The Highest Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 297



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297.

I’m upset.

It is located under the shade of a hill, so the wind blows well, and the entire area is a field of nameless flowers, so the fragrance is good.

I could only let out a deep sigh.

“Haaaaa······.”

Yerin smiled brightly, holding a bouquet of flowers with an innocent face.

“If you keep sighing without even trying, you’ll lose your luck. Oppa, stop sighing!”

“I don’t believe in superstitions.”

The grim reaper, who was rolling around in the shade of a tree and shaking the dogwood, suddenly asked.

[Really?]

[Beep beep?]

The transparent sculptor also gave a suspicious look and agreed.

I couldn’t help but sigh again.

‘You really don’t believe me?’

I am a person who went to the afterlife and saw the King of Hell and my previous life.

They even went so far as to say that they went back in time.

‘These are the five blessings that King Yeomra himself has chosen for you. Are they something that can be taken away just by sighing?’

[······.]

[······.]

The Grim Reaper and the Black Bird pretended not to notice and scratched the ground with their fingers.

“Oppa’s hand.”

“hand.”

Yerin pushes hard into my hand with her small fingers like bracken fern.

It was a flower ring.

A flower ring made from real flowers.

One rabbit grass ring, one dog grass ring, and one more dandelion ring.

“Hehehe, how is it?”

“······You must have had a hard time.”

I can’t bring myself to say it’s not pretty.

“Isn’t it pretty?”

“······Your skills are improving by leaps and bounds?”

Not today. I promised Yerin that I wouldn’t do it.

It is said that a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

Bam.

The rabbit ring that Yerin had been shoving into my hand came loose and fell into the grass.

Like dominoes, the dogwood flower ring and the dandelion flower ring fell one after another.

Yerin grabbed her face with both hands and screamed.

“Nooooooo!”

It was a tragedy that was already happening for the twenty-second time.

Click!

Yoo Jong-tae captured the scene in an instant photo.

It’s too much to just take a picture of Yerin smiling brightly, because her other expressions are too cute.

Yoo Jong-tae pressed the shutter without stopping, as if he was planning to use up all the instant photo film he had brought today.

-Five hundred won for one photo.

-Please leave it to Yoo Jong-tae, Your Majesty!

It was a backroom deal that was agreed upon.

“It’s okay! It’s still too early to be disappointed, Oppa.”

Yerin smiled and squatted down, saying she chose the prettiest rabbit grass flower.

“You can make it again!”

Cheer up, our Yerin.

“There are still many flowers!”

Persevere, our Yerin.

You don’t have to do that.

“I told you I would buy you a flower ring.”

“Oh, oppa, sit there quietly!”

“······okay.”

Since no was forbidden, the answer was set.

Yerin picked a bunch of flowers of various colors.

Dandelion, daylily, primrose, daylily, cosmos, chrysanthemum, dayflower, daisy, rose of sharon, marigold, and calendula.

They were common weeds that bloomed in rural fields.

“Yerin likes roses.”

I gave her a fresh, fragrant red rose.

“Team Leader Yoo brought me a bunch, but why aren’t you looking at them?”

“Roses have thorns.”

Yerin smiled brightly.

“It’s a flower ring that I’m going to put on your hand. What if you get pricked?”

“Aren’t you worried about your hands making it?”

“ah······!”

Don’t hit your forehead like you forgot that!

Our foolish Yerin, I can’t stop her.

“If you go to the market, there are more colorful and pretty flowers?”

I asked slyly, “It’s time.”

“How about lilies?”

“Good. It’s pretty.”

“Sunflowers? Daffodils? Tulips? Chrysanthemums? Baby’s Breath? Is there a flower among these that you dislike?”

“No? There aren’t any? These are all flowers that I like.”

I knew it!

Even in the flower shop, you couldn’t take your eyes off of it.

What’s so great about buying a bouquet of flowers?

You just shook your head and said it was okay.

It must have been my fault.

Poor love was a sin.

“Yerin likes flowers.”

“huh!”

Yerin rolled her eyes without any ill will.

“Isn’t it just me? My grandmother and the Shindang sisters said. There is no woman in the world who doesn’t like flowers.”

Is that so?

I crouched down next to Yerin, who was busy weaving a flower ring with her small hands like a fernbrake.

“I told you I’d buy you a flower ring.”

“Again, again, again!”

It’s out again, Yerin’s stubborn time!

I swung my thick coin purse.

It was on a whole different level from my financial situation back then when I was poor.

“Are you worried that I don’t have enough money to buy you a flower ring? I have that kind of ability.”

It wasn’t a bluff.

I’m now a third generation chaebol!

“Why do you hate it so much? Are you afraid that I’ll buy you flowers and starve you?”

“He said he would raid all the gold shops······.”

