Chapter 236: Daily Life
Just as dawn was breaking, inside the Presidential Suite of the Zeus Hotel, Tang Song stood naked by the room's floor-to-ceiling window, holding his phone. This Presidential Suite in the Zeus Hotel was located at the very top of the building. Standing here, it felt as though he was looking down upon the entire city of Seoul.
The city in the mist was less noisy. Tang Song's fair fingers lightly tapped and knocked on the glass curtain wall of the floor-to-ceiling window a few times.
*Clink, clink*, amidst the crisp glass vibration, Boss Tang made up his mind.
"Keeping her is just trouble. Let Black Widow disappear along with her! Make sure things are handled cleanly!"
"Understood! Boss! I'll get right on it!" Storm Shadow's steady voice came from the other end of the line.
*Click*, Tang Song hung up the phone and casually tossed it onto the sofa nearby. He stretched towards the rising sun.
Avengers, Superhero, so what? To him now, they were nothing more than a few chess pieces.
Blocking chess pieces could just be swept off the board!
Tang Song moved his arms. A faint yellow glow emanated from the thumb ring on his right hand, reflecting the red light emitted by the vermilion jade bracelet on his left hand.
From the bedroom, a slender female star, who looked like a deer, walked out, groggily rubbing her eyes. As soon as she entered the living room, she unconsciously looked towards the floor-to-ceiling window and saw the sunlight shining on Tang Song's naked, strong, and streamlined, muscular body.
She was startled for a moment, then seemed frightened by the sight. Looking at Tang Song's naked, strong body, the wild night they'd had last night reappeared in her mind.
The scenes from last night filled her mind, and her face instantly flushed red with shame.
Originally, given the position of their Girl Group's entertainment company in the South Korean Entertainment Industry, they shouldn't have been reduced to such a state! But they couldn't resist the distinguished Identity of the Guest this time. Even Lee Soo-man, when a dark handgun was placed on his office desk, didn't he offer up his own niece?
What's more, it wasn't just coercion, but also enticement!
After receiving Mariko Yashida's hint that she could help their Alphabet Company break into the Japan and Federation markets.
Lee Soo-man almost personally wrapped each member of the Girl Group he had created in a blanket and sent them one by one to Boss Tang's bed.
He even handled the persuasion work himself, without involving their managers.
On one hand, they faced being permanently shelved by the company, forever leaving the entertainment industry, and disappearing from public view. On the other hand, they could enter the Federation and Japan, becoming a world-class Girl Group.
There was only one path before the Girl Group. They had strived hard, debuted, and finally persevered until today. No one was willing to give up; they didn't want to leave the glamorous stage.
"At worst, it's just like being bitten by a dog!"
Lin Xiaolu still remembered the exact words their Captain had said, grinding her teeth bitterly.
The morning passed without incident. By the time the Girl Group got into the three vans waiting for them in the Underground Parking Lot of the Zeus Building and left, it was already afternoon.
Boss Tang naturally left the Zeus Hotel as well. After all, the Presidential Suite had been so thoroughly ruined that it needed a complete cleaning...
In a Villa in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul.
"Master! How were those female idols? Did you enjoy yourself? I just had someone contact several entertainment companies here in South Korea and asked them to send over photos, videos, and specific measurements, as well as unedited photos of their female stars!"
Mariko Yashida offered the trimmed cigar to Boss Tang and asked seductively.
She picked up the tablet nearby and swiped a few times. Several well-known South Korean female stars appeared on the tablet.
"Forget it! These things are just for novelty!" Tang Song waved his hand, sitting on the sofa and smoking his cigar.
"Master, that Little Girl from earlier today looked good to me. The way she looked at you, her eyes seemed to melt. Choi Dong-wook also has some interest in arranging something. How about I arrange something?"
Marriage alliances among South Korean Chaebol are very normal. As for Choi Dong-wook's overt and covert hints earlier today about wanting to send Yoo Rachel to Old Master Tang's side to help her learn about hotel management experience...
Unlike the neighboring large country where thousands of troops cross a single-plank bridge, the South Korean education system is even more extreme.
South Korea has a total population of over 40 million, but class stratification is severe, with 90% of the wealth controlled by those Chaebol.
The only path for Commoner Children to cross classes is through studying, although after graduation, they are highly likely to enter companies controlled by Chaebol.
But if they don't study well, they won't even have the opportunity to work in a Chaebol company.
Moreover, if they study well, they can also take the Civil Servant exam in South Korea. If they pass the Prosecutor exam in South Korea, that's truly crossing a class.
Perhaps because there is only one path for advancement, the degree of intense competition in South Korean education even surpasses that of its neighbor.
