LIGHTNOVELSTORY chapter 1
＜ Report Card of Life ＞
It seems that the son is going to marry.
Traditionally, it was said that a meeting ceremony is a battleground without gunshots where both families meet.
‘For your son’s happy family! Kill your temper and let’s go in!’
I was so determined and came out.
The people from the in-laws who came to the meeting were startled as soon as they saw me.
“Oh my God!”
“Kuhm!”
It was because of the burn scars covering more than half of my face.
I took off my bowler hat and greeted him as politely as possible.
“nice to see you. I am Kang Woo’s father and Cha Jung Hyuk.”
As expected, the words pouring out of his face were sharper than the point of a knife.
His eyes are hot as he looks me up and down and gives me an estimate.
As if it were a place to evaluate my life.
“I heard you live in a multi-family house in Sillim-dong?”
“Then you’re saying that you can’t afford to even help with the rent for the villa. Cool!”
“If you live on dirty money… are you a sanitation worker?”
Somehow, my life became dirty and I live with black money.
People on this floor call me ‘Sillim-dong ant hell’.
If chaebol families operate in the sun, we operate in the shadows.
I was one of the five tycoons who dominated South Korea’s underground finance.
“Of course, I wouldn’t be ready for old age.”
“Are you sure you want to get living expenses from the kids?”
As this is an important issue, I had to convey my meaning clearly.
I waved my hand.
“It can’t be. As a parent, if you can’t help your kids, how can you cling to them like a parasite? I can’t be that shameless.”
It was meant to correct a misunderstanding.
The people on the side of my in-laws are staring at my hand with a shocked expression.
I tried to lighten the mood with a laugh as I hid my stubby hands under the table.
failure.
With 4 upper teeth and 8 lower teeth, the golden teeth made the atmosphere even colder.
“You don’t have two fingers?”
This is when I got involved with gangsters in the past… To tell the truth, I wonder if it’s a flagship.
“Looking at you earlier, you also have a limp.”
It got tangled up with a Korean-Chinese contractor… There’s no way to explain this either?
‘I’ll have to change the subject.’
I took out what I had prepared in advance.
There were two old bankbooks.
“This is what Kangwoo’s real mother left behind.”
She was a woman who saved up little by little.
As soon as I saw the bankbook, the person who would become my master snatched it like an eagle.
After looking around, he snorts.
“Even if you collect all the dust, it will only become more dust, right? Do you think this is a passbook? I’m really stumped.”
The prospective master drank a sip of water.
Then he glared at his daughter fiercely.
“Hey, do you really want to get married? No matter how you choose a man, you must choose a boy worse than an orphan!”
Then, with his mouth, he whispered silently.
– He said he had a lot of money!
The prospective daughter-in-law who was being questioned kept her mouth shut and glared at my son fiercely.
The son was swearing at the woman he was going to marry with his eyes.
“The ancestral rites and holidays are all over, and there’s no need to look ahead, so let’s pretend I don’t exist.”
I lowered my head.
“Can’t you just look after my child? It’s a pretty decent app if you take off the father. Please.”
A request must be accompanied by sincerity.
‘I thought it would be like this, so I prepared a 124 pyeong Han River view penthouse.’
It is a house document with 7 rooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 parking spaces per household, and a sale price of 14.9 billion won.
I was about to take it out of my arms, but my son was faster than me.
“Father, raise your head. Why are you bowing your head like a criminal?”
My son threw down the napkin and jumped up from his seat.
“I’m sorry, Hyungwon. I don’t think I’ll ever get married.”
“Mr. Kang Woo!”
“I don’t think I need to explain why.”
“I will only ask you this. Mr. Kang-woo, can you really afford an 80-pyong apartment in Gangnam?”
The son closed his eyes tightly.
“Were all the luxury goods, foreign cars, and spending money that Mr. Kang-woo is doing fake?”
“Father, you can stop. wake up.”
The son left the meeting without looking back.
I woke up too.
“My son is still young, so he doesn’t know what to do. I’ll go and get it right away.”
“Hey, that’s it! I don’t think I’ll see you any more!”
The prospective master threw away the napkin nervously and tried to stand up.
My eyes toward the people of my in-laws naturally grew cold.
When our eyes met, the woman who had been getting nervous hesitated.
“Meeting, it’s not over yet. ”
Naturally, my tone also became cold.
The people from my in-laws looked at me and hesitated, then returned to their seats.
“That bankbook doesn’t belong to the in-laws yet.”
