The Conglomerate Family Became A Villain [EN]: Chapter 8

Becoming a Villain in a Chaebol Family – The Blood of a Chaebol 04 –

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On the way back to Boston.

*Screech.*

Sarah stopped the Mustang, engaged the parking brake, and was about to get out.

“Just a moment.”

Sarah tilted her head, questioning.

“Did you forget something?”

“No.”

“Then?”

“The commission.”

Sarah shrugged, looking at the $10,000 check Hyunwoo Jung handed her.

“Who gives the entire contract fee as a commission?”

Hyunwoo Jung said, holding out the check. “Think of it as a down payment.”

“Down payment?”

“Because things will get bigger from now on.”

Sarah was quick-witted. From the words exchanged between Robert and Hyunwoo Jung, she could grasp the scale of the business.

‘100,000 cartridges that can receive $5. Even if only half are sold, that’s $250,000.’

With $250,000, you could buy an apartment on Wall Street.

‘If an income of $250,000 is generated, that means $25,000 will fall to this side.’

$25,000 was a considerable sum that could buy a two-story house on the outskirts of the city.

“Still, isn’t this too much?”

“I don’t need the money right now.”

Hyunwoo Jung was still a student. Moreover, his family seemed wealthy enough to have a secretary, so he probably didn’t need money immediately.

‘Still, I don’t think I should take all of this.’

Sarah wanted to adhere to her grandfather’s advice not to be too greedy.

“In this deal, I benefited from your family, so please consider that cost included.”

The power of the Hilton family had an impact from the negotiations with Activision.

Sarah also knew that the first negotiation went smoothly thanks to the Hilton family’s influence.

‘Originally, I would have needed various documents to verify the identity of the agent.’

Activision knew she was a member of the Hilton family and didn’t require most of those documents.

Hyunwoo Jung felt he had already benefited from the Hilton family.

“Charlie, aren’t you trusting me too much?”

“I think you’re trustworthy.”

“Why?”

“Would it be too cliché to say it’s because you’re the heiress of the Hilton family?”

Sarah grabbed the steering wheel and sighed deeply.

“Haa, the Hilton family.”

Becoming the heiress of a *chaebol* [a large South Korean conglomerate] family.

It wasn’t all good.

Hyunwoo Jung noticed the shadow on her face and lowered his voice.

“I guess I said something unnecessary.”

Sarah shook her head.

“No. I was just thinking about various things.”

Hyunwoo Jung decided to change the subject.

“I have a question. Can I ask?”

“A question?”

“Why did you become my tutor?”

“Because I needed living expenses.”

Hyunwoo Jung’s eyes widened.

“Excuse me?”

Sarah was a member of the Hilton family, even if she wasn’t the primary heir. It was unbelievable that she needed living expenses.

‘Could it be that Sarah’s family has gone bankrupt?’

Even a well-known *chaebol* family couldn’t do anything about the bankruptcy of a collateral branch.

‘If not, did she disobey her parents and leave home?’

Not to the extent of chasing after a man her parents opposed, but it was common in America to fight with parents and leave home for various reasons.

‘But she *is* the heiress of a *chaebol* family.’

Sarah looked straight ahead, not at Hyunwoo Jung, and asked.

“You were just thinking that couldn’t be, right?”

“No. Everyone has their circumstances.”

“You’re quite something.”

“Yes?”

“That was a mature thing to say.”

Hyunwoo Jung gave a bitter smile.

“I think I said something unnecessary.”

“It’s okay. It’s not like I can’t talk about it.”

It wasn’t something she couldn’t talk about.

Then it might not be a big deal.

Thinking simply, it might be the American custom of becoming independent at the age of twenty.

“My parents wanted me to go to Yale.”

Her parents’ dreams and her dreams were different.

“Yale is an Ivy League school, right?”

The Ivy League had a large number of prestigious universities representing the United States.

Yale University was one of those prestigious universities.

“I wasn’t good enough at studying to get into Yale.”

Hyunwoo Jung tilted his head.

‘Was it a donation admission? But donation admissions are common in America.’

In Korea, even the children of dictators could not enter the top universities without passing the entrance exam.

But America was different. Prestigious families and *chaebols* could easily enter the top universities by using the donation admission system.

“You wanted to go to a school that matched your grades?”

