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'Tadak, Tadak, Tadak.'

I typed more violently and faster than ever. I gave the written document to associate manager Jung.

"Oh, Han Sang-hoon, you're really fast today. Why did you get so motivated?"

I smiled handsomely and bowed my head. But inwardly, I thought so, 'Now that you know, stop working.'

Jung looked at the document I had brought for a moment, and he said with a grin, "Good job. Thank you."

I finished my work quickly. No one would call me for a while, I had enough time to relax. I quickly returned to my seat and saw what I had been searching for.

[Lee Hee-chul visits Gwanghwamun.]

I had a photograph searched for. Among the many photos, there was a photo that Lee Hee-chul, a candidate for mayor, visited Gwanghwamun. The picture, which came out in 12 Hours After, had been posted on the Internet as it was. The netizen "Yeonwoo Dad" also found that connection after seeing this photo. With a mouse cursor, I drew a picture around Kim Soo-hyang standing near a close aide to Lee Hee-chul.

'Did she really make a deal with Lee Hee-chul?'

'Political circles are where lies and betrayal are common in the first place.'

She could have made a deal with Lee Hee-chul's camp on the pretext of her career as a secretary to Mayor Joo Sung-won. I went on to search for 'Joo Sung-won, accusation.' There was news coming up soon.

[Mayor Joo Sung-won's election camp is planning to sue Kim Soo-hyang for defamation and violation of the Public Official Election Act, which is expected to reveal the truth through an upcoming prosecution investigation.]

'If this was a well-made scheme, Kim Soo-hyang would have expected the prosecution's investigation. This Me Too is very difficult to refute. It is hard to remember what the average person had for lunch a week ago. Seven years ago, from the perspective of Joo, is virtually impossible to verify his innocence.

'For the camps of Kim Soo-hyang and Lee Hee-chul, Mayor Joo's approval rating will plummet even if they last for a month. It is the fulfillment of their intended purpose. However, if they dig into the connection between Kim Soo-hyang and Lee Hee-chul dig before sexual harassment, something may get caught. If such circumstantial evidence is available, the prosecution will also be comfortable investigating.

'Moreover, netizens cannot ignore it. Joo Sung-won's supporters are pretty much there in the first place. It is highly likely that Yeonwoo's Dad is one of the supporters of Mayor Joo Sung-won. As Mayor Joo, who he supports, is under suspicion, there is a good chance that he will actively help.

'I don't know if this connection is real or not, but most of all, it is important that Mayor Joo Sung-won has prepared a counterattack. The mere discovery of this connection is likely to keep stock prices from falling further.

My heart leaned toward buying Dongbo Construction. 'There is no 100% on the stock market anyway. A stock is a game of predicting the future, so they can't make 100 percent profit without God.'

But I had some information that I got first through 12 Hours After. It was like playing poker with one more ace card than others.

'Yes, if you hold another ace and don't bet, you are a fool.'

I saw the stock price of Dongbo Construction.

[Dongbo Construction $2.57 (-21.1%)]

Dongbo Construction was still in a slump. It fell more than 20% to $2.57. I saw Dongbo Construction Chart this time. About half a year ago, Dongbo Construction was walking around at $2.20 to $2.40. It was about that much before it got caught up in the political theme.

'Then let's hold the stop loss at –10%.'

'It would have been worth $2.40 even if it hadn't tied up as a themed stock in the first place. So even if Mayor Joo Sung-won fails to win the election, the price should be kept at 10% lower than now. If it is cheaper than $2.40, there is an essential problem about the stock itself. Then, from there, it becomes a dark bet without any information. I have to get out before that.'

And, for now, I decided not to use margin. It was too risky to use margin on stocks that went to the low limit price, even if I had an ace. Only a day after trading on margin, the amount of deposit money had not yet reached 100 percent. Like a wizard who was out of mana, who needed a break to use magic again, I had to wait until Tuesday, to get full margin again.

'Let's buy Dongbo Construction with cash that I have for now. If I get anything more certain, watching the news until Tuesday, let's play full margin swing then.'

With that thought, I began to buy Dongbo Construction.

'If evidence comes out during the prosecution investigation on the weekend, or if Kim Soo-hyang confesses, the stock will fly again as it has fallen. If it doesn't and it keeps falling apart, I will sell without hesitation, when it reaches -10%.'

$60,000 was a lot of money, but if I looked at the article of 12 Hours After continuously, I would be able to recover soon. The cash I had now was $626,320. I divided up only $616,320, subtracting S10,000, to renew the monthly amount here. There were so many people who wanted to sell it that the purchase was quickly completed.

[Dongbo Construction

Shares: 241,694

Purchase Price: $2.55

Purchase Amount: $616,319]

As soon as I bought it, the stock price went to $2.53 and then went up to $2.57, fluctuating very hard. It cost me $5,000 in a flash. I turned off the MTS. All I had to do now was to trust my bet and wait. I went to Dongbo Construction's stock bulletin board instead.

[Mayor Joo Sung-won is done. The babies who buy this now have no brains. Do you do charity work?]

[An old stock maxim: don't get a falling blade. I'm just saying this because I'm worried about you.]

[Is there anyone who buys this stock now? When it comes to $2.00, you can buy it.]

[I have special news of Dongbo Construction. I will erase it in ten minutes. Click quickly.]

[Hey, have you set down a guest who came to the mourning house and not given me Yukgaejang yet?]

It was still a mess. There was no such thing as a proper analysis. It was nothing but swearing, advertising, or ridicule. After a while, I saw a comment pointing to me.

[Wow, who just took 240,000 shares? Some asshole wants this stock worth $600,000.]

I looked at it and thought, 'You're a dick because you can't see any further than your nose.'

There seemed to be nothing more to gain here. I turned off all the relevant windows and came back to work. I also refused to see the MTS. Now that I had finished my bet, I would calmly wait for the result.On this day, Dongbo Construction closed at $2.51. It ended at forty cents more than my estimation. If I calculated forty cents per share, I would get the total loss in no time, but I didn't do it on purpose. If I tried, I would only be sick of. I instead entered the political community "Watchers" where "Yeonwoo's Dad" was active, and waited for the message to be posted. Around 5 p.m. when the stock market ended, the article came up at the end.

[I've got circumstantial evidence that Kim Soo-hyang was close to Lee Hee-chul's camp.]

And this article quickly became a community topic.

[Wow, this is Kim Soo-hyang. It's the same beauty mark location.]

[The tall guy next to her is Jung Hyung-soo, one of the core members of the Lee Hee-chul camp.]

[Is this smelling? Let's dig more.]

[I've already finished reporting to the press. It'll be in the news soon.]

And as was known twelve hours later, this one picture pushed the political situation back into the storm. Mayor Joo Sung-won, who was under political attack here and there yesterday, stepped up his battle lines and launched a counterattack.

"This vicious scheme, organized for the Seoul mayoral election, is a challenge to democracy. Soon the truth will be revealed, and justice will prevail."On the weekend back, I was a little relaxed and took the 12 Hours After email. Since the stock market was not open, there was nothing I could do, even after seeing the 12 Hours After. I scratched a Lotto in Life/Culture, but it was a bummer too.

[Original team performance schedule of Musical Cats in Korea]

'I should not expect Lotto at all the time.'

I instead went nowhere on the weekend and constantly watched the news about the prosecution's investigation, and gathered information while wandering around political communities, including Watchers. There wasn't much new information. What was interesting was people's reaction to the comments. A few days ago, many people used to call Mayor Joo Sung-won a shameless guy, but now they were not.

[If Joo Sung-won is innocent, isn't he really pathetic? He is branded as a pervert all over the country, and he blows up all his careers.]

[There's a politician's life at stake. If she insists that she's been sexually molested through Me Too, that's all.]

[When I met him at Seoul City Hall, he was very kind and nice. He's not that kind. It will be revealed in the prosecution's investigation. Let's wait.]

Reading the article, I could feel the wind blowing against the direction that had been blowing.

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Monday back, it was 8:50 in the morning. I sat a little nervous in front of the computer. I had already put more than $600,000 into Dongbo Construction. Today, I had to respond with great dexterity. I moved my neck from side to side, stretching, crossed my fingers, and then loosened my hands. I opened my mailbox and looked at my watch. When it was 55 minutes, I hit a quick refresh and it arrived.

[S. 12 Hours After]

I quickly moved the mouse cursor and clicked on Politics.

'Police launched an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against Mayor Joo Sung-won.'

I grabbed my head. 'Why is this side coming up?'

The investigation was being conducted on both sides of Mayor Joo Sung-won and Kim Soo-hyang. However, Mayor Joo Sung-won's side had emerged. It wasn't the news I wanted.

'But I'll see what I can. If Mayor Joo Sung-won confessed, Dongbo Construction must be sold today.'

I read the article. But there was nothing particularly unusual. To summarize the details, the police investigated the mayor, and he denied the allegations while faithfully helping with the investigation. He had already denied it with an official statement, but the article repeatedly reported it. I did not get anything today, but I now turned on the MTS to check the stock price.

[Dongbo Construction 5%]

Dongbo Construction's starting price started at around 5% from last time. It seemed to have reflected their alleged connection of Kim Soo-hyang and Lee Hee-chul camp. I thought inside.

'It is not bad timing.'

It was losing forty cents per share yesterday, but now it was earning sixty cents per share.

'Can I expect 10% today?'

I wanted to, but I still didn't know the stock price. What was out was a picture. It served as an excuse for a counterattack of Mayor Joo Sung-won, but that didn't mean he could change the tide altogether.

That was right. Not yet. It was a little bit hard to lose today, but… it was too much to hope for a surge. When I bought stocks, it was myself who should be most vigilant.

'Usually, a person who buys a stock has a positive fantasy about it. No one wants to lose their money, and they want to make money, even with a little bit of good news. And they think, "Wow, this is a sense of the upper limit price. It's going to rise again if I hold it longer."

'They think it's incredibly good, and if there's a lot of bad news, they often deceive themselves. But at the end of that self-delusion, there is nothing left but ruin. They have to be cool. Losing their cool in the stock market is the same as losing money.

'Oh, come on. If it's -10%, I will sell it with a loss.'

I looked at the trading window for a moment, thinking about it. The stock price of Dongbo Construction was fluctuating violently, much like a hot political theme. A few thousand dollars went up and down in a few seconds. I decided to turn off the MTS and concentrated on my work.Twelve hours later, around 9 p.m., I took a shower and came out. I opened the refrigerator door and took out a can of beer.

I opened the cap with my fingers, brought the beer to my mouth, and lifted it at a high angle. The pungent carbonation tickled my throat, and the cool beer came into my mouth.

"Ch…" I sat on the sofa, wiping the foam from my lips with the back of my hand. The beer was better than usual. Maybe it was because I worked late today, and I was tired, or I earned nearly $100,000 today.

Shares of Dongbo Construction closed at $2.89 today, up 15 percent from $2.510. With 241,694 shares up 38 cents per share, I made a profit of $91,843. It wasn't as awesome as it was when I hit the toilet wall, but it was still a huge sum of money. My total account balance also exceeded $700,000 for the first time.

'$700,000. Let's move home after this sale. Should I buy a car first? No, first of all, the computer? No, I'll change that together when I move.'

I turned on the TV, thinking like that. There was a 9 o'clock news coming out on TV. Maybe it was because I slept watching the news late last night.

"In the Blue House today…"

I watched the news without much thought. By the way, I gazed at the news with my eyes twitching.

"It's special news time. Not long ago, Kim Soo-hyang, a former secretary to incumbent Seoul Mayor Joo Sung-won, caused a big storm in the political world when she declared Me Too. But this time, there is a rumor that Kim Soo-hyang, the main character of the Me Too, had some sort of deal with Lee Hee-chul's camp, which is causing a stir. Kang Jin-young reports!"

'What?'

"Today, five days after Kim Soo-hyang, a former secretary, declared her Me Too, H, who identified himself as her ex-boyfriend, has personally tipped off our station."

The screen changed and a man with a mosaic on his face appeared.

"So since last summer… we met early this year. February… or March, we certainly met. And then we got into a fight about money and we broke up.

"According to him, Kim hated the Mayor Joo Sung-won for her dismissal seven years ago, not for the sexual harassment."

In the way of the news, the man's voice and the reporter's voice alternated. It was a typical style of TV news.

"She thought that the reason that she didn't succeed in politics was because Mayor Joo Sung-won fired her. So if she saw the face of Mayor Joo Sung-won on TV, she used to swear."

"Did you ever hear of sexual harassment or anything like that?"

"No, she didn't say anything like that. Rather, she said, "He kept me away for no reason. So I tried to do better. The more I did, the more he kept me away, and then he cut me for no reason. That's why I hate him."

"He added evidence, along with saying she was directly linked to Lee Hee-chul's election camp."

"This is a text message that we shared around January 10th."

The camera kept an eye on the smartphone he showed. There was a story of a lover's exchange.

'I've got a chance to get revenge.'

'What revenge?'

'Mayor Joo Sung-won. Do you know Lee Hee-chul?'

'I know him.'

'He's running for Seoul Mayor this time. I got a good offer from them.'

'What's the offer?'

'You don't have to know that… Anyways, I'll screw him this time for firing me seven years ago.'

I opened my mouth as I was reading the text. My open mouth was not closed for a while until the news was over.

"This Me Too has had a huge social impact, coming at a sensitive time of the Seoul mayoral election. If this testimony is true and this Me Too turns out to be a planned campaign ploy, it is expected to have a bigger impact in the future. I'm Kang Jin Young of KVS."Tuesday morning, I deposited $10,000 into an account with 777. As soon as I deposited the money, I got a reply on my cell phone.

[S. 12 Hours After has been extended.]

When I checked the message, I turned to the monitor with my cell phone on my desk.

[Wow, this is how it works. Although the stock price fell for two days, those who lasted won!]

[Lee Hee-chul, you son of a bitch. I got hit twice by the low limit price because of you.]

[Don't worry anymore. We are going to have the upper limit price twice for today and tomorrow.]

[Is it going to go twice only? Lee Hee-chul is now over. Joo Sung-won is far ahead of them. It is going to the upper limit price for five or ten days.]

Dongbo Construction's stock bulletin board was in a mess. Although Kim Soo-hyang and Lee Hee-chul camp did not yet announce their official positions, the game was over now that the news broke out on the public broadcaster's 9 o'clock news.

At 8:55, I got an email of 12 Hours After for the subscription period left of thirty days. When I clicked on Politics, I finally heard the news of Lee Hee-chul's resignation.

[Lee Hee-chul, the candidate for mayor, will voluntarily step down from his post. 'This is my fault as I did not manage my surroundings properly, and I will resign'.]

I read the news. The suspicions turned out to be true. One of them must have confessed to the crime, whether it was a campaign worker or Kim Soo-hyang. Lee Hee-chul resigned himself. However, he insisted that the plot was made by a person in the election camp "on his own account." He cut off the tail of the lizard and went to America for a political trip.

I dropped by the Endo Biologics' bulletin board where the tragedy would take place today.

[I'm going to throw up what I ate two days ago. Lee Hee-chul, you're crazy.]

[What kind of election camp staff he is? How did he get caught? If he is going to do this, he should not be caught.]

[You know this is all a lie, right? How can you trust a guy who's her boyfriend?]

[That's right. It's not decided yet. Just keep holding this stock. We'll see the light soon.]

Things had changed perfectly. Now it was Dongbo Construction's turn to go to the upper limit price and Endo Biologics' turn to the lower limit price. It was a bit gruesome, but it was politics. That was what a political theme was.

'Winner takes all. The losing side is all gone, and the gainer gets everything.'

I watched the MTS. It was 8:57. Dongbo Construction was already at the upper limit price, although the market wouldn't open for about three minutes. I felt strange.

An emotion of 'Ah, the upper limit price, Nice!' and regret 'I should have bought more as much as I could on margin.' intersected with Dongbo Construction. However, I could not afford to buy any more, since there was not a single seller today. It was at the upper limit price.

I tried to turn off the MTS. No matter what would happen today, the upper limit price would not be broken. But in the meantime, there was something in my eyes. It was Yurim Industries of mayor candidate Jung Kwan-soo. There was something going on in my mind.

'… uh?'

In fact, supporters of Lee Hee-chul or Jung Kwan-soo were no different from the group who did not like Joo Sung-won, split in half. If Lee resigned, the rest of the votes would naturally go to Jung Kwan-soo. I first thought of the poll I had seen. Joo Sung-won 50%. Lee Hee-chul 35%. Jung Kwan-soo 15%. If Lee Hee-chul resigned and Jeong received the vote, it would be a 50-50 fight between Jung Kwan-soo and Joo Sung-won.

'Then…'

The market opened, and Dongbo Construction went directly to the upper limit price. Endo Biologics went straight to the lower limit price. And Yurim Industries was stranded and remained the same.

People seemed to have the following ideas. 'If Joo were to resign, we have a chance… Now that he's back, we're done.' 'If Lee Hee-chul resigns, the vote is ours now, right? Ah, he has not resigned yet.'

I thought myself. 'These people still dont know that Lee Hee-chul has resigned. Only I know.'

I realized that I had another ace in my hand. Therefore, before someone bought it first, I bought shares of Yurim Industries by spending $700,000 on margin. Of course, this was a bet, too. There was no 100% scenario in the stock market. But this time, it was as I imagined it would be.

Yurim Industries of Jung Kwan-soo went to the upper limit price around 2 p.m., when the announcement of Lee Hee-chul's resignation came out. It followed Dongbo Construction, which had already gone to the upper limit price at 9:00 a.m. As a result, there were two stocks left in my account, each of which had increased 30 percent from $700,000 to $910,000. Today alone, I received $420,000 in profits.

Now, the Seoul mayoral election had entered a new phase. It used to be three-man go-stop game. Lee Hee-chul was playing a prank and his hand was cut off and gone. Joo Sung-won and Jung Kwan-soo, the two leading candidates, had come up with a picture to determine whether they would win or not…."This station is Gangnam, Gangnam."

In the subway coming home, I was fiddling with my cell phone and saw the news.

[Lee Hee-chul resigned. A bilateral contest going on between Joo Sung-won and Jung Kwan-soo.]

I looked at the title, then smiled. And I thought, putting my cell phone in my pocket. 'Whoever wins… I'm not interested anymore. I've already won.'

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The Wednesday that followed, Dongbo Construction and Yurim Industries, which were $910,000 each, showed 28 percent and 22 percent gains, respectively, today. I didn't get greedy and I sold them here.

'Sell, sell, sell…'

Of course, it could go up further here. But I decided not to be greedy.

'The political theme stocks are laughably down when the election is over. The setting of their fantasy world, where magic used to be, is broken and comes back to the real world together, like going home now that the king of demons is dead.

'At this time, all political theme stocks, including those in which the politicians involved are elected, will plummet. It's easy to find out when you look at past presidential stocks. Even when it comes to rising, it is likely to soar even more when he or she becomes president, but in reality, it ends in a collapse. No wonder. They are originally stocks made by words in the election. When the election is over, it has to find its place.'

Now, we had about three weeks before the vote.

'It will shake once more before and after the election, but then it really becomes a hard-to-win slot machine. The answer is not to gamble with low expectations. It's wise to stay out of it now.'

[Sell order is completed.]

[Sell order is completed.]

[Sell order is completed.]

A series of messages came up. After selling all the shares, I looked at the stock price for a while from the standpoint of a bystander. Dongbo Construction and Yurim Industries continued to flutter as if they were going to hit the upper limit price, and Endo Biologics didn't think of moving from the low limit price.

'Some must be blinded by madness and some must be filled with grief.

'Even I, who had just been in that scam, am a little nervous. Whoever wins, those stocks will return all their gains and find their place after the election. It will be four years before that magic takes place again. It seems silly, but even then, it will repeat the grand finale and the great fall just because someone is close to someone.

'Then I'll see you again in four years, friends.'

I said my last goodbye and then deleted the political theme sector altogether, not to be seen any longer. I turned to my account balance instead. The total amount including the cash credit had reached $2,200,000 just before, but it was closer to $1,500,000 after excluding $700,000 spent in credit. To be precise, it was $1,556,832.

I looked around the office. Everyone was busy with their work. No one was looking at me. I was feeling as if I had hit a home run, raised both hands, then clenched my fists and shook them quietly for a while, but violently twice.

'Good! $1,500,000! $1,500,000!'

'How many people have ever deposited $1,500,000 or $500,000 in cash in their lives? There will be very little. Most Koreans die without exceeding $300,000 in assets. There are quite a few middle-class people with assets exceeding $500,000, but most of them have one apartment. There won't be as many people with the money I do now.'

'I thought I'd never get out of the mudslide for my whole life. Is this a reality or a dream?'

I thought I was walking a little over the clouds. I felt like I had become a golden alchemist.

'I'm really rich now.'

"Mr. Han Sang-hoon."

At that time, associate manager Jung brought me back to reality. I looked at him.

"I sent a file on the business messenger. Please do me a favor today, too."

I nodded for now. I came back and saw the monitor. I took the file from Jung and tried to work. By the way, $1,500,000 glimmered on my empty monitor. I could not type well. I took my hands off the keyboard and looked up at the company ceiling for a moment. To be honest, I seemed to have lost my motivation to work.

'I didn't even check my paycheck. I used to check my account every payday ffrequently.'

When I was working at the company under extreme stress, even the only hope I had now seemed to mean nothing. I opened the drawer and took out my resignation letter. I had hesitated to resign for several reasons, but now that $1,500,000 was in my account, I didn't have to think about it anymore.

'It would be a hundred or a thousand times better to collect information at that time and think about how to make better use of the news of 12 Hours After. It's good for the company because I am not motivated anyway. It's really time to quit.'

I thought of going to Heo with my resignation letter. However, when I tried to do so, two faces came to my mind.

'Oh, my parents….'

Thinking of my parents, it would be too much to leave the company right now. I put the resignation letter back in the drawer.I had no overtime today. As soon as it turned 5 p.m., I got out of the company right away.

Then, Choi waved at me. "I'll see you tomorrow."

I nodded. "Yes!"

I crossed the crosswalk to the subway station as I always did. Instead of going into it, I decided to walk to Gangnam Station. I wanted to think for a moment of what to say to my parents, and it was my habit to walk this little bit when I was thinking of something. I walked slowly toward Gangnam Station. I saw a flashing Lotto ad next to me.

'Yes, that's what I saw. I was going to do a Proto… It would have been better if it had been Lotto.'

I was going to leave the company after winning the lottery through Life/Culture, so that my parents wouldn't be surprised.

'I wanted to quit when I got Lotto winnings, and was going to start a business.'

I had given them a hint on purpose. But I was not able to get the Lotto winning numbers. I thought I would just have to resign. I had $1,500,000 anyway. I imagined my parents' reaction when I announced my resignation for a while. As my dad was on my side, no matter what I did, he would get over it.

'If you really want it, do it.'

The problem was on my mom's side. My mom, who had always been worried, worried, and more worried about her children, would be surprised if I told her I quit the company. It wasn't something she would understand. But my mom's friends used to talk to my mom.

'My son has been out of work for years.'

'My daughter has been studying for a government office for ten years.'

They used to say suchthings, so my mom was happy and satisfied with the fact that I got a job. My mom respected my will, but she would worry that I wouldn't be able to take care of myself.

'What are you going to do after quitting your job in a world like this?'

What if I showed her $1,500,000? If I showed my bank account, she would listen to me then, because $1,500,000 was not a small amount of money. However, she might say, 'No matter how much money you've made, isn't this a fluke? Isn't it best to work in a company?'

Well, from my parents' point of view, it would be a natural response. I used to listen to people who easily made a lot of money from stocks and coin, but those people often ended up losing all the money when I listened to their stories a few years later. It was because those who made easy money by gambling could not forget the taste, and ended up gambling it away.

'Easy come, easy go. Those who have lived soundly all their lives, like my parents, know it well. They have lived much longer than I, and they have seen countless such cases.

'But I… It's not a temporary fluke.'

Surely, I was far from such a temporary fluke. Considering how I earned $1,500,000, they were all made by rational reasoning through information from 12 Hours After. The first was through Yuhwan Securities, the second was about the acquisition of Jiwoo Entertainment, and the third was the political theme.

'My money is going to swell up in a very logical way. My parents may think that even this $1,500,000 will be gone like a bubble tomorrow, but it is not. $1,500,000 will be $15,000,000 and $150,000,000, in a few months or years. But to convince them, I have to let them know about 12 Hours After.'

'Then, shall I show them 12 Hours After?'

'I don't think so. 12 Hours After is like a Narnian world that exists beyond the closet, so it's kind of bad for me to let my parents know. Even if they are my parents, it would somehow be dangerous to announce the existence of 12 Hours After now. It is only to be kept secret. It's my own secret.

Even if I thought like that in my mind, I couldn't find an answer.

'I don't know. Let's go to my parent's home this weekend, talk about it in person and say that I will start my own business. Then I will respond to the situation. There's $1,500,000, and I am not going to have a big problem with my parents.'

I came to a conclusion like that. After concluding, I arrived at the intersection of Gangnam Station. There were countless people coming and going at the intersection of Gangnam Station.

'I've heard from someone before that if they have more than $1,000,000, the world shows interest in them, and if they have more than $10,000,000, they feel like everything is working to themselves. I don't think so yet.

'Well, I have not spent a penny, even I have $1,500,000.'

I looked at the road for a moment. There were foreign cars of various makes on the road. When I was a high school student, I lived in a rural area, the three German carmakers like Mercedes Benz, BMW, and Audi were very rare, but in this Gangnam area, one did not even look at them. It was so common. Instead, low-body Lamborghini and Porsche were certainly noticeable. I could see some on the road now, yellow Lamborghini, black Porsche. I was watching them and suddenly thought.

'How much are they?'

Then, I was surprised at myself that I had such an idea.

'What should I say, Han Sang-hoon? You're really rich.'

If it were the past, I'd look at those cars with the thought, 'Who is he, driving that car? He's probably the youngest son of a chaebol family.'

I was envious. I couldn't believe I was thinking about how much it was. This seemed to be the power of $1,500,000 in the account. The world would pay attention to me in a little while, and it would be centered on me in a little while.

'All right, well, let's earn more until then.'

I picked my cell phone thinking that way, to say that I would go to my parents' home on the weekend. Right at that time, I got a call from my mom!

I pressed the phone in slight surprise. "Oh, Mom, I was going to call you."

"Is there something wrong?"

"No, it's not a big deal. I'm coming home this weekend."

"Really? Sure."

"What did you call about? What's going on at home?"

"No, there's nothing wrong at home. It's not that. I have a good story to tell you."

A good story? I was getting interested and I listened to my mom.

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"A blind date is set up for you."

At my mom's words, I touched my forehead. 'She said it was a good story, but it's that again.'

"I don't need it."

"No, listen to the conditions. She graduated from Ewha Womans University and ES… convenience store? She is working at a big company. She has a good educational background, and her work is in the same class as you."

Workplace. I almost quit today…

"In addition, I heard that she's living in a nice house. Of course, money is not everything in the world. But I've been living my life…"

'Money. I'll have more money, too. But before that, I don't want to see more of this kind of blind date. It's because it feels so dry that persons meet each other on conditions only and get married in pairs. I want to have a more natural love. I heard I can't get married with this thought. But I don't think it'll be bad if I don't get married. If not, I will enjoy myself on my salary.

'Ah, and I don't need a salary anymore.

'It's better. I must have a lot of money. I don't have to be tied up with anyone now. If I have a girl who I want to live with, I will meet her naturally and marry her.'

"The woman I care about…"

Someone tried to come up in my mind. But at that time, the idea vanished like a mirage when my mom called my name.

"Sang Hoon, are you listening?"

"I'm listening to you."

"So, meet her once. I am sorry to say no to your aunt who is introducing her to you. Meet her on Friday, and come home Saturday morning, eh?"

I was unable to refuse any more now that my mom had said that. As I had something to say over the weekend, I thought I should listen to my mom this much. "OK, I'll do it."

"Yes, don't feel too much pressure and meet her. If you're happy on meetng her, you can meet more, or if you don't like her, never mind."

"Nay…"

"Yes, her phone number is…"

I got the phone number of a strange woman and saved it. The following repertoire was similar: texting, making an appointment, looking at her face, eating pasta, and talking. I texted the very number. 'Hello. Nice to meet you.'

I put my cell phone in my pocket without waiting for her reply.

'If I text a woman like this, I will get a reply about an hour later. Women usually think they look cheap if they reply too quickly.

'If she does not text me, I don't have to meet her. I'm glad I have a cause. This is it.'

I walked down the street thinking that way. I had an idea when I walked down the street. I liked Gangnam as well. The building was big and nice, and the women were pretty. There were some of the hottest brands on the boulevard, while restaurants were located inside the alleys.

'People with a lot of money don't live in Gangnam for no reason. Gangnam is definitely the place where the times and cultures lead. In that sense, it's meaningful to live here. I mean, if I live here, I can naturally see the most advanced trends and make use of them. I think I'm going to have to move here. Now my assets are over $1,500,000. It would be better to spend it or increase it in this Gangnam area.

'So, shall I move here first? It's a little too much to buy a car right away. I have money, but it could cost a few tens of thousand dollars, or hundreds of thousand dollars.'

Thinking of it, it was a little too much to buy a car now. It would cost at least tens of thousand dollars, or hundreds of thousand dollars. If I had tens of million dollars, it would be much easier to buy a car. However, it would be much more profitable to buy a few more shares with the money. On the other hand, a house was different.

'If I live on the monthly rent, I don't need big money for living expenses. Even if I live in a studio worth more than $1,000 a month, I'll earn dozens of times that a month anyway. The monthly rent is not very high.'

Instead of going home right away, I started looking around Gangnam Station more, focusing on the place where expensive studios were concentrated. The blind date's reply text came around after I looked around a few studios and went home.

'Nice to meet you. Han Sang Hoon.'

There used to be a lot of chatter before blind dates, but not these days. I finished texting a Friday evening appointment in a nutshell.Thursday morning. I sat down in the chair, humming.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm."

Naturally, I picked up my cell phone and turned on the MTS. I didn't have any shares, but it was to see my account balance. $1,556,832.

'Ch… it's exciting. It's always new. Money is the best.'

I had become addicted to seeing my account balance like this lately. I couldn't help it. I imagined endorphins coming out every time.

'Is this how people who smoke feel?'

'I don't smoke, but I think it's about the same. I know how much it contains, but I keep seeing it, and if I don't see it, it's bad, so I look at it again. It's okay, isn't it? It doesn't hurt my health like a cigarette. There is no hangover left like alcohol. If it's addiction without side effects, I don't think it's a bad idea to get a little bit.'

I watched the list of numbers so hard. But then suddenly, I had an idea.

'Ah, actually, I can apply for Gold Class now, right.'

$1,000,000 was needed to subscribe to the Gold Class. So, it was possible to apply for the Gold Class, since I had over $1,500,000. But to be more precise, the application was possible.

'If I put $1,000,000 in, then there are only half a million dollars left.'

'I don't want to cut back on my seed money right now. Two times as much as $1,500,000 is $3,000,000, but two times as much as $500,000 is just $1,000,000.'

'At least I have to collect $2,000,000. Let's do one more trade and then ask for an upgrade.'

I waited for 8:55, thinking about it.

[S. 12 Hours After]

It came.

'What's going to happen today?'

I clicked on it thinking that way. But the mail was a little strange today…

'What?'

[Silver Class Member Mail, Subscription Period left: 30 days.]

The top part of the subscription list was the same with such categories as Politics and Society. What had changed was the lower part.

[You can apply for a Gold Class Membership. Open the guide.]

[Today's exclusive event!]

[Check it out now! Click Open!]

Two more lines were added under the usual "Gold Class Guide," the raucous phrase of providing an event. Some of the words even glistened in color.

'What's this? It looks cheap.'

But when I started this 12 Hours After, the flyer I had picked up looked poor and cheap. A decent person would never bend his back to pick it up.

'Is this the concept? Well…'

I clicked to open it, thinking about it. Then, more complicated and noisy advertisements appeared.

[Just for one day!]

[$Gold Class$ 50% off for the first purchase of subscription!]

[Gold Class Membership Service with $500,000!]

[Apply now.]

'What is this? They're offering me a discount on my subscription fee. That's half the price, too.'

After looking at the contents, I didn't care much about the cheap-looking format. Half the price attracted me. It was just $500,000.

'Do I have to do it?'

However, $500,000 was also a big sum, one-third of what I had now.

'But when I know what the benefits of Gold Class are, I can apply for it.'

That was what I thought, and I scrolled down. Then, this email was like reading my thoughts. There were a few more lines on the bottom.

[Gold Class Specials Guide]

[Provides every category news title every day!]

[Two skill points paid immediately!]

[Do you have any complaints about the subscription?]

[24-hour real-time Customer Service is opened!]

[You don't have to go to the bank! Automatic withdrawal service of the monthly fee!]

[You can apply for Platinum Class!]

I read each line from the top. First, all category news titles were shown.

'They're saying they will show all the categories. I don't have to worry about what I'm going to see now.'

But more noticeable than that was the second line.

'They're giving me a skill point.'

Skill points were like some element in the game. Well, I didn't know anything about this.

'What skill is it?'

But there was no explanation for that. The words "Privilege Guide" was written, but there was no specific explanation of what was actually there.

'Are these guys making fun of me?'

That was what I was thinking, and one word just below came into my eyes. Customer Service.

'Was there Customer Service?' If there was, I'd like to ask them right now, 'Where can I use the skill point?'

But I couldn't find it here.

'Are they saying that a customer worth $10,000 a month is not a customer?'

I wanted to swear, but I held back. To be honest, 12 Hours After was no different than a lifesaver to me. I was a little sorry I thought that, as I made $1,500,000 on two payments of $10,000.

'Well… that's what I'm saying.'

This Customer Service was definitely more attractive than the skill point that I didn't know was right now. There were so many things I wanted to ask them.

'Silver, next Gold. What else is there?'

'Why the hell isn't the Lotto number coming out.'

'What's going on with this news selection?'

No, there was a more fundamental question before then.

'What are you guys doing here? No, are you human beings? Aren't you going to be aliens?'

The two lines below it were just so. I didn't mind the automatic withdrawal. Cell phone charges were the same, and Platinum Class seemed to be on top of it. I tried to scroll up. But then, I saw another line written in very small letters at the bottom.

[This event is a special discount that is only available for the first month of payment, and a list price of $1,000,000 will be charged from next month.]

I gathered my hands for a moment, biting my lower lip.

'I'll have to pay $1,000,000 next month, and if I am not so lucky, I can lose all my money.'

'But I've been doing well for the past month. I can do well this month, too. And half-price… $500,000! Wouldn't it be a job to do?'

I felt my hand on my chin and watched the screen for a moment. But I did not think long.

'Yes, I increased my money several times with the information of $10,000, and if there would is information at $1,000,000, it would not be hard to increase $1,000,000 to $10,000,000.'

I decided to apply for a Gold Class. The phrase "Apply immediately" flashed in the email. I clicked it. A new page popped up.

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Editor: RED1. Would you like to pay $500,000 and use the Gold Class service from tomorrow? Y/N

2. You must agree to the automatic withdrawal from Gold Class. Do you agree? Y/N

3. Please enter the bank and number of the account you want to withdraw from automatically.

※ The deposit will be made at 8 a.m. tomorrow. At the same time, you will receive a Gold Class guide.

※ Skills are available from Gold Class. Please check the guide.

※ Please use the Customer Service to change your payment account number in the future and to raise your class up and down.Something was clumsy, but there was a contract coming up. I read it carefully.

'They'll give me a guide tomorrow at 8:00. Skill…'

I clicked Y, Y, and entered the stock account number that contained $1,500,000. Then I gulped once and finally pressed the "Application" button.

[Gold Class subscription is complete. Thank you.]The next morning, I went to work faster and earlier than usual. I hoped there were few people there at 8:30, but when I came at 8, there was really no one.

'It's nice to be able to concentrate.'

I knocked on the keyboard to get the email, thinking that way. But the moment it was from 7:59 to 8:00, my cell phone rang first. 'Yiing.'

There was a message.

[The withdrawal of $500,000 has been completed. You will be promoted to Gold Class immediately. Please check the guidebook in your mail.]

I entered the mail site at the same time as I watched the MTS on my cell phone. In the stock balance, $500,000 was gone like a ghost. And I had an email fifty-five minutes earlier than usual.

