The Peninsula chaebol started by rescuing Samsung's little princess.

Driving across the Han River from Hannam-dong, it only takes 10 minutes to reach the Sinsa-dong tree-lined road between Gangnam-gu and Apgujeong.

This road is about 700 meters long and is named for the rows of ginkgo trees lining both sides, which make it resemble a natural corridor.

However, it was already late at night, and the surroundings were pitch black, so the ginkgo trees could not be seen at all.

The luxury car sped away, leaving Li Haorong and his brother in front of one of the gray-white buildings.

"Brother, let's go upstairs! It's a bit cold outside!"

Upon hearing Li Haoyang's words, Li Haorong withdrew his gaze, picked up his suitcase, and walked into the small building with Li Haoyang.

The building didn't have an elevator, so they climbed the stairs to the third floor.

Li Haoyang used his key to open the door, turned on the light, and the entire apartment was immediately visible.

In this 30-square-meter apartment, a bed takes up half the space, with a guitar and clothes piled on it. A keyboard instrument and a ramen bucket are on the table next to it, and there are cardboard boxes and stools on the floor.

This truly refreshed Li Haorong's understanding of space. How could such a room, with such an open view, possibly hold so many things?

"Brother, don't just stand outside, come in and sit down!"

"Sit? Where should I sit?"

Feeling his brother's gaze, Li Haoyang gave an awkward smile and turned to pack up.

A little while later, he cleared out a place for Li Haorong to sit down next to the bed.

Li Haorong was too lazy to pack his luggage, so he put his suitcase in the room and plopped down on the edge of the bed.

He had already mailed most of his luggage in the United States to his parents' home in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province.

"Take me to the bank tomorrow, we'll withdraw the money from the checks, 5000 million each!"

"Isn't that a bad idea? How about I just give it all to you?"

Hearing that his brother was going to share half with him, Li Haoyang felt embarrassed, though he was secretly quite tempted.

He spent all the production costs on his trip to the United States.

5000 million won is equivalent to the production cost of writing ten songs myself!

"Why are you being so polite with me? This money is meant for both of us. If you feel bad about it, just consider it my rent payment!"

"Mo? You're staying here?"

"What? You're not welcome?"

"No, that's not it, but as you can see, I don't have any room here! If it really comes down to it, you don't need to give me the money yet. Let's use this money to rent a shared apartment together, okay?"

The so-called full rental is a unique way of purchasing a house in the Peninsula, in which the tenant pays the landlord a deposit of 50%-80% of the total house price in exchange for the right to live there rent-free for two years, and can get the deposit back after the expiration.

As for the landlord, he's not doing charity; he'll use the money to buy a new house and leverage it to an extreme degree!

In an era of soaring housing prices, this might be acceptable, but once housing prices fluctuate, the scale of the avalanche would be unimaginable.

However... how could Seoul's housing prices fall?

For the people of the peninsula today, this is a huge joke!

"I plan to use that money to start a company!"

"Start... a company?"

Upon hearing that his brother was going to start a company, Li Haoyang's eyes widened again.

These past few days, Li Haoyang's eyes have been widening frequently, and they seem to have gotten bigger.

There was no way around it; my brother, whom I hadn't seen for several years, had been doing things that constantly challenged my understanding these past few days.

This is a peninsula, a society highly monopolized by conglomerates, where upward mobility is almost completely blocked, making it a veritable graveyard for entrepreneurs.

The 100 million won that the two brothers have is so small that it wouldn't even make a ripple if they were to spend it all.

At that moment, he was somewhat grateful that his older brother had given him half the money, at least preventing him from losing it all!

Oh well, he's my brother after all. At worst, I'll just write songs to support him after he loses everything!

"I haven't decided yet. I need to look into it in the next few days. Also, there's something very important I need your help with tomorrow."

"What is it?"

Seeing his brother's serious expression, Li Haoyang perked up, fearing that the task was too difficult for him to handle.

"Take me to an internet cafe!"

"..."

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In 2005, internet cafes were so numerous on the streets of Peninsula that they were rampant. Within a hundred meters of Li Haoyang's apartment, there were three GG signs with the "PC" logo.

Around 10 a.m., Li Haorong and Li Haoyang appeared in one of the internet cafes.

