My Peninsula 2007

Chapter 482 Hesitation
Inside Kim Sung-hoon's secret villa in Shindaebang-dong, Gwancheon-ro 23rd Street. An Rusong climbed out of the rippling pool, took a blanket from a young woman on the shore, casually draped it over his shoulders, and walked straight to the sunshade not far away.

At that moment, under the row of awnings, two women in bikinis and sunglasses were reclining on deck chairs, each holding a glass of juice, chatting leisurely. Meanwhile, in the pool behind An Rusong, two more women, also dressed in sexy bikinis, were swimming slowly and deliberately.

Upon seeing An Rusong approach, the two women who had been chatting stopped and turned to look at him.

An Rusong ignored the two of them and walked straight to an empty recliner. He plopped down on it, drying his hair with a blanket while reaching for a cigarette on the rattan table next to the recliner.

However, before he could even touch the cigarette, a woman who had come closer had already picked it up, taken one out, and handed it to him.

He took the cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit it with the lighter the woman offered him. After taking a drag, An Rusong casually asked, "Where's Chairman Jin?"

"President Jin went upstairs to make arrangements for that gentleman," the woman put away the lighter, then tactfully took the blanket and answered softly while wiping the water stains off An Rusong's body.

An Rusong nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The "gentleman" the woman was referring to was named Li Jinshi. He himself was nothing special, just the president of an ordinary trading company. However, he had a very powerful uncle named Li Haixian, who was indeed the two-term member of parliament belonging to the Grand National Party.

The night before last, An Rusong asked Bai Jinjun to let him get to know Li Haixian. The latter was very efficient and took care of it for him the next day. However, when An Rusong invited Li Haixian to dinner, the latter refused.

Actually, it's not that Lee Hae-hyun is putting on airs or not taking An Ru-song seriously. As Baek Jin-jun said, this Congressman Lee is very greedy. He loves money, and An Ru-song happens to be a rich man. So how could he not take a rich man like An Ru-song seriously?

The reason he declined An Rusong's invitation was simply because the current situation was sensitive. The parliamentary elections had entered their final sprint, and An Rusong, as the chairman of NGN, was entangled with his rivals. If Li Haixian were to meet with An Rusong at this time, and some people with ulterior motives were to seize upon concrete evidence, his candidacy for parliamentary elections would be put in a very passive position.

An Rusong understood the other party's concerns. In fact, he even held the other party in higher regard because of this. People who know how to be cautious are always able to go further.

However, although Li Haixian declined a direct meeting with An Rusong, he arranged for his nephew, Li Jinshi, to make contact with An Rusong. The reason An Rusong was at the villa of pimp Jin Chenghun today was specifically to receive Li Jinshi.

"Brother, shall we go in?" The woman wiping An Rusong's body asked softly during his silence.

An Rusong's thoughts were pulled back. He glanced at the other person and was about to refuse the invitation when he saw Kim Sung-hoon, wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt, walk out from the back door of the villa.

The other person came out of the back door of the villa, glanced at the direction of the swimming pool, and then turned to look at the sunshade. After seeing An Rusong, he quickly walked over.

"Brother Rusong," Kim Sung-hoon said with a smile as he approached An Rusong, "Aren't you going to hold the parade anymore?"

This guy is much older than An Rusong; he's almost forty. But since becoming acquainted with An Rusong, he's changed his address from "Chairman An" to "Brother Rusong." So, as the saying goes, although Koreans value seniority and senior-junior relationships, when it comes to actually ranking people, it still comes down to individual ability.

Without answering the other party's meaningless question, An Rusong took the cigarette out of his mouth and asked, "Where is President Kim?"

"President Kim is on the third floor," Kim Sung-hoon said with a sly smile, his already small eyes squinting. "Hehe, President Kim really takes good care of himself. He's almost forty, but he can still take on three people at once."

Kim Sung-hoon's place is a real den of iniquity. On the third floor of the villa, there are several rooms specifically for people to have fun. They are fully equipped with all kinds of amenities. There is nothing that ordinary people can't imagine that he can't arrange.

