Chapter 37
“You have a plan?”
Manager Jang Woojin stared at Lee Sejun.
“Yes.”
“What is it?”
Lee Sejun smiled faintly with complete confidence.
“We hit the CEO's most sensitive Achilles' heel.”
“His Achilles' heel?”
“What do you think that is?”
Lee Sejun narrowed his eyes.
“Trust and quality assurance.”
“WG Food managed to climb over the major corporations because of one thing.”
“100% Korean ingredients.”
“That's true.”
“We'll spread a rumor that during the instant rice shortage, Choi Inwoo secretly mixed cheap imported ingredients into the Korean rice supply from a Honam rice processing plant just to meet delivery dates and prices.”
Manager Jang flinched.
“What?”
“We'll create a fake ingredient supply contract using Choi Inwoo's name.”
“And an anonymous whistleblower email.”
“I'll send them to the CEO tomorrow morning.”
“Hey, Lee Sejun.”
“We have to go this far if we want Choi Inwoo out of the CEO's favor and thrown straight into the gutter.”
Manager Jang stared at him in shock.
“A fake contract?”
“If the CEO simply calls the Jeolla factory to verify it, the whole lie will be exposed within hours.”
“What good would that do?”
Manager Jang was right.
No matter how much fake information they spread...
Verifying it would be simple.
If they suspected Choi Inwoo was lying...
They only needed to call the factory.
But...
Lee Sejun's lips curled into a sinister smile.
“We only need two days before it gets exposed.”
“Two days?”
“Yes.”
“The entire country is obsessed with WG Instant Rice right now.”
“The second the CEO hears there might be imported rice mixed into it...”
“With his personality, he'll shut down the entire instant rice production line until the facts are confirmed.”
Manager Jang slowly nodded.
“That is true.”
“Considering his personality, he probably would.”
“Exactly.”
“Then he'll have no choice but to strip Choi Inwoo of his sales authority and suspend him.”
“While Choi Inwoo is isolated from the sales department and unable to move for those two days...”
Lee Sejun's mind continued racing.
“We'll destroy all the documents related to the marts around Gwangju.”
“And we'll clean the ledgers used by the dumping wholesalers.”
“You think that's possible?”
Manager Jang was Lee Sejun's senior.
But when it came to crimes like this...
He could not keep up with Lee Sejun's schemes.
The illegal dumping operation itself had originally come from Lee Sejun's mind.
Manager Jang had simply been persuaded into approving it.
He was shocked by the plan.
But he had no other option.
All he could do was support Lee Sejun.
If the scheme was exposed...
Manager Jang could end up in handcuffs too.
In fact...
Because he had spent much longer in WG Food and the industry than Lee Sejun...
He believed he had even more to lose.
“Once we temporarily remove that bastard Choi Inwoo...”
“We can bury the full audit by claiming missing paperwork and incomplete records.”
Manager Jang swallowed dryly.
Lee Sejun's scheme was dark and methodical.
If he could eliminate Choi Inwoo...
And hide their crimes...
He was willing to do far worse.
“...Fine, Sejun.”
“Let's do it your way.”
“Yes.”
“It's the only way.”
“Let's use this chance to completely rot the roots of that arrogant bastard Choi Inwoo.”
Manager Jang's eyes had turned vicious too.
“Come to my house tonight.”
“We'll finish forging the documents and preparing the email.”
“We need to move quickly.”
When their conversation ended...
The heavy rooftop door suddenly opened.
The two pursed their lips and headed back toward the office as if nothing had happened.
After they left...
The rooftop was empty.
Except...
For a small storage shed filled with construction materials.
Creeeak.
The old wooden door slowly opened.
The person who stepped outside...
Was Assistant Manager Choi Inwoo.
A recording app was open on his phone.
The recording that had begun minutes earlier...
Stopped under his fingertip.
Ding.
A cold, heavy smile spread across his face.
“Okay.”
“Let's see how this turns out.”
After the announcement of the full audit...
The employees' attitudes had changed.
Most of them looked nervous about having their accounts investigated.
Of course...
Their client relationships were legitimate.
Even people with nothing to hide could become anxious simply because an investigation had been announced.
It was like getting nervous when a police officer walked past even if you had done nothing wrong.
But what if you actually were guilty?
Even the sound of a police siren would make your heart pound.
Which was why Lee Sejun and Manager Jang had already made their move.
Fortunately...
I had accidentally overheard their plan.
After parking my car...
I headed toward the office.
My heart began beating faster.
By now...
Lee Sejun and Manager Jang's ridiculous scheme should already have started.
What kind of situation was waiting upstairs?
I had briefly considered arriving extremely early.
Before anyone else.
I thought about watching Manager Jang and Lee Sejun arrive.
Watching them speak to each other.
But instead...
I arrived as close to the end of normal starting time as possible.
I wanted their trap to be fully prepared before I appeared.
That way...
They would believe everything was moving exactly as planned.
The moment when they expected me to stumble on the stage they had built...
Would instead become the moment I destroyed them.
“Good morning.”
The moment I entered confidently...
I felt eyes turning toward me.
The sharpest gazes came first.
