The Lawyer Who Reads Tomorrow - Chapter 113
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Episode 113
There’s no way out.
“Sung Tae-hyun, that bastard—”
Lee Jin-seop was consumed by rage and shouted loudly.
Six o’clock.
Right at quitting time, Representative Yoon Sang-do sent a link saying he had something to announce.
Something to announce?
I’m anxious. I was anxious.
Right now, I was the one closest to Yoon Sang-do in the company. But.
‘He’s announcing something I don’t know about?’
Lee Jin-seop immediately called the Representative.
—The customer is not answering the phone…
However, only an automated response came back.
The Representative had come to work this morning too.
Yoon Sang-do rushed out of his office and barged into the Representative’s Office.
“Representative! Representative Yoon Sang-do!”
However, the door was firmly locked.
Lee Jin-seop pounded on the Representative’s Office door.
Employees who were gathering in small groups to leave work were looking at him with strange expressions.
He gave an awkward smile and turned around.
Back to the office.
When he opened the link the Representative sent, a video of Yoon Sang-do speaking with a haggard face began playing.
—Fellow citizens…
“What is this.”
The back of his neck felt cold. Cold sweat trickled down.
No way.
It can’t be, right?
[Representative, where are you?]
He sent several text messages, but no reply came back.
Only Yoon Sang-do on screen continued confessing his crimes.
“Damn it.”
Lee Jin-seop’s face contorted completely.
He looked over the video title again.
[We Apologize.]
It was a short title.
It was indeed a video uploaded from Biga Furniture’s official account.
His hands began to tremble more and more.
Lee Jin-seop suppressed the urge to scream and went down the stairs.
CEO Direct, I was the CEO Direct Team.
So?
Did Yoon Sang-do really do this alone because he couldn’t bear the guilt?
“Ah, there. Team Leader Kim!”
Yoon Sang-do saw the face of someone he knew who was just leaving work and shouted.
Team Leader Kim walked over to Yoon Sang-do with a face that knew nothing.
“Department Head, why is your face so pale?”
Didn’t he see the link? The video is uploaded.
Or, if not that, is this all my imagination?
Is this all an illusion?
Things couldn’t have gone wrong.
Communication with investors had been going fine until yesterday.
Unless someone had trapped him in an illusion, this was impossible.
Stay calm.
Lee Jin-seop wiped his damp neck and asked Team Leader Kim.
“By any chance. Was there any scheduled statement from the Representative?”
“A statement from the Representative? No? But shouldn’t you really go to the hospital?”
Team Leader Kim asked worriedly.
Lee Jin-seop shook his head.
That can’t be. That’s impossible.
He couldn’t leave without any results.
Moreover, who would have thought the Representative would mess things up like this!
He knew he was weak-hearted, but still, they were in the same boat.
But to ruin the work like this?!
His chest burned hot with rage.
“G-go ahead.”
Team Leader Kim bowed his head once and left the office.
Lee Jin-seop panted and slapped his own cheek hard.
He needed to come to his senses.
Where could the representative be?
He needed to find out where he was right away.
-As soon as this video ends, I will report to the police and take full responsibility for everything I can.
“Damn it!”
Lee Jin-seop quickly rushed out of the office.
The representative’s house wasn’t far.
It was within walking distance.
He kept trying to call while heading to the representative’s house.
The police station? He couldn’t just leave it like that.
However.
“…!”
The front of the representative’s house was already swarming with reporters.
It seemed excessive compared to Viga Furniture’s usual reputation.
Lee Jin-seop gulped.
The flashes kept illuminating the representative’s house.
They weren’t directed at him.
Not yet, not yet. It was still okay.
‘…It seems he hasn’t mentioned my name yet.’
The employees’ attitude was the same.
No one would know anything yet.
So before the representative completely lost his mind and confessed everything to the police. Before that, he had to move. Lee Jin-seop squeezed between the reporters and walked toward the representative’s house.
“Representative-!”
The flashes burst even more intensely.
The representative who finally showed his face walked straight to his car without making any statement.
“Representative-!”
Lee Jin-seop called out to him with a heart-wrenching feeling.
But it didn’t reach Yoon Sang-do.
He got in his car and left, making all the effort of running here meaningless.
“Fuck….”
A curse slipped out naturally.
Is this the end? Really?
Did he go through all that trouble for this?
More than ten years flashed before his eyes.
The days of hardship at Wooa Furniture, the times spent groveling under that damn hypocrite Roh Tae-sung.
Just when he thought he had barely escaped, now…!
“Those bastards… do they think I’ll just die quietly?”
Grinding his teeth, Lee Jin-seop turned around.
He would never, never die alone.
The representative is turning himself in?
Whatever he says, he could just package it all as lies.
Lee Jin-seop called the investor’s number.
-This number does not exist….
“Ha.”
The investor had fled too.
Now he understood.
He was the one abandoned in that game.
The investor who had whispered as if he would support him to the end in that damn game had disappeared in an instant.
“Those damn bastards… I, I….”
Lee Jin-seop quickly hung up and called someone else.
There was someone who came to mind.
The one who had shamelessly shown his face even at the showroom.
“Sung Tae-hyun….”
Sung Tae-hyun.
Throughout all these years, his instincts had been accurate.
He had never been wrong.
I should have beaten that bastard half to death first!
“Sung Tae-hyun, Sung Tae-hyun… Ah.”
Lee Jin-seop made a phone call.
It was a phone number extracted from the customer card.
Sung Tae-hyun’s personal number.
-Yes, this is Sung Tae-hyun from Law Firm Ilchul.
The calm voice of his enemy rang out.
Lee Jin-seop burst out shouting.
“Sung Tae-hyun-!”