The prospective master-in-law hurriedly took the bankbook that the prospective master-wife had taken and pushed it in front of me.
Then I rolled my eyes and turned my back.
Limping on his uncomfortable leg, he chased after his son.
There is still room for improvement.
“It’s rain!”
The son was sitting on a support bench and smoking.
The red light burns rapidly through the pipe.
It seemed like it was burning my son’s stomach.
The words I was going to say to my son got stuck in my throat.
I had no choice but to sit down next to my son and pat him on the shoulder a couple of times.
“I cursed.”
“I hate you. My father heard the curse. sorry.”
“Sorry, what are you sorry about? You are not guilty.”
“It’s a sin not to look at women.”
The son let out a long sigh.
This guy had been singing since he was young, saying he wanted to find a good woman and create a family where laughter would never stop.
“Isn’t it the woman you loved so much that you even thought about getting married?”
“That’s Okay.”
“I had to stop. There is no need to fight marriage for money.”
“I was always confused. Do you love me or do you love my money? It’s a bit bitter after seeing the truth.”
Frustrated, he took out a cigarette and asked.
My son lit the fire.
“That bankbook. That my mother collected for me.”
“okay. It was probably the money you squeezed in from your mother.”
why did i bring it here
“I buy something delicious for my daughter-in-law, and I buy something for my grandson. Even if your mother can’t buy you a house, she can buy you that much. Let’s say it’s a wedding gift your mother prepared for you.”
“under······.”
The son had a confused face.
“This is your wedding present I prepared for you.”
I handed out the house documents and bankbook that I was about to take out earlier.
The son stubbornly shook his head.
“How do I even get this? It’s enough that you raised me, father.”
“receive.”
I forcibly held it in my son’s hand.
My bank account would be quite thick.
‘This is the report card of my life.’
I put a few more papers on it and held it out.
“What is this again?”
“A weapon I brought to use in case of emergency.”
Then, shall we come to the battlefield bare-handed and without weapons?
It was said that he robbed the back of his in-laws’ house.
“Ha, it was such a trashy corner of the house.”
As I turned over the paperwork I gave him, he kept spitting out a mocking laugh.
The papers crumpled in his son’s hands.
‘Did you give it to me? no It’s a hundred times better to know and make up your mind than to be stabbed in the back without knowing.’
It’s also true that you feel dirty after seeing something filthy that you shouldn’t have to look at.
I tapped my son on the shoulder a few more times.
“Go in. If you are a woman to be caught, you must be caught.”
“Father, after seeing this family’s fish, does it say to catch it?”
“Just because a few berries are rotten doesn’t mean you have to throw away the entire cluster.”
“…”
“Look at the woman. Are you a decent woman after taking your parents apart, or a woman you want to be with for the rest of your life, even risking your parents? That’s all you have to worry about.”
I grinned.
“Don’t lose someone dear to you by being proud of yourself unnecessarily. That’s what an ugly boy would do.”
“after······.”
“You can live happily ever after. I really need that. therefore······.”
“Come to think of it, I left my mother’s bankbook. Wait a minute.”
The son also grinned.
It was the expression of a man who had made up his mind.
“That is too much for Hyunyoung. Thank you, father!”
The son proudly waved the papers he had robbed the entire family and headed for the meeting room.
“Your father said it. Giving up what you have to give up is the secret to happiness. I have no intention of picking up and using toilet paper with poop on it.”
It was said that it was ruined.
‘Damn it, if I knew it would be like this, I’d drag it to the basement, threaten it first, and proceed with the meeting.’
Even the soundproofing of our underground workshop is amazing.
I wrinkled my brow and inhaled the smoke deep into my lungs.
“Life is not easy… Cool cool!”
A cough broke out.
It hardly ever stopped.
Woo woo woo.
I took out my smartphone and listened.
The sender is the director of Taeseong University Hospital.
By the way, I’ll be your one and only friend.
-Hey, Cha Jeong-hyeok! Aren’t you going to the hospital right now? You’re a terminal lung cancer patient!
It was the reason he rushed his son’s marriage.
“Anyway if it’s long, it’s a year, if it’s short, half a year? They said to prepare your mind at some point.”
-So, do you want me to let go of your hand? yes, that’s good Hang up the phone. I want to call Kang-woo right away.
“Who doesn’t go? Go, go!”
-If that baby doesn’t sell my son, I don’t even listen to my words. give me 30 minutes okay?
pop.
The guy hung up the phone first.