It's commonplace for children from Ordinary Person families to study until one or two in the morning every day. Some even joke that South Koreans have evolved past the biological need for sleep.
Children from Ordinary Person families have nothing but hard work, but the rich control the best education resources.
In South Korea, the best middle schools and High Schools are Private, but the high tuition fees are a threshold that shuts out Commoner Children.
Jeguk High School, a Private Aristocratic School under the Jeguk Group.
In terms of education resources, Jeguk High School ranks among the top three schools in all of South Korea.
The students studying here naturally understand their position. They divide the students in the entire school into different ranks based on their Family's industries and their status within the Family. Money and power determine their rank in the school!
Students studying at this school are roughly divided into three categories: The first category: Chaebol Heir.
The second category: Major Shareholder Heir. The third category: Descendant of Renowned Figure. The fourth category: Social Care Recipient. This is a miniature South Korean Chaebol Circle, just for High School Students.
In this school, High School Students enjoy the best education resources in South Korea, but class stratification is even more severe.
The so-called Social Care Recipient is a policy of Jeguk High School to introduce poor students with excellent academic performance from outside, to put on a show for the outside world, demonstrating that South Korean Chaebol are enjoying themselves with the people.
It's also like putting a few catfish among the sardines to motivate these Chaebol descendants to study hard.
The original intention was good, but these Social Care Recipients gradually became the punching bags of Jeguk High School over time.
"This is a Social Care Recipient?" Cha Eun-sang widened her eyes, looking at her Friend Yoon Chan-young with some disbelief.
Yoon Chan-young rubbed her head and smiled, "Eun-sang, this is the Chaebol's charity towards poor children. There's no such thing as a free lunch in the world. But how did you come to study here? This requires a recommendation spot!"
"It was Chairman Kim, he arranged it!" Cha Eun-sang said blankly.
President Kim? Yoon Chan-young frowned. How could an Important Figure like President Kim care about a Normal girl's schooling?
"Chan-young, do you know Kim Tan?"
Cha Eun-sang looked at her good Friend, bit her lip, and asked. Kim Tan? Yoon Chan-young was startled. "Eun-sang, you know Kim Tan?"
Kim Tan, the second young master of Jeguk High School, and Choi Young-do, known as one of the two great Demons of Jeguk High School.
How could Cha Eun-sang know Kim Tan! "Cha Eun-sang, why did you come here?"
Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Yoon Chan-young snapped back to attention. A tall young man in a Jeguk High School uniform walked over, his hands in his pants pockets.
It was Kim Tan.
"Kim Tan, you're back from New York!"
Yoon Chan-young greeted Kim Tan. His Father served as the Head of the Secretariat under Chairman Kim of the Jeguk Group. His social status was that of a Retainer to Kim Tan's Family. Yoon Chan-young, who also enrolled under Chairman Kim's care, was a Social Care Recipient at Jeguk High School.
Kim Tan nodded slightly at Yoon Chan-young, came over to Cha Eun-sang, and placed his hands on Cha Eun-sang's shoulders:
"Why did you come here? Didn't you wait for me?"
Yoon Chan-young clenched his fist behind Kim Tan. Since childhood, he had a strange affection for this girl next door, Cha Eun-sang. But his Father was merely the Head of the Secretariat under Kim Tan's Father. Their identities were like an uncrossable chasm. He didn't dare to compete with Kim Tan.
In front of the Jeguk High School academic building.
Kim Tan walked ahead with his hands in his pants pockets, and Cha Eun-sang walked behind him. Students stood around watching.
There are also different ranks among Chaebol. At Jeguk High School, Kim Tan, as the second young master of the Jeguk Group, was undoubtedly among the very top tier.
As Kim Tan walked, a shadow stopped him.
Kim Tan looked up, his complexion changed, and he looked a bit awkward. He greeted, "Yoo Rachel!"
Around the academic building, many more students gathered to watch the spectacle.
Yoo Rachel could be called the Paris Hilton of Jeguk High School. Behind her was RS International, a Fashion Industry Giant in South Korea.
As the Heir of RS International, Rachel was covered head to toe in designer new arrivals, showcasing a personal fashion show 365 days a year.
Coupled with her charisma and arrogance that surpassed her age, her beautiful face, and elegant posture, she became a topic wherever she went.
So her Friends called her Paris Hilton. However, in Jeguk High School, she didn't have many close Friends.
Her aloofness and aristocratic temperament created a sense of distance from her peers, but Rachel enjoyed it! Most importantly, she had an Engagement with Kim Tan. There was a rumor that Kim Tan went to New York specifically to escape the Engagement.
Unexpectedly for Kim Tan, Yoo Rachel was very calm when she saw him, even maintaining a slight sense of distance.
