The Price of Lies
Her mind flashed white.
Her entire body trembled like an aspen leaf. A strange sensation flooded every nerve.
Sora had been through something like this before.
"Stay still. Oppa's trading right now."
"Yes."
"Got it?"
"Hiiik!"
Another heavy impact landed on her ass.
Normally she would have exploded in anger. Instead—
What… what is this? Why does it feel so good?
Strangely, her body refused to move. Every nerve in her body funneled straight into the lower half of her. A shiver ran through her. What had first registered as pain now raced up her spine and bloomed everywhere else.
"Because of unnies like you, the stock price keeps getting fat and juicy."
"Hiiik!"
"Your ass is getting fat and juicy too."
"Oof!"
Another one. Hard enough that she could feel the clear outline of his palm.
She should get angry. She should tell him to stop. But her body refused every order.
Ah… aah. More. Please do it more…
She wanted it. She buried her face in his chest and clung tighter. The only sound that reached her was the occasional click of the mouse. He was completely focused on the trade.
Normally he groped her whenever he felt like it, yet the moment she actually wanted him—
"Fuck, it's climbing so clean. We might hit the limit-up today."
"……"
"Sora? Sora? Are you mad…?"
Only now did he finally call her name. They were pressed together skin to skin and he still managed to ignore her completely.
I really want to punish him.
Her heart hammered. She hated admitting it. She couldn't believe something like this was even possible, and yet—
"Sorry for spanking you."
"Ah!"
"There, there. Better now, right? Oppa's hands are healing hands. Or whatever. Anyway, sorry."
He stroked the hypersensitive skin of her ass. Every brush of his fingers sent another electric jolt up her spine.
It feels good. Why?
She finally understood what this was. The first time she had been too panicked to realize. Now that it was happening again, the knowledge clicked into place. She had even picked up some sexual knowledge while browsing women's forums.
She swallowed hard.
Orgasm. She just couldn't bring herself to admit she had come from nothing more than a spanking.
"I-I'm fine, so…"
"You're fine?"
"Just show me how much it went up…"
There was one more thing. She steadied her breathing, shifted position, and sat up. The chart filled the monitor in front of her. At the same time a hand settled on her stomach.
"It's a full-on black-cock bull candle, you know?"
"Black-cock?"
"Yeah. It just shoves all the way up to here."
Back then she hadn't understood. She only remembered that pressing the high points felt good.
He's talking about his dick, this fucking bastard!
He had kneaded her stomach so thoroughly that it had ached for two whole days afterward.
"Another black-cock."
"Ah!"
"You like them big? Does it feel good when I touch here?"
"It feels good!"
She still gave him permission. Every time his thick, hard fingers pressed down, her body answered.
This is straight-up sexual harassment… sexual assault… and I like it.
Honest feeling. The pressure points sparked with pleasure. She wished he would press a little harder.
"It dropped."
"No."
"Still, this much is plenty. Even just up to here the trend looks excellent."
His hand slid lower, closer to the secret, shameful place between her legs. What bothered her more was the position. She had measured it with a thirty-centimeter ruler after reading community posts.
Around there is about fifteen centimeters. I heard that's plenty big…
It didn't feel good at all. Only disappointment welled up.
While Sora sat frozen, not knowing what to do—
"Dropping again?"
"No!"
"What's this? Suddenly flowing. Sora wants it bigger too, right?"
"Bigger… bigger is always better."
His hand traveled even lower. She had heard that was the average size for ordinary men.
Pressing there doesn't give any feeling at all.
Now she understood why the women's forums always gossiped about size. Bigger really was better. Every time the chart shook, he touched her here and there, and she learned exactly how big she wanted it.
"It's really fucking shaking. Why's it doing this?"
"Ah!"
"Sorry. Does it hurt?"
"No. I'm fine. Senior…"
I can't hold back the moans. What do I do?
Being completely sober made the shame almost unbearable. Still, she wanted to be honest about how she felt. No—she had known for a long time. She had simply needed time and process to accept it.
I like it when Oppa touches me just as much as he likes it when I touch him.
She had pretended not to care. She had lectured herself that sex was dirty, that it was a bad thing. Did she really need to keep doing that? Senior was good about respecting the line. More than anything, the pleasure racing through her whole body was already answering for her.
"Senior, you're hard again?"
"Hold on."
"Want me to make you feel good? Me?"
"I said hold on."
His ears had gone completely red. Saying something like this when she still had her reason and it wasn't even a joke was mortifying. Yet the man in front of her looked so lovable. She had never felt this way in her life.
Is this… love? Am I falling for Senior too…?
