The Office Lady Queen (1)
The two of them trembled as they watched the news report who had betrayed them, reliving the moment when the thugs had come looking for them.
“It seems the place is connected to organized crime.”
“Y-yes. So it’s because they blackmailed us.”
Through the private detective service, they had gathered information about the partner who had blackmailed the mother and daughter, and clearly understood their relationship. And the news about the partner’s involvement had also come from me.
‘Because he was too greedy, Seok-yeon made a deal with the wrong people.’
He had not been a simple business partner or investor. He had been one of those tied to the yakuza. Since he had hurt them, Seok-yeon would not be able to show his face easily, and the mother and daughter would never escape my grasp.
The news continued, pouring out new information.
“Representative Nam is not responsible for this?”
“That man is the one who did it?”
“The father did something like that?”
As the truth behind the rumors Nam’s father had spread began to surface, Choi In-sook’s face flushed red. Her mother and daughter kept glancing at me nervously. When the article revealed that every rumor about the father had been nothing but lies fabricated by Seok-yeon, the two women became half-unconscious.
“The father did something like that?”
“He… did something like that?”
It seemed the mother and daughter did not truly know what kind of man Seok-yeon was. At home he had simply acted as a normal husband and father.
Even though the news had been provided by me, I reacted as if hearing it for the first time.
“It was not my father who started the rumors, but Representative Seok-yeon’s organization. Seok-yeon was not what he seemed on the surface. Choi In-sook, you knew your husband was capable of such things, didn’t you?”
“Ah, no. I didn’t know. I’m sorry. I really had no idea he was doing something like that. How could he… to Representative Nam, the director’s father? I had no idea at all.”
“You know what? Your father died from a sudden heart attack, right? In the end, it was all because of Seok-yeon that my father passed away.”
“…”
Choi In-sook could not speak anymore. Seok-yeon had committed his crimes and disappeared, but the real victims—the mother and daughter—had been living under my roof. They had ten mouths worth of things to say, yet none would come out.
‘Now that I have made him owe me even more, it will be even harder for him to refuse me.’
When the embezzlement and corruption committed by Seok-yeon were exposed in the media, chaos erupted. The fraud and scam that had seized the company was revealed, and above all, Seok-yeon’s lack of planning, the fact that he had run off with the embezzled money leaving the company broke, and more. The stock price of Mercury Planning began to plunge.
In truth, the stock had already been falling even before. It was because Min Hee-jae had taken the Curie Girls and left Mercury Planning.
‘She’s a cunning one. Was she already preparing to stab Seok-yeon in the back?’
The moment Seok-yeon vanished, she took the company’s core idols, the Curie Girls, with her. Stealing the company’s most valuable assets would not have been easy. The fact that she managed to do it right after he disappeared proved she had prepared everything in advance. She had probably adjusted the Curie Girls’ contracts and the like.
The representative had gone missing after embezzling company funds. The Curie Girls had already left. The company’s value had plummeted to the bottom. When rumors of bankruptcy spread, the sell-off became even more intense. The stock, once fifty thousand won, crashed to a thousand won in an instant. A company worth nearly two hundred billion won had shrunk to forty billion.
‘That is exactly what I aimed for.’
As it fell to almost worthless levels, people rushed to buy the stocks on fire sale. With thirty billion won invested, I managed to secure seventy-five percent of the shares. I had become the largest shareholder.
‘I suffered because the shares were scattered, but thanks to that, I was able to reclaim the company.’
My father had not viewed Luna Planning as his own property. He thought of it as a company nurtured by public love and had not monopolized it but had sold shares on the market, allowing many small shareholders to own Luna Planning. The money from those sales had been reinvested in Luna Planning, helping it grow into a star company.
Seok-yeon had used my father’s almost nonexistent stake to attack him, spreading all kinds of rumors and forcing him to step down as representative director. When my father was stripped of the company, he eventually died from a sudden illness. Now it was time to reclaim what had been taken from him.
At a shareholder meeting, the board of directors was replaced. The existing directors were Seok-yeon and Director Jang. Since there were only two directors, they were immediately dismissed at the meeting, and new directors were appointed. I called in my father’s longtime associate and seated him. I myself took the position of representative director.
