The silence in the apartment after Min Jae left was profound. It was not a peaceful silence, but a heavy, waiting one, filled with the ghost of his presence and the echo of his vow. Seo-jun stood for a long moment, his own resolve hardening in the quiet. He would not just wait. He would prepare.
His first call was not to his office, but to the most trusted member of his small security team, a former special forces officer named Kang Dae who had been with him since the early, paranoid days after Ha-ru's birth.
"Kang," Seo-jun said, his voice all business. "I need a full, deep-level background pull. LX Group's Chief of Staff, Park Do Hyun. I want everything. Financials, family connections, any whispers, any old scandals buried by their PR machine. And I need it yesterday."
There was a pause on the other end. "Sir, targeting a man like Park Do Hyun... the second we start digging, LX security will know."
