Chapter 7 · free to read
Four in the morning. She had owned the entire Baek empire for eleven minutes.
The old woman had not sat down in front of anyone in thirty years. She sat down now.
Two identical claims, thirty-five minutes apart, both true. An empire cannot be owned twice, so the law did the only thing law can do with an impossibility. It split it down the middle and waited.
Shipping, steel, and the towers on her side. Finance, media, and the foundation on the other. She had spent three years taking a house. She had woken up owning half of one.
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