Max-Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 82
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82. It Depends on What Hyung Does
President Sim picked up the document bundle.
“These are resignation letters from Taeseong Chemical employees, so they don’t belong to Wookwang. I’ll be taking these with me.”
“Just take that and get out of here quickly.”
“What, you won’t even give me time to collect my name plate? Does Wookwang always chase out employees who are cleaning their desks like this?”
President Sim perched one hip on the edge of the desk.
“Then you probably won’t have time to collect your name plate either, right? How about collecting your name plate in advance?”
“Nonsense!”
“You know as well as I do that it’s not nonsense. Does Wookwang Construction have the ability to cover a 15 billion won promissory note?”
“….”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction closed his mouth.
Though he was forcibly pretending to be calm, his resentful expression seemed difficult to hide.
“What do you want to say?”
“What would I have to say when I’m leaving? I just feel sympathy for a fellow sufferer.”
“Sim Won-cheol.”
“You have to seek a way to survive in advance. Look at me.”
President Sim spread both arms wide and shrugged his shoulders as if showing off.
“Who would have known I’d be kicked out of the Taeseong Chemical president position overnight?”
“Hmm.”
“In just two weeks, Taeseong has already cut down two affiliate company presidents with a single stroke. He took away his own brother’s and his own confidant’s rice bowls and handed them over to his son.”
President Sim of Taeseong Chemical and President Cha of Taeseong Construction had been dismissed.
President Kim of Wookwang Construction had a complicated expression.
“Well then, I’ll be going. Have a prosperous New Year.”
President Sim smiled brightly and waved his hand.
Then he lifted his hip from the desk and walked out without regret, holding my hand.
In one hand, he carried the bundle of resignation letters from Taeseong Chemical employees.
“Wait. If you want to take your name plate, you can take it.”
“No thanks. What good would I see if I went into the president’s office now? I’d like you to keep the name plate for a while. I’ll come get it soon.”
I plan to get Taeseong Chemical back soon anyway.
* * *
President Sim took my hand and came out of the Secretary Office.
His face looked refreshed and relieved.
“President Sim, you’re making exactly the face of a villain right now.”
“Was it that obvious?”
President Sim didn’t even deny it.
“You were deliberately stirring up the Wookwang Construction President.”
“I just returned what I received.”
President Sim glanced back at the closed door and clicked his tongue.
“President Kim of Wookwang Construction filled his head with nonsense, which greatly damaged the close relationship between the Chairman and his younger brother.”
He was talking about Great Uncle, who was the former Taeseong Construction President.
“I wanted to see just how close the relationship between Wooguang’s two brothers really is.”
President Sim planted seeds of doubt in President Kim of Wookwang Construction’s heart with just a few light words.
To make him doubt his hyung’s true intentions and doubt his own future.
‘Especially since Chairman Kim specifically designated Wookwang Construction as the issuer of Taeseong Chemical’s promissory notes. It’s like properly igniting President Wookwang Construction’s anxiety and dissatisfaction.’
President Sim slipped the document bundle he brought into his document bag.
“Oh, what about that money laundering thing from earlier!”
“It’s right here.”
“What about the job application to transfer to Taeseong Construction?”
“That’s here too.”
President Sim slightly opened the document bundle he had gathered earlier to show me.
The cover read 【Taeseong Chemical Resignation Letter】, but other documents were secretly mixed in among them.
“You don’t need to worry. All the documents we left in that president’s office only have decent-looking covers, but the actual contents are nothing but worthless trash.”
“Worthless documents? Don’t tell me even things like Taeseong Chemical’s shampoo formulas and development reports…”
“Yes, I deliberately selected only failed experiments and laid them out conspicuously.”
President Sim grinned wickedly.
“As soon as I heard that the Wookwang Construction Chairman had arrived, I had Manager Lee load all the important documents into my car trunk.”
As expected of President Sim! How thorough!
“Shall we go then? We need to hurry a bit more if we don’t want to be late for dinner.”
President Sim raised the corners of his mouth.
“Strangling Wooguang is too much for me alone. I think I’ll need to seek cooperation from the Chairman and the presidents of Taeseong’s affiliated companies.”
Swoosh.
The Grim Reaper rose from the floor like smoke.
[Inside that president’s office over there, the Woogwang affiliate presidents are all excited and making a fuss. Want to see?]
‘No need.’
What would I gain from peeking at that?
