The Highest Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 325



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325. I will hold you accountable.

Suddenly silence came.

It was a different kind of silence.

All the big names in the group were speechless with their eyes filled with surprise and emotion.

On the other hand, Mr. Jeong Dong-jin held the hem of the blanket so tightly that the tendons on the back of his skinny hands bulged.

“Ask me to apologize?”

“There’s nothing you can’t do.”

“Why me?”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin snorted.

“What do I regret?”

“Apologizing isn’t done because you feel regret. It’s done because you feel sorry and reflect on your actions.”

“I have nothing to be sorry about.”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin spoke stiffly.

“To anyone. In any situation. Even if this causes problems, I have no regrets. That’s how I’ve lived so far.”

“Maybe so.”

What the hell is that guy’s pride?

“Don’t force me to apologize.”

The arrogant and spiteful man lifted his chin with a look that said there was no room for compromise.

“It should be the same for you. This is the place it was meant to be.”

The head of the Jeong family.

“If you are to succeed me, you must do so. You must not bow your head, reveal your feelings, step back, or sympathize.”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin looked at his subordinates one by one with sharp eyes.

“Everyone has their own circumstances, excuses, and loopholes. Don’t count them all.”

The end of those sharp eyes.

At the end of it all, there I was.

“You are the one who decides, you are the one who leads, you are the one who informs, you are the one who directs.”

So, what is Mr. Jeong Dong-jin’s conclusion?

“I did nothing wrong. It’s always been that way.”

“Even if many people were harmed by your words and actions?”

“Then I guess it can’t be helped.”

“Is that all that an elder’s sense of responsibility is?”

“Responsibility doesn’t come from an apology.”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin smiled leisurely.

“It’s a problem that can be solved with force.”

That’s how the back alley world rolled on.

The law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, and power were the rules of this world.

“If you want to hold me accountable, you have to be capable of doing so.”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin laughed quietly.

He had a thick cough and was coughing up bloody phlegm, but he ignored it.

“Even if he were the president of this country, it would be difficult for him to get down on his knees and receive an apology.”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin looked around the room.

“Who dares to hold me accountable, and who dares to demand an apology from me?”

At the mad words of the elder Jeong Dong-jin, the big shots of the previous generation quickly bowed their heads.

I didn’t dare say a word.

But I wasn’t.

“I will do it.”

“The third party must be excluded.”

“Why am I a third party? I am also a victim.”

“what?”

“That’s not all. The people you harmed are my father, my grandfather, and my people who swore loyalty to me.”

I didn’t back down.

“Do you know how many people have been hurt and wounded because of your selfish greed?”

How much should I say?

How far should I go in investigating this?

“My father, who was only six years old, had to come into this house and be separated from his parents.”

During the Japanese colonial period and the war, all the men died.

Elder Jeong Dong-jin, who had no children, needed a successor to take over.

So, I wanted to have my father be registered as ‘Jeong Seong-jun’ and have him continue the Jeong family line.

“Under the pretext of educating my successor, you deliberately showed my father dirty, ugly, and miserable scenes.”

With the sole purpose of raising them strong.

They demanded too much from the children and punished them mercilessly under strict standards.

“Why else would my father have written a letter in blood and run away from this house?”

My father was a very responsible man.

He is a man who has ability, ideas, a great personality, and a firm goal.

The person who pushed our father to the edge of the cliff was this person, Jeong Dong-jin.

“I’m sure there were some points of compromise that I had to make with my father as his successor.”

My father is not a stubborn person who cannot communicate.

I am not an idealist who ignores reality and only pursues my ideals.

He is not a troublesome whiner who is ignorant, incompetent, and greedy.

“Everything I did to try to suffocate my dad, why wasn’t that wrong?”

It is difficult to list them all.

“So, apologize to our father.”

I pointed to the big shots of the generation.

“In the meantime, I apologize to the elders here who took on great responsibilities and worked hard to build up the family fortune, but were ultimately treated as incompetent and useless by you.”

There’s more.

“It was clearly a mistake to deliberately block my mother’s messages.”

My mother, who got caught with me, ran away from home empty-handed.

She was destined to be the adoptive son’s daughter-in-law, and she knew that she would become good friends with the adoptive son, and that she would have me.

