I don’t need a son who doesn’t do as I say. Tell your father. We’re going to divorce anyway. I won’t see you as my son. But don’t worry. Mom won’t completely abandon you. When you lose everything, Mom will find you again. But only after you’ve lost everything.

Jung Yeosa’s grandfather, who founded Seo Do Food, set the stage, and currently, many of Jung Yeosa’s people were in the VAN Group. Jung Yeosa opened an emergency shareholder meeting to take everything away from her son.

Jaehyuk couldn’t speak due to the rising anger.

“They probably aligned with us for their own safety since your father became the chairman. They were never on your father’s side in the first place.”
Most of the executives, including all vice-presidents and directors except for the vice-chairman of the VAN Group, were children of Seo Group executives.

Seo Group was a company established by Mrs. Jung’s father. In other words, the parents of the executives of the VAN Group were close associates of Mrs. Jung’s father.

Jaehyuk ran his hand through his hair roughly.

“Why is the madam doing this?”

“Just as the letter says.”

He sighed dryly.

Reality was desperate. Stocks weren’t magically appearing from anywhere.

If things continued like this, it was clear that it would go as Mrs. Jung wished.

A chief cautiously expressed resentment towards Mrs. Jung.

“No matter what, I can’t understand why you’re doing this to your own son. He’s your husband and your son, and I can’t understand how you can do this according to my common sense.”

“If you were a mother, you could. Beating an unruly son is a very natural thing for her.”

Jaehyuk knew why his mother had done such a thing. Her intentions were so obvious that it was almost laughable.

He used to be a son who listened well, but not anymore.

‘She wants to completely break me.’

It was the best strategy to shake him, a man with weak internal support.

People who had supported him when he was the only son of Chairman Ban and was thriving turned away from him after Chairman Ban stepped down from the frontline of management.

It was natural on the battlefield. Holding onto an old rope, the end would be destruction.

Jaehyuk, who had become a fallen duckweed, had nowhere to lean except for his mother, Mrs. Jung.

“You can’t make it happen as your mother wishes, though.”

Tap, tap, Jaehyuk tapped the desk with his long fingers. Although he didn’t say much, a chief who had observed Mrs. Jung for a long time understood the meaning in his short words and nodded.

“We’ve been gathering a little, but it doesn’t seem easy. Do you remember when I reported that the stock trends seemed strange last time?”

Jaehyuk looked at him in response to the chief’s report.

“It turns out that Saint, the company that purchased a large amount of stock a few days ago, is an American operating company. The representative is a person named Yu Ha, and their nationality has been confirmed as American.”

“The amount purchased?”

“About 1% of the total shares.”

He fell into thought.

Already, the media was sending articles with a perspective of a family feud, describing the power struggle between Chairman Ban and Mrs. Jung.

But to buy a large amount of stock at this time?

The timing was not good. Moreover, the place where the purchase was made was a foreign company?

The sense of crisis that VAN Group’s stocks were plummeting was imminent.

Jaehyuk checked the ownership amount with documents and fell into thought.

‘Even if I add the approximately 5% owned by my father to my 1%, it seems to be as the chief said.’

Chairman Ban received news that the shareholder meeting was held and collapsed that day, unable to recover.
“If Father had woken up and vigorously pushed for stock donations…”

Jaehyuk reversed his futile regret.

At that moment, the office door opened, and Secretary Yang entered.

“What’s going on?”

Jaehyuk’s gaze, fixed on the documents, shifted to Secretary Yang.

“There’s someone who wants to talk to the Vice Chairman right now.”

“Who is it?”

“A person named Rachel Lewis.”

Upon Yang’s words, Jaehyuk stood up abruptly.

“Connect it right away.”

There was no reason for him to hesitate.

After the kidnapping, she couldn’t stay alone even in broad daylight.

“Arin, do you want to eat?”

Ji Yoon entered Arin’s room and asked.

“Yeah.”

Arin put down the book she was holding and went to the living room.

In the kitchen, Mrs. Seo was wearing an apron.

“Mother, you’re tired too, don’t overdo it. You can order something to eat.”

Arin said as she sat at the dining table.

Mrs. Seo shook her head.

“No. What’s so difficult about cooking for our Arin? Come on, eat. I made chicken gomtang today.”

“It looks really delicious.”

“I made a lot, so eat as much as you want. I’ll serve it later when that person comes.”

“…Yes, thank you.”

She had regained her composure thanks to the help of those around her.

At night, he protected her by her side. During the day when he went to work, Mrs. Seo and Ji Yoon were there for her.