The Highest Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 291



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My grandfather took a thick stack of documents out of the mother-of-pearl chest of drawers in the bedroom.

‘wow!’

I was greatly impressed.

Just looking at it, you can tell that it’s an unusually gorgeous color!

‘This is amazing.’

It was dazzling.

It was ecstatic.

Golden light bursts out like firecrackers everywhere.

I feel like I’m going blind from the strong light.

‘Somehow. King Yeomra strongly advised me to visit my maternal grandparents in this life!’

I stuck out my tongue.

‘I don’t think the president’s personal letter, my grandfather’s memorandum, or the 4,500 units of the Cheonma Apartments in Daechi-dong that were brought in by force shone this brightly.’

Oh, come to think of it, there was just one golden document that was as dazzling as this.

The President’s slush fund is worth $5 billion!

I think there is probably nothing else.

‘Well, in Tokyo alone, the land is 100,000 pyeong, and there are 3,400 buildings.’

Even if you roughly calculate it, it is an amount that will make your jaw drop.

‘You said you borrowed a lot of money for this and that, but how much is it all?’

Japan’s real estate bubble has not yet peaked.

This means that the land will rise in value in the future, and the buildings will become more expensive.

At that time, land prices in Tokyo were so high that there was talk that if you sold Tokyo, you could buy America.

‘Hmm.’

But just one.

There was something wrong.

This is such an unusually gorgeous color!

‘Gold, black, red, green, purple. There’s a lot mixed in there.’

It was the first time.

‘I’ve seen it before, with a sinister mix of gold, black, or red.’

In the bribery ledger of Woo Kwang Construction, the documents of dangerous people shone like this.

The Army Security Commander’s bribe list is gold and red,

The list of bribes for the chief of the central government shimmered ominously with gold and black.

‘This is the first time I’ve seen something mixed with gold, green, and purple.’

What do these colors mean?

‘The fact that there are four colors mixed in gold… is an uncommon thing, no matter how you look at it.’

It was amazing.

So I became more curious.

I rested my chin on my hand.

‘I don’t know the full details, but two things seem certain.’

One, the fact that the golden light is so strong is beyond imagination.

Second, it will not be an easy task as the colors are mixed in such a complex way.

I smiled brightly.

‘Isn’t that a natural thing? What job that makes money is not easy?’

Flies tend to flock to things that make money.

‘When it comes to big money, powerful people inevitably get involved.’

In my younger days, I was the one who crawled from the bottom to become a loan shark with my bare hands.

Because he was punished by heaven, the only thing he was allowed to do was dirty money, and his life was full of bad relationships.

Life in the back alleys, where you get betrayed at every turn, get stabbed in the back of the head at every turn, and get stabbed at the drop of a hat.

If it’s dirty mud, I’ve been through it enough.

‘There’s nothing I can’t do.’

I went in with only one thing in mind.

Is this a profitable business or not?

‘If it’s this golden, I have to run to it no matter what.’

The calculations are complete.

I have made up my mind.

My grandfather handed me a thick stack of documents.

“Here, take it.”

“thank you.”

I accepted it politely with both hands.

This was my grandfather’s lifelong achievement in Japan.

Since my grandfather gave this to me, I have no intention of letting anyone take it away or giving it up.

“I thought you would read it carefully and ask questions about this and that.”

That’s right.

If this were a serious matter, I would have done it right away.

“Why? Don’t you like it?”

“I like it.”

“Then you should look at the documents, why are you just looking at me?”

“Before I look at the documents, I think there are a lot of stories I need to hear from my grandfather.”

“her?”

My grandfather flinched with a stinging expression.

“What story?”

“The story of why you decided to give this to me.”

“······.”

“I think it must have been a difficult decision.”

“······.”

My grandfather licked his lips like a goldfish.

Then he scratched the back of his head.

“Ahem, to be honest, I hesitated for quite a while about whether or not I should give this to you.”

“That makes sense.”

I nodded.

“It’s too much money to give away so readily. Of course it’s a shame.”

“What nonsense are you talking about! Why would I be stingy about giving it to my child?”

“That’s why.”

My questions started there.

“Why me and not your mom or aunt? I’m just crossing the bridge.”

There is an order to bloodlines.

