DAVID LEE
Name :
Hardin Rowan Lee
Place ㅡ Date of Birth :
Seoul, South Korea
January 7th 1963
Parents :
Graham Lee - Father
Adine Lee - Mother
Occupation :
CFO of The Lee Holdings
Education Records :
Master of Business.
Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hardin Rowan Lee, is the second born son of Graham dan Adine, now the CFO of The Lee Holdings. His whole life is about being under Hiram's shadow as a younger brother. He knew his place in the family and he tried to keep it that way, he never really asked for more until Graham made the two brothers compete against each other in thought it will make them strive for the better. Since then he became completely drowned with his work and achievement.
He married the beautiful Seannika Zhou, A Chinese actress and social activist. She is loved by many for her notable work and movies, she won a couple of prestigious awards and acknowledged globally throughout her acting career. Hardin met Annika coincidently in Paris when the two attended a movie conference. He was representing The Lee Holdings as one of the investor and she was the leading actress for the movie. The attraction sparks from there and years after that they decided to tie the knot, he thought it was all he ever askedㅡ to have a beautiful and talented wife and very soon later a family of his own.
Annika is a living proof that sometimes the ideal of life didn't always work, soon after she's being a mother of two. (xxx) and Valentine, she's doing her best to take care of them like how a mother should moreover if the father is rarely at home for work. One time she asked Hardin that she's about to retire as an actress and will be focusing to take care of their child, Hardin never really thought about that idea since he's only minding his work but Graham strongly opposed it. He told Annika to keep her career, her media exposure helps The Lee to get the fame he wanted. And there is trial and error for that, Annika often times took decision without Hardin and Graham knowing upon this and they started to have fights. On 2009, Graham forced Annika to file a divorce paper if she insisted to quit her career because if that happened Graham thought Annika will be no longer beneficial for the family so he forced Hardin. After being constantly pressured and she received so much stress from inside her own household, she did filed a divorce paper and Hardin signed it under Graham commands. She gather every way and effort to win both of her child custody but at the end she lost for this case, almost no one wins against The Lee's legal team.
A few months after they went separated, Annika flew back to China and never came back ever since. Meanwhile Hardin later met Nadia, his college sweetheart. Back then he thought he will be marrying her after they both graduated, but she told him that her parents already settle things for her and she will be marrying another man. He just knew that Nadia's late husband passed away a year ago, and just like he go back all the way to the start. He thought that on this life time he will marry her, and they did tie the knot on 2011.
NADIA LEE
Name :
Nadia Clementine Lee
Place ㅡ Date of Birth :
Parents :
Occupation :
Education Records :
Nadia Clementine Voerman, who is now known as Nadia Lee, was born into a well-to-do family of political background. Nadia was originally married to a Korean man from a family of politicians topnotch, Lee Hyunki. They were blessed with two children named Jennie Victoria Lee and Jerome Victorius Lee.
The family lived a happy and peaceful life, and Nadia really had blasted a good job as a mother. She was very loving and devoted towards her family, especially caring greatly for her husband and children. She also gave off an aura of serenity and composure. She never displayed an intense emotions of anger.
In 2000, in the same year of Amoura's year born, Lee Hyunki passed away due to a sudden heart attack. Agony matchless, while her children were still small and babies. It resulted in a great stress for she had to take care of two children on her own; and the subtle motherly side of her gradually vanished. She turned into a short-tempered mother, and even displayed a formidable fury on many occasions to the first born child, Jerome.
In 2011, Nadia was married to a man named Hardin Lee. As she thought that she received the best parenting style from her parents, she applied everything she got to her children. She stakes her life on every little detail of her children and makes sure that they are perfect─or, untainted. She is overly critical and controlling of her children's decisions, even as an adult. She constantly told each of them, “You have to aim for the top”.
She is overly blunt with her opinions, sometimes to the point of being tactless. She is also a very shrewd, opportunistic social climber who is good at controlling others, allowing her to gain respect and the good will of high-ranking individuals through her fortune and family name.
However, behind her veneer of respectability, she treated people cruelly. She is very ambitious and is not above using coercion and threats to get what she wants.
