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Even though Lisa was heartbroken and couldn’t bear it anymore, Rong Sheng had no idea. He sighed and said, “Actually, J Pharmaceutical didn’t need to go bankrupt in the first place. If the company had just overcome the difficulties of the cash flow, and if the employees could have given the company a little more trust and listened to Uncle Jeon’s explanation rationally, then it wouldn’t have ended up like this. But the employees were too selfish. Many of them were new graduates who Uncle Jeon personally hired and trained at the beginning of the company’s founding. He taught them valuable experience at J Pharmaceutical. However, when the crisis came, they didn’t have any sense of collective responsibility. Uncle Jeon was very compassionate when he started the business. He cared for many frontline employees at the grassroots level. If someone had something going on at home, like buying a house, seeking medical treatment or getting married, and they wanted to advance their salary, he would agree. He never thought that when the company faced its toughest times, he would only ask for a delay of one or two days in receiving their salaries, and they would completely disagree…why? Because they saw that J Pharmaceutical was struggling, and it seemed to be going bankrupt. They also received olive branches and better job offers from several high-level executives who had started new companies. People always want to climb higher.”

Suddenly, Lisa felt a little dizzy. At that moment, she felt that she finally understood why Jungkook completely hated the employees who only thought from their own perspectives and didn’t consider the company’s interests.

Due to her father’s experience, Lisa always felt that business owners were cunning and treacherous, while employees were powerless and helpless. She naturally sympathized with the workers. Looking back now, Jungkook was the same, but in reverse. He believed that employees were only motivated by self-interest and were prone to forget past favors.

He believed that they would take advantage of the so-called vulnerable image to benefit themselves at the expense of the company. Therefore, in labor disputes, he always naturally sided with the company’s position and tended to consider problems from the company’s perspective. Due to his father’s experience, he may never be able to trust employees wholeheartedly and is filled with hatred when facing their flaws and mistakes.

When he is cold-blooded and merciless towards company employees, he may be thinking that if his father had been less sentimental and had taken action against disloyal executives, refused the demands of employees for advanced payment of wages, and decisively fired all flawed employees, instead of being too soft-hearted, the results might have been different. Perhaps the damage and impact he suffered in the end would have been less?

Looking back, Jungkook’s initially bizarre personality and extreme attitude were all the result of the pain and shaping he experienced in life.
Lisa  looked at Jimin and whispered, “So his personality…”

Jimin nodded, “I knew him before his family had the accident. He was really a gentle person before that. It was only after this incident that his personality changed dramatically.”

Jimin did his best to sell himself out for Jungkook, but he didn’t know that Lisa’s heart was throbbing with pain as she listened. “How did he manage to get through that time?”

“It was his belief in uncovering the truth and his debt that drove him,” recalled Jimin. “Do you know why I chose to partner with Jungkook in setting up a law firm? Actually, there were many people who wanted to partner with me, my family has some connections in the legal circles in City A, so I had many offers. Objectively speaking, Jungkook wasn’t the best option for a partner at the time, as he had just returned from practicing in the US and had no experience in non-litigious cases related to labor disputes. He had not yet obtained his lawyer’s license in China and was unfamiliar with the legal environment and procedures, and his temper was not smooth. But if you had witnessed how he got to where he is today, you would know that choosing him meant choosing reliability. I rarely admire anyone, but I sincerely admire Jungkook. After his father went bankrupt and had to sell off his assets, due to many breach of contract agreements that required compensation and labor disputes, the company was unable to pay off its debts and still owed external debts. When his father committed suicide, on the one hand, it may have been because he was too proud to face himself, but on the other hand, he may have wanted to give his son and wife a way out with his death. With his death, the company’s debt also came to an end, and many creditors would no longer be inhumane enough to pursue his widow and child to the end. So actually, Jungkook did not need to take on his father’s debt.”