The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 65

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Episode 65

“A hero of the heart is someone who heals the wounded hearts of others. This ring….”

This is sincere.

“I hope it makes Hee-jae’s heart warmer!”

Hee-jae’s gaze remained fixed on me for a long time.

After a brief silence, Hee-jae finally spoke.

“…Chaea.”

His dark eyes, filled with me, contained indescribable emotions.

Hee-jae, who had been looking at me with a heavy expression for a while, took a deep breath and said.

“It’s warm.”

“….”

“…So warm that my heart is racing.”

I felt proud. My goal was to help Hee-jae, whose emotions had dried up after losing his parents, feel warm emotions again.

‘But the atmosphere is different from when we first met….’

It had changed a lot.

At first, it seemed like there was a pitch-black shadow cast behind Hee-jae.

‘Then will the future Hee-jae also change?’

The face of Kang Hee-jae, chairman of Tomorrow Finance, who had been in the media as a capable but inhumane manager, came to mind.

An arrogant face with a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, but emotionless eyes.

But since the current Hee-jae is different, surely….

Just then, I saw Noah running toward me from afar in my field of vision.

Noah’s form, upgraded to level 5, had gained dimensionality and now had faint shading.

Woof-

A status window opened with a small bark.

[Sub Quest: Fun Birthday Party Achieved]

[Reward: Role Mode Function Update]

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After the guests left, Chairman Kang Un-san received a report about ‘Carrot’ from his secretary.

“Hmm….”

“Wouldn’t Carrot be better than that?”

It kept lingering in his mind, so he had ordered an investigation….

“There doesn’t seem to be anything special….”

‘Carrot’ was a small to medium-sized American tool sales company with modest annual revenue.

What was unusual was that they had started manufacturing computer parts since last year….

“Call Park Manager and have him review the investment feasibility of this company.”

“Yes, understood, Chairman. What scale should we consider?”

“If the assessment is favorable, I plan to invest 10 million dollars.”

The secretary was startled by Chairman Kang’s words about investing such a large sum in a company he’d never heard of before.

“Understood, Chairman.”

But the chairman’s orders were law. The secretary bowed politely and withdrew.

Soon, Un-san headed to Hee-jae’s room.

Through the slightly open door, Hee-jae was sitting at his desk, turning a music box.

There were hardly any decorations in Hee-jae’s neat room.

Two teddy bears with beige and brown fur. And the strange character-shaped music box now placed on his desk.

‘Is that the pocket monster?’

He had heard there was an animation trending in Japan these days.

He had also been reported that the company was making enormous profits while gaining global response.

Indeed, that child Gu Chaea is no ordinary child.

First, she surprised him with the intuitive expression of ‘a bank inside a computer,’

Then earlier, she won in a battle of wits against that cunning young lawyer,

And she grasped foreign trends ahead of time and created that monster as a gift.

As Hee-jae, wearing the crude plastic ring, turned the music box, a crystalline sound flowed out.

Watching his grandson’s back, a faint smile also appeared on Un-san’s lips.

He thought it was good that he sent him to Somang Preschool.

He could feel that his grandson was happy every day.

‘Is that child a benefactor?’

Un-san quietly closed the door and turned away to avoid disturbing Hee-jae.

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Role Mode.

It was as fascinating a function as ‘Today’s Fortune’ or ‘Inner Thoughts Translator.’

There was a mode selection menu with three unlocked modes. For example, if I turned on ‘Artist Mode’ and sat in front of drawing paper, sketch lines would appear.

If I just drew along those sketches, I’d be like Bob Ross.

Another was ‘Search Mode,’ which showed a map of about 100 meters around me and my location, allowing me to understand the structure of wherever I was.

The last one was ‘Acting Mode.’ I’m not even acting, so is this Junho’s influence? I don’t know how it works, but it was available as a usable function anyway.

‘Search Mode will definitely be helpful.’

And perhaps because I achieved the sub quest, a new main quest appeared.

[Main Quest: Freedom Achievement. Due to early completion of the main quest, you are granted 6 months of free action. Help those around you and accumulate great wealth. The more sub quests you achieve, the higher the reward.]

[Reward: Random reward based on achievement level]

It seemed I was being given free time because I achieved the dream of becoming a millionaire, which was supposed to last until the end of the year, too early.

And they would settle what I accomplished during that free time, which wasn’t bad.

The first thing to do was invest in American stocks.

Anyone who knew the flow of stocks and time-warped to this era would use this opportunity.

That was the IT bubble.

The late 90s IT bubble was the result of the internet’s potential being priced before its reality.

Future hopes became investment logic rather than actual profits the internet would generate, and stock prices soared amid collective expectations.

But after 2000, it was revealed to be a bubble and collapsed, and many companies lifted by the IT bubble disappeared.

Of course, the bubble burst, but the internet continued to develop.

And I knew the timing for withdrawal.

“Money.”

Noah, who initially only displayed total asset amounts, then showed assets by investment destination, added a graph generation function with this upgrade.

This meant I could view it like a comprehensive asset analysis report.

I reached out to pretend to pat Noah and looked at the report in detail.

Half of the 1.3 billion was invested in ‘Carrot,’ and I should also diversify into stocks with high short-term returns, though localized.

“Let’s invest 600 million divided equally among Amazon, Qualcomm, and Cisco Systems.”

I was taking a slightly more conservative approach by dividing among multiple stocks compared to when I previously invested in rapidly rising stocks.

‘The 3-year NASDAQ graph doesn’t predict individual stock fluctuations but is a composite stock index, so concentrating investment in just one carries some risk of loss.’

It’s safer not to be too greedy about anything.

Oh right, there was that?

“Ah, and can you link the daily fortune system?”

Noah looked around for a moment, then struggled to pull some kind of string from the ground.

And connected it to the status window with a beep.

[Starting connection.]

The daily fortune function was added to one side of the report.

Using good and bad fortune days should increase the return rate.

Anyway, recommending Carrot to Chairman Kang Un-san was the right thing to do.

‘I’ll decide on withdrawal at the right time, but the chairman can’t do that. Even when the bubble comes, I should only give him sound cards with low decline rates.’

Of course, my words would likely sound like mere childish nonsense to Chairman Kang Un-san.

‘But at Hee-jae’s birthday party when I was dealing with Gi Seung-cheol, I somehow felt like he was taking my side.’

I don’t know if it was intentional, but he clearly showed that he knew Junho so I wouldn’t lose confidence.

“Chaea.”

While I was momentarily lost in thoughts about Chairman Kang Un-san, I heard Junho’s voice.

“Last time, Chaea told me to ask before spending any large amounts of money, right?”

“Yes, Chaea knows everything because Mother taught her!”

Junho, who remembered escaping the crisis of having to guarantee a loan because of me during the IMF crisis, trusted ‘genius Chaea.’

The influence of building trust through other small acts of help was probably there too.

“So, well… since the landlady gave us a house as a gift, the money Father earned is left over.”

“How much is there?”

Junho hesitated at the direct question but answered honestly.

“Well… 40 million won.”

For this era, it was quite a lot of money for a supporting actor raising a child to have saved over nearly half a year.

Watching Junho scratch his head, I clapped for him.

“Wow, Father is the best!”

At my praise, Junho smiled bashfully and immediately continued speaking.

“But recently, a filming staff member introduced someone to me…”

Hmm, I’m getting an ominous feeling about this.

“They said if I entrust my money there, they’ll give more interest than the bank… like a pension.”

Ah.

“So I’m considering it, but what do you think would be best?”

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