JENNIE LEE
Name :
Jennie Victoria Lee
Place ㅡ Date of Birth :
Parents :
Lee Hyunki - Father
Nadia Clementine Lee - Mother
Occupation :
Education Records :
Jennie Victoria Lee is an ambitious, brilliant, and charismatic attorney. She is the oldest daughter of South Korean politician Lee Hyunki and Indonesian congresswoman Nadia Clementine Voerman.
Along with her brother, Jerome, they had a normal upbringing. Lee and Voerman would've been awarded for best parents of the decade in the first six years of Jennie's life.
In the spring of 2000, Lee Hyunki passed away from a cardiac arrest. His death caused a major behavioral change in Voerman. Once a loving mother, she became abusive and neurotic to both her and Jerome.
Four years after her father's death, Jennie decided to fight back from Voerman's abuse. She got herself into a heated shouting match, which resulted in a beating and locking her up in the basement for the rest of the night as a punishment.
Severe trauma caused Jennie to retracts. She kept her emotions to herself ever since.
Over the years, family drama became tiring. Jennie vowed to leave and never come back. Under the pretense of going to university, she put her academic gift to good use. She studied hard to get accepted into several Ivy League schools but ultimately chose Cornell University, where she majored in Law.
Since her departure to New York, Jennie barely comes back to Jakarta. She avoided coming home during breaks with the help of her friend, Lennox Yoo. She made a name for herself and a life in New York as an up-and-coming attorney at one of the top law firms after finishing her graduate program from Columbia.
Jennie hardly ever date. She claimed that she didn't have the time, the patience, or the effort to get involved in a romantic relationship. Instead, after passing the bar and starting out as an attorney for Sachs & Rothman, she engaged in a casual sexual relationship with her long-time friend and partner, Lennox Yoo, after getting drunk at a company dinner.
After Jerome's suicide attempt, Jennie briefly visited her brother and decided to hire a private investigator to shadow him while she goes back to work in New York.
Jerome's car crash became a catalyst for Jennie's sudden decision to move back permanently to Jakarta. She lobbied her way to get a position at SSDP Law Firm as a foreign legal consultant.
She worked briefly, finding the position dull and lifeless. Not willing to let Voerman take advantage of her free time, she started her own crisis management firm, Lee & Associates. A separate entity from the empire of her step-father. Her management operates in the grey area of the law. Jennie became the phantom fixer of the rich, powerful, and famous.
JEROME LEE
Name :
Jerome Victorious Lee
Place ㅡ Date of Birth :
Parents :
Lee Hyunki - Father
Nadia Clementine Lee - Mother
Occupation :
Education Records :
Known as Jerome, Jero, or Jay. A clever man with his achievements and prodigious skills. He tends to appear as an intimidating person because of the way he talks or the way he throws his gaze.
Jerome’s MBTI: ENTP-A. His life shaped him to be a tough and cold person. He’s a man who lacks affection and sympathy. Doesn’t have to think twice to spit his cynical words to other people except for his closest ones.
Jerome was a sweet child who could make everyone fell for his bright personality. But after he went through hell, Jerome becomes a coldhearted man.
When Jerome was a kid, Nadia was his favorite person. She was the sunshine and everything. But everything changed in a blink of an eye after his father’s funeral. Nadia became an abusive mother.
She couldn’t handle her temper and anger. Jerome got so many bruises and trauma because of his mother.
Jerome went to the ivy league, the University of Pennsylvania. But his mother didn’t satisfy with it. Jerome didn’t hear what she wanted. He chose to leave Indonesia after the announcement day.
He studied Business Administration at Penn. But he learned and taking a course about web and app development. Hence, he could build a tech company with his brother, Joseph.
He fell in love with a girl when he studied in the USA, Michelle Young. But his mother didn’t accept their relationship because of her social status and Nadia found out that Michelle was an illegitimate daughter of Jerome’s biological father.
In Jerome’s second year at the uni, he got depression. One day, he chose to commit suicide after he got so much pressure from his mother. But he survived from his loss of blood. No one knows about this except Nadia because she was embarrassed and she was afraid that she will get a bad reputation. Jerome got a vertical wound on his wrist and covered it with a black panther tattoo, it means death.
