[145]Once I ate one, 4
“Do-joon-ah… now… what do you mean…?”
After a while, the aunt opened her mouth and could not speak properly.
“My words are great. Representative Oh Se-hyun is not interested in this. It is only my will to carry out the contract.”
“So what the hell do you mean? I’m serious? My company, you…?”
“Have I ever been bullshit? From next year, I will be the owner of Sunyang Distribution. Of course, it is a chain of department stores, hotels, golf courses, and condo discount marts under distribution. It means having it all. Are you sure you understand what the situation is now?”
It will be difficult to understand clearly. The puzzle must fit itself. I have never touched the puzzle piece itself, so I have no way of knowing what kind of picture it is.
It would be easy to understand if it was a still life, but this painting is an abstract painting. It takes a long time to understand. But as time passed, I realized one thing.
“You… you, you bastard, did you… betray me? Did you use me?”
“When were we ever on the same side? Aren’t people in my family always on guard against each other? Using betrayal…. This word didn’t exist in the first place. It’s like my aunt never considered me a partner. I was just trying to use it.”
“You bastard, how dare you play with me? Wait… You bastard… Was the stock investment all your trick?”
“I was the one who told you to sell it when you earned four times as much. forgot? You said you sold them all, but wasn’t it your aunt who unknowingly bought them back? What are you talking about?”
“hey!”
Surprise, astonishment, and chaos disappeared. No, I abandoned it, leaving only anger and trying to pour it out on me.
I don’t have to accept all of this person’s anger, and I don’t have such a compassionate heart.
“Stop screaming and calm down. Now is the moment to decide the direction of the department store group. As the major shareholder of Soonyang Distribution, I have not yet decided whether or not to keep President Jin Seo-yoon in the position. Even if you show a cold-hearted look for the opposite sex, it won’t be enough.”
“Hey kid. Do it according to the contract! Even so, it’s 30%. major shareholder? I’ll admit it. But Miracle… No, you can’t do anything. Shareholders get the dividends they distribute.”
My aunt stood up from her seat, fluttering her fancy fur coat.
“get out! Get out of this building right now! you don’t deserve Keep your seats at the shareholders’ meeting once a year!”
“Sit. The words of the majority shareholder are not over yet.”
“what?”
Red bloody hair covered all the whites of her aunt.
“As you said, as the largest shareholder with a 30% stake, I plan to sue my aunt for embezzlement of breach of trust.”
The word “sue” seemed to stick like an arrow, but Auntie opened her mouth.
“When a major shareholder moves his body, it is not even a matter of changing the CEO or executives. In particular, people like my aunt who mess around with the company and cause damage and steal money without the company system should disappear as soon as possible.”
The aunt, who had come to her senses, pouted her lips and laughed.
“Didn’t Grandpa teach you that? Why are we not in the corporate system? It’s just for a time like this. A being who rules but has no responsibility. That is us.”
“I know I don’t have to learn that. It’s not just me. Everyone knows.”
“Even if I know, I can’t help it, so I’m just watching. You are no different from those people. what can’t you do? As you said, the major shareholder changes the CEO or executives. Because they all have to take responsibility.”
“Is it really so?”
I took out my cell phone and dialed the speed dial number.
“yes. That’s me. Everyone come in. It seems like it is time to clarify.”
“What is it? Who are you talking to?”
“They are responsible people. We need to hear what they think. Do you intend to take responsibility on behalf of your aunt, or do you all point fingers at your aunt, asking you to live with her rather than absolving yourself of a crime that doesn’t exist.”
When footsteps echoed outside the conference room, her gaze turned to the door.
“If they both point to my aunt at the same time, I can’t help it. Oh, that’s called betrayal.”
At this time, the door of the conference room opened wide, and CEOs of the department store hotel, including Lim, entered in a row.
They took their seats in the conference room chairs, avoiding Auntie’s gaze.
“Skip unnecessary greetings. People here are already familiar with the contents of the contract with Miracle.”
The blood began to disappear from the aunt’s face, who was sitting at the head of the conference room.
“CEO Jin Seo-yoon’s lost 10 billion dollars came from the company you were in charge of. And CEO Jin Seo-yoon seems to have strong faith in your loyalty. You are responsible for that money. Is that correct?”
Not a single person opened their mouth.
“Silence means affirmation. Are you guys in charge!”
Banging the table and shouting, the first person to speak was Lim.
“sorry. president. You cannot grow old and spend your old age in prison.”
“sorry. president.”
As one started, everyone else bowed their heads to their aunt and apologized.
“All of you…”
It would be difficult for the aunt, who had already contemplated, to accept this situation. I don’t want to believe more because they are people who have devoted their lives to the Sunyang Group.
“Who… who says he’s going to jail? Don’t trust our cruiser? No matter how upset he is, there’s no problem. Even in the worst case, it ends in probation.”
