Younger Man at Work (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 144

The lawyer explained.

“He didn’t file a request to convene a shareholders’ meeting or seek an injunction against resolutions. Instead, he filed a petition asking them to recognize his voting rights. If the injunction were granted, he could immediately exercise influence as the largest shareholder.”

Chairman Kwon suddenly felt his vision go dark.

“My shares!”

When Kwon Yong Chul married Kang Hye Sun, he was so powerless that people mocked him, saying he’d gotten married with only two bells dangling to his name. Even after inheriting his father-in-law’s position as chairman, he was scorned as a figurehead who owed everything to his wife and didn’t hold a single share.

Because of this deep-seated insecurity, after inheriting shares from his deceased wife and becoming the largest shareholder, Chairman Kwon had consistently acquired additional shares under his own name and his second son’s.

Originally, Hye Sun had owned about 14% of the holding company of Dae Won Group. Under the pretext of covering inheritance taxes, Kwon Yong Chul seized more than half of what should have gone to his sons—leaving himself with a whopping 12% and giving Seung Joo barely 2%. Later, he purchased another 6% in total—5% under his own name and 1% under Seung Hyun’s.

Now, if those inherited shares had to be returned, Hye Sun would hold 14% and he himself would be left with only 6%. Hye Sun would inevitably become the overwhelming majority shareholder.

Although their side still held an advantage when including allied shares, in the event of a corporate control battle, no one could predict whose side those allies might take. Even if they managed to retain control thanks to those allied shares, they’d lose the absolute dominance they currently enjoyed.

To Kwon Yong Chul, shares were more precious than life itself. His thoughts inevitably drifted in this direction:

“Should I get back together with Seung Joo’s mom?”

Surprisingly, he genuinely believed that if he so desired, he could reunite with Hye Sun.

That wasn’t entirely baseless—his memory of Hye Sun was of a woman who knew nothing but her husband, to the point of suffocation. Even after witnessing with her own eyes that he’d set up another household and even had a child, she’d pleaded with him to return home. She’d stubbornly refused to grant him a divorce, no matter what.

[“I’ll forgive everything. Please sort things out before Seung Joo finds out and come back to me now. Okay, dear?”]

That was precisely where Chairman Kwon’s mental image of Kang Hye Sun had frozen. In truth, that version of Hye Sun had died long ago within the prison of the prayer center, but he remained completely unaware that the woman now before him was an entirely different person. He even suspected that her sudden appearance yesterday had been solely to sabotage his wedding—surely out of jealousy toward Yeon Hwa.

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