Chapter 36: The War Begins
Chapter 36: The War Begins
📅 Date: August 10, 1994
📍 NexTech Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea
Jin Hoshino sat at his desk, fingers tapping rhythmically against the smooth mahogany surface. The storm was coming—he could feel it.
The warning from his old business partner echoed in his mind.
📌 "They don't just want to beat you. They want to erase you."
Microsoft. Hollywood. Wall Street. The government.
Every major power saw NexTech as a threat.
And now… they were making their move.
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Microsoft's $500 Million Disaster – The Fake NexPhone Schematics
📅 Date: August 11, 1994
📍 Microsoft Headquarters, Redmond, USA
Bill Gates walked into the executive boardroom, his expression unreadable. His top engineers and executives were already seated, waiting for his decision.
📌 Microsoft's Mistake:
✔ They had invested $500 million into developing their own mobile phone.
✔ They had rushed the process, using the stolen NexTech schematics as their blueprint.
✔ They were about to launch a device with critical flaws.
A fake battery system. A vulnerable security network. A manufacturing nightmare.
Jin had outplayed them.
One of the engineers hesitated before speaking. "Sir… if we launch this, it could backfire."
Bill Gates exhaled slowly.
They had two choices:
1. Cancel the project and lose $500 million.
2. Release the phone and risk destroying Microsoft's reputation.
Neither option was good.
For the first time in years, Bill Gates felt like he was losing.
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Hollywood's Counterattack – The $100M Smear Campaign
📅 Date: August 12, 1994
📍 Los Angeles, California
The meeting room was filled with executives from Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, and Disney.
NexFlix was winning.
✔ More creators were signing exclusive deals with NexTech.
✔ Traditional box office numbers were dropping.
✔ Consumers were canceling their cable subscriptions.
Hollywood was losing control.
An executive slammed his fist on the table. "We need to destroy NexFlix before it's too late."
📌 Hollywood's $100M Plan to Kill NexFlix:
✔ Block NexTech from acquiring new film rights.
✔ Pressure actors and directors to stay away from NexFlix.
✔ Start a media smear campaign—label NexFlix as 'the death of cinema.'
By morning, every major newspaper and TV station was running the same narrative:
📢 "NexFlix is ruining Hollywood."
It was a full-scale attack.
But Jin was already ten steps ahead.
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Jin's Counterattack – The NexPay Revolution
📅 Date: August 15, 1994
📍 NexTech Headquarters, Seoul
Jin stood before his top executives. His expression was calm, but his words carried a storm.
"They want to block us from Hollywood?"
A smirk.
"Then let's make them irrelevant."
📌 The Birth of NexPay:
✔ A global digital payment system.
✔ Users could pay for NexFlix, NexPhone, and NexOS seamlessly.
✔ NexPay would allow content creators to bypass Hollywood entirely.
💡 Jin's Masterstroke:
Instead of fighting Hollywood, he would replace them.
With NexPay, filmmakers and artists could release their work directly to consumers—no studios needed.
No middlemen. No censorship. No Hollywood control.
This wasn't just business.
This was a revolution.
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The Shadow War – Wall Street's Involvement
📅 Date: August 20, 1994
📍 New York City, USA
📌 Wall Street's Play:
✔ Major investors were told to dump NexTech stock.
✔ News outlets started spreading rumors about NexTech's "impending collapse."
✔ Government regulators began scrutinizing NexTech's rapid expansion.
The goal?
Crash NexTech's stock price.
Force Jin to lose control of his company.
Jin received the news while reviewing NexPay's beta launch results.
He sighed. "They're really trying everything, huh?"
But Jin had prepared for this.
📌 Jin's Countermove – The $10 Billion Buyback Plan:
✔ NexTech would repurchase its own shares—driving the price back up.
✔ Private investors loyal to Jin would increase their holdings.
✔ By the time Wall Street realized what was happening, Jin would have even more control.
This was a financial war.
And Jin wasn't losing.
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Final Scene – The Assassination Attempt
📅 Date: August 25, 1994
📍 Seoul, South Korea
The black Mercedes-Maybach S600 moved smoothly through the streets of Seoul.
Jin sat in the back, scrolling through NexTech's latest reports.
📌 NexFlix subscriptions were skyrocketing.
📌 Microsoft's phone project was falling apart.
📌 NexPay was gaining traction faster than expected.
He was winning.
Then—BOOM!
A deafening explosion ripped through the air.
The car flipped.
Glass shattered. Metal twisted.
The world spun as Jin's vision blurred.
📢 "Boss! Are you okay?!" his driver's panicked voice rang out.
Jin's head throbbed. His ears were ringing.
An assassination attempt.
Someone had just tried to kill him.
As blood dripped from his forehead, a single thought crossed Jin's mind:
"So this is how far they're willing to go?"
A slow, dark smile formed on his lips.
📌 They had tried to erase him.
📌 They had tried to break his company.
📌 Now, they were trying to kill him.
Jin exhaled.
Then let the war truly begin.
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End of Chapter 36