The Highest Level Son of a Chaebol Family - Chapter 327



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327. Self-inflicted disaster

Step, step, step.

I even missed the silhouette approaching me step by step.

“You’re alive… …!”

I can’t tell if it’s a dream or reality.

That was because I had just been swept away by waves of memories while watching Jeong-hyeok’s past life.

“If I had known you would die so tragically in a plane crash… … .”

“I didn’t die, it was just an incident.”

“Yeah, that’s good.”

Jeong Dong-jin looked at Cha Seong-jun from head to toe with eyes filled with emotion.

After realizing the death of Cha Seong-jun, the only heir to the Jeong family he cherished, his heart broke.

How many people’s lives were ruined by the disaster caused by Jeong Dong-jin’s greed?

Now that I think about it, it really hurts.

Gulp.

Suddenly, something hot flowed down Jeong Dong-jin’s eyes again.

Jeong Dong-jin quickly wiped his eyes with his palm.

But it wasn’t enough to stop something from flowing out without being able to control it.

Swish.

Cha Seong-jun crouched down and handed over a handkerchief.

“It’s my first time seeing you. You’re crying.”

“I’m not crying. I just got something in my eye.”

Jeong Dong-jin did not refuse the offer of sincerity.

I was busy hurriedly wiping away the moisture with a handkerchief.

It was sold out.

“It’s because I’m old. I guess this thing broke when it was time to die.”

Jeong Dong-jin suddenly realized that Cha Seong-jun’s hands were stained with blood.

“Why are your hands like this?”

“If it’s my hand, it’s perfectly fine.”

Cha Seong-jun said calmly.

“I lived my life in gratitude for being released with my limbs and body intact. But then I found out that he had an ulterior motive.”

The voice was as cold as the eyes.

Looking closely, Cha Seong-jun was holding something that was dripping blood.

“that……?”

“It belongs to the envoy.”

Bam.

It was a severed finger.

“Did you do it yourself?”

“Then will I just let a guy who touched my wife and children suffer?”

“Ahhhh… … .”

Regret spread across Jeong Dong-jin’s face.

This too was a disaster he had brought about.

But the words “I’m sorry” were stuck in my throat and I couldn’t find the words to come out.

This was Jeong Dong-jin’s best.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“Is this something that counts as hardship?”

Bam.

Another finger fell in front of Jeong Dong-jin.

“It wasn’t me who suffered, it was my wife and son. Thanks to the secret agent I was able to hear some very interesting stories.”

widely.

It was a stubby wrist with several fingers missing.

“You deliberately cut off all contact with my wife?”

“okay.”

“For seven years, I deliberately isolated my wife and pushed her to the edge of a cliff.”

“okay.”

“Did you try to lure me in by using my wife and my son as bait?”

“okay.”

Jeong Dong-jin admitted it as usual, obediently.

But unlike before, his face was distorted with regret and gloomy.

“It’s a shame. If everything had gone according to the secret agent’s plan, it would have only been a matter of time before this house was completely torn apart.”

“okay.”

Maybe so.

Jeong Dong-jin could not deny it.

I had already seen how much of a mess this corner of the house was.

“How was it being toyed around in the palm of the hand of the underworld? Was it fun?”

“It wasn’t fun.”

“I thought you did that on purpose because it was so much fun to watch me and my children suffer.”

Cha Seong-jun stubbed out his cigarette with his shoe.

Hoo, the exhaled breath was mixed with the smoky smoke and was very cloudy.

“It looks good.”

“That’s what happened.”

“My son could have killed you.”

“I guess so.”

When they burned down that corner of the house, they could have just left me to burn to death.

“Do you have any idea why I went to all the trouble to keep you alive?”

“well.”

“He said he would leave the handling of things up to me.”

Cha Seong-jun smiled bitterly.

“But he said that he was the one who raised my father since he was young. He said that he would end his favor here.”

“Did you say something like that?”

Jeong Dong-jin also smiled bitterly and closed his eyes.

If I close my eyes, I can hear that day so clearly that I can almost hear the blood-curdling cries of young Jeong-hyeok.

-Give me back my mother!

Young Jeong-hyeok didn’t have the strength to protect his mother’s body.

So I was helplessly robbed.

It was no use crying, screaming, and begging while holding onto the messenger’s trouser leg.

“I have to repay my debt to Jeonghyeok.”

This time, there was no word of apology.

If Jeong-hyeok had had a lot of seed money… … the history of the underground financial world in South Korea would have been different.

If he had inherited everything from the Jeong family, he would have probably become a big shot who would rule not only South Korea but the world.

He may become a greater tycoon than Rothschild or Rockefeller.

