Chapter 178 – Episode 178

It wasn’t a bombshell, it was just a bomb.

I was sure that booming sounds were exploding in everyone here’s head right now.

‘This man explodes bombs with his mouth.’

I used to use the expression that a bomb exploded quite often. This one was different in scale from anything I had seen before.

You can think of it as a nuclear bomb.

It’s not just a rumor, it’s Chairman Han Se-ryong himself saying something like that? If those words had appeared on the news, it would have been a major incident that would have turned the entire nation upside down.

‘It’s going to turn…’ …’

The real problem is that this is not a dream.

“Ugh!”

Just in case, I pinched his cheek with the intention of tearing it off. The vivid pain calmly pointed out that this was not a dream but reality.

I’m not the only one who can’t believe it.

I can hear voices muttering here and there, pinching their thighs.

“Oh my god… “What.”

“Oh my god. Then that person says, Oh, no. That person is the next chairman of Hanban Group… “You?”

The focus that had been on Shin Hae-in just a moment ago suddenly shifted to me. In fact, even Shin Hae-in himself is just looking at me blankly with his mouth open, but I’ve said everything.

The only person who maintained his composure here was the bomber himself.

“You bitches! Who said it would work! He said it could happen, it could happen! If you look at that bastard now, even in a hundred years, that bastard will not be the chairman of the Hanban Group! “You have to listen carefully!”

That was actually fortunate.

To be honest, I wasn’t confident that I would be good at taking on the role of chairman of the Hanban Group. If the sales I heard about earlier are true, it accounts for a large portion of Korea’s annual sales.

Am I the chairman of a large company that plays such an important role?

Even if I rolled my head a hundred or thousand times, I couldn’t even imagine a similar picture. The only thing that was portrayed was the image of an asshole ruining the company due to pressure and burden.

Han Se-ryong seemed to have the same thought.

“Imagine putting that bastard here now. That is truly a disaster for the Republic of Korea, a disaster! “Is there anything that can ruin the country?”

You know very well.

“If there’s one thing that suits that poor guy as the chairman of the Hanban Group, it’s luck. Luck! “It’s so crazy that you wonder if the ancestors of the Korean Peninsula are only favoring that child.”

I wondered if it was that much.

“Just looking at that stupid face of yours makes me angry. “At this point, my granddaughter, who I believed was better than anyone else, gave up all the possibilities she had even known about and risked everything on you. You are the luckiest person in the world.”

Han Se-ryong sighed loudly.

“After all, Ae-shin, I met you at the place where I ran away due to the shock of the old man’s death. I fell completely in love with you… ! If I could turn back time, I would have broken all of Aebom’s leg clubs that day. “You can’t even run away from the mansion.”

When I heard it, I was shocked too.

It would seem absurd even if someone wrote it as a novel, but it’s reality.

No, wait a minute.

“Aebom, what do you say?”

“What the hell!” Unless I marry you, I have no interest in looking at other men. It’s not enough that he wants to live alone for the rest of his life. Unless he makes you the chairman, he won’t even get involved in housework. That’s what I’m saying!”

“…”

I’m really going crazy.

“Whoa!”

Han Se-ryong seems to be equally frustrated, so he lets out a long sigh and glares.

“The reason your value is increasing right now is not because you are good yourself. After all, Aebom, the greatness of your last years makes you shine too. Otherwise, would I be wasting my precious time here at this age because of you?”

“…”

“The same goes for Chairman Pyo. Since he knows that Aebom is by his side, he is probably trying to continue his relationship with you until the end, keeping in mind the possibility of the unknown. Yeah, you never know. Who knows whether you will truly become an incredible person who will lead the next generation.”

It was an absurd statement.

Nevertheless, for the first time, I didn’t act like an idiot. Because I said something similar to Han Ae Bom.

Being at 0 percent and converging to 0 percent were different stories.

“Damn, I don’t know what you’re thinking. The eyes are alive. Okay. I don’t know. No one knows what happens in this world except God. What if, what if… Because things often happen.”

