The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 135
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Episode 135. Free Will (10)
“How have you been?”
“Been well? Damn it, are you joking?”
Using Jo & Chang’s legal clout, Ha Dong-hwi had secured the largest visitation room in the Gangneung Detention Center.
Yang Soo-san, still in handcuffs, spat curses at Ha Dong-hwi’s greeting.
The pre-trial detainee Yang Soo-san wore an ochre prison uniform.
He had yet to repent for his wrongdoings.
‘It’s all because of that bastard!’
Had Ha Dong-hwi not dragged Jo & Chang into this, the plan would have proceeded flawlessly.
By now, he’d be enjoying himself at some Southeast Asian resort like the Philippines, pockets full of money from selling the orchid garden.
Yang Soo-san glared at Ha Dong-hwi with eyes burning with rage and resentment.
“You won’t do.”
“Won’t do? What the hell are you talking about! What are you?”
‘This bastard cast out from his own family acting all high and mighty!’
Ha Dong-hwi’s demeanor had shifted somehow, but Yang Soo-san wanted to dismiss it.
The last shred of pride he wished to keep.
“Hand it over.”
“Hand over what?”
“Your shares.”
“Shares? Ha ha ha ha. What are you doing picking up garbage now?”
Ha Dong-hwi was asking for corporate shares buried under a mountain of debt.
Shares that would become worthless scraps of paper once liquidation or bankruptcy proceeded.
“I’m going to try to save it.”
“You? With what money? Did the Ha family give you some? Ha ha ha ha.”
Yang Soo-san scoffed at Ha Dong-hwi.
Even the CEO had given up on the company’s financial state.
When the orchid garden was sold, he’d already grasped that Taepyeong Fishery’s debt exceeded one hundred billion.
Add the illegal loans on top of that…….
“Yeah.”
“……??”
“I’ll arrange the funds myself, so don’t worry about that—worry about your sentence instead.”
“…….”
Yang Soo-san’s eyes went wide, and words escaped him.
‘This bastard! He’s not someone who talks nonsense.’
Even the lawyer he’d hired had cursed and bailed the moment he heard the other party was Haryun Group.
Only now did the gulf between Ha Dong-hwi and himself become tangible.
“Are you serious?”
“Sign here. Then I’ll write you a mercy plea.”
“……!!”
At the mention of a mercy plea, Yang Soo-san’s head snapped to attention.
Without money, he was relying on a court-appointed public defender.
His family had abandoned him; his distant relatives had all turned away.
With the embezzlement amount so substantial, he was looking at a minimum of ten years inside.
“I, I don’t…want it…….”
He gritted his teeth and refused.
A mercy plea could only shave off a few years at most.
Once he finished his sentence and was released, he couldn’t avoid a future of collecting waste paper and scrap.
“I’ll leave you the orchid garden.”
“……!!”
Yang Soo-san’s heartbeat suddenly quickened.
The orchid garden—intact.
Then there was hope.
“Refuse this, and I go through the law.”
The final chance Ha Dong-hwi was offering.
“I’ll, I’ll hand it over! All of it!”
A corporation now hollow and stripped bare.
Hand over the shell, receive the mercy plea and the orchid garden.
By any measure, a good bargain.
“Attorney.”
“Yes, sir.”
Kim Gyeong-min, who had been waiting nearby, produced the Stock Transfer Agreement and unfolded it.
“Just affix the corporate seal here, then sign, initial, and stamp with your personal seal.”
Yang Soo-san didn’t bother reading the contract’s contents carefully.
He knew what kind of man Ha Dong-hwi was.
A member of the chaebol class who valued loyalty above all else.
A man who had thrown away tremendous wealth for love—he wouldn’t jest with such matters.
Click.
Ha Dong-hwi affixed the corporate seal he’d brought, then in succession signed, initialed, and stamped with his personal seal.
The Stock Transfer Agreement, prepared down to the last detail.
‘Ha ha ha. What a fool.’
Yang Soo-san sneered at Ha Dong-hwi inwardly.
He’d chosen foolishness and stupidity to the very end.
“In your eyes, I’m a fool, aren’t I?”
“……!!”
