“Hae-joon, are you going to pay the money for me? To the chairman?”
Junho doesn’t like most of what I say, but he was especially so with this story. As soon as he heard my decision at the drinking party, alcohol flowed from Junho’s lips.
“Yoon Hae-jun, you’re a bitch! He said he used all his savings from Korea University to help his mother open a store and to pay a deposit for a room! “You’re going to ask me to pay for this drink right away, so how can I repay you that much money?”
“thanks. “I’ll tell you something you didn’t know and pay for your drinks.”
“… … Hey, it’s seven thousand eight hundred. Seven thousand eight hundred! “When I was a resident, my salary was high because my salary was high, but now I’m just a fellow who can barely feed my throat!”
know. I can’t believe it’s my salary, but I don’t know about it.
It was clear why Junho was so excited, but Haejun couldn’t think of any other way.
“Yoon Hae-jun. You think again. The chairman says he has too much money anyway. “Your house is in the Seomun Group. Would it be noticeable if they added 7,800 more?”
“Then you don’t really care if there are eight or nine Twice members?”
“Yah! What do you think of our ONCE now? … … No. So what are you going to do with all that money? “Do you want to borrow it?”
“Where can I borrow money? “I’m glad you don’t ask for it.”
“Why are there Oreos? He’s a motherfucker, doesn’t have a girlfriend, and probably has a lot of money saved up, so if you ask for it, he’ll get ripped off right away. “Oreo, you’re acting like you’re showing off with Baek Seol, but he used to have trouble breathing and stutter in front of you.”
“… … “Am I a gangster?”
I was shocked, but I couldn’t deny it. Even if it is not necessarily Junho’s tired expression, it is a fact that Haejoon himself knows best.
“How shameless am I to lend money to my children? They are really poor kids. Just because you’ve been deceived by me so far… … “I’m in prison for life, at least.”
“hey. “If you meekly admit it, I feel like trash.”
“What do you think? It’s true. “I caught the most innocent kids in my school, brainwashed them into thinking that CS was the only way to become a true doctor, caught them when they ran away, tied their hands and feet, and kidnapped them.”
“… … It was all because you were proud of CS. Who would have thought that would happen like that?”
“I didn’t know. “How cold and cruel is the reality you experience firsthand.”
Ta-da. At the sound of clinking glasses, a self-deprecating laugh escaped me as if I was already drunk. At that time, I just wanted to make the best people I know realize what an amazing feeling it is to save someone’s life, something that no one can easily know, but in the end, they were treated like this.
Even if it saves people… … It’s not worth the money, and it’s a pain in the ass.
I had to suppress a sad smile every time I encountered and realized something that I didn’t know until last year. She wasn’t just sad for a day. Over the next year or two, as time goes by, I cringe several times a day at the thought that more and more juniors will have to swallow the same feelings as me.
“I sincerely advise you, find out if they can make you a professor right now. Hae-joon says that everyone would welcome you with open arms. Even though they say there are no seats, if the best ace from Korea University is coming, they will immediately welcome you.”
“How many people can sit there?”
“… … .”
“I don’t want anything special. I’m not asking you to look up to your teachers like in other departments, but it just needs to be a place where our kids can feel ashamed of what they do. “It would be better if it was sunny and warm.”
If that’s greed too, then what? I guess I should try to be a little greedy too.
Hae-joon pouted his lips and thought about the family members he had with him. Everyone is in a state of uncertainty every day. Graduates from Korean universities may have sufficient ability to take care of themselves, but future options for thoracic surgeons from local universities are extremely limited.
‘It’s money, you can make it again.’
Hae-joon glanced down at his thick inner pocket. In fact, as Junho said, my pocketbook was not deep. The money he had saved was used as a deposit for an officetel in front of the hospital, and the negative bank account money was given to his mother a long time ago. It’s not that I don’t know how tight my family lives, and I can’t even ask for it back now, so it’s best to pay it back at least a little bit each month.
‘I’m sure they won’t even ask for interest.’
A hint of anxiety flashed across Hae-joon’s eyes as he looked at the tightly closed door of the chairman’s office. The man inside is completely unable to control anything, so he cannot feel at ease in any way.
“Ah, Professor Yoon. You can go in now. “I guess you just hung up the phone.”
“yes!”
