The Lawyer Who Reads Tomorrow - Chapter 111

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Episode 111

 

 

I lifted the timer in front of Park Hyun-joo and put it back into my bag.

 

[Representative, please cancel the scheduled video upload.]

 

And I also contacted Yoon Sang-do.

Depending on Park Hyun-joo’s choice, it was truly a gamble-like move that could have sent us both plummeting into ruin.

 

-Canceled.

 

Yoon Sang-do, who was already on standby, responded quickly.

 

“…You’ve been moving around like a little rat, haven’t you? Right, Lawyer Sung?”

 

I didn’t bother to hide it.

Park Hyun-joo’s gaze as she saw the messages I exchanged with Yoon Sang-do on my mobile phone carried a strange expression.

 

I turned the screen toward her to let her confirm it once more.

 

“I thought you’d like that kind of approach.”

“Ha.”

“It was a kind of event.”

 

She silently looked me over.

Her face seemed lost in thought about something.

 

“An event… I did have a friend who liked that sort of thing.”

“Is that so?”

 

Both I and Park Hyun-joo already knew whose name it was.

Even without saying it out loud, it was an unforgettable name for both her and me.

 

“Right. Kim Wook-han.”

“…”

“Kim Wook-han liked doing things like that. He was a judge, but he wasn’t like a judge at all.”

 

Park Hyun-joo scanned me thoroughly with a gaze as if she was immersed in memories.

 

That kind of look was a form of analysis.

Park Hyun-joo had always been incredibly accurate when it came to reading people.

 

It went without saying that the employees who moved like shadows in her research team and the companies she built up were competent.

They were all people Park Hyun-joo had personally selected.

 

“So then.”

“Please speak.”

“Now, tell me the truth… how did you find me?”

 

So that’s what she was curious about.

Well, of course.

 

Park Hyun-joo had always been the type of person who had to find out anything she was curious about to feel satisfied.

Her youngest accountant title was, so to speak, a kind of process she acquired while studying things she was curious about.

 

What others would consider a goal was merely a process to her.

Park Hyun-joo had no limits.

 

“Are you curious about that?”

 

When I said this with a smile, Park Hyun-joo’s expression twisted.

If I didn’t say anything now, Park Hyun-joo would cling on even more tenaciously.

That’s the kind of person she was.

 

I chuckled and took out two documents I had prepared in advance from my bag and held them out.

 

“…”

“Before that, let’s start with your signature first. Director, no, Representative ‘Loretta’.”

 

Park Hyun-joo no longer grumbled as if she was annoyed.

Instead, she picked up the two identical settlement agreements I handed her and burst into laughter.

 

“Ah, I really like this.”

“You’re too kind.”

 

I don’t want to be liked by you.

I swallowed the words that rose to my throat.

 

There were lawyers who had been liked by Park Hyun-joo, only to be dragged into the shadows and forced to do nothing but money games.

I’ll pass on such disgusting work.

 

“You won’t tell me until I sign?”

“Yes.”

“Recovery at principal level… Ah, I really don’t usually do things that result in losses like this.”

 

Park Hyun-joo grumbled as she read through the settlement agreement.

 

“A loss?”

 

I kindly explained, pointing to the clause she indicated.

 

“Just taking back what you gave.”

“…”

“In this Biga Furniture case, it can’t be a loss.”

 

Or would you only come to your senses after Biga Furniture is completely destroyed?

When I looked at her with that meaning, Park Hyun-joo sighed and shook her head.

 

“This is too much. After signing, all claims and objections stated in the settlement agreement are prohibited? Who wrote this sentence?”

 

I wrote it.

 

“It’s a standard clause. Don’t nitpick.”

“I haven’t signed yet, Lawyer Sung Tae-hyun?”

“Considering that the investment contract you forced on Biga Furniture was far more vicious…”

 

Park Hyun-joo shrugged her shoulders, feigning an innocent expression as if she knew nothing.

 

“…Please note once again that this settlement agreement is particularly not bad for you, Director.”

“This is why I hate talking with lawyers.”

“That’s unfortunate.”