“Then! Our Yerin takes them all!”

I wanted to see your happy face.

“Okay, okay! I hate jewels!”

“Really?”

“Uh, uhm······.”

Yerin wasn’t banned from saying anything today.

I couldn’t bring myself to say no.

“When I looked at it then, I saw that you also had Princess Aurora’s jewel set?”

“That, that······!”

“Didn’t Grandma and the Shindang sisters say that? Where in the world is there a woman who hates jewels?”

“Eeeeeeeee!”

Yerin suddenly woke up.

“Hey, you’re an idiot! You don’t even understand my feelings!”

I’m done!

“How are you feeling?”

“I’m just······! I’m just happy and joyful enough right now······.”

Yerin lowered her head and wiggled her fingers.

“I don’t want my brother to get in trouble because of me······.”

“Why am I getting in trouble?”

“You said it was extravagant. You said you were spending money recklessly. You’re already losing your mind because of a woman······. Ahem, anyway!”

Yerin stopped talking and gave me a stern look.

“I don’t like it when my brother hears things like that because of me.”

“Are you afraid that people will say that I’m a worthless bastard who’s been squandering my fortune because of women?”

“It’s money that my parents worked hard to earn.”

“So you’re saying it’s okay if it’s money I earned?”

I snatched the dandelion from Yerin’s hands.

I like it because yellow looks like gold.

The ring is definitely a gold ring!

‘Even if you buy me an entire gold shop, it won’t even be noticeable.’

I’m telling you, it’s a useless worry.

But I let it go because you were worried about me!

I have now started making the dandelion ring that Yerin had been making all day.

“Wow······! Oppa, you’re so good······!”

It’s not that difficult!

“Yerin’s hand.”

“hand!”

“Good.”

I put a dandelion ring on Yerin’s hand.

“Wow! That’s perfect!”

Yerin spread out both her hands and looked down at the flower ring with sparkling eyes.

Was it like that?

Did that wedding ring I prepared for you fit your finger just right?

I wonder if you, back then, would have looked at your hand with your wedding ring on and smiled with that kind of face.

I was curious.

“You like it that much?”

“huh!”

This time I picked white clover flowers.

“Is this gold ring your gold ring, or is this silver ring your silver ring?”

I made it once.

This time I was able to make the full flower ring faster.

“No, a silver ring is too cheap. A platinum ring would be better.”

“Hehehe. This gold ring and that platinum ring are not mine. My ring is a wildflower ring.”

“Yerin, be honest. Then take it all.”

“Kyahahahaha.”

What is this?

Yerin laughed out loud.

“Then you’ll make me a wildflower ring too?”

“What the heck. What should I make it out of?”

“This, this is a rose!”

Hmm?

“You said you couldn’t get pricked by a thorn?”

“It’s okay. It’s my finger. It’s okay if it pricks you a little.”

“Then what about my finger that makes the flower ring?”

“ah······!”

Are you hitting your forehead again?

Our foolish Yerin, I really can’t live like this.

“Yerin, how about doing it like this?”

“what?”

“I have to give her a rose ring because it is worth a thousand dollars. But I don’t have the ability to make it into a flower ring, so I will get help from an expert.”

“Oh! Okay!”

I jumped up.

“Then let’s go.”

“Do you know where the expert on flower rings lives?”

“then.”

“Is it very far from here? Where do you live?”

“Gold and silver shop.”

“······.”

Can you stop looking at me with those foolish eyes?

“This gold ring, that platinum ring, this rose ring, they’re all Yerin’s.”

I winked one eye.

“Can I buy it for you without telling anyone so you won’t get in trouble?”

“Huh huh?”

The expression on his face was like, ‘This isn’t it?’

Whatever.

“Hidden assets are the best for secretly putting money in other pockets. While I’m at it, why not get some gold bars too?”

“Oh no! No!”

Yerin put her hands on her waist.

“Brother, you can’t do that.”

“Why doesn’t it work?”

aha.

“Not all money bought secretly is dirty money. If you feel really bad about it, I’ll definitely launder the money and give it to you.”

“no.”

“Are you burdened by gift tax and tax tracking?”

“no.”

“Give it back to me under another name? Or under an alias?”

“No!”

Yerin put her hand on her head.

“If you keep doing that, I’ll become spoiled.”

“It’s okay. What if I become a bit more spoiled?”

You’ve been holding it in all your life.

I couldn’t speak and just lived in pain inside.

In the semi-basement rental room, I covered myself with a blanket.

While practicing silence at the Hanok house in Samcheong-dong.

You gave birth to my daughter alone and took it upon yourself to protect me, so your hair turned white.

You’ve been suffering all this while shortening my lifespan, and you’ve never once shown me any favors.

“No, no! Nobody likes a naughty girl.”

“It’s okay. I like it.”

