139. I won everything
After dropping Yena off at home, Ji-heon returned to the Seolhyun Group headquarters and met Ji-tae.
"Information about Max Planning is not something that ordinary reporters would easily know. However, it is information that businessmen who run a company of a certain size would have access to. They must have tried to do business with us at least once."
When Ji-heon organized the information he had collected in a few hours, he found some meaningful clues.
"The figures in the article are from around this time last year. It was when Daegeun Trading Company was considering whether or not to advertise and was looking into Max Planning."
Jitae nodded to Jiheon's opinion.
"Listening to what you said, it seems like the construction company information is the same? The information from when Soryan Construction and Daegeun Materials were in contact was used as numerical information."
"It looks like they're preparing to attack here and there, but when you look closely, it's not at all elaborate. It's just a strategy that was quickly prepared in a short period of time."
Ji-heon's opinion seemed plausible, but it was not possible to be certain about it.
"Still, you have to approach it with various possibilities in mind. Your hypothesis may be correct, but there is also a high chance that it is not."
"Why don't we make it bigger so that people will be more interested? That will make him run wild and get more excited. If it gets bigger, he'll get stepped on."
Ji-heon and Ji-tae are both generous and driven people, so their opinions matched well. It was the first time the two of them had worked together.
"Cha Eun-yeop came to see me the day before the incident. She asked me to drop the lawsuit, and I refused. Maybe she was just venting her anger. Since I couldn't get involved directly because of my father's personnel hearing, I made Ham Dae-geun angry and made him the leader of the group."
It was just a hypothesis, but Ji-tae quickly accepted it. He had never met Ham Dae-geun in person, but he knew his personality from the rumors he had heard. He was usually a quiet person, but once he got angry, he was rumored to act like a crazy person.
"I heard that Chae Eun-bi was obsessed with you. I guess it was true. She made a person into the embodiment of jealousy."
"Nothing happened with Chae Eun-bi."
Ji-heon became serious when Ji-tae teased him.
"Be careful. If Noon hears it, Noon will be offended."
"In the meantime, are you scared, Sister-in-law?"
"When you get married, you will understand my heart."
Ji-heon cut the joke short and regained his resolve.
"Judge Chae Seo-bok's confirmation hearing is next Wednesday. We have to wrap things up by then."
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In response to the rumors pouring in, the Sophisticated Group disclosed all of the facilities and sanitation processes of the food factory, posted an official statement, and announced that it would actively cooperate with the investigation that would be conducted in the future.
Internally, they also persuaded reporters, collected and analyzed information from online bulletin boards, and hired professional hackers to track down those spreading rumors.
As the slander that could be verified was sorted out, the rumors about the private lives of the owner family of the Sophisticated Group eventually became the biggest. This was because they were the most provocative. Ji-heon fought the rumors all night and returned home on Sunday morning.