[Gold Class Guide]

These guys did a good job. I clicked on it.[Skill Guide]

[Starting with Gold Class, you can get upgraded news with active and passive skills added. Each skill can be used and enhanced by investing points. The cooldown time of the active skill is based on the same 30 days as the subscription period. Each skill requires the same skill point as the level up.

ex) 2 Level Enhancement = 2 points; 4 Level Enhancement = 4 points]Finally, there was a story about the skill that I was curious about. I looked down on the scroll.[There are currently three different skills available in the Gold Class. Skill points currently not allocated are 2 points.

People search Lv1 (Active Skill)

Search the name of a person to receive additional news. The search term can only contain the last name and the first name of Korean characters, and if you have the same name, you can get other people's news, and if you don't have news with that name, you won't get any news at all. You can change the name you enter every day.

Ranking News Lv1 (Active Skill)

In a specific category of 12 Hours After, you can get a news item that has high cumulative views for one hour. Only available once a month.

Additional News Lv1 (Passive Skill)

Get another news item at 8:55 p.m. The contents are the same as the existing news, and active skills can be used the same.]I slowly finished reading it. Then I read the information again, going back and forth.

'I need one point per level. Then I can't pick one two consecutive times and take the second level… I can only pick two out of three and upload them at level one.'

I went down the scroll a little further. Like in a game of character creation, there was a button next to it.

[Select – Cost 1 Skill Point]

'Well, I think this is a matter of careful choice.'

I looked at the monitor for a moment and thought about which would be the most helpful. Number one was a little difficult. People Search. Conditions were tricky, as they described.

'Only by name… I am going to get the same name.'

There was an incident that came to my mind first as I read the explanation. It was the most recent election for the mayor of Seoul.

'Last time, if I had searched for Joo Sung-won or Lee Hee-chul, it would have been an easy game. But you want me to use it for that?'

It wouldn't be bad. The last time in the case of the political theme, the Me Too scandal was so nuclear to political news that even if I chose the "Politics" category, I would continue to receive news about it, but I would not have been able to receive it in that particular way.

'But if I have this characteristic, I will be able to track the news of any celebrity in politics as well as in other fields, like the president, the prime minister, or the high-ranking government official of the Ministry of Finance and Economy. Or I'll find out what the big company president or CEO, or the big business, or the strong business people are talking about.

'It looks good. I think I can get a lot more refined information than usual. Money stories. But if the name I'm searching for is not famous, or if it's too common, I won't get the information I want.

'Well… but I think it'll be very useful if I keep that in mind.'

I went over it a second time. The second skill was ranking news. It would show the news with the highest number of views in the next twelve hours.

'I don't think it's bad. First of all, it's the hottest news, so it'd be nice to use it well. However, it should be remembered that the hottest news may not have anything to do with money.

'In addition, it's only once a month. That's a bit disappointing, too. The name search above gives me one more news item all month, and only once. It feels a little hard. I think it's time-concentrated or something.'

I went over the third skill for now.

'Skill No. 3 is the only passive skill. It's the simplest, the most intuitive. The news shows 12 Hours After at 8:55 p.m. one more time after 12 hours. Not bad. If I think simply, the chance to make money seems to double. But if I get it in the evening, I'm going to hear what would happen in the morning. Then, it wouldn't be hard to apply to the stock market.

'It's 8:55 p.m., twelve hours from then, it's 8:55 a.m. the next morning. That means other people will know the news before the market opens. I can't make money on the news that everyone knows. If this helps, it may only be meaningful when I trade overseas stocks or options, like the United States and Brazil, that are in the opposite side of the world from Korea.'

'It could be helpful, or shall I move on?'

I agonized for a moment with my arms folded. People Search certainly looked better than the other two. I didn't have any specific ideas on how to use it right away, but I thought I would get used to it. I was worried about number two and number three.

'No. 2? Ranking news? Only once? People only click the provocative news: there's been a mass assault, and there's a celebrity scandal or an incident. Then it's no use for me. Number three? Shall I turn my eyes overseas? I have $1,000,000 now, so shall I move on? Shouldn't it be worth $10,000,000?'

But I was thinking like that, there was something that came through my mind.

'Wait a minute… Culture… Life category…'

Due to its characteristics, the Life/Culture category was so dense and there were too many topics related to everyday life that there was not enough news to click on. There was no interesting news of an incident that was going to cause a click in time. So, considering the news, there was nothing but an extremely dusky, time-consuming article like.

[You can do it, too. How to manage the time to grind a cat's hair.]

[Tomorrow, it will rain all over the country. Take your umbrella with you.]

[A woman who is sexually harassed in her daily life. A new novel that tells the story of the socially weak.]

It was not a place where there was news that came with lots of view counts, except for one time, 8:40 on Saturday night. There was only one news that people would click on a lot.

'The lottery number!'

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'That's right. If I look at the ranking news in the category of Life/Culture on Saturday…

'No matter how much I think, there's nothing but a Lotto number. The Lotto number is always on and off the real-time search keywords around 8 p.m. on Saturday. There are so many people looking for it, it can't be unnoticed. That's the only news they'll see in the Life/Culture category of that time zone.

'If I get Lotto winnings, I can easily afford to pay not only $500,000 but also $1,000,000." Yeah. If I could go after Lotto in that way…'

I decided to choose the Ranking News this time. Additional News was likely to be more synergistic later on, after being able to use this People Search and Ranking News freely.

'Then let's take a characteristic like this.' I clicked on 'People Search' and 'Ranking News' once. Then I pressed the "Application" button. A warning window popped up.

[The skill points used cannot be returned. Do you want to choose this way? Y/N]

I hesitated for a moment, but I didn't seem to have a better choice than this now, no matter how much I thought. I chose Y. The notice window was on top.

[People Search Lv1, Ranking News Lv1 selected.]

[The selected skill is available immediately in the following news.]

'All right.'

I thought we could use the People Search right away from today, and the Ranking News tomorrow and Saturday, when the Lotto would draw. I went down the scroll thinking that way. Under the description of the skill, there was a "Platinum Class Service Guide."

[Upgrade your news to a Platinum Class with a monthly fee of $10,000,000!]

[Platinum members will be given five skill points and will be eligible to apply for a Diamond Class Membership Service.]

[When you apply for an upgrade through the Customer Service, the charges will be automatically drawn from the account you specify. The monthly payments service will be immediately renewed, and the Platinum member service will be upgraded.]

[If you apply, we will repay you with a service you won't regret.]

Gold's next Class was Platinum, followed by Diamond.

'Bronze, Silver, Gold, and then Platinum, and Diamond.'

These were the grades I had seen often. And there seemed to be something on top of them. The first thing that stood out was the fee. Platinum charged as much as $10,000,000 a month. I needed at least $20,000,000 to consider whether to pay or not.

'It would be nice to upgrade, but…'

$10,000,000 was not a sum I could reckon with right now. They were going to give me five points and I could upgrade my skills. That was the story then. Right now, $10,000,000 was too burdensome. I scrolled down a little bit more, and saw the end of the email. At the end of the notice, there was a line:

[Customer Service is open. Customer Service is open 24 hours a day and you can get counseling upon application. Apply for counseling.]

'Do they run it 24 hours, and is counseling possible immediately?'

As expected, the place where it said "Apply for counseling" glittered.

'I don't know how the Customer Service operates, but I think I'll have to apply.'

I had a lot of questions when I got 12 Hours After. And in recent years, whether on a guidebook or anywhere, I had often seen the words, Please visit Customer Service in the future.

I picked up the mouse cursor and twirled around the place saying, "Apply for counseling."

'No, how is counseling possible?'

I looked down at my cell phone with a slight scratch on it. Those who sent me 12 Hours After already knew my cell phone number. If I would apply for counseling, my cell phone would ring right away. I looked around. There was no one in the company.

"Ahem." Holding my cell phone, I cleared my throat once, then pressed the "Apply for counseling" button.

Instead of the cell phone ringing, a window opened in front of my eyes. Rectangular window, one shining cursor on a white background, and two IDs that I could see. This was a classic messenger app screen that could only be seen in the early '00s. I was going to write something, but the chatting window popped up first.

[Customer Service – How are you, Mr. Han Sang Hoon? How may I help you?]

'This way? By chatting?'

I tried chatting to the cursor. I was trying to make sure it worked.

[Han Sang-hoon – Is this the Customer Service that sends the news in 12 Hours After?]

As soon as I post the chat, it took less than 0.1 seconds for me to get a reply.

[Customer Service – Yes, that's right. Sir.]

I was sure.

'It's not… it's not a human replying.'

It was impossible to type so fast with a human hand. In my mind, words like Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AlphaGo, and Alexani went back and forth. In short, it was artificial intelligence. I asked the counselor about it.

[Han Sang-hoon – Is the counselor who's answering this question human?]

[Customer Service – We're both human and not human, Sir.]

A strange reply came back.

'It's some bullshit…'

I chatted one more time.

– So what's the company doing there? Is it a company?

– It's a company and it's not a company, sir. We're publishing the news.

These guys seemed to have set up a Customer Service to play with words. I typed faster.

– Then, is there a place in Korea that sends the news?

– There's a place in space that publishes the news.

I clapped my hands on my forehead. Being in space was simply an answer for Andromeda.

– So, are you aliens?

– Alien is just a concept of distinction. The universe is one.

'Oh, come on. The universe is one.'

It seemed wrong to expect a normal Customer Service. I asked another question.

– If it's from outer space… Do you mean there's another reader beside me?

– None. This news service is available to only one subscriber, Han Sang-hoon, in space.

Unexpectedly, the normal answer returned this time. I softened up slightly and asked for something else.

– Then what is it? Why are you only sending it to me when you are in space?

– Think about it yourself.

This time, it destroyed my expectations again.

'Do I have to think about it myself? You're a very good teacher. You're a… Well, that's enough.'

I decided to ask about the news in 12 Hours After.

– Do you have any higher grades? How many more do you have?

-The membership is rated Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grandmaster, xxxxxx, xxxxxxxx, sir.

This time, a slightly better, normal answer came back. Except for the xxx in the back.

– What's the next xxxx class?

– That's a secret.

I put my hand down from the keyboard for a moment because I was a bit dumbfounded.

'Secret? Then what does the Customer Service do?'

I shook my head and put my hands back on the keyboard.

'Let's give up the normal answer. Instead, I am just going to get as much as I can.'

– How do I increase my usable skills?

– Skills naturally open as they go up. Please apply for a class upgrade. Skills become stronger as class goes up. In particular, the skills you get from the Master Class are very powerful, so I recommend you upgrade.

– What skills? Please let me know in detail.

– That's a secret.

'They say that I have to do it without telling me what it is. If it's a Master Class, it's three grades higher than Gold now. The amount required will also be enormous.'

I followed up with a few more questions.

– What's the usual way to call Customer Service?

– Send a text message to 919-31413-11721 and you will receive an email for a counseling chat. You can talk 24 hours a day through email.

The telephone number was familiar. When I searched on my smartphone, it was the number I sent when I first applied for a subscription: the stupid number in the flyer. I saved the number for now.

– Is the news only sent in Korean? Will you tell me your news if I go abroad?

– News will only be sent in the subscriber's native language. Han Sang Hoon's native language is Korean. We will send you selected news based on the type of media in Korea.

– Can I change the email address I receive the news in?

– You can change it anytime. Please use the Customer Service.

– Can I lower my class or pause my subscription for a while? Just in case I don't have any money.

– It's possible. Please contact the Customer Service as well.

A normal answer came to this kind of question. I watched the chat window for a while with my arms folded. I thought I had asked everything that came to mind.

'I can call them 24 hours a day, if I want to ask them something. Then shall I close the chat window?'

I took the mouse cursor to the upper right x button with that thought. By the way, I suddenly had one more question come up, and I put another line on the chatting window.

– What the hell are you? Are you God or the devil?

As expected, a reply came in less than 0.1 seconds.

– Both a god and a devil.

I should not have expected a proper answer. I closed the Customer Service chat window.At 8:55. A new email, G. 12 Hours After, came. Silver's S changed to a G. I clicked on it.

[Gold Class Member Mail, Subscription Period left: 30 days.]

[Politics – Seoul Mayor Joo Sung-won is predicted predominant.]

[Economy – DSR is applied in Full-scale. Is a cold wave coming to real estate?]

[Society – The Four Rivers are coming back to life.]

[Life/Culture – Southern Storm and Thunder]

[World – Chinese Prime Minister visits Japan.]

[IT/Science – Why are Survival Games so popular?]

[Entertainment – Photos of the Goddess Joo-hee of Double Up Girls]

[Sports – Chelsea? Manchester United? The agony of a super prospect.]

It certainly looked different from Silver Class. It showed each news item without having to choose three separate categories.

'Well, if this is the case… even if I don't mean it, I'll have a big chance of getting a good one.'

I went down further, thinking that way. There were more and more changes to the bottom part.

[People Search – Enter name.]

[Ranking News – Use Now (1 available)]

Where there was nothing, there was a place where I could click on the People Search and Ranking News.

'This is an active skill…'

I was a little concerned about the Customer Service, which was unkind, but it seemed obvious that this email would bring me a lot of money anyway. I clenched my fist, thinking, 'All right, let's make a decent living.'

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I swirled my mouse for a moment, with my new Gold Class email in front of me.

[People Search – Please enter a name.]

The cursor was twinkling.

'Who shall I search for?'

'To make money by searching for a person's name, there must be a contact event, like the last mayoral election: Joo Sung-won and Lee Hee-chul, and Dongbo Construction and Endo Biologics. But right now, I don't know who to search for.'

'Shall I search for candidates for Seoul Mayor?'

'But they have already gone up as high as they could and were only waiting to burst. No matter how the news unfolded, it is not far from now. It will not be strange to go down to -20% and -30% on that day, even if there is good news. It's better to not touch them.'

I came up with a different method of use.

'I should try to find out who's going to put in here for the money. Well, let's do a trial today. Let's try it out on the famous people.'

I recalled the names of leading figures in the political and business sectors. The incumbent president Ahn Sung-geun, prime Minister Park Jae-gil, deputy prime minister for economic affairs Kim Sun-joong, chairman of Susung Group Ji Chang-woo, and chairman of LD Lee Jae-bak, Kokoa CEO Park Ji-soo, etc.

'Well… who shall we choose?'

Thinking, I unconsciously wrote 'Ji Chang-woo', the chairman of the nation's largest conglomerate, Susung Group, who was known as the richest man in our country. Writing down the name and pressing the enter button, a news came out at the same time.

[Chairman Ji Chang-woo is directly leading semiconductor industries.]

'Oh, this is how it works.'

I had a rough idea. From now on, I should continue to search and think about who I should put in here. 'There's even a saying that says human resources are all things.' If I could trace a person's name, I could get a lot of money.

I went on to the Ranking News item. Unlike People Search,

'I can use it only once a month and I need to gather information and research on how this will be related to money. But right now, there's nothing like a Lotto. I have about $1,000,000 now after it has been reduced by $500,000. Therefore, the Lotto which can increase my assets by adding, rather than multiplying, will be very useful.'

'How much money can I get for winning the Lotto?'

I bought it six years ago, only once or twice for fun as a student. I expected a Lotto article to appear every weekend, but I didn't know exactly how much the winnings were. I searched on the Internet. The winnings were well documented on the Lotto official website.

[Lotto Winning Amount]

$1,160,000 – 16 people

$1,250,000 – 14 people

$2,650,000 – 7 people

[Lotto Winning Amount]

$1,710,000 – 11 people

$2,390,000 – 8 people

$4,220,000 – 4 people

The Lotto winning amount was different at that time because of the structure of sharing the winning with the winners at the same time. The fewer the number of people who took the grand prize, the more the money they would have, and the more the number of people, the less the money, and so the total money was roughly between $16,000,000 and $20,000,000. That was why it seemed to pay out $2,000,000 if there were close to ten winners and $1,000,000 if there were close to twenty. Just four of them won $4,200,000.

'When only four people got the grand prizes, they were the luckiest ones among those who won the Lotto, like lightning strikes on a lightning rod. They are literally in luck and by the way, how much is the tax?'

'Lotto's tax for the grand prize is 33%. It means that they get at least $700,000 after taxes. If I only get the Lotto winning numbers once on the Ranking News, I'll easily pay for this subscription fee.'

'Well, that's right. With tax reduction, the actual money taken home is from $700,000 to $3,000,000.'

I was thinking about it, but there was a catchy article.

[Those who have been hit by lightning in succession. Those who won the grand prizes in Lotto.]

I clicked on it, thinking about what it was. And I realized through the article that there were 'duplicated winnings'.

'Is this…?

Duplicated winnings meant people who had written the same number several times and won the grand prize multiple times.

'Of course, it isn't something that happens often. They have to write the same number more than once manually. They have to write a certain number, lowering their chances of winning, and so winning again.'

'So, duplicated winnings are only possible if they do something that is hard to understand with common sense and have a lot of luck with it, unless they know the winning number in advance.

'However, I may learn this week's Lotto numbers through 12 Hours After. If it comes out of the news, it's no big deal to write the grand prize numbers many times. I know it's a little silly for someone else, but not for me.

'I can say that these are the numbers my grandpa gave me in my dream. So, I bought several copies with one number.

'Anyway, Lotto is a game. If I buy it for $1, the expected price is about 50 cents. No one can say anything about irrational approaches. It's a game with low expectations built in."

I did the math again on the premise that I could get the duplicated winnings.

'The total amount of the grand prize is between $16,000,000 and $20,000,000. This is not how I can touch it. It's a certain amount of money set aside from the total amount of people who buy Lotto all over the country. But if I know the grand prize numbers, here I can decide how many times I'm going to take the grand prize.'

'That means I can choose what percentage of the total amount I can take. I'll take the shares of the luckiest people who are purely first, and of course, the number of winners will increase by as many as I have written, so the first prize will be slightly reduced, but the absolute price will increase because I take it as many as that number.'

I did a virtual calculation.

'If I set the grand prize winnings to $16,000,000, if fifteen people win, if I get in there and win the grand prize five times… $16,000,000 for twenty people will be divided $800,000 each. I win five times, so $4,000,000 is my winnings.

'That way, I can pay the subscription fee this month and earn $4,000,000.'

I was getting more and more excited by that idea. It was like I found a shortcut to the goal point. It was Saturday, when there was a Lotto draw tomorrow. It coincided with the day I decided to go home.

'Yeah, well, let's use the Ranking News right before I go home tomorrow. When the Lotto article comes out, I'm going to buy a Lotto on my way home.'

I closed my email after reaching that conclusion. I didn't have any news today that would make money, anyway. After closing the email, I concentrated hard on my work. Now I had a day or two left to quit my job.

Wouldn't it be better to beautify myself, if I was going to leave anyway? Then, there was a blind date tonight. I decided to concentrate on other chores than making money today. The time I would hunt in earnest would be the week after the issues, my job and my family would be settled."This stop is the Express Bus Terminal, the Express Bus Terminal. The door to get off is on the right."

I left the place as soon as the subway door opened. It was 8:40 a.m. on Saturday. There were 15 minutes left before the email arrived. The stock market didn't open on Saturday, and because I got nothing these days in the Lotto I had bet, my tension was a bit off, but today I was more nervous than ever.

'I don't want to get a strange article…

'According to the message, Ranking News of 12 Hours After will show the most-viewed news with an hour's accumulation, so unless there's something really shocking on the Life/Culture. In the first place, Life/Culture is a peaceful category where nothing shocking is reported…

'Unless there's such a thing as a certain man sexually harassing his juniors or an international pianist committing suicide by himself. There is a high probability that a Lotto number article will appear.'

I waited until 8:55 with my feet trembling. But then I got a call from my mom. 'Tiriri~'

"Yes, mom."

"Are you coming?"

"Yes, I'm waiting for the 9:20 bus."

"Okay, be careful. And… How was your blind date yesterday?"

"Well, it wasn't bad."

"How come? Tell me more about it."

"I think she is pure. I don't know her well because we only met once."

"Then, meet her again. Have you contacted her?"

My mom seemed to want me to see another woman again.

"… I'll tell you the details when I get there."

"Yes, then."

I finished the short call with my mom. To be honest, it wasn't that bad. Since the woman was active, she suggested that we go to see the movie "Six Treasures and the Owner of Gauntlet," which would be released next week. But somehow, I was not attracted to her. I would have met her two or three more times if it were in the old days, but it was because I was on the verge of making money right now.

'$3,000,000 to $4,000,000 a day… I won't be able to live normally anymore… I should go home and tell my parents for sure.'

I looked at the clock with that thought. It had been 55 minutes before I knew it. I got a new email. The news was full of trifles. The market wasn't open anyway, so it didn't mean much.

'All right, well, let's get it all over with.'

I went on to type Park Ji-soo into the People Search. He was CEO of Kokoa, one of the nation's leading IT companies. It was also an experiment because there was no news to make money right away. However, suddenly, the news of a racing girl came out.

[Racing Girl Park Ji-soo, showed off the beauty of a goddess in front of the Mercedes Benz.]

'Oh, well, someone with a different gender comes up. Just in case… As expected…

'The People Search doesn't seem to be exactly what I want, especially when similar names are so common.

'All right, that's a good example.

I remembered this case and then scrolled down. Here was what was important today, anyway. Ranking News. I pressed 'Use' first. There was a message just around the corner.

[Please select the category in which you want to use the Ranking News skill.]

I swallowed once and then chose Life/Culture. Then I closed my eyes for a while, and I opened my eyes gently. The title of the news in front of my eyes was the following.

[What are the winning numbers for Lotto 921?]

"Ch…"

My prediction was hit. I looked around with my lower lip slightly cracked. There were many people at the express bus terminal on the weekend. I shook my fist up and down quietly. Then I shouted inwardly, 'I got it!'

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As if I was a person who had prepared for a government job receiving a notice of acceptance, I smiled with joy, holding my fist. But after a while, I calmed down my glee in alarm. I had information worth tens of million dollars in my hand, and there were too many people in the terminal. I looked around. There was a pillar in the corner of the terminal. I made my way to the place through countless people. I picked up my smartphone again with my back to the post.

[Ranking News – The top news in the Life/Culture of 12 Hours After – Lotto 921 winning numbers?]

I clicked on the article.

[Lotto 921 is complete. The winning numbers are 2,6,15,22,36,41. The total number of winners is fourteen, with $1,284,610 each.]

$1,284,610 for fourteen people each. I took the Wi-Pad out of my bag and tried to calculate. The total amount of winnings was about $18,000,000. That was a lot of money compared to the average. Many people bought the Lotto this week. But that was why there were a lot of winners, fourteen winners. What was left now was how many times I wrote in the winning numbers. If I wrote the winning number once, the number of winners would be fifteen; if I wrote it three times, seventeen, and if I wrote it five times, it would be nineteen. I calculated each case.

One time – $1,198,960

Three times – $3,173,740

Five times – $4,732,770

The higher the number of winners, the smaller the individual amount I would have, but the higher the number of winners, the larger the total amount I would have.

'If I win a hundred times…

'When I knock on the calculator, my total winnings would be $15,700,000 among $18,000,000. But it is too much. If the grand prize becomes 100 times, it will be an issue. No matter how much this age protects individual information, someone will know me, and if he or she makes fun of me, I may become a celebrity. I don't want that. This time, I will use the Lotto to make basic money to pay the subscription fee for 12 Hours After.'

'One time – $1,198,960 is big, but it looks small compared to the amount below. Three times? Five times? How many times did the others win?'

I quickly searched through the past articles with 'Duplicated Winners Search'. There were usually about two times' duplicated winnings. Most of them were confused by the markings and wrote the same numbers. Five times was the best. A person came out of a real dream or pushed a number to one, because it was a favorite combination. I decided to win five times. More than that, it would be a new record, so there would surely be news.

'If I win five times, it won't be new news because it is a tie record. If I start with $6,000,000 seed money, adding $5,000,000 to $1,000,000, it will be a good start. If the money I have is not $1,000,000, but $6,000,000, my parents will be overwhelmed and they will not be able to say anything to me anymore.'

'All right, let's do five times.'

I found a lottery shop in the terminal, a yellow billboard between restaurants. Lotto 6/45. I went inside. The owner was listening to something like a lecture on a smartphone, whether I came or not.

"… a foolish man who doesn't know me, a foolish child without sense, and he has the sense to do evil, but he is ignorant to do good. The words of Jeremiah."

It was like a Bible passage. It seemed like she was listening to a sermon from a pastor or a priest. It was good. She did not care about me, so I picked up the OMR paper and pen and marked the numbers I memorized there.

'2,6,15,22,36,41.'

The same numbers, five times. Then, with $5, I handed it to her. "Bill, please."

The lady who was listening to the Bible sermon finally turned to me.

I was preparing for an answer to a question, "Why did you buy the same numbers five times? You're less likely to win?"

'They are the numbers grandfather called me out of my dream.'

It was a bit of a cliché, but there was no such thing as this. By the way, the lady said nothing and took the OMR card I gave her and put it in the machine. She seemed to see someone doing this strange thing often.

Wi-ying! The receipt was drawn and she handed it to me with little attention left on the Bible lecture. She didn't seem to have the slightest care if the same numbers would win.

'Maybe later she'll be surprised to learn that there is someone who won the grand prize in her store five times.'

It was good, anyway. I didn't want this lady to remember my face. I turned back with a weird Lotto receipt with the same numbers written five times.

'This small piece of paper is worth $4,700,000.'

That made me shiver a little. I stowed the paper in my wallet. It was time for the bus to go home. I got on. The Lotto drawing would take place at around 8:40.

'I suppose the same numbers will come up?'

But I thought of a way to confirm my winnings in advance.

'No… the news would have changed in 12 Hours After?'

12 Hours After, the news should now show nineteen winners, not fourteen winners. I checked my mailbox. As expected, there was correction news.

[Correction news of G. 12 Hours After]

When I checked the time they sent it, it was 9:12. It was the moment I had just bought a Lotto. I clicked on the email.[Correction News]

[We inform that the contents of the article 'The Lotto 921 Winning Numbers?' sent today has been revised because of a reader's involvement. The changes are as follows]I looked down at the email. The original contents were short, and the revised contents were also short.

[Lotto 921 has been completed. The winning numbers are 2,6,15,22,36,41. The winners are nineteen people, each with $946,550.]

I took out the lottery receipt in my wallet, now worth $4,700,000. I picked up the receipt and put it in my pocket. It was time to leave, and the bus headed home.That evening. My family had dinner together. My dad was smiling.

"I'm glad you're here after a long time."

My mom nodded, "Yes, come more often."

My sister, Su-Jeong, said, looking at the beef fillet sizzling on the fire, "I welcome you, too, if you buy meat like this every time."

I glared at my sister. "Can't you just welcome me purely, sister?"

We were ready to fight again, but in the meantime, my mom said, cutting the meat, "This meat is good quality."

"It's rated AA. It's expensive."

"Why did you buy something so expensive? You always complain about your salary."

I tried to answer something, but I just stopped talking. It was 6 p.m, before the Lotto draw.

"I just bought it, and it's been a long time since I came home. I didn't want to come home empty-handed."

"Well done, I am eating this beef because of my son."

"Eat it."My mom cut out the meat and set it on the front. After a long time, the family conversation naturally moved on.

"So what about the blind date? Your aunt said she was a good girl."

"I think she's nice, but somehow…"

"You said before, it was not bad."

"She is not bad, but I'm not really attracted to her. She feels like a good person, but not my mate."

"Brother, your mate of destiny is in the movies or novels. Do you know? You have to match each other…"

"Ms. Han Su-jeong, I never applied for a love counseling…"Later, we talked about my job.

"How's your job been lately? Is it still hard?"

"Yes, I've been having a hard time doing my job lately, so I can't make it good. So, the mood at work is bad, and the superiors always have me work overtime and are hysterical… I don't know if the company is going well. It's not like that."

Both parents didn't look good at what I said. No parents would feel good about their children's difficulties.

"Yeah, well, there's a lot of competition these days. In our times, we used to live okay with a college certificate, but… What's the matter with the country now?" My dad blamed the country.

"Yes, I saw on the news that young people just quit or move out of their jobs even if they get a job at a large company. If you don't get the right job, think about leaving and getting a new job," Mom related a story she had seen on the news.

"If you want to move, you'd better get another year's experience. Mom, if you move with the experience you've been in for only a year, they'll probably think you're a man with no guts. You have to spend at least one or two more years and then transfer."

Su-Jeong uttered a sarcastic remark. I nodded and said something that was not in my mind.

"Yes, but I'm going to go to work a little bit more and find out."

Then I gave them a hint a little bit.

"What I want to do is start a business… It costs money, too."

I took a look at my parents after saying that. My parents nodded, too. Both of them knew well that when I was in a senior year, I was about to start a business ahead of graduation and ended my dream because of the cost. I was looking at their faces and said as if I just remembered something.

"Oh. I was going to tell you that. Something strange happened a while ago. Grandfather came out of my dream."

My dad was surprised and asked, "Grandfather?"

"Yes."

Mom said, peeling pears for dessert. "What did he say?"

I brought up the story I had prepared. "He didn't say a word. He came up to me without saying a word, and he held my hand and wrote something with a pen."

"What did he write?"

"When I saw something, it was six numbers."

At that time, Su-Jeong stepped in.

"Six numbers? Six numbers, aren't they the Lotto numbers?"

It was a performance lacking in acting ability with a cliché story, but it seemed to have passed.

"Yes. Even after I woke up, the numbers were clear, so I wrote down the numbers as soon as I woke up. I bought the Lotto as it was this morning."

I took my wallet out of my pocket. Five receipts lined up on the table with the same numbers.

Without looking at the numbers, my mom put the pear before me and said, "I hope you get the winnings. Then, you can quit the company and do what you want to do."

My dad nodded. "Well, your grandfather used to love you a lot when he was alive. Every time he called our Sang-hoon, our Sang-hoon… Do you remember?"

To be honest, I couldn't remember very well. My grandfather died when I was four years old. I had only heard from my parents and relatives many times that my grandfather loved me very much.

In the meantime, Su-jeong, who picked up the Lotto paper, just smiled at it.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha. What if you buy the same numbers five times? You should have changed it one by one. Is this how you're going to win?"

When I took the Lotto receipt from Su-jeong's hand and put it back in my wallet, I thought, 'I'll win the Lotto, sister. I'll see you in a few minutes.'

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"Take it."

My dad lifted the bottle of Soju. I held out my glass for a drink. The glasses were all full and we hit the glasses briefly, then drank Soju at the same time. The scent of the pungent Soju poked the tip of my nose.

"Ch…"

Tonight, I drank with my dad in the living room after a long time. My dad put chili paste on eggplant and said, chewing hard. "Are you having such a hard time working?"

'What should I tell him?'

I opened my mouth for a moment, then closed it, and managed to open it again.

'It's tough. I can stand the hard times, but I can't stand the pointless work. I do the same thing all the time, and all I learn is to curry favor with my boss. It's a life I have been born and lived once, and it is so hard to be a slave to my paycheck…'

In my unconscious mind, I was about to say all that, but I was quick to correct it.

"It's awful."

"Well…"

My dad looked down at the empty glass without saying much. I was sorry to see him while I was whining. Besides, he had done the same thing for decades, and I'd only done it for a year. I spoke up again, filling the glass with Soju, "Dad."

"What?"

"How many years have you been working in the training center?"

"Well… I started it when your mom had you… It's thirty years this year."

"What if you put together the time you worked as a coach?"

"Thirty-five years, considering the length of time I worked as a coach."

'Thirty-five years is a long time. It's more years than I've lived. My dad has been sweating and teaching others in the training center for such a long time.'

I asked my dad out of pure curiosity. "How did you do the same thing for so long? Aren't you tired of it?"

My dad looked at the glass of Soju, which was filled to a full extent, and said, "I couldn't work if I thought I was sick of it. I just thought that this is my karma and I did it."

This life. My karma. I thought of my job for a while.

'Is this my life? Is this my karma? If I think so, the answer will come soon. No. It's right to quit the company. Even if I didn't get a special fate in 12 Hours After, I'd probably be out of the company. Of course, I would have worked in the company for a few more years because of my debt.'

I asked my dad, "Dad, haven't you ever wanted to quit?"

At my question, my dad put a full glass in his mouth at once. Perhaps the act said more than words.

"Why not? I wanted to quit dozens or hundreds of times. When parents came and grabbed my neck collar when an elementary student got a nosebleed, or when a bunch of gangsters came and busted up the training center… You remember that, right?"

I answered with a nod. "…Yes." I remembered some big events because I had been in my dad's training center since I was young. The scene of parents coming and screaming, the scene of a group of gangsters with tattoos coming and quarreling with my dad. That was just what I had seen, and there must have been a lot of other things.

My dad went on talking. "No, the gangsters were rather cute. If I called the police, they would back off. It was the building owner who was more fearful than the rascals. If I had more trainees, he was going to ask me to raise the rent. At any rate, I wanted to shoulder throw the building's owner, and use choking techniques… then, I wanted to quit my job, and it was not once or twice. Haha!"

I laughed aloud with my dad for a moment. At that time, he went on to say one more thing.

"But every time, whenever I wanted to beat him coolly, you and Su-jeong came to mind. Well, I didn't even want to hit him, then."

At the words, I nearly choked up. I filled my dad's glass without a word and took my glass and took a one-shot. In the midst of the rising effects of alcohol, I suddenly thought of the question and answer I had with the Customer Service.

– Why do you send me this?'

– Think of yourself.

'I have never committed a great sin and have not lived doing great good deeds. If there is a reason why I got a special fate, it may be because of my parents' honesty and sincerity. It's a special fate that the two should have received, and it seems like I got it instead. If I make money, I will be more filial.'

I once again said to my dad, filling his glass. "You've done a great job, dad. Now Su-Jeong and I…"

But that was the time.

"Brother!" Suddenly Su-jeong opened the door and shouted out.

I was so touched by my dad's words that I was getting drunk, so why was it so much? "What?"

But Su-jeong couldn't say anything right. "Brother, brother, brother!" She was just calling over and over again.

My dad who drank, and my mom who took the garlic out of the kitchen, looked at her with a kind of a glance. 'What's wrong with her all of a sudden?'

I also looked at Su-jeong like that. Suddenly, I saw a wall clock hanging in the corner of the living room. The time was just past nine in the evening.

"Brother, brother!"

I knew what she wanted to say. 'Did she memorize the numbers before?'

But I said, frowning ignorance. "What's wrong with you, like a crazy bitch?"

Su-jeong said what she wanted to say. "The Lotto!"

"What Lotto?"

I took the Lotto out of my wallet and put it on the table proudly. Su-jeong looked at it and said with slightly trembling lips.

"2 6 15 22 36 41… Oh, my God, it's true."

I acted awkwardly under the influence of alcohol.

"Are you sure it's true?"

My dad, who had been solemnly telling the old story, also said with his eyes round, "Really?"Two days later, Monday…

I left the bank with the door open. And as soon as I did, I called my dad.

As soon as the dial tone disappeared, my dad asked, "Did you get it?"

"They're in the bank. They don't even ask for this and that."

"That's a relief. But don't talk about it anywhere. When you say you have a lot of money, you're bound to get some weird people. We'll take care of our mouths and Su-jeong."

"Yes, don't worry."

"I hope you'll finish your work well."

"Yes."

"Then I'll hang up."

I stopped my dad trying to cut off the phone. "Dad."

"Yes, why?"

"If the owner of the building wants to raise the rent again, let me know. I'll buy the building."

"Haha, yeah, I got it."

After the call, I opened my account that received the winnings through my mobile phone app. The total sum of the Lotto was $4,730,000, and after the 33% tax, there was $3,155,160 in my account.

"$3,155,160."

It was the first time that I had received such a large sum of money at once, although I had often touched a hundred thousand dollars recently. I made a big uppercut with my fist on the road, like a soccer player who had scored a goal.

"Ch…!" Score, it was another score. The money in my stock account was $156,7300. When the two were combined, it was approximately $4,200,000. $4,200,000 was my new net worth. With that money, it seemed that there was nothing that I couldn't do in the world.

"Wow…"

I looked up into the sky, whistling. The blue sky looked like it was going to be in my hands right now. I had become a really rich man. I beckoned a visible taxi as I was going down the road. "Taxi!"

The taxi stopped next to me soon. I said my destination in the back seat. "Go to Yeoksam Station, please."I entered the office of the company in blue jeans and a colorful polo shirt. Everyone else was surprised to see me. Everyone was frozen in amazement, but Choi, a close friend of mine, approached and asked. "What is it, Han Sang-hoon? It's your annual paid holiday today. Did you leave something behind?"

Strangely, that was correct. I left something at work.

"Oh, I've left something behind."

I passed him by and approached my seat. I then took out my resignation, which I had kept in the drawer.

When the white envelope came out of the drawer, Choi was surprised. "Uh… you… that's… no way!"

I passed the frozen Choi, and went to Heo's desk.

