RBCT Chapter 33 Eldest Brother and Sister
Chapter 33 Eldest Brother and Sister
CJ Group headquarters, Strategic Planning Office, 9:00 AM that day.
Li Chenghao was the first to know.
It wasn't the butler who told him.
He placed the person in his father's private residence.
This is a privilege of the first heir of the CJ Group; there will always be people secretly pledging allegiance to her.
Especially given that the chairman's health is deteriorating day by day.
Therefore, he had a way of knowing about everything that happened around his father.
But his expression after hearing the report had absolutely nothing to do with "the slightest disturbance".
"Did he jump?"
He put down the Montblanc pen in his hand.
"Li Yubin, open the hatch. Li Zhengyi, pull him down, jump. Two people."
"Yes, Executive Director."
"I only brought one umbrella."
"Yes."
"The clouds were too thick; I didn't see the umbrella open."
"Yes."
Li Chenghao leaned back in his chair.
Outside the office's floor-to-ceiling windows, the sky over Seoul was overcast today, with low-hanging clouds.
He stared at the cloud and suddenly felt it was some kind of omen.
Li Zhengyi.
The younger brother whom he personally kicked out of the house.
There was no moral decay.
But after working the night shift at the convenience store for two years, he became a harmless piece of trash.
And this good-for-nothing actually dragged his second brother off the plane after being tied up in the early hours of the morning.
This doesn't seem like something a useless person would do.
He quickly regained his usual composure.
At least on the surface.
"Understood, keep an eye on things. Notify me if Father makes any moves. Notify Vice Chairman Long Zhangzhu... no, don't notify him yet, wait for my instructions."
"Yes, Executive Director."
The secretary left.
In the empty office, Li Chenghao gently tapped the mahogany tabletop with his fingertips.
He was reviewing the situation.
He recounted the near-perfect setup he had made two years ago.
They had calculated every step of the way, but they hadn't foreseen that Li Zhengyi would turn out the way he is now.
When did a poor kid working at a convenience store grow such audacity?
Or perhaps he always had it, but just kept it well hidden?
CJ Entertainment, Content Production Center, 9:30 AM on the same day.
Li Zhihui was the second person to know.
But she didn't find out from her father's butler or her older brother's informant.
She found out from the person she had placed in Lee Sung-ho's secretary's office.
The news changed hands several times, and by the time it reached her, it had become...
"The second young master and the third young master were on the same plane last night, and it crashed in the East China Sea."
Crash.
It wasn't skydiving.
The person who relayed the message clearly didn't understand the security of Gulfstream business jets.
But Li Zhihui doesn't care about the details.
After hanging up the phone, she continued applying makeup.
Her lipstick was applied meticulously, and her eyebrows were drawn neatly and clearly.
Then she put down her lipstick and looked at herself in the mirror.
"Whether they're dead or not is still unknown, but it sounds like they're in serious trouble."
Her assistant stood by, at a loss.
"Miss……"
"Make some arrangements; today's film planning meeting will be postponed. I need to go see my father."
She stood up, picked up her handbag, and stopped at the door.
Then he added a sentence.
"Find out Li Zhengyi's recent activities. Investigate his life, social circle, and sources of income since he left home. Find out everything."
"Yes."
Lee Ji-hye pushed open the door and walked into the corridor of CJ Entertainment.
The electronic screen on the wall is playing Red Velvet's new song music video.
The camera stopped right in front of her, and she looked more beautiful than the sun.
She looked up.
I recalled the keywords in the message just now.
"The second young master tied the third young master to a plane for the sake of a female idol."
This is what the female idol looks like.
Little vixen.
It is quite pretty.
Li Zhihui withdrew her gaze and continued walking.
She doesn't care about Bae Joo-hyun.
What she cared about was what would happen to the family if both of her younger brothers died at the same time.
The answer is simple.
There's only one opponent left.
CJ Group headquarters, CFO's office, on the same day.
Yong Jang-soo was the last to know.
It's not that his intelligence capabilities are lacking.
It's because he doesn't need to plant any inside agents.
He is the vice chairman and chief financial officer of CJ Group, a position he has held since the time of Lee Jae-hyun's father, Lee Maeng-hee.
Everyone assumed he knew everything, so no one would notify him immediately.
He heard about it himself.
The outline was pieced together from a few words spoken by a female section chief in the finance department.
Then he made a phone call to Lee Jae-hyun's housekeeper.
Listen to the whole thing.
After hanging up the phone, he sat in his office for a long time.
There is a framed photo on the wall of him and Lee Jae-hyun taken twenty years ago.
At that time, Lee Jae-hyun was the executive director and he was the chief secretary. The two stood side by side at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Daegu food factory.
They are all still young.
Lee Jae-hyun is now lying in a hospital bed with late-stage liver cancer.
His two sons jumped from the sky.
Long Zhangzhu took off his reading glasses.
He sighed.
Then I picked up the phone.
"Tell the chairman that I've already informed the airport about CJ's plane returning early this morning; it won't be recorded in any documents. The crew's confidentiality agreements have been reviewed by a law firm. The official explanation is that it was an emergency landing due to weather conditions. The only problem right now is the whereabouts of the two young masters. We need to send people to conduct a thorough search of hospitals, police stations, and fishing villages along the East China Sea coast. But they must be trustworthy people."
He paused.
"Also, if the two young masters really don't come back, the succession plan should be activated. I'm worried that the chairman's health might not be able to withstand the shock."
SM Entertainment, Red Velvet's dormitory, that afternoon.
Bae Joo-hyun didn't know how she got back to the dorm.
She only remembers being "invited" into a car at Gimpo Airport.
It's not a Chevrolet Suburban anymore; it's a black Mercedes now.
No one explained anything to her throughout the entire process.
The car drove for a long time, so long that she thought she would be taken to some basement, and her mind had already gone through the image of the entire bald SM legal department.
But in the end, she was sent back to her dormitory building.
The bodyguard said something when he opened the car door for her.
"We can't contact the second and third young masters for the time being. Someone might contact you later. You won't know anything about it. Understand?"
It's not a question.
It is a declarative sentence.
At that moment, Bae Joo-hyun suddenly understood what it meant to "know what you shouldn't know".
She knew nothing, but she already knew the things she shouldn't have known.
Lee Jung-il and Lee Woo-bin may be dead.
He jumped out of the plane.
She didn't know how she got upstairs, or how she opened the dormitory door.
My teammates are all busy with their schedules, and the dormitory is empty.
She sat on the living room sofa, wrapped her coat tightly around herself, and stared at the Red Velvet debut poster on the opposite wall.
The poster features four girls in brightly colored stage outfits, smiling radiantly, with a line of text printed below.
Happiness! Red Velvet!
She stared at the word "Happiness" for a long time.
Then she shrank into the corner of the sofa, hugged her knees, curled up her legs covered in black stockings, and rested her chin on her knees.
There was only one image in her mind.
Before Li Zhengyi was led into the car by the men in black, he turned back to her and said, "Your legs are quite nice. Wear a different color next time."
That madman.