“That’s right. I want to pioneer my life with my own strength, not as the Hilton family.”

The reason she didn’t receive living expenses was likely for this reason.

“But the family doesn’t disappear.”

Unless she married another man and changed her last name from Hilton, the Hilton family would have to follow her.

“It doesn’t disappear. But I don’t want to be bound by the family.”

“Bound…”

“If I give up the inheritance, I can gain freedom.”

Giving up the inheritance.

Hyunwoo Jung’s eyes widened.

“Give up the inheritance?”

Even the amount of inheritance of Paris Hilton alone was an amount that ordinary people could never touch in their lifetime.

“Do you think it’s strange?”

Hyunwoo Jung nodded.

“A little.”

“Do you know what?”

“Yes?”

“If you receive the inheritance, your freedom disappears.”

She kept repeating freedom.

‘What is freedom to her?’

Freedom to choose a job?

Soon, Sarah said.

“An heiress doesn’t have the freedom to marry whoever she wants.”

Political marriage.

Hyunwoo Jung had no choice but to nod at her words.

‘For a family like the Hiltons, political marriages are a matter of course. Sarah couldn’t stand that.’

Some people conform to the power of the family, while others oppose it.

Sarah was the latter.

“I never thought I would be having this conversation with a boy younger than me.”

The reason she had even told this story was because of Hyunwoo Jung’s maturity shown during the negotiation process with Robert.

“Isn’t it because I’m also a person who belongs to a family that I’m having this conversation?”

A high school student with a personal secretary.

From the first time she took on the job, Sarah felt that Hyunwoo Jung was similar to her.

“Maybe so.”

Hyunwoo Jung said.

“Maybe I made the game for the same reason as you.”

“To get away from the family?”

“If things continue like this, I’ll only have to do what the family tells me to do.”

Sarah let go of the steering wheel and smiled.

“We’re in the same boat?”

Hyunwoo Jung clenched his left fist and held it out to the side.

“Want to partner up?”

Sarah raised her eyebrows.

“Partner up?”

“If we sell the game and make a lot of money, we can do various things with it.”

“Wasn’t money supposed to be saved in a bank account?”

Hyunwoo Jung laughed.

“Money sleeping in a bank account is as good as dead money.”

Sarah nodded at his answer.

“You are also a descendant of a merchant. Is that what you’re saying?”

“I learned that money has value when it moves around.”

“That’s right. Money is something that lives and moves around.”

Hyunwoo Jung’s belief in Sarah grew even stronger.

‘I can say that meeting her is fortunate.’

In a situation where you can’t trust family members, meeting a trustworthy outsider is a great fortune.

“If you partner with me?”

“We’ll divide the shares based on the investment.”

Sarah turned her head to Hyunwoo Jung.

“Not half and half?”

“You taught me before that I need to calculate the shares properly.”

Sarah shrugged, recalling what she had said.

“Ha, I’m being attacked by my own words.”

“Will you do it?”

“If the game sells well.”

“How many would it have to sell for you to partner up?”

Sarah replied.

“30,000?”

30,000 meant she could receive $150,000 in royalties. She thought that would be enough to try various things.

‘I could start a small company.’

Hyunwoo Jung held out his fist forward and said.

“Okay.”

Sarah clenched her right fist and met Hyunwoo Jung’s left fist.

*Thud.*

“30,000. If it sells less than that, there’s no partnership.”

Hyunwoo Jung smiled and nodded.

“Don’t worry. It will sell more than 50,000 easily.”

The Great Boom just before the Atari Shock.

He thought he could sell 50,000 in this situation.

‘Maybe I can sell all 100,000.’

If he sold all 100,000, he could get a huge sum of $500,000.

‘Wait, how much is a Hyundai Apartment in Apgujeong [affluent neighborhood in Seoul] right now?’

Even if it was generously 50 million won per unit, applying the 1981 exchange rate (780 won per dollar), he could buy 5 units with that huge sum.

‘Don’t think silly thoughts. A Hyundai Apartment in Apgujeong in front of the heiress of the Hilton Group.’

Rather, if it were Bitcoin?

He felt that the Apgujeong Hyundai Apartment was too small of a vessel.

December 3, 1981.

Activision released Zero Space with massive advertising, aiming for the Christmas peak season.

And by December 31, Zero Space had sold a staggering 410,000 units.

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