Time Mansour - Chapter 23



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Episode 23 Not Me

“Your little brother?”

I find myself asking out loud without realizing it.

My mouth is wide open and won’t close.

The chili powder stuck between them was clearly visible.

“That representative of Ive?”

“Isn’t he essentially a conglomerate?”

The other guys didn’t react much differently.

Before I knew it, I had put my fork down on the table and was looking at Seongtae with wide eyes.

“Yeah. I thought you knew, Youngjun. I guess Director Lee didn’t tell you.”

Seongtae munches with his mouth full of food.

He clacks his teeth together, making a crunching sound.

somehow.

The amount was too large for the restoration cost.

Besides, at the time, I wasn’t even registered as a business owner, so processing expenses would have been quite complicated.

I was wondering how you solved that.

It was possible because this director was the CEO’s younger brother.

“But why the director?”

“I heard you originally worked abroad for another company. It must have only been a short time since you joined Ive.”

“Then you’re going to learn from your brother?”

“No. Rather, it felt like he came and helped me out for a little while.”

Anyway, it won’t hurt to become friends. Seongtae mutters as he empties his bowl.

“I envy you. I envy you.”

“Don’t be jealous. They are from a different world than us anyway.”

I couldn’t help but chuckle when I saw Myeonggyu’s face, which looked genuinely envious.

So are you pretty? How old are you? Even if that person is ugly, would you be the only one? Get a grip. But I’m okay, right? Etc.

So let’s talk a little more about this director.

“Let’s get up after we’re done eating.”

Seongtae gets up from his seat first.

The chair slides back with a creaking sound.

Hurry up. Hurry up. The traffic is going to be blocked soon. It’s getting late. Seongtae walks towards the door before he can hear our answer.

“He’s crazy. He ate it all. That. That. He just left without even paying.”

Seeing that sight, Myeong-gyu shouts loudly.

Myung-gyu’s curses follow Seong-tae’s head out the door.

**

“There’s a car on the other side. We’ll go that way.”

“Okay. Goodbye.”

Guk-yeong and Chang-seok, who rode in Myeong-gyu’s car together, point in the opposite direction.

So the rest of the kids crossed the crosswalk and only Seongtae and I were left behind.

Is it because I’m full? The keyboard on my back feels even heavier.

“Let’s go. I’ll take you to the nearest station.”

“What brings you here?”

“What’s going on? Hurry up and follow me.”

We have to hurry. There’s a traffic jam. Seongtae heads to the parking lot, repeating the same sentence over and over again.

Open the rear magnetic door and drop the guitar as if throwing it down.

“Hey, this too.”

I hand my keyboard to Seongtae as he tries to close the car door.

When I start it like that, I feel a vibration in the seat.

Now I’m going to relax my shoulders a bit.

Oh man. It’s heavy. I guess I should exercise if I’m going to be carrying my keyboard around from now on.

I was leaning back on the seat, worrying about such trivial things.

Suddenly, something I was curious about occurred to me and I turned my head towards Seongtae.

“Hey, but how did you become close with this director?”

If he’s a big shot, he’s a big shot.

Because he is the younger brother of CEO Ive.

And if you look at Seongtae well, he’s just an ordinary sound engineer.

In response to my question, Seongtae nods at me while holding the steering wheel.

“After I introduce you to him.”

“Before that?”

“I didn’t really know. Maybe we just saw each other’s faces from afar sometimes?”

Anyway, thanks, Shasha. Thanks to you, I got a few more events. Seongtae takes one hand off the steering wheel and taps me on the shoulder.

“So you really don’t have any thoughts?”

Seongtae blurts out as he turns the steering wheel and changes lanes.

“Uh. I don’t have any thoughts on it yet.”

“But it’s Eve?”

“You said it. You don’t look like an orphan.”

Crazy guy. One corner of Seongtae’s mouth goes up at my answer.

There was silence in the car for a while.

Suddenly.

Suddenly someone came to mind.

“Would it be rude to recommend someone other than me?”

I asked Seongtae.

**

I opened my phone and stared at it for a while.

It will close again soon.

‘Let’s talk once it’s decided.’

I’m sorry if I repeat the same mistake.

It won’t be too late to talk to this manager first and then ask him again later.

I thought about that and opened my phone.

It closes again soon.

“…”

‘I heard you’re the representative’s younger brother. I feel a bit awkward contacting you again.’

If it were before, I would have pressed the call button without thinking much.

Ignorance is bliss. Once you know, it’s hard to contact.

I wonder if it sounds too materialistic. It makes me think a lot for no reason.

First, I’ll drink a glass of water. Then I’ll do the laundry. Then I’ll clean up the keyboard. No, really. I’ll just brush my teeth and make a phone call.

like that.

It’s late today. I’ll contact you again tomorrow. I’m trying to reach that point.

At that moment.

-When do you have time?

Just then a message arrived.

Is there a CCTV in our house?

For a moment, that thought occurred to me.

**

‘The lowest people lived in the highest places.’

My mother’s old stories always began like that.

