The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 61
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Episode 61. Kneel! (13)
Injured? Me?
Lee Jeong-jun felt his mind grind to a halt.
In all his life, he’d never heard such a thing.
Even in their strained marriage, his parents had backed his endeavors with their full weight.
Unlike his younger sister, who played at rebellion, Lee Jeong-jun harbored vast ambitions.
The title of outside grandson to a Korean group that stood a tier above common wealth.
Through his mother Joo Mi-ju, he’d received various privileges, but Lee Jeong-jun was never satisfied.
He wanted his abilities recognized and to make the Joo family’s power his own.
He still remembered it vividly.
As a child, whenever he visited his maternal grandparents, he’d been subtly ostracized.
His grandfather Joo Dong-myeong, chairman of the Korean Group.
When holidays came around and he’d visit, the distinction between blood grandchildren and grandchildren through marriage was unmistakable.
Everything—from the amounts of pocket money to the seating arrangements at dinner—favored the blood relatives first.
As time passed, he gnashed his teeth against the discrimination and inequitable treatment he came to understand firsthand.
His resentment of Joo Seo-jun, the eldest grandson of the Joo household, reached its peak.
Each time he ran into him at his grandparents’ house, Joo Seo-jun would openly dismiss Lee Jeong-jun.
The incident when he was fourteen, at the start of adolescence, he could never forget.
That day, Joo Seo-jun had called him into his room.
Alone.
‘You mongrel bastard. Hoping there’s something here for you to sponge off? There’s nothing for trash like you. From now on, stay the hell away from our house!’
In a place where no one could see, Joo Seo-jun had hurled abuse at Lee Jeong-jun.
Lee Jeong-jun still carried that shock in his chest, nurturing bitterness in its place.
The reason he gnashed his teeth and threw himself into his studies was rooted in that moment.
The Joo family lacked academic talent.
After that, he’d stopped visiting during holidays, using studying as an excuse.
He’d transformed the discrimination he suffered into fuel for his future, the engine of his life.
So Lee Jeong-jun harbored a virulent hatred for anyone who dared dismiss him.
After entering Cheongwha High School, Lee Jang-yong had done exactly that to him.
With just one intimidating display of mathematical skill, he’d looked down on every student.
His pride had been wounded, but he’d swallowed it.
Unable to surpass Lee Jang-yong’s mathematical prowess, he’d accepted it.
But today was different.
With a substandard exam, the perfect scorer had been exposed in front of all the students.
He’d dragged Lee Jeong-jun into it and humiliated him.
And then he fled without even an apology?
Most people knew Lee Jeong-jun as a study fanatic.
But Lee Jeong-jun had long practiced Kickboxing to maintain his fitness.
He’d set up a training facility in the basement of his house and brought in professionals to coach him.
He’d been channeling the stress from his studies and other pressures into rigorous physical training.
It was why the restrained Lee Jeong-jun could so easily subdue Lee Jang-yong in a single move.
And here was Ha Tae-woong, the perfect scorer, warning him to stand down.
“Who do you think you are?”
Lee Jeong-jun replied flatly.
Even if it was true that he was part of the Ha Ryun Group family, there was nothing to be ashamed of.
Aside from the current third-year student council president, he was number two at Cheongwha.
“Yeah.”
Ha Tae-woong’s reply came with casual certainty.
“Whoa…”
“Who is this guy?”
“Is he really part of the Ha Ryun Group family?”
Murmurs rippled through the assembled students.
The teachers’ faces all went rigid.
Many of them had openly dismissed Ha Tae-woong during class.
“Heh…”
A bitter smile twisted Lee Jeong-jun’s lips.
“What do you have?”
“Money.”
“What??”
Ha Tae-woong’s blunt answer left Lee Jeong-jun speechless.
Even the most successful chaebol families didn’t hand over vast fortunes to their high school children.
They were limited to tens of billions at most.
True transfers came only after adulthood, through various tax avoidance schemes.
Lee Jeong-jun himself had several billion won in his own account.
No matter how rich Ha Tae-woong was, the amount would be roughly the same.
Yet here he was, boasting of his wealth with such confidence.
“What money?”
“Either way…”
The students at Cheongwha, mostly from elite backgrounds, were especially sharp about reality.
Most carried their parents’ credit cards while almost never holding actual cash.
Stock holdings were their greatest assets.
“Money…”
Only Kang A-ri nodded at the exchange between the two on the stage.
Among the current Cheongwha students, she held the most actual cash.
Her parents’ traffic accident had triggered an early inheritance.
On top of that, her grandfather regularly transferred Bearer Bonds to her.
The sums were beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
So she understood Ha Tae-woong’s answer to some degree.
“Heh…”
Lee Hyo-rin burst into quiet laughter from somewhere in the crowd of students.
Her older brother looking so flustered was amusing.
It was rare to see that side of him.
Actually—this was her first time seeing her own blood relative like this.
The two of them barely acknowledged each other at home.
Their parents were the same, treating each other with coldness.
All four members of the household respected each other’s separate lives.
They never interfered in any way.
She and her older brother regarded each other only as inheritance rivals.
Her proud older brother Lee Jeong-jun had taken a real hit today from the perfect scorer.
‘This is exciting.’
Lee Hyo-rin’s eyes gleamed with interest.
The tedium of school life suddenly seemed full of possibility.
‘That’s right!’
Attorney Kim Gyeong-min watched Ha Tae-woong quietly.
He paid the man a hundred million won monthly for legal consultation.
His status was the direct lineage of the Ha Ryun Group chairman.
Kim Gyeong-min had stopped doubting his client long ago.
He stood poised with practiced humility, awaiting his client’s instructions.
“And your method was wrong.”
“…??”
At Ha Tae-woong’s words, Lee Jeong-jun’s eyebrows twitched as he fell silent.
Lee Jeong-jun had punished depravity through the most decisive form of punishment—violence.
When they try to claw their way back up, crush them harder.
By this standard, Lee Jang-yong had crossed a line.
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“…”
His pride, though he’d been forced to his knees, remained as solid as a fortress wall.
“…??”
“Yes, sir!”
“Understood! Joa & Jang will deploy all our capabilities.”
When Joa & Jang moved, even middle-class civilians were reduced to beggary—that was South Korea’s reality.
They specialized in dragging people through years of civil and criminal suits, bleeding them dry.
No large law firm dared stand against Joa & Jang.
Looking at the situation: falsely stated facts damaging the young master’s honor.
Given the defendant, the maximum Defamation sentence of five years seemed possible.
“P-Please! Spare me!!”
Thud!
Only then did Lee Jang-yong grasp the situation, pressing his forehead against the stage floor in apology.
Those watching as Lee Jang-yong—pride alone remaining—crumbled felt their blood run cold.
A completely different form of retribution from Lee Jeong-jun’s violence.
“Too late.”
A single glacial word fell from Ha Tae-woong’s lips.
Whoosh.
Ha Tae-woong, standing on the stage, turned his gaze toward the assembled masses in the auditorium.
“…”
Most students averted their eyes as soon as they felt Ha Tae-woong’s stare.
They’d all just witnessed his terrifying nature firsthand.
“Does anyone else have complaints about the perfect scorer?”
His low voice echoed through the silent auditorium.
“…”
Not a soul made a sound.
The Crown Prince of Cheongwha had arrived.
Everyone who’d turned away their gaze inwardly bowed before him—acknowledging the weight of his emergence.
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