Episode 205.
A heavy silence descended, accompanied by a great shock.
There wasn’t a single person in the mansion who didn’t open their eyes wide.
“That… What do you mean…?”
The first to break the silence was none other than Han Gwan-guk.
Han Gwan-guk’s expression was filled with shock and astonishment.
“Min-ah… Min-ah is the chairman? That, that can’t be. The management fight hasn’t even ended yet, so how can she…!”
“The management fight is over.”
Han Tae-san continued speaking resolutely.
“Even if it’s not over, I won’t allow this fight to continue.”
“I can’t admit this! What the heck is that now!”
Han Gwan-guk’s expression suddenly distorted.
“Do you know how I got to this point! How much I had to…!”
“know.”
“No! Father doesn’t know! If he knew, he would never make decisions like this─.”
“No, I know very well.
Han Tae-san’s expression as he looked at Han Gwan-guk was somewhat bitter.
“I made this decision knowing this.”
Han Gwan-guk gritted his teeth at Han Tae-san’s firm answer.
Soon, he raised a banner against Han Tae-san and shouted.
“Did you think I would just back down if Father said that?”
“Gwan-guk-ah.”
“Don’t make me laugh! I… I can’t admit it!”
Soon, Han Gwan-guk ran out of the mansion.
Han Min-ah moved hurriedly to catch Han Gwan-guk.
However, Han Tae-san stopped Han Min-ah.
“father…?”
That moment.
“Go, Director Go?”
Han Gwan-guk’s panicked voice was heard from outside.
A window viewed by turning one’s head.
In front of the main gate of the mansion, Chairman Han Tae-san’s direct secretary, Ko Seok-hoon, was standing in front of Han Gwan-guk, blocking him.
“I’m sorry, Director Han Gwan-guk. From here on out, we will be serving you.”
Go Seok-hoon glanced behind him, nodding.
Then, the black-clad bodyguards who had been waiting grabbed Han Gwan-guk on both sides.
“Wh, what are you doing! Let go of me! Chief Go, how dare you…!”
Han Gwan-guk glared and shouted.
I struggled with my captured body, but it didn’t mean much.
Soon, Han Gwan-guk and Ko Seok-hoon disappeared from sight outside the main gate.
“They said they were from the inspection department.”
And then I heard Han Tae-san’s words.
At some point, Han Tae-san was looking at Lee Min-jeong.
“…Oh, yes. That’s right.”
Only then did Lee Min-jung come to her senses and answer.
“I am Lee Min-jeong, team leader of the Seoul branch inspection bureau, Team 4.”
Han Tae-san nodded slightly and said.
“Excuse me, but may I ask you to take care of the government?”
“but….”
Lee Min-jung couldn’t answer easily.
Taesan Han smiled bitterly at the sight of Im Jin-jung like that.
“No matter how bad of a son he is, he is still my son. As a father, I cannot treat him harshly.”
“……”
“If they do something foolish, I ask that you suppress them by force.”
Lee Min-jung looked at Han Tae-san’s face.
And Lee Min-jung could feel the sincerity contained within it.
“…All right.”
Lee Min-jung went out of the mansion like that.
So, only Han Tae-san and Han Min-ah were left in the mansion.
“……”
And Han Min-ah couldn’t say anything.
It was just, my head was just in disarray.
What should I say? What should I say?
I couldn’t figure out anything.
“I’m sorry, Min-ah. I’m just a useless father who can do nothing but this.”
Soon, Han Tae-san’s voice was heard.
Han Min-ah stared blankly at Han Tae-san and then opened her mouth.
“What is the reason?”
“Min-ah, is that why I’m handing over the presidency to you?”
Instead of answering, Han Min-ah nodded slightly.
Of course, it was unexpected that Han Tae-san personally stepped forward and arrested Han Gwan-guk.
But it was understandable.
But I just couldn’t understand why he was stepping down from the chairmanship.
The question was not why Han Min-ah was the next president.
It was questionable why Han Tae-san was stepping down from his position as chairman.
There was absolutely no reason for that.