"What are you doing? Why are you here? Did you suddenly get caught in your conscience after applying for your annual paid holiday? By the way, what's with that look? What the hell?"

"I'm here to talk to you about something."

"What is it?"

I put my resignation before him and said, "I'm quitting this company today."

"What?"

I could feel all the eyes in the office on me.

Heo also looked at me with a slight surprise.

"Are you… are you serious? You hit the bathroom wall all of a sudden, huh? You seem to be out of your mind lately, so you are quitting all of a sudden? Is the company a joke? You won't live long in society with such a mind. Huh?"

That was terrible. He was even saying bad things to someone who said he was leaving.

"If you quit here, you're done, huh? You can't stand it here, so where do you think you will be working from now on?"

I didn't want to hear any more.

"Mr. Heo Young-sik!" When I called his name, he looked at me in surprise.

"Tell me straight, I'm not a person in this company anymore. I'm not your guy. Now that we don't know each other, who are you talking down to?"

Heo was so surprised that he couldn't say anything more.

"Let's see. Maybe… you'll use honorific language for me the next time we meet. Please do a good job of dealing with my resignation."

I left the word and turned back. People in the office were staring at me with a slight grin. It must be refreshing to many people, but they still read Heo's countenance. It was the playful Choi that showed me a little thumbs-up.

'He is a funny guy.'

I laughed and went to my seat, then stepped out of the company door with only my personal stuff. When I walked out again, I saw the crosswalk where everything had started. I looked up into the sky this time, unlike the time when I had been late and staring at the ground with a sigh. There were countless buildings under the sky in Gangnam. I mumbled at the buildings. 'How much would that be?'

It would cost tens to hundreds of million dollars. But somehow, even those buildings were likely to come into my hands soon.

However, what section chief Heo Young-sik said moments ago came to my mind. 'You're done.'

But he was wrong. He had been so wrong so far, so he was staying in that position.

"No," I said, shaking my head as if he were in front of me. "I'm starting from now on!"

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Chapter 42: Moving

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Having resigned coolly and jumped out of the company, I walked toward Gangnam Station in a light step like a butterfly. It was to sign for an apartment that I had seen beforehand. There were a lot of people coming and going in Gangnam Station. I liked this briskness. If I saw a large crowd of young people, old people, handsome people, and ugly people going somewhere, I could feel the bright energy and vitality, although I didn't know why.

I walked past them and stood in front of a luxury hotel located on the intersection of Gangnam Station. Most of the apartments in Gangnam were located inside the boulevard due to land prices, but these apartments were occupying one corner of the Gangnam intersection. I had noticed this place, a promising apartment with a view of Teheran Road to the south, when I had visited Gangnam Station looking for a place to move last time. I went into the real estate located on the first floor of the office building.

Tirring! The bell on the door rang, and two people in the real estate office looked at me. They were a man in his late 40's and a woman in her mid-30's. While the man was staring at me, the woman stood up and asked, "What brings you here?"

"I'm here to see about an apartment."

"Yes, sir. Would you like to sit here?"

I sat on the leather couch she had indicated.

She said a moment later, bringing me a paper cup with a green tea bag. "Do you have a preferred location or price range?"

"Oh, yes. I'm..." I said, pointing my finger over my head. "Up there."

Then she asked, round-eyed and with her lips together as if she were a little surprised at what I said, "Oh, yes... It's a little pricey here..."

It seemed that I did not get rid of my poor tidings yet.

"The monthly rent is between $4,800 and $5,500 with a security deposit $100,000. If you have a deposit of $50,000, it's about $6,000 to $7,000..."

"How much is it for lease or sale?"

As I said, the female employee was slightly inflexible. "Uh... the lease is between $1,000,000 and $1,200,000... It's about $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 for sale."

It seemed that she had not even considered leasing or selling the apartment.

'Shall I just buy it?'

But I couldn't. I had $4,200,000 now and I couldn't spend nearly half of that money on real estate.

'There are reasons why the rich are forced to pay rent. Rich people hate their money being tied up. They know that money makes money. And so do I. No, even more so, from my perspective, I can get information twelve hours earlier than others.'

"I'll sign a monthly rent contract. I will have the deposit as low as possible and I'll pay a lot of rent. So... It's between $6,000 and $7,000 with a deposit $50,000."

"Oh, yes. Would you like to see the apartment first?"

"Yes."

I followed the real estate agent to the apartments upstairs and looked around the rooms that came out on rent. It was good to see. They were wide and clean, more than anything. The view was nice. If I looked out the window, I could see a lot of people and cars moving around Gangnam Station. It was as like I became a king looking down from the top of his castle.

'All right, if I look at this landscape, I am going to have a good feeling when I make money.'

Thinking, I chose the best view out of the three rooms I saw. Though it was more expensive, I didn't mind.

"For this apartment, I'll sign a contract right now."

"Yes, I'll call the landlord."

The woman called somewhere. "Yes, yes. Yes, there's someone who wants to sign."

After a while, I didn't mean to, but I heard a voice over her cell phone. "I'll be right there."

I could hear a woman's voice slightly higher than the female employee. 'A young woman?'

"Yes. Yes, I'll see you in a few minutes."

The woman who had finished the call pointed towards the elevator saying to me, "She'll be here soon. Let's go down and wait."I sat in an office seat, sipping coffee the female employee had given me and waiting for the landlord to come. During the time, someone opened the door., and the bell rang again

'Oh...' I almost made a noise. A young woman who opened the door. Her face was not visible because she was wearing sunglasses that covered nearly half her face, but she was extremely sexy.

First of all, a long stretch of legs under a short black skirt caught my eyes. Her legs were thin under the knees, but there was quite a bit of weight in the thigh. Her pelvis was so big that the sides of the skirt were likely to burst, while her waist was thin. Maybe her pelvis was large and her waist looked relatively thin. She wore a light pink blouse up, and the chest area was very bountiful. I was instinctively looking at her gorgeous appearance.

'B? C?'

While I was counting the alphabet, a middle-aged man who had not looked at me suddenly stood up and bowed to the woman.

"Is he here?"

"Yes. The man who is supposed to sign..."

She turned her head and looked at me. I couldn't feel her eyes directly because of the sunglasses, but I could see the light in them. Now, she looked like a model that had a high nose and good skin.

'Well... the owner of the apartment is this beautiful girl. Well, the money doesn't have a separate owner.'

She sat down in front of me. The middle-aged man sat beside her as if he were a eunuch to serve the princess, while the female employee stood with her head down behind her, as if she were a follower.

'What is this?'

I was thinking about it, and she asked the employee. "Which of the three rooms does he want to sign for?"

"It's 1204."

"Well, I guess that room has the best view among the three, right?"

The middle-aged man said, hand in hand. "Yes, it is. This customer has a good eye."

'You did not go up with me... ' I stared at the man.

Then, she said one more thing. "Well... when are the other rooms going to be let out?"

'What?'

I realized only after hearing the conversation. All three rooms they just showed me were owned by the woman in front of me.

'No, the sale price is between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000... Does she own them all?'

At a rough estimate, it was between $4,500,000 and $6,000,000. She looked a little younger than me, but she was richer than me.

"They'll be let out in no time as well. As you know, a lot of Chinese people who live in Korea these days are looking for high-end apartments."

The real estate agent groveled before the young woman. There must be some background: a woman who was born with a gold spoon in her mouth, or a celebrity, or a rich daughter-in-law.

"I heard Chinese people use their rooms too harshly..."

"Ah, we'll take care of that well. Don't worry too much."

I looked at her in a slight surprise. But I kept looking down. The top button of the pink blouse was open now. There was a little white flesh in between, and every time she moved, it was seen.

"There."

"Yes?" I looked up with astonishment.

"Are you going to sign today?"

"Yes."

"Well..."

She looked at me for a moment and suddenly took off her sunglasses. She had a pretty face, too. My first impression was that her eyes were big and her eyebrows were stretched upward, and a gorgeous rose came to mind. I thought she was quite strong-minded. She looked at me with her naked eyes and said, "Excuse me... May I ask what you're doing?"

She had to be a little careful about asking someone for a job these days, but had she asked that.

I thought for a moment what to say. I had just thrown my resignation…

Then, the quick-witted middle-aged man next to me came in. "Oh, that's not a big deal. Since this room has a high monthly rent, we're just trying to make sure that..."

I decided to speak frankly. "I'm unemployed."

"Yes?"

"I've been at work for a long time, but I quit. But don't worry, I won't be behind in rent. Isn't that why there's a deposit?"

At my words, the expression of the middle-aged man and a female employee were slightly frozen. Maybe it was because I insisted on saying it to the princess.

On the other hand, the hostess said with a bland smile. "That's right. I'm sorry. Let's write the contract."I looked back for a moment after I left the real estate after finishing the contract. Then I picked up my cell phone, I wrote something in. 'Lee Ah Young.'

It was the name of the landlord I saw when I wrote the contract. There was no matching model or celebrity. So how did she own three apartments? No, there was a possibility that she might have more, since there were only three rooms at the location. She had apartments that cost between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, I couldn't believe she could just leave them like that.

'Is she just a woman who was born with a gold spoon in her mouth? Or...'

Her beauty was so gorgeous that I could imagine some bad things. I came out to the boulevard and took a taxi. "Where shall we go?"

The destination was fixed. "Nonhyeon-dong Furniture Street."I sat on the mattress a little bit. The mattress was very soft. If I slept here, I would have a deep sleep.

"How much is this?"

To my question, the employee said with a slightly made smile. "It's made of natural latex and high-end wool, so it's about $1,200."

I said, pointing to the bed on which the mattress was raised.

"What about this?"

"There's a price for this product, too. It's made of raw wood, so it's $3,000. If you buy both, I'll take out $200 and give them to you at $4,000, including shipping costs."

It was quite expensive, but I thought I would use the money for a good night's sleep. I had to get up every morning before 8:55 a.m. in the clearest state of mind. If I thought like that, it was all an investment to maximize returns.

"I'll buy it."

When I decided to buy coolly, the staff laughed brightly. "Yes, sir!"

I came to this place, a furniture store located on the furniture street of Nonhyeon-dong, as soon as I signed for my apartment. This was to fill it up with furniture suitable for the new apartment. Looking around the store, I saw a chair and a desk for a computer.

"Well, how much will this be?"

"This model costs $900, sir."

$900. It was quite expensive. It was the price I would once have run away from as soon as I heard the numbers. But I was different now.

"Can I have a seat?"

"Yes."

I sat down in a chair. It was moderately fluffy and wrapped my hips and waist perfectly.

"This chair is ergonomically designed, so sitting down for a long time doesn't strain your back, sir."

I liked it more when I heard the explanation. These items were essential for me to work at home. "Okay, I'll buy this, too."

My words made the employee smile once more. I looked around the store more after that. There were some drawers and some standouts, but I was still not sure what else I needed.

'I bought what's essential. Why don't I come and buy another one next time?'

Thinking of that, I headed for the checkout. I had a flash in my mind on my way.

'Both of them are $4,900. That's right.'

Come to think of it, my credit card limit was likely to be taken care of. I turned on the mobile phone app to check the credit card limit. My credit card limit was $6,000. It was the limit set when I was a worker. I checked the money and found that I had spent $400 out of $6,000. The remaining limit was $5,600. There was still money left to buy furniture.

'Hoo!' I sighed inwardly.

'I didn't think I'd spend more than $6,000 before...'

There was something to buy, but I didn't have any money to spend. I used to take the subway to pay back my loans and save money by buying cheaper meals for $1. Furthermore, I paid off all my loans, since $20,000 or $30,000 wasn't a lot of money.

I took the card out of my wallet and handed it to the clerk.

"Can I have your address to send the furniture to?"

"Ah, yes. It's Gwanak-gu…" I unconsciously tried to tell him my original address. "No, no. It's Seocho-gu, Seocho-daero..." I gave him the changed address.

The staff bowed his head and said, "Yes, thank you.""Leave it here for now."

"Okay"

Two strong men were leaving behind a desk. The new apartment was a mess. It was complicated with a new bed, a new desk and a chair, and other junk brought from the old apartment. I should slowly make the best arrangement over the next day. I tried to tear open the box of clothes and realized that I had no scissors at home. I threw away the junk at home in the past, but it seemed that there was a pair of scissors there.

'Oh, my God.'

I thought of the convenience store on the first floor. They would sell scissors there. I took the elevator down to the first floor and stopped by the convenience store to buy scissors.

"Hum, hmm, hmm." Humming, I pressed the elevator button and waited for a while.

"Ding-dong!" Then the elevator arrived in front of me. I went in there and pressed the button on the twelveth floor and stood there for a while. But when the door closed and the elevator was about to go up, it opened again. 'What is it?'

It was the same woman I had seen yesterday. The owner of the apartment, Lee Ah-young, was standing there. I was a little embarrassed, but I greeted her first. "Hello."

She looked at the scissors I was holding and asked me. "Hello. Are you moving in today?"

"Yes."

She came into the elevator. What was going on? She might have come to see another tenant. I glanced at her as the elevator was going up. Today, she was wearing a black suit and a white shirt. This made her look like a career woman. It was hard to put my eyes on the beautiful curves, but unlike last time, I tried to look to the front or at the ceiling as much as possible.

'Ding~' The elevator stopped on the twelfth floor at the sound. I tried to go to my room first, but she was following to get off. She didn't press the other floor button. When I was thinking strangely, she stood right next to me, in 1203, next to 1204. I looked a little suspicious, and she said, "Oh, I live here."

'Does she really live here?'

I recalled the conversation she had spoken yesterday. 'Well, I guess that room has the best view among the three, right?'

I nodded. "Oh, I see."

"If you have any questions when you move, call me. I'll come and let you know." She left the words behind and went into room 1203. The unusually rich landlady was my neighbor!

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Chapter 43: True Or False, Part I

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"Tiriri!" At the alarm, I woke up. There was a strange ceiling before my eyes. It was higher than where I used to live. Too high. I got out of bed. I felt a bit chilly in the apartment since it was a 165 square-meter apartment, and there was not enough furniture to fill it.

'Let's check the news this morning and go shopping again in the afternoon.'

I walked to the kitchen, boiled the water in the coffee pot, then dropped the coffee and came up to the window. As I rolled up the blinder that was covering the window, the scenery outside the window was revealed. 8:10 a.m. The area around Gangnam Station was crowded with cars and people. People going to work, students going to a private educational institute. I watched them over a cup of coffee.

"A week ago, I was one of them..."

I had mixed feelings. Someone once said, 'labor is sacred,' but I didn't have much sympathy for them because I had suffered from it until recently. Of course, I didn't have any fun working and didn't feel rewarded. But most of the time had been forced to endure pain, so it was hard to agree with it.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that I saw a video clip about Chris Rock's "Life Career" on YouTube in the past.

'Chris Rock is a famous comedian who everyone knows when they look at his face right now, but when he was young, he worked at a local restaurant cleaning dirty dishes.

'Wipe, wipe, wipe.

'The money that earned after he wiped all day and held was only $1,000. But the bigger problem was that washing dishes didn't make more money if he continued doing it, and even if he became more skilled, there was a limit. So he succeeded by having a comedian gig during the day while dishwashing at night. What he has done since then, movies, dramas, and sitcoms, were all built up during his career.'

Although I was forced to resign because I couldn't stand my last company, I was not averse to working either.

'Who doesn't dream of being at the top of a field? If there's anyone like Chris Rock that can put their life's passion into their work, if there's anything that can be praised and valued by others, I want to do it as a lifetime's work.

'It's good to play, but let's find out what's new: a new job that can build my career and create value.

'When I was in school, I couldn't start my own business because I was stuck with money, but now I don't have to worry about money. I can challenge myself to do that kind of work. Challenge. It's a word I never thought of when I was at work, but now I am drinking coffee leisurely in my apartment. It's a great blessing to be able to drink coffee in pajamas at this time.

'People need to be free, too. Thank you. Thank you for sending me the special fate of 12 Hours After… Thank you to someone I don't know.'

I thanked the person or God who might or might not exist for a moment. I looked up. Across from my apartment was the office building of Susung Group in Gangnam, where Korea's richest man, Ji Chang-woo, commuted to and from work. It was shining brightly.

'People live their lives once, and they would prefer to be a person who looks down there, rather than being one of the people who come and go down here. And so do I. Life as a slave is over. I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth and was forced to live for a few pennies before my eyes, but now I don't have to.

'Now I've broken the shackles that were tying me up. I will now be the master of the world, the chief of the world, like Ji Chang-woo at the top of that building.

'Let's go up there. Up there!'

I looked at the building of Susung Group for a moment and turned my head sideways. There was my new desk and chair. As I sat down on the chair, it felt fluffy. The texture was good when I touched the desk. But on top of that was my old laptop, a low-cost laptop for assignments bought during school days. It had seen good use, but it didn't fit in with the high-end furniture around it.

'Today, I will do computer shopping first.'

'Now, if I do stock trading with $4,200,000, tens of thousand dollars will come and go in a second. Saving money here is like a professional soccer player saving money on soccer shoes. In fact, I don't have a good eye for furniture like a bed or a desk, and it's good enough to just have proper ones. However, I'll have to buy a computer at the highest specifications.

'Once I take the email.'

So it was 8:55 a.m. I got the first article of 12 Hours After in my new home. I felt at ease because I didn't have any fellow employees to watch out for.

[G. 12 Hours After]

[Politics – Mayoral candidate Jung Kwan-soo – What has Mayor Joo Sung-won been doing for the past four years?]

[Economy – Housing prices in Sejong City are fluctuating even with the regulations.]

[Society – The Nobel Prize for Literature was canceled in the Me Too Movement.]

[IT/Science – Fourth Industrial Revolution just around the corner]

[Life/Culture – Growing Threat of Fine Dust]

[World – Threat Flight of China against Taiwan]

[Entertainment – Park Seung-gi appeared in the entertainment show Unknown Brother.]

[Sports – How far is Hanwha's sensation going to go this season?]

I looked through the titles. There seemed to be nothing to make money. Still, I looked at the headlines once again. I had to keep trying to find a link between the articles and the money.

'Did China threaten Taiwan again? So... is the Taiwanese currency going to be a little cheaper? I'll check it out in the evening.

'I'll also have to catch up on what seems to be nothing. I should develop a habit of watching news so that information can be exchanged directly for money.

I looked down on the scroll.

[People Search – Enter name.]

[Ranking News – Use Now (0 times possible)]

Ranking News had already been used, and only People Search remained.

'If I want to move from Gold to Platinum, I need to make good use of this People Search. But I can't get it right now.'

'How do I link money to this?'

I had such a question, but it was almost 9 a.m. and the market opened. I turned on the MTS and watched how the stock market was going. I didn't watch it because there was something else. When I saw the volatility of the stock prices, I thought I could find the news that would affect them.

I searched for some of my country's major stocks, such as Susung Electronics, Mirae Motors, and LC Chemistry, and looked at the Entertainment section without much thought as I had made a big profit on Jiwoo Entertainment. However, there was a stock that fell rapidly in real time among the entertainment stocks.

[CKD Entertainment –6%]

But the stock price continued to fall. -6%, -7%, -8%. There was no end.

'What is it? Did someone at the agency do drugs?'

I entered the portal site on my laptop to find the news. But there was nothing to look for. CKD's CEO Do Chan-ki was the No. 1 search word in real-time.

'What is going on?'

Do Chan-ki was a popular ballad singer in the 1990s. He was a top singer who sang many ballad songs in a mournful voice. While continuing his success as a singer, he produced several singers in the 2000s, and it was so great that he set up a company named after him. That was CKD Entertainment. I immediately did a real-time search. There was a news item coming up soon.

'CKD Entertainment CEO Do Chan-ki is gay.'

It was an unconventional title anyone could click on.

'Is he gay?'

I also clicked on the article, as if I were bewildered. The contents of the article were rather shocking.

[CEO Do Chan-ki is gay. The marriage he has is a fake one to hide it.]

I searched the portal site for 'Do Chan-ki marriage.' An article was published eight years ago. Do Chan-ki married a beautiful model, surnamed Kim. It had been eight years ago.

'... Is he a gay who's been married for eight years?'

It was a little hard to believe. I read the article further. The article presented some evidence that Do Chan-ki was gay. It was the story of an entertainment worker who was propositioned by him.

Pictures of him coming and going from gay clubs. There was no corroboration, but the reporter who wrote the article seemed to have written it with conviction. I saw the article and the MTS in turn. The stock price of CKD Entertainment tried to move beyond –10% to -15%.

'Is there any need for the stock price to go down because he is gay? These days, there's been a lot of improvement in the perception of homosexuals.'

However, CEO Do Chan-ki was a ballad singer who enjoyed an era of love songs. There were still quite a few people singing his songs in karaoke rooms, and if he turned out to be gay now, some would be a little uncomfortable. In addition, getting married was a problem. Some fans were likely to be disappointed when it turned out that the person who sang the love song had a fake marriage. I thought, scratching my cheek.

'Is this true?'

But I suddenly had an idea.

'Ah, People Search.'

If I looked for an article in 12 Hours After, I might find out whether it was true or not. That was what I thought, and I returned to the mailbox. Still, next to the People Search, a cursor was blinking.

[Please enter a name.]

I clicked on it and put Do Chan-ki right away. Soon an article came out.

[CEO Do Chan-ki rejected that he is gay. He will sue the media for making false rumors.]

Here it was. I clicked on the very article.

[Do Chan-ki, CEO of CKD Entertainment, denied his homosexual report. In response to the allegations, CEO Do Chan-ki said, "It is a false fact that is not worth much consideration," adding, "The reason why I went to a gay club was to meet a gay composer."]

I was not sure about this alone and I scrolled it down more.

[CEO Do Chan-ki said, "The rumors have caused irreparable damage to him and his family, and have caused financial damage to CKD Entertainment shareholders by plunging company shares," adding, "We will sue Keystone Media that reported this the first time." The stock price of CKD Entertainment fell as low as $2.20 (–25%) today, but recovered to $2.90 (–3%) after CEO Do Chan-ki's rebuttal interview.]

That was it. I bumped my finger as I was reading the article.

'That's enough. There is nothing more to see when an article comes up with this exact price. This is because it's like looking at the correct answer and solving the problem in front of me.'

I turned on the HTS right away to sweep away money.

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When I turned on HTS, CKD Entertainment's stock price was heading for –18%. I saw the trading window.

[$25.20 –18%]

The trade amount was not much. I managed to confirm CKD Entertainment's market capital, $122,100,000.

'It is a big company for entertainment, but it is a small company within KOSDAQ. Currently, I have $4,200,000. If I use margin in full, I can buy shares worth $10,000,000. I won't buy them all, but if I buy them like that, I'll have one-fifteenth of CKD Entertainment's shares.

'The stock traders often say, "I'm going to be a major shareholder in averaging down."

'It can be real. However, I want to make money, but I don't want to be a major shareholder. This is too small a company and let's not use margin. It's too risky. If I use margin in full, it can push up the price. I don't know what's going to happen then.

'There is a saying about a butterfly effect. A butterfly's flying in the U.S. can cause a typhoon in Korea. In a word, even a small number of variables can have enormous effects later on. The situation is even worse now. If I put more than $10,000,000 into a company worth just over $122,100,000, I don't know what's going to happen. In other words, the future I saw in 12 Hours After could be distorted.'

'It's too dangerous. I'll buy it with only the cash I have.'

Today's lowest point was $22. I put a buy order at $22.60, which was one tick above the lowest price. First, $500,000. Then, I watched the Internet articles come up with the stock price. Not long after the first article was posted, the second articles from multiple newspapers came up.

[Do Chan-ki is gay. Fans are shocked.]

[Is Do Chan-ki gay? Pictures of the past are re-examined.]

[Do Chan-ki's fake marriage to hide homosexuality. What is the truth?]

The first words in the real-time search were Do Chan-gi, and the second was Do Chan-gi and homosexuality. Stock prices continued to fall. I watched it. When it fell to $25, $24, $23 and finally to $22, a series of messages appeared on the top right.

"Buy order is complete, buy order is complete, buy order is complete…"

The $500,000 buy order I had put was quickly completed. Money was falling from the sky and the basket was so full that I couldn't hold it. I hastily put in another $500,000 buy order.

"Buy order is complete, buy order is complete, buy order is complete…"

Someone was selling stocks cheaply. I could hear the sound of making money.

"Ha-ha-ha, sell more."

I put in another $500,000 buy order for the third time, singing the joy inside.

"Buy order is complete, buy order is complete, buy order is complete…"

Now the speed of the sale slightly slowed down. The selling trend began to subside. People who used to press the sell button in fear seemed to think that the stock price was not going to fall anymore, because a rich man bought the shares with an amount like $500,000 every time.

By the time the $500,000 was exhausted, other ants were now clinging to my buying order, like soldiers who followed the general. They stood beside the leader who comes up against the enemy's attack. But I didn't intend to share my exploits.

'I can't give this to anyone. I have to take all this stock. Let's buy it for a little bit more expensive.'

Now I bought up the stock, slowly and slowly raising the price without showing the best of my ability. As soon as I started to sweep the stock, the stock price rose. My money and my buying changed the direction of the wind. As the stock rose, I bought the stocks more boldly. I made fun of the mouse and knocked on the keyboard as fast as if I was playing computer games.

Those lucky enough to buy at a low price like me, and those who bought stocks along with me, ate 3% and 5%, but I bought them all and boosted stock prices. In the end, when I bought all shares of $4,200,000, the stock was up to –20%. My buying drove up the stock price by 4%.

'I can't help it. It's not a big stock. And now I'm too rich.'

A giant can't walk around a village without being seen. I was a big hand in the stock market before I knew better. After buying, I saw my account balance.

[CKD Entertainment

Shares: 166,350

Purchase Price: $25.40 (-22%)

Purchase Amount: $4,225,290]

-25% was the lowest price today, but I got the –22% average, buying the shares worth $4,225,290. It would not be a bad result. What was left now was to wait for the stock price to rise. I watched the stock price move for a while. Originally this stock recovered to –3% on its own. Now that I had gotten all the stocks that were falling, the rebound would be stronger.

'Then, let's sell it close to -3%.'

With my hands together, I waited for time to pass. As I made a large purchase, the stock price began to rise. Then, around 11 a.m., the stock prices began to rebound sharply, with the news of CEO Do Chan-ki's rebuttal emerging.

'CEP Do Chan-ki's rebuttal. He's not gay.'

At the same time, my account, which started at $4,225,290, began to increase. $26. $27. $28. Plus $200,000, $400,000, $600,000. And when it reached $29, the highest point in 12 Hours After, I started selling my shares.

I sold them little by little, not like the last time I had bought it. But since the amount was so huge, my selling trend had lowered the price a little more. Still, I was able to sell all my shares and leave about –5%. As a result, about $700,000 increased in my account.

"Clap clap clap!" I got up from the chair with a big hand clapping. I didn't do that when I was at work, but there's no one around me right now.

"It was good~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Oh!!!" My voice reverberated throughout the big studio.

"Hi-Woo!" I jumped around in the room. This studio was wide even if I ran around like a madman. Lots of room.

'I made all the money today.'

The rest of the job was to shop with the money you earned. I dressed up and headed out of the room."How did you get here?"

I answered directly to the greeting words of the employee, "I'm here to take out a new credit card."

"Are you a worker?"

I shook my head. "No, I heard that one could be issued if assets were above some amount."

"Oh, well, could you write down your account number and sign next to it?"

I gave the paper to the clerk, making fun of the pen.

"Yes, wait a minute…"

The employee who got the paper from me touched the computer and her eyes grew slightly bigger. Then she glanced at me. I looked back at her. When our eyes met, she hurriedly turned back to the monitor. She typed a few more times.

"Wait a minute, sir." She sat me down and disappeared. I waited for her to come back. Before her return, however, a woman in her mid-forties came up to me first and said with a calm greeting, "Hello, Mr. Han Sang-hoon. I'm section chief Kim Hye-sook."

It was not too high, but was definitely a mellow voice. She was like a veteran banker, I was more comfortable just listening to her voice.

"Come this way, please, sir?" She led me off to one side. Her hand pointed to the VIP consultation room. It was the first time that I had come to such a luxurious VIP consultation room, although I had traveled back and forth dozens of times so far.

"Would you like anything to drink? Green tea or coffee?"

"Coffee, please."

I took out a credit card in the VIP room, by simply receiving VIP treatment. The limit was ten times more than the last time. I had a small annual fee, but I decided to endure it. Why? The reason was the same as why I chose a luxurious studio. It was good, and it was cool. The new premium card had a black background and a silver line.

It was a luxurious design reminiscent of a black Porsche. I held it up for a moment and looked at it from side to side. What was more beautiful than money in capitalism? The card was cool to hold up, and it would be great to swipe it, when I bought shoes and a T-shirt for a few hundred dollars on the Internet.

'If you buy it here, it's free of charge. If I buy here, I can get it $3 cheaper with a coupon. Where can I get this benefit?'

It was good-bye now that I had been agonizing over it so many times. I would use and live fit for this card. I put the card in my wallet. But now, my wallet was too shabby. It was a sword made by a black artisan, but the sheath was rusty. I decided what to buy on this sword for the first time. It was a purse, a collection to match the sword.

"Thank you for the issue, sir."

"Yes."

My business was done. I tried to get out of my seat. But then, Kim Hye-sook caught me again with that mellow voice.

"You've got more than $3,000,000 in assets, don't you feel bad tying it to your savings account? We have a VVIP investment plan that we're launching this time…"

"Ah…" That was a voice I was sorry to refuse. But I couldn't listen to it. I told her. "I'm sorry, but I can't sign up for it. I'm a self-investor."

"Oh, is that so?" When I refused once, she didn't stop me anymore. "Then please contact this number when you have other business in the bank. I'll do my best to help you."

She just gave me a business card in a polite way in the end. I accepted the business card. I thought I'd come to the bank more often. Kim Hye-sook treated me politely until the end.

"Good-bye, then."[Correction News]

[We inform that the contents of the article that we sent you today, 'CEO Do Chan-ki. Not gay. Rejection. He will sue the media for making false rumors,' have been revised by a reader's intervention. The changes are as follows.]

I read the correction news. There were a few changes made today. Only one thing today was that the lowest price had changed from $22.50 to the $22.60 that I had hoarded. I grinned at it.

'The KOSDAQ is too small, too. If the market is controlled with $4,200,000…'

'I can see that famous super ants' assets are nearly $10,000,000 or $100,000,000 if they have more. If Korea's stock market exceeds $100,000,000, the yield will be lowered gradually from then on. That's because their money is losing their return.

'I should think about futures, options, or foreign exchange in the future.

'However, the problem is that I can't come over there just with the news. No matter who's name is searched in Korea, there is no change in the price of oil. There is no way that the news that the dollar has gone down can top the rankings.

'Is it going to change if I am upgraded to Platinum Class?

I thought so, and the driver in front told me. "We're here."

I glanced at the taxi meter. The meter was stamped with $4.60. I handed over a $5 note and said, "The change is fine."

The taxi driver, who was taking the change with his fingers, said with a big smile, "Thank you, sir."

I walked out of the taxi.

"Hmm~ Hmm~~" I hummed into the huge building in front of me. This was the International Electronics Center next to the Nambu Bus Terminal.

"Let's see… Where can I buy a computer?"

I followed the directions and found the computer store. As soon as I climbed out of the elevator, a handsome old man stuck to me.

"Anything you're looking for?"

"Yes, a computer… I'm going to buy it."

"What do you usually use for your computer?"

"Internet surfing and stock trading. I think the main use will be stock trading."

"How much is your budget?"

"Don't spare the budget and please meet the highest standards."

The old man laughed brightly at my words. "Then the specifications are that the CPU is at the top of the list, 8,700K, and 16GB of RAM…"

He hesitated to tell me the specifications I didn't know. Then, he pointed to the monitor and said, "Traders actually use monitors better than specifications. They use this dual monitor, which is divided into two screens. How about this one and this product?"

Good. I had seen a professional trader selling with two monitors on a show before.

'You don't have to be busy with this, pressing Alt-Tab.'

I spoke with a nod at the thought, "Then do it."

"Oh, yes, I'll prepare it for you."

He tried to turn back, but suddenly he asked another question, "Do you play games?"

Games. When I was in college, I used to live in playing games, but I had been away from them after I had a job for some reason. Well, because I couldn't afford to play games.

'Well, the Battle Round these days? I heard it's popular.'

I said to him. "I play games some time… Yeah, let's have the best specifications to work in games, too."

"Then I'll add two GTX1080TI's to the addition of 16 RAMs. With these specifications, most games will work well."

"Yes, please."

Since I said "Yes, please" every time, he seemed to think that this was the time for him to recommend another monitor. "Ah, well, you still need another gaming monitor to play… to enjoy high-end computer properly, you should use 144Hz…"

I asked him back. "But if the monitors are three in one computer… Don't you think the desk is a little complicated?"

"If you use it separately between when you're playing games, and when you're at work…"

I thought for a moment while listening to him speak, 'Shall I just buy two computers? For games and the stock trading?'

I thought about it for a while, and then suddenly I started thinking about it. 'I earned $700,000 today.'

I thought that $3,000 or $4,000 would be enough for the best of computer specifications. It was not going to be over $4,000. I made $700,000 today alone, but it would be a little ridiculous to worry about $3,000 or $4,000.

I said to him. "I'll just buy two computers for games and the stock trading, with the highest specifications."

As I spoke, the owner of the computer assembly shop laughed brightly, "Yes, I see. Thank you."

I didn't know before, but I realized something lately. Everyone laughed happily in front of big money. Suddenly, I remembered the lines that had appeared in Old Boy: "Laugh, and the whole world will laugh with you. Cry, and you'll cry alone."

I laughed along with him. There would be more to laugh about in the future.

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I ran and ran. I could see a small house before my eyes. I opened the door and walked in. There was no one. But I couldn't feel safe about this. I opened a small room door that looked like a bathroom and I went in. With the bathroom tile on my back, I pointed my gun at the door and listened.

'If anyone comes into this bathroom, I'll shoot him and kill him.'

I looked sideways at the number of people who remained.

'Remaining Survivors: Thirteen.'

I would be the first to beat twelve people. But at that time, I could hear someone coming into the house.

I tensed my finger, as if I were going to fire at any moment. But after a moment, the sound of footsteps that had come running into my room stopped.

Tick! There was a strange sound.

What was that? As soon as I thought of it, a round thing that looked like a potato fell into the bathroom.

'What is this?'

Bang! At the moment, with an explosion, my character fell down and a message popped up before my eyes.

[It's okay. It's a day like this. – Twelfth place.]

I lay back in my chair. "Ah, that was a grenade…"

I could have been in the top ten, but I died in vain.

'Oh, I'm sorry… It's hard, but that's funny. Shall I play another game?'

Before doing that, I picked up my cell phone and looked at my watch. 8:45 a.m. It was time to work. I took off my headset without hesitation. Then, using my feet, I rolled the chair sideways. Next to the game computer was a work computer.

This position was my new job. Three seconds to get to work was enough transit time for my new job. I waited for the mail to come in my new workplace. It was 55 minutes and the mail was coming.

[Subscription Period left: 18 days.]

The remaining period was a bit of a concern. $1,000,000 a month was a lot to maintain a Gold Class. If my assets exceeded $10,000,000, that would not be too much, but I definitely had to earn more money before then. I checked the mail by rubbing my hands.

'Oh, it's time to come up…'

It really came out in the Economy category. [Jaun Heavy Industries has won a $7,000,000,000 order for nuclear power plants in the United Arab Emirates.]

Jaun Heavy Industries was an industrial company that represented South Korea. I clicked on it quickly.

[Jaun Heavy Industries has won a $7,000,000,000 order from the United Arab Emirates government. Around 2 p.m. on the same day, Prince Ibn Khalid Yusuf of the United Arab Emirates…]

Good news. I looked down at the article. As in the last CKD Entertainment case, there might be a range of changes in the stock price. With that, I could easily earn money. It was like solving a problem by looking at the answer. However, the following was not written.

'During the bidding process, Jaun Heavy Industries proved its competitiveness in the Korean nuclear power plant business by beating out Japanese and French companies in the competition and winning the bid.'

This meant that I would not know how much the stock price rose.

'Well…' I saw the latest chart first. Jaun Heavy Industries was going up and down again and again at 4%, -3%, 7% and -5%. I went to the stock bulletin board this time.[It's a day to open everything. Will it be shit or a maid card? It will be announced soon. If you're scared, die.]

[I believe in Jaun Heavy Industries. A $7,000,000,000 order for nuclear power plants, let's go!]

[Do you think this will work? There must be a lot of ants going to the Han River today.]Ordinary ants were also paying attention to what the bidding outcome would be today. In other words, there were already a lot of people who were in here because of this.

