“It’s over now,” said lawyer Park as he put down the phone.

Dongwook looked at the messy desk. The days and nights he spent in order to catch Hong Janghae’s tail suddenly all felt meaningless. A phone call and a calm conversation without any shouting were all it took to lead the case to the finish line. He almost laughed in vain, thinking about all the effort he put in until now.

“Does it feel empty?”

“A little. Considering all the things that Hong Janghae did, I thought he wouldn’t step back so easily, but it ended like this.”

“He readily accepted because he knew that he wouldn’t have anything even if he struggled until the end. They’ll probably move faster than us. The easiest, and the quietest, way to deal with this is to have an internal audit. There will be an announcement in just one day, that the president of Soul Entertainment, a subsidiary of the YM Group, did illegal...