The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 27

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Episode 27. Flex!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Park Ji-woong grilled meat on the brand-new frying pan he’d bought after throwing out the old one that had been completely stripped bare a few days ago.

“Ji-woong. Let Grandma do the grilling.”
“Just sit down. You said your back hurts.”
“But still…….”

Ji-woong was happier now than he’d ever been.

The exam had gone well.

But most of all, he couldn’t forget that electric moment last Friday at lunch—the one thrilling blow.

Ha Tae-woong had taken care of O Seo-ra and her gang, the ones who’d tormented Ji-woong all this time.
The knot in his chest had come completely undone.

After crushing O Seo-ra’s gang, five hundred million won had landed in his account.
It was all thanks to Tae-woong’s effort.

Tae-woong was holding the money now, but Ji-woong didn’t mind.

Truth was, he didn’t even need that money.
Five million won in cash remained in his account.

He’d never had this much money in his account before.

Just having a balance was enough to make Park Ji-woong happy.

Grandmother’s knees—the ones she’d carried collecting scrap paper—had been giving her real trouble lately.

They’d been scraping by on state support, living hand-to-mouth.
In the meantime, he’d grilled Korean beef for her and even made her bone-marrow broth.

It was a satisfaction he’d never felt while living before.

“But…… where did you get this money?”

Lee Mal-nyeon asked Ji-woong carefully.

The state support barely covered rent; what was left went to living expenses, medical bills, and medicine—a tight squeeze.

They were lucky if they didn’t skip meals.

But watching what Ji-woong was doing, he’d been spending a fair amount over these past days.

Korean beef she couldn’t remember ever eating, and bone-marrow broth too.

“A friend helped me out a bit.”
“A friend?”

Grandmother Lee Mal-nyeon was startled.
Since entering high school, her grandson had never once mentioned having friends.

After his only son and daughter-in-law died suddenly, Ji-woong had closed himself off completely.

But these past few days, he seemed like a different person.

Even studying for exams, there was no shadow on his face.
It seemed a friend was the reason.

“Yes! His name is Ha Tae-woong. He’s a really dependable friend.”

Her grandson’s voice was firm as he spoke his friend’s name.
Especially the way he pronounced “Ha Tae-woong”—each syllable deliberate, careful—felt unfamiliar.

“That’s good…… A friend I haven’t heard of before. You two get along well.”

What made Lee Mal-nyeon happiest was that her grandson now had a friend.

The weight that had been pressing on her heart lifted a little.

“Grandma.”
“Yes?”
“Should I…… become a prosecutor?”
“A prosecutor? Are you sick?”
“What? No, I mean a judge or prosecutor.”
“A judge or prosecutor? Those high-ranking officials?”
“High-ranking officials? Yes, should I aim for that?”
“My goodness, my goodness! Your father passed the first round of the Judicial Examination too. If only we’d had the money, he would’ve made it. Your father was smart.”
“Really?”

Ji-woong was hearing for the first time that his father had passed the first round of the Judicial Examination.

In that moment, Ji-woong’s eyes sparkled.

There was a reason Ha Tae-woong had bluntly told him to become a prosecutor instead of a thug.

“Then I’ll become a prosecutor.”
“Yes, do that! Our grandson will be a prosecutor. Your father’s dream will come true.”

* * *

“T, Team Lead! What is this?”
“What?”
“A withdrawal limit increase request just came in.”
“A limit increase? How much?”
“They’re asking to open it up to one billion won per day……?”
“One billion? What kind of lunatic!”

AppBit customer service team.
The team lead’s brow furrowed at the female employee’s customer complaint.

Very occasionally, there were people who strayed far outside the range of normal customers.

People who’d hit the jackpot with cryptocurrency and tried to withdraw everything at once.

It was impossible, of course.

If you let someone withdraw a massive sum all at once, you drain your operating capital.
The company gets shaken.

Trillions come in and go out daily, but what actually stays behind isn’t much.

You have to withdraw purely from net profit.

That’s why the cap is set at around two hundred million.
But…… one billion?

That’s an amount only granted to VVIP customers, and only limitedly.

“It’s the one from a few days ago.”
“Who? Who is it?”
“The nineteen-year-old, Ha Tae-woong.”
“Ha Tae-woong? That one billion?”
“Yes.”
“So he’s trying to pull it all out this time?”
“That’s…… the thing.”

The female employee hesitated before answering.