'This information is already known… The width of the climb is not high..'

I wish I had come in early, and I was a little sorry. But I couldn't help it. '12 Hours After just shows what will happen in twelve hours.

'Then, let's bet in full in the beginning and eat a little bit.'

Thinking about it, I looked up the market capital of Jaun Heavy Industries, thirteen billion dollars. As one of the leading companies in our country, the market capital was very high. In addition, because of its high credit rating, 30% of the deposit was enough to do margin trading. In other words, the stock could be bought as much as three to one times. I had about $4,900,000. This meant over $15,000,000 could be used if the margin was used.

'But let's be careful. It can be dangerous to carry too much money, no matter how big it may be.'

I couldn't stake everything on an uncertain win. I put Jaun Heavy Industries on the main screen and waited for the market to open. At the start of the market, Jahun Heavy Industries shook greatly, going 3%, –2%, 1%, and –3%. In other words, they might not know whether Zahun Heavy Industries would win the order today. It would be only me and the royal family in the Arab Emirates who knew this result now.

'The Arab princes will lie down and make money if they buy this stock before they announce it. Well, they still make money lying down.'

As expected, information was money. I didn't think they were dealing in detail like this.

'I'll take the money. The princes.'

I bought shares in the negative whenever it went back and forth. $500,000, $300,000, $700,000… Even if I put it in a lump, it didn't make much sense because it was so big. This was a huge playground where institutions, such as investment trust companies, insurance companies, banks, pension funds, private equity funds, and foreigners from all over the world, including black-haired foreigners, played heavy competition.

If CKD Entertainment, which I had bought last time, was a slot machine that cost $1, this was like a VIP table. There was a huge difference in the amount of money that could be made. I soon bought over five million dollars.

'After buying, let's sell it all when the news is up and running.'

That would not be too risky. After 10 a.m., my purchase amount was $10,000,000. No matter how much I knew the future, I was a little nervous. -1%. $100,000 would fly away in real time if the stock price was pushed down. No matter how much my capability had grown these days, it was hard to not worry. However, I kept my calm and continued to buy.

It was then gathered around $12,000,000. The stock price that had been fluctuating suddenly began to rise. Even if the firm's information had not been disseminated, it might have been possible that some level of information had been disseminated. Institutional investors, such as pension funds and private equity funds, had to be in touch with someone who could get information from the Arab world, as well.

'Then it's a full bet.'

Thinking about it, I bought it with the rest of the money. The total amount I bought was $16,300,000. If something went wrong here, I would suffer a fatal blow. I kept watching the market with a slight strain. The share price fluctuated between 6% and 6%. I looked at the clock. It was two o'clock. I didn't eat breakfast or lunch, but I watched it, forgetting my hunger. The stock investment was the work of drying up blood like this.

'I'm so nervous knowing the future, but what about those who don't know? That's why they're selling it cheaply and running away.'

On the way, the stock price began to soar around 2 p.m. and around 3 p.m. I turned on Jaun Heavy Industries on the secondary monitor.

[Breaking News – Jaun Heavy Industries wins a nuclear power plant order in the United Arab Emirates.]

The news came up. The stock price started to go wild since people who wanted to make money were attached to it, while buying it a little bit earlier than others.

'When should I sell it?'

I thought about it, but I didn't have a clue. Only God knew how big this was and how much the stock value would be raised. The answer was to eat only as much as my capability.

'Let's sell it from 10%.'

When the stock price went above 12%, I sold the stock since I started to earn more than 10%. I sold shares in bundles, but as someone bought them all, the stock price still went up.

'Is this going to the upper limit price?'

However, it would be very difficult for a massive stock worth thirteen billion dollars to go to the upper limit price. I didn't have much greed, and I slowly sold the shares as I promised to myself. I didn't know if it was because of my selling trend, the stock price, which had gone over 12% to 18%, had lowered again to 15%.

I sold the rest of my stock at once. It went down to 12%. When the sale was completed, I squinted my eyes. The total amount of money bought and sold today was $32,600,000. My hands trembled. Even if I held each other together, the tremors would not stop.

'Hoo, I played a big hand.'

This was definitely a big hand. In particular, I might be the only crazy person who did a day trade with $16,300,000. If I did something wrong, millions of dollars would fly away. If you didn't know the future, it was hard to bet like this, unless it was a chaebol.

'Let's check my winnings today.'

I moved my mouse with trembling hands to look at the account. Today's income was about $2,119,000. I had about $7,000,000 in my account. I leaned back against the chair with my eyes closed. My tension was relieved. At the same time, I could hear the rumbling sound in my stomach. It was because I skipped breakfast and lunch and concentrated.

'What should I eat? Ah, chicken. Yes, I'd like chicken. It's chicken when I win.'

I looked for my cell phone."Uggggh." I groaned a little.

"Are you sick?" the massager above me asked carefully.

"No, it's okay. Keep it that strong."

"Yes."

Spas at a luxury hotel located in Gangnam. I ordered a chicken and ate almost one by myself. And I visited here while I was digesting to reward myself for earning $2,100,000 a day.

"Is there any place that you would like to be treated primarily?"

To be honest with myself, I was not tired. When I was at work, there was no place not to be sick, but nowadays, I only went to my bed and desk like a jobless person every day. I said, pointing to my head. "There's nothing wrong with my body… I have a slight headache. I had a lot of mental stress today."

"Oh, yes. Then I'll use a scent that reduces stress and calms down the customer…"

The massager, like a professional, chose the right scent for me and massaged me very gently.

As I got a massage from her, I thought, 'Today alone, $2,100,000… my assets are now $7,000,000. I am nearing getting a Platinum Class of $10,000,000 a month… And then Diamond… But it is hard to make more than $10,000,000 every month in the Korean stock market.

'It's possible as far as Platinum Class. But more than that, If they ask for $100,000,000 a month starting with Diamond Class, it's a little bit difficult.

'They told me they'd give me five skill points next time.'

It would not be easy to pay that, no matter how skills got stronger, but I still had vague expectations.

'Even if I had a higher class, I haven't been able to pay for my subscription fees yet.'

That was what it was. There was a corner where my assets would be upgraded, one by one, every time the class went up.

'If I can afford it, I can upgrade it without fail.'

When I was thinking about it, the massager put a strong grip on my side of the head.

"Ugggh." I moaned briefly.

The massager seemed to read my thoughts and said, doing acupressure treatment, "I'm sure you're the type of person who's thinking a lot."

I thought it was not a good idea to think while I was getting a massage for relaxation. The massage cost $300 per session. I erased my thoughts and left myself to the massage.

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'Today…' I looked at the monitor with my hands on my chin.

[Until the National Assembly breaks down]

[Coffee shops flooded in France]

[The extinction crisis of the Rhinoceros.]

Now that I was so used to it, I could tell right away whether an article would make money or not by glancing at a few keywords.

'There's nothing special.'

I then put the cursor over the People Search window. Since the last CKD Entertainment incident, I hadn't had a name to think about, so I had been trying to name the leading figures in the political and business circles.

'I've used the names of the president, the chief secretary, and the prime minister. Today… let's put the name of the Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in.

'The Ministry of Economy and Finance is a department that holds the purse strings of the nation's administration. Among many administrations, such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Government Administration, and Home Affairs, it is known to be the strongest.

'It's also the first place where money-making news comes out.'

The name of the Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance was Kang Joon-seok. I tried to put the name in.

[Kang Joon-seok's comeback in October is continuing.]

There was a story of a sudden comeback.

'Kang Joon-seok… who is this?'

I searched 'Kang Joon-seok' in the portal window. A gentle-looking, slovenly man popped up first. Kang Joon-seok, the current minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance was born in 1955. This was the person I was looking for.

However, underneath it, there was a handsome face that looked thin. Kang Joon-seok, a member of the boy group Eternal, was born in 1992.

'He is an idol…' I didn't know the boy idol because I wasn't interested.

'They are all bums.'

I got up from my seat. Then there was nothing to do today. I looked out of the window. The weather was nice. I looked out the window and thought. 'Well, today… What shall I have for lunch?'

In the past, I was worried about how to put in reports, how to pay back student loans. These days, I was worried about what to eat for lunch, and what to do for dinner.

'Shall I go eat sushi?' But when I thought about it, there was one thing to do. 'That's right. I have to go to the bank today.'

After the last two sales, I realized that it was stupid to roll more than five million dollars into one account. It was because buying so much in one account had created institutions, foreigners, and ants that traded with me. In this case, I had to split the money and buy and sell the stocks in multiple accounts. Just as a hero wears a mask to hide his identity, I also needed to wear a mask on the stock market and play two roles and three roles with one person.

'Well… which bank shall I go to?'

Thinking, I suddenly thought of Kim Hye-sook, who I had met the last time I updated my credit card. She was very kind and courteous. I looked for my wallet. There it was, next to the bed. Bottega Veneta. A new wallet cost around $600. Of course, I could buy something more expensive, but I didn't know much about it, so I bought one of the prettiest ones in my eyes. I found her business card there.

'Section chief Kim Hye-sook.'

I called her. She answered the phone before the call waiting tone was heard three times.

"I'm section chief Kim Hye-sook. How may I help you, sir?""So you want to create a new bank account and transfer $3,500,000 to it?"

"Yes."

Section chief Kim Hye-sook greeted me, without knowing what I intended to do. "Oh, thank you very much, sir."

It was a bit of a flustered, exaggerated greeting that made the recipient embarrassed. 'Is this her way of doing business?'

There was a saying from a college alumnus who got a job at a bank. He said, "Unlike other companies, in order to rise to a higher position at a bank, they need not only a personal network that touches the upper line, but also a different kind of network, connections with rich people."

The banking business is a business that borrows money at a low-interest rate, lends money, and earns money by charging interest at a high price. It's all rich people that have a lot of deposits and a lot of loans. That's why it's important for someone who wants to have some accomplishments to have connections with the rich. It is even truer in Cheongdam-dong, where this bank was now located.

"If you just sign here and here, I'll do it right away."

As I was in the middle of signing autographs. Kim Hye-sook said something. "Well, if you don't mind… Can I make a good suggestion?"

I looked at her instead of signing autographs.

'The VVIP plan? The last time I refused, she stepped back.'

I said, shaking my head. "Oh, I'll do my investing by myself. The VVIP or something…"

She brought out another story at my words. "No, it's not like… This is my personal suggestion, apart from the bank…"

She suddenly took a business card out of her arms and handed it to me. It was an unusual business card with red letters on a black background, unlike ordinary white and black business cards.

'What is this?' I accepted the business card.

'G. E.' Only two letters of the alphabet were written in red on the top left on the business card. No matter how much I looked around the business card, it only had those two letters.

'What business card is this?'

I was thinking about it, and Kim Hye-sook whispered quietly next to me.

"This is a place where only those whose assets are verified at more than $5,000,000 are eligible to join… It's a kind of investor social club. It's a place where young investors gather, like Mr. Han Sang-hoon."

It looked suspicious. I picked up the business card and asked her, "If it's a social club… Are you a member of this club, too?"

At my words, she said with her hands waving, "Oh, no. I'm not as rich as that, so I can't sign up. I just guide those whose assets are above $5,000,000, because the head of this club is recruiting members. I'm just acting as a referrer."

I looked up at her. She was smiling in an orderly manner, speaking kindly, and had an unknown smile. It smelled a little dangerous. However, stocks were inherently open to danger, and where there was an opportunity, there was a risk.

'If it's a social club, it's a place where information comes and goes. If it's a social club with more than a certain amount of assets, it's likely that high-end information will come and go. If anyone tries to cheat on me, I could cheat on them. I have the early information of 12 Hours After. Well, let's hear what she is saying here.'

I said with a broad smile, hiding my innermost thoughts like Choi, "Wow, thank you. I wish I had investors to share the information with."

"Oh, really? I'm glad you liked it."

I spun around the business card and said, "What should I do with this business card anyway? There's nothing written except two letters…"

"Oh, this club is only open to invited guests. Ho-ho. It only works for those who have been invited to join. When you have time, hold on to the business card for about three minutes."

'hold on to the business card and stay for about three minutes?'

I thought so, but she said one more thing, "I'd like you to know, again, that this offer is my personal offer, it has nothing to do with the bank at all. Do you understand?"

She made a polite smile again, a well-drafted smile. Nevertheless, I nodded and picked up the business card. "Don't worry, it's a social club. That sounds like fun."

If this business card were a python to eat me, I would be glad to be eaten, because I was confident I would not melt in there. Even if I were swallowed by this python, I would cut the flesh out of it.I came out of the bank and took the business card out of my pocket right away.

"Three minutes."

Coming out of the bank, I grabbed the card carefully, not crumpling it. Then I lifted up the business card about three minutes later. Heated by body temperature for three minutes, the card was completely white, revealing the hidden writing. There were two words written in the place where G and E were.

[Garden Envy – Information Sharing Club for Top 0.1% Investors.]

'Garden Envy? Is this a garden of envy or a garden of jealousy?'

Below it was a notice: [This business card serves as an invitation for the first person to come. I hope you have it when you arrive.]

I turned the business card over. The time, "Every Thursday at 7 p.m.", and the map was there. It was located in a building in Cheongdam-dong. It was not that far from this bank.

'Well… Thursday is today.'

I didn't have anything to do at night, and I was glad. I decided to go there tonight."Let me off here, please."

I got out of the taxi. The building on the map was just ahead. On the first floor was a foreign car dealership, on the second floor was a dessert cafe, and on the third floor was an ordinary building, with an ophthalmology clinic and an oriental medicine clinic, etc.

'Are they having a secret meeting in this place?'

I looked up at the ninth floor of the building, a place where the secret meetings were held. The word "Lease" was written on the window.

I looked at the clock. It was 6:40 p.m. There were twenty minutes left to enter. I decided to go in first and take a look at it. I went into the building and pressed the ninth floor on the elevator.

The elevator that was going up suddenly stopped on the fifth floor. 'What is this?'

At the moment, the door opened, and a gentle-looking man stood in front of the elevator. He appeared to be in his late-thirties or early-forties. He looked at me and greeted me, "Hello."

I bowed my head slightly, in a muddle. In the meantime, he entered the elevator. At the moment, there was a faint smell of Chinese medicine. I saw the floor information: the fifth floor, Shinseong Oriental Medicine in Gangnam.

'Is he a director?'

I peeked at him. He looked gentle, like the boss. By the way, he did not press another button until the door closed. I asked myself. 'Is he going to the ninth floor, too?'

Come to think of it, if he had wanted to go to the first floor or the basement level to get off work in the first place, he wouldn't have gotten into the elevator going up.

The elevator reached the ninth floor and opened with a ding. Only one man in a suit stood in front of us. He was similar in height to me; his skin was dark and his eyes were sharp. In addition, his cheekbones were out there and he looked like a tough guy. When he saw the oriental doctor who was ahead of me, he welcomed him.

"Long time no see, director Shin. Why haven't you been here lately? It's an event in your own building."

'Your own building?' This building seemed to belong to that doctor.

"Ha-ha, I like playing with my kids after work these days. How are you?"

"Yes, I ate the Kong Jin Dan you gave me. It was really good, I ate it and lost weight."

"Ha-ha, that's right. The next time you go to work, stop by my office first. I'll give you some more."

"Yes, director. Go on in." The man called 'Director Shin' went into the hallway inside the building ahead of me.

Now there was only he and I left. He looked at me and suddenly hardened his face and said to me, "It's the first time I've seen you. Do you have an invitation?"

I took the black card out of my wallet and handed it to him. He looked at the card and said with a broad smile as if nothing had happened, "Welcome to the top 0.1% investor's information-sharing club, Garden Envy!"

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"Will you give me the invitation?"

I gave him the business card. He took something out of his coat. It looked like a laser beam used by instructors of a private educational institute. He looked over the business card and said, pointing to the corridor where the Director Shin was in, "This way, please go in."

It seemed that the business card would not be returned. I brushed past him. I didn't know from afar, but when I looked at him closely, I found that he was really muscular. There was also a devil-shaped tattoo on the back of the neck.

'It's like a demon guarding a hell gate.'

I passed him and headed into the inner corridor. In front of the curved corridor, this time there was an angel-like beauty.

"Welcome, sir."

I thought she was slightly younger than I was. In her mid-twenties, her hair was neatly raised like a stewardess, making her little face look smaller. Her features were very so obvious that she looked cocky. She looked at me and said, "Oh, have you come here for the first time? Would you like to come this way?"

She spoke as friendly as a stewardess. Maybe they hired a real stewardess for a while. I approached her. She picked up a black box by the back and said, "All members of Garden Envy use nicknames. If you trust one another, you can use your real names in a private place. However, everyone in the meeting has to use their nicknames. So, you have to decide on your nickname. What do you want to use?"

'Nickname?' While I was thinking about it, she took a cell phone out of the black box and held it in her hands, and stared at me. I thought I should decide on my nickname.

'What shall I use?' I didn't have much time to worry about. I gave her my usual nickname. "Duros." Duros was the name of the dragon in the game Duros De Eternal.

"You're Duros." She clicked the cell phone's keys quickly. It was like she was writing Duros. She finished and handed me the cell phone. "Take this."

I took the cell phone, a Nebula S9. It was the same model I used. It had only been three months since it came out

"From now on, this phone belongs to Duros. It's adapted that it doesn't work as an ordinary cell phone, and you can only receive data with Wi-Fi. If you look inside, there's an app that they can't install in a regular market. You can share your information here."

'Is she giving me this?' It was a little surprising, since the device cost a little over a thousand dollars. 'And this is not a normal reading room, either. They usually require getting paid, but… It gives out money here..'

Giving away such a cell phone worth a thousand dollars meant that they were confident of ripping off more than a thousand dollars from the chat room. I took the cell phone for now. Then she lowered her head, pointing inside the door, and said, "Go in, please."

I opened the door holding the cell phone. I could hear familiar classical music. I was frightened.

'How can it be so well soundproofed?'

Just a moment ago, I had no idea there was a song coming from inside. Walking in further, there was a big banquet hall inside, a wedding banquet hall. There was definitely the word "Lease" outside, but the lights were pretty bright. Inside, waiters were traveling around, carrying drinks and various food to the table.

On one side, there was a bar with alcohol. In this way, it seemed like a simple social club. I looked at the people who seemed to be participants. There were about ten people here. They were separated from one another, but there were people who recognized and greeted one another.

"How have you been, Director Shin?"

"Director Kang. How are you doing these days?"

Director Shin was the only one whose background I knew. I approached his back a little and listened to what they were saying.

"Oh, I've been asked to come here from China lately, so… I'm going back and forth to China."

"China?"

"Yes, I don't want to go, but they keep calling me at a high pay. I'm sure there's a lot of money in China these days, so I take a plane every weekend. I leave the hospital to the assistant director."

"How much do you make on your way, going back and forth?"

"They give me about three thousand these days."

"Oh, I see. Have you improved your Chinese quite a bit?"

"No, no. I hardly speak Chinese. They are looking for a Korean doctor and they prefer to speak Korean. After watching the Korean dramas, they ask me to do the same plastic surgery as a Korean celebrity. We don't understand each other, and I speak Korean on purpose. The broker likes it better. Communication is done by an interpreter."

"Ha-ha, I see."

The person who talked seemed to be a plastic surgeon. Even if it was a secret club, they knew each other's jobs and their surnames. It had an ordinary aspect.

'Why did they give me a nickname, anyway?'

I sat alone on the side of the corridor and picked up the phone. There was only one essential app in the mobile phone.

"Garden Envy."

When I accessed to it, a typical chat application came up. The difference was that a chat room had already been created. The latest message was 'Mr. Duros is in the chat room.'

I thought I was the newest member. I saw the number of people in it: eighty-two people. I was not sure if it was too much or too little.

'By the way, why did they give me a cell phone, anyway? If they just installed the application on my phone… Ah…

'Come to think of it, I recognize that there is a risk of hacking. Especially if it is an app that I do not know what it is. As I have more than $10,000,000 to run by my cell phone, I can't install this app on it.

'So they're giving me a new cell phone. Then I don't have to enter any personal information… Because they can't trust one another. Did they create a device like this? That's a reasonable idea. Who's the one who planned all this?'By 7 p.m., the time of appointment, people began to come in in ones or twos. There were about fifty to sixty people by eye-count. Some people were a little late, and there seemed to be little sense of duty. I was far behind them and watched them. All in all, they appeared to be in their late-thirties to late-forties. There was no one as young as me.

'People in their thirties and forties are the main members. In fact, people who are in their forties are dominant?'

I felt a sense of distance for some reason. I watched them, a little apart from them. They greeted each other, got cocktails at the bar and drank. Among them, I could see a familiar face.

'Who is he…?' I was sure it was a man I had seen in a historical drama. When the king spoke, the middle-aged actor cried out, "We are honored, Your Highness!"

He was an assistant actor, but I knew his face.

'This looks like a very normal social club…' But then, someone approached me.

"How are you?" A man. Surprisingly, he was in his late twenties. His face was slightly red, his eyes large and sharp, with a big hooked nose.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Kaiji. Your nickname?"

'Kaiji? He got it from a Japanese cartoon.'

I thought he was like Kaiji. I replied, "I'm Duros. Nice to meet you."

It was a little embarrassing to say the nickname.

"I think you were here for the first time. How old are you?"

"29."

"Oh, I see. I'm 28. I was invited here, but there's no one my age. I thought I shouldn't come to the meeting. But there's finally someone who's about the same age today."

He was a year younger than me. I wanted to be alone, but I got a colleague. I nodded.

"Oh. Nice to meet you. I didn't know who to talk to, because it was my first time here. How long have you been here?"

"I'm in my third week. I'm not used to it, either."

This person was not that old either. Still, I asked him because he had been here for two more weeks than I was. "What the hell are they doing here? What's the purpose of the meeting? How do they share information?"

"Oh, that's…"

At the moment Kaiji was going to say something, someone came up to the podium. "How are you, Garden Envy Members!" He looked like a man in his early-forties.

"Welcome to the new people today. This is Garden Envy. It's where investors share information and exchange."

I looked at him and wondered, 'Is he the host of this meeting?'

"I'll put the topics right in for those of you who are here today."

As soon as he was done speaking, there were phones ringing in the meeting.

They all picked up their cell phones. I also picked up the new cell phone. In the application that I was unfamiliar with, the three topics of this week were written.

[Sept. 5 – Could there be more than ten million tickets for the zombie movie, Train To Seoul? – Future Media.]

[Sept. 8 – Asthma Therapy Effect scheduled to be announced by the San Francisco Society – Jinyoung Pharmaceutical.]

[Sept. 9 – Who will Incheon Airport Duty-Free shops go to – Baekje Hotel, Xian Tourism, Elder DF, Shinyoung Department Store, etc?]

The man on the podium came straight down from the place, leaving his words behind. "Please enjoy the party today."

Kaiji looked at the cell phone and muttered, "Well, we have three questions today."

'Three questions. This is not the place where they pick the stocks that will rise and tell them the answers to attract, like any other stock reading room. The rich are full of doubts.'

'In other stock reading rooms, they usually leave a message, "Buy A stock. It's going up. Buy B stock. It's soaring." However, when they see the message, they are bound to be suspicious. "Isn't this an attempt to sell off his shares?"'

'On the other hand, if they throw up the topic and let them talk, they'll think about it and decide whether they will buy it or not. This is much better.'

I asked Kaiji, "Do you usually throw the topic out this way?"

"We don't expect anything to go up or down, but we try to gather information like this."

I watched what others were talking about. The subject of conversation was quickly shifted to the stock story.

"Doctor Jang, do you know much about this new drug?"

"Lungs are not my specialty… One of my juniors works for Jinyoung Pharmaceutical. I'll ask him about it."

I cut myself into the conversation. I thought if I didn't get involved in the conversation, I wouldn't get a benefit.

"I think Incheon Airport Duty Free is bigger than Jinyoung Pharmaceutical. They can make hundreds of million dollars in sales if this is passed. I'm sure institutional investors are also focusing on it."

"It's practically put a straw in and to suck up for years… How should I approach this?"

"You have to contact the government officials."

"There's a patent screening committee for duty-free shops at the Korea Customs Service, and they'll decide there. But I don't think it's easy. These days, officials haven't opened their mouths easily."

'A patent screening committee for duty-free shops at the Korea Customs Service.' I remembered the name. However, no more accurate information was available.

A lady, who was more likely to weigh herself than I did, said, shivering, "So, government officials have become too strict under this administration. They are sparing themselves. Enzi, do you have any information? You said your girlfriend was a deputy director."

The tall man, called Enzi, said with a smile. "Well, I will ask her about it."

"If you get any information, please contact me first. I'll pay you for the information."

"Yes, Do-joon's mom."

I realized that some people would get the answer to this question, but they would not say it here.

'They will say it after they buy the stock.

'If they have certain information, they will buy the stock first. Then they need to release the information so that they can maximize their profits. The place where the information is released is the application.'

I picked up the new cell phone. There was no dialogue on the application yet.

'This meeting is… just… fantasy?"

At the moment, that Kaiji beside me came up to me and asked, "What do you think? The source they give us here is not bad. It's often linked to actual earnings."

But then, he lowered his voice and added a word, "But there's no real sharing of information. It's a place where they can compare their money with each other and say useless things. Sometimes they tell real stories, but… that's just a few times. Practical information exchanges will be made on the application later, when the market is open."

I was right. I asked him the thing I was most curious about. "Who, by the way, created this meeting?"

"Oh, haven't you met him yet?"

"No."

Kaiji pointed to a corner of the meeting. "That guy. Master T"

I turned my eyes that way…

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I woke up from sleep. I looked at the window and saw the sun coming in between the blinders. I opened the blinders and greeted the morning sun for a while.

'Whew…' Even though the warm sunshine had heated up my skin, I still seemed to be dreaming.

'What was it? Yesterday's meeting?'

It was a strange meeting. They gave me a cell phone for nothing, but grown-ups used nicknames.

'… wasn't it all an exaggerated production? To give a sense of mystery?'

I picked up the cell phone. I saw the conversations they had yesterday.

– It was fun today.

– It was fun, everyone.

There was no stock story, and only a very useless greeting. It was an incomprehensible gathering.

'The most incomprehensible of all…'

I picked up my cell phone, entered the portal site, and searched for 'Tak Joon-gi'.

There was a man in his forties wearing glasses. The profile read, 'Suyeon Travel Director.'

'Why is he doing this?'

The Master T who hosted the meeting was this person, director Tak Joon-gi. I had been suspicious since I heard that name from Kaiji yesterday.

'Isn't Mr. Tak… a person from Suyeon Group?

Suyeon Group was a chaebol in the top ten groups in Korea, in the third generation of the chaebol group set up by the founder Tak Jin-woon during the Japanese colonial rule. Chairman Tak Jin-woon had three wives in his lifetime, and Tak Joon-gi was the second son of his fourth son by his second wife. So Tak Joon-gi was a grandson, far from the center of the group, and the director of a group travel company, not a core business unit like chemistry and electronics.

'Why is the chaebol III doing this? Because he has too much money? Or he has seen too many comic books?

'It seems like he is playing this strange geek because he has too much money.

'Anyway, the information they gave me… what about it?'

All I had to do was earn money. Therefore, I decided to look for the stocks that they announced at the meeting. First, Future Media. It was set to open a zombie blockbuster, Train to Seoul.

'If it's September 5th, that's today.'

'This is a definite material. A movie distributed by a movie distributor makes money when it hits the box office. I don't need to look for its earnings surprises. Sales are up by the number of moviegoers. If the first day's assessment is good, the stock price could rise. However, the stock price is already quite up in anticipation. It's a little scary to go into since the movie could be awful. Well…'

I watched it for a while, then looked for the zombie film. 8:20 today was the first showing. It was 8:05 now. Fortunately, a movie theater was within a three-minute walk from my studio. I started taking a shower right away."Son. Did you finish your pee? Why don't you come out? Are you all right?"

The man opened the bathroom door carefully, but there was a boy who had turned into a zombie. The man was surprised. The son who had turned into a zombie bit his dad's throat. "Aaaaaaaaargh!"

At the same time, the woman in front of me screamed. "Oh, my God!"

I also held my hands together, they were a little slippery. They were literally sweaty hands.

'It's fun. It's a well-made film.'

Sometimes the plot was noticeable, but the direction was very good. I was immersed in it without knowing it.

'I think it's going to be a good show.'

I held up my cell phone. It was 8:52.

I was almost late seeing the movie. I turned on the app and opened the mailbox. To do this, I got a back seat in the theater on purpose, so as not to let the lights on my cell phone interfere with others. It had only been half an hour since the movie started, but I had a feeling that this movie would be a great hit. 8:55. As soon as I got the email, I put 'Kang Joon-ik' in the People Search.

[Thank you for the support of director Kang Joon-ik.]

It was up. I clicked on the article.

[The Director of the zombie movie Train To Seoul, Kang Joon-ik, thanked the audience. The movie released today…]

'Not like this.'

I ran through the article quickly. What I wanted was a specific number. In the middle of the article, there was the number I wanted.

[Train To Seoul, which was released today, was a big hit today alone, drawing sixty-four thousand viewers from across the country. The combined number of people who made reservations for the evening show are estimated to exceed eighty thousand…]

Eighty thousand viewers on the first day. I didn't know how amazing it was. I read the article through. Unfortunately, there was no story that Future Media shares had risen by a few percents.

'Do I have to buy this stock? Shouldn't I?'

I'd like to buy it if that's the way it was, but I was reluctant to buy it because of the suspicious meeting.

– Is this a trap? No, no matter how good the information is, we can't predict the number of viewers. It's a movie, it's a novel. It's the realm of God to predict what's going to be a big hit…-

I turned on the MTS. Future Media was starting at $42. At 0%, the trading was about to begin. They said they were not sure whether the movie would be successful or not. I would be the only one in the world who knew how many people were watching today at this hour.

But the fact was that it had already been recommended here. Other rich people were paying attention to the stock. Some people already bought and held it.

'If I go in now, someone's going to make money. I can't help it. The information was slower than others, so let's pay a little premium and buy it. It's stupid to miss the chance in order to buy it too cheap. It's too risky to inject all $7,000,000. Let's buy $2,000,000 or $3,000,000.'

I bought the stock at nine o'clock.

Wi-ying! At the same time as the buy order was completed, the scream of zombies intersected. Geuwoeoeoeoeo!

I kept buying while watching the movie. Wi-ying! Wi-ying! Wi-ying!

The stock price rose gradually after the start of the market. Few people would watch a movie at this time. Someone, including me, kept buying it.

'Are they the Garden Envy people?'

I was not sure, but they might also be included. In any case, I bought about $2,000,000 worth of stocks from 0% to 5% today. The average price was about 3%. Then I continued to watch the movie.

'It's fun until the middle, but it could be ruined after the second half…'

But it was fun until the end. I also liked the occasional gags and humanism. And as I left the movie, everyone else there gave favorable comments.

"Wow, that was funny."

"I had fun, too. I'll have my mom see it."

It was not rational to decide on the purchase after listening to the individual's assessment, but I wanted to buy more because I also enjoyed watching the movie. I opened the MTS and bought another $1,000,000. The unit price rose to 4%. Now I decided to wait a little while. But in the middle of it, I suddenly remembered.

'That's right. What's the community saying?'

I picked up the second cell phone at the thought. I brought it with me on purpose. I was wondering what they were saying. I caught a Wi-Fi wandering around in the movie theater and entered the 'Garden Envy' app. Several chats were coming and going at the beginning of the market on the subject of this movie.

Claudia

– The audience's favorable. Even the critic I know says this will be a commercial success.

Nobrand

– I've seen it, too. It's going to be easy ten million people. I'm buying too.

Amibo

– I don't like it.

This looked like an ordinary stock chat room.

'Well, they took all the forms as they were… It's normal again.'

I turned on the MTS and saw the stock price. $43.40. Up by 3%. It was normal. I didn't earn or lose money. Still, I watched the stock price for a while. In 12 Hours After, the number of the first-day audience was 800,000 viewers and it said it was a big hit. But then, the number also came out at Garden Envy.

Triple K

– Mega Cinema Information. First-day results are estimated to be between 600,000 and 700,000. If it's this big, it's a big buy.

Between 600,000 and 700,000 people. It was less than 800,000 people, but it was still close.

'Well, it's the information of the movie theater. But the information I have is more accurate.'

I snorted and moved on to the stock price with MTS, but then the stock price went up. It was soaring.

[$46.20 (8%)]

'What is it this?' As soon as this chat came up, the stock price went up. Someone must have thought it was credible information. I thought for a moment looking at it.

'Well…'By the end of lunchtime, I was looking at two cell phones, eating sandwiches. First, in Garden Envy, some comments came up.

Dr. J.

– After buying, I put it on the doctors' community. Thank you very much for your information.

Kim Gum-mo

– I bought it, too, and then I posted it on my law school website. I hope it has a lot of resilience.

Yoo PD

– I heard it was scheduled to be broadcast in Today's Money.

In this way, they were trying to boost its stock price by burning information. It was a kind of manipulation. According to the MTS, the stock price, which had remained stagnant at 8%, rose 10% and 12% slowly over time.

'… they're obviously looking to sell one another.'

However, the stock price continued to rise. 14%. 16%. 18%. I watched it and sold it when my earnings reached $300,000. I didn't have any solid information. I only ate as much as I wanted. After I sold my stocks in bulk, the stock started to adjust slightly. I looked toward the Garden Envy chat window.

Envymask

– Somebody sold it. Approximately $3,000,000.

Do-joon's mom

– I've bought about $1,000,000. Let's go further.

Jin Sun-saeng English

– Isn't it unconditionally holding the upper limit price?

'I don't think it's going to be much higher. But I don't know. In fact, if the buying money is bigger than the selling money, the stock price goes up.'

However, I didn't buy it anymore and watched its price trend. The stock started going up higher even after I sold it, as if to go to the upper limit price. But suddenly there was a huge sell-off. The stock price that had gone as far as 22% fell down to 12%.

Do-joon's mom

– What's going on?

Jin Sun-saeng English

– Ah, I was so greedy. I'll sell it with a loss.

Blanky

– I'm –5%… I'm holding it.

There were also people who sold it with a loss. I waited for the market to end. Future media ended at 8%. In other words, some people lost money.

'Well, even if they're good at it, they're rich ants. By the way, biting the source is not bad and the information is fast. It's a good place for me to stay.

'It's just like an information fast reading club. I think that the concept is a bit weird. It won't hurt if I use them as much as I can. In addition, seeing the resilience of the stock market, these people have their own money and the ability to invest other people's money. I will buy first and then slowly spread the information to profit and get out.

'The rich communicate neatly with one another, and the people who come in late complain little. I don't know if it's because of pride. If I refer to 12 Hours After, I can shine more and more here and I can affect the people who listen to the rich indirectly.

'Next is the new drug, and the duty-free shops. I am sure they are good at smelling money here.'

I decided to use these people as my hunting dogs!

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I looked out of the window. Even in broad daylight, countless people moved around along the Han River, such as bike riders and badminton players. I watched them for a moment with the strawberry jam in my mouth.

'Life is good for a jobless person.'

Recently, an exhibition event was held in Gangnam. It was an exhibition with a very explicit title, "I want to be a jobless person", and it was quite popular. Everyone had that kind of desire, so it was popular. Now, I was realizing that desire myself. Becoming a rich jobless person, I hung out at a cafe along the Han River in broad daylight. Of course, it didn't mean that I did not do anything.

'Let's see.'

I took my second cell phone out of my bag, then turned on the power. I had turned off the power inside the room for fear that there might be some strange device such as location tracking or voice recording. I sealed the camera with black tape. For communication, I used only public Wi-Fi in public places. I thought I was being a little too sensitive, but I had to do this with millions of dollars coming and going.

Windmiller

– By the way, what do you think of Jinyoung Pharmaceutical's new drug?

Dr.J.

– Dr. Roger Williams in San Francisco is the main presenter, but I can't find any news searching about it.

I thought of People Search for a moment, but there were two problems here. First, I could only search for names in Korean in People Search. Second, San Francisco was on the opposite side of the Earth. It was questionable whether the news of 12 Hours After would be in time. I should have taken a skill point to receive an article in the afternoon, but I did not. In addition, I could not access foreign newspapers now.

Jin Sun-saeng English

– Dr. J., are you going to skip this one? The stock price is going up.

Dr. J.

– Right now it's going up with the expectation, but I can throw it up later. In fact, although positive news comes out, it takes some time to actually have a good result. It takes years.

Director Shin

– These days, the bio-stocks look dangerous with bubbles. Be careful.