“Ah······!”

You don’t have to show your face after getting hit like that.

I haven’t even started properly yet.

“So don’t even think about going to someone else and come to me.”

Yerin put a rabbit grass ring on her finger.

“Say yes. Even if you insist on saying no.”

Yerin looked up at me blankly.

I smiled broadly.

“You will do that, right?”

Yerin’s long, soft hair fluttered in the humid summer breeze.

The summer sunlight streaming through the shade of the trees shattered like jewels.

Let’s give Yerin a bouquet of various wild flowers.

The blushing Yerin smiled like a painting.

“huh!”

Click!

An impromptu camera flash that goes off at just the right time.

Yerin shined brightly among all the pretty things.

I was there in that shining moment too.

“I’m thinking of buying you a flower ring and a bouquet of flowers every year.”

I was sincere.

“This year, I will yield to you with a flower ring as you wish, but from next year, you will yield.”

I fiddled with my tiny hands like bracken.

“You will grow every year, and your fingers will get bigger every year.”

You can’t squeeze yourself into small clothes, so you buy new ones.

I can’t fit a ring on your little finger, so I’ll buy you a new one.

Then it’s not a luxury, right?

“When your fingers are no longer big enough, you won’t need new rings.”

I looked up at Yerin as I stamped my lips on the back of her hand.

“Then I’ll give you a proposal ring.”

I smiled brightly.

“You’re just going to say yes then, okay?”

I jumped up.

Just like that time when you suddenly proposed to me in the middle of breakfast and then kicked me out.

Because I don’t want to hear the word no.

But unlike that time, there was a small hand holding onto the hem of my clothes.

“huh!”

Yerin was smiling as if she had won the world.

It was a laugh that seemed like it would melt like cotton candy.

“You promised?”

“Okay! Okay, here, pinky!”

“Will that do?”

No way!

I banged my coin purse.

“I trust documents more than words, and a thumb more than a little finger.”

“Aha, visible evidence! I get it.”

Yerin carefully placed the dandelion ring and the rabbit grass ring on my palm.

“You have to keep it well so it doesn’t get damaged.”

“······.”

You said there was visible evidence. Is this it?

You want me to keep this as evidence for 14 years?

······Make this into dried flowers, okay?

“Let’s go, brother.”

hmm?

“I have to go buy a flower ring!”

Yerin said, hitting the girl’s crossbody bag.

“Are you worried that you don’t have enough money to buy your brother a flower ring? I have that kind of ability, too.”

It wasn’t a bluff.

Speaking of Yerim, she is a brave young shaman who has recently started to make a name for herself in Samcheong-dong!

The money received from the lottery must have been quite substantial.

“Am I the only one who grows every year? Does your brother grow every year too?”

Yerin smiled shyly, twisting her whole body.

“Since we’re getting rings, how about couple rings?”

Blinking her eyes cutely and beggingly.

My answer was set in stone.

It was a sweet offer that I couldn’t refuse.

“Well, that’s what it is.”

No, it’s a couple.

I’ve never worn it before!

The wedding ring that I never gave was just sitting there in my desk drawer.

Are you saying that you’ve been watching it all your life and have been through all kinds of hardships?

“Hehehe. Oppa, you’re the best!”

The answer “not me today” was also forbidden.

······Ahem, a word is worth a thousand words!

* * *

“Yes, Sister. I don’t know about anyone else, but I really want to hear a greeting from Seongjun’s son.”

Click.

A man putting down his phone.

The end of the IV tube inserted into the back of his hand had a bunch of IV vials of different sizes and colors hanging from it.

It wasn’t just the ringer line.

The line from the oxygen tank on the bedside table,

A cord connected to a heart rate monitor placed next to the bed,

Even the urine pipe flowing into the urine tank placed under the bed.

In addition, the man’s body was tangled in a mess of cords attached to medical devices whose purpose was difficult to guess at a glance.

“Hmm. He is a boy with the blood of the Jeong family.”

The man stroked his chin.

Even in broad daylight, the room was plunged into darkness because the blackout curtains were drawn.

A ray of sunlight streamed through a gap in the blackout curtains and illuminated his face.

A smile spread across his gaunt face, like dry firewood in the middle of winter.

‘How long has it been since I’ve seen this smile from my master?’

The man holding the bucket next to me opened his eyes wide in surprise.

“It’s obvious what your sister wants.”

A heirloom of the Jeong family.

The man looked down at his hands.

On her skinny fingers was a loose gold ring with the word ‘定’ engraved in the center of a camellia flower pattern.

The man raised his hand.

“Get in touch.”

“Surely not, even the Southeast skunk that is in Japan······.”

“Of course.”

The man smiled meaningfully.

“All hands. Raise the emergency summons.”

End

ⓒ Osorok

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