Chapter 304 - 303: Trouble Comes
Chapter 304 - 303: Trouble Comes
Monday came and Nathan received a news that a few of the branches of the subsidiary companies under NJ Holdings Corp. located in the province were being attacked by an armed group of men.
A lot of the employees were hurt on the attack and the families were all crying Nathan's name to take responsibility especially when they learned that he was missing in action.
But was he really missing in action?
Nathan was busy behind the scenes in hunting for those people and he didn't need the media to cover it to prove that he was doing something.
They criticized Nathan for leaving his people in the state of crises.
Another report also came to them stating that the satellite offices of Bai Corp. too suffered bomb threats.
Not only that, the company's main database and server were hacked by a famous hacker named Silver and some of the confidential informations including bu not limited to their past and said to be overpriced projects with the government, their upcoming projects with private entities and their high-profiled clients were being leaked to the general public.
The attack was so sudden that Nathan didn't got the chance to stop the leaking since he was staying in the cabin and his tech guys called him late.
If he was still in the mansion, he could reverse hack that person since he had set and alarm inside the house that would notify him if someone tried to hack the company's database.
He had built the main control of his system inside the secret underground tunnel of their mansion.
Good thing that he was somehow able to at least stop the hacker from revealing everything and was able to take down everything that was being revealed on the internet as soon as he had taken over but the damage have been done.
They were being labeled by Silver as trying to evade paying taxes to the government. And even the authorities could not just sit down and now were after Nathan's company, too.
The local and international media covered the news after an hour of the incident. The news was so big that it brought shock to the general public.
They were calling Nathan with names and calling him as a criminal.
The drama didn't stop there as later that day, someone also leaked Nathan's involvement in the black market economy and also being involved in the mafia world as one of the mafia leader.
Eunji learned about all of this and she was very mad with the perpetrators. She wanted to break their necks and snap their heads off their necks to end their lives.
What made her to worry even more was that Nathan was alone. He must have been very upset with everything that had happened and she was not there to comfort him.
She immediately called him and it took a few rings before Nathan picked up the call.
This was the reason why she reached out to him on the first place. They had signed a separate contract that had become some sort of safety net for Nathan's companies just in case something like this would happen.
Just in case a scandal would arise in any of his companies and would cause their stocks to decline to a certain level, then if Nathan would declare bankruptcy, ELEK Group would buy it either on it's par value or the market value when the incident or scandal happened or whichever was lower at that time.
Nathan could only chuckle dryly when he recalled about this.
"Are you okay?" She asked as she was very worried for him.
Of all the times that they would start attacking him, they really made it on the week of their children's birthday.
How could they be able to celebrate happily now when they were being harassed by a wave of problems.
If proven that Nathan was guilty, then he might be imprisoned and be sentenceda and be placed behind bars.
"I'm fine. I already expected this kind of attacks to happen. I mean I'm not new with this as it had happened in the past but this time, it's more complicated and well-planned." He admitted that he was really caught off-guard with everything.
"I'm sorry hubby. I'm not there beside you." She sincerely apologized to him.
"It's fine, Wifey. I think it was best that you're there and not here. I don't want your name to be dragged in this mess that I'm in." Nathan sighed as he felt like Eunji would not listen to him.
"Silly! I'm your wife so I will be involved, too! The only advantage was that they don't know who I am. And besides, I won't let them to just bully you. Not on my watch!" She emphasized.
"Thank you Wifey. But you already have a lot in your plate. Don't worry about mine, okay? I can handle them. Don't worry. Let me show you how a Nathan Bai handle his problems." He tried to sound confident over the phone so Eunji won't be troubled by his problems.
"Okay! But just like what you have told me, I won't just sit back when it's already unfavorable on your side. I believe we have the same enemies anyways. So I got your back in this too, Hubby." She sincerely said which touched Nathan's heart.
He felt so lucky to have such great support coming from his one and only wife.
"I think it's best for Mom, grandma and the kids to go ahead to the island. I'll dispatch Eagle to get them and escort them to safety and then bring them to Seoul first so I would be with them in going to the Philippines." She proposed.
"I think that's even a better plan for now Wifey. I don't want them to be hurt with everything that's going on around me." He agreed to her suggestion.
"What about Yuki-neechan? I'm sure she'll be affected, too since she's your only sister." She asked.
"Well, I got a call from her and she said that she would be asking for a two-week leave from the drama filming." He said.
