Deadline

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The Kim family

Kim Hyun-Jun arrived at the mansion late in the evening after a load of work at the company. He was so tired that all he wanted to do was just to take a shower and sleep. He had grown older than before and even though he's still as healthy as always, the rarely visible and sparsely located grey hairs that are appearing strand by strand are not there for display.

He had barely carried his tired self into the hallway that leads to his room when a troublesome woman stormed up to him angrily.

"Kim Hyun-Jun!!" The hoarse feminine tone yelled his name from afar.

He stopped in his tracks and sighed helplessly before turning around to the doll-like woman. Even though she is already closing in on fifty years old, she still fancies using heavy makeup or perhaps, she looks older when she uses makeup. To Kim Hyun-Jun, he had forced himself to live with an eyesore for twenty four years.

He glared at the woman who approached with hurried steps and asked. "What do you want?" He grunted.

"Where are you coming from?" Mrs Kim asked, impatiently waiting for a response. She worriedly waited for his reply.

"What has that got to do with you?" Kim Hyun-Jun replied and continued walking towards his room.

"You... You went to see her right?, She is back, and the moment she returned you started visiting her again, have you forgotten that you are married with three children. What do you want from her again?, Oh do you shamelessly want to make her your mistress? I won't let that happen. I will send her out of the country again. It doesn't matter if Old Master Kim is here or not. You already married me, you can't renege on your promise to Old master. I won't let that ha..." She rambled on and on and stopped abruptly when Kim Hyun-Jun's angry voice yelled at her. It's no news that people fret at that yell and Baek Na-na is no exception.

"Enough!!!" Kim Hyun-Jun eyed her mischievously and turned around to leave. Unable to take it lying down, Baek Na-na quickened her steps after him. This time, she did not raise her voice at him but only nagged as she followed behind.

"Jun, you are not allowed to see her anymore, the next time you see her will be her last time in this country... Hmph, she is bold enough to even comeback after rejecting old master's cheque, didn't she brag that she would live fine. Now she is back, what are you seeing her for."

Once again, Kim Hyun-Jun stopped walking and turned to her. "If you lay a finger on her, I will divorce you and you won't be entitled to any alimony. And don't think you can control KimJin with Do-Joon by your side. It's not to late to replace him with someone more filial."

"Huh...?" Baek Na-na choked on her breathe. How dear he threaten to divorce her. Even if he did, she had nothing to lose, she has two sons who will always stand by her side and either of them will inherit KimJin. Indirectly she will be the one in control. If Do-Joon gets replaced with Do-Hyun, it's the same. She controls both of them.

She sneered at Kim Hyun-Jun, unmoved by his threat she smirked at him. "You want to replace Do-Joon?, Don't you know that even Do-Hyun is at my every beck and call? Hehehe, you are still the one at the loosing edge, I don't care about the alimony as much as I care about my children inheriting KimJin, the point here is that you are not allowed to see that loathsome b*tch anymore." She stated her intentions very clearly to him.

Kim Hyun-Jun was too tired to bicker. Moreover, he doesn't want anyone to know that Yo-han is his son yet since he had not managed to win the fellow over. Once he succeeded, he would be able to threatened this woman and make her realise that KimJin is not her birthright and it may fall into someone else's hand.

But he was too lazy to say much, he glared at her and replied nonchalantly. "Then I will cancel plans for Myung-Hee's arranged marriage. Since she is studying Business administration and will be done in a year, it's not too early for her to start management. Get your wits together, there is always a replacement." Kim Hyun-Jun threatened and turned to leave.

"..." Baek Na-na was dumbfounded. It was as if what she had long avoided is going to befall her.

Of all her children, Kim Myung-Hee is the only one she couldn't control, she took after Kim Hyun-Jun completely with almost no traits coming from the mother. She was more a Kim than the twins and just like Kim Hyun-Jun would not allow to be used, Myung-Hee would also not allow anyone to use her.