Director Lim opened his mouth on behalf of everyone.
“If lower ones like us end up on probation, the boss will be acquitted. Or deferred prosecution? What are you afraid of?”
“Director Lim!”
Auntie shouted, but it was too late. Lim only glared at her with a cold gaze.
“Stop trying to find weaknesses by dusting executives or the CEO. If even one person comes under investigation, I will personally sue my aunt, and they will all be witnesses.”
After my final warning, an uncomfortable silence began.
Everyone threw their dice and waited for the results. I was the only dealer who could tell me the results.
“You will never change where you are now, no matter where the company goes. It’s a situation where they aim their swords at each other, so we can’t wield them carelessly. Be at ease and go home.”
They hurriedly got up and left the meeting room. Their backs, as they escaped the suffocating seat, looked light as if a heavy burden had been put down.
My aunt, who was left in the empty conference room, just stared at the ceiling as if she was half-conscious.
“Now you should be familiar with the situation… Let’s talk about the real problem. How are you going to block the thousand thousand bills that will come back in a few days? My grandfather is not the kind of person who would throw money at a company that has been separated from affiliates, so there will be no way to stop it. Oh, there are uncles, but… let’s stop. They are more toxic than me.”
She was so expressionless that I couldn’t even tell if she was listening to me or not.
I was a bit irritated, but I waited for my aunt to come back to her senses to the point where she could judge. Wouldn’t that be enough to read the letters of the prepared contract?
She seemed to have regained her senses when her gaze, which had been directed toward the ceiling, turned to me.
“aunt. From now on, I will hold out my hand. If you hold that hand, we will become comrades on the same boat. The back of the head of a person who is faithful to live on his own is different from that of my aunt.”
“I’m under you…? How dare you say such bullshit to me?”
“Look at CEO Oh Se-hyun. Does he look like someone below me? Didn’t they seem equal?”
My aunt, who only blinked, took a long time to understand the meaning of my words.
“Then… are you saying that you are the de facto CEO of Miracle Investment?”
“Look a little bigger than that. I am a major shareholder with more than 95% of stock, and more than 70% of the funds managed by this company are my money. The actual CEO is Oh Se-hyun. I don’t think of professional managers as servants or subordinates. I only own it, but I leave the management entirely to it.”
When I let them know that even the enormous fund was my money, I was more surprised than when I said I would steal the company.
“Now look me in the eye again and decide. It means that taking over Ajin Group and eating Sunyang Motors is my work. That was two years ago when I was a freshman in college. Do you really want to make me your enemy? Or do you want to be a comrade?”
“What the hell are you…?”
“Hold my hand. No matter how much my aunt struggles, she can’t defeat me. Rather hold my hand and continue the life you can enjoy as a member of a chaebol family. Uncle fathers never give aunts this opportunity. You know?”
“Does your father know about this? I mean your grandfather.”
“You are the only one who knows who I really am. So, you gave the car away. Do you know? My grandfather favors me not because he favors me, but because he is the only one in my family who trusts and entrusts Sunyang Group.”
“No way… already?”
I couldn’t speak, but it was obvious what she wanted to know.
“A grandfather loves his son more than his grandson. So, that’s just the financial part. But Grandpa probably already guessed. that one day I will have it all.”
In her head, the true nature of the abstract painting began to emerge. When the shadows in the fog, which were difficult to express, revealed their true nature, they were shocked and devastated.
Maybe you are giving up. If you drop a rope when you fall completely into the abyss, the boring fight with your aunt is over.
“Since I have told you everything, the only choice left is for you. If you refuse my hand, I’ll rot in prison for ten years. The embezzlement of 10 billion won will be the first news of the new millennium.”
I wanted her to know just one thing.
The fact that no matter what happens, my grandfather will not help my aunt. The fact that I believe that I am the only person who can support the Sunyang Group, which I love more than my aunt.
“If I hold your hand… what will happen?”
“I’ll let you lead the department store group for me. Just like CEO Oh Se-hyun is leading Miracle instead of me.”
“Is it like now?”
“I make the final decision on executive personnel. You won’t be able to use the company’s funds as you like now. Oh, let me lead a luxurious life. Unless there is a particular mistake.”
Putting some honey on the rope is also a way to help you make a quick choice.
“What should I do?”
Now he seems alert enough to read the text of the contract.
I handed over the documents I had prepared.
“I will tell you the main points. I will buy some of Sunyang Distribution’s shares owned by my aunt for 10 billion won. Then I will be the largest shareholder with 55%.”
No other sound came out. I know the consequences of refusal.
1st bankruptcy and embezzlement of breach of trust. Finally, court arrest.
I held out the pen to my aunt with a twitching face.
“Take my hand. Then I won’t lose anything I can enjoy as the daughter of President Jin Yang-cheol.”
Her trembling hand grasped the tip of the pen.
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