I’ve already erased the Death Countdown and orange arrows that were flashing above the Taeseong Chemical people’s heads, so why bother?
It’s all over now.
[What about that cunning-looking guy? The Wookwang Construction President. Following him around and catching him by the tail?]
‘Stop that too. He probably got the Subway Line 2 construction project and took over Taeseong Chemical, so there’s no need to worry about it anymore.’
[I see.]
The Grim Reaper glanced toward the president’s office door.
[Then do as you wish.]
* * *
President Kim of Wookwang Construction got in the car and slammed the back door as if it would break.
Bang!
President Kim of Wookwang Construction roughly threw Sim Won-cheol’s name plate into the back seat and muttered a curse under his breath.
“They’re celebrating getting Taeseong Chemical for free and got so carried away they said they’d cancel the affiliate inspections. The company’s really running well.”
“It’s worth celebrating though. It would have been quite a headache to prepare 15 billion won to settle the Taeseong Chemical equity shares, but now we can handle it with promissory notes.”
“Who’s going to be responsible for those promissory notes? Our Wookwang Construction has to take it all on!”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction couldn’t contain himself and shouted angrily.
Secretary Choi glanced at his superior through the rearview mirror.
“Well, the Chairman trusts and cherishes you the most, President…”
“Nonsense! Hyung trusts and cherishes me the most? Then he shouldn’t be doing this to me!”
Thud!
President Kim of Wookwang Construction couldn’t contain his anger and punched the leather seat with his fist.
“Even if we sell all the land that Wookwang Construction owns, we can’t raise 15 billion won! And that bastard Sim Won-cheol treated Wookwang Construction like it’s only worth 5 billion won!”
“He did lowball us quite a bit. 5 billion was too much.”
“When I confronted Hyung about it, you know what he said? That Cha Tae-seong built a 30 billion won company from 1 billion won in 7 years, but I couldn’t even build a 15 billion won company in 30 years, what a pity!”
This was why President Kim of Wookwang Construction was fuming.
“When I asked if he really planned to bankrupt Wookwang Construction and blow away the 15 billion won promissory note, if he intended to devour Taeseong Chemical from the start and push me out, you know what he said? What? Is there any reason I can’t? This damn…!”
Thud!
“Everything depends on what I do? If I want to protect Wookwang Construction, I should show that level of capability? Prove it with results and earn recognition with skill? I need to show that Wookwang Construction is worth more than 15 billion won?”
Thud!
“He knows perfectly well how much effort and dedication I’ve put into growing Wookwang Construction, yet he humiliates me like that? In front of the subsidiary presidents? He’s treating me like a pig unless he’s not!”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction ground his teeth.
He fumed for a long while, breathing heavily.
Secretary Choi, who was holding the steering wheel, couldn’t even breathe loudly and shrank his neck.
How much time had passed?
“Secretary Choi, what if, hypothetically speaking, a fire broke out at Taeseong Chemical right now?”
“P-President!”
Secretary Choi was horrified.
“We just finished the Taeseong Chemical acquisition and are on our way back. The situation is different from before. Please don’t say such things.”
“Why? What’s different?”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction’s eyes were bloodshot.
“If a big fire breaks out at Taeseong Chemical, there will be major property and casualty damage. Then the media will make a fuss, and the Blue House’s wrath will come down. What would happen then?”
“That was a trap we set to bring down Chairman Cha. Now that the merger and acquisition is complete, even if an accident happens at the chemical factory, Cha Tae-seong can’t be touched anymore!”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction just chuckled wickedly.
Secretary Choi’s voice began to tremble slightly.
“President, if you proceed with this plan, Wookwang’s losses will be considerable. Perhaps enough to draw anger from the Blue House….”
“Exactly. If that happens, will Hyung be able to maintain his position as chairman?”
Secretary Choi swallowed hard.
But President Kim of Wookwang Construction didn’t stop.
“Nephew is only in his thirties now. He’s too young to rise as the next chairman.”
“President, if Taeseong Chemical catches fire, Taeseong Chemical will be destroyed in vain. And you said Wookwang Securities is involved too? The losses would be too enormous!”
“If I don’t take losses of that magnitude! How could I ever sit in the chairman’s seat of Wookwang?”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction’s eyes darkened.
“Hyung is even harboring the cruel intention to abandon Wookwang Construction to obtain Taeseong Chemical. If Wookwang Construction goes bankrupt like this, I’ll end up like Cha Yun-seong.”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction glanced at the name plate that read 【Taeseong Chemical President Sim Won-cheol】.