“Look at this. On top of that, not giving me time to talk with my lawyer and forcing approval. Don’t you think that shows a lack of humanity?”

 

However, there was no edge in Park Hyun-joo’s tone.

This was just whining.

 

I smiled and pointed to the signature line at the bottom of the settlement agreement I had handed her.

 

“The design company that invested in Biga Furniture is ultimately a shell corporation without substance, isn’t it?”

“…”

“Seeing how well you know this, there shouldn’t be any problem for the party involved.”

“I’m going to grow old at this rate.”

 

She looked straight at me and pulled out a small pouch.

Then she selected one from several contract seals inside and pressed it firmly on the signature lines of both settlement agreements.

 

‘Crazy woman.’

 

Of course, I only thought this to myself.

 

The fact that Park Hyun-joo was insane enough to carry around contract seals for all her companies was something only Choi Yoon-ki and I knew.

In the end, this gamble was something that could never have succeeded without me.

 

“Done? Happy now?”

 

Anyway, it was successful.

I got what I wanted too.

 

What Park Hyun-joo had chosen was the investor from the investment contract received by Biga Furniture.

In other words, it was the seal of that design company.

 

To back down so easily.

As expected, Park Hyun-joo wasn’t serious.

 

“Thank you.”

 

After confirming the cleanly stamped seal, I picked up one settlement agreement and put it in the file folder.

The remaining one was ours.

 

“Good, since I’ve done this much for you, I should get something too, right?”

“I believe you’ve already gotten what you deserve.”

“Don’t joke around, Lawyer Sung. Do you think I revealed being Loretta for nothing?”

 

What a ridiculous thing to say.

With that black heart of hers, she probably already has hundreds of ways to launder her name again.

 

I couldn’t help but know that the lawyers working under her were formed from the most famous lines in each country.

Even the Hong Kong corporation that 404 discovered had about ten of the most expensive people attached to it.

 

“You must have plenty of ways to escape.”

“You know well.”

“So it’s just… interest, isn’t it?”

 

A strange light appeared in Park Hyun-joo’s eyes.

 

“To some extent, yes. Try being this age. Life is so boring.”

“Just because you’re bored doesn’t mean you should destroy a company.”

“I graduated from moral textbooks long ago. Oh, not you, Lawyer Sung? How many years has it been since you graduated?”

 

If Park Hyun-joo had been serious, it would have been impossible conditions.

 

The fact that she didn’t deny being Loretta until the end too.

It was probably slight interest in me for using her same negotiation methods.

 

Well, given this person’s obsession with money, the possibility of losing all the money invested in Biga Furniture would have been terrible too.

 

“…”

 

However, I didn’t bother answering her pointless question.

Park Hyun-joo smacked her lips and giggled.

 

“Just kidding. Now, tell me, Lawyer Sung Tae-hyun. How did you know I was the investor?”

 

I answered honestly.

 

“It was a gamble.”

 

Park Hyun-joo’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.

 

“…A gamble?”

“Yes. It was a gamble.”

 

She looked both very annoyed and confused.

 

“I got the idea from the fact that Biga Furniture’s investor was a hastily created paper company.”

“Hastily… well, I did neglect it. What else?”

“The domain and domain administrator, corporate account… nothing matched up.”

“And?”

 

There was information that 404 had asked about.

But did I really need to tell her that?

 

I smiled slightly as I looked at Park Hyun-joo’s face.

 

“Look, you know I just told you everything, right? I’m taking a risk here too. But even this much is difficult for you to tell me?”

“Director Park Hyun-joo.”

“Just tell me, will you?”

“I know you’re going to get out anyway. This meeting, this exit. I thought it was one of the tracks you had prepared in advance.”

 

Park Hyun-joo had acted as if she knew I would come looking for her from the beginning.

 

When our eyes met at the volunteer work site.

And when all the activities were over and she deliberately approached me first to strike up a conversation.

 

It was already a predetermined event.

 

“…I’m not a fortune teller, are you trying to claim I predicted everything?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm, I didn’t see it that way. Our lawyer Sung Tae-hyun, are you secretly a believer in folk religion?”

