The Genius Grandson Of The Cash King Becomes A Tycoon [EN]: Chapter 178

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Park Chang-soo received a call from his subordinate who was monitoring Cheon Shin-jae.

His subordinate reported that all the guards at Cheon Shin-jae were leaving.

Sensing the unusual activity, Park Chang-soo gathered his men near Cheon Shin-jae.

‘It wouldn’t be a bad idea to strike at Kim Ae-wol if the opportunity arises,’ he thought.

With most of her people gone, any potential damage could be minimized.

“What’s going on?”

“They suddenly got into cars and left. Just a moment.”

The subordinate made a call to confirm their destination.

“It seems they’re heading to Seocho-dong.”

“There’s no Shinhwa Group or our office there.”

“No, there’s nothing related.”

“Just in case, tell everyone to be careful, and have all offices fully prepared for a possible attack.”

“Yes, boss.”

He felt like a storm was brewing.

‘They’re definitely plotting something,’ he mused.

‘What could it be?’

No matter how much he thought, he couldn’t figure it out.

In times like these, the only thing to do was to stay vigilant, keeping every nerve on edge and carefully watching the surroundings.

He could faintly see the tightly closed gate of Cheon Shin-jae.

Just then, a black sedan stopped.

A woman got out of the car and went inside.

‘Is that Ha In-sun?’

She was entering the seemingly empty Cheon Shin-jae.

‘Was she there to assist Kim Ae-wol?’

Park Chang-soo still couldn’t understand.

The phone rang.

“Park Chang-soo, it’s me,” Cha Young-mi’s urgent voice came through the phone.

“What’s wrong? Are you okay?”

“The Chairman has been captured at Haesong Building.”

The location of Haesong Building was Seocho-dong.

“Haesong Building? …Seocho-dong, right?”

“Yes.”

Park Chang-soo’s face crumpled like paper.

‘They’re targeting the Chairman. What should I do?’

“I’ll leave for there right now.”

“No. The Chairman told me to go to Cheon Shin-jae. He said you’d understand if I said that.”

“Cheon Shin-jae?”

Park Chang-soo closed his eyes and considered the Chairman’s intention.

‘Go to Cheon Shin-jae…’

Suddenly, Kim Ae-wol and Ha In-sun, the heads of Shincheong [a criminal organization], came to mind.

He could capture them.

“Is the Chairman in a critical situation right now?”

“Yes.”

“Good. Then stall for time. I’ll catch Kim Ae-wol and Ha In-sun. Fortunately, I’m in front of Cheon Shin-jae right now.”

“Really?”

Her voice was relieved.

Cha Young-mi, who usually didn’t get nervous easily, was clearly in a desperate situation.

“Then I’ll call you back.”

Hanging up, Park Chang-soo spoke to his men in the car.

“Let’s go, we’re taking over that place.”

“Yes?”

They looked surprised.

“Are you not confident?”

“No, sir.”

The doors of the van opened, and seven men got out.

They slowly began to increase their pace.

The seven men, moving at full speed, leaped over the high wall.

Park Chang-soo looked inside.

There was no sign of anyone.

“The targets are Kim Ae-wol and Ha In-sun. Capture those two. Don’t worry about the small fries.”

“Yes, sir.”

They all pulled out knives from their pockets and gripped them tightly.

The gleaming blades shone sharply.

The men tensed their bodies.

Park Chang-soo took the lead, heading towards where Kim Ae-wol was.

***

“Please, take it first,” Jeong-hoon said to Park Soo-gil with a calm expression.

“You take it first. I’ll yield to the one who’s going to die first.”

“Grandfather.”

“Shut up.”

Park Soo-gil’s true self, completely different from his usual demeanor, was revealed on his face.

His unfamiliar expression made Dahye shrink back.

Jeong-hoon’s warm hand tightly gripped her tense one.

It was cold and clammy.

He could feel her tension in her hand.

“Telling the person I love to shut up is annoying.”

“What? You bastard. I’ll tear out your glib tongue.”

“Try it if you can. …Answer the phone first.”

Jeong-hoon answered the phone.

“This is Yoon Jeong-hoon.”

“Chairman, this is Park Chang-soo.”

“What’s the situation?”

“We’ve captured Kim Ae-wol and Ha In-sun.”

A sigh of relief almost escaped his lips.

“Anyone hurt?”

“No one. It was like an empty house, there was no real resistance.”

“That’s a relief. Connect me to Kim Ae-wol.”

Jeong-hoon switched the call to speakerphone.

After a moment, the old woman’s weak voice came through the phone.

“…You cunning bastard.”

“As I always say, you people are more cunning, Kim Ae-wol.”