Upon hearing what the other party said, An Rusong's lips twitched. Even now, he still didn't quite understand how greedy Li Haixian was, but he had already witnessed how lecherous and unreliable his nephew was.

He was hosting Li Jinshi today, originally intending to first find out Li Haixian's requirements from him before letting him "do as he pleases." However, upon seeing the "atmosphere team" arranged by Jin Chenghun, he disregarded everything else and immediately got to work. Seemingly sensing An Rusong's impatience, Jin Chenghun said, "Rusong-ge, why don't you go to the lounge on the third floor to rest for a while? I reckon President Jin should be out soon."

An Rusong remained silent. He stood up from the recliner, found the slippers he had been wearing, and walked straight toward the back door of the villa.

In a lounge on the sunny side of the third floor of the villa, An Rusong sat down on the sofa and stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray.

Directly opposite the sofa is a one-way transparent glass mirror that occupies the entire front wall, allowing an unobstructed view of the opposite room from this lounge. The opposite room is a dance studio, which also serves as a training room. When needed, Kim Sung-hoon would arrange for some trainees to practice in the dance studio, allowing guests with special fetishes to spy on them from this lounge.

However, at this moment, the dance studio across the street was empty. As a regular customer, Kim Sung-hoon knew An Ru-song's character well enough, so he knew that An Ru-song didn't like this kind of thing and naturally wouldn't make such an arrangement for him.

Most importantly, Kim Sung-hoon has been facing trouble recently, so he doesn't usually keep many people at this villa. Of course, it's common for him to run into trouble, and he already knows how to deal with it.

The reality is that the existence of someone like Kim Sung-hoon, and for such a long time, indicates that there is fertile ground for his existence in Seoul, and a need for him to exist. Whenever he encounters trouble, those who need him naturally provide him with protection—protection at a level unimaginable to ordinary people.

Like this time, he got into trouble because he hit someone with his car, and the girl he seriously injured was a trainee signed to his company. In cases like this, even if the police don't investigate whether he intentionally killed someone, they should at least hold him responsible for the traffic accident.

But the truth is, this guy wasn't detained for even a single day from beginning to end, and apart from paying bail, he didn't receive any punishment whatsoever.

So, from another perspective, although Kim Sung-hoon was always seen as a low-class pimp, even a lowly one, by his "guests," he was a more ruthless devil than anyone else in the eyes of those he controlled and coerced.

An Rusong had only been sitting on the sofa for less than two minutes when two women walked into the lounge. They were the same two women who had been under the awning earlier. Each of them carried a tray, bringing An Rusong red wine, drinks, dried fruit, and a fruit platter.

The two women placed the tray on the coffee table in front of An Rusong and tried to sit down next to him, but before they could get close, An Rusong gently waved his hand, signaling them to leave.

The two women were very obedient in front of An Rusong. They bowed to him and then quietly left the room.

As the room quieted down again, An Rusong leaned forward, poured himself a glass of red wine, and then, while gently swirling the glass, thought about the polling organization in his mind.

The night before last, he did not accept Bai Jinjun's request without hesitation, or more accurately, Li Minbo's request, because, as he said, there was a great risk involved.

Bai Jinjun made it very clear that Li Minbo hoped to use his resources to establish a polling agency in his name, but once the agency was established, its investigative powers would need to be controlled by someone else.

What does this mean? Undoubtedly, it's equivalent to him establishing a company, becoming its legal representative, but having someone else control its operations. Under this model, the company's profits are largely his concern, but if problems arise, he will be held responsible.

Moreover, polling organizations are different from ordinary companies, especially those involved in political polls. When conducting polls, they are prone to encountering sensitive issues; otherwise, they wouldn't need to obtain relevant exemptions every time they conduct election polls.

To put it bluntly, if Li Minbo were to try and frame him someday, An Rusong would be in for a world of trouble.

To be honest, in the past, An Rusong would have had no choice but to accept Li Minbo's request. But now, if An Rusong really didn't want to accept it, he could still refuse.

(End of this chapter)