“If you think about it logically, that’s true. It’s not an easy decision to skip your children and give your grandchildren the pillars of your family.”

My grandfather looked at me with a look of bewilderment.

The inside story has already been revealed.

Once I had decided and provoked him, I couldn’t back down.

“Besides, even though we had to cross the same bridge, you chose me when there was a better option.”

“Jeonghyeok, you are my only grandson.”

“I’m talking about my dad.”

In my grandfather’s eyes, I’m just an eight-year-old child.

“My father is the vice president of Taesung Group, and he is a strong spouse who can be a strong shield for my mother.”

It has been said that treasure is like a disaster to the powerless.

In other words, it means that the powerful can easily protect their treasures.

“Do you really think that my father came to ask for my permission to marry so late in life in order to take my family’s fortune, as people were saying?”

That’s what was said when the townspeople treated my father like a swindler.

It was an incident that ended when it was revealed that my father was the vice president of Taesung Group and the youngest son of a conglomerate family.

But when I actually opened up the deck, things turned out to be different.

My maternal family’s wealth was enormous!

“Honestly, from my grandfather’s perspective, it was a losing marriage.”

This was something that could be known without having to look at the accounting books one by one.

That was the reason why my grandfather couldn’t even make a sound and I was taken away by my maternal grandfather.

“Are you really suspicious that my father will take all the money and abandon me and my mother?”

“That’s not it.”

Only then did my grandfather’s mouth, which had been tightly shut, open.

“Honestly, it’s not like my personality will collapse just because I don’t have this property.”

“Then why are you doing this?”

“Ahem!”

My grandfather coughed bitterly.

“This isn’t something I should be talking about while holding onto you, a young child······.”

“From the moment you gave it to me, it became my story.”

I said it bluntly.

“Even if it’s difficult, you have to know what you need to know and move on.”

After a long silence, my grandfather opened his mouth heavily.

“Okay, I’ll be honest with you.”

It was as I had hoped.

“The reason I hesitated for quite some time about whether or not to give this to you is not because I feel sorry for it, but because there are so many complicated things involved here.”

It was worth it.

How many colors are mixed in gold?

If I wasn’t curious about the inside story, I wouldn’t have asked like this!

“Actually, I was planning on handing over the Japanese real estate to your mother.”

I knew it.

Even when people around me criticized me for being a girl or a daughter and asking what use they were in sending me to an education instead of just getting me married.

My maternal grandfather said that he didn’t care and took it upon himself to support my mother’s studies.

It’s not easy to do that in this day and age unless you have a purpose.

“It was a long-standing promise that your mother would inherit it. But now that things have come to this, it seems like that will be difficult.”

I was curious.

“Who did you make a promise with and what did you make?”

“Well, I guess you could call him a colleague. A close friend who studied abroad with me when I was young? A comrade in the independence movement? Something like that. I have a friend like that.”

The word ‘partner’ stuck in my ear more than any other word.

In my life, which was full of divine punishment, partnership was a word that could be treated as betrayal, loss, and regret.

“That guy was supposed to look after our Soojin.”

“Why is that guy looking after my mom? With no clothes on?”

“Ahem! It’s a bit complicated to call it barefaced······.”

My grandfather glanced at me from time to time.

“Tell me one by one, slowly, step by step. First of all, what does that guy do?”

“I do private loan business.”

No, why is private lending popping up here?

And why is a loan shark looking after my mother?

“Did you by any chance hand over a body waiver using my mother as bait?”

“What nonsense are you talking about! I’m not that broke!”

My grandfather jumped up.

“I heard you took out a lot of loans to build the building. I was wondering if you might be able to help.”

“Well, it’s not like I didn’t borrow it at all······.”

“oh my.”

“I paid it all off! Since we run a real estate company together, they took care of taking it out.”

“After all, for a loan shark, recovering the principal is life and death.”

I took a deep breath.

“No, even if I did get involved, it had to be with a loan shark······.”

“We were friends and comrades. I earned money from the Japanese by lending money to the land, and he earned money by lending money to support the independence movement.”

My grandfather’s eyes seemed to be turned back to the distant past.

“The task of transporting military funds had to be particularly secretive. It was a task that put many people’s lives at stake.”

