But Jo Sehun was smart. He had a keen judgment, excellent improvisation skills, and a broad vision for the future.
He made a move.
The variable that emerged was Inyeong, who went to the hotel swimming pool with her mother and almost drowned.
The hotel called, and Jo Sehun was the first to rush to the scene.
At that time, his wife was already half-mad. She had thrown herself into the pool to rescue her daughter and was pale.
Continually uttering strange sounds, she eventually fainted, and she was taken to the hospital.
Although she regained consciousness, her mind was still unclear.
At that time, Chairman Kim was already in a state of impending death due to a long-standing illness, and this fact should not reach his ears before the inheritance transition.
If the daughter went crazy and, on top of that, the granddaughter died, Chairman Kim judged that he would somehow obstruct any inheritance to himself.
That’s why Jo Sehun tolerated Inyeong’s death. He paid off all the witnesses at the scene with money and sent them abroad.
While doing so, he secretly brought another child to mimic Inyeong.
To Kim Hayoon, he conveyed that Inyeong had fallen into the water but fortunately did not die.
However, he informed her that Inyeong’s health was not good, so she continued to stay in the hospital. In the meantime, he kept buying time.
Being drugged, she believed Jo Sehun’s words and, for over a month, went back and forth between her daughter’s hospital room, who lay there without doing anything, and focused on her own treatment.
‘Why don’t you stop running the business and go abroad for a few years?’
Kim Hayoon, who thought that Inyeong’s short-term memory loss and the strange changes after the accident were all because of her, nodded her head.
As the wife who considered Inyeong everything in her life, she said so.
Because she had emotionally relied on her husband for the first time after experiencing a major incident, she postponed the divorce.
Under Jo Sehun’s continued brainwashing, Kim Hayoon went to Chairman Kim and asked him to pass on the position of chairman to his son-in-law.
‘He’s a good person, Dad. I think I misunderstood him all this time. Inyeong is going to be abroad with him for a while. She wants some rest.’
In the end, Chairman Kim inherited all his assets to Kim Hayoon and his granddaughter Jo Inyeong.
Although Kim Hayoon sometimes suspected that her daughter had become strange, it was difficult for her to receive help from others because she, too, had become mentally unstable after the accident.
After Chairman Kim died, Jo Sehun took both of them abroad and took care of them.
At first, both of them seemed to be doing well, but he continued to receive reports that Kim Hayoon was trying to contact her lawyer.
Unable to help it, he brought his wife back to Korea and confined her to a mental hospital.
Of course, outwardly, he created an image of taking care of his ailing wife until the end.
In reality, he ordered her to sleep for more than 18 hours a day.
Having everything in his hands, he no longer had anything to wish for.
Even those who once ridiculed and ignored him during the time when he was called Vice Chairman Jo now bowed their heads and admired him.
Until he became a venomous snake, he never regretted what he had abandoned.
Kwaang!
It was during the weekly briefing in the living room when Kim Vice President was receiving a report. A powerful cracking sound, like a bomb exploding, came from outside.
“What’s going on?”
“I’ll check and report back immediately.”
Go see. When he gestured, Kim Vice President went straight outside.
After a while, Kim Vice President, who was trying to understand the situation, came back inside and bowed his head in front of Chairman Jo, who was about to read the newspaper.
“A sedan crashed right into the wall next to the gate…”
“Crashed? Do you know where this is? And did the security company guys just stand there watching?”
Excitement was in the air, but he responded calmly.
Chairman Jo had gathered all the security companies and supporting factions within a 1km radius of Haerakwon.
Although anyone could easily come and go in this area, the exact location of Chairman Jo’s residence was not known to the public, so it was unlikely that anyone would casually visit.
Moreover, every vehicle passing by the vicinity had its license plate secretly checked by the security company.
If there was no separate report to Chairman Jo, it meant that the owner of the vehicle was not a dangerous person.
Unlike his usual self, Vice President Kim seemed tense, clenching both hands tightly in the middle as he spoke.
“When searching the vehicle, it seems I didn’t report to the chairman in advance because the actual driver is the representative of the car.”
“Who?”
“Representative Cha Taekyung.”
Chairman Jo let out a wry smile. Now aging, he brushed his white-covered head gently and looked at Vice President Kim.
“Tell him to come in.”
Sitting in the armchair, he became thoughtful.
The son he knew, Taekyung, was not someone who handled things emotionally.
He was rational in everything, persistent in moving forward as planned. He rarely showed his emotions and never blindly relied on anyone.
In that aspect, he resembled himself a lot.
Some time ago, Taekyung came to the Janggyeong Group headquarters.
Saying he came because he wanted to see his face, it was a blatant lie. He had a quick drink and left.
He knew Cha Yoonhwa would never tell anyone that he was Taekyung’s biological father.
Probably, Taekyung had used his information network to find out everything.
He had grown up splendidly under his powerless mother.
With ambition, drive, and, above all, extraordinary senses and intelligence inherent in this line.
Taekyung would undoubtedly become the owner of Myeongsan Group.
That he would take the position he had given up because of Cha Yoonhwa’s stubbornness was undoubtedly a happy event for Joseph Hun.
But hitting a wall…
As expected, there was always a hitch.
‘Yun Woo-yeon.’
Information had come in a while ago that Taekyung had brought Woo-yeon as his partner to a social gathering.
Are the two of them closer than I thought?
Chairman Jo recalled Woo-yeon, whom he had been watching closely since childhood.
It was sincere when he felt that he liked Woo-yeon.
Unlike Inyeong, who shook wildly when shaken, every time he saw that young girl who stood tall and spirited, it felt as if she was looking at herself.
Even after becoming the top anchor at UBC Broadcasting Station, it was interesting how she overly guarded herself and didn’t accept lobbying.
But eventually, Woo-yeon would submit and seek money and power.
Opposing Woo-yeon becoming Taekyung’s spouse was because of this.
The desire for money and power was ultimately the longing of those who did not possess them.
To solidify his influence, Taekyung needed to marry a born heiress from the beginning.
Just as he had abandoned Cha Yoonhwa and chosen Kim Hayoon, Taekyung also hoped to walk the same path.
“Chairman, Representative Cha Taekyung is here.”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