I had finally reclaimed the company that my father had stolen and taken away from me.
On my first day as representative director, every employee’s expression and emotion toward me was different. Some employees, seeing the company nearly destroyed, showed hope that the new representative director would save it. Of course, those who had betrayed my father wore faces full of discomfort at my rise to the top.
‘First, Park Dong-hoon, I’m going to slowly dismantle you. I’ll start by breaking you down piece by piece, then return to you more than the pain you and my father suffered.’
Of the people from Mercury Planning who had betrayed my father, six remained. Seok-yeon, Department Manager Kang Jung-goo, Director Jang Shin-bae, Manager Min Hee-jae, and two Curie Girls members. The parents of the Curie Girls were related, but they were not employees of Mercury Planning. Seok-yeon had gone into hiding. After Jang Shin-bae was dismissed from his directorship, he had left the company. Min Hee-jae and the Curie Girls had already left. Only Department Manager Kang Jung-goo remained. Of course, I knew why he had stayed.
‘It must be because of Hwang Ri-na.’
Hwang Ri-na was public knowledge as Kang Jung-goo’s girlfriend, and they had even promised to marry. Since Hwang Ri-na remained, Kang Jung-goo remained as well.
“Long time no see.”
Seeing Department Manager Kang Jung-goo and Director Hwang Ri-na, I let out a smile that made his expression harden. He had not expected me to become representative director, and the bitterness showed on his face.
“I never thought you would come as representative director.”
“Exactly. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you and Hwang. It feels good.”
“The company has been in decline for a while now, so I hope Representative Nam will come and restore it to its former glory.”
“We’ll have to work together on that.”
I had become representative director of the company I had reclaimed. Next, I had to convene a board meeting to change the articles of incorporation and amend the corporate name. The new name would be Ares Planning.
They had changed the name of the company my father founded after stealing it. To Mercury Planning.
‘He said it meant “messenger.” He named it to mean a messenger of happiness and music.’
It suited them well. Mercury has the meaning of “messenger,” but it also means “thief.” Since they had stolen my father’s property, the name Mercury Planning fit them perfectly.
I would become the god of war who destroys and takes everything from the betrayers. That is why I intended to change the corporate name of Mercury Planning to Ares Planning. Because of the necessary procedures, there would be a little time for the name change.
First, I would destroy what Kang Jung-goo cherished most.
‘Starting with Director Hwang Ri-na.’
Pretending to check the work situation, I summoned Hwang Ri-na to the conference room. Seated opposite me, Hwang Ri-na explained the marketing and public relations department work she was in charge of.
‘Shall I begin?’
I activated the third superpower I possessed, Remote Touch. Within ten meters, I could use the ability as if I were actually using my hands.
— Sssick, sssick —
“Ahh!”
As I gently stroked Hwang Ri-na’s slit, she let out a startled cry.
“Why? Are you in pain somewhere?”
“Ah, no. My body just isn’t feeling well for a moment. I’ll continue.”
Hwang Ri-na, panicked, hurriedly made an excuse. She lowered her gaze under the desk to check her skirt. Since I was quite far away on the opposite side, it was obvious what I was touching was not mine. Hwang Ri-na’s expression grew bewildered. She thought the sensation had been mistaken and continued.
“I’ll keep going,” she said, but it would not be that simple.
— Sssick, sssick —
“Anyway, the promotion for the Curie Girls has been suspended… ah!”
Hwang Ri-na had no choice but to pause her explanation several times. While she was reading the monitor and explaining, her face flushed red and her breathing grew irregular. But she forced herself to continue the report. The several minutes that passed felt like an eternity to Hwang Ri-na.
Hwang Ri-na kept glancing under the desk to check her skirt and thighs in the middle of her explanation. But nothing but her own skirt was there. She could not understand why she felt the sensation of someone touching her private parts.
Hwang Ri-na was trembling. Her breathing shook because she was desperately holding back her excitement from the strange hand’s gentle caress on her slit.
“More promotion on SNS… ah!”
Hwang Ri-na’s face turned bright red.
‘Today is the first day, so I should end it at this level.’
The method I was using was the classic “classical conditioning” often called Pavlov’s dog. Just as dogs salivate at the sound of a bell, I was making her private parts leak honey at the mere sight of me.