If you get caught, you die.

The independence movement in Japan would have been even more difficult and challenging.

“I only knew about land, and nothing else. I never thought of doing anything rash like splitting money, bribing people, or covering up my tracks. That guy was really amazing in that regard, you know?”

My grandfather’s voice gradually became lower and lower.

“There have been so many things. There have been unexpected betrayals and dangerous moments.”

That must have been it.

“It was even more so because it involved a lot of money and lives.”

Koreans, who had a lot of money and land, would have been just tasty prey.

My grandfather closed his eyes tightly.

“At the end of the Japanese occupation, surveillance became even tighter and we became more dangerous. He was the only one who went through all those hardships together and never betrayed me until he died.”

A faint smile appeared on my grandfather’s lips.

“The hardest thing in the world is to trust people.”

It was a face that seemed full of trust and friendship.

“After liberation, the war ended, I had children, and the scale of the real estate business in Japan became too much for me to handle on my own, that friend made me an offer.”

“What was the proposal?”

“Should I call it a partnership proposal? That’s how we ended up setting up a real estate company together.”

“Then what are the profit distribution conditions?”

“······.”

I was just asking about the most important things about partnership.

My grandfather had a very troubled look on his face.

“Who does the management, who does the accounting, who does the development, and who does the administration?”

“You guys are going to take care of that, and I’ll just take care of the land and the building······.”

“So you’ve become a landlord? You’ve received the land deed and house deed, and you’ve even taken out a loan?”

“That······ is that how it is?”

“So, depending on what they do, they can blow all their wealth and there’s nothing to say?”

“what?”

No, why are you looking at me with such surprised eyes?

“Right. How would you know if they omitted this and that in the middle? There’s no way.”

I guess it depends on what you report.

I clicked my tongue.

“There must be more than one person involved. Not only Japanese public officials, but also all kinds of real estate developers and banks.”

“Ahem! So I decided to leave that job to that guy.”

It’s worth knowing.

The colors were somehow mixed together so filthily!

“There’s so much to do.”

It’s not like it can’t be done, but there’s another problem.

“The scales have tipped significantly since you took power there. It’s going to be quite complicated to resolve this.”

Land deed and house deed?

When power is wielded with a sword, it is taken away in an instant.

‘How did Mrs. Kkachisan Bang die?’

Mrs. Bang of Magpie Mountain had so much land and money that she could be called a big shot.

She was taken to the National Intelligence Service and came out as a corpse.

Much of the land she owned was incorporated into new town development.

Those in power filled their pockets and shook their hands.

“Just because you have some money doesn’t mean you can control the world as you wish.”

The difference between the rich and the conglomerates comes from here.

While the nouveau riche only have a lot of money, the conglomerates have a lot of social influence and power as well as money.

So there is a lot that the conglomerates can do.

‘It won’t be easy even if Taesung comes out.’

My maternal grandfather may have more land and money than Taesung.

At the point when you can’t control a real estate company, you’re just a rich person, a nouveau riche.

When it comes to influence in Japan, Taesung is by far the leader.

“So what kind of promise did you make between that friend and my mom?”

“That’s right. Uh, um, so I made a promise to marry my daughter to the successor there.”

oh my god.

I covered my eyes with my hands.

“oh my.”

As expected from a chaebol family, my father co-founded Taesung Chemical with Woo Kwang as collateral for his marriage.

Now that I look at it, it seems like my mother was also scheduled to have a political marriage for the same reason, as befitting a child from a wealthy family.

“So that’s why my mother was against our marriage?”

“Ahem! That’s not it.”

“If I break off this marriage, will all the real estate go to you?”

“It’s really complicated right now······.”

My grandfather scratched the back of his head.

“They say that the successor who was supposed to marry Soojin ran away, saying he would not inherit the family business.”

“Then is the marriage proposal a failure?”

“Well, that’s what happened in the end.”

“But the partnership is still ongoing?”

“That’s the problem. That friend is seriously ill and will die tomorrow, and the men in that family are all dead, so there are no more children left, and there are five people vying for the successor position. Things are getting quite complicated.”

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Where have I heard this before?

“Is that person by any chance someone with the last name Jeong?”

End

ⓒ Osorok

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