The second topic, Jinyoung Pharmaceutical, was talkative. There were many doctors at the meeting, but they had different opinions and assessments.

'I'm going to skip this one.'

I decided to leave Jinyoung Pharmaceutical.

There was a reason why Cao Cao, who was a villainous hero of old, lost at the Battle of Red Cliffs. They could say that the defeat was caused by many things, like being struck by the fire attack, with a sudden southeast wind blowing. But really, it was because they fought on the ships they were not familiar with in the first place.

'There are many doctors here. I know whether it's fun or not watching the movie, but bio-stocks are hard for me to touch… I don't have to go in. Cao Cao had to attack Sun Wu to unify a whole country, but I don't have to. If the battlefield opens at a disadvantage, all I have to do is not to fight. The stock market opens every day, and I buy other stocks.

'How about the bidding for duty-free shops?'

Kaiji

– I think the duty-free shop is a big case. Do you have any information?

Days in Leeds

– Has anyone contacted the patent screening committee for duty-free shops at the Korea Customs Service?

As expected, in the Group-Kakao Talk room, they considered the bidding for the duty-free shops a bigger one.

'There is something that self-employed people say, "Location is ninety percent of the business."

'I don't know if that's true or not, but it's clear that the location is important in business. The duty-free shop has a huge interest in it. Incheon International Airport, where duty-free shops come in, has been seeing an increasing number of passengers every year. Once the duty-free shop is confirmed, it will be guaranteed several years of sales. They can put a straw in a honey jar where the honey doesn't stop.'

Tobias

– Professor Sun Joo-gi of Korea University is the representative here, and he's said to be very upright. A real scholar. I don't think we can get any information from him, and we should look at the sideline.

Eumpyu

– There is a high possibility that there is little on the sideline. The judges will only evaluate the data they receive and the decision will be made by the core. If we don't dig Professor Sun Joo-gi in any way…

'Oh, professor Sun Joo-gi…'

The hounds brought the prey on their own. I tried to write a search term on the portal site right away.

'Sun Joo-gi.'

It came out right away. A professor of business administration at Korea University. Chairman of the Consumer Association of Korea and Chairman of the Korea Marketing Association. His career was brilliant. The name was also quite unique, so it didn't overlap with anyone else. That was great. No matter how strong he was, he would have to be on the news in 12 Hours After.

I went over to stock analysis. A total of six companies had applied for the duty-free shop: Baekje Hotel, T-Land, Shinyoung Department Store, Xian Tourism, Edie Duty-Free Shop, and Elder DF.

Baekje Hotel, T-Land, and Shinyoung Department Store were all family companies of the chaebol, so they were old and had large market capital. There was a high chance that they would be selected. They had built up their business history for a long time, and they had connections with the political and business community. However, it was unlikely that their stock price would increase much.

Xian Tourism, Edie Duty-Free Shop, and Elder DF were relatively small companies. As a result of Korea's characteristics, they were also built from chaebol capital, but they were a bit far away. The chances of being selected were low, but as their market capital was small, I could get more earnings from this side.

'Two of the six companies are selected… There's a one-third chance that they'll get one right. The chance of getting it all is one-fifteenth.'

If I looked for their stock prices, and all six stocks were very shaky. 15%, –8%, then one day suddenly went to the upper limit price, and the next day, like a ghost, returned its rise.

'It's a hot topic.'

At any rate, all six stocks were higher than usual, about 10% to 20%. If one was selected, it would go straight to the upper limit price. If not, it should return the increase immediately. I made a plan.

'At 8:55 on the day of the announcement. Let's try searching for the names and when the results come out, go straight to full betting… or don't touch them.'

I arranged it like that.I watched the market with a light heart for a few days. The stocks of the six duty-free operators continued to run up and down the road ahead of the selection. A little surprising was the Jinyoung Pharmaceutical I had filtered out. The day before, a story came and went.

Heartbeat

– I'm sure you'll be getting good news tomorrow. Buy this stock.

That was a story for Jinyoung Pharmaceutical, and it went up 3%, 6%, 9% one morning.

[National Asthma Society – High evaluation of stability of Asthma treatment from Jinyoung Pharmaceutical.]

With such news, the stock price surged to close at 18%.

'I'm sure there are certain people who have information…

'But it's not too bad. I have to filter out things I don't know very well. There are plenty of opportunities anyway. Warren Buffett, a master of investment and a global lender, has reduced his investment principles to two: First, don't lose money. Second, keep the first rule. It seems too simple to hear, but the truth is simple: if I increase money without losing it, the compounding amount will be frightening.'

I waited quietly until the day of the duty-free store selection."Hoo-hoo-hoo" I breathed like a boxer in the ring.

8:54. It was one minute before the news, six minutes before the opening. I didn't even think about turning on Garden Envy's cell phone. What I could believe was only 12 Hours After. That was all I could trust. As soon as it became fifty-five minutes, I immediately took the email and went to the People search. Then, I searched for "Sun Joo-gi."

[Sun Joo-gi, a representing judge from the patent screening committee for duty-free shops announced the reasons for selection of entry companies of duty-free shops.]

I felt my eyes open wide. I clicked on it.

[Recently, there has been fierce competition among duty-free shops at Incheon International Airport over the selection of duty-free operators. With the controversy over bribery to the screening committee…]

'Not like this.'

I scrolled down quickly.

[Sun Joo-gi, a representing judge of the committee, said, "We considered the management capabilities of the patent-related zones, the management capabilities of the operators, and the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises to economic and social development.]

I scrolled down too much and I scrolled up again.

[It was announced around 2 p.m. The finally selected operators are the Baekje Hotel and Edie Duty-Free Shop. These two companies received high marks in the judging process…]

Two names came out. I went straight to HTS. The Baekje Hotel was a hotel conglomerate with the market capital of three billion dollars. Edie Duty-Free Shop was a small company with a market value of four hundred million dollars. I would like to buy the Edie Duty-Free Shop at full margin, but if I bought it with the credit on my account now, the stock price of the small company would go to the upper limit price with only my money.

'It's too dangerous. No matter how good the news is, I will buy half there.'

I turned on two HTSs, the original HTS and the new HTS. Each of the six stocks remained the same at a starting price before the opening of the market. They were shaken a lot until a day ago, but it was quiet today. I knew it was Judgment Day, when someone would go to Hell and someone to Heaven. Before I bought, I returned to the article and checked the news.

'What time will they announce it?'

It would be two o'clock. The market opened, and I began to buy shares in the Edie Duty-Free Shop with one account and Baekje Hotel with the other.Dr. J.

– Do you have any information yet? The stock prices are moving at Baekje Hotel and Edie Duty-Free Shop.

Do-joon's mom

– Baekje Hotel is usually the number one hotel. That's the reason.

Olaf

– T-Land and Edie Duty-Free Shop seem unlikely. Why did they go up? It's weird. Someone bought more than $5,000,000. That alone was 6%.

Dr. J.

– Is there a rumor going around at the Edie Duty-Free Shop? Shall we buy it?

Do-joon's mom

– This is too dangerous, isn't it? If we go in now, we can lose close to -40%.

Everyone was in disarray.

Kaiji

– I'm not going to bet. It's too hard. It's too risky.

Even cute Kaiji, who was one year younger than me, thought it was too risky. That was right. There was a big risk, as there were a lot of stocks that had risen in anticipation. If this would not work, it would go down to the low limit price, –30%. It was a situation of high risk, high return.

'But I'm different.'

I already had the information. No risk, high return. Countless people came and went before my eyes. I saw a watch at a cafe in a café at Gangnam Station.

It was 1:58 p.m.

It was time to come up. The news said it was announced around two o'clock in the afternoon. Even if I took it slowly, it would come up within twenty minutes. I got the MTS on my cell phone and a news site on my Wi-Pad. And then, around 2:20, joy and sorrow began to diverge.

[Baekje Hotel 6%

T-Land –6%

Shinyoung Department Store –5%

Xian Tourism –12%

Edie Duty-Free Shop 12%

Elder DF –10%]

'It must be up.'

I searched 'duty-free shops' with the Wi-Pad. There was no news yet. In the meantime, two companies' stocks were decided.

[Baekje Hotel 30%

T-Land –23%

Shinyoung Department Store –22%

Xian Tourism –26%

Edie Duty-Free Shop 30%

Elder DF –28%]

I picked the correct answer on a thirty-six multiple-choice question. I hit refresh on the Wi-Pad.

[Incheon Duty-Free's new business owners are Baekje Hotel and Edie Duty-Free Shop.]

The news got on the air only then. As expected, stocks were faster than the news. This meant that there was a person who caught on before someone went up to the press, such as investors or reporters on the scene.

'There are people who are fast, too.

'Some people use this time difference. So, stocks react faster than news. But even these people don't know that there is a person whose news is faster than stocks, only one person in the universe, a subscriber to 12 Hours After. That's me.'

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[Baekje Hotel]

Shares: 34,020

Purchase Price: $341.00

Purchase Amount: $11,600,820

Current Price: $429.00 (30%)

Current Value: $14,594,580

Profit and Loss: $2,993,760

[Edie Duty-Free Shop]

Shares: 120,700

Purchase Price: $58.00

Purchase Amount: $7,000,600

Current Price: $71.50 (30%)

Current Value: $8,630,500

Profit and Loss: $1,629,450]

I looked alternately at the two accounts. The hotel allowed the use of a 33% margin as a hotel conglomerate. I made $2,993,760 in profits from purchase of $11,600,820 including credit. Edie Duty-Free used a 50% margin and I was able to buy $7,000,600. The market capital was so low that I couldn't buy any more. My profit was $1,629,450.

Right now, I had made a lot of money by Baekje Hotel, but in the long run, it was highly likely that Edie Duty-Free Shop would get bigger.

It was the same good news for both, but the size of the two was too different. While the hotel was considered to have set the stage for long-term growth that could be upgraded once more, Edie Duty-Free Shop said the selection itself was a great opportunity to change the company's fortunes.

The Baekje Hotel would not be able to rise any further after today's upper limit price as the market capital was too big. But I didn't know the end of Edie Duty-Free Shop.

My prediction was not wrong.The next day, Baekje Hotel was traded at $471.90 (10%), and Edie Duty-Free Shop went up to the upper limit price $92.90 (30%). I sold all the shares of Baekje Hotel that I held today. The hotel hit the upper limit price and its market capital quickly surpassed five billion dollars, but it was not easy to deal with my stock, which was worth more than sixteen million dollars at the moment.

"Give me a super-combination. Yes, please add pickles."

I ordered a pizza around 11 a.m. and sold the shares of Baekje Hotel in front of the computer all day, eating it until 3:30 p.m. If I sold them all at once, the price would go down, and as if Hansel and Gretel had fallen bread crumbs on the road, I sold them in small portions, $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 worth of shares. The final profit tally was $4,200,000, with more than $50,000 spent on stock transaction taxes. I paid more taxes in just one day than most employees earned in a year.

'$50,000… I'm a very sincere taxpayer.'

But there was still a place to pay more taxes: the Edie Duty-Free Shop. Baekje Hotel ended here, but it was highly likely that Edie Duty-Free Shop was just beginning.My prediction was right. Edie Duty-Free Shop, which started at $55.00 and hit $71.50 on the day of the announcement, was $92.90 on the second day, and $120.00 on the third day.

[Purchase Amount: $7,000,600

Current Value: $14,484,000

Total Profit and Loss: $7,483,400]

Profits alone exceeded seven million dollars. Now that it was here, I was a little worried.

'Shall I sell here? Or should I just watch it one more day?

'To be honest, I'm not sure how much duty-free sales will be made and how much it will be set up for operating profit. Some might predict, but that's also the realm of betting. What the stock price will be like in the future is even more betting.'

I decided not to be greedy.

'Yes, it may turn to the low limit price. Then I can't sell fourteen million dollars of shares. Let's sell them when there are many people who want to buy them right now.'

Having reached my conclusion, I also sold off the shares at the upper limit price of $120.00.

I want to buy it now! Since there were many people who cried out like that, it was not too hard for me to sell my shares. I sold about five million dollars of shares and had about nine million worth left, with only nine million dollars left showing for those who wanted to buy shares at the upper limit.

'Well, shall I play the major shareholder here?'

I prepared to press the Whole Sale button in the sell order. Nine million dollars of shares were loaded. I clicked the order. Blam!

Shares of nine million dollars were sold at the market price at one time. At that moment, the stock price fell from 30% to 25% and 22%. It was because of the fear that someone would pour in large quantities.

'Shall I have some fun here?'

I thought it was too mean to do it. It was feeding ants water with money. It was enough. If I did that, the real major shareholder of Edie Duty-Free Shop or the Financial Supervisory Service would directly interfere. I mumbled, "Well, I'm done."

I now looked at my account. The sales account at Baekje Hotel added $4,200,000 to $3,500,000, and became $7,700,000, while the sales account at Edie Duty-Free Shop added $7,400,000 to $3,800,000, and became $11,200,000. Combined, the two accounts were worth $18,900,000.

"Huh…" Every time I made tens of thousand dollars, I used to hit the bathroom wall, scream, and dance, but now somehow, I got a sigh. Was it this way that I felt like I had an inscrutable pleasure? I got out of my seat, though. I thought I would feel that this $18,900,000 was mine only if I made a ceremony.

"Hoo-oo-oo-oo-oo!" I took a big breath, ran around my 165 square-meter studio, jumped loudly, and then made a noise, combing my pelvis with both hands.

"Hoopee." My head hurt after shouting so loudly. I lay down on my new bed.

'$18,900,000… Now I can move on to Platinum Class. I thought it would be easy to earn a hundred million dollars.

'Famous ant investors earn a hundred million dollars once. It will not be that hard for me, who has 12 Hours After. The problem is the next grade, Diamond. $100,000,000 a month means $1,200,000,000 a year. No matter how much I earn with the news in 12 Hours After, I can't make $1,200,000,000 a year in the Korean stock market, because of the market capital.

'If there's an event like selecting a duty-free shop every day, I don't know… But two or three times a year? Is this possible? $10,000,000 a month may not be difficult, but $100,000,000 a month…'

I would be bankrupted paying the subscription. But then, I had a natural idea.

'Ah, it's time to pay the subscription.'

It had been almost a month since I was in Gold Class. I picked up my cell phone.

'Then… shall I move on to Platinum this time?'

'If I pay $10,000,000, I will have $8,900,000 left. I quadrupled this month, with $4,200,000 going to $18,900,000. In other words, $8,900,000 could reach nearly $40,000,000. I think it will be better to change my class this time than to extend the Gold Class paying $1,000,000.

'Now $10,000,000 a month is easy. Besides, they said they'd give me five more skill points if I upgraded to the Platinum Class. Wouldn't I earn money easier?'

I was full of confidence. I picked up my cell phone.

'919-31413-11721' I texted to the strange number. It would be two days from now that the money from the sale would come into my account.

– I'd like to be promoted to a Platinum Class. Two days from now.

As if chatting with a Customer Service, the reply came right away.

– OK. Please check your mailbox.Two days later, eight in the morning. I finally received it in my mailbox.

[Platinum Class Guide]

'What new skills do I have?'

I gulped down and clicked on it.

[Platinum Class Skill Guide]

[Congratulations, Han Sang-hoon, who is promoted to Platinum Class. Platinum Class can also be used and enhanced by investing points in each skill. The cooling time of the active skill is based on the same thirty-day period as the subscription period. There are currently four different skills available for the Platinum Class. Skill points currently not allocated are five points.

People Search Lv2 (Active skill – two points required)

One more slot for searching for people. It will be available with other passive skills applied.

Ranking News Lv2 (Active Skill – two points required)

In a specific category out of the news in 12 Hours After, you can receive first and second place news with high cumulative view counts in an hour. It's available twice. It will be available with other passive skills applied.

Additional News Lv1 (Passive skill – one point required)

You will get another set of news at 8:55 p.m. The categories are the same as the existing news, and active skills are also available. This passive skill is overlaid with other passive skills.]

'Well, as I expected…'

That was what I thought, and I scrolled down. I opened my mouth at the last passive skill.

[Future News Lv2 (Passive skill – two points required)

You are going to receive another news, 12 Days After, at the same as 12 Hours After. Existing news and formats are the same, and active skills are also available. This passive skill is overlaid with other passive skills.]

'What? 12 DAYS After?'

I thought, of course, there was only one 12 Hours After. It had been doing that since the first news I had received. But, 12 Days After came out. It asked for two points to upgrade from the first appearance.

'If I get the news twelve days earlier… Certainly, the use of stocks increases… I've been doing day-trading with what's going to happen in twelve hours, but… This will allow me to do short-term and mid-term trading… Then the yield will be double what it is now.'

After watching the news of 12 Hours After, I paid people a premium and bought stocks at a high price, but if I knew the news in twelve days later, it would be possible to buy stocks at a low price and maximize profits.

'I have to upgrade this skill unconditionally.'

Thinking, I first put two points on Future News Lv2 and pushed down the application. Then, the page was updated.

[Future News Lv3 (Passive skill – three Points required)

You will get another news of 12 Weeks After at the same time as 12 Hours After and 12 Days After. Existing news and formats are the same, and active skills are also available. This passive skill is overlaid with other passive skills.]

Future News Lv3 came up. It was the news in twelve weeks in the future, three months later.

'I have three points left, so I can choose now. Shall I upgrade this more?'

'But I don't think it's necessary now. In the ten-million-dollar trading, this will be enough for Swing Trading and Day Trading, just knowing the information in twelve days.

'I will upgrade this Future News Lv3 next time. I think the Ranking News Lv2 is enough for now. Should I put the skill point into the People Search? Yes, let's do it. I have been using the People Search quite a lot this month, so I need more of it now.'

Thinking that, I put in three skill points to upgrade People Search Lv2 and Additional News Lv1. When the skill investment was complete, a message popped up.

[Congratulations. You've been promoted to Platinum Class.]

'Oh, yeah, yeah…'

I scrolled down. Below was the message.

[Upgrade your news to Diamond Class!]

There was the message I'd seen every time I raised my grade. I thought they expected me to raise my grade every time. I muttered to it as if I were speaking to it, "Yeah, I get it. But I can't make $100,000,000, either. If I watch the news 12 Years After, not 12 Days After, $100,000,000 every month is too much."

But then I was dumbfounded by the phrase that followed.

'What you need for the promotion to Diamond Class is a fixed monthly fee of $10,000,000, and…'

I didn't make a sound out of my mouth when I saw the skills of 12 Days After, but this time I screamed without knowing it, "What?!"

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I turned my head around. I could see Gangnam Boulevard out of the window. Countless cars were coming and going, lots of people were coming and going. I liked this landscape. I loved looking down from the high place, looking at people who lived busy.

'That's why I moved to this studio.'

Looking out of the window, I suddenly saw myself reflected in the window. I was wearing a neat suit.

'A suit?'

I tilted my head slightly. I'd never worn a suit since I had left the company.

'It's weird, right?'

I looked back at the thought of. But, behind me, there was an office that was not my studio, and it was an open office.

'What is this?' I grabbed my head. 'What happened?'

Far away, I could see Choi scurrying around with a bunch of documents. I approached him.

"Hey, what happened?"

But he looked at me, opened his mouth wide, and said, "Haw… Good morning, boss!"

He folded his back half and greeted me with a folder.

'Boss?'

"No, what do you mean? What's wrong with you all of a sudden?" I asked him, and after that, the section chief, Heo, appeared. He was looking around with his face full of boredom as usual, and then his eyes met mine.

'Oh, my God.' He had a bad face at all times. By the way, Heo's expression was strange when he saw me.

"Ah… boss?" Boss. Heo now called me boss, too. "Hey, what are you doing here?" He had a startled look on his face. "Here… sit here, boss."

He gave me his hands with a wry smile.

"What are you doing?" When I asked, suddenly something behind me hit my knee. "Uh…"

I fell back. By the way, there was a soft chair there, a black leather thing, a so-called boss chair. When I sat down in the chair, two women appeared from the side. They appeared with a huge fan, covering their faces with a thin black cloth, as if they were women in the Middle East. They fanned me in the chair and said, "Is it cool, boss?"

I wondered at the faces of the two women. I got up from my seat and tried to lift the cloth covering their faces. But in the meantime, Heo knelt down before me and handed a report.

"Boss. It's a report. I need your approval."

'Approval?' Now I saw a stamp and a stamp pad beside me. But I didn't want to give my approval easily.

'I can't give you my approval easily. You did that, too.'

I didn't even look at the report, and said, "Try again!", picking it up and throwing it over Heo's head.

"Yes… yes? Why?"

"The size of letters are too big."

"Yes?"

The documents were scattered over Heo's head, and after him, the company executives appeared. Those, who were directors or executive directors that had not been seen often at work, suddenly fell on their knees in front of me and said, "Boss, we have a deal in twelve days. What will happen? Should we sign or not?"

"Boss, we are ready for the merger and acquisition in twelve weeks. Just give us an order."

'Order? What order?'

When I cocked my head, they asked me to make a decision and give them an order.

"Please make up your mind."

"Please give us an order."

'What is this?'

Suddenly there was a strong wind coming from the side. The women beside me were fanning too hard. I stopped them, "Wait, it's too cold. Slowly…"

But they didn't stop fanning.

"Do it slowly."

"Ho ho! The boss is so…"

With my words, they made the fan even stronger with a smirk. It was cold. It was too cold, so I had to open my eyes.

I woke up, muttering, "It's cold."

Something was howling. There was a cold wind blowing overhead. I looked up with my eyes twitching. The ceiling air conditioner kept blowing. I got out of bed, rubbed my eyes, found the remote control and turned off the air conditioner. It was hot when I fell asleep, but it was cold in the morning. I didn't know which platform to play.

'But I'm going to sleep with the air conditioner turned off. Oh, I almost caught a cold in the summer.'

I got up with a slight tremor. It was seven o'clock in the morning, looking at my cell phone. I woke up about an hour earlier than usual.

'Shall I go back to sleep?'

But I didn't want to sleep again, for some reason or other, because I had a strange dream. I went to the window holding my cell phone. I opened the blinders and looked out the window, and this time I saw myself in my pajamas. It was a contrast to the way I looked in my suit. I recalled the dream I had just had.

'Why would I dream like that? Perhaps… is that what I saw yesterday?'

I picked up my cell phone. I called up my personal memo pad. There was a Diamond Class promotion condition written down by me.

[What you need to upgrade to Diamond Class is a fixed monthly fee of $10,000,000, and under the conditions of your qualifications, you have to control one listed company in your country.]

When I first saw it, I was surprised, but I could not look away from it again.

'What? Suddenly, the qualifications… What the hell…'

I watched the sentence for a moment and thought of the Customer Service.

'I haven't talked to him in a long time. He doesn't have much affection, but he answers what I ask.'

I used my cell phone to call that number, '919-31413-11721.'

I send a text to him, "I'd like to talk to you. Please send me an email from the Customer Service."

The reply came at once. "I sent you an email."

I sat in front of the computer, turned on the power, and got an email.

[Customer Service of 12 Hours After]

When I clicked on it, the chat window appeared.

[Hello, Han Sang-hoon. This is Customer Service. Can I help you with anything?]

I asked a question that it reminded me of.

[About the qualifications, if I control the listed company, is that okay?]

[Yes, it is. We'll upgrade you to Diamond Class as soon as you meet the terms and conditions of your payment of $10,000,000.]

As expected, I got a reply in 0.1 seconds.

[Are you saying that I am limited to the country I belong to, then, the KOSPI and KOSDAQ limits?]

[Yes, it is.]

The things that I roughly expected were right.

[I don't have to hand over the listed company to you, do I? Do I just have to own it?]

[Correct. However, please be aware that the qualification conditions will be canceled, and your class will not be maintained, when you lose the right of management, or when you are expelled from the KOSDAQ or KOSPI.]

'In a word, I have to buy a listed company and make a good deal of it. I should not get kicked out of the market.'

[So what exactly does rule mean? What percentage of shares should I have? Or do I have to run my own business?]

[You need the largest shares for yourself or your company. You don't have to run the business as long as you have the requirements of the largest shareholder.]

'Well… yourself or your company…

'In other words, even if I buy and hold a share in B with my own company A, it will be recognized as my own. But the word 'dominant' goes well with it. The nation's chaebols are "dominating" other companies with a trick like circular shareholding. Korea's leading company, Susung Electronics, holds less than 5% of shares owned by Ji Chang-woo. Instead, it has only controlled Susung Electronics indirectly, because he has a 70% stake in Susung Life Insurance, and Susung Life Insurance has a 12% stake in the company.

'It means that I can rule in a chaebol way… But then… What he wants from me…'

I asked the Customer Service with a sudden thought.

[Do I have to dominate more companies to go up any further than Diamond?]

[That's a secret.]

I frowned a little, but I didn't get as angry as before. In a way, even the expensive computer that I did this chatting on was bought because of this 12 Hours After. Instead of being annoyed, I thanked him.

[Okay. Thank you.]

[Don't mention it. Please continue to subscribe.]

'Okay, please continue to publish.'

I got up from the chair with my head down. I went to the kitchen, filled my coffee, and came to the window with it. It was time for the sun to rise. Outside the window was much brighter than before. Some offices in the Susung Electronics Building also had lights on. I looked at the office light and thought. 'Do I have to go back? To that place?'

'But when I think about it, if I go back as the boss instead of going back zx the employee, it won't be bad, either. If what I receive in the company is not an order and contempt, but a report and respect, it may be worth going around.

'Yeah… well, the subscription doesn't go up, and if they give me an upgrade for my company, they actually give me an upgrade for free.

'Yes, in fact, even if I have more than $10,000,000, there is no place to spend the money. Though I can buy a lot of real estate, what's the fun of it? Rather, it would be better to do day-trading with stocks.'

'Yeah, well, shall I just play a boss-game?

'But when I think about it, it may not be a boss-game since I can get the news of 12 Hours After, 12 Days After, and 12 Weeks After.

I recalled the sight I had seen in my dream.

'Boss, we have a deal in twelve days. What will happen? Should we sign or not?

'Boss, we are ready for the merger and acquisition in twelve weeks. Just give us an order.'

Come to think of it, it would be all right.

'No… I could be a pretty good boss…'

'I've never done business management and never thought about it, but company management in the first place is to predict the future and act accordingly. With the news in 12 Hours After, I could be a tremendously capable CEO.

'… Yeah… Then… more than a hundred million dollars… No, it's easy to make billions of dollars. I don't have to do stock trading… I can just run the company and make money, right?

I had a flash in my mind. I put my hands in my mouth and thought about what company to take over, and whether it was going to be synergistic with 12 Hours After.

'Architecture company? Pharmaceutical company? Game companies? I have to have luck if I want something good to happen. It's hard. Well, then, I am going to have to link to Ranking News and People Search… I don't know what's going to come out of the Ranking News. People Search… Is there a company I can develop with People Search?'

I had my mind worked. Soon the answer came out.

'People Search… a company that does business with people… an entertainment company?'

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[P. 12 Hours After]

[P. 12 Days After]

I stared at my mailbox. There were two emails: 12 Hours After and 12 Days After. The P in front would be the P of Platinum.

'It's so awkward.'

I clicked on the news for the first time in 12 Days After, thinking about it.

[Politics – What is the future roadmap for Mayor Joo Sung-won's second consecutive term?]

[Economy – Minimum Wage Rise Effect. Job growth? Decrease?]

[Society – Feminism has risen with the elimination of women discrimination.]

[Life/Culture – A review of web novel 'Save, Road, Life']

[World – The G2 conflict intensifies when the U.S. presses high tariffs on Chinese companies.]

[IT/Science – Electric Vehicle vs. Hydrogen Vehicle, who will be the winner?]

[Entertainment – Korean pop singers are invited to host the Osaka Hallyu Festival]

[Sports –Is DTD science? Let's see if it's real.]

The composition was essentially the same as the news 12 Hours After. I couldn't find any difference just by looking at the email titles. I skimmed the email from above.

'I now know Mayor Joo Sung-won was re-elected… How much is the minimum wage up? It's been a long time since I read a web novel, Save… Is this fun? The U.S. and China are still fighting, and electric cars… The hydrogen car seems to be coming out lately. And the Hallyu Festival in Osaka…'

I searched the portal site for "Osaka Hallyu Festival."

[Osaka Hallyu Festival is in two weeks.]

That kind of news came out. Surely this was the news in 12 Days After. I went down the scroll a little further.

[People Search – Enter a name – Enter a name.]

[Ranking News – Use Now (One time available)]

This email also had active skills.

[It will be available with other passive skills applied.]

The explanation that read above, seemed to mean this. There were two windows to ask for names, perhaps because People Search was leveled up.

'Well… 12 days from now, People Search will be available…'

'Just as it takes time for the main character to get the written guide of the martial arts but to use it, this email also requires a little adjustment period to make money with the new skill. It's about how to deal with the news.'

I also looked up the news of 12 Hours After today. There was nothing much today.

'OK, well, let's take a rest today.'

I left my email and looked around.

'My Wi-Pad… Where is it?'

Now I saw the Wi-Pad was on my bed. I fell asleep while watching a movie late last night. I laid down on the bed and picked up the Wi-Pad. I went back to the memo, and there was a note saying, "How to become a major shareholder of the KOSPI and KOSDAQ."

I clicked on it. Inside were the marks and memos that I had written while thinking about what I had done yesterday: Stock listing after start-up… that's ridiculous. A start-up is difficult, and the listing is even more difficult.

The first note was like that. In fact, I had always wanted to start a business, but that was the story of my college days when I had no money.

'I have money now, and a lot. I don't have to go through such a process. Actually, the answer comes in a second, and the reason I've scribbled this note is that I once had a desire to start a business in the past, and I wanted to take it back.

'The real answer is a takeover.

'Of course, an acquisition is the answer. This is immediately feasible if I invest tens of million dollars. The upgrade to the Diamond Class will also be instantaneous. There are also many stocks on the KOSDAQ with the market capital of less than thirty million dollars. Among them, some major shareholders have shares of less than ten million dollars. If I think about it, I can upgrade to a Diamond Class cheaper than to the Platinum Class.

'Then what will I take over?

'It's better to find out a company that comes up for sale first, then it's cheap. Common sense is that things they don't want to sell become expensive. The same goes for a company. If I go to a company that's doing well, and say, "Sell it to me," the answer is likely to be "No" or "How much do you think?"

'Of course, if the majority stake is low, it may engage in hostile MA, but the process is not smooth, either. Major shareholders will try to protect their shares and the price of their shares will become higher amid a dispute over their stakes. The ants who are holding shares are welcome with a pair of hands, but from the buyer's point of view, they taste like porridge.

'Let's take over a company that's on the market to be bought

'However, it should also be noted that companies that are generally in the market are in poor condition. It's the same with regular ants. The same goes for major shareholders, as they sell when the company is unlikely to make a profit in the future and when the company is likely to lose its value in the future. If a deficit is expected, and there is no way to make money, they will sell it only when there is no way to break even.

'Then I take over a company that's healthy among the companies that come out for sale.

This was the final answer, and I put another line in it.

– A company that will have a synergy with the news of 12 Hours After.

'The acquisition of a company isn't really what I imagined, but if I try it, the answer would be to take over a company that I could help. Because it will cost a lot of money to buy a company, I should manage it well so that I can make a profit. If I buy it, I can't ignore it. Moreover, the above class may require more company control: dominate five companies. Control ten, fifteen, fifty…

'I have to put in the first run well to do it. If the first company successfully settles profits by using the news in 12 Hours After and 12 Days After, I will likely gain confidence in the future.'

The answer to this matter came to some conclusion.

– First of all, People Search and an entertainment company that can have a synergy are top priorities.

That was the end of this memo pad. I began to write a new note down there.

– Then when do I have to take over, with how much?

'Of course, the more the better. It would be neat to take over a company with the market capital of about $100,000,000, after earning $300,000,000. But it takes too long. Now, as it was when I was handling $10,000 or $100,000, I cannot make such a miraculous profit three times or four times a week. The same was true of the duty-free shop case last time. Whether it is the KOSPI or KOSDAQ, the more money I have, the more it affects the volume of trading, the less profit I will make.

'This is beyond my power. Jim Rogers said the market in Korea is too small to invest in.'

Well, now I was better than Jim Rogers and Warren Buffett. Even if I had the news of 12 Hours After and 12 Days After, I cannot help the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets grow. I could make $300,000,000, but it could take a long half year to do so. If there were events such as a duty-free shop acquisition contest every day, it would be possible. After reaching more than $100,000,000, the pace of rapid earnings would slow down. Then it would be too late to secure a Diamond Class.

'Yes, I might make money faster if I got a Diamond Class, but you don't have to save too much. Then let's take over a moderately small and generous company, with the market capital of about $100,000,000 and with a stake of a major shareholder less than $30,000,000. Of course, I would have to earn over $30,000,000, right?'

I circled 'over $30,000,000' in my assets. I was confident about this. Whether or not there would be big events like a duty-free shop acquisition, it would only take about a month or two for me to increase my $8,900,000 in assets now. I wrote one last line of notes.

'By the way… It's a real game now. Do I have to take over in my name? Or should I set up an investment company?'

I should go to the latter. As a matter of fact, there was too much to care about as the amount of investment exceeded $10,000,000. There was an accounting problem and there was a tax problem. It would not be too difficult to run an investment company in itself.

'The key of an investment company is money and investment methods, both of which I can solve. I'll need a few assistants in the process.

'Assistant…'

I wrote the word 'assistant' on the notebook and drew a circle.

'Assistant…'

I circled the word 'assistant' until I could not see it, and then I remembered a name… Seo Ji-hoon.

Seo Ji-hoon was a college alumnus and a co-worker who was with me when I tried to start a business. He was a business administration major, and he was also knowledgeable in the practice of start-ups.

'If I ask him, I'll get something.'

I found his name on my cell phone. Suddenly, I recalled the conversation I had had with him. "We're going to be the legendary start-up duo, like Steve Jobs and Wozniak. Who's Jobs and who's Wozniak? Brother?"

I repeated a college entrance exam, and he did not. So, I was a year older than him.

"I'm sorry, but you're Wozniak. How much do you weigh? 80kg? 90kg? Of course, I'll be Jobs."

Ji-hoon had been extremely obese when he was young, so he stayed in shape until he graduated from college. He was pretty cute with that round face and body.

"What do you do if you decide by our looks? You are a science student and I am a student of business administration, so Jobs is me. Besides, did you know Jobs is a business manager, and I'm supposed to be Jobs. Wozniak is a pure engineer."

"Why do you want to be Jobs? Some people don't like him. There are a lot of people in Silicon Valley who say he's evil."

"The rich are supposed to use a lot of swear words. I don't hate it. I'm going to make a lot of money, and I will earn a lot of expletives."

I laughed my head off at the remark, "I'm going to make a lot of money, and I will earn a lot of expletives." It was because I thought the same.

"Wozniak is pretty rich, too. No, by our standards, he must be very rich. He's one of the founders of Apple."

"But he is less rich than Jobs, isn't he?"

"It's because he gave away Apple shares to other employees when he was young. In the eighties… When the stock price of Apple was just a few dollars… If he hadn't given it away, you'd have been rich like Jobs. Jobs got fired from Apple."

"Well, I'm not still attracted to Wozniak."

"Then let's be Bill Gates and Paul Allen."

"I'm Bill Gates, right?"

I laughed at the thought of the conversation with him. 'Ji-hoon, what is he doing these days? I haven't heard from him in almost half a year.'

At that time, we were preparing to start a business and gave up after considering the necessary funds for start-up.

"Dear brother, don't you have any support from home?"

"No. What about you?"

"Me either…"

Both of us were born with a plastic spoon in our mouths, so there was nowhere to get the money. After that, I got a job first and I couldn't contact him often because I was busy at work. When I last contacted him, I only heard that he was working somewhere.

'Umm…'

I sent a text message to Ji-hoon.

– How are you, Ji-hoon? There's something I want to talk to you about. When will you have time?

I texted him like that and threw my cell phone away. I thought he was busy because he was working somewhere. Then, a reply came right away. Wi-ying!

'What…?

I got a phone call.

– How are you? I am available at any time.

– Are you not working?

– I'm working, but… anyway, I am available.

There was something wrong with the nuance.

– Do you want to see me today? Now?

– Yes, I do. Where shall we meet?

– Gangnam Station. Exit 9.

– Yes, I'll go, brother. What time?"Yo, Ji-hoon."

"Brother!"

I hugged Ji-hoon after a long time. Ji-hoon was fluffy when I hug him. I thought he gained more weight than before.

"How are you?"

"Brother, what about you?"

But the moment I tried to answer something, he looked up and down at me and said, "Hmm? You didn't go to work today, did you?"

