Genius Manager Who Hears Voices - Chapter 105



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Episode 105

[How… … How could my uncle do this to me? My uncle, the only family I thought of, of all people… … .]

Because it was such a familiar phenomenon, Heeseong focused solely on the voice.

And I could tell right away who this voice belonged to.

That’s right, Kim Ji-yu.

As if I wasn’t alone, I heard the other person’s voice.

[Whew, Jiyu. First, listen to what your uncle has to say… … .]

[What are you talking about? Are you talking about how you’ve been deceiving me your whole life, or how you felt while deceiving me? Or are you talking about how you were happy to continue using me for years, decades, until I realized it?!]

[Jiyu.]

[Enough! I don’t want to hear anything. I feel like everything I’ve lived has been denied. Do you know that the betrayal I feel from my uncle is much greater than the loss of everything I’ve built up? It’s not money or anything, but the betrayal from the person I trusted that makes me want to die right now!]

I don’t know when this conversation took place, but I can pretty much guess what the situation was.

Kim Ji-yu also became aware of Kim Seong-chan’s double life.

I thought it might be a situation where I trusted my uncle and gave him all my money, only to find out in the end that he had used the money for gambling.

[Money? I don’t regret any of that. Even if my uncle lied to me and gambled away all that money, I would have understood because we’re family! What I really can’t stand is… … What I really can’t stand is… … .]

Wasn’t it all about gambling?

Do you think he would have understood even if he knew that he had gambled away all the money he had given him?

Then what could possibly be a greater betrayal than that…?

[My uncle never thought of me as family for even a moment. He just thought of me as a means of making money, as a tool that he could use as collateral whenever he needed to. That makes me unbearable. And yet, he pretended to love me, pretended to be happy, pretended to be willing to give everything for me, and lived like that… … Really… … .]

A means of making money? Collateral?

I had a rough idea of ​​what the former meant, but I couldn’t quite understand the latter.

Are you saying that you sold Kim Ji-yu’s name to borrow money?

There are cases where celebrities receive investments and loans from numerous people in that way, usually when they are family members.

That eventually snowballs into a debt-related incident.

But didn’t Kim Seong-chan say that he revealed his identity in the first place?

He would have revealed that he was the CEO of an entertainment agency in order to borrow money from a casino, and in the process, he would have also revealed that the singer under his agency was Kim Ji-yu.

That’s why he was able to borrow that much money.

Even if it was a private loan, there was no way that the CEO of an entertainment agency without even one famous artist would just give that much money.

Kim Ji-yu must have played the role of a major collateral and guarantor, directly or indirectly.

‘I don’t think he meant it that way… …. It seems like he was trying to turn a blind eye to that kind of thing given the atmosphere.’

Although I don’t know the exact details, it seems certain that the cause of Kim Ji-yu’s anger and sense of betrayal was not money.

Then what on earth is it?

What makes her so desperate and leads her to make such an extreme choice?

[Let’s never meet again. Not until we die, not even once while we’re alive.]

After hearing her decisive words, my hearing returned to its original state.

At the same time, Choi Pil-hwan’s voice was heard saying something while looking at the villa.

“Isn’t it obvious? There must be something big going on here, so they came here. Seriously, how crazy must I be about gambling to come all the way to the foot of this mountain on an expedition. They really work hard, they really work hard.”

“It might not be gambling. Were there other people besides CEO Kim Seong-chan?”

“It’s definitely gambling. Earlier, a woman got out of CEO Kim Seong-chan’s car with him, and she was the same woman who used to hang out at the pub. I don’t know if they’re lovers or gambling partners, but it’s clear that there’s a game going on here. Look, there are other cars parked over there, right?”

As Choi Pil-hwan said, in addition to Kim Seong-chan’s car, there were three foreign cars parked side by side.

Because the villa was located in such a remote location, it had to be assumed that everyone had come for the same purpose as Kim Seong-chan.

“But where on earth did CEO Kim Seong-chan get the money for gambling? He said he had already used up all his private loan limit and that it would be difficult to borrow more.”

Choi Pil-hwan answered Hee-seong’s question with a slight shrug.

“Well? Considering that you’ve come this far on an expedition, it seems like you’ve loaded up on ammunition, but now we need to find out where you got them. Isn’t background investigation basically a battle against waiting? If you wait patiently for hours or even tens of hours, you’ll probably get something, haha.”

Although Choi Pil-hwan spoke casually as if it was something that happened all the time, Hee-seong couldn’t help but feel anxious.

Because if Kim Ji-yu finds out about Kim Seong-chan first through any means, the shock will be enormous.

We may not be able to change the situation itself, but we must at least prevent her from making an extreme choice.

“Huh? Why did those guys come here? What the… … . Could it be that they started this game too?”

At that moment, Choi Pil-hwan opened his eyes wide as he saw a black sedan approaching from a distance.