He wasn’t sick, nor had he lost his gun.
Han Tae-san was corrected.
The only person who can be said to be at fault for this disaster in Seoul is Han Gwan-guk.
So Han Min-ah asked.
“A long time ago, there was one thing I promised myself.”
Han Tae-san slowly opened his mouth.
“I struggled to change the world. But when I was young, I didn’t have the strength to do so.”
Han Tae-san wasn’t a person of power from the beginning.
Like everyone else, Han Tae-san’s beginnings were weak and feeble.
“I was jealous of other powerful people.”
The young Han Tae-san has the power that these people do not have.
It didn’t just mean physical strength.
The power of birth.
The power of talent.
The power of effort.
Han Tae-san felt a kind of jealousy.
“But I didn’t think of that feeling of jealousy as something so bad. Jealousy is basically a part of the feeling of wanting to be better than that person.”
“……”
“So I took it as a positive motivation to grow further and become greater and stand on top of that.”
That’s how Han Tae-san worked so hard.
Driven by jealousy, he surpassed those above him.
“But at some point, there comes a time when you hit a wall. There comes a time when you realize that you can’t go any higher. At that point, I have two choices.”
Or endlessly strive to go higher.
“Bring down those above me.”
At some point, Han Tae-san became like that.
Instead of trying to climb higher through his own efforts, he tried to bring down the person above him.
It’s like cutting out rotten roots.
He said that it was inevitable to change the world.
He brought down those above him by any means necessary.
He further trampled on those who tried to attack and prevented them from advancing.
“That’s how I got to this place.”
Hantaesan was able to stand on the summit.
And when he looked back, he saw that he had become an ugly old man.
The dreams and beliefs of my youth were no longer visible.
Long ago, the world he had hated so much… was so similar.
It was from then on.
“I began to feel ashamed of myself for feeling jealousy.”
It is said that I became ashamed of the feeling called jealousy.
I was jealous of young people who had dreams.
Whenever I saw them, I would think of my younger self and torment myself.
Jealousy had become a mirror reflecting my ugly self rather than a motivation for growth.
“Don’t be ashamed of your jealousy, but be ashamed of its misdirection…”
And a while ago, a conversation with Baek Seon-pyeong.
Only then was Han Tae-san able to remember.
I could recall the promise I made that day to change the world.
“If I were to try to drag someone down instead of trying to move forward.”
A promise from my youth that I tried hard to ignore.
“This place I am in is my limit, and that is when I have to give up my dream.”
Han Tae-san finished speaking with a bitter expression.
And Han Min-ah couldn’t say anything.
A long silence followed.
In that long silence, the two women said nothing.
It’s been such a long time.
“Why… is it me?”
Han Min-ah asked Han Tae-san again.
“Min-ah, you don’t look like me.”
Han Tae-san answered with a small smile.
“Even in an unfavorable environment and in a fight, Min-ah, you didn’t hate people. You didn’t try to bring people down. You only tried to prove your worth on your own.”
“……”
“You do not hesitate to enter through the narrow gate.”
Han Tae-san looked at Han Min-ah’s face.
Old memories flashed through my blurry eyes.
When he was young, Taesan Han worked hard to change the world.
But one individual alone could not change the world.
Rather, Han Tae-san was swept away by the flow of the world and changed.
That’s why it’s impossible.
Changing the world is something that only happens in fairy tales.
Look at it now.
Han Tae-san failed.
Baek Seon-pyeong also failed.
however.
That is, after all, just Han Tae-san’s personal failure.
The intention that Han Tae-san had harbored still remained.
So, as long as you don’t give up on that meaning.
If its meaning continues infinitely from generation to generation.
Even the world that we thought would never change, will eventually change.
The foolish old man moved the mountain.
It’s like a foolish old man in his 90s moving a huge mountain.
It’s not the rushing waterfall that breaks through the rock.
A steady stream of water drops falling for hundreds of years.
“Min-ah, I thought you could break through the rock that I couldn’t.”
Han Tae-san said.
“……”
Han Min-ah couldn’t say anything.
