Chapter 4

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Folowing a post-soccer game lunch, Reresentative Park sends each assemblyman off with a box of vitamins which are filled with wads of cash. His secretary informs him about the recent death of Yoona's aunt, Choi Kayne.

Representative Park believes attending the funeral will be a wonderful opportunity, and his departure is witnessed by Joong Ki, who watches from above.

As Secretary Kim does Yoona's makeup for the funeral, Yoona wonders if her aunt's death sets a precedent for those who die childless. Despite her great wealth, her aunt died alone in a sanatorium, and Yoona only looked after the old woman in her final years in order to acquire her JB Group shares.

Secretary Kim, however, believes  that both Yoona and her aunt cared for one another. "My deceased aunt will look so pale today," she notes, though that will be of use to Yoona that day.

Joong Ki is pulled back onto the road by Chief Joo when he arrives at the office. In the car, Chief Joo remarks how Joong Ki's revenge against Representative Park will be a slow play. Right now, they're headed to pay their respects to their employer and the death in her family.

All the JSS agents are barred entry per the family's request, though Representative Park drives on in. Yoona and Min Ho are on their way as well, as the latter comments on how happy she must be to acquire her late aunt's shares.

Yoona isn't so sure since her aunt leaves behind a husband and son whom she knows won't easily hand over that stock.

Chief Joo fills them in once they arrive and expresses his concern that the stringent security doesn't allow the JSS to protect them during the funeral. Yoona doubts that anyone would dare to attack them while Min Ho is with her, but since she is allowed two employees, Chief Joo sends in Joong Ki and Team Leader Seo.

After Yoona and her husband pay their respects, Joong Ki grabs a moment with Yoona alone to slip an item into her purse. He instructs her to press it once if she thinks something is off so he can listen in, twice if she's in danger. When she asks, "And if I press it?" Joong Ki replies, "Who knows?"

The aforementioned item is a specialized pen with a limited range in reach. Inside, Yoona sits in a locked room with the bereaved family along with her half-brother Sung-won, his mother, and his father-in-law. The attorney presents a briefcase containing Choi Kayne's will, though confesses that someone present here has the key.

Everyone in the room turns to Yoona, who realizes that the entire family was aware the key was in her possession. While the attorney reads the will aloud, Yoona takes out the pen Joong Ki had given her.

After the attorney is sent away, Yoona presses the button once so Joong Ki can listen in. It turns out Choi Kayne left her entire fortune to Yoona's non-profit organization, and Sung-won's mother remarks how Yoona can't have everything, notably the presidency and JB Group.

It's an open secret that Yoona is using the JSS to monitor JB Group, though Sung-won jumps to his noona's defense saying that she's just looking out for him.

However, her smile drops as she's threatened how her scholarship foudation will soon call for an urgent board of directors meeting where they will appoint a new CEO. Yoona angrily rises from her seat, accidentally sending the pen into Sung-won.

Sung-won clicks the button, which cuts off the feed to Joong Ki's radio.

Back inside, Yoona says any decisions made during a board of directors meeting without the CEO present is null and void. To that, Sung-won's father-in-law replies that they plan on dismissing her from her position first, then seek to reinstate her after they sell the JB Group shares tucked within the scholarship foundation.

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