The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 91

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Episode 91. In Sokcho (11)

“Cryptocurrency?”
“Yes! There’s a substantial amount of crypto in the domestic account.”
“Mother gave you a billion won, didn’t she?”
“It appears to have been invested in overseas cryptocurrency futures.”
“So let me get this straight—I don’t even know my cousin’s face, and he took the billion won Mother gave him and invested in overseas futures cryptocurrency?”
“Yes!”
“And it turned out to be a massive hit?”
“Yes!”
“What was the return?”
“……The overseas account was impossible to verify.”
“Then what about the domestic account?”
“Roughly around ten billion won……”
“What? A hundred billion??”

Ha Dong-gun, who had been playing golf and resting in the VIP lounge for a moment.
Was greatly shocked by his secretary’s brief report.

He had instructed the secretary to look into his cousin Ha Tae-ung, who had caused an incident at Cheonghwa High School.

What the secretary brought back was unbelievable information.

“This is amusing……. This is amusing. Keke.”

Ha Dong-gun’s eyes gleamed sharply as he absorbed the details.

Even he found it difficult to keep a hundred billion won in cash on hand.

The slush fund he had painstakingly assembled while evading his father’s and older brothers’ eyes had barely reached the hundreds of billions range.

It was money he and his close friends had gathered with considerable difficulty through stock price manipulation.

If it had been discovered by his father, he could have been thrown out of the family that very day.

He had participated only in operations that were safe and drew minimal attention.

Cryptocurrency?
It was an area Ha Dong-gun had never even dared to dream about.

His high school cousin had ventured into such a market?

And had inflated the billion won his mother left behind by tenfold!

Ha Dong-gun had never touched cryptocurrency futures.
His chest began to ache with a peculiar burning sensation.

“He’s cashing out ten billion won daily.”
“Then the contract you made with the Jo & Chang lawyers must have come from that money too?”
“Yes! The deposit and monthly rent at Latte Signiel, and the purchase of a large BMW SUV as well—all the same.”
“Monthly rent on a BMW SUV? Wow! Your cousin’s got style. An SUV and not a sports car?”

‘What is this bastard…… really?’

At that age, most people with money throw it at sports cars first.

Cars treated as playthings, cheap imports.

Inappropriate for his age, the cousin had purchased an SUV.

The feeling didn’t sit right.
And he had cleverly brought the Jo & Chang side lawyers into the picture.

Nothing of the sort should be possible at a high school student’s level.

‘This is going to be a headache.’

He was openly declaring himself a direct descendant of the Hareum Group.

Rumors had already spread widely among the upper classes.

He couldn’t openly move against him the way he used to.

Even a minor accident would naturally make people suspect the Hareum Group.

Ha Dong-gun’s expression hardened with mounting thought.

‘Unsettling.’

Ha Dong-gun’s complexion grew darker by degrees.

“You know what.”
“Yes?”
“That thing I told you to prepare.”
“Ah yes, yes! I have it!”

The secretary who had gathered intelligence was Ha Dong-gun’s hands and feet.
From his days as a newcomer until now, when he had risen to executive rank, Ha Dong-gun had cultivated him at his side.

“Get started. If a child goes wrong, the parent bears responsibility. Keke.”

Ha Dong-gun smiled with a bitter edge.

He recalled his younger brother’s pledge—that if only his son lived, he would live as though dead until his final breath.

He wanted to nip this in the bud immediately, but he remembered the warning his mother had delivered with bulging eyes before her passing.

The late Han Ok-ja, who knew her sons’ characters well.

“I’ll proceed at once!”
“Make sure it’s solid.”
“Yes!”

Ha Dong-gun judged the situation rationally.

But he did not know.

That his cousin was not as easy to handle as his own brother!

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This is the first time I’ve heard curses tinged with rage spill from Father’s lips.

Which means the shock hit him that hard.

I understand.

He had put down roots in distant Sokcho trusting a friend, so the impact must have been substantial.

As he aged, he probably wanted to see his life’s final gamble.

But he didn’t know that the friend he trusted was destroying him through gambling.

“Do you still provide guarantees?”
“……Only if it’s not general funds.”

Wow! My father’s got some nerve.