His lips were cracked from neglect. She wanted to wet the sore places with her own. Somehow he even looked handsome. She was about to give him a deep kiss when—
"Senior~♡ Hehe."
"Shut the hell up for a second, you brat."
"Oof!"
Another electric jolt raced up her spine.
The stock price had been climbing smoothly. He had expected a few collapses along the way.
If you pump it too blatantly it becomes obvious.
Right now it was the number-one traded stock on the KOSDAQ. The operators would know that much.
It had hit +20% earlier today. Suddenly dropping below +10% was strange.
Unless they're satisfied and dumping here…
The volatility was too extreme. Even if the operators were shaking it up and down on purpose, this felt different.
Slap!
In the middle of the serious moment Sora started playing around again. He delivered a proper scolding to that naughty ass.
And the impact feels so fucking good.
How could it be this springy? Plump and elastic in a way that wasn't typical for an East Asian woman. Even when he put real force into a smack it bounced right back. He could have spanked it all day if the situation allowed.
This was no time for that. The sudden drop looked nothing like anything that had come before.
Two possibilities I can think of.
1. The operators are wrapping up the scheme.
2. Some third party is simply taking profit.
He didn't believe the first. After watching them for a full month he was certain.
They're too smart to do something this slapdash.
The smarter the investor, the more fearful they become. They actually think about risk. That was the problem. He could also interpret this profit-taking as the work of another group of operators.
If that were the case they would end the operation. Another group might still be holding more shares.
No. Nine times out of ten it's not operators—it's old shareholders.
People who bought the stock when it was still unlisted. No one else would be sitting on this kind of volume right now. At least not according to his judgment. Still, he couldn't completely rule out the other possibility.
Slap!
Decision time. Take profit together with them, or block the selling pressure and reverse the flow.
"P-please stop hitting me…"
"Sora, do you like them bigger, or is this size just right? Answer fast!"
"Hiiik!"
He couldn't help hesitating. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to accept a little help from Lady Luck for once.
Smack!
Sora pressed her lips to his. Her body temperature was hotter than usual, and her lips clung with a sticky insistence.
"I like them big."
"You really do love the big ones."
"Senior's is big too. I just wish… it was a little softer…"
He had no idea what she was talking about. Soft bull candles snapped the moment you leaned on them.
Guess I'll have to buy like a maniac.
He bet on the madness.
The CEO of 09Lady, Hong Ye-seul, had founded the company to make money.
Looks like I can rake in a solid haul.
It wasn't even rare in Korea. That was exactly why the KOSDAQ had so many delistings. People listed in the first place just to pull off one big score. They colluded with operators and manipulated the stock price.
Still, this has gone up a little too much.
Market cap had reached two hundred billion won. She knew better than anyone that the company wasn't worth anywhere near that. It was just a shopping mall. Getting the listing approved in the first place had been close to a miracle.
Beep— beep—
Greed stirred. If she could only dump the shares she would do it in a heartbeat. Legally it was impossible. Executives holding company stock were locked out of selling for six months after listing. That was also why the price kept climbing.
"Oppa, it's me."
"Ye-seul! What are you calling for?"
"Never mind that. You've got the shares I stashed under your name, right? Dump them for me."
There was a way. She had parked some shares under her ex-husband's name just in case the price ran hard.
Letting the operators do whatever they want and only taking ten percent doesn't satisfy me.
It had already more than tripled. The thought of them hogging all of it made her stomach hurt.
"I'll do it! But can I keep a little…"
"Fine, fine, Oppa. Just buy yourself a car or something."
"Okay, Ye-seul. Love you!"
This much should be fine. Current value around two billion won. Even after giving him ten percent she would still clear over 1.8 billion.
The price is sliding hard. My gut was right. This is the top.
Hong Ye-seul sat in the CEO's office watching 09Lady's stock price and smiled with pure satisfaction. How could she not smile? CEO of a two-hundred-billion-won company. Tens of billions in profit. All of it hers. Everything in the world seemed to be going exactly the way she wanted.
Then something she could not believe appeared before her eyes.
Wh-what? This can't be…!
The stock that had fallen to +5% slowly coiled upward, then in the blink of an eye slammed into +30%. It had hit the limit-up.
"Ah… aah…"
She was so stunned she couldn't form words. If she had only waited thirty more minutes before selling—
At the absolute minimum I would have made another five hundred million. No, if it keeps rising tomorrow…
Come to think of it, the operators had said this stock could go a long way. Maybe the real climb was only starting now.
She swallowed hard.
Blinded by greed, Hong Ye-seul began buying the stock again.