Mansion Kang. Los Angeles.
Sunny walked into the meeting room, she sighed repeatedly, the closer she got to the room the heavier her breathing became.
It wasn't because she was afraid of them, but there was something that made her think twice about looking for trouble with them. They are a group of people from different backgrounds, but have one goal, not letting DFK collapse.
But on the other hand, she also knew the possibility that she could be betrayed along the way. Because they view the company's progress differently.
Sunny is aware that she lacks sufficient time to delve into the early years of them. She can only trust Garvin who has data on all of them. And she could only trust her intuition.
Sunny opened the door to the meeting room, the 5 people were sitting neatly. Derrick, Milton, Gerard, Norman, and Lim, were already sitting there and looked at her asking for an explanation.
But there was one person who was very upset about today's events, Derrick, she could see it from his eyes.
Derrick just stared at Sunny who came in and he looked back at his cell phone because he needed to be able to analyze what happened.
"What the hell? Is that your house?" Those were the words that came out of Norman's mouth as soon as he saw Sunny
"Sun, is that real?" Lim asked.
"Let her explain," said Milton.
"As far as I know, I flew along the way from Chicago to Los Angeles just to see your house blown?" said Gerard.
"Ah, for your information guys, her fiancé is here," continued Gerard.
"How many percent did shares fall?" Sunny asked.
For now, that was all she could think about. This is a big company and when Sok-ji's name is mentioned, the name will continue to be mentioned until people are satisfied.
She has to strategize how to get home, and that makes her quite... stressful, even though Sok-ji is here to help her, it's still a burden for him.
"Not much, but I think it will continue to drop until the market closes," Lim replied.
Lim Su-young is a financial pillar of this company. He holds the finances and decisions on which business sectors DFK will invest in.
Indirectly, all DFK operations are in his hands.
"You have a fiancé? Since when?" Milton asked.
This was what she feared when the company discussed personal relationships, which were unrelated to the company. If her fiancé wasn't Sok-ji and if she wasn't the head of a company this wouldn't have happened.
"Let me answer that question, yes that was my house and yes my fiancé is here, If you want to see me, then say what you wanna say."
"Is this their doing?" Norman asked.
"I think if they want to do something it won't be in Korea either. I did that myself. Talking about them, you guys have any progress?"
They are all silent, Sunny is so cold in making decisions and very detailed, but when they hear that she blew up her house they understand. Sunny is a combination of Kang Byung-ho and Kang Mirae. They will do everything to reach their goals.
"No one answered me?" Sunny asked again.
They were still silent and couldn't answer, while Derrick played with his finger tapping the table several times and then patting the table gently. Everyone knows that when Derrick plays his fingers on the table it means he is thinking and preparing to do something.
Until he stopped knocking and looked at her.
"Neither Walter nor Boss have confirmed anything about them, so we don't have any developments yet," answered Derrick.
"Then when can I get confirmation?"
"Actually Sun, I want to ask you, what are you doing? Why do you blow up your house in the middle of the night in Korea, and it becomes huge news here and there, why do you need so much public attention? Explain to me."
Derrick interrupts her request by asking what makes sense he should ask her because this is very crucial for them but Sunny diverts their thoughts by asking about the casino. For Derrick, it didn't make sense.
"Something just happened, and I can't stop it."
"Something is happening? Along with the appearance of your fiancé? Why? What happened there?"
"Derrick calm down, let's talk about business okay?" Lim tried to calm the situation which was starting to escalate
Yes, maybe she doesn't know yet, but they know that Derrick is the best analyst ever. His way of seeing opportunities and situations is very good and his way of finding out about anything.
"What happens in Korea stays in Korea, and you don't even think about interfering with it."
"If you were in Seoul I wouldn't mind it, but now you're here, you need to be responsible for what you did."
"You think I'm not? Do you think I just sit around, and fuck my fiancé?"
"Isn't that what you're doing now?"
"Can you just shut up? Don't talk like you know me."
"Fine, I won't talk about that again."
"The deal is done?" Sunny asked.
"The cooperation to withdraw the Qing label in China is almost complete, only they seem to be asking for a 15% reduction in costs. Then their West Moon label rejected our proposal, they just needed promotion," answered Milton.
"Next month the San Francisco and Washington branches will be closed, I think we need a lot of definite cooperation to make a lot of money, you want all companies who do illegal business closed, we have already lost a lot of money," Gerard conveyed in his report.
"The liquor business only lives in Chicago, I hope you don't close it because that's the biggest income right now," continued Norman.
"We don't have illegal casinos anymore, right?"
"At the moment there isn't, we only have one casino in Vegas and that's not illegal," answered Gerard.
"The company's shares have indeed increased by 25% in the last 5 months, but as we know, that covers the loss that occurred by almost 30% 5 months ago, our prices have not returned to normal," answered Lim.
Sunny massaged her temples, and too many losses had occurred, Jacob, Erlan, and Kenric did their sneaky thing of releasing all shares, giving the impression that this company was going to fall.
Because of that, they lost a lot of individual and joint shareholders, and that made quite a lot of losses.