‘What. The view is nice.’

The night view was scattered under the chin.

A city in a window frame.

I look down from a high place, just like I did when I was a child.

“Are you okay?”

“Ah. Yes. It’s delicious.”

As I was chopping steak with a knife, I raised my head at the manager’s words.

“That director Jeong. Last time···”

“You can just call me Jeong. What about moving?”

He cut off the director before he could finish speaking.

Before I know it, the words I often say just come out.

“Hey. Still, Mr. Jeong is a bit like that.”

The manager waves his hand and laughs.

“My name is Youngjun. Is that okay?”

“Yes. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Youngjun or Jeong.”

And then I just kept my mouth shut and looked out the window quietly.

“The view is nice.”

“Yes. It’s beautiful.”

Take your time and take in the cityscape.

Upscale restaurants and shantytown Brok Brick Houses.

The scenery was equally beautiful.

I was so entranced that I sat there for a while, absorbed in the scenery without saying anything.

“Right. Sir. Weren’t you going to say something earlier?”

I remembered that I was interrupted mid-sentence.

I turn my head and make eye contact with this director.

“Ah! I saw you playing in a band last time on video. You played well, didn’t you?”

“Us?”

I thought he was just saying it out of politeness.

Even the grandmothers noticed. I made a lot of mistakes.

A song sung by Gukyoung without any manners. No. We just laughed along and moved on because of his vocal style.

It was definitely not something that caught the eye of people in this industry.

So I was just expecting a polite, formal answer.

“No. Just Youngjun.”

“yes?”

An unexpected answer came out of the director’s mouth.

“It was obvious that I had practiced a lot. Of course, I was also a bit disappointed because I was compared to other people.”

You’ve worked hard. Shall we have a drink? Director Lee raises his glass with a smile.

“Okay. Let’s have a drink.”

He raised his glass. The wine sloshed.

I shrug my shoulders without realizing it. Okay. I told you to hit me. My mouth was itching because I wanted to meet Seongtae quickly and tell him this.

widely.

like that.

“What are you doing these days?”

The director puts down his wine glass and asks me cautiously.

“Let’s have fun. Do some side jobs.”

“Really? Then… If you haven’t gone anywhere yet, there’s a position for a cloud engineer at our company. Do you have any thoughts?”

The director brought up the main point.

Gulp.

I swallowed without realizing it.

“What is your position?”

“Amazing Zone? Operation? Something like that, but I don’t know exactly. If you’re interested, I’ll look into it.”

The director’s eyes light up at my words.

It looks like you want me to come.

‘Chief Lee. Why is he like that?’

Honestly, I didn’t really understand why he was so kind to me.

Data recovery? Honestly, it’s true that it wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for me during that period.

It was a physically impossible time. But I’m grateful for that.

‘This manager’s level of understanding is too low.’

To someone who doesn’t know, it just seems like you’ve had a hard time.

So, I took the hard disk because I didn’t want to be suspected.

At first, I thought it was because I was quite close with Seongtae.

If you listen to Seongtaemal, it was after that that they actually became closer.

like that.

A brief moment.

I thought about it carefully on my own, but nothing really caught my eye.

Well. I don’t know. Anyway, it doesn’t seem like there’s any malicious intent.

After looking around a little more closely.

“That… ho. Could you… please… let me… see the interview with someone else… other than me?”

I also brought up the main point.

I was trying to say what I wanted to say confidently.

It didn’t come out as fluently as I thought.

I found myself choking on my words without realizing it.

As expected, asking someone for a favor isn’t easy.

That thought came to my mind first.

**

I come home and take off my socks.

Soon after, the pants and T-shirt fall limply to the floor in that order.

So I throw myself on the bed and close my eyes.

‘I got permission to interview this director.’

Then what should I say to Manager Chae?

I’m even more hesitant because of things I’ve said before.

‘I also feel sorry towards Manager Chae.’

In fact, I thought he was the right person for the job.

He was better than me at running the cloud.

Although his English was a little lacking, he was technically a accomplished engineer.

and.

Even from Manager Chae’s perspective, Ive was better than most foreign companies.

Since it’s a domestic company, English isn’t a problem.

furthermore.

‘Because Aive isn’t just an entertainment company.’

Ive is an entertainment company.

In general, everyone knows that.

‘Ives themselves actually think of themselves as a platform company.’

Entertainment platform company.

This was the direction that Ive was pursuing.

That’s probably why they invested so much in IT.

Come on. Ave. Eve.

So much so that it is called one of the top three IT companies in Korea.

In this field, it was the number one job for skilled workers in the country.

I’ve never worked with Ives before, so I’ve never actually met any of their people.

I often hear that the level of developers and engineers is quite high.

If Manager Chae learns well from them, it will be an opportunity for him to grow to the next level.

I really hoped it would work out well.

“Manager Chae… You haven’t changed jobs yet, right?”

What should I say at first? How should I bring it up?

Because it might not work out.

I hope you didn’t expect too much.

I kept mumbling the same sentence as if it was an order as I dialed Manager Chae’s number.