As if his true thoughts had been seen through, Yang Soo-san flinched in surprise.
“I believed in you as a friend. I trusted you the same way I trust myself.”
“…….”
Smoothly.
With the matter concluded, Ha Dong-hwi rose quietly from his seat.
“The wedding gift you gave me—I’ve calculated the interest and deposited it to your commissary account.”
There was no emotion in Ha Dong-hwi’s gaze.
“From this moment forward…… you are someone who no longer exists in my life.”
Ha Dong-hwi’s cold and cutting words pierced Yang Soo-san’s heart.
Footsteps.
Ha Dong-hwi turned and exited the visitation room calmly with his accompanying attorneys.
He was gone.
“…….”
Yang Soo-san sat in a daze, turning Ha Dong-hwi’s parting words over in his mind.
“Ha ha ha hee hee hee hee ha ha ha…….”
Left alone in the empty visitation room, Yang Soo-san suddenly broke into fractured laughter.
“Playing noble till the end……. Ha Dong-hwi, that’s not all of it……. You think they’ll leave him alone? Ha ha ha ha.”
A villain’s final curse, devoid of any repentance, fell from his lips.
Even now, Yang Soo-san did not understand.
He did not see how Ha Dong-hwi was transforming into a different kind of person…….
* * *
“Why Hyundo? Not Shindo?”
“It’s a VIP store here.”
“Tsk.”
Jang Ji-yu had followed me from school.
I’d asked Yi Hyo-ju to handle the shopping, but Jang Ji-yu suddenly inserted herself.
She’d demanded to come along.
It wasn’t particularly a bad thing.
Jang Ji-yu was also part of the chaebol circle.
It was a good opportunity to understand their everyday consumption patterns.
We arrived at Hyundo Department Store.
“Welcome.”
We handed the car off to the valet and moved to the first floor.
As we exchanged a few words, two people approached us.
They paused briefly, bowed in greeting, and welcomed our party.
“How have you both been?”
“We’ve managed well thanks to your patronage, sir.”
Park Tae-su, the team manager, and Yu A-reum, the associate.
There was undisguised delight in Yu A-reum’s eyes as she looked at me.
“Manager Park, it’s been a while.”
“It’s been too long since I’ve seen you, Miss.”
Jang Ji-yu acknowledged Park Tae-su as well.
The situation seemed odd.
Jang Ji-yu is the eldest daughter of the Shindo Group chairman!
How does she know the management team manager of Hyundo Department Store?
“Don’t look at me like that. I’m a VIP here too.”
“You are?”
“Why not? Can’t I be?”
“…….”
She’d pass up her own group’s department store for a Hyundo VIP membership?
“By the way, Tae-ung’s mother—what are you thinking of getting her?”
“I’m not sure…….”
“Then let’s take a look around.”
“Alright.”
“Please follow us.”
Park Tae-su and Yu A-reum followed behind our group.
“Your aunt invited you to dinner tonight?”
“My aunt?”
“You and Jun-woo are cousins, aren’t we?”
Shindo Group and Il-seong Group.
The older generation shares the same blood.
I’d momentarily forgotten.
“What are Jun-woo’s mother’s tastes?”
“Wine!”
“Huh?”
“Whenever my aunt has trouble sleeping, she drinks wine.”
“How do you know that?”
“My mother used to drink with her when she was alive.”
“…….”
I’d asked for nothing in return.
“We’ll take you to the wine section.”
Park Tae-su, having overheard, took the lead and guided us.
“Your aunt also likes scarves.”
Wait! Hyo-ju, you’re my aunt too?
“Really?”
“They were senior and junior at the same girls’ high school.”
“…….”
“Manager, I’d like Château Mouton Rothschild, 1997, please.”
“Understood.”
I didn’t know the details of wine.
All I knew was what Yu A-reum had set up in the home wine cellar.
“It’s on the reasonable side, but my aunt enjoys it. My mother did too.”
Jang Ji-yu mentioned her late mother casually.
“Oh my! Ji-yu, what brings you here?”
Suddenly, a woman’s voice came from behind us.
Jang Ji-yu turned to look.
Her expression immediately hardened.
And then.
“What brings you here, miss?”
“What, what? Miss??”
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