The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 36

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Chapter 36. Han River View

“So, how was he?”
“Sorry?”
“That person the team lead took a photo of.”

Oh Hyemi, a fellow associate in the VIP Management Team, leaned in with the question.

She was both a friend and a rival to Yu Areum.

The competitive fire gleaming in her eyes as she smiled!
You could feel just how intense her curiosity was from that alone.

A single well-managed VIP could change the units of your monthly performance bonus.

“Turns out he goes to the same school as the Oyang Group’s granddaughter.”
“School? University?”
“……No.”
“Then? Graduate school?”
“……Cheonghwa High School.”
“What, high, high school?”
“Really, seriously?”
“Oh…….”

Gasps erupted from the other team members who’d been listening in on the conversation.

Even through the photo, he didn’t look like a high school student.

‘This is confusing.’

Unlike her colleagues, who were exploding with interest, Yu Areum’s mind was spinning.

This VIP they’d taken on today was completely unpredictable in every way.

The name, phone number, and address recorded on the customer card.

From what she’d overheard in conversation, he seemed to live alone at Signiel.

Alone, at that—and he was a high school student.
It wasn’t a neighborhood where a young person could easily afford to live independently.

Without a guardian or companion, he’d swiped a debit card for a watch worth tens of millions of won.

Even for someone from an affluent family, it was far from ordinary behavior.

He hadn’t batted an eye at a luxury gift worth over ten million won.

“What family is he from?”

Oh Hyemi asked, her eyes full of envy.
A rough sizing-up had already given them the measure of things.

Typically, members of the Royal Family didn’t spend money recklessly.

They only paid for what was worth investing in.

“I’m not sure.”
“What’s his name…….”
“Ha Taewoong.”
“If his surname is Ha…….”
“Haroon?”
“Really?”

Employees who had the VIP name list information memorized.

They immediately connected the surname Ha to the Haroon Group.

“No. Their youngest is a university student.”
“Right. He’s not directly affiliated with Haroon Group.”

The direct family members of the Haroon Group were naturally registered in the department store’s VIP system.

Unless someone was a fresh recruit, most employees naturally knew the details of the direct relatives of the Top 10 Conglomerates.

If you had any connection with them, you didn’t have to worry about losing your job.

“Could he be a collateral branch?”
“That could be it.”

The Hyundai Department Store VIP Management Team staff began speculating, keeping all possibilities open.
Then.

Ding.

A text notification sounded on Yu Areum’s smartphone.

“Oh!!”

She was startled—unusually so for her.

“What’s wrong?”

Oh Hyemi asked from beside her.

“Yejin, Juhui.”
“Yes, team lead.”

Yu Areum called out to the management team staff with a trembling voice.

“Help me tomorrow.”
“What?”
“It’s a VIP order.”
“From who?”

Instead of answering, Yu Areum checked the text on her smartphone again.

-All appliances and living furniture suitable for a Signiel 90E unit. You can exclude the refrigerator, washing machine, and dryer.

This was a message entrusting her with setting up an entire home.

Instantly, a list of appliances and furniture befitting Signiel and this VIP materialized in her mind.

-For clothing, please handle suits, casual wear, training clothes, and so on. Also, please take care of light indoor slippers for wearing at school.

Yu Areum’s eyes sparkled with countless possibilities.
This was no trivial text.
A major opportunity had arrived.

Not only had he entrusted her with furnishing the home, but also with selecting clothing to match personal taste—something requiring careful consideration.

-No budget limit. The house will be empty from 9 AM. Please finish by 6 PM. I’ll let the concierge know about access.

This was it!
No budget limit!!

An order where price was no object.

To the uninitiated, it might seem like an unreasonable demand.
But Yu Areum saw it as a blessing.

One thing was certain: he would become a future VVIP.
This was his first test of Yu Areum.

Click-clack.

Yu Areum quickly accessed the internet.
She searched for information on the Signiel complex—a place she’d never visited.

Her fingers flew. Yu Areum had always dreamed of being a personal shopper.

Her eyes shone brighter than ever, and her mind raced.

