The bookshelf that filled one wall without a space was filled with materials about negotiation.
While pursuing his master's degree in political science, he participated in the FBI Academy training in the United States and even completed hostage negotiation training hosted by the NYPD.
When the hostage was put in front, nine out of ten of the graduates were swayed by their emotions.
However, Baek Sa-eon did not blink an eye even at the provocation of the blackmailer or the gun.
The basis of negotiation is dialogue.
Understanding the other party as a human being.
An excellent negotiator must have the communication skills to disarm the other party with 'empathy' as a weapon, but Baek Sa-eon was a person who completely twisted that premise.
Cold indifference.
Calculating and immoral questions.
Manipulating others with meticulous emotional control, etc.
Far from being a negotiator.
A personality that enjoyed squeezing the hostage taker rather than the hostage's safety.
The mother, who noticed her son's shortcomings, became furious and forbade him to do so on this floor. ‘He’s just a caustic, he can’t be a negotiator.’
That was his mother’s cold assessment.
That talent was the very foundation that made him stand out as a political collaborator.
“A rat who hides his voice.”
He tapped the book with his knuckles. It was already rough, and the sound scratched like sandpaper.
* * *
Hee-joo didn’t take her eyes off the sociopath on the monitor.
“Your tongue will be numb and you won’t be able to say anything.”
‘Your tongue will be numb and you won’t be able to say anything… ….”
She moved her hands in a deliberate manner and followed the lines.
She had the same hardened face as the actor, her stiff jaw, and her two hands that roughly clashed together.
It wasn't that she didn't think of another way.
She once received legal advice about an unfair marriage contract. But whether it was a free consultation or a large law firm, it was the same wherever she went.
“… … Yes? Assemblyman Baek?”
“Sankyung Ilbo… … right?”
The connections of the father-in-law and mother-in-law already dominated the legal profession from the roots, and no one wanted to touch the assemblyman who was mentioned as a presidential candidate.
This means that there was not a single lawyer who would find fault with the unfair contract.
『Your workplace, all destroyed?』
‘Your workplace, all destroyed?’
Sign language interpretation centre video room.
Hee-joo moved her hands quickly and accurately like flowing water.
『Don’t move, you’ll get hurt. Move or die!』
‘Don’t move, you’ll get hurt… … . Move or die!’
The neat eyebrows twitched just like an angry actor.
Finally today.
Tonight… … !
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