 

Deflecting the conversation.

I smiled wryly and answered.

 

“Of course not, Director. I already knew that you were Chief Prosecutor Choi Yoon-ki’s person.”

“Did Wook-han tell you?”

“Since Hyung Wook-han and I were quite close… I just happened to overhear it.”

 

Park Hyun-joo bit her lips, holding back laughter.

 

“Ah, so Kim Wook-han didn’t directly reveal it?”

 

How suspicious.

What’s the point of suspecting a dead person.

 

However, Park Hyun-joo burst into laughter again as if she couldn’t hold it back.

 

“Ah, sorry. It’s been a long time since I had such an enjoyable conversation.”

 

She laughed for a long while and even wiped away the tears that had formed in her eyes.

 

“So, what’s the conclusion?”

“This too, I thought it was one of the scenarios you had in mind from the beginning.”

“Not denying that I’m Loretta, and even signing the settlement agreement?”

“Yes.”

 

That’s right.

Park Hyun-joo must have prepared about ten escape routes regarding the exit.

This investment was the same.

 

The reason she pushed things forward quickly was also because she didn’t need to go all-in on the Biga Furniture matter.

It was originally a volatile investment for a ‘warning’, not for profit.

 

“Chief Prosecutor Choi must have been very concerned about the previous case.”

 

When I said this much, she burst into loud laughter again.

It was a clear affirmation.

 

“Ah, I really. I need to show this to Yoon-ki.”

“Even if I claim that Director Park Hyun-joo is Loretta anyway.”

“Yeah. Tell me.”

“It would be useless in a situation where the laundering is complete.”

 

That’s why she had offered the optimal settlement for a quick cut-off.

 

If Park Hyun-joo really didn’t like the settlement agreement I handed over, she wouldn’t even be listening to me right now.

She was the architect who had conceived this game from the beginning.

 

“Lawyer Sung Tae-hyun.”

“Yes.”

“…I’m really asking this out of curiosity. Don’t misunderstand and listen.”

 

She looked directly at me with a face flushed red from laughing too much.

It was a different expression and tone from before.

 

“By any chance, don’t you want to make money?”

 

This person really.

She really hasn’t changed at all.

 

“I do.”

 

Nevertheless, I answered honestly.

No one dislikes money.

 

“Ah, right? I like that you’re honest.”

“Yes.”

“Then… how about it? After we wrap up this case, want to work with me?”

 

Park Hyun-joo held out a contract to me with sparkling eyes as if she had been waiting for this.

 

Since when did Park Hyun-joo do such prepared headhunter-like work?

No, let’s not think about it.

She was crazy from the time she carried around seals in a row.

 

No, actually even before that, she had always been a prepared crazy person.

 

“I refuse.”

 

Even at my rejection, Park Hyun-joo didn’t scrunch up her expression.

She simply showed a hint of disappointment.

 

“Why? There’s no one who treats someone with as little experience as lawyer Sung Tae-hyun as well as I do, right?”

“I’m grateful for your words, but I can’t work under someone.”

 

Even at my casually thrown words, she nodded as if she understood.

I simply picked up the settlement agreement she had stamped just moments ago.

 

“Fine. Let’s end it here today. I’ve handled what Yoon-ki asked for.”

“Thank you.”

“Instead, you’ll need to be more careful from now on.”

 

She warned me with her face still flushed red from her earlier burst of laughter.

 

“You know Yoon-ki, right? If lawyer Sung Tae-hyun hadn’t found me, I would have just stripped Biga Furniture of everything and sold it off. But…”

“…”

“Since you came to find me, now for Yoon-ki you’ve become a bit more-“

 

She paused deliberately and raised one corner of her mouth.

It was a subtle smile.

 

“A dangerous person.”

 

This was expected.

Choi Yoon-ki would definitely be on guard.

 

Park Hyun-joo, who had been watching me lost in thought, took out her ‘real’ business card and handed it to me.

 

…What an incredibly persistent person.

 

“Well, it’s the same for me. So if you change your mind, contact me anytime.”

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