Chapter 144 - The Quiet Earthquake

The aftershocks of the boardroom coup rippled through LX Group with seismic force. Director Park's suspension was the headline, but the real tremor was the unsealing of Jin-woo's report. Ha-ru, true to his word, had it published on the company's main portal, stripped of legalese, a raw and damning indictment. The stock plummeted, then stabilized, then began a slow, curious climb as ethical investment funds took note. The media cycle was brutal, but it was a clean brutality—LX was taking its medicine publicly, and Chairman Kang was the uncompromising physician forcing it down.