Han Se-ryong was thinking more seriously than me that something crazy might really happen.

That great human being.

A person who may be at the top of the country called Korea is considering this possibility. Look at me.

“Thud! “Cow!”

My heart was beating like crazy. It would be even weirder if the heart didn’t beat here.

Various emotions are overflowing inside me. They pushed all the embarrassment right before their eyes to the background. At the same time, I felt like I wanted to live up to that person’s expectations.

“I am…”

Can you do it?

“I’ll give it a try.”

I suppressed the weak sound deep in my heart. It was impossible not to feel weak.

Because I was that kind of person. Now that I’ve completed some quests and accumulated various experiences, my foundation doesn’t change all at once.

I couldn’t become Han Se-ryong overnight.

“Of course I should try it.”

Han Se-ryong, glaring at me with narrowed eyes, said.

“For someone who doesn’t even take this opportunity and gets scared and runs away, it would be a hundred times better to jump off the Han River Bridge in the distance.”

“…”

“I say this sincerely.”

Although I say that. Han Se-ryong’s voice was filled with deep regret and sadness. I think he probably has Han Ae-shin’s death in mind.

Even such a strong person is shaken by the death of his family…

“You lucky bastard.”

“Yes? Yes.”

“If you don’t want to be remembered as a bastard who got lucky until I caught up with him, then you shouldn’t live like a coward like you are now.”

“…”

“You can be afraid of failing. Aren’t you afraid of me? Because of my one choice, the future of nearly 300,000 employees and their families are all dying. However, you should not give up on moving forward just because you are afraid of failure.”

I thought as I pricked up my ears.

What if I heard those words in a phone call or something? No, if I had seen it as a message at all, would it have touched my heart this much?

“High risk, high return. Because you take risks, you receive more rewards. And, the person with the most advantage in this world is someone like you.”

“I… “What?”

“Okay. Hey. If I’m as lucky as you, failure isn’t a failure. Take a look around you. Stocks, business… Wouldn’t it be easy to fail in a high-risk challenge? No. There are only one million people who cannot get up again if they fail even once. “Those people are literally standing on tiptoe on the guillotine.”

That’s what I heard.

That’s why everyone says they have a gold spoon and are jealous. Because there are more opportunities.

“But what about you? “Even though he’s just opening his mouth like an idiot, he’s anxious because I can’t spoon-feed him here and there.”

It’s not wrong; my face got hot.

“I envied people like you the most while building up the Hanban Group. At the same time, I hate people like you the most. Look carefully. In any case, the higher you go, the more people in the world will hate you. “I’m not good at anything, but the lucky ones are the worst.”

No, I haven’t even started yet.

You’re already scaring me.

“Luck.”

“What?”

“What if I’m so lucky that I never fail?”

Han Se-ryong burst out laughing at the extremely bold question.

“Look at this guy’s talking tail? Okay. What. If that’s the case, please tell me. “It all depends on success.”

“Yes?”

“Do you succeed despite taking risks? Or it will be the difference between safely succeeding.”

“Are you saying we will succeed safely?”

“Yes, you know someone well. The vice president of Ilha Group.”

“… !”

Han Se-ryong spoke as if he was truly sorry. Unlike treating me like an asshole, he showed some respect for Oh Hanam.

“That bastard is truly a waste of money. He is smart and has good action skills. The problem is that they are too cowardly.”

“…”

“Maybe it’s because the kid’s brains are so good. No matter what work I do, I always proceed with triple or quadruple safety devices. But, think about it differently. What would happen if the effort put into that safety device was used to move forward?”

“High risk, high return. “You can achieve much greater results, right?”

“Okay. That’s it.”

Han Se-ryong said.

“Still, safely, safely. “If I had to choose the best among the kids who are always struggling desperately to succeed because they are afraid of failure, it would be Oh Hanam.”