I was dressed in sweatshirts and slippers.

'To others, Gangnam Station is a place where people leave their homes to get to, but to me, it is only my neighborhood.'

I said, scratching my head, "Uh… It's… Actually, I have a lot to talk about. With you."

"I have a lot to talk about, too."

"Yes, then… Did you have dinner?"

"No, I didn't because I thought you'd buy it."

"Yes, yes, but before we go to eat… Let's go together."

"Where?"

I walked for about a minute with Ji-hoon. No, about thirty seconds. There was my studio.

"Hey, brother… Coffee before we have a meal?"

Ji-hoon saw a coffee shop on the first floor of the building and said that, but I quietly dragged him to the elevator and pressed the twelfth floor.

"Well, this is…"

I did not say anything. It was because if he saw, he would believe. I opened the door and went in.

"Ji-hoon… Come in for now."

Ji-hoon came into my room looking at me, and he looked around. I wondered what to say. 'Ji-hoon, I got the grand prize winnings of a Lotto. Five times. But I did the stock trading with the money…'

But before that, Ji-hoon suddenly asked me when he saw the frame of my family photo, "Can I hit you once, brother?"

"Why?"

When I asked him, he cried out, "You said that you were a person who was born with a plastic spoon in your mouth!"

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"You deceitful man!" Ji-hoon looked at me with a throbbing expression.

I raised my hands and said to him. "Ji-hoon, listen to my story."

But Ji-hoon couldn't calm down his excitement. "Don't you remember when we gave up on our start-ups because we didn't have much money?"

'How couldn't I remember that?' I answered him, "$50,000!"

"Yes, $50,000. At that time, we had all the ideas, but gave them up on them because we didn't have $50,000!"

"Yes…"

Ji-hoon said, pointing to the expensive items in my room. "What's this? What about that chair? What about that computer? Those things on that desk are $10,000!"

I understood this guy's anger. We gave up on our dreams because of money.

"No, Ji-hoon. Take your time. You know what my parents do. And you came to my hometown. Don't you remember? I was born into a poor family?"

When I brought up the old story, Ji-hoon's excitement finally tampered down a bit.

"Oh, it was… it was… That's right…" Ji-hoon came to my house during vacation. He had a meal at our little more than 99 square-meter house and rode in an old Korean car, my father's car.

"Then, this is… What is it? What the hell?"

I made my brain work. 'What should I say? Shall I just be honest?'

But then Ji-hoon suddenly opened his eyes wide and said, "Hey, maybe…"

'Maybe?'

"Did you buy coin?"

It was an unexpected question. By the way, I didn't think it was a bad idea to go with that story. If I said I had increased my money by the stock trading and got the Lotto grand prize five times, it would be a little hard for him to believe.

"Oh, yeah… That's right. I bought some coin, in the early days of that."

I made up a story that I saw somewhere on the Internet and told him as much as I could remember.

"I have a friend who majored in computer among my high school alumni… He told me to buy some coins before I went to the military, so that I might get a great hit. It was about when I was about to go to the army. I left to join the army after drinking with the money from my part-time job, but there was only $30 left in my account… and I bought it."

"So?"

"And I forgot. Of course, I didn't remember when I was in the army, and I was busy going back to school after I left the army. I forgot, but I after I found out on the news recently I remembered I had some coin. So when I looked through the old computer, I found the coin…"

"Huh…" Ji-hoon flung out his tongue as if he didn't believe it. I raised my hands and said, pointing to my studio. "I just sold it. The result is this studio."

Ji-hoon looked at me for a moment and exclaimed, "Brother…"

"Huh?"

"That's great! Really!"

I thought inside, It's good to call you, too.

Ji-hoon had been a very pure and nice guy for a long time. I was a person who personally thought that if I wanted to see a person's bare face, I should see him drunk. This guy used to drink with me every day in college, and would speak from his heart every time, "Let's try our best. We can do it. My parents won't be able to help me beyond college. I'm sorry. The last time I went to your house… Your sister is pretty. Does she have a boyfriend?"

Though he was a little far from subtle or refined, he was naturally a good man. Our school had traditionally been stronger in the liberal arts majors than the sciences, but Ji-hoon had always been a top student at the department of business administration. He was also known for his amazing ideas and knowledge in the start-up club where we met. However, basically, I didn't have any money.

"So how have you been? I heard you were working somewhere last time."

"I… I started my own business after all."

"Really?"

"I started a business invested in by the people around me. But then the idea couldn't be revealed to others."

The item we had tried to start was meaningless as soon as we told someone. So we couldn't even get an investor. In this industry, investors were often forced to take an idea and throw them away.

"But… I just got an investment due to my academic background and my activities at the start-up club. It was a small amount."

"So?"

"Do you know Mawith?"

"Ah… I think I've heard of it." Mawith was an investment firm formed by large companies, specializing in start-ups.

"But the information was leaked. They started the exact same thing as our business, with greater capital. Of course, we were pushed away, because we didn't have any money."

"Ah…"

Ji-hoon said, dropping his head. "So, in a word, I'm doomed. Actually, I was at work today, but… the last remaining developer said he would pull out because he did not receive a month's pay. So, I just scraped the money out of my account and sent it to him."

I said, patting him on the shoulder. "It's okay. If you failed this time, if you try again…"

"But it's not easy, especially in our country… If someone fails in other countries once, they think he'll do well next time. However, if someone fails in our country once, they think he will fail again. So I was intending to contact you, not today, but tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"Why?"

"Why? To get a job. You had an interview and got a job; I was going to ask you that. But… I didn't think you would be coming out with slippers to Gangnam Station."

I nodded, "Yes, I did…"

While I was being robbed at work, he was living hard, too. The difference was that I had been incredibly lucky. I said, tapping Ji Hoon on the shoulder.

"But don't be too depressed. I'll be the new investor."

"Yes?"

"It's as I said. I know you well. You were supposed to be a success. You're going to do better now because you've failed once."

Ji-hoon looked at me with his big eyes. "Brother! Thank you just for talking! Brother!" Ji-hoon acted like he was crying at me.

I talked to him on the back. "Yes, but also, I have a favor to ask you."

"What's that? Just name it. I'll help you with everything."

"Yes, that's good. Let's go out and talk about it."

"Yes!"

In the end, we decided to unite again. I dressed up moderately and went out the door with Ji-hoon. I was standing in front of the elevator, pressing the down button and waiting for a moment.

"How did you get in here?"

"I picked this place because it was my favorite one, my taste here."

"I see—"

Then the elevator door opened and a beautiful woman in a black dress appeared. My other neighbor, the landlord, Lee Ah-young. I greeted her first. "Hello."

She also looked at Ji-hoon and me. "Oh, hello." She greeted us with a small burp and passed us by. As she did, there was a faint smell of alcohol, along with the smell of perfume.

'Did she have a glass of wine somewhere?'

I got into the elevator thinking that way and pressed the first floor and waited for the elevator to close.

But as soon as the elevator door closed, Ji-hoon shook his fists again and said, "Wow, who's that woman? Do you know her?"

"Why?"

"She is so pretty…"

"Oh… yes. I was very surprised when I first saw her. She is very pretty with her pride and elegance."

"Ah, such a beautiful lady lives here. You look like you are rich now. Seriously. Your neighbor is a celebrity!"

I said, shaking my head, "She's not a celebrity."

"Well, I think she could be a celebrity?"

"I've searched, too, but she is not an entertainer. She's just the owner of the building. I'm paying monthly rent from her, too."

"Monthly rent?" Ji-hoon looked at me with a look of disappointment.

"Yes, the rent is monthly… Let's go talk.""So you want to set up an investment company," Ji-hoon said, turning over the well-cooked meat on the fire.

"Yes. The kind of company that aims to merge with other companies."

"There's a special purpose acquisition company or something like that."

"I know, but I'm not going to do that, but I'm going to continue to raise capital and invest, and I'm going to own a lot of other companies in the long run. I want to start a parent company like that, okay? I want you to do it for me."

"That's what I can do for you. I've already set up a company. By the way, how rich are you?"

My assets were not what they were. My current account had about $8,900,000, but that would be more than $10,000,000 in a week or two, anyway. In fact, my biggest asset was my position as a Platinum-Class subscriber of 12 Hours After, rather than money.

When I didn't answer, Ji-hoon started to calculate by himself. "I met you after you went back to school. And you joined the army… If you got coin worth $30, then…"

"No, just know I'm rich." I took a shot of Soju to keep him from calculating. "Cheers!"

We did a one-shot, the same thing in our school days, without anyone to say anything about it. Our start-up club inherited the old club style of our seniors until us, and if we hit the glass, it was a one-shot.

"Ch…"

We filled each other with empty glasses. This alcohol reminded me of the old days. We were going to be Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates.

The days when there was no money and only dreams were there. Since then, we'd all seen bitterness in reality, but now we didn't have to. Now I had the power to make my dream come true. I was on my way.

Without touching his favorite meat, Ji-hoon told me carefully, "Hey, brother, I would like to prepare the start-up for you, but…"

"But?"

"My parents told me to get a job now, so… I'm a little worried. I've been without an income for a while."

'Oh, that's the story.' I heard a word and understood his situation in a heartbeat. But at the same time, I also realized that Ji-hoon didn't understand my situation well. I raised my glass and said, "Hey. That's enough. You're worrying about some money in front of me. I'll give it to you. Your salary."

"Really?"

"Yes, you don't have to worry about getting a job. You'll get paid to work. Um… I will give you $5,000 a month, enough?"

Ji Hoon's eyes grew bigger in what I said.

"$5,000 a month?" Ji Hoon's hand, still holding a Soju cup, shook a little.

I put my glass to the trembling glass lightly and said, "Yes. I'll give you that much. Do your best."

Ji-hoon replied in a slightly emotional voice, "Brother, I'll do my best to be loyal."

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[There was an update error during the modification. I'm sure many of you haven't seen the published article serially in the system since the alarm went off yesterday. Go back and watch Hanhwa.]"Uh…" I got up holding my head. My head ached. I got up from my sofa.

'Sofa?' As I saw it now, Ji-hoon was sleeping in my bed.

Looking at him reminded me of a rarity. Drinking Soju, Makgeolli, and beer, I even drank a glass of spirits that I didn't drink normally.

'Brother, it's $800 a bottle. Is it okay?'

'Don't ever talk about the price in front of me again. Drink it up. Drink up.'

It was worth having a headache.

'What time is it now?'

I found my cell phone. It was 8:40. The habit was scary. Even if I drank like that, my eyes opened at 8:40. I sat down on the sofa again with a glass of cold water. Fortunately, today was Saturday, and the stock market was not open. I didn't have to rush to check the news and sit on the computer. However, I checked the mailbox. In the mailbox, the emails I received last night were still there. The arrival time was 8:55 p.m.

[P. 12 Hours After]

[P. 12 Days After]

As they said, this passive skill was overlaid with other passive skills. After taking the passive skill Additional News, there came two emails at 8:55 p.m., 12 Hours After and 12 Days After.

I tried to look at them by clicking on them. No matter what they sent me Friday night, the news in 12 Days After could be useful. I tried to open the email. There was a 'read' sign next to the email. I guessed I had seen the email after drinking so much yesterday.

'… I'm a big subscriber.'

I looked at all the emails I had gone through with that thought. I didn't remember anything about yesterday, and there was only bad news in it. I looked at the clock again. It was 8:53.

'It's time to look.'

The news 12 Hours After would disappear of its own in just twelve hours. I didn't know how it worked like that, but it was probably a secret. I took a drink of cold water.

Then, Ji-hoon rolled on the bed and talked in his sleep, "Give me another chance…"

I grinned at him. 'You must have had a hard time.'

It was sad to see that. In fact, if Ji-hoon was as good as he was, joining a large company was not a big deal. He used to be a top student in the department of business administration. As he grew up in the U.S. for several years when he was young, he was good at English. Even if he couldn't pick where he wanted to go for a year or so, he would get a good job somewhere. In a way, it was even greater to have chosen a difficult path, leaving the easy path if needed.

'Though he failed in the end… he's going to make himself stronger. It's great that we met here again.

'In the world, it's hard to find a competent colleague, and even more difficult to find a trusted colleague. We parted because of our circumstances, but it's time to join forces again. Of course, it has become an employer-employee relationship, not a "Steve Jobs and Wozniak" partnership, like before.'

It had been a while. I turned my head back to my mailbox. As expected, the old emails were gone.

[P. 12 Hours After]

[P. 12 Days After]

There was a new email. As usual, this email came at 8:55 a.m. Compared to the fact that I couldn't pick a category when I was in the Bronze Class and only got one news a day, I was now getting twenty-eight news articles. That wasn't just as useful as twenty-eight times, it was also clear that there was a higher chance of getting news that was worth some money. I quickly glanced through the news.

'But… not today.'

Unfortunately, there was nothing today despite the twenty-eight-fold increase in probability. I threw my cell phone down and lay down on the sofa again, closing my eyes. I didn't have to make money every day, but I felt bad because I didn't have good news to make money.

'I'm sure he's alive, too. Shall we take the grand prize in Lotto again?'"Hurrah-." Ji-hoon inhaled the soup coolly. "Uh, now you're well off. How much did we drink yesterday, brother?"

"I have a rare memory, too. I'm glad the bar was near my house, or I almost fell asleep by the side of the road."

"Of course."

Ji-hoon finally came to his senses after slapping himself in the face with his hands. It was almost 1 p.m.. "But the view here is really nice, "Ji-hoon said, looking at the scenery outside of my studio window.

I followed him outside and said, "I have to pay for it. The monthly rent is $6,000."

"$6,000?" Ji-hoon looked at me, his eyes sticking out.

"Yes."

"Then that beautiful owner of the building that I saw yesterday… Is she making $6,000 a month?"

"It's $6,000 a month. I think she's got five or six in this studio building under her name. Of course, $30,000 to $36,000 won't be the monthly rent every month, but… that's what she is going to do."

"Oh, she's so pretty, she's got a lot of money… her life must be exciting. If a beauty like that makes $30,000 to $36,000 a month, where would she spend it all? It's Europe, America, Africa, and I think she'll have to go abroad every day."

"Well…" The conversation kept shifting to useless talk. I asked him insinuatingly, "Do you remember everything I said yesterday?"

"What did you say yesterday?"

I put my forehead on. Maybe he forgot all about that.

"Yes, I haven't called you to drink together in a long time."

"Yes, I know. Are you doubting me?" Ji-hoon said with curiosity.

I asked him like an interview, "Then why did I call you yesterday?"

"To set up an investment company. I know the field well."

"And then?"

"You asked me to look for a company to take over."

"What kind of company is it?"

"Entertainment. Or a company where people are the main players."

"Yes, that's good." I gave Ji-hoon a smack on the back. As expected, he was brilliant.

Ji-hoon tapped his chest and said, "Don't worry, brother. Who am I? Yes? Isn't this Seo Ji-hoon, the genius of the ten-year history of the founding club? I met a lot of investment companies while I was a start-up company. I've learned a lot about investing in them. Trust me."

"Yes. I only believe in you."

"Brother… Do you remember what you said yesterday for sure?"

"What?"

"$5,000 a month."

"Oh, don't worry about that. I'll give you a big bonus if you work well."

"Yes, sir." Whenever he talked about money, he put the word "sir" on his words.

'Is this a power of $5,000 per month?'

After he got rid of his hangover, Ji-hoon got up from his seat. "I'm going to go now. Thank you for calling me."

"Don't mention it. I'll start working with you and who will I be with?"

"Yes." Ji-hoon went to the door with a single smile. "Oh, by the way… What are you going to name your company?"

"Well… I haven't thought about it yet."

I thought for a moment. What would be the name? I'd never thought about it. I asked Ji-hoon the other way around.

"What good name do you have?"

"Concept or… Don't you have that?"

"Concept?"

"Yes. It's good to name it. We used to do it when we were in the start-up club. What we are going to do with brand-naming."

I could remember a little bit from back then. "Well… OK. My investment company concept is… An investment firm that never loses."

Ji-hoon rewrote my words as if he didn't want to forget them.

"An investment firm that never loses…"

"Yes. An investment firm that never loses. That's my company concept. I've never thought about a specific name before. I'll think about the name. Think about it, too."

"Brother. I'll call you as soon as I get on with my work."

"Yes, about your salary… I'll just give it to you as of today. Text me your account number."

"Huh, oh, really?"

"Yes, just leave your account number."

"Thank you, my brother."Ji-hoon thanked me several times and left the studio. It wasn't long before I got a text message [Seo Ji-hoon, Mingook Bank XXX-XXXXX-XXX].

He sent it fast.

'He must have been desperate.'

I remitted $5,000 to him right away. I started to close the mobile phone app, but I remembered something.

'Ah…'

At my thought, I pressed to add the account transfer. I had been putting $3,000 each into my dad's and mom's account since last month, as it was time to send the allowance after a month.

'Let's see… $3,000 in my dad's account, $3,000 in my mom's account.'

After a while after the transfer, my dad called me.

"Sang-hoon."

"Yes, dad."

"Did you send $3,000 each for us? I didn't even use the money I got last month."

"No, it's just… it's a reward for raising your son."

"No, but there's too much… Are you all right?"

"Don't worry about me."

"Yes, I see. Thank you, son."

As soon as my dad's phone was finished, my mom called me.

"Sang-hoon, why did you put so much money in here? We're fine."

"No, I've got a lot of money, but I can't be the only one who eats well. I have to be filial at a time like this. Take it."

"Thank you. Is your new place okay?"

"Yes, I like it. Come sometime."

"Yes, we will."

After the call with my parents, I looked down at my cell phone for a while and called my sister.

"Hello, brother?"

"Yes, Su-jeong."

"Why? What's going on? I'm busy right now."

"…Oh, well, that's a good story."

"Speak quickly. I came to the cafe with my friends."

'Is that a busy matter?'

"I've decided to start up again with my former colleague."

"Really? Will you do it again? Don't you think you're going to lose everything you earned with the Lotto?"

I said to my sister, forcing my blood pressure to rise slowly. "I think I'm going to be a little busy in the future anyway. So I hope you'll be nice to our parents at home, because I won't be home often to do that."

"What you're talking about?" She was asking what I was talking about, even though she understood it.

I spoke in a direct way, "I'll give you $1,000."

"$1,000?"

"$1,000 every month. Try to serve our parents both materially and spiritually on my behalf."

Su-jeong changed her posture in an instant. "I'll do it, brother."

'Bah. As expected.'

"Yes, then, please."

"Yes, brother."

At the end of the conversation, I hung up the phone. 'Money is also a thing of temptation. If anyone shows it, they're deluded, and if anyone gives it to them, they obey.'

The reason I didn't realize this was that I was always tempted by money and obedient. However, I was against it now. I would be now the CEO and owner of an investment company, and with this money, I would delude others and make them obedient to me.

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I put my hand on the popcorn.

In front of me, Leonardo DiCaprio had a fiery tongue. "Poverty is never noble! I've lived as a rich man and as poor man, and if someone asks me to choose between them, I'll always choose the rich. At least then, when I am in trouble, I can face the problem with at least a $2,000 suit in my limousine and a $40,000 watch."

I brought the coke to my mouth. Sweet cola hit my throat with thrilling carbonic acid.

"Are you finding it hard to live on because you're behind in the loan on your car? Then call the customer and sell the stock. Does the landlord want you to leave? That's great. Pick up the phone and dial it. Does your girlfriend ignore you as a loser? Great! Then turn the dial. All the problems are solved with money!"

The movie in which Leonardo DiCaprio was speaking was Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street." This was a story about a trickster on Wall Street who became a huge rich man and then collapsed. I'd seen it before, but I suddenly thought about it and rehashed it again when I decided to set up an investment company in earnest this time.

Leonardo DiCaprio shouted loudly, holding a microphone in his hand. "Let's hit an out-of-the-park homer with this stock!"

I shook my head with a big chew of popcorn. 'Ch… this speech scene… amazing.'

I pressed back on the remote control. The movie ran backwards and returned to where Leonardo gave his speech again. The beam project behind me had once again vividly recreated the famous scene.

"Poverty is never noble!"

The place I was watching the movie was one of the rooms inside my studio. I chose this 165 square-meter studio because of the scenery outside, but it was too big for me, who had lived only in a six square-meter studio since I had entered college. Even if I did more shopping and filled it up with furniture, there was a room left.

So I filled one of the spare rooms with a sofa, beam projector, and speakers, and made it a private theater. It cost me about $20,000 to decorate like this, but if I was listening to vivid pictures and sounds, I didn't think it was a waste of money.

I put my hand to the popcorn once again. I had bought the popcorn and cola at the movie theater in Gangnam Station, three minutes away. I bought only popcorn and coke without watching the movie. Still, I was probably not a bad customer because I boosted their sales. By the way, I had been watching a movie for a long time.

Wi-ying. The cell phone alarm went off. 8:50 p.m.

'Oh, is it that time already?'

I stopped the movie and came to the front of the computer. I waited for five minutes and received the emails.

[P. 12 Hours After]

[P. 12 Days After]

Right now it was Sunday evening. 12 Hours After was not very useful, but 12 Days After was meaningful. If I knew what was going to happen in twelve days, I would buy shares sometime next week. The sad thing was that I'd been in a shambles for nothing. Twice a day, there were no fish on the line.

'Let me have a good fish today…'

I had really good news in the Economy category of 12 Days After.

[A contract of $865,400,000 exports of Essen Bio to German Pharmaceuticals]

'Essen Bio?'

The important thing here was whether or not this company was listed. No matter how good it might be, there was nothing I could do if it was not listed. I immediately typed 'Essen Bio' into the search box.

'There it is!'

Essen Bio was a pharmaceutical company with the market capital of one billion listed on the KOSPI. I read the article then.

[Essen Bio made an announcement on the fourteenth that it has signed an agreement with German drug-maker Leven Science to export its VL360 drug, an antibody drug, for $865,400,000. Essen Bio will receive $30,000,000 in contract fees, $20,000,000 in research fees, and $815,400,000 in technical fees for each step.]

'A contract worth $865,400,000 from a company with a total of one billion dollars' market capital.'

It was a big fish. I read down on the article. Unfortunately, there was no talk of the stock price rising or falling. It was okay, though. This was a good enough price to go over the ceiling.

'All right, I'll have to buy Essen Bio all week. The official announcement date is the fourteenth.'

The fourteenth was next Thursday. It was Friday, exactly twelve days from today. Just as 12 Hours After, in which there was a variety of news from now to twelve hours later, there seemed to be news from today to up to twelve days from now in the news of 12 Days After. I put 'Essen Bio' on top of my watch list. The amount of money I had now was about $8,900,000. A company with a total of one billion dollars' market capital was the perfect prey.The next day, I split the time into small pieces while the stock market was open and bought Essen Bio in the market. At 9 a.m., I bought $400,000 and played games. Then I bought again for $400,000 at 11 a.m. During the lunchtime, I put another $400,000 at 1 p.m., $400,000 at 3 p.m. reading comic books and $400,000 at the close. The total was $2,000,000 through five buy orders.

It was better to buy shares after reading the news in 12 Days After than buying them after watching the news of 12 Hours After, as I could buy shares without raising prices as quickly as before. Essen Bio even fell today, even though I bought $2,000,000 worth.

[Essen Bio $13.40 –0.74%]

My average loss was about 2%. The loss today alone reached $40,000, but I was fine since it was a stock that was going to climb anyway.

'I'd rather buy a good stock at a lower price. Sell more, you guys.'

Looking at today's trading trends, foreign investors bought it, but it was sold by institutional investors. The pension funds, which played with the people's money, had a massive sell-off today.

'I think the pension fund operators won't get this information first. Even if it's a pension fund, it's only predicting the future with the information they have, not trading it with information from the future.'

Tuesday, I bought the same $2,000,000. By the way, the stock price continued to fluctuate. Foreigners selling stocks in bulk today meant my net loss as of today was over $100,000.

'It's all right, it's all right now.'

I went on with it, though. It would be up next Friday at the latest. I made the same purchase on Wednesday. By the way, the stock price fell again. -3%. I lost $200,000 today alone. I was a little nervous at this point.

'What… isn't there going to be a lot of bad news in a week? The contract notice will be released on Thursday.'

I thought it was good to have time, but in 12 Days After, the news didn't have this problem. In 12 Hours After, there was no time for other variables since time was urgent. So, knowing the results that day I could make a profit with little risk. The news in 12 Days After could be a little dangerous. I didn't know what was going to happen between the twelve days.

'Well… I'm going to keep this in mind. I was going to buy splitting it up as much as I could, and then I might get caught up in some unexpected bad news.'

It was $300,000 out of $8,900,000. It was okay because I did not lose a lot yet, but I should be a little careful about buying them all this week.

'Is it because there's still no one who's quick on the information?'

I logged on to the chat room on 'Garden Envy' after a long time. I wanted to know what was going on here. When I entered the chat room, the first thing I saw was a notice.

Master T

– We won't have a meeting this week. Stay focused on your work and see you next week.

– This week, there is free debate, not a discussion topic.

This meeting did not seem to be held every week. I didn't mean to go back to the strange gathering, anyway. I saw the number of people in the room, eighty-eight. It was more than it used to be. Like section chief Kim Hye-sook, who invited me there, it seemed like there were more people who had been asked by that Master T, Director Tak Joon-gi.

'It's… it's weird.' I looked at the chat window, thinking like that.

Dr. J.

– I think there will be good news for Yugil Pharmaceuticals around next Wednesday. Buy it now.

Luminous

– Dr. J., what's the good news?

Dr. J.

– New drug trials in the U.S. It is said that the second phase clinical trials will be good.

Triple K

– Well, doesn't it take a long time to go on sale, even if the second phase is successful?

Sunnyside Up

– But the stock price will jump. Thank you for the good information. I'm going in too.

In this chat room, there were a lot of bio-pharmaceuticals stories. I didn't know if it was because there were many doctors or because the pharmaceutical bio stocks were hot. I chatted for the first time, looking at the chat window.

Duros

– Members, do you happen to know Essen Bio? Do you have any good news or bad news?

The doctors stuck to my chat.

Dr. J.

– That is where they develop cures for autoimmune diseases. They exported technology to China last year, and don't have much these days.

They had a story about what they did just by seeing the name. It was as expected.

Dr. Lee Sang-han

– That contract made good sales last year. It's a tech company, but I think there is a little bubble on it right now. If it' were about 10 percent cheaper than now, I would buy it.

I'd already bought $6,000,000. If it was ten percent cheaper, I would lose $600,000. It was a dizzying amount.

Stock Specialist

– I bought it last year when it hit the jackpot. I've been holding it for half a year. It's not fun. After selling it with a loss, I'm going to buy something else.

'I see.'

The doctors did not seem to know that there was such a contract. But this big announcement was hard to know unless they were an insider. Having grasped the mood, I decided not to buy more shares right away, but watched the stock price a little more.Thursday. Stocks fluctuated between ups and downs before ending in a 0% combination. On Friday, it rose 3%. As I was holding $6,000,000 worth of shares, I recovered about $200,000.

'Was it just a breeze that the stock price fell the last time?'

I thought so. The next Monday, I bought an additional $2,000,000. The stock price ended in the 1% range.

Tuesday, I used my credit to buy $2,000,000 more. The stock price was 1%. There was no sign of fluctuation. I recovered all the losses today. The last 4$ loss seemed to have been a simple supply and demand problem.

Wednesday. In one more day, there would be good news. There was no further delay.

I used my credit and bought an additional $6,000,000. Total purchases were now $16,000,000 Perhaps because of my buying spree, the stock price rose to 4%. A 4% increase would be normal. It was a little difficult to say if the information was spreading.

'As I know, some of the major shareholders buy and sell stocks under borrowed-name accounts if there is good news.' But at this company, there would be decent news. 'Even sooner than I… they could have bought it twelve days ago.'

Come to think of it, it was more likely. A big deal like this would have made sense twelve days ago…Eventually, it became the Thursday of fate. The stock price was just like that on Thursday. It got down and climbed up, and then around 11 am, Essen Bio reached the upper limit price as the announcement was up.

[An export contract of $865,400,000 of Essen Bio with German Pharmaceuticals]

I looked at my account with a total of $5,000,000 printed on it and thought. 'It's easy. It's easy.'

But suddenly, I was curious about the reaction of the people at Garden Envy. I dropped by the chat room.

Dr. J.

– Wow. Essen Bio reached the upper limit price. I think I saw it in this chat room a while ago.

Idios

– Yeah, I think I saw it.

Dr. Lee Sang-han

– I'm looking up the chat window. It's the stock that Duros mentioned.

Sure enough, there was someone who was referring to me. I roughly put it around.

Duros

– No, I just bought a little, $100,000, because the chart looked good. I should have bought it more. Idios, did you have any information?

Idios

– If you bought $100,000, you'll get plus thirty thousand today. Good.

Dr. Lee Sang-han

– You're a chart specialist! You're amazing.'I actually bought $16,000,000…'

I didn't say any more. I didn't want to get noticed for anything.Friday, the next day, Essen Bio started with 27% early in the market, but was up 30% in a minute, hitting the ceiling on it. Putting the two days together, I made nearly $10,000,000. I looked at it and thought. 'At least the $10,000,000 unit is easy to make.'

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I floated my account on the monitor at once. The total number of accounts I'd been running these days was four: Dooly Financial, Hanshin Securities, Kiwi Securities, and Mate Securities. Each held $7,000,000 in shares of Essen Bio, the total was $28,000,000. I checked the remaining volume at the upper limit price this time.

'Let's see… How many people want to buy right now…'

Even though it was the upper limit for the second straight day, $5,000,000 was still on standby for those who wanted to buy the stock. It was a large quantity, but I had too many shares.

'Then, let's sell it from here.'

I decided to take my foot off. Given the remaining volume at the upper limit price, this stock was likely to go further for the time being. But my stock volume was too big. No matter how if I was a lion, I couldn't eat all the buffalo I'd hunted by myself. I'd eat deliciously, but leave the rest of the bones for the hyena crowd. Some of the hyenas who came too late might not be able to eat anything and return with their empty stomachs.

Like Hansel and Gretel, who were lost again, I took a piece of bread and sold a tiny bit of the stock I had on the road.

"Sell order…and sell order…"

Not a few tens of thousands, I threw them in four accounts like a Gatling gun. I sold them on a rotating basis. If they knew that a big hand went on a massive selling spree, the ants might run away in confusion.

'It should not be. Take all my shares, and then make money or not.'

I ate all the flesh and handed the bones over to them. Of course, I didn't know whether there would be any remaining flesh there, I ate only this much. At around 1 p.m., I secretly sold about $4,000,000 of shares. The remaining shares were $24,000,000. Even after I sold $4,000,000 worth, the remaining volume was the same. That was because even though shares were sold at the upper limit price, the same amount of money was waiting for more.

'I think it'll go further.'Thinking so, I took my cell phone, wallet, and even Garden Envy's cell phone and came out of the studio. If I walked for about five minutes, there was a snack bar. I continued to sell my stocks there, eating ramen and gimbap. Today I became richer than $20,000,000, but what I ate was instant noodles. I couldn't help it. I had to keep as much tension as I could before I finished working. I also watched Garden Envy's reaction as I ate.

Bulacell

– Essen Bio, I barely got on the opening price today, and it'll go further, right? How much longer will it go?

Dr. J.

– These days, if a bio-stock has good news, it goes up in droves. Compared to that, Essen Bio is really a good stock. Last year and this year, they've won two mega contracts.

Stock Specialist

– Milestone is a technology export charge. It's been divided over the years, so it's like a fixed sale. It won't be easy to get down even if it goes up further.

Shudderwock

– Be careful, though. The stock price of a company with one billion market capital… it has been at the upper limit price two times in a row. The total market capital has been increased by $700,000,000…

Stinger

– $865,400,000 in sales in one billion dollars' unit. Because of the nature of pharmaceutical stocks, the operating profit rate is also high. I think it makes sense to be a two-day upper limit price. They have invested some big money in researchers for a few years, and we need to recognize their ability to develop. It's not just one hit. We have to give it a premium if they hit each time.

The reaction on this side was generally positive. I didn't need to sell it in a hurry. I decided to take it easy.Over the following weekend, Essen Bio was hot all the time. Despite the weekend when the market was not open, the stock bulletin board was crowded with people.

– How far should this go? Three days or four days?

– I don't think it can go any further because it has a big body. Sell it tomorrow.

– Why can't it go? Not just anyone can do that export of $865,400,000.

– Would a German pharmaceutical company known for its frugality have signed for nothing?

– Lower limit price, lower limit price. The exciting song.

It was easy to pick people here. Those who usually said it would be going up had already bought the stock. Those were the people who wanted it to go up. Those who said it would be going down were the people who were waiting to buy. They were going to buy it as it dropped.

I also saw the Garden Envy side.

Karachiko

– Essen Bio. Will it go up any further on Monday? Is it too late?

Kim Gum-mo

– I see that they hit the upper limit price twice, so I am sure it will go further. The good news was so big.

Director Shin

– I should've taken the ride yesterday when they gave me a little chance at the beginning. I didn't go in because I was afraid of the upper limit price twice.

There was a constant stream.

Dr. J.

– Did Duros sell it?

There were people looking for me. I talked in moderation as usual.

Duros

– Yes, I ate it properly at the second upper limit.

I didn't want to draw attention. I just had to use this meeting to my advantage here.

Stock Specialist

– From the looks of the atmosphere, it would have been okay if you took a little more… You did a good job.

Kaiji

– But it hit the upper limit price twice, so he must have eaten about 70%. Duros, Nice shot!

Now, if I would go to the meeting and say, 'I'm Duros,' there would be one or two of them welcoming me.After the weekend, Essen Bio shares fluctuated violently as they went through Monday and Tuesday. It went to 10%, went to -2%, ended at 5%, and it started again at 3%, rose to 8%, and closed at 10%. In the meantime, the trading volume also exploded.

Bio shares were receiving keen attention in the market these days, but now that a stock with such good news had emerged, they seemed to have been pinched. But nevertheless, I sold all my stock over two days.

'I'm all out this way… Sell order'

I took advantage of the news on 12 Days After which I had received. In the future, it might be driven up by people's greed or by fear, but I decided not to pay attention to it.

There were sayings in the stock market.

"Sell any stock with 70% earnings."

"Buy on its knees, sell it off on its shoulders, and get out of there."

'They mean that we should not be too greedy. A stock can be bought by a buyer when a seller sells it. People who buy my shares are also confident that they can sell them for more than they currently buy it, not to let me earn money.'

That was right. That was enough for me.

'Everyone, make a lot of money.'

I ended the selling by sincerely thanking the institutions and foreign individual investors that bought $28,000,000 worth of my shares. After all the sales, the amount I'd profited was about $13,000,000. I quickly had $22,000,000 in assets.

"Whi-woo!"

I got up from my chair whistling. A profit of $13,000,000! That was $13,000,000 for just one sale. Neither Warren Buffett nor Jim Rogers would make as much profit as I did now. A miraculous return! I felt like I became a real god of the stock market.I looked in the mirror for a moment.

'All right. Clean shave and a nice suit.'

I wore a suit after a long time. Of course, it was an expensive custom-made suit that was almost ten times more expensive than I used to wear. I tried it on only once and never wore it again. I wore it this time. If I didn't wear a suit, I would not fit where I wanted to go now.

'Well… it's a little bland in a suit like this. I should buy a watch, too.

'To be honest with myself, I don't think the original use of a wristwatch is very good in the present age. Why do I have to wear a heavy wristwatch when I always have a good time on the smartphone? I think the use of a wristwatch is actually 99% show-off, not for me to see, but to show it to others. It's snobbery, but it actually works for snobbery. It's meaningful.

'Well, I'll buy one. Rolex? How much is it for one?'I added a 'high-priced watch' to my shopping list. Then I went out of the room and took a taxi.

"Where do you want to go?"

"Daechi-dong. NU Building."

"Okay!"

There was not much time left to take a taxi. I was going to the car dealership.I asked, touching the glossy rear-view mirror, "How much is this model?"

"Oh, this model is optionally from $140,000 to $250,000."

Listening to the words, I thought, 'It's not as expensive as I thought.'

If it was $140,000 to $250,000, it was three to four tics when I bought a stock at $20,000,000. I saw the body. There was the Porsche mark, a shield with a black horse on it. That was cool, definitely.

'Porsche is cool. Good to come this way.'

Benz, BMW, Audi… they were too cheap, and I skipped them. These days, they were common, as professional people bought them at discounts or even people with high-end salaries rode them around. They were not even noticeable in Gangnam. After living in Gangnam for about a year, only Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, or Bentleys got attention from people. That was why I decided to use my experience to buy this brand.

