Chapter 169 – Going to the Olympics.

Now that October is drawing to a close, the weather is getting very cool.
But today, I was sweating and exercising with the Olympic Asian region qualifiers in mind.
But suddenly the director called me.

“Sungjin. This made things a bit cumbersome. The association is not accepting your application.”

“Yes? No, what’s the reason? Could it be because of the work of Congressman Kim Seong-ryeol last time?”

“What. They say that the representative players have not been selected yet, but isn’t that the case?”

“Isn’t the representative player selected? Even if I won the national championship? Wow~ It’s too much to do. Aren’t you doing something too obvious?”

“Wait just a little longer. There is still time, and I will talk to Director Kim and apply again to the association..”

“Yes. All right. Thank you for caring so much. I will take a look.”

I was in a bad mood, but I finished my workout and returned home.

It was late, but I called Kwang-shik hyung.

“Older brother. This is Sungjin.”

I told the boxing association that they were refusing to register as players because of the work of Congressman Seong-ryeol Kim’s son during the last National Sports Festival.
Kwang-sik hyung ran wild again, stopped me from coming to me right away, and started talking about countermeasures.

“…So, brother, please set up a table with President Kim Hyeon-sam soon. And how did the last investigation with Congressman Kim Seong-ryeol and Jeong Dae-sik go?”

“Huh. It’s all over. Shall I hand over the data?”

“Yes. Please hand over the transcript of the statements made by the Kwangseong faction members that I mentioned last time, as well as the data of Congressman Kim Seong-ryeol this time.”

“Okay. I get it. I will make an appointment with the president soon and contact you.”

And on the evening of the first Saturday in November, unexpectedly, I was invited to President Kim Hyeon-sam’s house together with Kwang-sik hyung.

“Welcome, Seongjin. It’s late, but congratulations on winning the National Sports Festival.”

“Thank you. Mr. Governor. I don’t know what to do with you inviting me to your house like this.”

“Don’t be too pressured, relax and go.”

“Yes. All right.”

First, we simply sat on the sofa and drank tea while talking about daily life and the National Sports Festival.

When the meal was ready, we ate quietly.
The food was prepared in advance and the food tasted great.

After a pleasant dinner, we moved to Hyunsam Kim’s study and started talking.

“Now, the general election is 5 months away. You must be busy preparing for party nominations and candidate registration, so thank you for taking the time.”

“No. I don’t know about anyone else, but I really wanted to meet Seongjin-gun once again.”

I put the data given to me by Kwang-shik on the table.

“What is this?”

“Yes. This is the record of the perpetrators of the last attempted kidnapping of the president. Perhaps, in this nomination, most of the people on the side of Congressman Park Jung-eon will be nominated. Then, there is a high possibility that people who follow you will leave you due to disappointment. Either way, the party will win the election. However, as factional conflict within the party grows, the position for the president becomes increasingly narrow. To prepare for that, I deliberately did not inform the outside world of the kidnapping of the president. Now, you need to inform the leading candidates on the side of Congressman Park Jeong-eon and take this opportunity to take a picture of Congressman Park Jeong-eon. Then, you will completely take over the Hanja Party and be smoothly appointed as the presidential candidate.”

Kim Hyun-sam took out the materials I handed over and read them one by one.

“Hmm. You prepared meticulously. So, where are the gangsters in this material right now?”

“Yes. I then made a recording and handed it over to the police. If you look at the data, you can even find out where you are serving your sentence in prison.”

After I finished talking, I handed out another document to Kim Hyeon-sam.

“And this is a resource that can be used in the next general election.”

“Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol? Why is this person suddenly appearing?”

Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol was a third-term lawmaker belonging to the Park Jeong-eon faction of the current Hanja Party.
However, he was like an opportunist who was elected to the 4th term by transferring directly to the party he was created through.

“According to my analysis, it seems that Chairman Jung Joo-hyun will soon enter the presidential race. To do so, we will create a party, and there is a high possibility that we will aim for the general election next year. Then, Congressman Kim Seong-ryeol here will probably move the party to the first priority.”

Rumors about Chairman Jung Joo-hyun had already been circulating in the family, so Kim Hyun-sam had also heard about it, but Kim Hyun-sam was very surprised when I accurately pinpointed it.

“No, how did you know about that? It is literally top secret that Chairman Jung Joo-hyun is moving.. It’s really amazing.”

“It is overrated. I came to know this by collecting and analyzing this and that information. It’s not that great.”