“…”

“What’s really great about that bastard is. Even though she has never failed before. It means being prepared to face failure at any time. That’s easier said than done. It looks like poor construction, but it is not poor construction. Tsk. Now that I talk about it, I see that that kid is not normal either. Ugh.”

Of course.

If that bastard was normal, I might have left Earth right away and escaped to space.

“From what I heard, it sounds like Oh Hanam visits you often. If you train it well, you can treat it like your pet.”

“Yes? What kind of horrible sound…”

“You bastard! Are you in a position to decide whether to eat cold food or hot food? Cowardly people like Oh Hanam are suspicious and sensitive. That’s why I can’t live comfortably under the same roof, even with the same parents.”

I think it’s similar to that for me too.

… I thought about it and then shook my head. Now that I think about it, I think I slept well at my parents’ house.

“On the outside, there is no one as perfect as that bastard. He is kind to people and listens well to his parents. However, because people have to be aware of such things every time, they become increasingly crazy. Even I sometimes have a hard time letting go of my built-up anger, but that kid must be in a terrible mood.”

“Sometimes?”

Han Se-ryong’s eyes became sharp as laughter broke out here and there.

“This bastard?”

“Sorry. Without even knowing.”

“Tsk. The flow of the story was interrupted for a moment. Surprisingly, a guy like Oh Ha-nam laughs that if you give him his heart, he can put a knife in his back.”

That’s just as scary as it is, isn’t it?

“Do what I said sound like a joke?”

“No. But, why?”

“Why? That’s because I like it that much. When people like that meet someone they like, they rush at him from the beginning, prepared to stab him in the back. Still, it only sticks to people it thinks are good for it. My personality is like that. “Because they are very cautious and strange.”

At that moment, Oh Hanam’s smiling face briefly flashed before my eyes and I got goosebumps.

If Han Se-ryong’s words are true.

Instead of protecting Ohana from her, shouldn’t you be protecting me first? Fuck. When I look at that bastard these days, the possibility is not zero, but it’s even scarier.

“So, in any case, Oh Hanam…”

“Ouch!”

“What’s wrong with this guy? Anyway, he’s friendly with that bastard, so it won’t hurt you. If we get the chance, it would be nice to become friends.”

Han Se-ryong, who had said that much, took a sip of water and stood up.

He says while patting his waist.

“I think my business is done at this point. I guess I’ll just go. And then, you go and spend the night with the two bitches you used to hang out with here. “I’ll ask those bitches later how it was, so don’t think about it.”

“Yes?”

When I flinched and looked at him, Han Se-ryong shouted one last time.

“You pathetic bastard. Do you want to be this Han Se-ryong, or Ilha Group’s Oh Hanam…? …”

I answered like a sword.

“I will go to sleep.”

“Yeah, that’s right. This bastard suddenly cuts him off and says damn it. Then have fun with the young ones. “I’m going to leave the old man who is on the verge of falling behind.”

“Oh! Come in, Chairman!”

“Please come again next time! “I had fun today!”

I swallowed my saliva as I looked at Han Se-ryong’s back as he walked away. I realized right away that I couldn’t become Oh Hanam, but…

I took a quick look around.

Now I was the only man. Moreover, maybe it was because Han Se-ryong made a shocking statement. The eyes of women looking at me are unusual.

Even a dog that starved for three days wouldn’t look like that.

“Have fun with us, master.”

Master?

“Hyeonwoo oppa! You know that there was nothing we could do due to the Chairman’s order, right? Please forgive generously!”

“Hyeonwoo, bathroom! “Would you like to go to the bathroom?”

I steeled myself as I saw the five women clinging to each other like zombies. If you want to be like Han Se-ryong, you shouldn’t be swayed by things like this.

“Cheers!”

“Cheers!”

「Jjaeang!」

I thought about this while clinking glasses with the girls.

He’s a man who would do it too. I’m going to prove it here.

It was definitely like that.

When I came to my senses, I found myself being grabbed by Shin Hae-in and Park Shin-yeon and going into the bedroom.

Crazy. Why?