'Well… let's look here first… All I have to do is go to Bentley's, right?'

I excluded Lamborghini and Ferrari for now. I had only driven an old-fashioned dad's car, and a Bongo car that carried the children from houses to the training center. I drove for the first time in a long time, and I was a little reluctant to drive a sports car. I didn't know how to drive with such a low body.

It had to be avoided not only for myself, but for others as well. If I drove poorly and ran into someone, the problem would grow. It would cause physical damage to others, not just financially. These days, if someone had an accident, the accident was usually concluded with both parties being mutually at fault. The ratio of 10 to 0 was rarely seen. If the person who crashed my car was a commoner, it would be a matter of great importance to him or her. I didn't want to do that.

"Can I try it?"

"Of course."

I sat in the car. The luxurious seats, the grip-perfect handle, and above all, good visibility was excellent. I was holding the wheel and I didn't know what to say.

"Wow, that's good… I have to buy this."

In fact, it was like an exclamation point, but as soon as it was over, the dealer came in. "Then do you want to sign a contract?"

I was holding the steering wheel, and I was fascinated by the horse drawn on it.

"Yes," I answered right away.

"Oh good!" the dealer told me with a bright smile.

I was going to go to Bentley's, but I signed a contract before then.

"What's your name, sir?" The dealer was already trying to fill out the contract.

"Han Sang-hoon," I told him.

"Yes. Mr. Han Sang-hoon." The dealer grinned and wrote down my name.

It was enough. I liked this car.

'Let's buy this car first.' I thought inside. 'I can't help it. Let's buy a Bentley next month.

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I sat in front of the computer and cracked my neck. 8:55. There were two emails coming.

[P. 12 Hours After]

[P. 12 Days After]

I clicked [P. 12 Hours After] first. No wonder I had that much time in 12 Days After. In fact, the news of 12 Days After was perfectly safe to read slowly after lunch. There was a catchy word for me after I received the email: the upper limit price.

[Economy – Upper limit price on the day of the KG FS listing]

'All right, all right. This is a big fish, too.'

It was the first time that the upper limit price had been quoted in the first four months of subscription. I clicked on it.

[KG FS hit the upper limit price on the day of its listing. KG FS, a subsidiary of South Korea's comprehensive food company KG Food, reached the upper limit price around 1 p.m. on a buying spree by investors on the day of the listing.]

There was nothing to look at in the article. What else could I look at when it said it was on the upper limit price? I first put KG FS on HTS. Then I read the article again.

[… it has issued an earnings surprise last quarter as the supply of items to school, hospital and public service meals has expanded. KG FS, which was shunned by individual investors at the time of the IPO, wrote a reversal story today by reaching the upper limit price today.]

'Oh, that's what happened.

'KG FS is an ugly duckling becoming a swan. Sometimes there is such a case. It is not easy to list not only on the KOSPI, but also on the KOSDAQ. They need to meet the strict listing conditions, undergo screening, and select listed companies to recruit investors, as well. The process may take from half a year to a few years.

'So, the performance was not good when recruiting investors and setting public offering prices, but in the meantime, their performance has improved. In some cases, they go to the upper limit price as soon as it is listed. On the contrary, there are many cases where they are listed and plummet. Anyway, the latest KG FS is the former case. I guess the performance has improved a lot while they have been preparing to go public.'

I checked the market capital. KG FS, which would be listed today, had a public offering price of $12 with the market capital of $430,000,000.

'It's a little small. If it's $430,000,000, it's a little burdensome to use all the $20,000,000 I have. Let's just buy some shares for sale. If I do something wrong, I might buy too much.'

I entered the market with such an idea. The starting price was already about to start at 5%. According to the news of 12 Hours After, it would go to the upper limit price at 1 p.m. I had to complete the purchase before then.[Correction News]

[The upper limit price on the day of the stock of KG FS which is listed today is changed. We inform you that the content has been revised due to a reader's involvement. The changes are as follows.]

There wasn't much change. The time that the upper limit price it reached was changed from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. The reason for the change in time was simple. I bought $9,000,000 worth of shares for an hour and raised it to the upper limit price. With so much money, it was easy to raise any stock to the upper limit price, but it was hard to get out. I calculated the money I earned today. I earned about $2,000,000 today. I decided to watch it one more day.

'It's a stock going to the upper limit price even if I didn't buy. It will not go down tomorrow.'

I got up from my seat with that thought. The work ended too early today.

'There's no good news in 12 Days After. Shall I go buy a watch?'I dressed up properly and left my room. I heard that it would take some time for the signed Porsche to be imported and delivered to me. I would have to take a little more time for a taxi.

I tried to get a taxi out of the studio. But while I was doing that, I got a call. The caller was Seo Ji-hoon.

"Brother!"

"Oh, Ji-hoon."

"I'm calling to report to you."

"Yes. How is it? Did you check that?"

"First of all, about setting up an investment company…"

Meanwhile, a taxi stopped in front of me. I got in and said to the driver, "The Mirae Department Store in Samseong-dong."

"Okay!"

Ji-hoon kept trying to talk. "When I tried a start-up…"

I interrupted his speech. "Hey, do you have an appointment today? Let's just meet and talk. It's a long story, anyway."

"Shall we do that, brother?"

"Yes. Come to Mirae Department Store in Samseong-dong. Let's meet and talk. We'll have lunch together."

"Yes, I see, brother."There were colorful, shiny watches ahead of me. I brought my face close to look at the watches. A staff member was following along.

"This is a Datejust and this is a Submariner. Young people like you usually look for a lot of Submariner products."

'Submariner is for a watch for a diver?

'The words are a little funny. Who wears this expensive watch and goes diving? I'm sure they're too busy wiping water even if they pour water onto it.'

But by the way, it was pretty. A product with a gold-plated blue background caught my eye.

"How much is this?"

"It's $16,600, sir!"

It was a lot of money, but it was not much, because I made $2,000,000 today.

"I'll buy it," I answered so coolly.

The staffer replied in slight panic, "Sir, I'll wrap it up now."

While the staff was wrapping up the watch, the phone rang. Ji-hoon was on the phone.

"Yes."

"Didn't you say you're in the luxury goods department?"

"Yes, the luxury goods department of Rolex."

"Oh, I see."Soon Ji-hoon appeared inside the store.

"Brother. Did you buy a watch?"

I pointed to the watch on the staff's hand. "Yes. Isn't that pretty?"

"Wow, that's beautiful! How much is that?"

'How much?'

I couldn't remember well because I'd only roughly heard the price.

"Was it $15,000? That much."

"Wow, brother. Really…" Ji-hoon looked at me with a pretty surprised look on his face. He still didn't seem to realize that I was rich.

'Shall I buy one for him, too? Now?'

But I decided not to. I could afford to buy it at a mere $15,000, but I didn't. Money should be presented as a proper reward when I managed people.

I said with a slight pat on Ji-hoon's chest. "When the investment company is established, and the first acquisition is successfully completed, I'll buy you one then. To celebrate."

"Really?"

"Yes, but if it works out well enough for me to be satisfied. So work hard. You'll know when you're working with me, but… It's nothing if you're good at your work."

'What I'm saying is the $2,000,000 I earned today. I didn't know before, but now I understand why the rich buy expensive products without a hitch. If Ji-hoon does this well, the $15,000 watch is really nothing.'

Ji-hoon once again said, bowing down, "Just trust me, brother."

I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Yeah, yeah. Let's go eat."The sliding door opened, and the woman with her hair neatly turned over asked, "Would you like to order?"

"Yes, Omakasero for two. Alcohol is… First, give me a bottle of Asahi."

"Yes, I see."

The waitress closed the door and went out. This was a Japanese restaurant located in Samseong-dong. The Japanese restaurant was divided into rooms like this, so it was good to talk about secret stories and business.

I asked Ji-hoon, "So how was it? Did you search?"

"I met some of the investors I had at the start of my business and asked them to give me some advice. But they didn't believe what I said: that you are a 29-year-old man setting up an investment company with the money he earned from coin."

"Well… that's right. Even you didn't believe it either."

"Of course."

If I had spoken frankly, they would have been more incredulous. An ordinary office worker earned $3,000,000 from five overlapping Lotto winnings and increased the money several times more from stock trading. They would have thought I was a swindler.

"Anyway, I found that I could set up an investment company as soon as people are ready. So I was thinking if I should recruit new people… But one of the people who I was asking for advice indicated that he wanted to quit and join us this way."

"Really? Who?"

"He's Jang Sang-jin, a team leader, in his mid-forties, and he is well-known in the start-up investment area. He has a good educational background and a lot of experience. From what I've seen, he's got a very good personality. He's been investing, but he's also been a mentor. He seems to have some problem in his company and wants to leave it."

"Well, is that so?"

'That's good. No matter how well Ji-hoon and I could do, we're 29 and 28. You will need advice from an old and experienced person.'

"Yes. But he was wondering whether our story was real or not. Therefore, he couldn't talk right."

"Then ask him to see me. When we meet and talk, he'll believe me, too."

"Do you think so?"

"Yes. You can arrange a meeting. If he is really good, I'll hire him."

"Yes, brother."

"Excuse me." While we were talking, the sliding door opened, and the food began to come in, one by one.

It was colorful, like an Omakase priced at $120 per person, and fancy. We picked out the food one by one. It was delicious all together.

"Ch… it is as if it's expensive."

"That is right, isn't it?"

The main dish, various seafood sashimi were coming out, and Ji-hoon and I were having a beer.

Ji Hoon, who was enjoying the meal, said, "That's right, brother. I talked to people in the investment industry and heard there's already a company for sale in Entertainment industry."

"Really? What company?"

"CKD Entertainment. Do you know a ballad singer? It's an entertainment company run by Mr. Do Chan-ki…"

"Oh, I know. CKD Entertainment."

I knew it well because I made some good money when it had plummeted by twenty percent due to the gay rumors.

"He had recently gay rumors. That's why the stock price was a little bit down lately."

"Yes, his recent business hasn't been working out well, and the gay rumors have broken out, and he's disillusioned with the entertainment business. The news broke and he got a lot of bad comments from the fans who he trusted. He wants to sell the company anyway, and he's looking for a buyer."

Anyway, whatever the story was, all I needed was the right price.

"Well, what's the situation with the company?"

"The situation of the company… is not good."

"Surely?"

"The company's income is not very good. A chronic deficit. But it has a good subsidiary, and I think they're paying off because they're earning a lot."

"A good subsidiary? Which company?" I said without much thought, picking up some tuna and dipping it in the soy sauce. By the way, I thought I had heard the same somewhere very recently.

"OH Entertainment. It is a small company they took over after the listing. The company seems to be doing well these days."

'OH Entertainment?'

At that time, Ji-hoon said, "The top celebrity of this company is Oh Hyun-joo. You know her, right? She has been on commercial ads lately because she got a big hit on a soap opera, Your and My Uncle…"

I almost missed the tuna I was holding. "Aaaaah…"

OH Entertainment was the same company that Oh Hyun-joo whose life I had saved belonged to.

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"You know Oh Hyun-joo, right? A beautiful actress."

I nodded. "… I know her." It was only two months ago that I had saved her life at the Unju Station Intersection.

"This OH Entertainment was just like that until last quarter, but I heard that Ms. Oh Hyun-joo has been so hot lately that its sales have increased dramatically. These days, she has been working on commercial ads for a new set of cosmetics and a cell phone. There's no commercial that doesn't work with her. I also heard that she recently got a role in Chungmuro."

"Well…" I recalled the moment when I caught the criminal and shoulder threw him down.

'That's when I was really…'

As I was reminiscing about the past for a while, Ji-hoon needed to get away.

"Brother, I need to go to the bathroom for a while."

After Ji-hoon closed the sliding door and went out, I searched my wallet. I had changed my wallet since I made a lot of money, but I hadn't thrown away the contents inside.

'… There it is.'

I found a business card inside my wallet.

'OH Entertainment President Kwon Oh-hyuk.'

That day, the president Kwon Oh-hyuk handed this to me in front of the police station and said, "Nothing else… We want to keep this case quiet."

He handed me the business card with a check of $30,000 to cover it on request.

'… that OH Entertainment is a subsidiary of CKD Entertainment. Then if I take over CKD Entertainment, OH Entertainment will be my company, too… I'm sure Kwon will be my man. And Oh Hyun-joo will become a representative entertainer of my company. What a strange connection this is! By the way, they took my phone number and never contacted me…'

If I took the number, I thought she'd text me or thank me no matter how busy she was, but that was it.

'It was a little disappointing, but… I'm sure there was a reason.'

I put the business card back in my wallet with that thought. Then I checked the stock price of CKD Entertainment on my mobile phone. I'd only had a day trade in the past, and I hadn't seen a whole chart. The ten year chart showed quite a fluctuation.

'Umm…'

CKD Entertainment first went public in 2012. It did not go up or down for a while, but started to go up a lot in 2015 and hit a high point in 2016. At that time, the market capital was $360,000,000. Since then, it had been on a sharp decline, and when I had been trading it, it was $120,000,000. Now it was a third of that. It seemed that something had been going wrong for a long time.

'If I look at this… he's not selling it just because of rumors…'Ji-hoon came back. I asked him, "Did you say that the business of CKD Entertainment hasn't gone well these days? Why is it?"

"Oh, that's the Chinese drama production business…"

"Ah…" I knew what he was talking about, without even hearing it all. There was a picture that would come out when the three puzzles of China, 2016, and entertainment were put together.

"As you know, the Korean Wave was great in China three or four years ago. So Do Chan-ki and his celebrities went to China and did a lot of events and made a lot of net profit. But…"

I said, cutting off Ji-hoon's words. "At that time, Hanhanlyeong broke out in China."

Hanhanlyeong was literally the ban on Korean cultural contents. As South Korea decided to deploy the THAAD system, it was a kind of intangible tariff, set up by the Chinese government to retaliate against it. Once a Korean celebrity appeared on TV only when the TV was turned on, the situation changed dramatically once the Hanhanlyeong was declared. The Chinese government stopped Korean-made dramas, movies, and entertainment programs, as well as advertisements featuring Korean celebrities.

"Yes. Even then, if they said they came from Korea, they sold so well. So, Do Chan-ki set up a corporation to do business in China and invested a lot. The investment was lost in the wake of the Hanhanlyeong. That's why the stock price has plummeted."

"Well, he thought it was an opportunity, but it was poison…"

The stock price chart was all understandable. It soared in 2014 and fell sharply after 2016. It was all a chart of Chinese sales coming in like a tide and falling out like a tide.

"The biggest one of them was Shanghai Lover. CKD Entertainment paid most of its production costs, so there was a local location drama in China. The main actor was CKD Entertainment ace Kim Jun-hyung, and the actress is… I heard that she was a very famous actress on the Chinese side. Anyway, they worked hard on the cast and spent about $10,000,000 to shoot all the dramas, but they haven't been able to air them for three years."

I searched for 'Shanghai Lovers' on my cell phone. The main character's face was familiar at first sight. Kim Jun-hyung.

"Well, I know this guy, Kim Jun-hyung."

"Yes, he's been doing well in the dramas lately. He has been known in China for a while… Just as he tried to pop out of this Shanghai Lover and become a top celebrity in China, he got caught by the ankle. I don't understand why China let them make a drama and then stopped the show."

"Well, even if their economy follows capital, their essence is communism."

Ji-hoon nodded and said, "Yes. I like our country when I think about such things, no matter what politicians fight and do."

"Yeah, even though the political arena in our country seems to be fighting every day… Maybe it's better. To make decisions without fighting against a one-party dictatorship… "

I wanted to say more, but I turned the subject around in fear of a prolonged boring political story.

" I'll find out more about CKD Entertainment. You, uh… that Jang Sang Jin? Please call the team leader and say that I want to meet him once and talk."

"Yes, brother. I'll call Jang first, and I'll call you back.""Umm." Back home, I sat in front of my computer and went over the financial statements of CKD Entertainment. The market capital was $120,000,000, the stake of a major shareholder slightly lower at around twenty percent. It was $24,000,000 in simple calculation, but since he wanted to sell it, he would make it a little cheaper.

'There are a lot of rumors and the new business has not run very well. I think they'll give it to me with a 5%-10% discount.'

If they gave it to me with a 10% discount, I could buy it right now.

'This is not a vain expectation. It is common for prices to be adjusted when there is large-scale trading in the stock market. When a buyer is in a hurry, he or she should buy all of his or her shares at a premium, and when the seller is in a hurry, he or she should hand over management rights and sell the stock at a discount rate.

'I'll buy it as cheaply as I can. It's not a dime or two, it's a million dollars' unit deal.'

I was thinking about it, but Jihoon called me. "Yes, Ji-hoon?"

"Brother. I'm in touch with Jang Sang Jin. He wants to meet you this weekend, do you have time then?"

"Yes. I do. Then… No, I'll call him in person. Can you give me his phone number?"

"Yes, brother."Team leader Jang Sang-jin was an elite stock man with a splendid resume. He was forty-two years old and a graduate of the economics department at Seoul National University. After graduation, he joined Kiwi Securities and worked as an analyst before becoming an investment consultant for a large IT company. The recent boom in the IT sector led him to the start-up boom. In the meantime, he met Ji-hoon. He was a veteran with proven ability, as seen by his academic background or career.Sunday night. I met him at a luxurious Korean restaurant located in Gangnam. Team leader Jang Sang-jin was a decent and polite person, as Ji-hoon had recommended.

"Mr. Han Sang-hoon. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to see you."

He was quite tall,about 185 cm. His face was slightly thin, but his body still looked strong. Usually speaking smoothly, but when asked or asking, his eyes were glowing with the light. He asked me about my company days at dinner.

"Then, Mr. Han Sang-hoon worked in the industry for about a year. How was it going? What about these days?"

"It wasn't bad when I first joined the company. But as our competitors developed and hit the mobile phone market, our company was losing its place more and more. So lately, it's been very, very bad."

"Oh, that's what it was."

Maybe he wanted to find out what I was, and if I was a swindler. He asked me, "So how much do you think the size of the investment company will be?"

"First of all, $30,000,000."

"First of all, $30,000,000?"

"Yes. $30,000,000 now."

When the specific amount came out, his eyes changed. It was not out of surprise. It was a look of disbelief, that he could not trust me. It was okay.

'If he doesn't doubt it like this here, he should be considered a fool. He is right to doubt, and I am right to dispel it.'

I took out the prepared material and handed it to him. The data was made for me by Kim Hye-sook. I didn't have any details, but that document would indirectly confirm my finances.

'If he looks at this, he'll figure it out right away.' As she said, Zhang turned over a few pages of documents and changed his eyes again.

"Oh, that's great. You are an amazing man."

From distrust to envy… Even this gentleman could not hide the sign of envy. He deserved it, too. Anyone, who had been in the investment business for more than a decade would have dreamed of getting a big hit.

The data changed the mood. I asked him a question, "By the way, why do you want to quit your current investment company?"

That was the only thing I was curious about. That question I'd like to ask if I was an interviewer. However, he was able to answer everything in a cool manner, but he hesitated with his words here for a while.

"Eh…"

I looked at him. If I didn't get the right answer here, I couldn't work with him.

But soon, he finally came up with what was inside. "I didn't get on the right line."

"Line?"

"Yes. It's about the situation of our company, so I'm afraid the explanation is long, but… Later, I realized that my achievements have become others', and that others' mistakes have become mine. So, if I had a good chance, I wanted to move."

He talked with extreme caution. I rather liked it. I would rather have hated him if he blamed the company he was in. He might do the same when he came to our company.

'Well… maybe this cautious nature will help me.'

He looked at me in the eye and said, "I want to work for a company where I work hard, produce results, and am duly rewarded for it. It's not a company controlled by political gimmicks or anything like that."

I laughed at the remark. I thought I could work with him like this. I told him in a straight way, "Then, team leader Jang, trust me and participate in our company's start-up. Your position is vice president. Keep your experience alive, and be my hands and feet in charge of business. I'll pay you what you want."

"If it's a fair reward, how much will it be?"

As expected, he was professional. In the professional world, the number was greater than the word. I took out my pen and wrote down the number on the tissue on the table and handed it to him. His eyes changed once more when he saw it. This time it was definitely a look of joy. He stood up and shook hands with me.

"Then I'll ask you to do me a favor, boss."

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I stepped on the accelerator. The new Porsche sped along the road coolly. It was like riding a swift horse with a black mane, with a maximum power of 550 horsepower and a maximum torque of a 78.5 4.0-liter turbo engine.

From the speakers came the bangarang of Skrillex, and I stepped on the accelerator even more strongly. The car moved out in a cool manner. The place I was driving now was Seoul-Chuncheon Expressway. There were not many cars because it was daytime on weekdays. It was the best place to drive, the optimum timing.

It wasn't because something happened that I was going to Chuncheon today. It was just to get in a new car and drive on the highway. I deliberately opened the window and whistled in the wind. "Hi-Woo!"

It was so cool.

'125150, 30%, 03%, 30%, $51,000,000.'

It seemed like the numbers that went through my head every day were flying away at once. But while I was driving like that, the cell phones rang one after another.

Wi Ying!

Wi Ying!

Wi Ying!

'Oh, is that what it is already…'

No matter how much, these numbers wouldn't let me go. I glanced at the navigation. There was a rest area a kilometer ahead.I drove into it. After pulling into the right position, I walked out of the car with my cell phone.

A man and a woman standing next to my car turned to me. The man looked at the Porsche and the woman looked at me. It was not very wrong to say that the important thing was getting out rather than getting in. I passed the two people and headed for the coffee shop.

"A glass of white chocolate mocha, please."

I ordered a sweet cup of coffee, picked up my cell phone and turned on the MT. Then I checked my stock balance. The stock balance window was empty.

'That means…'

I went over to my account balance.

'Morning profit and loss: $2,639,424.'

I simply clenched my fist.

'It's good.'

All the shares that were up for sale in the morning were sold and came in with money. I calculated the total balance. Now, my accounts were split into eight.

'$6,300,000, $8,100,000, $4,200,000, $10,000,000…'

More than $58,000,000 came into my account.

'So I achieved my goal.'

I opened my phone number right away and called someone. The person I called was Ji-hoon who formally became my secretary.

"Secretary Seo."

"Hey! Secretary Seo."

"Yes, brother."

When Ji-hoon called me brother, he corrected himself in an angry voice, "No, sir. I'm sorry, boss."

"You might get used to it."

"I'm sorry, boss. I can't get used to this because I've been calling you that since college."

To be honest with me, I wasn't used to the title, either.

"It's okay, but it's not the two of us anymore. Just be careful when you do that."

"No, I'll call you boss from the standpoint of getting paid. And I'd like to unify the title. I'll always call you boss."

"Yes, then. By the way, please contact Jang and tell him that I am ready."

"Ready? Yes, I see, boss."

Preparation was none other than depositing the payment of capital for the establishment of an investment company.

"Okay, then we'll go straight to the next step… and tell Jang to start talking with that CKD Entertainment."

"Yes, I see, boss."After finishing the call, I turned on the calendar app and looked at the date. It had been only forty days since I had had a meeting with Vice President Jang Sang-jin.

'Vice President Jang is so good at his job… I was almost late.'

Jang, who retired from the company after being assured by me, immediately began to set up the company with Ji-hoon. I left most of my work to him, except for a few important things.

'Vice President Jang, please do your job well on your own.'

With his experience, he was a veteran stockman who was way ahead of me. I was good at predicting the future, but Vice President Jang was much better at the mechanics than me. He used his personal network to bring in some competent and honest people he knew. There was noise from time to time, but when I stepped in, it would be solved on the whole.

'How much salary do they want?'

I decided to spare no money in buying people when I started a company. I knew the future, but I couldn't know the inside of a human being. Jang, who had been plagued by factional strife at his previous company, seemed very happy to come to a new job and hire and deploy the people he wanted.

'It's made up of great people. The boss will be pleased if you meet them, too.'

Of course, while he was working so hard, I wasn't just playing. With hard work, I made money through stock trading. It had been almost two months since I came over to the Platinum Class.

To review the performance, I made $31,000,000, with $8,900,000 in the first month, and after paying $10,000,000 for the subscription fee, I went from $21,000,000 to $58,000,000 in total in the last two months. $58,000,000 was good money to pay $30,000,000 to an investment company, pay $10,000,000 subscription fee, and then start the stock trading again.

My capital to run in the stock trading had been reduced because of the investment company, but it wasn't too bad. More than $30,000,000 could not be run in stocks in the first place.

'From $30,000,000, it was really hard. I wanted to buy it, but I didn't have anything to buy…'

Although I was able to trade chasing the only hot news on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ, it was the biggest amount. If I moved more than $30,000,000, the stock price went up and down because of the money. So I chose to invest $30,000,000 in an investment company and increase the money again with the rest.

I would operate an investment company and do the stock trading at the same time. If I kept the Platinum Class, I would still be able to earn $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 per month.

'After a year or so, if it's over $100,000,000, I will put it back in the investment company.'

'Of course, there are variables. When I get to the Diamond Class, something new may happen. If there is, the pace of earning money may change. I'll know if I get to the Diamond Class.'5 p.m. I returned to Gangnam in Seoul after a one-day trip to Chuncheon. There were too many cars in Seoul at this time. It was frustrating to have Porsche locked on a tight road.

'Ha, my baby can't run. I can't run.'

Still, there was a good thing about having a luxury car in Seoul.

'I'll change my lane.'

If I tried to turn it around, the other cars stood aside, letting me go first. I never felt that when I drove my father's car or the training center's car.

'Ha… I can't wait to go home and rest. I'm tired because I've been driving too long.'

I was tired but bored standing on the road. I fiddled with the radio. Every time I turned the channel, different voices of DJs were heard.

"The next song I'm going to play is Adele's Set Fire to the Rain."

"Love is~ reed~"

"So, what I said to him… Hey, man!"

'Hmm?'

But a voice that made my ears suspicious.

"The chairman of the Masung Group, Jeon Hee-joong has died."

I fixed the radio there instead of turning it around.

'What, the chairman of the Masung Group is dead?'

The Masung Group was a mid-sized South Korean construction company that went in and out of the top fiftieth place in the business rankings. Although it was not a branch of the chaebol, it was still a healthy company that had been steadily building up its performance since it had been founded in the 1980s.

'No, I thought Jeon Hee-joong was a relatively young man…'

Last time I saw him on the news or in the newspaper, he looked like he was in his forties or fifties, but he died really early.

'What? Did he kill himself?'

'That's usually the case when the rich die early. When a business fails, or when a corruption scandal hits a corner…'

I listened to the news.

"The chairman of the Masung Group Jeon Hee-joong has died of acute heart attack. Chairman Jeon Hee-joong, who visited the fishing area he had visited frequently around 10 a.m. on today…"

It was not suicide, but an acute heart attack. I thought he had bad luck.

'Heart attack… No, he is a chairman. Didn't he have a secretary or something like that?'

I was wondering, and the answer came straight out.

"On that day, he was known to have visited the fishing area alone. The person who discovered Chairman Jeon was Kim, who also visited the fishing ground to do the same, and as soon as he found him, he immediately called 119…"

It felt a little strange to hear the news.

'No matter how much money he has, there's nothing he can do when he dies…'

I had such an idea, that even I was still too young to die of a heart attack.I hardly drove my car and arrived at my studio. I didn't know before, but I'd learned something these days, that our studio building was crowded with luxury cars. My Porsche was a nice car, but inside it was packed with Lamborghinis and Ferraris, which were comparable to it. There was a Porsche next to my car. Mine was black, and it was red. Only the colors were different.

'Whose is this? All the neighbors here are rich, anyway.' I got out of the car thinking that way. But then, the red Porsche next to me blinked its lights.

I turned my head around, and landlord Lee Ah-young stood looking at me. She greeted me first.

"Hello."

"Yes, hello." I glanced over her unknowingly as I greeted her. I was sorry for that every time, but I couldn't help but look at her.

She was wearing a black turtleneck T-shirt and a wine-colored Cashmere coat today. She seemed to have hidden many of her merits. She pointed at my car and said, "I've never seen you drive a car before. Do you buy a new one?"

I nodded, "Yes. About a month."

She came up to her car, touched it and said, "Oh, yes. I just bought this car, and I like it."

She also seemed to have just bought a car.

'She is rich…'

I broke away after I greeted her a little. As always, she somehow remained in my mind whenever I met her.

'Is it because of her gorgeous looks?'

But that alone didn't explain it well. She had her own charm to attract people.

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I wore a jacket and tie. I opened the locker, put my watch on my wrist, and looked in the mirror.

'Umm…'

I was myself, and I thought there was something different from when I was at my old company. Of course, there were some changes on the surface. The clothes were changed from carry-on merchandise sales suits to custom suits with high-priced fabric, and my white wrist was also equipped with a shiny Rolex. But not only that, my chest seemed to have gotten a little wider, and my shoulders seemed to have grown. It was probably because of confidence.

'It's definitely different from when I was at work.'

At that time, I was stuck for a few pennies, I was pinched by the boss's eye, and I was in a shabby frame of my shoulder. In a social position, I had locked myself up because of the numbers in my account.

'Now that I think about it, I didn't have to…'

I regretted it, but it was already gone. The me from then was gone, and there was only a new one. I mumbled, hitting my cheek twice, "Okay. Han Sang-hoon. Let's do well."

While I was doing that, the bell of the studio rang.

He came just in time. I walked up to the front door and opened the door. Outside, secretary Seo Ji-hoon was standing.

"Are you ready, boss?"

I nodded. "Yes, let's go."

It was my first day of going to work, not to a company of others, but to a company of my own. Not as an employee, but as a president. I took the elevator down to the basement parking lot with secretary Seo. There was my Porsche. I pressed the key.

Ppivik! The door opened with a sound.

As I was walking toward the driver's seat, Ji-hoon said, "Wait a minute, boss."

"Why?"

"Do I have to drive, as a secretary?"

I laughed and said, waving a car key with a shield pattern, "You want to drive this, don't you?"

Ji-hoon said with a smile, as if his heart had been caught, "That's true, but wouldn't it be fair that the secretary should drive?"

"Well…"

Come to think of it, it made sense. When I moved somewhere, I had to look at the stock market, whether it was HTS or MTS.

"I think I'll need one of those if I try to do business. You find a car among the domestic cars, which a young CEO can ride in…"

"Domestic cars?"

"For business purposes, I will drive a domestic car. Don't you think people will hate a young man who drives a foreign car?"

"Yes… boss," replied Ji-hoon, slightly disappointed.

I said, sitting in the driver's seat, "Don't be too sad. If you are with me for five years… no, three years, you will drive a Porsche."

"Do you think so?" Ji-hoon asked, with a slight look on his face.

"Yes. When did you see me lying about the money?" While I was saying that, I suddenly remembered.

"Oh, that's right," I said, pointing to the front drawer of the passenger seat. "Open that."

Ji-hoon opened it. Inside was a box shaped like a cubby. I pointed at it and said, "That's yours."

"What is this?"

I looked at him and asked, "What, did you forget?"

Ji-hoon opened the box. There was a shiny watch in it, a watch with a capital R.

"It's a Rolex. I told you I'd buy you one after this. Have you already forgotten?"

Ji-hoon said, alternately looking at the watch and me, "No, I didn't forget, boss… I thought it was empty talk then. Really."

"I keep my word." I smiled and stepped on the accelerator.

The Teheran Road unfolded as it came out of the studio parking lot.

I said one more thing as I raced down the Teheran Road, "Three years from now, Porsche. That's not an empty promise, either."It was about ten-minute drive. I arrived at a building located in Samseong-dong. I took the elevator and saw the sign, "Invictus Investment" on the 17th floor.

Our company's name was on the line. The company name was Latin for invincible and undefeated. I took a deep breath in front of the company. Then I opened the door and walked in. When I entered the company, all the employees inside stood up and greeted me.

"How are you? Mr. President!"

"Hello!"

Greeting by many people, I felt a strange sense of deja vu. When did I see something like this? Come to think of it, it was definitely a scene I had seen in my dream.

'Mr. President!'

I should add another example of a dream that I had had in my sleep. I shook hands once, walking around the office.

"Good to see you, Kim Joon-soo."

"Thank you, boss."

"It's nice to see you, Shin Ji-yoon."

"Yes, sir. I'll work hard."

"It's good to see you, Ms. Kim Ji-soo."

"I am glad to see you, sir."

Right now, it didn't take long because there weren't so many people. The last person to shake hands was none other than Vice President Jang, a man who had done this all on his own.

"You've done a great job. I'll continue to look forward to it."

"What do you say? Please take care of me, Mr. President."

After my personal handshake was over, I spoke to the staff with Jang on the left and Secretary Seo on the right. "It's nice to meet you. Everyone, I don't know if you believe this story, but I was a normal office worker like you a few months ago. So I know what you want and what you're thinking while you're at work."

The employees stared at me at my words. Most of them had such a look. 'Is this real?' Most of the people who followed Jang must not have known about me yet.

I went on to say, "When I think about it when I was at work, I was really forced to do it. It was a very hard time. I was working hard, but my salary was small… There was nothing coming back. All my time at work was painful. So I'm going to have to at least motivate the employees of our company. That's what I thought. That motivation is not different."

I took the Porsche key out of my arms. Like people in investment companies, everyone seemed to recognize them.

"This is it. It's money. The right and means of power are granted to individuals in a capitalist society. I want to motivate you with money. Certainly, I don't want to say empty words on my lips. I've heard them a lot when I was at work, a 'family atmosphere'. But do they swear at their family members, have them work overtime, have them compete with one another, and have them drop out? Does that make sense?"

Some employees laughed quietly at what I said.

"That's why I hate such words. I started to like numbers instead of words. I'll just tell you with numbers only. Words are clever, but they disappear after we hear them; however, the numbers on the bank account are obviously left without telling a lie. Isn't it so? Everyone?"

They answered all my questions, "Yes!"

"When someone does a good job, I'll always talk in numbers rather than words when I honor him. Sales, operating profit and net profit are favorite words, right? I'll think of each of you as my own subsidiary. If I have a subsidiary that makes good sales, operating profit, and net profit, I will give you enough dividends accordingly. Do you understand what I am talking about?"

"Yes, boss!"

"Wow!"

"Yes!"

Everyone answered loudly because their faces were bright. That was good. Enough reward for the good guy would be my way of operating the business from now on. I was sure these people would benefit if they would carry out my orders right.

"Then. Please work hard from now on. I'll watch. Thank you."

With the clapping of hands, voices were heard.

"Thank you, sir!"

"I'll work hard, Mr. President!"

I came into my seat, the boss's office, listening to the applause. Secretary Seo and Vice President Jang followed me in.

When I heard the door of the president's office closing behind me, and the applause died down, I sighed loudly, "Hi-woo!"

It seemed to be the first time since being elected class leader in elementary school. I asked Secretary Seo with both hands on my chair, "Did I do well, Ji-hoon?"

"Yes, boss. That was cool."

"That's a good word. There's no word that's as popular as dividends to the people of an investment company," Vice President Jang, who was next to him, added in.

I sat down with a grin. "How's it going anyway? What about the acquisition of CKD Entertainment?"

Jang said with a nod, "Everything is going smoothly. The in-talk has been agreed on, and all we have to do is talk in detail. That's in our favor. Do Chan-ki wants to sell it quickly. Time is on our side."

I thumped at the table with my fingers. I should be careful about the sale of stocks or real estate that came out in a hurry.

"He wants to sell it quickly… Do they have any accounting problems, or…?"

"I was worried about that, so I definitely checked. It was neat and tidy."

"Well…"

Then it was not bad. Although CKD Entertainment declined significantly due to its Chinese business, it was at a reasonable price when considering indicators such as its assets and industry PER.

'Even if I would buy it a little expensive… I could earn more.'

I said to Vice President Jang with that thought, "Yes, then, I hope you can negotiate well. Tell me as soon as you're ready."

"Yes, boss."

After Jang closed the door and left, I turned around in my chair. The view here was just as good as my studio building. A little different was that this was a business line where companies were clustered, compared to the Gangnam Station, where many commercial buildings were located.

Visible out of the window were the trademarks of KL Construction, Hyundai Bank, and Woori Life Insurance. I sat down in my chair looking at them and said, "Hey, Ji-hoon."

Ji-hoon came up to me and said, "Yes, boss."

I pointed my finger at the most visible building of Woori Life Insurance and asked, "How much would that be?"

"Yes?"

I laughed. I didn't ask him to understand. It was just that the companies on the side of the road were all like items in the stores, so I told him. Invictus, the name of our company was created during the Roman Emperor's reign. In its literal sense, our company would be the one of the emperor that boasted no defeat. This seat I was sitting in right now would be the emperor's throne. I sat in the emperor's throne and looked out for a while, at things that would soon become my territory.