For this reason she had planned to marry Myung-Hee off so that she won't be able to fight for management right of KimJin. Hyun-Jun did not oppose it back then even though he cared for the only child that was most filial to him, he felt it was a normal tradition of the Kim family to have arranged marriages every now and then. Moreover, Myung-Hee never protested to him before although she always pestered Baek Na-na to cancel her plans and the woman always makes Myung-Hee believe marrying her off will never happen as long as she is alive? What a con the woman is!.

Since Myung-Hee never expressed her dissatisfaction to Kim Hyun-Jun before, he didn't bother to do anything about it.

Dread and trepidation consumed Madam Kim as she stood rooted to the same spot, eyes widened with horror. If KimJin was to fall into Myung-Hee's hands, her dreams of controlling KimJin will never come to pass.

Kim Hyun-Jun had only taken few steps before stopping to take a last glance at her. " Lest I forget, watch the way you refer to other people, take a glance at yourself before calling others names, if not for your conspiracies with my father you wouldn't have become Mrs Kim in the first place." He then strode off.

His words hurt her but it wasn't the first time so she knew how to control herself. She didn't pester him anymore because she knew that he already has motives that will forfeit her plans. She had to be wise with her actions from now on.

"Jin Beom-Seok, I need Beom-Seok's help." She muttered as she finally lifted her feet from the ground where it was rooted and haughtily marched away.

On the contrary to Madam Kim's drear countenance, a petite little miss broke into a wide smile at the possibility that she could lay her hands on her father's company. Though she had never thought of using uncanny methods, she merely felt entitled to the throne and tried as much as to make her way there someday, Now those struggles might not be needed anymore, KimJin might be given to her on a silver platter.

That time when she told Yo-han about her father's plans to destroy his invaluable portraits, she received additional 8% shares to her existing 2%, that's a price for betraying her father for her older friend. She understands fully well that her 10% shares will not land her the company and she needs to work for more, She never tried to do any despicable things in other to get what she wanted.

Now that there is a possibility that her dear father would give her the chance to have KimJin, joy overwhelmed her whole being.

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Under the dark night sky, a black car parked under a peach tree. Cigarettes smoke disappeared into thin air and the moonlight cast a shadow on the man who sat in the cars face. The cigarette had burned to the butt and he flicked it out of the window. He reached for the packet but it was already empty and he let out a sigh.

At the moment, his phone rang and upon seeing the caller ID, he shuddered lightly before composing himself and answering the call.

A hoarse masculine dictatory voice sounded from the other line. There was authority in the tone of the fellow. " Jang Seung-Heon, what's today's date?"

'Did he call me because he wanted to ask for the date?'

"Boss it's the 6th of February." Seung-Heon replied fearfully.

The man from the other side chuckled before replying. "You know that you have only five months left out of the five years you asked for in other to pull the Ridder down in exchange for you know what... I have been lenient enough and yet I haven't seen any results. It's as if you are only joking around with this guy. If you fail to give me the result I expect, get ready to face the consequences, you know you came to me by yourself, don't blame me for punishing you for your incompetence. As I said, you have only five months."

"Yes, yes, I understand, I won't fail you." Seung-Heon replied hurriedly and the line instantly went off. He sighed helplessly and the phone slipped out of his hands.

"F*ck," he shouted and punched the steering wheel angrily. He hung his head low and dropped unto the steering wheel.

If only Yo-Han was easy to bring down, he would have. He had tried several things all this years but PiA had deflected all his advances. Only if he could take PiA down. But PiA isn't a small organization in the underworld either. They have connections even in other countries, they are not just something he could tamper with.

What else could he do?

He sat up after a while and without strapping his seatbelt, he revved the engine and drove off into the quiet night.

It was after he turned into a dot on the horizon that a sturdy man appeared from behind the trees and said into the receiver in his hands.

"Boss, Mr Jang just left for the city after meeting Mr Geum, the plan is in motion...Boss, it seems like Mr Jang has other plans. I fear you might be implicated... Ok Boss." The sturdy man reported.