Chapter 68: Collapse of the Soviet Union (6)
While Nick Leeson was cheerfully hovering on the edge of financial hell—
Surprisingly... I didn’t really do anything.
No, to be precise, I did plenty—but none of it was directed at Leeson. Everything had unfolded almost identically to how it had in the original timeline.
What was this? Auto-play mode?
All I did was give him a tiny nudge, and he took care of the rest—banging the drum, blowing the horn, gathering money on his own, and blowing himself up all by himself. What a good boy.
“He’s not gonna survive this, that man. Tsk tsk. Should’ve lived a cleaner life...”
Now promoted to my respectable chief of staff, Lee Si-hyun remarked with a strangely satisfied expression when we met again after a while.
“What, you’ve been brooding over him or something? Like, ‘Nick Leeson reached that kind of position at a younger age than me, what the hell am I doing with my life?’”
Even in real history, Leeson managed to destroy Barings Bank with $1.4 billion in debt—at the age of 28. Which meant, more impressively, he was capable of accumulating that much debt. And now? Even worse.
Si-hyun must’ve felt a fresh wave of inferiority watching someone from a similarly low starting point become a world-shaking figure before her eyes.
“Yeah, right? After everything the young lady made me do like this and like that... I’m never going to forget it until the day I die.”
Si-hyun shook her head and rubbed her arms. Her eyes were full of weary sentimentality.