"Kim Tan, I came to inform you that the marriage alliance between the Jeguk Group and RS has ended!"
Yoo Rachel maintained her distance from Kim Tan, speaking more like an Ordinary Person classmate. This was the result of Mariko Yashida's training.
"Ended?!" Kim Tan was startled. Although he strongly disliked this arranged marriage, he knew that this kind of matter wasn't something they, the younger generation, could decide. Could Yoo Rachel's single sentence "it's ended" resist the interests of RS and the Jeguk Group?
And for some reason, Kim Tan felt vaguely annoyed!
"My mother will visit Chairman Kim to break off the Engagement!" Yoo Rachel nodded at Kim Tan and turned to leave.
"Oh!"
"Kim Tan got dumped, big news!" "Did the marriage alliance between RS Group and Jeguk Group fail? Quick, call! RS stock is going to plummet."
For a time, the area in front of the academic building was noisy.
Kim Tan's face flushed red. This was not the King's Return he had wanted! "Hey, did you really give up?" Choi Young-do lay on the Rooftop, watching Yoo Rachel!
Yoo Rachel looked at the somewhat noisy crowd in front of the academic building: "Compared to him, Kim Tan is just an ignorant child!"
Yoo Rachel turned her head: "I heard from your Father that you want to work at the Continental Hotel. He came to me, wanting me to speak on his behalf... Brother, are you planning to have me use pillow talk?!"
Choi Young-do's eyes widened: "Hey, this is my own business, you don't need to interfere!"
Yoo Rachel smiled lightly: "Alright then. By the way, something might happen to the Jeguk Group recently. Is your Zeus Group interested?"
"Jeguk Group?"
Choi Young-do looked at Yoo Rachel with some confusion.
Yoo Rachel pursed her lips. Mariko Yashida had told her. Tang Song didn't even know, but having a concubine by his side who was someone else's Fiancée was ultimately not good.
Old Master Tang's possessiveness is very strong. Mariko Yashida knew this well.
The death of her fiancé in name only, Hideki Takahashi, was clear proof.
So Mariko Yashida planned to use the influence of the Yashida Family to ally with the Zeus Group and RS to acquire the Jeguk Group.
As for that second-generation Chaebol who dared to throw a tantrum at Boss Tang on the airplane, and even dared to find people to investigate Boss Tang.
Without money, she believed this cruel South Korean society would teach him how to be a person.
"Madam Lee, you don't need to worry about the Japan market. Our Yashida Group will handle it.
As for the Federation side, well-known brands like LV and Burberry can operate normally; there won't be any competition!"
In a luxury ladies' bath and spa salon in Seoul, a good-looking young married woman carefully accompanied Mariko Yashida.
Mariko Yashida sized her up. She was Yoo Rachel's Mother, the President of RS Group.
Although in her forties, she looked like she was in her thirties, standing next to Yoo Rachel as if they were twin sisters.
Mariko Yashida had investigated her.
Esther Lee, Rachel, President of RS International, was a cold-blooded person who believed that career success was more valuable than maternity.
She possessed outstanding beauty and figure that made her age hard to guess, and she had a mind more masculine and shrewd than a man's.
Born into wealth and becoming even wealthier after birth, she was a rich young lady to her core.
Soon, she realized that she had more than others, and she quickly accepted the fact that love was a taboo for her.
She fell in love at first sight with a classmate during university and loved passionately, but broke up before reaching marriageable age and married a rich young man with comparable financial resources.
She got married, had children, and managed the company, living properly for twenty years. When her husband's business plummeted, she announced her divorce and cut ties completely with her husband.
After the divorce, she was very compatible with her business partner Choi Dong-wook and planned to expand her undertaking by remarrying him.
A refined egoist, Mariko Yashida liked this kind of person.
She went to great lengths to send Yoo Rachel to Tang Song's side to secure her position. Compared to Skye and the others who were constantly by Tang Song's side, she was far away in Japan and couldn't stay by Boss Tang's side every moment, which always gave her a sense of crisis. Moreover, only by constantly keeping the man feeling fresh could she retain his true feelings.
This was something Mariko Yashida had learned over the years in the Yashida Family. Her gaze inadvertently swept over Esther Lee's curvaceous figure!
Under the night sky, inside the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, the frequency of the waving glow sticks was like a sea of light.
Nine women wearing navy uniforms were singing and dancing energetically on the Stage.
In the front row of the Stage, Tang Song sat lazily with his legs crossed, watching the women who had been naked yesterday.
On his left side sat Skye and Rogue, and on his right side were Gu Zi Yun and Zheng Duo En.
Boss Tang was naturally not here to watch the Girl Group dance. This concert wasn't actually the main event for this second-generation Girl Group.
