Midnight Mist

Chapter 2 - Rendezvous

Three C-level executives of MG Globals all gathered in one of the executive's office that evening. They all gathered and watched the exclusive breaking news of the death of Kim Minki, the owner and president of Hanryu Group conglomeration, and also the arrival of the heiress of Hanryu, Kim Minki's only daughter, Kim Luna.

"I think this situation will have a beneficial effect for us." David Park, the Chief Financial Officer, commented.

"We should make it beneficial." added Rachel Yoo, the CEO. "But we can't underestimate The new heiress. We don't know much about her."

David raised a finger and leaned forward on his seat, his eyes were shiny as he felt excited to share, "I had my research. She is not interested in their business. At all. She even disappeared for years, and no one in this country knew where she was. Some speculated she escaped from a convenient matchmaking her father prepared for her, and disappeared." He looked at the two other people in that room one by one. "That's why, even though we sometimes heard people in high society talk about The Princess of Hanryu, we hadn't seen her all this time. But damn! I admit she's so gorgeous! I wonder if she already has a partner or not, or maybe interested in having an affair."

Rachel almost rolled her eyes, wanting to smack David's back head. "You better shut up! Or do your research for more important information!"

David chuckled as Rachel sent him a fire gaze, then added as he pointed to another man in that room "Ah, we might not know anything about Kim Luna, but Antares must know. She went to the same school as Antares, here in Korea and also in Harvard College, but she dropped out."

During all that conversation, Antares Lee, the owner of that office, kept silent. He didn't speak a word and only focused on the TV screen that then reported from the outside of the elite funeral hall where Kim Minki's funeral would be held.

Rachel and David both looked at Antares who remained silent.

"You must know her, right?" David asked.

Of course. Antares perhaps was the one who knew Luna, better than anyone else.

But it was already in the past.

This past ten years? He knew nothing about her.

"She can be unpredictable." Antares said vaguely, almost like a whisper to himself.

David looked confused, and was about to talk again when Rachel cut his word off even before he spoke as she said. "Let's be prepared for every possibility. Antares, I trust and depend on you as you're our Chief Strategy. The goal of MG Globals is clear." she then stood up and grabbed her bag, "C'mon David, we have plans tonight, right?"

"Yes, right." David then followed her to stand up and he asked Antares, "Are you in?"

"Not now."

"Okay. Good night, Ares."

"Bye, Dude."

They said goodbye then left Antares alone in his office.

***

When she let herself accept the last thing her father wanted her to do, to bear and took the responsibility of Hanryu, Luna knew that she would make many sacrifices. The sacrifice that cost her life and freedom. Including marrying a man her father had chosen for her, for the sake of the stability of their conglomeration.

As she learned more about the inside of Hanryu, she realized that actually the company was not in its good condition. Hanryu had decreased rather significantly in these past five years since her father's condition also dropped gradually -but Kim Minki never told Luna-. Hanryu had lost a few of its subsidiary companies completely, and few of the rest subsidiaries were then became joint ownerships. The conditions worsened as then there's a new foreign monster that persistently tried to do merger and acquisition to Hanryu.