Rather than protecting or helping, Elder Jeong Dong-jin blocked all places he could rely on.

“You did that knowing full well how desperately my maternal grandfather was looking for his eldest daughter who ran away from home.”

My maternal grandfather said that he abandoned his farming work and searched the entire country for three years to find our mother.

My grandfather wasn’t stupid, so wouldn’t he have asked Elder Jeong Dong-jin for help?

But there was not a single bit of news that Mr. Jeong Dong-jin was doing well.

“It was a request from a close friend and comrade in the independence movement who risked his life to fight alongside me in the past.”

Even the elders have acknowledged that.

“You said that deliberately blocking information was worth getting stabbed by, right? So you should apologize to my maternal grandfather as well.”

There was only one reason: to obtain our father’s unconditional surrender.

And that’s not all.

“Who caused our family of three to be scattered and suffer so much?”

My father, who searched all over the country in search of my mother and suffered for seven years in the Middle East.

My mother gave birth to me while moving from one unfamiliar neighborhood to another, and raised me with great difficulty while living in a rented room in a shantytown, unable to even take care of herself properly.

– Even on my way back home after selling all the vegetables, the stars must have appeared like this every day. How could I not have thought to look up at the sky during that time?

The first night after moving into the large mansion in Hannam-dong.

We sat side by side on a garden bench around a campfire.

-If you follow Dad, you’ll be able to live comfortably.

That day, my mother decided to give me to my father.

-Wouldn’t you be able to wear nice clothes, have a nice car, meet good teachers, go to college, and live comfortably without worrying about money for the rest of your life? You’ve had a hard time because of your mom.

Unable to hide his bitter expression.

-Then you want to marry Dad?

-There are cases where you can’t get married no matter how much you love each other. It’s because the mother is lacking in many things.

When I think about it, my mother was actually the eldest daughter of a wealthy family with a lot of money.

Mother did not dare to covet Father.

There was only one reason.

“Why did you force my father into an engagement with Woo Kwang Group? My mother thought my father was going to marry someone the family had arranged for him, so she took it upon herself to suffer so that the family would not be broken.”

So that I don’t lose myself.

The reason my mother ran out of the shelter of her parents’ house, startled by the news that she had to go to the hospital, was the same.

It was to protect me.

“Are you trying to drive out our father by making our mother a loner with no place to go and no one to rely on?”

My mother only had one phone number written down in her notebook.

It was the home phone number of my father, the CEO of Taesung Group.

That was my mother’s last lifeline.

“My mother had her phone number, but she never contacted me. She was afraid that I would become an illegitimate child, an illegitimate child, and that I would become a burden to my father and a burden to him.”

That was our mother’s love.

My mother chose to raise me alone and pray for my father’s happiness from afar.

“So, until I was seven years old, I didn’t know who my father was, where he lived, or what he looked like.”

After my mother survived carbon monoxide poisoning.

Gathering up her courage, my mother called my father’s house.

I thought I might need a place to lean on after my mother died.

“You wrote your will specifically targeting me. You used me as bait to keep my father.”

And that’s not all?

“Just now, you were trying to deceive me, fool me, and pressure me under the pretext of a test.”

I poked my chest with my index finger.

“So apologize to me too.”

This time again silence fell.

Even though it was clearly a silence with no one making a sound.

It was a silence unlike any before.

The teacher shut his eyes tightly with a miserable expression, and Mrs. Kkachisan Bang covered her mouth with both hands.

Jongno Geum-tooth sighed softly and shook his head, and Maljukgeori Maldaegi turned his head away as if he didn’t know.

On the other hand, Elder Jeong Dong-jin looked down at me without saying anything.

“I have never gone back on my words.”

Mr. Jeong Dong-jin said it bluntly earlier.

-Apologize to me? Why me? What am I missing?

As expected, the same words continued.

“I have nothing to be sorry about.”

The aftermath is probably the same.

“To anyone. In any situation. Even if this causes problems, I have no regrets. That’s how I’ve lived so far.”

I knew it.

Even though I knew it.

It tastes bitter.

“So you were wrong. You should have demanded compensation instead.”

Elder Jeong Dong-jin gestured.

However, the southeastern skunk that was moving like a fish has already been dragged away.

