From Something To Everything (Bounprem)

83. Cause

Earth had found that the people who were actually behind the whole scandal were the Khuruwityophats, one of Boun's paternal grandfather's underlings. They wanted to expand themselves and gain more control over their partnership with the Dechaphattanakun empire.

As the most promising grandchildren of his grandfather, all three of them, Kao, Boun and Ohm, became their primary target. Among the three, Boun was the least affected as he was only an artist under SZ and not a direct shareholder.

The scandal had already thrown SZ Entertainment, which Kao and Ohm had painstakingly built with years of effort and handwork, off balance. They would have been nearly facing bankruptcy at this point if the new shareholder hadn't injected funds. They have lost a lot of money as well as their reputation already.

The Khuruwityophats wanted to fish in the troubled water. Their plan was to stir up trouble and play the hero and save the company when it would end up in a desperate condition. This would help them take over SZ Entertainment under their wing and the agency will play as the bridge between them and the DPTK empire.

The thing that enraged Boun the most was that the vixen named Peach who had been sticking to his cousin like a leech was actually the said family's illegitimate daughter and had ulterior motives in approaching Ohm. He didn't know if he should be happy that his cousin was an idiot when it came to things like love and romance.

After listening to Kao's and Earth's explanation of the whole scandal, for the first time in his life, Boun was thankful that he had two brothers and he himself was almost kicked out of his family.

The Khuruwityophats had left him out precisely because of this reason.

Among the three children of the Dechaphattanakun family, Saen Boun's father was the second eldest with Phil, Kao's father as the eldest and Ann, Ohm's mother as the youngest.

Phil and Jane had two kids, Kao and Kia. Kia was two years elder than Boun and not very close to the latter as she was brought up abroad by her maternal aunt.

Ann and Seth had two children, Ohm and Dream. Dream was the princess of the three cousins. She was the apple of their eyes. Three of them always spoiled her. Especially Boun.

Last but not least, Saen and Tessa, had three sons, Alex, Oreo and Boun.

In total, the Dechaphattanakun family had seven grandchildren in one generation. Kao being the eldest of all the grandchildren, became the heir of the family while Alex, the second eldest became the second in line for the heir position.

Ohm was the eldest child from his father's side. Hence, became the heir of the Ritprasert family.

Boun on the other hand was chosen to inherit his mother's side as his mother was the only child and his two elder brothers were deemed unfit for the role by his maternal grandfather.

Harold, Boun's paternal grandfather was a great businessman who took the DPTK group to new heights and turned it into an empire. He felt that none of his children (Phil, Saen and Ann) could handle the whole empire alone. Hence, in his will, he made it clear that the shares of the DPTK empire will be divided equally among his three children and will be under Kao's control.

This meant that even though Kao only had ownership over half of one-third of the property of the DPTK empire, he still had the decision-making power for the whole group.

Ohm had the same percentage of shares in the DPTK empire and his century-old rich paternal family to boost.

This made the two cousins the perfect target for the attack. If the Khuruwityophats had been successful in their plan, then with the support of Kao and Ohm, they could easily establish themselves in the Thai economy.

They didn't bother to attack Boun because Boun only has ownership over one-third of the share of the DPTK empire and the Guntachai family is someone to be messed with as they had always been on the mysterious side. They could only attack him in a roundabout way. But most of the attack got absorbed by his cousins and the impact didn't really reach him.

Boun was somewhat frustrated about the scenario though. He had always faced all the problems together. Now those people refusing to attack him made Boun feel left out. Call him a masochist, but yes, he did. He felt useless and powerless as there was nothing much, he could do to help his cousins when they were struggling.

Boun wasn't actually powerless. His current status was not big enough to face an enemy as big as the Khuruwityophats nor was he willing to acknowledge his surname and take on the power of the Guntachai family to back him up. His ego and past experiences will never let him even consider that as an option.

Frustrated at himself, Boun kept listening to Kao, Ohm and Earth planning the future plan of action. He wasn't very interested in the internal politics of the family and chose not to comment on anything.

Earth was playing the strategist laying out a foolproof plan to counter the attacks online and offline.

Truth be told, Boun was pretty impressed with the way Earth was handling everything. Not only was Earth helping his cousins find information with his hacking skills, and he was also promoting Fluke and Prem in between all the chaos like how a good manager would do. Earth's PR and marketing strategies were truly amazing and had a positive impact on their side the whole situation. This gave them much more hope than before Earth's arrival.

Boun watched how Kao and Earth interacted with each other. They were so in sync as they seemed to understand each other so well. He felt that his cousin had found his missing half.

He was not a fudanshi. Yet, when it came to his cousins, he secretly shipped them with their crushes (no one else knew not even himself).

The whole plan that Earth suggested and his cousins agreed on was giving Boun a headache. He knew that they didn't have a better option, yet he didn't want to follow through with the plan.

They had already delayed the whole thing long enough, even failing to protect Prem and Fluke along with Ohm and SZ in the process. They had to abandon the conservative and safe way and step into a dangerous and risky one if they wanted to stop everything once and for all.

Kao had already contacted his father's secretary to deal with the Khuruwityophats. But that didn't end anything. The fire those people started had spread too wide and burnt too many people to be put off just like that.