LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 1
Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 1 Prologue
Success was sweet and life was bitter.
I, Lim Hyun-seong, who wrote the success story of a Korean franchise business with one food service, was now drowning and sinking into the deep sea.
Is this how I die?
My breathing was swallowed by the waves, and I lost all sensation in my body.
I thought of the last words my stepmother said before she pushed me off the cliff.
“Oh, we didn’t want to do this either! What’s the big deal about money, you were the one who ignored us!”
It was a blatant excuse.
I sent my mother away from the hospital bed when I was an elementary school student.
The woman my father brought home a few years later was the worst from the first impression.
She blatantly discriminated against me from her own son. I grew up in the cold indifference of my family.
If they had opened their hearts to me even half as much as their own children, it wouldn’t have turned out like this. But it was too late.
I declared my farewell to my family as soon as I became an adult.
They didn’t seem to regret it either.
Until I succeeded as a businessman.
Twenty years had passed, and I became the protagonist of the success story in the food industry.
During that long time, they never helped me once.
Trash never does anything right.
My stepmother and my half-brother borrowed money from everywhere using my name and started businesses.
Of course, the companies couldn’t leave those scammers alone and eventually filed a lawsuit.
My father, who was already over seventy, was dragged around by the scammers.
He kept repeating the nonsense that he couldn’t withdraw the lawsuit out of duty.
My father chose his new family over his children again.
I ended up in a lawsuit with my entire family.
They didn’t even know how ashamed they were when they tormented me with less than human treatment when I was young. I was sick of seeing them run after me for money.
How many accidents did they cause?
The trial lasted for over a year.
In the meantime, I had to manage my business and deal with the lawsuit. I was exhausted physically and mentally.
I needed some time to get away from everyone and rest. I headed to the beach house to cool off for a while.
And that’s when the annoying new family barged in.
As soon as I opened the door to get rid of the two people who were banging on it as if they were going to break it, I was kidnapped and thrown down the cliff that looked like it had been cut.
“If you just disappear like this, we can all be happy!”
If I die like this, all my assets will go to my father, who is my only blood relative.
‘I… How did I bring Jo Young Food this far… To end up like this…’
My head was swallowed by the raging waves dozens of times, and I closed my eyes, feeling the cold seawater that filled my lungs.
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