"That's lovely to hear! I'm sure that she would become a target of hate in social media now, too. I feel bad for her." Eunji felt bad for Celine.
"She'll be fine as long as Sam's with her." He said to reassure Eunji.
"Okay?" She suddenly became curious.
"I know. Don't ask me about it, I'm not in the position to tell about it. Even my sister had no idea, too. But don't worry. Sam's a friend."
"Fine!" She decided to give up for now.
A moment of silence had passed before any of them spoke again.
They were both busy thinking about their plan on how to make the people behind this to suffer their wrath.
This silence somehow comforted their worried hearts especially when they could hear each other's breathing from the other line. This somehow gave them the message that even in silence, they got each other.
"So what's your plan now Hubby?" Eunji finally broke off the silence.
"Right now, I'm on sending financial assistance on the victims and their families. And at the same time, my men and I are hunting those armed men so they would be put to jail. We have already placed some in jail. We're still on the hunt for the others who are still at large."
If only everything happened without the media getting involved, he would prefer punishing them with his own law.
No one was allowed to hurt his people!
"And it's the Luo brothers who have well-planned everything." He said making Eunji to hum in response.
"I already have this theory that they are involved in this after I wire tapped their conversation. I just didn't expect that they would act so soon." She explained.
"But don't worry, Hubby. I have also set a show for them even before all of this had happened. It won't be only you who will be in the headlines this week." She said confidently.
"And what did you do?" He curiously asked her.
"Of course! It would be a surprise! You better prepare some pop corn and then sit and watch the start of their downfall. But don't worry, I'll give you the honors for the finishing blow." She chuckled on the other line making Nathan to be unintentionally turned on with this bad girl side of her.
"They are somehow involved with the Lings and the Jins so they are also being dragged with my plan." She added.
"Alright! I believe you." He said with a smile on his lips.
"I have already tracked down Silver and seems like he's in the same city as I do." Nathan shifted to another topic.
This time Eunji had become silent.
"Wifey? Do you by chance know who this Silver hacker is?" He could not help but ask her.
"Silver was a famous hacker in the past but this person suddenly disappeared together with Phantom. And now Silver is back and had re-established his name." He asked since he knew that his wife was a hacker herself even if he didn't know her pseudonym in the hacking world.
"I'm sorry Hubby, but I don't think I'm in the position to tell the real identity of this person named Silver." She decided to not tell him.
"If my guess is right, then Silver will contact you one of these days for a meet up." She added with a sigh.
"Why do I feel like this person is somehow related to us?" He inquired.
But to his disappointment, Eunji remained silent.
"Hubby, I guess the confrontation between you both is inevitable." She hinted and Nathan somehow already got the idea on who Silver was.
"I see." He said.
"Yeah. But whatever happens after that, know that I'll be forever by your side. I love you." She reassured.
"En! And I love you, too." That's what he loved to hear the most.
"As for the other matters with the authorities knocking on my doorstep, it might be quite handful but I can handle them. I never evaded my tax responsibilities. As for the news that I'm involved with the mafia, so what? They don't have enough proof anyways." He said in a carefree manner.
"But if they would try to probe on my private life, I'm not the Satan that everyone feared for nothing if I won't show them how to place them in the pits of h*ll. They're trying to use the public opinion against me, then they better make their scheme a couple of level higher than this. They won't be able to drown me. Damn! I freaking own a submarine!" He added making Eunji to suddenly laugh hard on the other line.
"Alright! I believe you! Geez! You're the first person that I've known who had the guts to find humor in front of a big problem." She said.
"Of course. If I show that I'm very affected, then they would think that they have won on stirring trouble. Remember Wifey, this husband of yours is like a bamboo tree. No strong wind could topple me down because I bend and fight back hard."
"Alright! You win." She said in defeat making Nathan on the other line to heave a sigh of relief.
"It's all thanks to your love and support Wifey. And of course the kids and the people who showed their support despite everything. I know I'm not alone in this fight. And I won't let all of you down. I won't let you down."
"I won't let you down, too. So let's strive harder and defeat them one by one." She said.
"Fighting!"
"Fighting!"
They both cheered each other on the phone.
"Okay! I guess I gotto go before this conversation goes to other topic."
"Other topic such as?" She asked curiously.
"The adult only stuff." He shamelessly said making Eunji to be speechless.