President Sim’s advice came to mind.
-You have to seek a way to survive in advance. Look at me. Who would have known I’d be kicked out of the Taeseong Chemical president position overnight?
-In just two weeks, Taeseong has already cut down two affiliated company presidents with a single stroke. He took away his own brother’s and his own confidant’s rice bowl and handed it to his son.
The cautionary tale wasn’t far away.
It was close by.
“It’s not someone else’s problem.”
The more he thought about it, the more anger welled up inside him.
“If it’s Hyung, he’d strip away even my assets and feed them to Nephew.”
Even Cha Tae-seong, who supposedly cherished his brother so much, did that, so our Hyung would be even more ruthless.
He wouldn’t take care of his brother’s family and nephew so meticulously.
“Just the fact that he wants to issue promissory notes under Wookwang Construction’s name shows he’s already determined to cut me out.”
Secretary Choi, who had been restless, carefully opened his mouth.
“President, why don’t you have a drink together and talk openly as brothers?”
“Do you think there’s that kind of loyalty between us brothers?”
“Then how about first confirming who will be seated as president of Taeseong Chemical, no, Wookwang Chemical, before making big plans?”
“President of Wookwang Chemical. If he’s willing to hand over that position and all the equity shares to my child…. I too would have no more reason to complain.”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction could finally lean back against the leather seat.
“Everything depends on what hyung does.”
President Kim of Wookwang Construction crossed his legs.
“That vicious loan shark who was attached to the Taeseong Chemical workers.”
“You mean Bulgwang-dong Gasoline?”
“That’s right, that bastard. I heard his arson skills are no joke?”
“How else would he get the nickname Bulgwang-dong Gasoline? They say his skill at secretly setting fires without leaving any traces at the homes and workplaces of people who don’t pay back his money is like art.”
* * *
When I arrived at Grandfather’s house, it was indeed almost dinner time.
All the presidents and executives of Taeseong’s affiliated companies had left, and only Taeseong’s direct family remained.
We sat around the dining table, which had become much more modest compared to the morning, to have dinner.
“Jeong-hyeok, was the tour of the Taeseong Chemical factory interesting?”
“Yes, Grandfather.”
“President Sim, you’ve worked hard. You must be busy preparing for the Taeseong Chemical handover too.”
“Chairman, speaking of the Taeseong Chemical acquisition, I have something to tell you.”
It was when President Sim was just moving his lips.
Secretary Kim appeared in the restaurant with a pale face.
“Chairman, this is breaking news from overseas! Indian Airlines Flight 855 bound for Dubai has crashed into the Arabian Sea, and all passengers are presumed dead!”
Secretary Kim urgently added.
“That’s the exact flight Young Master Seong-jun was scheduled to board.”
“······!”
The family’s eyes, wide with shock, all focused on Father.
“Could it really be that incident from the dream······!”
“My goodness!”
“What in the world is all this about?”
Father himself turned pale white for a different reason and urgently asked Secretary Kim back.
“Were there Korean passengers on board too?”
“The exact identities haven’t been revealed yet, but it seems there were Korean passengers as well.”
“Don’t tell me Kyeong-seok is······!”
Lee Kyung-seok. That was Secretary Lee’s name.
Father pressed his hand to his forehead.
“The round-trip airline ticket that Kyung-seok had booked was Indian Airlines Flight 855. Departing at 09:30 on January 1st.”
A moment of silence fell.
“Secretary Kim, have you ever received a telegram from Kyung-seok saying he would return home?”
“No, I haven’t.”
“What about telegrams regarding status reports?”
“We keep sending telegrams telling him to return home quickly, but we haven’t received any replies at all.”
“Don’t tell me Kyung-seok is pushing ahead with the schedule on his own…”
Father rubbed his face wearily.
Secretary Kim continued his report.
“Currently, the Middle East is in complete chaos because of a person presumed to be aboard that plane.”
“Who is that?”
“Muhammad bin Buti Al-Ahmed.”
Pfft!
I couldn’t help but spit out my water.
‘What? Why is Mansur’s father-in-law showing up there?’
Just then, the Grim Reaper suddenly popped out and said triumphantly.
[That’s it. The very special thread of fate that the Great King said he would gift to you.]
So you’re saying this is a connection that would have been absolutely impossible for me to reach originally, and the thread with this big shot that King Yama specially chose starts with that person?
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