Devil Returns To School Days - Chapter 197
35. The price of a past life (7)
The day I met Kim Hyun-seong.
Before leaving the chairman’s office, Kim Hyun-seong stopped, turned to Chairman Yoon Byeong-ho and said these words.
“The Chairman may have researched me thoroughly, but when Golden Circle first requested me, I had no background whatsoever. Cheonil High School, Myeongjin Construction, Jeonghan Ilbo, etc. It means that there was a time when the people who empower me now had nothing to do with each other. A high school student set a goal of ‘revenge’ and stood before the president in less than three years. “If you think you can overcome all these problems through force, think back on what I have accomplished.”
I laughed.
Even when faced with the chairman of the Taeyang Group, Kim Hyun-seong did not flinch in the slightest.
“And my demand is a threat, not a deal. The Golden Circle has become the Sun Group’s most critical weakness, and the only way to survive is to abandon its son. I’ll give you just one week. “If you don’t send me a clear message responding to your demands within a week, I will assume there is no transaction.”
I took a step back.
Yoon Byeong-ho looked embarrassed as the door closed with a bang.
After raising the Taeyang Group to a certain level, have you ever received such a direct threat?
There wasn’t.
At least the trading partners came in on an equal footing or bowed first, but Kim Hyun-seong had the audacity to make only a one-sided threat and disappear. The problem is that it makes a lot of sense. The possibility of Pan-ho Kim being elected, a picture of pressure using heaven, and the negative public opinion seething around Hyun-min Yoon. Chairman Byung-ho Yoon, who has witnessed the rise and fall of numerous companies, was fully aware that such bad news was dangerous even for the healthiest company.
And above all.
Kim Hyun-seong’s last comment remained in my mind.
As soon as a nobody high school student decided to take revenge, he faced himself for the first time in three years.
He was a guy who would succeed no matter what he did.
The way of the world is that it is more difficult for someone who has nothing to keep up with the steps of someone who has than it is for someone who has nothing to achieve more. Hyunseong Kim broke that framework. If Kim Hyun-seong dreamed of success or another goal rather than revenge. Did it fail? Chairman Byung-ho Yoon could confidently say that with the will and energy that produced such results, he would never fail. Even if he failed, it was clear that Kim Hyun-seong would have achieved meaningful results at the time he reached the finish line.
but.
“…The demands are too harsh.”
I couldn’t accept it.
Rather than ending with a father abandoning his son, Kim Hyun-seong’s request was more cruel than that.
So I called my son.
The justification for protecting my son. The bare minimum hope of being able to protect my son.
I hoped for that.
And when Byeong-ho Yoon saw that his son had returned without a single success, he cut off his paternal feelings.
* * *
The next day.
Taeyang Group released an official statement.
[This is Chairman Byung-ho Yoon. We are fully aware of the fact that there have been some negative stories recently regarding the Taeyang Group. As a result of actively responding to the investigation, it was confirmed that there were no charges against my son and director Hyun-min Yoon, an executive director of Taeyang Group. However, I do not believe that student Kim Hyun-seong, who represents the current victims, and Lim Cheol-hyung, CEO of Mirae Investment & Securities, framed the case without any basis. Taeyang Group will actively provide explanations to prove that the reasons given are wrong, and we believe that we are responsible for causing this turmoil in the first place, and we wish to resign Director Hyun-min Yoon. I sincerely apologize for causing trouble.]
His remarks.
It caused a huge stir.
On the surface, he denied the charges and stepped down, but people knew the hidden message behind it.
-This is Chairman Byung-ho Yoon’s official position.
-Isn’t resigning from an executive director position saying there are no charges the same as saying there is actually a connection?
-People who know the internal circumstances of the Taeyang Group are excluded. Unlike other conglomerate successors, Yoon Hyun-min is the only one who has proven his ability as a successor. However, even though it was revealed that he was not guilty, the fact that he would remove Director Hyun-min Yoon from his position would mean that Taeyang Group had a good reason to do so.
Conspiracy theories arose.
In fact, Yoon Hyun-min is really behind it, but it’s a conspiracy to end the Eoyeongbuyeong situation in order to bury it.
That was the truth.
Byung-ho Yoon knew that the official position would create a ‘conspiracy theory’, but he accepted the issue as suggested by Hyun-seong Kim. Conspiracy theories end up just being conspiracy theories. Since Kim Hyun-sung and Lim Cheol-hyung promised not to bite any further, it will end in a way that tarnishes the group’s image.
And of course.
Taeyang Group’s actions attracted all attention.
People who identified Cheon Sang and searched for the culprit turned to Taeyang Group and uncovered the truth about Yoon Hyun-min.
A direction that preserves everyone’s lives except for Yoon Hyun-min.
South Korea was still a crucible of chaos.
* * *
Outside the iron gate.
Hyunmin Yoon had no idea what was happening beyond that.
Yoon Hyun-min, who was dragged away by the bodyguards, took off his blindfold and found himself trapped in a room without a window.
Bang bang bang!
“Open the door, open the door!”
There was glass in the door.
It was a structure that allowed you to check the hallway, and it was probably made of tempered glass, so no matter how hard you knocked on it, no cracks formed.
“You don’t know who I am!? I’m Hyunmin Yoon! “I am Yoon Hyun-min, the successor to the Taeyang Group!”
I screamed loudly.
A day passed like that.
My voice was hoarse and my body was weak because I couldn’t eat anything properly.
It was then.
A voice was heard outside the door.
“young master.”
“you!?”
I jumped up from my seat.
It was a familiar face.
