Love or Money

(Tokyopop, 2004-2006)
™ and © 2001 Lee Sang-Eun

When Yenni Suh was a little girl, she cherished her mother’s words: “Yenni, do you know that the most important thing in the world is? It’s money. Love and happiness don’t mean a thing without money.” Soon after that, she lost both her parents, and Yenni was adopted and raised by her rich grandmother. Years later, a 15–year–old Yenni and her best friend Yun-Hee Suh (no relation), have taken Yenni’s mother’s advice to heart and now run the most prolific and feared loan–shark business at her high school; and Yenni’s quest for fiscal domination has only just begun. Even when confronted by the principal of her school (who righteously challenges where she thinks loan–sharking will lead), Yenni frankly admits that her loan shark business is just practice for when she becomes the world’s most powerful investment broker. At her wit’s end about her granddaughter’s highly unorthodox and unladylike behavior, Yenni’s grandmother, in a moment of drunken inspiration, devises a will to hit Yenni where it hurts most: right in the pocketbook! Dying in a freak accident soon after, grandma’s drunken joke is now serious business: if Yenni doesn’t stop her dishonest practices and marry an honest man before graduation, she really will lost her multi-million yen inheritance to the smarmy, American son of the family lawyer!

— Shiaw-Ling Lai

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#1

December, 2004
Cover Price: $9.99
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Sang-Eun Lee