A piece of explosive news spread through the Federation's upper society in the latter half of the year. It was said that Mr. Wo Delike was resigning from the consortium, stepping down as president of the Group Company and from the Board of Directors, and would transfer his shares according to the Group Company's regulations.
If an ordinary nobody had done this, it definitely would not have been news—let alone explosive news.
But when the protagonist of this story became Mr. Wo Delike, everything was different!
Mr. Wo Delike had worked at the Group Company for at least twenty years. He had joined the company when he was very young, though his position had not been nearly so high at first.
He had merely been an ordinary middle-level manager at the Group Company.
Although his starting point was already the finish line that many people could never even dream of reaching, he had still worked hard. In a very short time, he had entered the company's Board of Directors and taken on important management responsibilities.
Over all these years, Mr. Wo Delike had conquered everyone with his outstanding performance, including the Group Company's Board of Directors and its shareholders. Only then had he been able to take charge of the entire Group Company.
As the leader of a consortium among the Federation's current "young" generation, Mr. Wo Delike's abilities had won everyone's recognition.
Many people believed he would retire from that position. Perhaps, after growing older over the next few years, he would withdraw behind the scenes and take on a role such as Chairman of the Board instead of consortium president. But at the very least, he would remain with the consortium.
No one had expected that such a day would come. Without any warning, he had submitted his