The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 130

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Episode 130. Free Will (5)

“It’s been forever~”
“Ha. Yeah, it really has.”

A private VIP wine bar in Samseong-dong.

Ju Mi-ju waved her hand in greeting while seated, like a young woman might.

The man laughed at the sight of her, his mind drifting to how she’d been in her youth.

“What? You don’t like that I’m not young anymore?”

Ju Mi-ju bristled at the playful glint in his eyes.

“Puahahaha. There she is—that’s the real Ju Mi-ju.”

The man sank deep into the sofa—Jang Yong-guk, chairman of Shindo Group.

He was considerably tall.

His head was large, and his features were broad and heavy.

While not conventionally handsome, he’d done well in his youth as a scion of a chaebol family.

He and Ju Mi-ju, who’d been known as a notorious womanizer, had made quite a pair back then.

Barring hard drugs, the two of them had lived quite recklessly and dissolutely thirty years ago.

Glug-glug-glug.

Ju Mi-ju poured wine into a glass first.

“Got something to tell me? Or did you just want to see me?”
“Forget it! I’ve got plenty of younger women these days.”
“Heh. Right—we don’t have any real feelings for each other anyway.”

They knew each other too well for pretense.
They carried on without filters.

They’d survived among the chaebol families by playing hard while competing fiercely.

And that was how they’d arrived at their current positions.

They were old enough to understand how the world worked.

Even youthful passion had long since ceased to hold their interest.

“Your new wife still pretty?”
“What’s pretty about it? I live with her out of obligation.”
“Right. Out of duty…….”

Jang Yong-guk had married a super-famous singer once at the height of her career.

He was the man who’d ultimately driven her to her death, drawing public scrutiny.

The incident still had people whispering about him.

He’d paid major news outlets then to keep quiet, but once rumor began to spread, he couldn’t stop it.

The consensus was that it all started when he was caught having an affair.

Ju Hee-yeon, whom Jang Yong-guk had chosen, had taken her own life.

In-law conflict and her husband’s serial infidelities.

Add emotional abuse to the mix, or so the rumors went.

Years after Ju Hee-yeon’s death, Jang Yong-guk remarried in secret.

“How’s business?”
“It doesn’t suit me. Everything I touch seems to fizzle.”
“You’re only figuring that out now? You’re the type who should be in Maldives sipping mojitos with blonde beauties.”

Ju Mi-ju hit him with the truth without hesitation.

They were comfortable enough with each other for that.

They knew each other far too well.

Gulp.

Jang Yong-guk drained his filled wine glass in one go.

“So why’d you call me? You said it was important.”

Jang Yong-guk hadn’t been thrilled by Ju Mi-ju’s summons.

A woman who’d been branded a couple-killer and faced even more public hatred than he did.

“It’s about my child.”
“Your child? Your son causing trouble?”
“No! I mean your child.”
“My child? Which one?”
“Your eldest daughter, Jang Ji-yu.”
“What? Ji-yu? Why?”

* * *

“Do we have a guest?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Is that so?”

The Signiel concierge.
A female manager informed her of the arrival of a VVIP client.

Swoosh.

A woman in her early seventies removed her sunglasses.

She wore her hair permed and dressed in a cool ramie-cloth Korean dress.

Though it was June, the weather felt like midsummer.

The woman in her old-fashioned attire, so different from other Signiel residents, paid no mind to the stares.

“But…….”
“What? Is there a problem?”
“The guest…… is an actual resident.”
“Is that so? But why would that be a problem?”

The manager caught her lower lip between her teeth.

“H-he’s a high school student.”
“Who is? The buyer?”
“Yes.”
“Hahahahahahahaha.”

The woman’s hearty laugh deepened the creases around her eyes.

“Manager, you’re not joking?”
“No…….”
“Amusing.”

The expression of the woman who’d come to view the luxury penthouse before its sale shifted subtly.

Tap-tap-tap.

She headed toward the elevator without hesitation.

* * *

‘Grandfather……??’

Kang Jun-woo was startled.

Ha Tae-ung’s gaze was fixed through a massive window.
He was looking out at the forest of office buildings in Gangnam.

Among them, the Haeryun Group Headquarters stood prominently.

Ha Tae-ung was clearly gazing at the Haeryun Group Headquarters building, murmuring to himself.

‘Ha Tae-ung…… Is that really your target? Are you serious?’

Kang Jun-woo couldn’t bring himself to speak the words aloud.

As he grasped Ha Tae-ung’s apparent goal, shock flooded through him, and goosebumps spread across his skin.

What exactly was Haeryun?

Before the group split up decades ago, it had ranked among South Korea’s top three conglomerates.

Now it sat in the top ten, but its influence remained formidable.

Especially since Ha Cheol-gon took the helm, business expansion had been relentless.

But his future was already written.

With a confirmed net worth in the trillions.

“That won’t be necessary.”
“I beg your pardon?”

She’d dealt with many clients, but never one quite like this.

Just a high school student, and yet it felt as though she were negotiating with a major corporation’s executive, if not its chairman himself.

No light banter, no idle chatter escaped her.

“……!!”

Yu Il-hwa went rigid.

He was going to spend that sum all at once?

In that moment.

“……!!”

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