Click.
The call was cut off before he could say anything.
Next, only a blocked automatic response came through.
No, this can’t be happening.
Making dozens of phone calls, Lee Jin-seop walked.
He couldn’t collapse like this.
His heart was beating so fast that his vision was dizzy.
Even so, Lee Jin-seop walked and walked again.
And finally.
“Open the door, you bastards-!”
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang-!
The old building echoed loudly.
Lee Jin-seop didn’t care and pounded on the door with the name plate attached.
“You bastards! You think I don’t know? It seems like you’re doing this to mess with someone!”
He tasted metal in his throat.
Even so, Lee Jin-seop didn’t stop and kept screaming like a banshee.
“Come out-!”
And finally.
The door opened.
* * *
“Open the door, you bastard!”
At this rate, he’ll break down the entire door.
Noh Hae-min followed anxiously.
I slowly opened the door.
The moment the door gap opened slightly, an arm shot out like lightning and grabbed my throat.
“Urk.”
I knew this would happen.
His bloodshot eyes were already clouded as if he had lost his reason.
Lee Jin-seop. The man who had looked neat and relaxed in his tidy clothes at the showroom now looked like a ghost crawling up from hell.
In other words, he was in a pitiful state.
“It’s because of you! Everything’s ruined because of you!”
Suddenly the wall rushed up behind my back.
Lee Jin-seop pushed me against the wall next to the entrance while still gripping my throat.
“Lawyer Sung!”
Noh Hae-min approached in surprise and grabbed Lee Jin-seop’s shoulder.
The man who grabbed my collar and choked my throat as soon as I opened the door was strangely strong for his build.
Unfortunately, Section Chief Yoon had left work, so there was no one in the office.
Noh Hae-min struggled to hold back Lee Jin-seop, but the man who had lost his reason wouldn’t budge.
“Did Roh Tae-sung order this? Huh? To mock me? Did you all scheme behind the scenes to make me look like a fool?!”
“Kugh… Get a grip. Lee Jin-seop.”
My throat was being pressed.
I gestured toward Noh Hae-min.
Understanding that I wanted him to call the police, Noh Hae-min stepped away with an anxious expression.
As Noh Hae-min’s restraint disappeared, he put even more force into his hands.
I was running out of oxygen.
“Hello? Is this the police station-“
How long would it take for the police to arrive?
Since it’s an emergency, within five minutes?
Noh Hae-min’s anxious voice continued.
Lee Jin-seop held me tight with his glistening face and spoke while spitting.
“I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you-!”
Where his hand touched, red bruises would be rising.
I gasped, trying to catch even a little breath, and spoke to Lee Jin-seop.
“Let, go-“
Just then.
“What the hell….”
It was a voice I hadn’t heard in a long time.
Was Sung Tae-hyun’s body so weak that I was hearing hallucinations?
No. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have chosen to let myself be grabbed by the collar so obediently.
The voice that had been echoing outside the front door moved inside.
“Sung Tae-hyun?”
Lim Do-hyuk.
The man who had made his nest in the office across from us,
yet hadn’t shown even a trace of himself for a while, instantly closed the distance and approached.
“What’s with this bastard again?”
“Kgh….”
When I roughly gestured that it was difficult to answer, Lim Do-hyuk roughly threw his bag aside and rushed forward.
“Let go! Let go, you bastards!”
Lee Jin-seop struggled desperately, flailing about.
However, when Noh Hae-min, who had finished calling the police, joined in, he was subdued without much difficulty.
“Cough, cough-“
The coughing I’d been holding back burst out.
Damn it, this kind of thing should only happen once or twice.
No matter how young I am, I should restrain myself from physical confrontations.
Lim Do-hyuk’s cold gaze turned toward me.
But soon he skillfully subdued Lee Jin-seop together with Noh Hae-min, pushing him against one wall.
“What happened?”
“It’s been a while, cough. Senior.”
Lim Do-hyuk’s face twisted completely.
It was the kind of look you’d give a crazy person.
“Hey, hey! Let go-!”
Even as Lee Jin-seop continued to struggle desperately, shaking his body, Lim Do-hyuk remained cold.
Had he gotten a bit more gaunt than before?
Looking at his face that seemed to indicate poor liver health, I pointed at his dark circles.
“You seem to have been busy with work?”
A hoarse voice leaked out.
So, my plan to let Lee Jin-seop grab my collar a bit and wait until the police arrived was half-twisted.
If Manager Yoon Ha-young had been here, she would have subdued him immediately.
“Work… Ha.”
Lim Do-hyuk laughed as if he was dumbfounded.
“You’re talking about work looking like that?”
“No. Just small talk.”
I replied and coughed again.
The area around my neck was already swelling red and I could feel the heat.
I need to photograph this as evidence, so I shouldn’t touch it until the police arrive.
Finally, Lee Jin-seop collapsed on the ground, gasping as if drained of energy, and no one extended a hand to him.
Even the gentle Noh Hae-min glared at him.
Soon, Noh Hae-min brought an ice pack from the refrigerator in the break room and carefully offered it to me.
“Lawyer Sung, at least use this for now. The police will be here soon.”
“I’m fine.”
It wasn’t Noh Hae-min but Lim Do-hyuk who glared at me with an expression of disbelief at my polite refusal.
“You crazy bastard.”
…?
This was another unexpected comment.
Until now, Lim Do-hyuk had never directly said anything critical to me.
Even considering his complicated relationship with Sung Tae-hyun, this wasn’t something he should be saying now.
“You, shit-“
Lim Do-hyuk swallowed his curse, snatched the ice pack from Noh Hae-min, and threw it at me.
“If you die like this, it won’t even make the news.”
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