MC is really smart, I skimmed till 94tg chapter. The ground work he did is honestly is fing awesome. It’s so subdued you may think it’s boring but it all seemed doable in reality. He remembers the antagonists he needs to focus on and remembers few important events. He isn’t someone who is loud and obnoxious. He never told someone his plans or what his final goals were. He simply did his networking with his two seniors to reach seokhun, hanmi’s father and reach jo tae sub. He first cut off the two seniors(they did seokhun’s bidding which eventually made him untouchable and made it better for jo taesub in the 1st life) made seokhun get criticised as his image was very clean in the eyes of public. Seokhun wanted his own power to increase but because of these two incidents, he had to kowtow to jo taesub. He basically directs his connections to do his bidding, he does his part too but he’s not in the full blown limelight.
Someone complained why he is buying the house for gyuri. He’s not technically buying it for her, he’s definitely investing. On both the property and gyuri. He hasn’t given her the house, just prevented it from torn down, they are still paying rent I think. She’s one his biggest help in later chapters because they are not in the same office so it’s easier for him to ask her help and conceal his movements.
He hasn’t asked anyone to be under him explicitly though. The mvp imo is that junior who is always helping our MC, they’ve worked together on the real estate and he’s his most trusted ally. Honestly think he could become a fine actor with amount of acting this guy has done to make their plans work lol