The four big names of the previous generation just sighed deeply and did not move at all.

Elder Jeong Dong-jin clicked his tongue slightly.

“There is a safe under the bed. It contains shares of Taesung Group.”

The teacher nodded toward the horse’s head.

The man with the long beard pointed alternately at himself and under the bed with a look of resentment.

But the master pointed at them alternately with his cane.

He had a stern expression on his forehead as if he had written, ‘Then you, as the youngest, should do it, or should I, as the eldest brother, do it?’

“Arai!”

The little rascal grumbled and crawled under the bed.

After a long struggle, the safe made of cast iron was pulled out with a loud crashing sound, its lock broken.

The master approached the safe with a look of indifference on his face, put his ear to it, and turned the dial a few times.

CLANG!

The master, who had just opened the safe, opened his mouth wide.

Even from a distance, the golden light pouring down loudly was enough to tell what was inside the vault.

‘All the valuables were hidden in the safe under that bed.’

Elder Jeong Dong-jin said indifferently.

“A yellow envelope. The Taesung Group shares were put away separately.”

The teacher opened the envelope, checked the documents, and nodded.

“Bring that blue ledger too.”

The teacher also lifted up the blue-covered ledger.

‘What is this? This incredibly ominous shit color?’

A fantastic collaboration of poop and black!

This was the first time I’d seen such an ominous flash of shit color.

It was clearly a color only visible to my eyes, but I was reluctant to even pick it up for fear that germs might crawl up from my fingertips.

“This is the ledger you were looking for. Details of the backroom dealings of the Chief of Security at the Blue House.”

I was immediately convinced.

As expected, it was a shit color for a reason.

“I’ll add more. Take out all the remaining ledgers there too.”

It was a strange thing.

‘How can it be that everything that comes out is shit-colored, shit-colored, shit-colored?’

Elder Jeong Dong-jin looked back at me with arrogant eyes.

“I think this is more than enough to compensate for the damages.”

“So in the end you’re saying you can’t apologize?”

“Don’t force me to apologize.”

Same thing again.

Even though he’s facing the day of his death, he’s still the same.

“Didn’t you say that if you want to hold me accountable, you have to have the ability to do so?”

“Okay. Then I will hold you accountable in my own way, to the best of my ability, skill, and cunning.”

Negotiations break down.

“You will regret this moment, old man.”

Before I could even snap my fingers, the Grim Reaper rose like smoke.

[Ta-da~!]

The grim reaper looked back at me with sparkling eyes.

[You were going to call me, right? Right? I came just in time, didn’t I?]

‘Okay, let me ask you one favor.’

[You want me to kill you?]

‘… … .’

I didn’t mean to ask for that.

[There is no way to get a Dongti.]

The grim reaper pointed with his chin.

[He’s already a guy who works hard all day, so how can he be seen as a nerd?]

I understand it now.

Boom!

The grim reaper cracked his knuckles.

[Should I hand down a divine punishment with the authority of this messenger?]

scourge?

[If you die from being struck by lightning, that is a divine punishment.]

‘Suddenly? In the house?’

[With that.]

The grim reaper pointed to the strings of medical equipment hanging from the elderly man, Jeong Dong-jin.

Aha. I get it.

Whether it’s lightning or electrocution, the only difference is how many volts it takes to kill you!

‘If you recklessly hand down a divine punishment, the underworld will appear and cause chaos?’

[Will I get caught this way or that way? Will I get caught once or twice? Either way, I’ll be caught by King Yeomra and demoted!]

I should have known when I made the Grim Reaper my guardian angel.

The Grim Reaper folded his arms, the hem of his long robe fluttering.

[The more I watch it, the more annoying it becomes, so it’s hard for me to just sit back and watch!]

‘Okay. If we leave it alone, it will die of natural causes or illness sooner or later.’

[… … .]

So, I don’t intend to get into trouble with King Yeomra over something like that.

After all, this is my request.

‘Do what you’re good at, just once.’

[What am I good at?]

‘It’s a dream.’

[Oh, I got it! Leave this to me!]

The Grim Reaper shouted with his eyes sparkling and triumphantly.

[I’ll show you your past life, which was messed up because of that guy, properly and hotly!]