absurdly large old German sausage I had once eaten during my study abroad days.

‘How did it come to this…!’

He thrusts that thing, which has become rock-hard, toward my mouth.

He commanded me to suck it, but I could neither readily comply nor evade it.

In the current situation, which had come upon me unimaginably, I fiercely cried out in my heart.

‘So the means he used to secure everyone, from my dongsaeng to Mom, was such a base method?!’

I grumbled inwardly.

However, there was no turning back.

Because I had chosen it.