The Lawyer Who Reads Tomorrow - Chapter 108
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Episode 108
“What’s the matter that has you like this?”
Choi Yoon-ki’s private office.
It had been a very long time since her return to Korea.
Choi Yoon-ki hadn’t even come to meet her at the airport, yet he threw a tantrum demanding she come to his office immediately.
Park Hyun-joo sighed, recalling the long flight time.
If she had known it would be like this, she should have changed her mobile phone first after breaking off the engagement.
No, that’s not right.
When she first entered Hankook University, she should have taken different liberal arts courses.
If not that,
she shouldn’t have entered Hankook University at all.
“You’re here?”
So, this was a thought that had occasionally crossed her mind since being tied down by this annoying person and living a second life.
Choi Yoon-ki was sitting on a leather sofa that gleamed from someone’s devoted care, holding a newspaper open.
“What’s with the newspaper? Are you doing a photo shoot?”
Usually he only looked up internet articles.
At her sharp words, Choi Yoon-ki’s eyebrows twitched and shot up toward the sky.
Having spent well over twenty years together, she could now read his expressions without him saying anything.
That was quite an annoying problem for Park Hyun-joo.
“What is it.”
She just had to add one more word like this.
When Park Hyun-joo pressed him, Choi Yoon-ki folded the section he was reading and slammed it down on the table in front of Park Hyun-joo.
「[Exclusive] The truth everyone turned away from… One lawyer who followed Bae In-jun’s trail」
“A lawyer?”
“Read it.”
It hadn’t even been three hours since she arrived in Korea.
She already felt like she was going to get motion sickness.
Park Hyun-joo frowned and picked up the newspaper.
Jungseo Daily reporter Lee Na-yoon.
This was someone she knew.
She thought lightly and read down the page.
[Kim Ju-young (pseudonym, 29 years old) carefully retraced her memories.
The days when she almost lost everything due to Bylonics Representative Bae In-jun’s crimes.]
“What’s this? It’s about that recent incident?”
“That’s right.”
Choi Yoon-ki had been furiously angry about it.
Of course, Park Hyun-joo hadn’t received his anger.
She had been overseas at the time.
In an already busy world, Choi Yoon-ki had contacted her just when she happened to have business returning to Korea.
“Lawyer Sung Tae-hyun… Who was that again? I think I’ve heard of him.”
“There’s an annoying guy.”
Ah. Park Hyun-joo barely swallowed her admiration.
He wasn’t usually someone with such severe emotional fluctuations…
She turned her gaze back and examined the newspaper page.
Sung Tae-hyun.
Law Firm Ilchul.
“Wait, if it’s Law Firm Ilchul, then that-“
“Right. Kim Ho-shin.”
Yes, she remembered that much.
They weren’t close friends, but they had exchanged greetings at school.
Even that was such a long time ago that it was now a faded name.
“But why is that important?”
“It’s annoying.”
“What’s annoying about it.”
“…Hyun-joo.”
Choi Yoon-ki looked at Park Hyun-joo with irritated, upturned eyes.
She put down the newspaper, sensing through intuition that things were about to get complicated.
So there had been one time before when Choi Yoon-ki had been this annoyed.
Yes, Kim Wook-han.
When that name was mentioned.
However…
“Yes, I have eyes too, so I saw it. Honey. Sung Tae-hyun, affiliated with Ilchul.”
“…”
“Are you going to act this childishly? It’s because of that M&A, isn’t it?”
He had been pretending not to know while knowing everything.
Because he didn’t like having more work to do.
From the beginning, he had no interest in work that didn’t make money.
When Park Hyun-joo grumbled, Choi Yoon-ki let out a deep sigh and placed his hand on the newspaper on the table.
“I need to make an example.”
“What example. No, and I’m an investor. Really, what example are you talking about.”
When she played dumb, Choi Yoon-ki’s mouth shut tight.
“I’m busy.”
“Still, you’d have time to handle this one case, right.”
“How much do I need to make from it?”
“Well….”
Choi Yoon-ki’s silence grew long.