“Come on! Spit it out!”
“He…… he deposited eight hundred thousand USDT into the account.”
“E, eight hundred thousand USDT??”

The team lead doubted his ears.
Eight hundred thousand USDT!
That’s roughly one hundred billion won in Korean currency.

“How is that even possible? He’s only been trading cryptocurrency for a few days.”
“Could he have used leverage?”
“……Ugh. Damn leverage!”

It felt like he’d been robbed blind.

Unlike overseas exchanges, domestic ones don’t allow leveraged investing.

And Ha Tae-woong had completed verification—he wasn’t even subject to the Travel Rule.

“Did you get a message?”
“Yes.”
“What did it say?”
“If you don’t change the one-billion-won limit……he’ll move to another exchange…….”
“Petty bastard, threatening over a mere hundred billion.”

The team lead trembled with envy, wrestling with the internal conflict.

It sounded easy—a hundred billion—but it was a fortune he couldn’t hold in his hands in a lifetime.

That kid, Ha Tae-woong, who’d made a killing with futures leverage on luck.
He was threatening them outright.

“That’s…… not all.”
“What! There’s more?”
“He said don’t go thinking the USDT currently in the account is everything he has…….”
“……!!”

The team lead’s face went rigid, dark.
And then.

“What—contact him right now!!”

* * *

“Time for them to come around.”

He hadn’t lived his social life carelessly.
Though not a long existence, he’d accumulated rich experience.

Only those who’d lived through carefully orchestrated scenarios possessed the opportunity that these moments represented.

Ding, ding, ding-ding~♬

The 1588-56XX number lit up.

“Here it comes.”

The call he’d been waiting for.
He let out a soft chuckle and tapped the answer button.

“Who is this?”

He knew but asked as if he didn’t.

-Hello, sir. This is Go Ha-na, a counselor with AppBit.

The AppBit counselor, armed with formulaic courtesy.
Friday morning, 9:05.

This was the same counselor who, normally, wouldn’t answer even if you called desperately—now calling directly.

“Yes, go ahead.”

He responded curtly.
At this moment, he held the upper hand.

-I hear you’ve had some inconveniences. How may we assist you?

Asking when they already knew the details!

Behind the counselor, someone with real authority was giving orders.

“Just what I wrote in the email. Increase the daily withdrawal limit to one billion won. I need to be able to cash it out within an hour.”

-Ah, about the limit. Sir, as you know, the cash withdrawal limit is determined by reviewing your transaction history and account activity. Given your usage patterns, our policy standards…….

“Should I transfer it?”

-Pardon?

“I see. I’ll transfer it to my Bathsum wallet right away. That’s simple enough.”

He steered the conversation as if to end the call immediately.
At that moment.

-Oh, no wait! Your limit has just been approved for a special upgrade. You can withdraw immediately.

Is he serious right now?
He barely suppressed a bitter laugh.

In the lawless cryptocurrency market, there was only one absolute power.
The number of coins.

“Thank you.”

-You’ve been registered as VVIP. Whenever you have any customer concerns, please feel free to contact us.

Beep.

The call he needed was over.
AppBit normally used every excuse in the book to refuse regular customers’ limit increases.

He already knew that coin volume was the thug here.

“Look after me well. Heh.”

He’d just given a small revenge to the exchanges that had looked down on him when he had only a few coins.

Ding.

A KakaoTalk message arrived.

-Your daily withdrawal limit has been increased to one billion won. It’s available for immediate use.

“Gentlemen of the allowance department. I’m in your care going forward.”

South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges were nothing but a pocket-money window in his plan.
He had no intention of making flashy trades and leaving a record.

He’d earn dollars through overseas exchanges and convert them domestically.

I’m a patriot through a different route.

Even now, dollars and USDT were foreign currency, the same thing.

“Should I transfer it?”

He had a lot to spend today.
He needed to move the cash to his account.

Click, click, click.

With a few taps, he converted the USDT to won.
And transferred it to his account!

“This is real money.”

The one billion won inherited from Grandmother had laid a golden egg.

Geese that continued to lay golden eggs through overseas exchanges, birthing new ones in real time.

One billion won!

An unbelievable number appeared in his account.

In the past, when he’d hit it big with futures leverage, his maximum ever had been just a few tens of millions.

“What should I spend on first?”

Making hundreds of billions and just sitting on it—that was stupid too.

Money was like a living thing.
Money that moves doesn’t wait for tomorrow.

Right now was the time to flex for myself, no holds barred!

“So today, let me keep it light…….”

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