episode_0379

“Hahahaha! Father! Isn’t today a day to celebrate!”

In the car on the way to my parents’ house.

They were laughing out loud, but no one answered me.

My father and older brother had complicated expressions on their faces, but since my older brother was driving himself and not a chauffeur, I didn’t have to be careful with my words.

“Father, I have three grandchildren. What should I name my children?”

“… … .”

“… … ”

“Well, do you have any advice for me? I heard that diapers for kids are expensive, but I’m lucky my father is a wealthy man.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

“There’s no need to worry about the kids being bullied. If the three of them stick together and get along, who would bully them?”

As I continued to pour out my words, my older brother said, tightening his grip on the steering wheel.

“Woojin, shut up, it’s complicated.”

“What is it? It’s something to celebrate.”

“Whew, I didn’t get hit in the head or anything.”

The eldest brother glances at his father.

My father stares blankly out the window.

My father’s expression reflected in the window was deeply thoughtful, and the moment I saw it, I felt my head, which had been hot, cool down.

“… … Now that I think about it, that’s true.”

If you think about it logically, isn’t it crazy to impregnate three women at the same time?

Of course, I intend to take responsibility.

From an outsider’s perspective, isn’t this just the result of the youngest son of a wealthy family’s extremely promiscuous sex life?

“Sigh.”

The older brother let out a long sigh.

When I finally arrived at my parents’ house and went inside, my mother was waiting for me.

“Why does our youngest who got screwed over cause trouble when we let him out of the house?”

With a club in hand.

“Wait a minute! Mom! Wait a minute!”

Despite my screams, my mother ran over without hesitation.

“Hey, you little punk! Three, three!? I told you to pick one person, not all three? What are you going to do with this!”

“Who told you? Big brother? Telling you this?!”

“… … .”

I didn’t want to get beaten with a stick, so I tried to run outside again.

“Evening.”

My father said that indifferently, passing it by.

“Eat from dinner.”

“Ah… … Okay.”

Did he sense something ominous in his father’s appearance?

Mom put down the club and slowly headed toward the restaurant.

Even if I go to a restaurant, I won’t be cooking myself anyway.

‘I want to go to the kids.’

It’s already 7 o’clock in the evening.

If I go back now, will the kids still be there?

I tried to suppress my desire to meet you right away, but I tried to send you a text message.

“Do not contact.”

My older brother snatches my cell phone away and glares at me.

“What is it? Why?”

“Father hasn’t said anything yet. If you keep talking nonsense here, the kids will get hurt more.”

“What the hell is this nonsense?”

“For example… … .”

The older brother hesitated for a moment and then answered with a sigh.

“I’ll take full responsibility. Something like that.”

“Fuck, then take full responsibility. Who are you abandoning?”

When I shouted in anger, my older brother responded annoyed for the first time.

“Don’t talk nonsense. This is the Republic of Korea.”

“We’ve already surpassed that.”

“Sigh.”

“Originally, people around them would point fingers at great people and call them delusional.”

“I’m telling you to act sensibly.”

“I’m not hurting anyone. No matter what my brother says, I’ll embrace it all. Even the kids acknowledge it.”

“in… … Jeong?”

My brother looked at me with an expression that said it was ridiculous, but he smiled and stopped me.

“I’m a big shot.”

I heard the sound that dinner was ready.

When we went to the restaurant, my younger brother and sister-in-law were already seated, and my older sister-in-law also took her seat without me noticing.

It seems that he was here because he had told me in advance.

‘We’ll need three more chairs.’

So that all the kids can sit down.

Or just don’t eat here.

I said that because I thought it would be annoying to be treated unfairly.

Less noise.

The meal began with my father picking up a spoon and eating the soup.

A rather late dinner.

The dining table was quiet.

However, it was not peaceful.

Everyone was either checking my father’s expression or swearing at me with their eyes.

If I could hear the rolling sound of my pupils, I know it would be really loud.

After the meal.

“Woojin to my room. You too.”

My father called my mother and me into a separate room.

My mom slapped my back on the way there, but I went inside anyway.

My father sat on the chair in the study as usual.

My mother made tea next to me and served it to me simply, and only after taking a sip did my father open his mouth.

“I wanted you to follow in my footsteps.”

A voice without highs or lows.

However, it didn’t have the usual heavy feeling.

“I thought he was a child who looked just like me. A child who would make the company grow even bigger.”

“… … .”

“If I.”

After taking a moment to catch my breath, my father finally blurted out a word.

“What if I don’t allow it?”

“I don’t need my father’s permission.”

“Woojin!”

My mother was shouting at me from the side, asking what kind of habit it was, but my father raised his hand to stop me.

“I’ll be with those kids somehow. Money? It’ll be hard without the support of the space group right now.”

but.

“Do you think I can’t earn that?”

Even though it was a bit bravado-y, I was pretty confident.

“It won’t be that easy. Being thrown out there with nothing.”

“You haven’t forgotten who your father wanted to leave the company to, have you?”

“… … .”

“There is only one reason I am confident. Because my father acknowledged me.”

One of the largest corporations in South Korea.

Chairman Kim, who wrote the myth of the Space Group.

My father, who was literally called a giant, noticed my talent.