“I will give everything of the Jeong family to Jeong-hyeok. You must retrieve what I left at the Daehan Bank.”

It was unexpected.

This was a top secret that was secretly revealed only to Cha Seong-jun when he was chosen as the successor to the Jeong family.

“The password remains the same.”

“You still haven’t changed it?”

“Because you have to get it back at any time.”

Jeong Dong-jin quickly added.

“Find everything you left at the Bank of Korea. Give that to Jeong-hyeok as well.”

“Are you planning to leave the burden of the Jeong family on Jeong-hyeok?”

“This is… …just compensation for damages.”

Jeong Dong-jin had already made a promise.

If you have been harmed, ask for compensation.

The debt that Jeong-hyeok had never been able to repay, a debt that he probably would never be able to repay in his lifetime, was too great.

“Jeong-hyeok will never have a chance to get involved in the underworld or the underground financial world.”

That’s such a shame.

If you were my son, he would have grown up to be a great loan shark.

There was no one who deserved the title of loan shark king as much as he did.

Because he was more than enough to succeed me.

What more can I say about this guy who climbed to that position by selling one of his kidneys for the money he earned?

“Your son, he is definitely a bad guy.”

Jeong Dong-jin laughed.

“After seeing Jeong-hyeok, I realized. I raised you wrong.”

Cha Seong-jun’s eyes widened as if he had heard something unexpected.

“You grew up so well and uselessly. You don’t fit in with this world.”

A heartfelt compliment.

It was the first time.

“You did something that a friend of yours would not do, so you deserve to be stabbed. Go ahead and stab me. I’ll take as many hits as you want.”

Cha Seong-jun didn’t say anything.

Because I realized that this was Jeong Dong-jin’s expression of apology.

“Falcon, horse head, golden teeth, magpie mountain… … In fact, I believed in them until the very end.”

Jeong Dong-jin’s eyes stared into the distance.

Like someone reminiscing about the good old days.

“A comfortable, peaceful, and honorable old age, that’s good too. It’s not bad either.”

When I let go of my greed, my perspective on the world changed.

I couldn’t even remember when I last looked up at the sky from the street like this.

I had nice clothes, a nice car, a nice house, and I never spent a lot of time on the dirt floor trying to order people around with my fingertips.

“Skunk, you have to take responsibility for that guy, Seongjun.”

I used to wonder why only he was dragged to the central court, but now I think I know.

“You can think of it as a gift from your son. The time you wasted going to the central court won’t be a loss.”

“You are speaking weakly without any response.”

I heard you were seriously ill.

All the muttering he said was words that did not sound like Jeong Dong-jin.

“I guess it’s time to die. I guess you’ll just have to do the same.”

I almost forgot.

“Oh, tell your older sister that I will keep my mouth shut during the interview with the afterlife, so she can go to the grave and say whatever she wants. It would be better if you added that, if possible, she should give the family ring to Jeong-hyeok.”

Cha Seong-jun couldn’t answer easily.

“I interfered with your marriage, tried to tie you down with a will, cut you off from information. There must be many more.”

Jeong Dong-jin snickered.

“Blame me. You and Soojin can do that.”

The resentment and regret that had been eating away at a corner of Cha Seong-jun’s heart for a long time kept stirring.

The pent-up emotions that used to surge up loudly from time to time began to flow away like dough.

“The day we wrote the blood oath. If I had known that would be our last, I would have given you a meal before we left.”

Jeong Dong-jin smiled apologetically.

“That was the only regret of my life.”

“I could eat that meal right now.”

Cha Seong-jun chuckled.

I hate and resent the person who gave me the day I die, and I wonder what’s the use of it all.

It’s not like we didn’t have some good memories of living together for over ten years.

Maybe that’s why I felt a refreshing smile for the first time in ten years.

“What’s so difficult about that?”

Cha Seong-jun held out his hand.

It was a hand stained with blood.

Jeong Dong-jin hesitated, unable to bring himself to take her hand.

“Isn’t it a bit uncomfortable if things continue like this?”

“Of course I feel uneasy.”

Jeong Dong-jin admitted to Sun-sun.

“This isn’t something that can just be overlooked. Tell me what’s right and what’s wrong. If it’s a punishment, I’ll take it.”

“I left that corner of the house because I didn’t like it, but do I still have to follow the rules of the Jeong family?”

Is that so… … .

“Then what are the rules of the Cha family?”

“There is a very famous slogan. Don’t you know ‘Taeseong is one family!’?”

“I know that.”

“What’s the use of arguing over what’s right and wrong with family that eats from the same pot?”

Cha Seong-jun put his hand between Jeong Dong-jin’s armpits and lifted him up.

Then he carried me on his back.