Jerome got in trouble again after his accident with Michelle. He fell in love with a man in his college, Christopher Tsai. But the relationship ended before they started it.
Now he’s busy with his business and he chose to live alone. Sometimes he visited his parent’s house to meet his siblings.
LEE SEHYEON / BULAN
Name :
Lee Sehyeon / Bulan
Place ㅡ Date of Birth :
Shanghai, February 9th 1997
Parents :
Hardin Rowan Lee - Father
Seannika Zhou - Mother
Occupation :
Model
Pianist
Camposer
Producer
Education Records :
Primary School - St. Gallois Jakarta
Junior High School - St. Gallois Jakarta
Senior High School - St. Gallois Jakarta
University - The Julliard School, New York
Valentine. Her mother adore, and romanticize the month February for too much, she was born a few days before the sign of the time. Valentine. but she insisted to name her Valentine, beside the meaning that is “One who is strong” didn’t know later — the series of event that hardly demands her to live by the meaning of her name. Or else she will shatter.
Valentine Arsenica Lee. the second daughter of Seannika Zhou and Hardin Lee, makes her half chinese-korean. She loves to play the piano since her mom is very good at it, she’s pretty much sure it is her passion.
But she was quite fragile and weak ever since she was a child, she often fall sick and hospitalized. There is certain phase of her life when she really need to take pills daily and stay in bed. Hardin and Annika took a really good care of her, then later it was only Annika because Hardin is busy with work.
But nevertheless, Valentine is a bright sunshine, she’s innocent and cheerful often times. She’s also the classic Beethoven girl who loves classical music, art and other beautiful fragile things. Just like the typical of a little sweetheart from a rich family, she never really ask for a lot of things because usually it is given to her before everything. And she truly loves her family she would not trade it for anything else.
In her adolescent days, she poured all her heart into her study and her process of getting better. Growing up in such environment like The Lee family makes her felt like she always need to strive to be the best, she has to earn the worth of holding such title that is given. And she knew what her Grand father expected her to be. Since she chose to pave the road with classic music, then she is expected to be an excellent pianist and no other less.
Julliard.
After grauduating High School, she was accepted to The Julliard School right away majoring in Piano. She felt like things are falling into its place, eventually. She felt like she can finally afford her happiness.
But time bring changes, only a year after settling in Julliard — she went back to Indonesia for a winter break then it happened. She got into an accident for helping a little girl who might’ve got hit by a car if she didn’t, instead, she was the one who is wounded and injured. She was in a comma state for 3 days then waking up with the fact that the crash is affecting her nerve system causing her hand’s tremor. With that she need to swallow the bitter fact that there is no way she is able to play Mozart’s Piano Sonata k.333 with trembling hands. She was in a very deep grief for the time being, she felt like her whole life was once again collapsing. She thought the most painful thing she has ever dealt with was losing her mother, she didn’t knew this was coming as well.
For months she barely did anything, she lost it all along with her hopeless dreams. Graham and Hardin can’t stand seeing her mourning for that long so they prepared her college transfer to Imperial College Business School, in thought she will eventually forgot the tragedy and get better by moving from New York to London.
Living in London, there’s a slight of routine and habit that changes. From the bright and positive her has turned into a dead rose. Nothing really erases her pain for not being able to play the Piano no more, studying business was more like for the sake of her father and The Lee Holdings. She left her soul to nowhere be found. For her being very quiet and not socializing with others through out her college years, someone still managed to approached and befriend her ever since the start of college until graduating. Sarah. She has been a model ever since high school and so in her college years, it was the first time Valentine started her modeling with days with her best friend. Hardin knew and at first he opposed the idea, even if The Lee Entertainment is also involved in modeling field he still wanted her daughter to only be do something exclusive. At last he approved her modeling career in London with one circumstances that she still need to graduate in time.
Valentine managed to achieve both, she got her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business while stepping up her career ladder in modeling. With dedication, she has worked with numerous fashion brands, magazines and campaign for the past 4 years. Even when she decided to go back to Indonesia, she knew she only wanted to do modeling instead to work for The Lee Holdings due to her degree in Business. Per usual, Graham was questioning her decision but later he let her be because he saw the public is acknowledging her.
She’s now the Valentine you know.