They were also here for a guest performance.
Not long after, the nine women left the Stage, and a new generation of Girl Groups came up. Each one was also very beautiful, but compared to the nine-member group, they were somewhat naive.
"Mingxi!"
Seeing the new group come out, Gu Zi Yun's cold little face instantly beamed with a smile. She picked up a glow stick and waved it vigorously.
Under her influence, Skye, Rogue, and Zheng Duo En also picked up glow sticks and joined in the cheering.
Mingxi was Gu Zi Yun's Friend in South Korea, a playmate and best friend since childhood, considered Gu Zi Yun's spiritual pillar besides her parents.
The little girl's grades weren't very good. After graduating from High School, she became a trainee. Hearing the news of her debut, Gu Zi Yun rushed back from New York to attend her concert.
During this time, Skye and the others had accompanied Gu Zi Yun to watch many of this little girl's roadshows before her debut.
Now, they had all become understanding older sisters who cheered her on.
"Uncle!"
Gu Zi Yun turned around, looked at the lazy Tang Song, pulled his wrist, and directly stuffed a glow stick into his hand, indicating for him to help cheer on her best friend together.
Tang Song could only helplessly follow along, waving his arms. He was even forced by this little girl, Gu Zi Yun, to wear a glow-in-the-dark ear headpiece on his head.
Just as Boss Tang was being forced to work, in New York.
*Rumble rumble rumble*
As dusk passed and night arrived, a black helicopter landed on the Helipad on the Rooftop of Tang's Building in New York.
"Intruders, what's their background?"
Tang Group's Building, the Skynet Network Technology Department occupied an entire floor of the Tang Group.
Lane, accompanied by several bodyguards, arrived at the Skynet Network Technology office area. At this moment, the office area was filled with the dense sound of typing on keyboards.
"There were two waves of attack, the attack frequency was very dense. The first batch were a few hackers. Their attack was blocked outside the firewall, but they attracted Red Queen's attention, allowing the outer protection wall to be breached by another wave of people..."
The bald Supervisor in charge of this Department nervously wiped the sweat from his forehead with his plaid shirt.
Because he was responsible for the company's network security, the person in charge had some understanding of his own boss's true identity. He was truly afraid that someday, due to a mistake, he would be directly sunk in the sea to feed the fish.
Lane rubbed his brow. In the company, the person truly leading the network security aspect was Skye, but she was currently accompanying the boss to South Korea.
There was no choice. The boss called him and told him to handle it.
"What data was leaked?" Lane quickly asked.
Many of the company's experiment data used physical isolation and were not afraid of network attacks.
But there were indeed quite a few important documents on the intranet.
"We recovered their attack path. Both waves of attack were aimed at the boss's private phone. They wanted to retrieve the boss's phone communication data!"
"Hmm?!"
Lane's complexion instantly turned cold: "Aimed at the boss? What about the phone data? Was any lost?!"
"This?" The several hackers looked at each other, unsure how to answer for a moment.
"They did not enter the core program. All of the boss's information has undergone the highest level of encryption. Even an artificial intelligence like me cannot decipher it in a short time!"
A clear little girl's voice sounded from the speaker of a computer host.
"An artificial intelligence like you!" Lane looked towards that host: "Is it Tony Stark?"
Lane knew the degree of importance Boss Tang placed on artificial intelligence. The early stage development of Red Queen alone had an investment of nearly seven or eight hundred million. At that time, the boss was worried that the artificial intelligence development was incomplete and that weapons like the Iron Soldiers produced could be "hijacked" by the network.
Among them, the artificial intelligence named J.A.R.V.I.S., developed by Tony Stark, was the boss's hypothetical enemy.
It was also in the later stage, after their Research Team deciphered a part of the main control program on that alien Creator spaceship, that they further upgraded Red Queen's host functions. Her operating program was greatly improved, and only then did the boss allow the production of Iron Soldiers.
"It's J.A.R.V.I.S.. I am familiar with his style, but with my current processing speed, he cannot enter the core firewall!"
Hearing that the data was not lost, Lane's complexion slightly improved.
"Mr. Lane, although the boss's data was not lost, I am worried about other aspects going wrong!" Red Queen's voice came from the computer's speaker.
Lane was somewhat confused: "Other aspects?"
Red Queen's voice sounded: "Phone communication is two-way. Although our internal calls have undergone encryption, I cannot ensure that the boss's calls with the outside world were not leaked—"
Lane crossed his arms and said thoughtfully: "Can you find out when the other party wanted to retrieve the boss's call records from?"
"Cannot be sure. The other party wanted to copy all of the boss's call recordings!"
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(end of chapter)