What he wanted was one thing. An example.
A light punishment for Sung Tae-hyun, who had dared to scratch what was his without heeding the previous warning.
That was actually an eternal truth that Choi Yoon-ki had learned while living his life.
Give a warning.
And if they don’t listen, punish them.
What breaks people’s stiff necks is ultimately fear.
“Ah… well, fine. Good. If we dig, we’ll find at least one thing. The timeframe? How long do you need?”
When Park Hyun-joo spoke lightly, Choi Yoon-ki answered in a low, sunken voice.
“As fast as possible. Hit and run. No need for direct strikes. If you can coax and cajole someone into shape, you can attach them to my side too.”
“Hmm… so you’re saying to mess with the people around him. Fine, I can use whatever method I want?”
“Yeah.”
She was skilled at this kind of work.
Park Hyun-joo was someone who moved for money, and she knew well how to squeeze people efficiently to extract what she needed.
And.
It was a few days later when her separate research team sent over a report.
[Confidential] STH Peripheral Derivative Risk Analysis Report
“Let’s see….”
Park Hyun-joo received the report that Team Leader Kim from the research team had brought.
While she usually followed Choi Yoon-ki’s instructions, for high-risk work it was important to strike quickly and pull out. Fortunately, her research team was made up of talents optimized for finding exactly that.
[Core Candidate] Woo-ah Furniture (Representative Roh Tae-sung) – Design Team 1 Team Leader Lee Jin-seop
“Today’s victim… oh, Woo-ah Furniture?”
“Yes.”
Team Leader Kim added his commentary and continued speaking.
“The representative of Woo-ah Furniture is the father of Lawyer Noh Hae-min, who is currently working with Sung Tae-hyun.”
“Hmm, targeting family. How typical.”
She let out a sigh of regret.
It was a furniture company she liked.
Can’t be helped.
Emotions are emotions, and work is work.
If the candidate the research team found was Woo-ah Furniture, that would be the easiest path.
“Good.”
Park Hyun-joo smacked her lips.
It seemed like there was pus about to burst at Woo-ah Furniture.
“Hmm, yes. This should be enough to shake things up once.”
It wasn’t particularly profitable work. But this investment wasn’t for profit in the first place.
It was purely because of Choi Yoon-ki’s anger.
Still, she wouldn’t lose her own money.
“Team Leader Kim?”
“Yes.”
The team leader, who had been waiting like a shadow while she reviewed the report, approached and bowed his head.
“Are we getting into Viga Furniture through Lee Jin-seop?”
“Yes. Viga’s representative seems to be very defensive lately, perhaps because his situation isn’t good.”
“If he’s very defensive, that makes it easier.”
Park Hyun-joo chuckled. It was the face of someone who had done this kind of work more than anyone.
“What about Lee Jin-seop?”
“…We’re planning to hook him quietly. We also confirmed records of him submitting resumes even to Viga’s side. He has quite a lot of complaints, so it shouldn’t be difficult.”
She burst into laughter.
“Interesting. They did that knowing the representatives are close friends?”
“Yes. That’s what the data shows.”
“Good. Since we’re just shaking up Sung Tae-hyun’s connections to give a warning anyway, put heavy pressure on them to strike fast and retreat without risk.”
“Yes.”
“And.”
She tapped the report with her fingertip as she spoke.
“If the investment recovery looks uncertain, immediately consider an exit.”
All values would be answered by numbers instead. Team Leader Kim bowed his head.
* * *
I didn’t avoid the intersecting gaze.
“Now, Representative, please stand over here.”
When an employee approached and spoke to Park Hyun-joo, her gaze naturally returned.
Was she trying to confirm something?
Well, Park Hyun-joo was the one who touched Wooa Furniture.
So she must have received my information from Choi Yoon-ki.
My face was already somewhat known online.
“Taking the photo~ One, two, three! Kimchi!”
The group photo shoot was finished.
Even as other people walked to move the coal briquettes loaded on the truck, Park Hyun-joo’s gaze persistently reached me.