At the words of Secretary Yang, who was more anxious than me, Hae-joon took a deep breath and stood up. pay back money okay. The most important thing is the will to repay.
Hae-joon, who knocked and entered, slowly raised his head.
“Chairman.”
I’m back.
Although it was a somewhat servile business smile, bending to the side that is disappointing is the truth of social life and the order of the ecosystem. Even if you get bitten by a tiger, don’t you just stay alert? If you want to change the mind of an apex predator who lacks nothing, there is nothing you can do in the world.
“… … hmm.”
That guy, why does he look like that again?
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“I don’t know why you’re misunderstanding, but I’m not seeing anyone.”
– That won’t work! Lee Han, what do you mean now that you’re here?
“You’re now saying something that wasn’t there before? “Has your mother even seen it herself?”
– Shall we go see it?
“… … .”
This was why Lee Han picked up the ringing phone again. This is because you might wait for someone not to receive it and then head off to the hospital.
“mother. “I don’t know what Seo Yu-han saw or heard, but did he ever say the right thing?”
– None. There are none, but there is an exception for one area.
“… … .”
Women’s problem.
Unable to object, Lee Han touched his throbbing forehead. I have now realized why my mother always held her head with a vain look on her face every time I consistently responded to her.
“This wandering bastard.”
– Don’t say too much to Yuhan. He just answered what I asked.
“What on earth did you say?”
I have no choice but to destroy my mother’s illusions, one by one, with my own hands. “Let’s give it a try,” said Lee Han, clenching his teeth and pulling his chair closer.
“Tell me. “I’ll tell it like it is.”
– So I heard there was a very pretty girl in your office.
“It’s not a lady, it’s a professor at our hospital, and it’s very… … .”
Was it pretty?
Lee Han frowned as he was unintentionally blocked from the first question. First, in an attempt to deny my mother’s words, I thought of Hae-joon’s face in front of me just a moment ago.
“Please reconsider, Chairman.”
Large, haughty eyes with slightly raised ends, delicate features on a small face. Even the red lips that lift once in a while… … .
“… … Not a lady anyway.”
okay. Because pretty is pretty.
Lee Han’s voice was emotionless as he shook his head as if trying to erase an illusion. Since he also has eyes, he is bound to have his own standards of beauty. As I had already watched him closely several times, I recognized how pretty the woman named Yoon Hae-jun was.
If she weren’t so stubborn, she would be a rare beauty.
“What’s next? “Did I do anything with him here?”
– Did you do it?
“I assume you have nothing more to say, so I’ll hang up.”
– Radish, seal!
“… … .”
I just called a seal a seal, but is that something to be offended by?
With nothing more to say, Lee Han closed his eyes tightly. Hae-jun Yoon is the woman who claps and waves her hands the best out of all the people he has ever seen. Lee Han was momentarily in a dilemma as he looked at the woman who had strong hands that made him wonder if it would hurt like that.
– Oh my, why are you so embarrassed? I heard that all young people these days are like that.
“I feel like I can’t have a normal conversation. Calm down and regain your senses. “I’ll come see you next week.”
– It’s my birthday next week.
“… … .”
-Your mom, it’s your birthday.
To my only eldest son and unfilial son.
Ms. Cha’s desperate sigh made Lee Han’s hand, which was about to put down the receiver, flinch. Although I missed the mark several times today, an ominous intuition arose again.
“… … So?”
– So. I’m not hoping for anything special, I’m just saying that we’ll all be together that day and it would be nice to see everyone’s faces. If possible, it would be good to invite that girl, or even the professor.
“mother. “I don’t know why someone who doesn’t like that is so stubborn.”
– You really don’t know that?
“… … .”
– Seo Yi-han. Your mother is old now.
My mother’s voice suddenly became decades older than her appearance. However, Lee Han is not easy enough to fall for something like that. My mother was behind all the surprise meetings that had happened more than a dozen times and the countless women I had met under the guise of coincidence. My remaining filial piety is chipped away and weathered every time, and remains like a vestigial organ.
“I see. I’m glad it doesn’t look like that at all. Congratulations.”
– I don’t expect much. I’ll just look at your face.
“What are you going to do by looking at the face of someone you don’t care about?”
– I’ll know right away whether it’s relevant or not.
However, unlike the pessimistic son in the world, the mother who gave birth to and raised such a son was persistent. Her will was strong and did not fade easily.