Jeong-hoon looked at the man behind Park Soo-gil.

His eyebrows twitched.

“Anyway, thank you. I owe my life to you.”

“…I-I’ll tear you apart and kill you for sure.”

“Try it if you can. See you next time.”

Jeong-hoon got up from his seat.

Dahye, who was sitting next to him, also stood up.

He caught her as she staggered and fell into his arms.

It seemed her legs had given out as the tension released.

“It’s okay, now.”

Jeong-hoon took Dahye’s hand and looked at Park Soo-gil.

“Soon, the law you believe in will tear you and Haesong apart.”

Park Soo-gil’s cheek twitched.

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

Jeong-hoon left a sneer for him and left the room.

He passed the Shincheong subordinates glaring at him and went to the elevator.

Kwak Hyun-soo and Ji Hyun-bok were still there.

The expressions of the two men, who had been stiff, instantly relaxed.

“No, how…”

They hadn’t expected him to come back alive.

A moment they couldn’t believe even as they saw it.

Jeong-hoon was approaching them like a beacon of hope as they braced for death.

“Trust me. Then you’ll see a way to live.”

“Hehehe.”

Kwak Hyun-soo shook his head in disbelief, and Ji Hyun-bok cheerfully raised both hands and shouted.

“Heh… I trust you.”

Before the elevator doors closed, he gave a sneer to the Shincheong goons.

The elevator doors closed.

After leaving Haesong Building, Jeong-hoon sent Dahye to Shinhwa Hospital.

“Lock those Shincheong thugs inside so they can’t get out.”

Jeong-hoon instructed the Hwashin Distribution employee and then moved to Cheon Shin-jae.

The massive wooden gate of Cheon Shin-jae, which had always been tightly closed, was wide open.

Hwashin Distribution members had already surrounded Cheon Shin-jae.

The men who saw Jeong-hoon bowed deeply and greeted him in a loud voice.

“We greet the Chairman.”

After a light nod, he went inside.

Jeong-hoon entered the detached building where Kim Ae-wol resided, deep inside Cheon Shin-jae.

Park Chang-soo was guarding the door.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“It’s nothing.”

Jeong-hoon slid open the door of the old traditional house and went inside.

Kim Ae-wol was sitting upright, with Ha In-sun next to her.

“What are you doing now? If we promised to back off, we should back off.”

“Promise?”

“Do you believe in such worthless things? I just used the methods Cheon Shin-jae used to use today.”

“You bastard!”

The old woman’s scream filled the room.

“I’m not deaf, Grandma.”

Jeong-hoon left the trembling Kim Ae-wol and turned to Ha In-sun, who was sitting next to her.

She wasn’t nervous at all.

“Are you very brave? You don’t seem surprised.”

“Just think of me as someone who’s been through it all.”

“Sigh, you’re really amazing.”

Jeong-hoon shook his head at her spirit.

“Elder Lee Heon told me not to hate you too much.”

“Lee Heon?”

Ha In-sun burst out laughing.

It seemed like there was resentment in her laughter.

“Lee Heon was the one who treated me worse than a toy and played with me.”

It was a chilling laugh.

What did Lee Heon do to Ha In-sun?

Jeong-hoon thought he had to fix this twisted relationship.

He had clearly said she was his beloved wife.

But Ha In-sun’s face said that Lee Heon was the one she hated the most.

That’s why she had to abandon Eun-soo too.

To her, Eun-soo was just a seed of curse.

Jeong-hoon looked at Kim Ae-wol, who was sitting upright, and thought.

‘Kim Ae-wol, what the hell did you do?’

“Elder Lee Heon said that you are all Kim Ae-wol’s toys.”

“What?”

Jeong-hoon looked at Kim Ae-wol.

She avoided Jeong-hoon’s gaze and turned her head.

She gestured to Park Chang-soo.

A sharp knife lightly stabbed her thigh.

-Ugh

“This much pain is just the beginning. What does this mean?”

“It means toys. I just played with you a little. That’s all.”

The dagger dug a little deeper into her thigh than before.

-Kuaaak

“I gave Lee Heon a drug as a gift. A drug that makes you feel good.”

Ha In-sun interjected with a surprised expression.

“What? A drug that makes you feel good? Could it be, Methylaprotio?”

Jeong-hoon looked at her and asked her to explain.

“It destroys the mind and makes you aggressive. You become pathologically obsessed with sexual pleasure and become violent. Once you’re addicted, you can’t quit.”

“Hehehe, no, you can quit. Lee Heon quit it. Hehehe, that cruel bastard. Or maybe your body was just that good.”

“What?”

Ha In-sun’s pupils trembled.