He had already stood as guarantor for a private usurious loan for that friend.

It shows how much trust he placed in him.

I understand Father’s feelings, having had a friend extend a hand to my own life when even family turned their backs.

He and Father were even closer than blood brothers since college—no need to say more.

In the past, during difficult times, he had even contributed generous sums to my parents’ newlywed life.

And yet Yang Su-san, that CEO of Tae Pyeong Yang Fisheries, ultimately committed a grave transgression.

Knowing all these facts, I have no intention of forgiving him.

Before the Regression, he dumped the responsibility for the collapsing company on Father and fled overseas.

A traitor who stripped the company’s real estate and funds clean before fleeing.

Because of his gambling funds, our family was ruined.

Father suffered at the hands of loan sharks until the moment he died.
A man who poured his very soul into saving the company!

I learned this truth only after Father’s death.

When I knew nothing, I couldn’t do anything for him. But now it’s different.

A man whose very presence, alive before my eyes, fills me with gratitude.

Through his absence, I came to keenly understand the profound security of having a refuge.

“I obtained it through Jo & Chang.”
“Jo & Chang? How did you manage that?”

Father was once a candidate for the successor to the Hareum Group.

A gifted graduate of Yeon National University’s School of Business Administration.

Seo National University would have been easily within reach, but he chose Yeon for romance.

“Money makes anything possible.”
“Money? Did you actually win the lottery?”

It seems Mother had already mentioned something about the source of the money.

“No, I didn’t.”
“Then where did the costs come from?”

Father’s eyes filled with concern as he pinpointed the heart of the matter.
Unlike Mother, he didn’t believe so simply.

“Grandmother gave it to me.”
“G-Grandmother? You mean…… my mother?”
“Yes.”
“……!!”

Father was taken aback.

“A month ago, Attorney Kim Jeong-ryul, who executed Grandmother’s will, came to find me.”
“Attorney Kim?”

Father knew Attorney Kim Jeong-ryul as well.

“He gave me a billion won.”
“A billion won?”

Doubt flickered in Father’s eyes.
Just the cars—mine and my parents’—were worth several hundred million each.

The Jo & Chang transaction likewise required no small sum, judging by his knowing look.

“I made profits through cryptocurrency futures short selling.”
“Cryptocurrency futures short selling??”

Father’s eyes went wide with disbelief.

Futures shorting—a thing that demands what might be called a beast’s heart.

And cryptocurrency at that!

I didn’t reveal the specific profit amount.

Even between father and son, there are boundaries of secrets that must be kept.

“…….”

Father regarded me with a searching gaze.
His eyes shifted through several expressions in a heartbeat.

Apology, astonishment, and trust!

“My son…… you’ve got real ability, haven’t you?”

And then he smiled warmly.
That expression of Father’s, forgotten for so long!

A love that cannot be converted to money.

“I will make you chairman, Father!”
“Chairman? Puhahahaha! So you weren’t joking about that?”

Father burst into bright, hearty laughter.

He likely thinks that with a billion won as seed money, I’d multiply it to the tens of billions at most.

Being no stranger to cryptocurrency, he’d be estimating roughly.

Father doesn’t know the trajectory of my wealth growth.

The fact that even now, this very moment, my funds are multiplying by the second.

Tick-tick, tick-tick.

Then I heard the sound of the entrance keypad being pressed.

Mother’s return home, having been busy all day with the sudden shop relocation.

Click.

The entrance door opened and Mother stepped inside.

Plastic bags hung from both her hands.

“Welcome home.”

I took the bags from Mother first.

A sweet and spicy aroma wafted out powerfully.

“Your favorite Dakgangjeong~”
“Isn’t that what Father likes?”
“Between father and son, it’s all the same. Hehehehe.”

Mother spoke in a pleased voice.

“Beer and cola?”

Father bent his wrist to mime taking a drink.

“I’m in!”
“Count me in too!!”

This is the first time the three of us gather together since the Regression.

Like people who had never parted ways even once.

Affection for each other filled the house.

Without anyone going first, our eyes met.
And then.

“Hehehehehehe.”
“Hahahahahahaha.”

The laughter of our family, unheard for so long.

The night in Sokcho deepened so tenderly.

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