TMPW Ch 11 part 2

Vroooom. JoonHun’s car accelerated. As it approached his house, JoonHun saw that Derrick had already arrived.

“Just drop me off at the front door. After that, you may leave, Secretary Kang.”

Secretary Kang had a strange expression on his face when he heard JoonHun’s words.

“Ah… Yes, sir.”

What’s going on with him lately?

He heard that JoonHun gave all the employees within the house some time off and that only the butler, Choi Myung, remained. Also, there was no trace of the young madame. On the day they had left for the main house, only JoonHun had returned. Whether she had gone back to her father’s house or whether she had gone somewhere else, no one knew.

After Yoon HeeSoo heard about this, she bristled and began to nag Secretary Kang for answers, but it was no use. He didn’t know anything either. As the head of security at HyunJin, it looked like Derrick knew something, but he kept his mouth shut. Didn’t JoonHun go to the R&K headquarters today because of the young madame?

Secretary Kang was extremely curious about what had happened, but he was in no place to ask.

“Please pick me up at the same time tomorrow.”

With that, JoonHun got out of the car. Secretary Kang saw a blonde man, who had been leaning on the dark gray SUV, straighten up and approach JoonHun. It was Derrick Khabensky, the man in charge of security at HyunJin. He was Russian-American and very well-known within the company. Secretary Kang watched the two men walk away through the side-view mirror.

Derrick and JoonHun’s builds were very similar. Both were tall and lean.

“What happened?”

At JoonHun’s question, Derrick took off his sunglasses and looked at him.

“That’s what I wanted to ask you. Just what in the hell is going on? We managed to bypass it, but the attack started with HyunJin. What if someone finds out? The data servers at the headquarters were even turned off. Hey, you need to go rein in your wife.”

“Let’s go up.”

JoonHun didn’t know what happened, but he needed to go and talk to Yuan. The two went inside. When they got off the elevator, JoonHun was surprised to see that Choi Myung was nowhere to be seen.

He always saw Choi Myung waiting to greet him whenever he returned home. Seeing that he wasn’t here, JoonHun became tense. He didn’t see any security guards either. The surveillance system outside was still recording, but it was still possible that something had gone wrong.

“Yuan!”

As soon as he reached the 4th floor, JoonHun looked for Yuan. He checked her bedroom, but all he found was a sleeping TaeKyung. Surprised, JoonHun and Derrick went to the 2nd floor to check the dining room and the study. When they approached the study, they finally heard noises indicated someone’s presence.

He quickly opened the study door and was absolutely shocked by what he saw.

It was complete chaos inside the room. He didn’t know where all these computers came from, but the study was full of machines and cables. All the monitors were running computer programs without pause. Even Choi Myung was standing there holding up a TV monitor.

“Ah, Director. How did you come back so early…?”

Choi Myung’s surprise was evident on his face.

“Director?”

Someone stood up and looked towards JoonHun. It was a strange woman with a slim figure, white face, black lipstick, and short hair. Next to her, Yuan had been looking intently at the monitor. She suddenly stood up. His wife was wearing glasses and her long hair was tied up.

“Joo-JoonHun-ssi?”

She quickly took off her glasses and called out his name. All three of them seemed shocked to see that the master of this study had returned.

“Just what is…”

JoonHun opened his mouth in shock.

“Wow, holy crap.”

JoonHun heard Derrick’s voice from behind his back, but he didn’t turn around. He wasn’t sure if he should laugh or be furious.

“Will somebody explain what is going on?”

At his words, Yuan came to her senses. She quickly glanced at Eri and Choi Myung.

“So, that is…”

“I will go and prepare some tea.”

Choi Myung was the first to make his escape.

“Ah, I like tea!”

Eri brazenly lied as she followed after Choi Myung. She stopped for a moment when she arrived at JoonHun’s side.

“H-Hello. We met at your wedding for a bit… I’m Yuan’s friend.”

Then she immediately followed Choi Myung and left the room.

JoonHun continued to stare at Yuan with his arms crossed across his chest. When he heard Derrick awkwardly clear his throat behind him, JoonHun spoke without turning around.

“Get out.”

Derrick was disappointed that he wouldn’t be able to see this interesting scene unfold, but he helplessly turned around and left the room.

Now that everyone had left, only JoonHun and Yuan were left in the room. He had his arms crossed, and Yuan stood awkwardly behind the desk.

“Come here.”

He finally spoke.

Yuan walked over to him.

“First, kiss me.”

At his words, Yuan was surprisingly obedient as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. This was it. When he came home, the first thing he needed to receive was his wife’s kiss.

Yuan was confused, but her kiss was sweet. Like a cat, she lightly swept her tongue over his lips before pulling back.

“Now, explain. What did you do today?”

“If I want to erase any trace of TaeKyung-oppa from R&K, I needed to mess around with their data servers.”

“So you released a virus?”

“I also needed to know what President Min did with the 500 billion he took from Oppa.”

“What?”

JoonHun’s eyes widened. She found out where that bastard had put the 500 billion won? Yuan put her glasses back on and began to walk back to her computer.

Thankfully, President Min’s method of money laundering was much more outdated than Yuan’s. It almost couldn’t even be called money laundering.

“President Min’s slush fund is in an account under Hong SeRyung’s name at the Zurich Cantonal Bank. It looks like he has amassed 1 trillion won. The money has been trickling in for 28 years, ever since the RyuHwa and KeumYoung merged.”

For 28 years?

JoonHun raised an eyebrow. That was when R&K had formed. So he had been embezzling money from the company since then?