“You can just ignore mistakes and give them a compliment when they do something well.”

“Well done.”

Jeong Dong-jin patted Cha Seong-jun’s head.

It was the first time.

Cha Seong-jun stopped right there, carrying Jeong Dong-jin.

“This Jeong Dong-jin doesn’t suit weak and muffled sounds. This is the real deal, a toothless tiger.”

“After you eat a hearty meal and fill your stomach, you will feel the energy of a tiger rise up.”

“If that’s what you’re saying, then so be it. As we live, days like this come.”

It was also a first for Jeongdongjin.

It was Sungjun who carried him like this.

“As we live, there are days like this. When I was little, I was carried by my maternal uncle, so should we just brush this off?”

“Hahaha. You’re still in business at a loss.”

“What’s the point of living with your family and arguing about profit and loss? I don’t mind losing a little.”

Cha Seong-jun silently took care of the IV and medical equipment connected to Jeong Dong-jin’s body.

Since it was mounted on a cart and even had a spare battery attached, moving it around wasn’t that difficult.

Jeong Dong-jin was looking down at Cha Seong-jun like that.

I gently put my arms around Seongjun’s neck.

“I feel like I’ve been teaching the wrong things all this time.”

“I’m sorry I couldn’t live up to your expectations.”

“It means that he grew up well, like a human being, like a man, like a father.”

Jeong Dong-jin shook his skinny legs.

“At this rate, when are you going to go to a restaurant? It’d be faster to die of hunger than to die of pain.”

“Anyway, my temper is going.”

It was when Cha Seong-jun took a big step forward.

Jeong Dong-jin whispered in his ear.

“Seongjun, I don’t know about anything else, but you have to pass on your shadow line to Jeonghyeok.”

The shadow line was an information line established by Cha Seong-jun as the successor to the Jeong family.

Cha Seong-jun, who had been walking slowly, stopped for a moment.

“Since I left the Jeong family, it has been out of my hands.”

“The secret agent tried everything to gain control, but when you left, the key informants also went underground and were not successful.”

As for Cha Seong-jun, it was none of his business.

“Do you know who it ended up in? It’s Representative Choi Il-tae.”

Thanks to this, Choi Il-tae was able to take control of the political world.

He passed it on to his grandson. That grandson is Namsan Charlemeori. Cha Seong-jun walked on silently without answering.

“That guy named Namsan Chargeomeori is sinister and greedy. He will definitely be a stumbling block to Jeonghyeok.”

Words that he could not bring himself to say lingered in Jeong Dong-jin’s throat.

In order to borrow your information line, Jeong-hyeok had to pay the price by cutting off his own finger.

I can’t just stand by and watch that happen, Seongjun.

“When Soojin disappeared without a trace. What if your shadow line was still alive?”

Towering.

Cha Seong-jun’s footsteps stopped.

“There would have been no shame in kneeling before Secretary Kim, no reason to hesitate about whether or not to come see me, and no need to waste time searching every corner of the country.”

Cha Seong-jun didn’t say anything, but I could tell by the feeling he felt throughout his body.

That he was greatly agitated.

“It was your legacy that should have gone to your son, not the Choi family.”

“… … .”

“Just hold it like a joker. Whether you use it or not, it’s up to Jeong-hyeok. Do you really want to leave the same regrets on your son?”

Jeong Dong-jin shook his head.

“Go to Jeong-hyeok and ask him directly. If he wants to take over the information organization that Namsan Chargeomeori used to run, then you can just do whatever Jeong-hyeok wants.”

Jeong Dong-jin began to nod off.

“Jeong-hyeok, that guy, had a really deep relationship with those two women… … . It’s just ridiculous that that smart guy didn’t notice it until the very end… … .”

Laughter kept flowing out.

“I knew it at a glance, but why doesn’t a guy with two perfectly good eyes recognize his own bloodline? … … . There’s no such thing as a smart-aleck … .”

With those words, Jeong Dong-jin closed his eyes.

The wheezing sound gradually became quieter.

Cha Seong-jun walked silently.

“Take a rest, uncle.”

The sound of Cha Seong-jun’s footsteps and the sound of the cart being pulled mixed with the sound of insects on a summer night.

“Let’s take a nap and wake up to eat together. This time, I’ll buy you something.”

Bam.

Jeong Dong-jin’s arm, which had been holding Cha Seong-jun’s shoulder, fell limply.

But there was still a satisfied smile on Jeong Dong-jin’s lips.

* * *

The news that the head of the Jeong clan, Jeong Dong-jin, had died spread like wildfire.

The incident caused enormous waves in both political and business circles.

“What? The loan shark Jeong Dong-jin is dead?”