"What are you gonna do?" Norman asked.
"For the Qing label, we only reduce 5%, it can't be more than that, for the West Moon agency, try asking them to carry out according to the initial agreement if they still don't want us to follow their wishes."
"Okay, fine, I'll do it, you're not going to close down casinos and liquor factories, right?" Norman asked.
"No, as long as they run according to the procedures I have created, I will not close them, if only I could merge with JL Enterprise"
"JL Enterprise?" Milton overhears. "You mean Jang Lay Enterprise?"
"Did you hear what I said?"
"Yes, wait, when I read the news, you have 45% shares in JL Enterprise, right?" continued Gerard.
"I thought you all knew that."
JL Enterprise and DFK have never directly touched each other, but Derrick has heard about it. That there is a company that in the moments of decline there is a company that is preparing to buy 30% of shares from DFK.
Derrick looked at Sunny carefully until finally, Soo-hee saw him as if talking with his eyes, Derrick chuckled in annoyance. He didn't understand what this kid was doing.
Maybe he's not a great businessman, and neither is Sunny, but what's in front of his eyes this time is really too bad to miss, and why is she consciously keeping quiet about that?
If he can analyze it's all about timing and the right person. Timing may not be now, but when it comes to people, she has enough choices for that.
Derrick has no choice but to encourage Sunny to make this decision.
"Garvin, in the will the Director said that Sunny couldn't merge or divest the company before 5 years," Derrick started digging and dredging up opinions.
"As I said at the time, Sunny has to manage her own company."
Derrick grinned. "Why aren't you talking about that? I know you are hiding something, Sun."
"I'm not hiding anything."
"Stop that bullshit, I know."
"I'm not lying, anyway, no matter what I can't do it."
"You just need someone to say you can do it. You want to do this, right?"
"I have to be careful," said her, then crossed her arms and chuckled in annoyance.
"Sorry, why don't I understand what you guys are talking about," Lim looked quite confused, as the Finance Director at the company he smelled something strange right now.
"I haven't done anything about it yet, it takes years, it can't take months."
"I know it, there's no timing yet, but you have the people, should I name them one by one?" said Derrick as he stood up from his chair and approached Sunny.
"No! No! Are you crazy?"
"No, I'm not. But you are!" Derrick said.
"You are the one who is crazy, you know this is going to be big, make hundreds of money, and you don't want to run that?" he continued again.
"Sunny, Derrick stop, what the hell are you two talking about?" Norman tried to separate the two of them.
"Han Jae-young and obviously your fiancé, Kim Sok-ji, do you want me to mention it again?"
"Hey!"
"Hei, Hei, Hei explain! Don't leave us in the dark guys," shouted Milton.
"According to the will, she is not allowed to merge with other companies for the next 5 years. Because she couldn't merge with JL Enterprise, she created a new company with them so that our company could get passive income from the new company that would be created, she could use her money from JL Enterprise and DFK's money. You've thought about this, haven't you?" said Derrick.
"But I told you it couldn't be done in a matter of months, it would take years to do it, I haven't found the right person yet."
"No, I know what you're thinking, you already found the guy. That's why today's incident happened, right? You are the most reckless person I know, you knew something would happen and there was a possibility that the solution would not be as expected, that's why you blew up your house so you can come home."
"Today's events have nothing to do with that plan. Why do you seem so sure about this?"
"JL Enterprise is a large company in Asia, if we could penetrate the entire Asian market, how much profit do you think we could gain? Fashion brands, production houses, record labels, and even entertainment agencies, are all money fields! And your fiancé is a big influence along with Han Jae-young, you know how much he wants to come back, right."
"Because he is my fiancé I can't do this before everything is clear."
"If you want to talk about business then we talk about business. It doesn't matter if he is your fiancé or not," Derrick replied.
The two people looked at each other at close range. Sunny still insists that she can't do this now, with the reemergence of the Park Suwon case and even the NIS's involvement in this, everything must be taken into consideration.
If only this case finally appeared in the media, and they all finally found out that Han Suk-jin was Han Jae-young's father then his career would be over, he could no longer appear, and this company was the only way out for him, but the timing, she can't find it.
Derrick remains adamant that Sunny should run the company as soon as possible, with news about her engagement circulating and even the reappearance of Jae-young after leaving PJ Entertainment, this is a very profitable thing from a promotional perspective.
The tension between the two can no longer be contained, both are equally tough, both have their reasons for maintaining their arguments, and this will continue elsewhere.
"You don't want to answer, that means there is only one way to solve this problem, do you want to do it?" Derrick asked.
"You come with me to the Arena, and the others can go," said Sunny as she took off his jacket and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt.
And sure enough, they will continue it in the arena. This is like the decision to when they have to close one casino in Vegas. Derrick is trying not to close the casinos in Vegas because they have not been able to replace the income from there, but Sunny insists it has to be closed, then Derrick comes out as the winner, they do not close it but with terms and conditions.
"Wow, I don't want to go home, seeing you guys in the arena of the most fun activities," said Gerard.