Silence!
Dead silence!
Hundreds of reporters from media outlets around the world had gathered outside the Dragon Kingdom Embassy in Goryeo. Now, a pin could have dropped unheard.
Every eye was wide, every mouth agape, as though they had just witnessed the impossible.
What had they seen?
The head of Four Star Group!
Park Taegyeon, the man hailed as Goryeo's "economic president," who wielded supreme power and influence in the country!
He had... knelt down!
And he had done it before cameras broadcasting live to the entire world, kneeling before the Dragon Kingdom flag!
This was no simple apology!
It was the most complete, most humiliating act of submission!
"I... I'm not seeing things, am I? Is that Park Taegyeon?"
"This is insane! The world's gone insane! The chairman of Four Star is kneeling to the Dragon Kingdom?"
"What's going on? Wasn't the whole country furious yesterday, demanding that the Dragon Kingdom pay in blood?"
"Can someone tell me what happened last night?!"
After that brief, deathly silence, an uproar swept through the crowd!
The reporters went wild!
They hammered their camera shutters, capturing a scene destined for the history books!
But Park Taegyeon was not finished.
After kowtowing three times, he did not rise. Still on his knees, he took a statement from his pocket and read it aloud to the cameras, his voice thick with humiliation and pain.
"First! My son, Park Jeongsang, behaved disgracefully. His arrogance led him to offend an honored guest from the Dragon Kingdom, causing irreparable harm to relations between our countries! I, Park Taegyeon, failed to raise my son properly, and I bear the blame! As of today, I am permanently expelling Park Jeongsang from the Park Family and stripping him of all inheritance rights!"
Boom!
The news hit the crowd like a