When His Eyes Opened- TK

Chapter 38

Chapter 38

“What I meant was, how are you supposed to buy me designer dresses and shoes if you do not work harder and earn more money?”

Tae had changed into his house slippers, walked over to Jungkook, and added, “This is my first time wearing such expensive things.”

“Poor you,” Jungkook hissed, then walked into the elevator.

Tae held his tongue as he watched the elevator doors close.

He wanted to insult his excessively extravagant and wasteful lifestyle.

When he entered her room, he took off his gown and walked into the shower.

The warm water enveloped his entire body, numbing his senses.

Tae arrived at Kim Industries first thing the next morning.

At 10 a.m., there was not a seat left empty in the meeting room.

“Good morning, everyone. My name is Kim Taehyung. The reason I called for this meeting today is because I was abducted last night,” Tae said, then glanced around at the faces in the room.

“Seriously?! Are you okay, Tae?” someone exclaimed in shock.

“I’m fine. I wanted to have an open discussion with all of you today,” Tae said calmly. “Things aren’t looking great with the company right now. Investors aren’t interested in us, and those that are looking at us, are only interested in acquiring us for a low price. With our current debt, what they are offering will hardly cover what we owe.”

“We can bring out our Super Brain program! Once we arrange a press conference and introduce it to the public, people would be lining up to invest!” someone suggested, setting off a frenzy of consensus in the room.

“My father would never agree to sell the company. This is something that I’m sure all of you are aware of. Also, the new system isn’t ready yet, so I’m afraid it is not worth as much as you think it does,” Tae explained.

“What do we do, then? Are we really just going to let the company go bust?”

“If we continue to not have stable funding, I’m afraid that’s exactly what’s going to happen,” Tae answered.

Minhae slammed his palm on the table and roared, “You just want to keep Super Brain to yourself! Your father wasn’t the only one who worked on it!”

Tae looked coldly at Minhae and said, “Mr. Moon, since you are claiming that the program isn’t the work of my father alone, then you should be able to form a new team to produce a new Super Brain. When you do reach that point, I would not object to you selling it to rebuild the company.”

Minhae’s face flushed with anger at Taehyung’s words.

Tae’s father, Hyungsik, was the lead engineer on the project. Without him, there was no way for them to recreate the program.

“You say that you’re doing all of this for your father, but you secretly gave his life’s work to an outsider…”

“So, you were the one who abducted me last night, Mr. Minhae?” Tae asked.

Minhae’s eyes widened in horror.

“If you’re staying at the company in hopes of getting some giant profit, I suggest you give up. How would you get any kind of profit with all the debt we’re still buried in?” Tae said, then shifted his gaze to the rest of the room and added, “Anyone who’s on the same page as Mr. Moon is welcome to settle your final wages today.”

Minhae and two core members of the research and development team stormed out of the meeting room.

“Kim Taehyung looks gentle and quiet, but he turned out to be brutal!”

“He said he gave the stuff to Jeon Nic … but I don’t trust him! He might still have it!”

“Let’s look into Jeon Nic first!”

Tae left Kim Industries at noon to meet with Dohee at a restaurant for lunch.

“It’s so hard to meet you now, Tae! We barely see each other anymore!” Dohee whined. “Are you still having trouble looking for investors for your dad’s company?”