“Then all we need to do is release this information.”

“How? As you know, Swiss banks don’t reveal the identity of its account holders. No matter how much you try and tell them that it’s an illegal account, no bank will release that information.”

“The laws have changed, and there are ways to make it public.”

“When? First, there has to be a formal charge filed against the formation of the slush fund, and that will only happen after an investigation and a trial. We’ll be lucky if it happens within 10 years.”

JoonHun crossed his arms and looked at Yuan.

He felt as if he was now seeing his wife’s true face now that she had completely thrown away her quiet and graceful mask. In her black blouse and slacks with her hair haphazardly tied up, wearing glasses… This was Osiris. The legend of the cyberworld. It was one thing to hear about it, but it was a completely different feeling to actually see it with his own eyes.

As she glared at him, JoonHun thought that this Min Yuan was very similar to the one he had seen at the Japanese restaurant. The same overbearing woman who had ordered, ‘Don’t move.’

Is this really you? This clever woman who has no fear?

To be honest, he liked this side of her way better than the graceful young madame. JoonHun looked at this new Yuan with appreciation.

“So what do you want to do?”

For a moment, she just stood still. Then she crossed her arms like JoonHun and leaned on the desk. He could tell that she was debating whether to say something or not.

“What is it?”

JoonHun slightly furrowed his brow and asked. He suddenly had a bad feeling that she was going to say something strange.

“JoonHun-ssi.”

“What?”

“Should we try and rob the Swiss bank?”

What?

JoonHun blankly stared at her. It took a long time for him to process what she had just said.

“Rob what?”

“The bank.”

“Are you crazy?”

No matter how fearless she was, how could she even contemplate robbing a bank?

Well, the woman in front of him was Min Yuan. A woman who had fearlessly stolen 500 billion won. A woman who had made that money disappear in an instant and laundered it countless times. A woman who had caused chaos to erupt in the PyeongChang neighborhood as she went in alone just to save her brother.

But still… robbing a bank? And not just any bank. A Swiss bank!

“Absolutely not!”

He shook his head once.

“Have you lost your mind? You’re talking about the Swiss bank. Do you know what will happen if you get caught?”

Even if this was her first offense, she would still be sentenced to life in prison. Switzerland wasn’t a county that would let this pass.

“You met with President Min today, right?”

JoonHun frowned at Yuan’s words.

“Did you have me followed?”

“Of course not. I only assumed because, by now, both you and President Min would have investigated each other about what had happened. President Min has a good head on his shoulders. He will be questioning your involvement and try to feel you out. He’s already withdrawn the money, and once TaeKyung-oppa is eliminated, that money will all be his. I’m sure he’s already realized that you’re the one who took TaeKyung-oppa. Am I wrong?”

What a scary woman. JoonHun felt that his wife was incredibly perceptive. On top of that, she was a hacker. From now on, it would be difficult for him to hide his whereabouts from her. Ah, now wasn’t the time to be thinking about this.

“You’re right.”

“Until you return TaeKyung-oppa to him, President Min won’t say that he has already found the 500 billion.”

Then the future of the Dubai project is uncertain, and the probability of JoonHun losing his 1 trillion would be high.

“But robbing a bank?”

“We wouldn’t technically be robbing the bank. We can’t steal it.”

“Then what are you talking about?”

Yuan grinned and approached him. For some reason, her walk looked flirtatious. It put JoonHun on edge. He couldn’t give in and let his wife do whatever she wanted. He felt that he needed to be fully alert right now.

“I just want to bring the money back into Korea.”

“What?”

“To be more specific, we’re going to be returning the slush fund to its rightful owner: President Min.”

“Just what are you talking about? You want to transfer the funds from the Swiss bank back to Korea?”

“Right.”

Yuan touched his necktie and smiled.

They were going to send it back to Korea. They were going to take Hong SeRyung’s 1 trillion and merely put it into Hong SeRyung’s account in Korea.

Just moving around 100,000 won would alert the computers of the Financial Supervisory Service of the National Tax Bureau, but they were going to be moving 1 trillion. And this money was seemingly going to appear out of thin air from the Swiss bank.

There was no way that the Financial Supervisory Service of the National Tax Bureau would just leave this alone. From R&K’s perspective, this would publicly reveal how the family had collected this large sum of money and moved it around.

The money R&K had obtained from Luxembourg would also be included in that slush fund. This would allow HyunJin to inquire into R&K over the Dubai incident, and they would finally have the opportunity to recover JoonHun’s collateral.

Furthermore, this would also open the door for arrest warrants to be charged for Chairman Min and Hong SeRyung for embezzlement and fraud. All in one swoop. So this technically wasn’t a robbery.

Cunning like a fox.

JoonHun stretched out his hand and whispered.

“No, Yuan.”

Even if the account was being transferred to an account with the same owner, defrauding a bank was clearly against the law. No. This was ridiculous. It was too dangerous. It was impossible.

“Ah! Why not?!”

At that moment, they heard voices yell out in unison. Surprised, JoonHun and Yuan looked back. Eri, Derrick, and Choi Myung, who was holding the tea, were standing there.

“I apologize, Director. I only wanted to bring in some tea…”

“JoonHun, why can’t we do that? We’re just sending that money to the same owner. This is an incredible idea!”

“Let’s do it! Why can’t we? It sounds like a lot of fun!”

The three all spoke at the same time. Dumbfounded, JoonHun sharply raised his eyes.

“Get out. All of you, stop being ridiculous!”

His shout rang throughout the corridor.