“Because my father’s eyes are never wrong, I will work hard with confidence.”

Let’s answer coolly. After a moment of hesitation, my father asked.

“What if I ask you to sit in my seat in exchange for my recognition?”

“You have to do it.”

“Hmm.”

“I said that earlier, but I don’t want to live with my family. Anyway, if there’s a way to live a full life, I’ll choose that.”

If my father asks me to lead the space group in exchange for his recognition, I will do so.

I will do my best and somehow go in the direction my father wants.

When my father heard that, he let out a hollow laugh and nodded.

“became.”

“Yes?”

“Woojin, you… … .”

Although he seemed reluctant to admit it, my father spoke honestly with a bitter smile.

“I am too big a person for our universe to contain.”

“… … .”

“If I hold you in, the pottery called the universe might break.”

It was the first time.

For the first time ever.

My father looked at me and couldn’t hold back his innocent laughter as he spoke.

“You live on your own. I’m sure you can handle it well enough to avoid causing trouble.”

“That means… … .”

“I won’t do anything for you. You have to take care of everything yourself, such as the eyes of others, persuading your parents-in-law, and registering your family.”

But my father added with a smile, as if he could imagine it.

“But later, bring your daughters-in-law and introduce them to me.”

Daughters-in-law.

The corners of his mouth rose slowly as if in slow motion after hearing the answer.

“Oh, of course!”

He nodded confidently.

“Go out, if I see you one more time today, I think I’ll get whipped for the first time in 10 years.”

“Ouch!”

He quickly turns his body and heads outside.

Just before grabbing the doorknob and opening the door, he turned his head and spoke to his father.

“I don’t want to be a father like my father.”

“… … .”

“My father was the chairman, but he wasn’t a parent.”

You didn’t deny it.

The mother next to me also seemed to have no excuse for that.

“But please do a good job as grandfather.”

With those words, he opened the door and went out.

* * *

Squeak.

thud.

“Father, did you call me?”

A few minutes after Kim Woojin left.

Kim Jae-woon came inside.

A stiff atmosphere that makes you feel like you’re not meeting your parents.

Although she was a woman who did not like the situation, she did not interfere right away and just watched the situation quietly.

The smile he showed while dealing with Kim Woo-jin was also like that.

She could sense that something was changing about her husband.

“People are cunning.”

Chairman Kim, who moistened his mouth with the tea his wife had made for him, spoke calmly.

As if confessing something.

“I’ve seen countless people like that, and I wanted to be a different kind of person than them.”

“… … .”

“But in the end, I was just a mean human being.”

Chairman Kim, smiling and giggling.

That appearance seemed to indicate that something had been put down.

“People always look at the small things they don’t have rather than the big things they have.”

“… … .”

“Jaewoon, you did that to me.”

Why would it be so?

What could it have been for?

Even with such a dependable eldest son in front of him.

The reason why I was drawn to the youngest who was just acting wild was.

Chairman Kim now felt like his eyes had finally opened.

Kim Woo-jin has a talent for captivating people.

That must be the reason why he ended up having three wives.

If you ask who is its first and biggest victim?

That would definitely be himself.

“Jaewoon, not everything was right for me.”

The moment you acknowledge your own immaturity, you naturally begin to look back on your past.

Chairman Kim was a man of learning.

“You are already doing your part. Don’t chase after me for no reason.”

Smiling broadly, Chairman Kim asked his eldest son again.

“Company, please take good care of me.”

“… … .”

Kim Jae-woon’s eyes became blurry.

For life.

A word I’ve always wanted to hear my whole life.

The person I have respected the most in my life.

The character I most wanted to resemble.

Just one word from my father.

Kim Jae-woon bent down and shouted to hide the tears that were about to flow.

“Thank you!”

Kim Jae-woon goes out.

Chairman Kim muttered, tapping his fingers on the desk.

“I guess I’m going crazy.”

Not being yourself.

He made a self-deprecating sarcastic remark to himself, but his wife next to him gently took his hand.

“Now, you are a father.”

“… … Was that so?”

Kuk.

Holding his wife’s hand, he felt not so bad.

“That’s how it felt.”

I thought that if I let go of what I was holding in my hand, I would have nothing left.

That’s why he held on to it tenaciously, and tried to pass it on to the person who would succeed him.

Actually.

When I let go of what I was holding in my hands, a sense of liberation came to me.

“From now on, Woojin is going to be a headache.”

“Oh my, I have nothing to say to my wife’s family. If it’s necessary, I’ll go with you and kneel down, right?”

“… … I guess I should at least practice.”

“Do you practice that?”

“I have never knelt before anyone in my life.”

“Are you kidding me?”

The old couple looked at each other for a moment, smiling and making eye contact.

I let out a long sigh again.

“Woojin, you really won’t help me with anything?”

“That’s what you have to do for Woojin.”

“Aha?”

“The daughters-in-law are only guilty of having met the wrong men.”

I was planning to take care of everything except for Kim Woo-jin.

In particular, they need to be strictly guarded from outside attention.

“… … It’s good to have many grandchildren.”

When I told him that I had found at least one good point, Chairman Kim made a blank expression and then nodded his head in disappointment.

“That’s, haha… …yeah, that’s good.”