He was a secretary serving my father, and Yoon Hyun-min spoke in an urgent voice.
“What kind of situation is this? “Why am I trapped in a place like this?”
“Things have become difficult. As the members of Heaven rebelled on a large scale, the Chairman had no other choice in order to protect the Taeyang Group. sorry. The chairman told me to stay here for just three years. At that time, I’ll solve it somehow …. ”
“ It’s like this! 3 years. “What nonsense is that!”
The conversation did not continue.
The secretary sighed and walked away after saying that.
Yoon Hyun-min called Whale Whale’s assistant.
Even though his throat was torn and the fishy taste of blood came out, the secretary did not show up from that day on.
I found out later.
This place.
This is the place where I will have to spend the next three years.
The truth is that it was a mental hospital.
* * *
I stared blankly at the door.
At first, I didn’t know where this place was, but when I saw doctors and nurses coming and going, I realized it was a mental hospital.
I was shocked.
Byeongho Yoon.
His father loved Yoon Hyun-min terribly.
From the time he was young until now, he has given Yoon Hyun-min whatever he wanted, as if he would pick a star from the sky. So I didn’t want to disappoint even more. By managing a good image externally and getting excellent grades, he wanted to prove to himself that his father did not select ‘Yoon Hyun-min’ as his successor because he had no choice, but that he was someone that everyone had no choice but to acknowledge.
however.
You abandoned yourself.
Being told to stay in a mental hospital not for a day or two but for a whopping three years was like telling me to die.
Buck, buck, buck.
Scratched the skin.
The pupils trembled anxiously.
This was a reality he couldn’t accept, and even when rice was shoved into the food tray, he wouldn’t even put it to his mouth.
‘why? why? why!’
My mind was filled with questions.
How did things end up like this?
Where did it go wrong?
Golden Circle.
The group was clearly groundbreaking.
Since he was young, Hyunmin Yoon has observed wealthy people, and the desires of those who can do anything with money are divided into three categories. Either they show a desire to possess greater power, or they are so irritated that they turn to forbidden areas such as drugs. If not, make it a joy in life to see the second generation grow up like you.
That’s how the Golden Circle was born.
Because I know how dependent those in power are on their children, and because my own father was like that too.
I have learned from experience that if there is a convenient and reliable way to care for children, those in power will flock to them no matter how much they pay. Was that a wrong choice? no. There is supply and demand in the world, and enough demand to create the current Golden Circle proved that it was the right choice.
then.
Was it a problem that Kim Hyun-seong was targeted?
That’s not it either.
At that time, Kim Hyun-seong was really nothing.
When Kim Hyun-seong’s existence was identified and his life was analyzed in detail, I felt a sense of disappointment after confirming that he had a background that is commonly referred to as a dirt spoon. If you ignore such opponents, the Golden Circle cannot function properly. If creating the Golden Circle and targeting Kim Hyun-seong were not the problem, then what problem did the current result of being locked in a mental hospital come from?
Buck, buck, buck.
I lost my mind.
The longer he spent in the mental hospital, the more Yoon Hyun-min scratched his skin as if it would peel off.
People who haven’t experienced it don’t know.
A room with nothing in it.
A room with only one bed and a bathroom is enough to make even those who pursue a minimalist life balk.
Occasionally passing doctors would watch from the window as if watching a monkey.
The rations that were thrown out seemed like a good diet, but Yoon Hyun-min, who had lived a glamorous life, rushed like a monkey at the zoo and couldn’t eat the food. The snow fell sharply. He gradually became thinner, and the tall man that people looked up to was no longer there. From that day on, I was suffocated by the fact that I might have to go on for three years without my assistant visiting me even once.
Hyunseong Kim.
He was a devil.
Kim Hyun-seong did not intentionally send Yoon Hyun-min to prison.
Even if Yoon Hyun-min is identified as the mastermind behind the Golden Circle, he will pay a huge price and spend the rest of his life in prison. The background of the Taeyang Group will guarantee him a luxurious life. It was clear that enough money would be poured into the prison camp and the prisoners would stoop to get at least some soybeans. And when he was about to be forgotten from people’s memories, he might come out as a special envoy citing nonsensical reasons.
so that.
Prison was ruled out.
Hyunmin Yoon instinctively knew that fact.
The fact that he didn’t even try to ‘record’ when meeting him was actually a signal that he was hoping for a different ending.
‘You have to hold on.’
Buck, buck, buck.
My eyes turned red.
I can’t die like this.
I can’t go crazy like this.
Kim Hyun-seong, even just to get revenge on that damn bastard.
I had to survive.
Even though the situation was not good, if my father had promised me 3 years, my life in a mental hospital would not be permanent.
I crawled on the floor.
I ate the rice on my plate.
After I finish eating.
Buck, buck, buck.
Scratched the skin.
In my head, I imagined getting revenge on Kim Hyun-seong.
Just like someone once did.
There was nothing he could have done differently.
* * *
How much time has passed?
The time here was different from outside.
It felt as if I had stopped and I was staring blankly at the ceiling, when suddenly I felt like bugs were crawling all over my body.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
I screamed.
From then on, I had to be sedated.
I couldn’t bear it without the power of the drug penetrating my blood vessels, and when I closed and opened my eyes, it felt like time was erased. I couldn’t tell how much time had passed outside. However, the newly filled trays every time made me feel the passage of time.
increasingly.
My will has weakened.
The strong will that promised revenge slowly collapsed as each day was spent under the influence of drugs.
Then one day.
When I opened my eyes with a hazy mind.
“long time no see.”
The devil who made him like this was right in front of his eyes.