* * *

“Wow, Byun.”
“Yes, Attorney.”
“What do you make of it?”
“Sorry?”
“Ha Taewoong.”
“……He seems like an unusual person.”
“Person? Hmm…… I held back tears of self-contempt.”
“Why?”
“At his age, I was struggling through law school prep at university, thinking I’d be successful as a first-year student. I barely made any real friends. I came to this position through all that, and my salary is only one billion won a year. After taxes, barely six hundred million. And he burned through twelve billion in simple legal services?”

Kim Gyeongmin and A Yura, working as one team at Jo & Chang.
They’d closed the contract with the big fish as if bewitched by a goblin.

They’d rushed through the legal review team call.

And finally obtained the approval of Jang Muyeol, the lead attorney at Jo & Chang.

Now it was locked in, for better or worse.

“But…… something feels off.”
“What is it?”
“The dual representation ban. That was the part he emphasized all the way through.”
“That makes sense. Jo & Chang is so well-known.”
“That’s not it. My instinct is telling me something very…….”
“What instinct?”
“Like…… I’m being driven into a bloodied battlefield.”

Kim Gyeongmin, a former chief prosecutor, felt his keen instinct beginning to activate.

“I suppose. A ten-year penalty clause is worth one hundred billion won. And if we’re sued in the US, who knows how much…….”

“Either way, I’ll be seeing him frequently from now on.”

“Hundreds of billions, at least.”
“Could be more. They say there are people in South Korea making trillions from cryptocurrency.”
“Tril, trillion?”
“Yes. A foreigner who invested seven thousand dollars in Shiba in twenty-one made seven trillion won.”
“……No way.”

“But the opposite side! You could go broke.”
“That’s guts. It’s skill and luck.”
“Do you know a lot about crypto, Byun?”
“Not poorly…….”
“Can crypto be an asset? It’s just electronic bits.”

“Sure~”

“Hmm?”
“His looks more than match his face.”
“…….”

Most critically…….

And there, straight ahead: the view.

Right, money was good for something.

Move-in registration was already complete.

Lotte Signiel, where access required a resident card to be registered.

I didn’t want to spend even one more day in my rooftop room, which was already starting to feel like an oven.

With sufficient funds on hand, there was no need to scrimp.

In the past, I’d never spent even two hundred thousand won on myself.
This flex was for all those years!

There was no moving truck needed.

All I had was textbooks and a school uniform.

The rooftop room had nothing to take.
I’d thrown everything away.

My new home, Signiel!

The entrance was finished in high-gloss black.

The floor was laid with non-slip marble in a matching tone.

Beyond the hallway and living room, the Seoul skyline unfolded in panoramic splendor.

“There’s quite a bit I need.”

Full options, but otherwise completely devoid of daily necessities.

All that remained were a built-in refrigerator, washing machine and dryer, and a bed frame.

I immediately texted Yu Areum from Hyundai Department Store, whose business card I’d taken.

Getting professional help was more efficient than me running around myself.

This was a time to spend every moment like gold.

Yu Areum’s eye for detail and accuracy, honed from serving VIPs at the department store, would be keener and more precise.

In a situation like this, professional help was a hundred times better.

I took off my shoes neatly and stepped inside.

Sixty-two pyeong of actual living space.
Given the nature of an officetel, the exclusive-use area wasn’t that large.

“So this is what a Han River view feels like.”

The location was excellent.
Below stretched Lotte World, the Han River, and Namsan Tower in a continuous line.

The view alone made my chest feel open and free.

I understood why people sang so much about the Han River view.

“……It’s good.”

My life’s miracle, unfolding in just a few days.

I had no regrets spending money entirely on myself.

“Soon the truth will come out.”

The parents in the Principal’s Office.
They were worn-out housewives, every one.

By now, they’d completed their background investigation of me in silence.

And they’d confirm it.
The moment they realize they were completely fooled by me, they’ll attack with everything they’ve got.

I’d already put measures in place to prepare for that moment.

Then Jo & Chang would be used as my hidden card, not Kim Jeongryul.

“If they try to intimidate me, I’ll return it tenfold! At least a hundredfold!”

I’m putting aside the weak, soft, malleable me from before, and hardening my resolve.

I didn’t endure every moment for nothing, but in this life, I won’t endure anymore.

The world treats kindness as a weakness.

Swish.

I picked up my smartphone.

I opened the exchange app.

As the screen loaded, the sharply rising red graph appeared, and the deposit balance numbers had changed units.

“Insane…….”

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