“What’s with that person really?”
Even the dense Noh Hae-min noticed it to that extent.
I raised my voice and pointed to the employee leading the people as I spoke.
“Let’s carry the coal briquettes first.”
“That’s strange. That woman. Don’t tell me.”
Noh Hae-min’s eyes narrowed strangely.
What now, again.
Manager Yoon Ha-young, who had already headed to the truck as if uninterested in our conversation, was mixed in with the people carrying coal briquettes.
“Don’t tell me?”
“…Did she fall for you?”
“Stop saying scary things, Senior.”
When I scolded him, Noh Hae-min’s face crumpled as if he felt wronged.
“No, I’m not talking nonsense.”
Good grief.
Noh Hae-min, who seemed ready to play all the instruments in a one-man band, lowered his voice even more and whispered.
“Something’s not right… that woman. Look, she’s been constantly watching you since earlier-“
“Watching me?”
“Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.”
“Ignore it.”
To be this interested.
I pushed Noh Hae-min toward the truck as I spoke.
Park Hyun-joo, surrounded by reporters, had already withdrawn her gaze from me and was moving a few coal briquettes. People followed behind her in a crowd.
“…Was I mistaken?”
I pushed Noh Hae-min, who was muttering to himself.
Before we knew it, we each had a few coal briquettes in our hands too.
I looked up at the alley above.
Manager Yoon Ha-young was carrying about three times the amount of coal briquettes as others and climbing the distant alley with an expressionless face.
“A talent who should have gone to Taereung is at a law firm.”
A sigh escaped me without realizing it.
Noh Hae-min’s eyes widened as he saw Manager Yoon Ha-young.
“Were we abandoned by our manager?!”
“Abandoned my foot, let’s go up first.”
Several people had already carried coal briquettes up the steep alley to the house at the very top and were coming back down.
I carried coal briquettes about three times with Noh Hae-min.
“This is surprisingly tiring.”
“Build up your stamina, Senior.”
Trivial conversation continued.
Since it wasn’t a large-scale volunteer work compared to the noisy group photo, the others were also making multiple trips up and down the alley.
Finally, one truck was completely emptied.
The reporters who had focused on taking photos of Park Hyun-joo had already withdrawn long ago.
“Thank you for your hard work!”
Foundation staff holding banner strings at the bottom of the alley waved at the people.
“Our foundation has prepared a meal for the volunteers!”
What, there was something like that?
There was no mention of that in the volunteer schedule.
“We’ve reserved a nearby restaurant, so just take the coupons we’re handing out and go there~”
“Wow, free food.”
I sighed as I watched Noh Hae-min getting excited without any shame.
Before I knew it, pink coupons were being handed out one by one to the volunteers who had formed a long line.
“Wow, this place is a hot spot!”
While Noh Hae-min was letting out delighted exclamations.
Manager Yoon Ha-young, who seemed to have easily claimed today’s MVP title, approached.
In her hand was already a pink coupon that the employees had handed out.
“Since the volunteer work is over, I’ll be going ahead.”
And just as she turned around and I was about to greet her.
“…Volunteer Sung Tae-hyun?”
A familiar voice cut through the space.
I briefly,
very briefly recalled Park Hyun-joo’s face flashing by like a panorama.
It was a face that had already faded from memory after so much time.
“…Yes.”
“No, Lawyer Sung Tae-hyun.”
Park Hyun-joo.
Noh Hae-min’s eyes widened.
Just as he was about to lower his voice and say something nonsensical, I pushed Noh Hae-min away first and said.
“Go in first, Senior.”
“Huh, what?”
“Use my coupon too, Senior.”
When I pushed the pink coupon onto him, Noh Hae-min nodded with an awkward smile.
It was obvious what thoughts were running through that small head of his.
To think he’s so free of prejudice.
After confirming that Noh Hae-min had left, I slowly turned around to face Park Hyun-joo.
“Director Park Hyun-joo.”
“It seems like you came looking for me, or did I get it wrong?”
Park Hyun-joo was wearing a smile.
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