“Anyway, with my temper. Guess who isn’t my friend.”
I rubbed the butts that had burned right before the filter into a sand-type trash can.
*
I took the steering wheel myself, leaving the guys who said they would follow me.
It was not rush hour, so the road to the hospital was quite empty.
-There is a children’s safety zone ahead. Drive safe.
The intersection in front of the kindergarten.
Children dressed in matching yellow uniforms line up and get on the bus.
A smile spread across my lips without my knowledge.
They were pretty little kids.
“There was a time when our Kang-woo was just like me.”
When I brought a child who had been wandering on the street in the middle of winter and crying from hunger, Kang-woo was just the same as me.
I couldn’t bear to leave my child behind.
Instead, I collected the bodies of the parents of the child who had been neglected in the house, gave them a funeral, and raised Kang-woo on my family register.
Boo and Aang.
A 25-ton trailer galloped in the opposite lane.
Even at a red light, I didn’t slow down at all.
‘What kind of crazy bastard drives like that… Huh?’
It was drowsy driving.
The trailer rushed towards the kindergarten children.
“…!”
A silent scream erupted.
The foreseeable terrible tragedy flashed through my mind.
‘no! The kids…!’
In an instant, all my thoughts came to my mind.
He bit his lips.
‘sh*t!’
From decision to action.
It was so fast that I couldn’t believe it even thinking about it myself.
I pressed hard on the accelerator.From noble mtl dot com
Next was the brakes.
The brake pedal wasn’t enough, so I pulled the side brake as hard as I could.
What a profit! bang!
The oncoming trailer rammed right into the side of my car.
A great shock followed.
It was more than I expected.
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwam.
As the car turned like a top, it kept turning upside down and left and right.
That was my last memory.
*
King Yeomra said.
[Cha Jeong-hyeok, 52 years old, died in an accident. You’ve been struggling all your life It was a miserable life.]
The 52 years of life that I saw in a kaleidoscope were summarized in two words.
Fighting hard and a life of poverty.
I didn’t think of anything to refute.
because it was true
[If I had been this dirty, I would not have been able to avoid a lonely death while being disabled and homeless.]
I looked down at the uncomfortable limbs with a bitter face.
Even that seemed hazy because the body had disappeared.
But the burn scars on her face and the surgical scars on one kidney she had to sell for money were still throbbing.
[You managed to achieve a useful end of life despite being punished by God. That’s great.]
Was it
[Cheonmanghoehoe Soibulsil (天網恢恢 疏而不失).]
It means that even if the net of heaven is wide and wide, you can never escape from the net.
[You’re a strange guy. Even though I have lived my life in the back alleys all my life, I always struggled not to cross the last line. It must not have been easy.]
King Yeomra smiled benevolently.
[In the meantime, you raised other people’s children like your own, showed tolerance to the weak, and took care of the less fortunate in your spare time. How can I ignore that merit?]
I closed my eyes.
I realized that this is the true report card of my life.
[Also, he sacrificed himself in place of the 15 young souls who had booked their way to the underworld, which would be the noblest self-sacrifice.]
thank god. The kids seemed to be all right.
[With this, I forgive all of your sins in your previous life.]
for a moment. Waiter Minute.
“Is it a sin committed in a previous life?”
[Yes. You sold the country in your previous life.]
I can’t believe I sold my country in my previous life.
[Since you had to live a miserable and painful life because of your sins in your previous life, you should blame yourself, not heaven.]
At one time, I even blamed the sky for asking why my life was such a gutter.
But in my opinion, there was a reason for everything.
So, I was very curious about that past life.
“How did I sell my country?”
Just looking at cancer, I think it would be difficult to sell it in an ordinary way.
[good night. Thinking of the achievements you made this time, I’ll let you see it in person.]
Something fell with a thud.
[It is a mirror that reflects the karma of the previous life.]
The karma mirrored his previous life.
A general who wipes out the Japanese raiders who invade Joseon at the forefront.
That general was me.
– Don’t back down! Defeat the enemy and save this country and its people! everyone follow me!
That’s how I fought to the death against the Japanese until the end and was killed in action.
[·······.]
“…”
Silence passed.
The complexion of King Yeomra, who was already white, turned blue in an instant.
I laughed and shook my head.
“scourge?”
King Yeomra exclaimed urgently.
[The Soibulroom of the Heavenly Meeting. I will take responsibility for this life. You will live as the luckiest person ever!]
＜ Report Card of Life ＞ End