“What are you talking about? Mother. Lee Heon quit it.”

“What? You didn’t know?”

“Why that drug? Did you give it to that person?”

“Of course, because I had to separate you two. That way, I can keep you in my grasp and play with you like toys, right?”

Her face instantly began to distort.

The past flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern.

At first, he was silent and kind.

He didn’t touch her.

He just said he was sorry.

He said he would wait, even if it wasn’t yet.

Feeling relieved, she gradually opened her heart and built up affection.

One night, he came into her bedroom.

He had become a madman.

The next day, and the night after that, it was the same.

He was drunk during the day and went crazy at night, coming into her bedroom and tormenting her.

It was the reliable Cheon Seong-han who embraced the moments of pain.

Suddenly, the suspicion arose, ‘Did Kim Ae-wol send Cheon Seong-han too?’

“Could it be, Cheon Seong-han too?”

“Hehehe, my baby, my beloved baby. You were all played by me.”

Her face, which had been flustered, turned as white as a sheet.

Jeong-hoon witnessed the cause of the three people’s tragedy before his eyes.

“Elder Lee Heon said you were his beloved wife.”

“…”

She didn’t say anything and just kept her head down.

Jeong-hoon got up from his seat.

“I’ll leave now. I’ll keep my promise, because I’m different from you. And it seems like you two have a lot to talk about.”

He went outside.

The tragedy of the three people ultimately stemmed from Kim Ae-wol’s greed.

But it can’t be undone.

The man is dead.

The woman can’t give up her position.

The child is too tenderhearted to accept this.

Jeong-hoon looked at the sky.

The sunset was setting.

The red sky, indifferent to human tragedies, was beautiful to the point of being cruel.

“Mother.”

Ha In-sun, who had been keeping her head down for a while, raised her head.

Her expression was determined.

“Call the people quickly, move me to the hospital.”

Getting up from her seat, she looked down at Ae-wol.

‘That little bitch twisted everything of mine.’

She could have been happy, but that bitch plunged me into hell.

“I’ll… call the people. Because I have to hold Mother’s funeral.”

“What?”

“My precious youth was blown away by your games. I have to give you one gift for twisting everything.”

“You bitch. Didn’t you get to live in luxury and even get the Star Group in your hands thanks to me?”

“No, it’s not your effort, it’s the price I paid for selling my body. You have to say it right. Wasn’t it thanks to me that you were able to rebuild an organization that was falling apart?”

“What nonsense.”

Ha In-sun looked at her skirt, which was stained with blood, with an expressionless face.

‘Small and pathetic old woman’, now… go.

Clenching her lips, she took out a short knife from her bag.

“I’ll give you a grand funeral. Mother.”

“Ah, no!”

Her room was too small to run away while stepping back.

***

Dahye was fast asleep.

She was resting in the VIP room of Shinhwa Hospital.

“They say she’ll be okay.”

“I understand.”

Kwak Hyun-soo told him about Dahye’s condition after seeing Jeong-hoon’s expression.

Her body wasn’t the problem.

He felt sorry that her heart was hurt.

She had faced her grandfather’s ugly face.

It must be painful.

It’s not easy to accept that someone you always thought was on your side has become your enemy.

The door burst open, and Prosecutor General Park Hyun-cheol, no, now Minister of Justice, entered.

“Dahye!”

He, who had cracked down on tycoons and corrupt politicians, enjoyed national support. Jeong-hoon recommended him, and Koo Han-soo accepted him.

Park Hyun-cheol looked at Jeong-hoon and asked.

“What happened? How did she end up like this after going to Haesong?”

“Dahye saw Chief Justice Park Soo-gil’s true colors.”

“What?”

Wrinkles formed on Park Hyun-cheol’s forehead.

“Hmm, it can’t be helped. She’s a strong child, so she’ll overcome it.”

“She’ll be fine once she’s stabilized.”

“That’s a relief. I’m relieved that you’re by her side.”

“It’s nothing.”

Jeong-hoon thought he should tell him about his future plans since he met him.

“I’m going to strike Haesong soon.”

“What?”

Park Hyun-cheol was startled.

Jeong-hoon stared at him for a while.

“You seem confident.”

“Will it be okay?”

“…It has to be okay. Given your thorough personality, I don’t think you’ll fail, but if there’s anything I can do to help, I’ll help.”

“Thank you.”

“You have to finish quickly so I can pay for my sins too. Hurry up.”

“…Yes.”

Jeong-hoon called Cha Young-mi.

“Start the Park Soo-gil project.”

“I’ll start right away.”

Cha Young-mi answered without hesitation and then typed on the keyboard.

The Genius Grandson of the Cash King Becomes a Tycoon.