Kim Hyeon-sam looked at his data on Congressman Kim Seong-ryeol this time.
Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol was a common member of the National Assembly who received quite a lot of money from large companies here and there.
He also said that he exerted pressure on the association this time as a member of the sports subcommittee of the National Assembly.

“President, in my estimation, there is a high possibility that Chairman Jung Joo-hyun’s party will cause a sensation in the general election next year. Considering Chairman Chung Ju-hyun’s positional image and the speed of Korea’s economic development, the atmosphere is so good that he is highly likely to become president. That’s why we need to be sure to defeat the general election. The data of Congressman Seong-ryeol Kim you see now will be helpful next year.”

At the same time, I told Kim Hyeon-sam, who was reading the data, what I had experienced with Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol and Jeong Dae-sik at the National Sports Festival.
As soon as my story was over, Kwang-sik hyung-nim showed enthusiasm and explained that he was going to participate in the Olympic Asian regional qualifier this time, but he was blocked by the association.

Kim Hyeon-sam was also smiling as he quickly understood what Kwang-shik and I were trying to say.
It was Kim Hyeon-sam who realized that he had been preparing like this to relieve the pressure being put on me under the pretext of Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol.

“Seongjin-gun, you are the champion of the National Sports Festival, so of course you have the right to participate in the Olympic qualifiers, but doesn’t it make sense that the boxing association is unfairly blocking him?”

“Yes. That’s right. It’s important that I go to the Olympics, but I’m telling the president like this because it’s a pity that these corrupt public officials are eating up our country. And, if possible, I also wanted to be of some help to the president in the general elections next year.”

“Okay. Let me handle this on my own.”

We talked a lot after that.

We talked a lot, from when to use the materials most appropriately, to Kim Hyun-sam and Kim Se-joong’s private training, and Park Jeong-eon and how to film Haneulhoe.

The more he did, the more Kim Hyun-sam admired my thoughts, and he would look at me with those greedy eyes again.
I had to finish the conversation with a cold sweat in his eyes.

We were about to say goodbye and leave, but Kim Hyun-sam said something to us.

“Sungjin. Submit the documents to the association again after the weekend.”

“Ah, I see. Thank you.”

Kwang-shik and I bowed to Kim Hyeon-sam and returned home.

On Monday, a phone call came to the boxing association president’s office.
After a while, the president of the boxing association burst open the door of the president’s office and came out with a reddened face and shouted.

“Director Jung. Where is Director Jeong? Please come to my room right away.”

After a while, director Jeong Dae-shik came into the chairman’s office in a hurry.

“Chairman, you said you were looking for it in a hurry. What’s going on?”

“Hey. Director Jung Are you crazy? If he wants to die, he dies alone. Why are you trying to kill me too?”

“No, what do you mean?”

It was Jeong Dae-sik, the director, who looked at the head of the association, who was burning with anger, with a bewildered expression.

“Didn’t you hear that you tried to get your son to stand in the National Sports Festival after receiving money from Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol?”

“Ah.. Ah.. Nee. How?”

“And I heard that Lee Seong-jin, who won the championship at the time, refused to register for the Asian regional qualifiers for this Olympics.”

“That… That… Isn’t it already decided internally?”

“It’s already been uncovered. I got a call from President Kim Hyun-sam’s secretary today. If you don’t do it right, you and I will all die. Know?”

“Yes? President Kim Hyeon-sam?”

“Okay. I mean Kim Hyun-sam, the president of the Hanja Party. Can you afford that?”

“Yes? How can I afford that?”

“If you knew, Lee Seong-jin would register you, and you would be out of this Olympics. I’m handing over everything I’m doing to Director Kim and taking care of myself. Because if you do it wrong, you and I will end up going to the goal. Okay?”

“Yes. Yes. All right.”

Director Jeong Dae-sik was so surprised that he had to leave the chairman’s office without even calming his beating heart.
What the hell did he do? He was instigated by Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol and tried to crush Lee Seong-jin, but Kim Hyun-sam moved.

It was not a problem to be fired from the association if you did something wrong, but you could be arrested.
Jeong Dae-sik, who had risen to the board of directors of the association due to his long political activities, could feel that the current situation was not a situation to rush forward.

Returning to his seat, Jeong Dae-shik immediately called Rep. Kim Seong-ryeol and said that he could not come out any longer, then hung up the phone.

With no idea how to deal with the situation, I had to call the gym where Seongjin Lee was attending.