It seemed as if he knew who was inside the vehicle just by looking at it.

Heeseong asked as he watched the car heading towards the villa.

“Do you know them?”

“Those gangsters. They run a secret gambling table in the pub and even lent money to the CEO of Delight. I thought you came here to avoid those guys because of your debt, but it seems they opened this table too.”

Meanwhile, two sturdy men got out of their car after parking it at the entrance without going all the way to the villa.

One man went inside the front door and another man started smoking a cigarette in front of the passenger seat.

“What are they doing now?”

The place Heeseong pointed to was the man who had gone inside.

He was loitering around a parked foreign car, looking somewhere.

“Well… … ? It looks like you’re looking for something, but you keep rummaging around under the car.”

“Is that guy looking for GPS? He keeps wiping the bottom with his hand.”

“Huh? GPS? Why are those people using GPS… …?”

At that moment, Heesung’s head began to spin quickly.

If they are trying to retrieve the GPS now, it means they have also been chasing Kim Seong-chan.

What that means is that the source of this gambling money did not come from them.

It occurred to me that maybe they had the answer.

“Hey, where are you going, Manager?”

Choi Pil-hwan hurriedly grabbed Hee-seong who was opening the passenger door and asked.

Hee-sung opened the door wider and spoke with an unknown smile.

“I hate waiting. I’m the type of person who can’t stand waiting at restaurants that appear on TV.”

“Huh? What is that… … .”

Heeseong got out of the car and walked briskly toward the black sedan.

Heeseong approached the man who was fixing his hair while looking at the window as a mirror while smoking a cigarette and suddenly spoke to him.

“Did you come here because of Mr. Kim Seong-chan?”

“What, who are you? Do you know me?”

“I don’t know who you are, but I know why you’re here. I think it’s for the same reason I came.”

At those words, the man’s gaze turned somewhat fierce.

“What, where are you? Did that guy come to get money from you too? Didn’t you hear that he owes you money?”

As expected, it seems like he secretly followed me. It seems like he already knows that Kim Seong-chan came here with the money to gamble.

Heeseong answered with a calm attitude.

“Since it was a debt that wouldn’t even leave a record anyway, would he have told the truth? It was obvious from the beginning that he had borrowed money from here and there.”

“Oh my, this is giving me a headache again… … So how much is that pair? Judging by their behavior, they don’t seem to be from our lineage.”

Heeseong answered with a sly smile.

“I may look gentle on the outside, but I’m not like that when it comes to money. Isn’t there a reason why I’ve been able to stay in this business all this time?”

As Heeseong showed a gentle attitude, the other person’s gaze also returned to its original state.

Heeseong looked around quietly and asked him.

“First of all, we’ve confirmed that our purpose for coming here is the same. Let’s open up the amount to each other. Then, it’ll be much easier to work.”

If you hear the amount, you will be able to know exactly what Kim Seong-chan’s current condition is.

In the process, you may be able to obtain information that you had not thought of before.

The man scratched his head as if he had a headache as he responded to Heeseong’s story.

“Whew, whatever it is, we need to get it back more urgently. That bastard borrowed over 4 billion from us. We gave him a big loan in the end, relying on collateral, but when the president found out, he got furious and told us to get it back right away. Where did you get that kind of collateral?”

“Corporal? What kind of collateral?”

Heeseong swallowed quietly at the word collateral that appeared here as well.

Because that collateral destroyed Kim Ji-yu’s trust in Kim Seong-chan in one fell swoop.

He said that that was the part where he felt the greatest sense of betrayal.

The loan shark said, taking a long drag on the last filter of his cigarette.

“Whew. He gave us a contract saying that he would transfer all the copyrights to the songs made by the singers under that guy’s agency. I checked the royalties he’d received over the years, and they were quite a lot. I thought that was enough to give him that amount.”

“… …Copyright? So you’re saying that all the songs that Kim Ji-yu has made so far have been put up as collateral? Without the consent of the parties involved?”

“Huh? How did you know it was Kim Ji-yu? You didn’t even tell me her name?”

I almost panicked for a moment, but I opened my mouth and answered without changing my expression.

“Because there’s no singer worth mentioning other than Kim Ji-yu. Isn’t that obvious?”

“Uh… … That’s right. Anyway, that’s why the boss got so angry. He asked me what I was going to do with something like that without the consent of the person involved. If there’s a problem later, who’s going to take responsibility?”

“Why did you accept that? If you thought about it even a little, you would have known that it didn’t make sense.”

“That’s because I didn’t know. Originally, the management of celebrities was done by the CEO of the agency, and since they were entrusted with contracts and everything else and did it on their behalf, there were no problems, so how could I not believe it? They even came with their official seal and stamped it on me.”

“A seal? Mr. Kim Seong-chan?”

At that moment, I was overcome with a strong sense of uneasiness.

It occurred to me that maybe this wasn’t all.

Genius Manager Who Hears Voices