There was quite a long silence.
And how long did the silence last?
“If the truth about what Kwan-guk Lee did is revealed, SH Group will be shaken greatly. The world will continue to criticize him.”
Han Tae-san opened his mouth with a bitter expression.
Han Min-ah showed neither positive nor negative response.
Because I knew that it was an undeniable fact.
“My retirement will be announced as a responsibility for that matter. Then… the criticism directed at SH Group will subside a little.”
Han Tae-san said that, but his expression was not bright.
Because I knew that, as he said, it was only ‘a little bit’.
“This is all I can do for you. I’m sorry, Min-ah.”
The expression on Han Tae-san’s face as he spoke was extremely bitter.
“I’m embarrassed to say this in this situation, but can you do me one more favor?”
And then Taesan Han’s words followed.
Han Min-ah answered with a small nod.
After a while, Han Tae-san slowly opened his mouth.
“Can you please not kick Jaemin and Jeongjin out and just let them eat and live a decent life?”
Han Tae-san’s other two sons and Han Min-ah’s older brothers, Han Jae-min and Han Jeong-jin.
“Those two had nothing to do with the recent disaster in Seoul. Of course, they did something bad to you before that, being swept up in the government… Could you show them some mercy, using the bond of blood relations?”
“……”
Han Min-ah couldn’t bring herself to answer that question.
The love between blood relatives that Han Tae-san spoke of.
Because Han Min-ah had no blood ties to the two.
If it was the fate of a conglomerate family, it could be said to be fate.
That’s why there were only three people that Han Min-ah felt a sense of kinship with.
Chae-rin’s father, Han Do-jun, has now passed away.
Han Chae-rin, daughter of Han Do-jun and niece of Han Min-ah.
“It’s all my fault for teaching you wrongly. I know it’s shameless of you, but can’t you at least not kick me out for the sake of my father’s face?”
And the father in front of me, Han Tae-san.
Han Tae-san earnestly asked Han Min-ah.
Honestly… I just had to give the order and that was it.
Or, it wouldn’t have mattered if it was made a condition of passing on the presidency.
But Han Tae-san didn’t do that.
I have been making requests, not orders or conditions.
Not as the chairman of SH Group, but as his father, Han Tae-san.
Is that why?
“…Okay.”
Han Min-ah had no choice but to answer in the end.
“Thank you.”
Han Tae-san gave Han Min-ah a light hug.
Then he slowly turned around and left the mansion.
The retirement of a big shot who had been dominating South Korea’s political and financial worlds.
Could this be the arrival of a new generation?
Or maybe it’s the tantrum of a declining generation.
It was not yet known what the repercussions would be.
* * *
The dizzying mental state caused by unpaid subscription fees continued for a while.
How much time has passed like that?
“We have to think of a way.”
Siwoo was able to come to his senses again.
This is not a reality that will change just because we keep doing this.
Just sighing deeply doesn’t make money appear out of nowhere.
Siwoo sat quietly lost in thought.
I thought of ways to solve the problem at hand.
So, Zhuge Liang’s insight (S+).
What the hell is it that a strange force can penetrate into the essence of a phenomenon!
“ha….”
How can I get that much money right now?
No matter how much insight (S+) you have, you can’t create money out of nothing.
The only thing that could make that possible was a money copying bug.
But Siwoo couldn’t use that.
Even putting aside the possibility of disaster, I couldn’t bring it to where Si-woo was.
Also, in order to get the information, I had to return it to Hades.
“If this happens….”
There was no way.
If it were just a penny or two, then maybe it wouldn’t matter.
48 billion unpaid.
Cleopatra Channel’s subscription fee is 64 billion.
There was absolutely no way to earn a total of 112 billion.
“I’m sorry for coming so suddenly… .”
For a moment, an old voice was heard from one side.
And it was a voice that was familiar yet unfamiliar.
A view with the head slowly turned.
As expected, there was a familiar yet unfamiliar face there.
“President…?”
None other than SH Group’s Chairman, Han Tae-san.
He was standing in front of Siwoo’s hospital room door.
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