After the weekend, I went to the gym in the evening after working hecticly today.
He went to the director’s office to greet the director, but he smiled and asked me to come in.

“What are you doing, boss? You are in a good mood today.”

“Huh. During the day, I got a call from the association’s director Jeong Dae-sik. Suddenly, he politely apologized to me and told me to come in tomorrow with the documents to participate in the Asian Olympic qualifying round.”

“Ah, was it because of that? Thank god. Director, please do your best.”

“Okay. That’s normal. Anyway, great Lee Sungjin. How the hell did you solve it?”

“What. Could the world have gone right? Wasn’t it only natural that I should participate?”

I was able to exercise so comfortably.

However, Jeong Dae-sik did not end with this.
In the general elections next year, if the lobbying incident of the son of Rep. Seong-ryeol Kim broke out, director Jeong Dae-sik would have no choice but to escape arrest.

Other than the case of Jeong Dae-shik, it was passing comfortably without any problems.

Today was my birthday after a year.

In the morning, even though she was full, her mother cooked seaweed soup.

When I went to work, Mrs. Jeong-hee, Mrs. Hyo-seon, and the staff celebrated my birthday with a cake.
Not only that, but Heekyung Distribution also prepared a cake downstairs, and Aunt Hyejeong, Younghee noona, and the staff celebrated her birthday again.

It seemed like it was the first time I had received so many congratulations on my birthday.
I was going to spend some noisy time and do some work, but suddenly the phone rang at the office.

An urgent voice said that her mother was going into labor and that she needed to be taken to the hospital.
I immediately spoke to Aunt Hyo-seon, took her car home, and took her mother to the hospital.

After a while, Aunt Jeong-hee, Aunt Hye-jeong, and Young-hee arrived at the hospital.
Everyone was fidgeting outside when suddenly a nurse came looking for me.
My mother wanted to see me, so she asked me to go into the delivery room.

Everyone seemed to think it was absurd when she said that she was not a husband and she wanted to see her son while giving birth.
Whether everyone thinks it strange or not, I put on a gown and entered the delivery room with a trembling heart.
The mother was sweating profusely, clutching at her nurse and screaming.

“Mom, I’m here. I’ll catch you.”

I quickly went to the nurse’s side and took my mother’s hand instead of the nurse’s.

“Sungjin. Ahh… Seongjin-ah. Aww..”

My mother grabbed my hand and kept screaming.

“Teacher’s mother is in so much pain, isn’t it okay?”

When my mother was in so much pain, I asked a question to the female doctor sitting in the middle.

“Yes. Do not worry. It is a pain that every pregnant woman experiences. I was worried because my mother is old, but she is so healthy that it will be over soon.”

I was relieved to hear that it would be over soon, but after about three hours, the baby came out.
Watching my mother suffer for three hours was literally drudgery.
Still, I felt relieved when the doctor said that she was in good shape, but my mother was exhausted with a hoarse throat.

In her mother’s arms, who was taken to her recovery room, was an ugly, wrinkled girl who had just been born.
I thought it would be pretty because it was a baby, but I was surprised that the newly born baby looked like an alien.

But the excitement that my baby was finally born was indescribable.
I could express my joy because all my women were around my mother, but I couldn’t express the emotion of the birth of my baby.

After the baby was taken to the infant room and her mother fell asleep, I thanked everyone and sent her back to work.
I quietly sat beside her mother, held her mother’s hand, and looked down at her swollen, haggard face.

“Thank you. Hee Kyung. Thank you so much for giving birth to my baby like this and for being safe and sound.”

He kissed her mother’s hand and spoke quietly.
Of course, my mother, who was asleep, said what she thought she wouldn’t hear, but I saw a bright smile on her mother’s lips.

“Uh? Hee-kyung, are you awake? Sorry. I must have woken you up.”

“No. I was awakened involuntarily by her sweet voice. Isn’t my baby so pretty? My dear baby i’m so happy right now I love you. Seongjin.”

With tears in her eyes, my mother held my hand tightly.

“Yes. I love you so much too. My wife Hee-kyung.”

I got up and kissed her mother on the mouth.

“Ah! Come to think of it, my baby Sungjin and I have the same birthday. Ho Ho.”

Mysteriously, my baby was born on my birthday.

“Hee-kyung. It’s really my best birthday present. Thank you.”

“Huh. Mr. Seongjin Honey. Happy birthday.”

We had another long kiss.