The two got up early to go to the bank to withdraw the money from the check, and then deposited half a small goal (Korean won) into their respective accounts.

This time, Li Haoyang did not refuse. He had already used the money as start-up capital for his brother's failed business venture!

At that moment, Li Haoyang was playing a game, while Li Haorong was yawning.

For Li Haorong, sharing a bed with a man was somewhat beyond his capabilities.

In particular, Li Haoyang snores, which made it difficult for Li Haorong to fall asleep until the middle of the night!

Rubbing his temples, Li Haorong forced himself to concentrate and used Photoshop to edit the photo of himself with Lee Kun-hee.

This was the biggest gain for Lee Ho-young from his meeting with Lee Kun-hee, and in his opinion, it was worth far more than 100 million won!

Unfortunately, the camera resolution of mobile phones in this era was too poor; when enlarged and printed, it would turn into a bunch of mosaics, requiring him to repair it.

Fortunately, the original owner of this body was indeed a top student in the Computer Science Department of Seoul National University. Not only was she good at programming, but she was also adept at using Photoshop.

Finally, he repaired the photos and saved them to a USB drive.

Get it!

"Clang clang clang clang..."

After relaxing, Li Haorong heard a familiar tune, turned his head to look to the side, and found that Li Haoyang was using a Ghost Swordsman to fight the boss.

It's Dungeon Fighter Online? This game came out so early?

Li Haorong had been exposed to this game when he was in school. Later, when he worked as a manager in an internet cafe, at its peak, half of the computers in the internet cafe were playing this game.

"So this is a game from Peninsula? That makes sense, many popular games in China these days are imported from Peninsula!"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Li Haorong.

Li Haorong already had a plan in mind regarding what kind of company he wanted to start. Of course, he planned to create an internet company on the peninsula that was a combination of Tencent and Alibaba, similar to Kakao in later years.

However, such companies need to burn through a lot of money in the early stages, so they need a stable cash flow.

"If I could secure the distribution rights for those popular Korean games in China, wouldn't I make a fortune? Compared to that, my original plan to scam people is utterly insignificant!"

With that in mind, Li Haorong immediately used the Peninsula's search engine, NAVER, to search for recent Peninsula games.

Although the computers in internet cafes are still those bulky CRT computers, the internet speed is still pretty good.

In no time, Li Haorong found a whole bunch of games.

"Legend, MapleStory, Audition Online, KartRider, Dungeon Fighter Online..."

There are quite a few popular games that are hugely successful in China!

After careful study, Li Haorong had a goal in mind.

"Damn it, what are you doing? You're not even giving me any milk?"

Just as Li Haorong was studying his future money-making plans, Li Haoyang's shout brought him back to reality.

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay, bro, we just ran into an idiot who dragged us down!"

Li Haoyang still fumed.

"I thought something serious happened. I'll play with you!"

"Huh? Brother...you?"

When Li Haorong volunteered, Li Haoyang's eyes were full of suspicion.

After all, in his memory, his older brother was a bookworm who studied all day and never played games!

"Stop talking nonsense, give me your account number, I'll play with you!"

Li Haoyang didn't dare to refuse and quickly sent Li Haorong a game account.

Li Haorong had played the game "Dungeon Fighter Online" quite a bit in his previous life, but he had never played the Peninsula version before.

Seeing Li Haorong's clumsy login, Li Haoyang had already made up his mind: Oh well, I'll just treat it as playing with my brother for a while!

"You've logged on. What's your nickname?"

"The New Sand Cave Tiger!"

Li Haoyang proudly pointed to his nickname.

"What a terrible name, it sounds awful!"

"What's wrong with it? I live in Sinsa-dong, and Hao Yang (in Korean) sounds like a tiger. What an ingenious name!"

Li Haoyang rarely contradicted his brother, it seems that this nickname is really important to him!

Li Haorong didn't bother with it, so after getting familiar with the controls, he took Li Haoyang and they took off.

Soon after, Li Haoyang's voice echoed throughout the entire internet cafe:

"Dafa, bro, is this really your first time playing?"

"Damn, this boss doesn't even land!"

"Bro, take me to explore the West Coast again?"