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At City X International Airport...
Stella Richard walked out of the airport and hailed a taxi. She gave the driver an address and got into the car. As the taxi moved, Stella gazed out the window at the familiar city...
She had returned after six years, but the experiences and memories she had tried to forget over the years began to flood her mind...
Stella shook her head, chasing those thoughts away.
This time, she hadn’t come back to dwell on old, useless memories. She was back because her boss had asked her to return. He told her that their company was at a dead end, and he wanted her to come back and solve the crisis.
At first, Stella didn’t want to come, but after some thought, she decided to return...
Six years ago, her boss had helped her during the most difficult time of her life, and she wanted to repay the favor...
As for everything else, she no longer cared...
At the Company...
As Stella arrived, she noticed that most of the employees were engaged in a lively discussion...
As she walked by, snippets of conversation reached her ears...
"I heard that there are so many companies who want to buy our company..."
"Really! That means we’ll have a new boss."
"I just hope that our new boss should be good-looking, like a Korean drama CEO..."
"Hey! Do you know who’s going to buy the company?"
Stella heard their chatter but didn’t care about the gossip.
She knew these people didn’t actually care about who would buy the company or for what price...
They just wanted to gossip.
But she... She cared... and she was here to secure a good deal for her company.
"Of course, it’ll be Kingston’s, the RK Group. Who else in the city is powerful enough to challenge them?"
Stella, who had been about to continue walking, stopped in her tracks...
A name, both familiar and unfamiliar, reached her ears...
"The Kingstons..."
"RK Group..."
Suddenly, memories Stella had locked away began to surge like a storm. Her mind was filled with those memories like a flood.
Stella felt dizzy.
It was as if she were still trapped in that RK mansion, surrounded by cold walls...
Stella had thought she had long forgotten about him, but it seemed that it was just her illusion...
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Flashback...
Six Years Ago...
In the RK Mansion...
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