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I opened the door and entered the company. It was quiet, a familiar landscape. It was because I went to work at 8:30 like I did when I had been at work.

"The moment he raised his head, his wig peeled off, and it was so funny, but I couldn't laugh."

"Hahaha! Really?"

Inside the company, two employees who came to work as early as I did were chatting. As I approached them, the two men, feeling a person nearby, looked at me and bowed their heads hastily.

"Hello! Mr. President!"

"Hello!" I raised my hand and greeted them.

"Hello to you."

They must have been surprised by the fact that I came to work at all, rather than by coming to work early. It had been almost two weeks since I founded the company, but I had only been coming to work for about three days. I didn't do that because I was playing. Rather, I didn't come to work, just to work.

The most important thing I had to do for the company was to get an email and increase the money in my accounts, which would be the capital of our company. I was used to doing that at my studio rather than at the company. So I only came to work like this when I really needed something.

"How are you? Mr. President."

As soon as they heard the word 'boss,' the others gathered one by one and greeted me. Among them was Vice President Jang. He greeted me, too.

"Are you here?"

I, too, bowed down and received the greeting.

"Yes, Vice President."

It was all thanks to Vice President Jang that even if I didn't come to work, there wouldn't be any problems with the company. He was doing his job perfectly. The reason I came to work today was that I had work to do. In front of the president's office, Ji-hoon stood up when he saw me.

"Are you here, boss?"

"Yes."

"You're at work today?"

"Yes. We have a meeting at 10 o'clock today."

"I thought you were calling in from your home."

"Oh, I'll come with you and Vice President Jang. It's an important meeting."

Secretary Seo said with a smile, "That's true."

I opened the door of the boss's office and tried to enter, but I thought I'd speak to him.

"Oh, by the way. Don't interrupt me from 8:50 to 9:10. No matter who comes in, don't open the door to the president's office, and don't connect the phone, okay?"

The reason was, of course, to receive the email. At that time, I had to concentrate on my energy. Ji-hoon followed my orders without saying a word.

"Yes, I see." If he had been in the past, he would have asked me, 'Can I ask you why?'

Now, he almost had nothing to ask me back. I thought he was getting closer and closer to be my secretary, rather than a fellow alumnus of the university. After Ji-hoon went out, I waited another ten minutes. Today, the email came again.

[P. 12 Hours After]

[P. 12 Days After]

[How long will the Daehan New Party's internal feud last?]

[Just before the home loans burst out?]

[Was everyone appointed by some strings? Bank recruitment scandal becomes big news.]

[Warning for strong ultraviolet rays due to clear, hot weather nationwide]

[Ukraine anti-Russian protests]

[The upcoming opening of the 5G era]

[Gang Jun-ho to Samsung?]

[The U.S. concert by the Advancement Boy Band]

I ran both sets of news up and down quickly. There was no news to make money. I put my fingers in both hands and turned my head.

'Today I got nothing. Well, there's an important matter today. Let's focus on that.'

The important schedule for today was the meeting with CKD Entertainment. It was the first step toward taking over the company. Thanks to some talk with the entertainment even before my company was founded, it had been in a rush since it was founded. That was why today, our company and its executives decided to meet face-to-face and negotiate specifically. I looked at my watch, and the time was just past 9:10 a.m.

'My meeting is at ten o'clock.'

There was a little time left. I tried to surf the web without thinking much about it. By the way, there was someone on the main banner of the portal site. It was Oh Hyun-joo, who had a beautiful face with a neat beauty and fair smile. I clicked on the banner. As soon as I clicked on it, the video of an advertisement for a cosmetics product was released. "White Cleaning Essence, more brilliant than pearl, shining more than Diana."

I paused to watch the ad through. She was as beautiful as she had always been.

'Oh, Oh Hyun-joo will be a member of our company.'

It was a strange connection.I got out of the car with secretary Seo. Vice President Jang and two other employees who arrived early followed me. This was the Cheongdam-dong building with CKD Entertainment. Standing in front of the underground parking lot, Seo pressed the up button. Soon the elevator arrived, and I got into it. According to the floor information, CKD Entertainment was using the building's fifth, sixth and seventh floors. Ji-hoon pressed the seventh, the highest floor. There would be a representative, Do Chan-ki, waiting for me.

I tried to move my eyes away, but there was one more thing that attracted my attention: OH Entertainment on the eighth floor.

'Huh… here you are.' It was just a subsidiary, but they were in the same place. 'Maybe I might see some familiar faces today?'

While I was thinking about it, the elevator went up to the seventh floor. As soon as the elevator door opened, a man in a suit was waiting for us.

"Hello? Are you from Invictus Investment?"

"Yes," Secretary Seo answered instead of me.

"Come this way."We walked into the hall under guidance. Inside, there was a large conference room. I, Secretary Seo, Vice President Jang, and two other employees went into it in order. There were people standing in the conference room waiting for me. I skimmed over them without much thought. By the side, I noticed a familiar figure.

He was a short, bald man. He was no doubt the president of OH Entertainment, Kwon Oh Hyuk.

'Huh.' We had met in front of the police station, and then we met here again. I glanced at him, but he looked at me and didn't seem to recognize me. He deserved it. He only saw my face for a minute or two in front of the police station on a dark night. It was right after a major accident in which his company employee tried to stab his company's actress. He would not have remembered, for he had had no time to mind other people.

'In addition, he couldn't imagine that the ordinary office worker at the time would come as a buyer's representative.'

Even if he remembered, he might have mistaken me for a similar-looking person. Now I was quite different from what I had been at that time. While I was looking at him, a tall man came to me and gave me his hand. He was none other than CEO Do Chan-ki, a ballad star in the '90s who I had watched only on television. He shook hands with a nice smile.

"Welcome. Nice to meet you."

His voice was amazingly good. He was one of the most popular singers of his generation. After a brief greeting, we went straight to the takeover. We had a deal about how much they would sell for, and what we would buy for.

"So we'll sign a transfer contract at the price of $20,800,000, which is a discount of 6% from $22,000,000…" The rough details were already set behind the scenes, so we would make the details today.

"How much is the deposit…"

"The acquisition date is…"

On our side, Vice President Jang played most of the roles. It was pretty obvious he was a lot more experienced than I was here. I didn't have much to do. So I alternately looked at CEO Do Chan-ki sitting in the middle and President Kwon Oh Hyuk on the side. President Kwon also spoke very little, like me.

It had been almost two years since OH Entertainment was taken over by CKD Entertainment, and he wouldn't have had the right to speak. He must have come to see who the new owner would be. The meeting, which had started at 10 a.m., was almost finished by noon.

But in the middle of the closing negotiations, Do Chan-ki asked me, "By the way, can I ask CEO Han Sang-hoon a question?"

It was rather sudden. I answered, "Yes, please."

"Why are you going to take over our company? I don't think you have anything to do with the entertainment industry."

That was a good question. Someone who didn't have anything to do with the entertainment industry suddenly offered to take over theirs. I thought of an answer for a moment. In fact, the key reason was to be promoted to the Diamond Class, but I couldn't say that. I simply answered, "I think I can manage it well."

That was true. The entertainment business was simply a human business, so with the news, 12 Hours After, 12 Days After, 12 Weeks After, 12 Months After, and Search People, I could run the entertainment business easier. At that remark, CEO Do Chan-ki raised one side of his mouth and said, "Huh huh… I see."

That look, and tone of speech seemed to say like that. 'Will you run the entertainment business easier? I haven't done a good job, even though I have been in the entertainment business for thirty years.'

"Well…' I asked him back when I got upset, "Can I also ask CEO Do Chan-ki one question?"

"Yes, please."

"CEO Do Chan-ki, why are trying to sell this company? It's a company you raised, named after yourself."

I wanted to hear the answer in person. No matter how neat it was, it seemed like he was trying to sell his own company, too. If I got a strange answer here, I might break the contract.

But when asked, CEO Do Chan-ki fixed his glasses for a while and collected his lips. Then he said carefully, "It's a little bit hard for me to say in my own words… It's because of the case that everybody knows about."

I thought as I listened to it, 'As expected, is it the reason?' The case he was talking about was the recent gay rumor.

He spoke in a slightly trembling voice, "I've been in the entertainment world for almost thirty years, but it's the first time I've been so shocked."

But when I heard that trembling voice, my heart softened slightly. 'Well, did I ask him a hurtful question?'

Actually, I had already heard about it, and it was like taking it out again and smashing a person's wound. I turned my head slightly in a sorry mood. But in my eyes, President Kwon Oh Hyuk, who was sitting on the side, was seen. Then, after subtly turning his gaze away, he had five fingers facing each other and hit them.

"The old fans also turned around and blamed me. I was just… I had an indescribable wound at that time."

The more Do Chan-ki spoke, the more Kwon Oh Hyuk lowered his head and hit his fingers.

I saw that and thought, 'What is that?'

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"We're here, boss."

At Ji-hoon's voice, I raised my head. "Hmm?"

I looked out and saw a row of luxury cars. It was the parking lot of my studio building. I didn't even know that we had already arrived there, as I was thinking about something. "Oh, we're already here."

"Your home is close to the company."

"Yes, that's right." I nodded and sat still for a while, without thinking of getting out. It had been a dozen seconds.

Ji-hoon spoke up, "Boss?" 'You're home, aren't you going to get off?', was omitted.

I spoke to him, "Hey Ji-hoon."

"Yes, boss."

"Today… we had a meeting."

"Yes."

"Wasn't it a little strange?"

"What part do you mean?"

"You know, when I asked CEO Do Chan-ki a question, "Why do you want to sell this company?'"

"Oh, are you talking about it at that time? Well, I had two ideas."

"What were they?"

"First of all, it was a natural question to ask while buying $20,000,000 worth of goods. Second, it was a little too much to ask, knowing why."

I laughed at the remark.

'CEO Do Chan-ki was disillusioned with the entertainment industry due to the gay rumor.' It was Ji-hoon who delivered the words to me. Still, he was reading my feelings correctly.

"But CEO Do is the one who threw the first punch. Huh-huh-huh. He was suspicious that you can do well."

I smiled, "Did it sound that way?"

"Yes, 100%. I'm sure that's what Vice President Jang heard. He pretended to be gentle, but then he looked a little bit like a snake."

I was right as expected. 'He is like a snake, so it's even more questionable.'

"And, then, did you hear his voice shaking when he answered that question?"

"Oh, yes. I was surprised, too. I didn't know when I heard it, but I thought it had was a shock to him."

I asked him a key question, "But that shaky voice. Was it real?"

"Yes?" Ji-hoon seemed to have no idea that it was fake.

"I was a little sorry when I heard it, but now I'm thinking… Do I have to say that the situation was weird then? Think about it. At that age, in front of others, in front of his men, he was showing his feelings… It felt like something impossible to me, even at my age."

Ji-hoon nodded, collecting his lips. "Well, is that so?"

Ji-hoon didn't understand my story very well. It was not very long since I had been listening to the word 'boss', but being the president of a company wasn't such a light thing.

"Yes. If I were alone with you… but I don't think I'd ever be able to do that in front of other employees."

"Well… it sounds like that. Oh, by the way, at that time, what I thought was this guy had a very thick, nice voice even though his voice was shaking."

That was what I thought, too… "Oh, right. Come to think of it, he's a singer. He might easily manipulate his voice," I said it to Ji-hoon and I had a flash of insight. "Wait a minute. Did CEO Do Chan-ki ever act?"

"Ah? Maybe he did?"

We both didn't know about his best time in the 1990's, because we were middle school students. We both picked up the cell phone and searched for "Do Chan-ki." When I took his profile, I found out that he had acted once. It wasn't a feature film, but he was the main character in a short story, and he played two supporting roles in miniseries. I searched The Northern Part of Eden, the name of the short story he had played as the main character. The news came soon. News from ten years ago…

[Do Chan-ki in The Northern Part of Eden has favorable comments.]

[Director Kim Sung-kyun gives a favorable comment on Do Chan-ki; his performance and vocalization are great.]

[Do Chan-ki has challenged a full-time actor? His splendid ability has been proven.]

Before I said anything, Ji-hoon said first. "Oh, he has acted before, and he got favorable comments?"

"Well. He must have been quite talented in his acting."

"I searched some articles at that time… he was going to act, but then he set up an agency. I guess he just quit after all this."

"Well, he is good at acting… Hey, Ji-hoon, If what he said was a lie, wouldn't there be a fatal problem inside the company?"

If so, it was a big problem. To maintain the Diamond Class, the listed company must be controlled and maintained. If something was wrong with the inside, I might face a downgrade.

"Maybe… But it was neat in accounting. Since he has been selling it too quickly, Vice President Jang has checked it out a few times."

"Well…"

I stroked my chin for a moment and was lost in thought. 'If it's an entertainment company… It's not an accounting problem, but it may be a human problem.'

I thought so. The reason I started the entertainment company was that it was for all about people. But when I thought about it, I had an idea coming into my mind naturally. 'Man's problem… Do Chan-ki… could be homosexual…'When I got back home, I turned on my computer and typed the name Do Chan-ki on the portal site. Most of the time he appeared in the '90s. Most of them were with the lyrics he sang during his best years. I went over to the news. The article I was looking for was the one at that time.

[CKD Entertainment CEO Do Chan-ki is gay.] But the article was gone.

'He said that he was going to sue, so did they take it off?'

I did a search with 'Do Chan-ki, sue'. However, there was no news that said he had filed a complaint. Something suspicious was going on.

'What if he's gay?'

I tried the scenario on that premise. 'He barely managed to stop the story and the press, but now it has spread to the public. It's only a matter of time before he loses. Then, he cannot maintain his position as CEO anyway. Before then, he'll sell it to someone who is a first timer in an entertainment business. It's a lie that he is disillusioned with the entertainment industry. It's not that. It's a situation where he can't stay in the entertainment world.'

Open-eyed, I thought a little more. 'Then why did President Kwon Oh Hyuk do that?'

I searched 'Do Chan-ki and Kwon Oh Hyuk.' News came up again.

[President Kwon Oh Hyuk set up OH Entertainment.]

I clicked on the article. There I could see the relationship between the two.

[President Kwon Oh Hyuk, who worked as a manager for famous singer Do Chan-ki…]

"Aaaah."

Then it all made sense. Since President Kwon Oh Hyuk was the manager of Do Chan-ki, he must have known Do was gay.

'Even the old fans turned around and blamed me… I have an indescribable wound…' When CEO Do Chan-ki told a lie, Kwon had a guilty conscience and kept his head down and his fingers crossed. Then it all made sense.

'Do Chan-ki is a homosexual. That article wasn't wrong.' When I thought about it, I recognized that CEO Do Chan-ki deceived the public with the news, [CEO of CKD Entertainment, Do Chan-ki, is not gay.]

And he also deceived with the words, 'I've been in the entertainment world for almost 30 years, but it's the first time I've been so shocked.'

'Oh, my God! If the hypothesis is real, it may be necessary to fundamentally review the contract. CKD is a company named after Do Chan-ki himself. Homosexuality isn't much of a bad thing, but it's a big thing that he has been lying through a fake marriage for thirty years. It's to the extent the entire company is shaking.

'But I don't want to break the contract, either. This CKD entertainment is a good company on the surface. Oh Hyun-joo's OH Entertainment has been doing well. I've worked on it for three months, and if I give up now, the promotion to Diamond Class will be too far away. It is not certain when other entertainment companies will be put up for sale.'

'So what shall I do with this?'

I suddenly thought of the news company that wrote the article. It was the famous Keystone Media, a kite-sniper.

'They'd know the truth, wouldn't they? How can I contact Keystone Media?'

Thinking of it, I called Secretary Seo right away.

"Yes, boss."

"Ji Hoon, do you know Keystone Media?"

"I know them. The Keystone Media are professionals on figuring out on the sportsman or celebrity gossip."

Ji-hoon didn't seem to know that they first presented the news of Do Chan-ki. But that was three months ago. "Yes. I need you to call them and let them know that we want to talk with them."

"Yes, I see."

"Well, if you just say it, they can't understand it. Tell them all about our takeover; our company is trying to make an investment worth $21,000,000 and that's what CKD Entertainment is for."

"Yes, I see, boss."

If my scenario was real, Keystone Media would contact me.Sure enough, I got a call from Secretary Seo ten minutes later. "Boss, that's weird. Moments ago, I talked to them about what the boss just told me… and they said that they would visit us tomorrow at ten in the morning."

I got it. "Really? Who's coming to see us? A reporter?"

"No, not a reporter, but they didn't tell me the position… The decision maker of their company is coming?"

"Okay." Any decision maker with a high-ranking could be coming.

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow at ten."

"Yes, boss."I raised my hand and looked at the watch. It was 9:50 am. I had ten minutes left before the meeting with a Keystone Media official today. I was going to meet him and buy solid evidence that the Do Chan-ki was gay. After the purchase, we would negotiate with him over that.

'It's kind of mean to shake a person's weakness, but he tried to hide it and sell it over to me. I will do that. too.'

Outside, with a knock, the voice from the secretary Seo came in. "Boss, this is the guest you promised."

"Yes, let the guest in."

I got up from my seat and prepared to greet the guest. The door opened, someone came in, and I almost cried out.

The person who came in had sharp eyes and a nose sharp a ruler. The man also hardened when he saw me. He was Kaiji, whom I saw at Garden Envy. We both recognized each other at once, but secretary Seo was watching behind us. Shaking my hand first, I said to him, "I've seen you for the first time. I'm the president of Invictus Investment, Han Sang-hoon."

He took my hand and replied, "Nice to meet you. I'm Lee Won-jae from Daewon Daily News."

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We faced each other for a moment. In the meantime, secretary Seo closed the door behind us.

I waved at a seat, saying, "Sit down, please."

He tried to sit down. At that time, I added, "Mr. Kaiji.

At the word Kaiji, Director Lee Won-jae laughed. "You are the CEO of an investment company, aren't you? Mr. Duros. Then you are good at stocks."

I said, shaking my head, "It's very awkward to be called that nickname, especially outside. Please call me by name."

"That's same for me, too. CEO Han Sang-hoon."

"Yes, it's nice to see you again anyway, Director Lee Won-jae."

"It's nice to meet you, too."

After greeting, an awkward silence passed. After a while, we were going to be doing the same thing.

"What we know… "

"In the Garden Envy…"

We opened our mouths and ran into the eyes of each other. It seemed we had the same thought.

I put it in order and said, "Let's put aside what we know about each other in secret in real life or in Garden Envy."

"Yes, I like that, too."

It was now roughly arranged. I went over to work. "If you're a member of the Daewon Daily News, Keystone Media is its subsidiary, right?"

"It was originally an affiliate of a sports newspaper. As you know, Internet news has been on the rise, and we changed the name and turned it into a professional company."

'The Daewon Daily News is one of the five major media outlets in Korea. He is 28. If he is a director there at this age, he should be considered a member of the management family. I'm sure the chairman of the Daewon Daily News is Mr. Lee, uh…'

I went to work. "So you've heard all about it. I'm going to ask you directly. Is it true or false?"

He smiled at me but didn't tell me. However, he was here, and it must be true 99%. He deserved it, because he was the one who would buy and sell information. I couldn't afford to not get an answer.

I started a conversation around, "I don't know what you think, but I'm actually generous about homosexuality. Rather, I am fond of it."

Lee Won-jae looked at me with his eyes wide open.

Like I was a homosexual, I continued to speak, "It's good. If men like each other, there are women left. Instead, women shouldn't have sex with each other. I'm against that."

He laughed at my joke, but my face hardened. "Nevertheless, I can't let anyone fool me, especially in business."

Director Lee Won-jae nodded with his hard face, while laughing, "I understand."

"This is our first acquisition since the establishment of an investment company. By the way, if we buy a company that has hidden bad news at a reasonable price and it turns out that it is true later, wouldn't our company be a standing joke in the investment industry? They would make fun of us, buying it like a fool for the money."

He nodded again, "Yes."

"This is our first button. There should not be anything wrong. So I'd like to ask you how many people know that."

I didn't say what the fact was, but Director Lee Won-jae soon latched on.

"A lot. People in the entertainment industry know quite a lot."

I thought of Kwon Oh Hyuk, who was lowering his head. I changed the question, "Then how many people can prove this? People who can destroy it in the media…"

"His lovers… I'm sure it's like his boyfriends. But we are the only media company with proof. This is something I can say for sure."

That meant, "Only we have the information, so make a deal with us."

"Okay. Let's fix the price. How much will it be?"

"$1,000,000 or $3,000,000."

I tilted my head slightly, and he said, "I'm sure you've guessed, but we've made a deal with him. But the deal… we're supposed to get some money, according to his income."

I understood it the moment I heard it.

'These people seem to have signed a contract in which Do Chan-ki gets paid, whether he performs concerts or plays on the night stage, so he can trust them. If he is destroyed, these people will be hurt, too.'

"So if you get the evidence and sign a contract with a condition that you will not release it to the media, it's $1,000,000. If you get the evidence and you open it to the media, it's $3,000,000. If you open it to the press, we'll lose our income."

'They will not suffer any damages. That's it.'

'To be honest, $1,000,000 or $3,000,000 doesn't make much difference. I'll make that money soon. I only have his life and death pass.'

I spoke to him, "I'll think about it for a moment."

"Sure."

I patted my chin and thought hard about CEO Do Chan-ki. 'If I pay $1,000,000, he'll survive, if I pay $3,000,000, he'll be ruined. What shall I do for him?'

'Let's see if you're good at it.' I remembered him laughing at me. 'I've been in the entertainment world for almost thirty years, but it's the first time I've been so shocked.'

I also remembered his acting to deceive me. My heart leaned slightly toward the "destruction" button. But at that time, I also felt like, "Why did he have to lie so much?"

He was active in the '90s, a time when people couldn't even get their hair dyed for a TV show. The perception of homosexuals was so bad that celebrities, especially ballad singers, were coming out like a declaration that they would retire from the entertainment industry. So he might have had to choose to deceive the public.

So he started lying and tried to cover it up. Though he didn't want to marry, he had to do it, and thirty years had passed since he lied. Now the snowball became so big that he could not do anything.

That's how I felt about survival again.

I told Director Lee, "I'm thinking about this. Why don't I meet CEO Do Chan-ki again and decide? First of all, I have to pay $1,000,000 in advance. If I think I'm going to have to reveal it to the press, I'll pay you $2,000,000 and announce it. How is that?"

Lee Won-jae put his hands together and said, "It's okay. Just make sure you fill out the contract."

"Sure."I looked at my watch while drinking coffee. 2:50 p.m. I had ten minutes until the appointment. 'It's time for him to come… '

"How are you, Mr. Han?"

Sure enough. From afar, CEO Do Chan-ki appeared waving his hand. His voice and his face were very nice. He was an impressive specimen for a middle-aged singer.

"What brought you here? You seeing me in a place like this."

This was a cafe in a hotel located in Gangnam, a strictly soundproofed cafe with the room divided.

I showed my true intentions right away. "Oh, it's nothing. I think we'll have to renegotiate this contract."

CEO Do Chan-ki was surprised at what I said. "Renegotiate? We've been doing something… Are you going to change that?"

I said with a stiff face, "Yes."

At my firm words, CEO Do Chan-ki also solidified his face. "That's not possible. We made a lot of concessions, but… If you want to go further down the road, we'd rather look for another company."

I said with my eyes flat, "Then look for another company."

"No, then… Why have you been negotiating so far? Sure, then!" He tried to get up from his seat in anger.

I took a picture out of my jacket pocket. "But if it doesn't spread until you find another company, it's all fine."

The picture was one of the pictures that were 'decisive evidence'. It was one of several photos the Keystone Media had. CEO Do Chan-ki's eyes grew bigger when he saw it.

I spoke to him, "Oh, you acted really well in front of me. You even made your voice tremble. If you were an actor and didn't have an agency, it would have been a big hit. Is that right?"

"Huh… No… It's… What the hell?" This time, he spoke with a really trembling voice. It was hard to say that it was an act to shake his hands like that.

"I didn't know why other entertainment agencies did not step in, in particular, people of different agencies. They should love buying an agency at this price. Why would only our company want to buy it?"

He looked at the picture with trembling hands and said resignedly, "…what do you want?"

"I'll be honest with you. I don't intend to reveal Mr. Do Chan-ki's dirty work to others. I don't think homosexuality is a crime. But I hope that our company will always be considered a smart company with good deals. But if we buy this at the current price, it will turn up in a few months, and wouldn't our company be a laughing stock?"

At my words, CEO Do Chan-ki also nodded. He also seemed to admit that he tried to cover up the bad news and turn over the stocks.

"So. I'd like it much cheaper than the original contract, to the extent that it is sold at an oddly low price. Then, we can say something later, like, 'we already knew that CEO Do Chan-ki is gay. That's why we bought it cheaply.'"

CEO Do Chan-ki licked his lips with his tongue. "How much… do you want?"

I told him the amount I had in mind, "$17,000,000. Please give me a discount of $5,000,000 from $22,000,000."

"Yes?" CEO Do Chan-ki's eyes grew bigger. He deserved it since the total amount was $20,800,0000 that he had already agreed on. But at this price, shouldn't it be said that his true feelings were contained? True sincerity cost $3,800,000.

CEO Do Chan-ki thought for a while, but soon he said, "OK, then I'll do that. Instead, this picture… I ask you…"

"Don't worry, I don't want to destroy you. Of course, you lied to me at the time, but…"

In my words, Do Chan-ki said with his head down, "I'm sorry, about that time."

I was sorry to see an adult apologize like that. He might be destined to live like this all his life. I wished he'd come out at the right time.

'Well, he's got a fake marriage… It's going to be hard to pull back now.'

It was his choice.The next morning. Mr. Do appeared before us with a new contract. I wrote a new contract with the minimum number of people, secretary Seo and Vice President Jang.

After the contract was over, Mr. Do said, "I'd like you to take care of it."

He greeted me and then disappeared. After he went out, secretary Seo, who saw the new contract terms, said with a wide-open eye. "No, it's… What happened, boss?"

"What happened? That's a good thing."

Vice President Jang also looked at it and spoke with his tongue out, "No, I thought the price I told you last time was pretty cheap, but this was $3,800,000 cheaper. I mean, it's the best deal ever. I'm sure other investment companies are going to be surprised."

"That's good, then. Please pay the balance and proceed with the contract."

"Yes, I see, boss." Vice-President Jang still had a look of incomprehension, but he followed my order.

After Vice President Jang left the president's office, Secretary Seo asked me, "Boss, what kind of magic did you do? Can you just tell me?"

I said in a flat voice, "No."

CEO Do Chan-ki paid enough for lying. For him, I decided to keep this story to myself for life. Secretary Seo had a sad look on his face, but he didn't ask any questions.

"Then I'll go."

"Yes, go to work."

Secretary Seo went out the door, and I looked out the window alone.

'Well, that's good. The process was complicated, but the result is good, and everything will be good. Now, once the takeover is done, the Diamond Class is mine. My new news…'

When I thought about the news, I had a sudden idea. I opened the drawer and saw the business card I received yesterday.

'Lee Won-jae, director of Daewon Daily News.' I thought, turning the business card round and round.

'He's a leading voice in the present media. He is the man who controls the current news. And I'm someone who knows the news of the future. I think it'll be useful to get him under me. He is looking for other people's weaknesses. So what's his weakness? Who knows?'

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I quickly typed 'Director of Daewon Daily News Lee Won-jae' on the keyboard. After searching, it appeared in the portal window.

[Director of Daewon Daily News Lee Won-jae]

However, there was no other news or such, except for a short profile.

'If he became a director at twenty-eight years old, he would have been a little bit controversial.'

I certainly remembered seeing such an article. I changed the search term, 'director, chaebol II.' There was news coming up soon.

[Controversy is growing over the director appointment of Kang Yu-mi, the daughter of Chairman Kang Joon-gil of Hwa-yeon Asia.]

There was an article about half a year ago. When I clicked on the article, there was a story like that written.

[She is thirty years old and a granddaughter of the founder… At a time when the youth unemployment rate is recorded historical high… The appointment doesn't match the style of Hwa-yeon Asia, which has emerged as a global cosmetics brand.]

I came back to the keyboard and typed, 'controversy over Lee Won-jae, chaebol II.' There was no article on Lee Won-jae, a 28-year-old director. I guessed Daewon Daily News had asked the portal site not to upload any news about him. In addition, no other U.S. company published an article about it.

'I guess the media are taking care of one another.'

I searched a little more, 'President of Daewon Daily News.' The President of Daewon Daily News was Lee Keun-sang. As soon as I saw his picture, I thought he was the father of director Lee Won-jae. The red face, the cut eyes, and the big nose looked exactly the same. If there was a difference, his father looked very old. The hair of Lee Keun-sang was completely white and he had gray eyebrows. He was sixty-two years old.

'Well… Lee Won-jae is twenty-eight years old and this man is sixty-two years old. There is 34 years difference between them.'

'If it is a 34-year-old difference, he may not be the first son. Is he the second or third?'

I searched for more. Sure enough, there were two older brothers. The first was Lee Won-sang, the 36-year-old President of Daily Sports. The second was Lee Won-joon, the 34-year-old Executive Director of Daewon Daily News.

'Thirty-six, thirty-four, twenty-eight years old… Look like he is the last son in this media chaebol.'

The Garden Envoy organizer, Master T, was also a low-ranking member of the chaebol, and there was an odd similarity.

I was thinking about him, and my cell phone rang. When I saw the caller, it was Lee Won-jae. With Lee Won-jae's face on the monitor, I answered the phone.

"Hello? Mr. Han. I heard you signed a good deal. Congratulations."

Director Lee Won-jae seemed to know the details of our contract. That certainly made me feel bad."Would you like me to write a piece of good news for you this time? On the contract?"

"News?"

"To celebrate this deal, I'll write it down well."

"Keystone Media… I'd like to say no."

"Haha, don't look at us so bad. There are many ordinary internet newspapers in our company. I will take good care of it."

I thought it over. I had a plan to build the Invictus investment into a large and profitable company.

"Well, I think it's not bad."

"Yes, I'll put it on the news in a few days. Then I'll call you back."

He ended the call with the last words. I looked at the cell phone with the name floating for a moment. From this approach, he seemed to think that his relationship with me was useful, too.

'Well… this guy…'

At that moment, I heard a knock twice, and then I heard the secretary Seo's voice.

"Boss, Vice President Jang is waiting."

"Please let him in."

Soon the door opened, and Vice President Jang came in. After bowing to me, he came before me.

"This is the data you mentioned before, on the appointment of CKD's representative."

"Okay."

I received the data he gave me. There were several profiles of CKD Entertainment's executive director, managing director, and others. I remembered seeing them all at the last meeting. They had their noses in my backside.

'Welcome, Mr. President.'

'Please take care of me. Mr. President.'

They showed appropriate reactions for their positions.

I announced that I would not be directly involved in management before I took over the company. Therefore, CEO Do Chan-ki would leave the company and the post of CEO would be vacant. So they were trying to get themselves in that position.

"Is there anyone you can recommend?"

"Well, I don't know anything about the entertainment business… It's hard to say."

I kept passing over their profiles. But among them, the face of OH Entertainment CEO Kwon Oh Hyuk was also seen. I asked, picking up President Kwon Oh Hyuk's profile, "How's this guy? President Kwon Oh Hyuk of OH Entertainment, a subsidiary company?"

When I picked an example, Jang only expressed his opinion at that time. "Oh, I looked at him a little carefully, too. I don't think it's a bad choice. OH Entertainment's performance is so good these days. Thanks to Oh Hyun-joo, the star entertainer, but… isn't it true that he has done a job, anyway? These small and medium-sized entertainment companies can make a big profit, having a star entertainer."

"Well, how was OH Entertainment acquired by the CKD? President Kwon Oh Hyuk was the manager of CEO Do Chan-ki."

"They only worked together in the nineties, and then they split up and set up their own entertainment company around 2010. Unfortunately, CEO Do Chan-ki had his own money and used his name to attract investors and started holding large amounts of capital, while Kwon Oh Hyuk had only a career, so he got few investors and started with small amounts of his own."

"Well, OH Entertainment hasn't had any well-known celebrities, until the big hit of Oh Hyun-joo recently?"

"Yes. As the financial situation became difficult, President Kwon Oh Hyuk must have sent an SOS to Do Chan-ki, who had an old relationship with him,"

"That's why it was taken over. And while it was a subsidiary, Oh Hyun-joo got a big hit."

"That's right."

"But then… Should I say that his management skills are a little insufficient? What do you think?"

"However, people in this industry say that he is a little bit more upright than someone in the entertainment industry."

"What does that mean?"

"Well, I don't know the details, but… any company would do that. When they're in need of money, they're bound to do anything. Especially, in the case of entertainment agencies…"

When Vice President Jang blurted his words. I knew what he was saying.

"But he didn't like to do it. He has been a very caring person. Even if he doesn't have a sense of reality, it's a good style in the long run."

"Well… " I thought of him for a moment when he lowered his head down and hit his fingers. Come to think of it, Oh Hyun-joo really didn't get a big hit for a long time. I had always known her when she had been unknown.

'Why can't she get a big hit, though she is so pretty and so good at acting?' I used to think that. Perhaps it was because Kwon cared about his agency's entertainment staff and ran it neatly. I scored a good mark in my mind. President Kwon would be seated on the throne of CKD.

"Then, President Kwon will not be bad as the next CEO of CKD."

"Yes, I think so, too."

"By the way… What is the stake relationship between CKD and OH Entertainment?"

"It's a 100% subsidiary. CKD had a 100% stake."

"Well, why don't we take this opportunity to merge? I can see that they also used the same building. At the same time, I hope we change our company name to OH Entertainment. CKD itself is named after CEO Do Chan-ki. I think it's weird for a company that doesn't have CEO Do."

"You're right. It wouldn't be bad to do. This new OH Entertainment will do better."

'I think that'll do. In fact, there are many cases in which well-known subsidiaries in other industries are disguised as parent companies.'

"Then I'll appoint him a new CEO. Is there any other problem?"

"There'll be a little noise. Other people, CKD's board members will be wondering, because they expect to become the new CEO themselves."

"But hasn't OH Entertainment been feeding CKD much lately? From the financial perspective, it looks like OH Entertainment earns and pours it into CKD."

"That's true. For that reason, the directors won't be able to say much."

"Then there's enough justification, so let's go ahead with this scenario."

"Yes, I see, boss."After Vice President Jang left, I picked up the phone right away and called Secretary Seo"

"Yes, boss."

"Call that President Kwon Oh Hyuk of OH Entertainment and make an appointment to meet him."

"When shall we do it?"

"The sooner the better."

"Yes, boss."

About a minute after the call, my phone rang again.

"Mr. Kwon will be here right away. I heard he would be here in time for the boss?"

Mr. Kwon seemed to have been interested in taking the position of CKD's next president.

"Then ask him to have dinner tonight. Um… today… What shall I eat?" I blurted my words, and said what came to my mind right away, "How about tuna?"

"Oh yes, I see."I opened the sliding door and walked in. Inside was President Kwon Oh Hyuk.

"Are you here, boss?"

"Oh, good to see you. Mr. President."

I gave him my hand. He held my hand with his head down and shook it several times. We shook hands and settled down in front of each other. I looked at him, and he looked at me. By the way, he was still not aware of me.

'What the hell? He still doesn't recognize me.'

The door opened, and the hostess asked, "Would you like to order?"

"Eh… this one. What about alcohol?" I looked at President Kwon. He said, "Anything is fine."

I started talking to him after having him take a course and drink for $150 per person. "You have a good reputation in the industry. You take care of your own celebrities well."

"Ah, I'm overpraised."

"To be honest, I dont know much about the internal affairs of the entertainment industry. Don't you see it sometimes? In the news. Gambling. Sponsors. Drugs… Considering that, I don't think it would be easy to run an entertainment company. It's a place where people with strong colors are gathered."

"Thank you for your knowledge."

"I think there's a lot more to it, if you put together something that's not covered. For example…" I sneaked out the story at that time, "The attempted murder."

As I said, President Kwon's eyes grow bigger. "Yes?"

He looked at me with his big eyes. "Ah… Ah-ah." He made a noise without speaking. He only just now recognized me. I poured the beer served first into his glass as he said, "No, how?"

"What a strange connection, right? I didn't know how President Kwon would look at me, but I was glad to see you again."

"No, … I thought you resembled someone. But I didn't even know that you were the same person that I saw."

When I filled up his glass, he filled my glass with haste, too. He spoke with a slightly trembling hand. "But then… I heard that you were definitely an ordinary office worker…"

I said with a smile, tinkling a glass with him, "That wasn't a lie."

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