A Chairman Who Has No Regrets - Chapter 98



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The Chairman Who Has No Regrets Episode 98 – Each Bone’s Heart (4)

When you enter the newsagents.

“Oh! You’re here?”

The guys from Sanggye-dong greeted me warmly. Now, newspaper delivery has become a routine that I have to do as a daily routine.

“You know today?”

Kim Gyu-il puts a hand on my shoulder, acting in his characteristically sly manner.

“What do you know?”

“Hey! Just like last time, huh? Just bang! Huh?”

I chuckled and nodded. I glanced at Taesu and he didn’t seem to care at all. I wondered if he was upset that I was going out with his sister instead of him, but he didn’t show any sign of that.

“I’m going to crush you today too.”

Instead, he cheers me on.

There is only sincerity on the face of the guy who smiles brightly.

“okay.”

Soon Taesu and the children pushed me out of the supply depot.

“Sleep, sleep- the main character is doing his job-”

The owner of the newsagent also put a thousand won bill in my hand.

“Take off your clothes and go shine! We can’t go anywhere without showing off our pride in Sanggye-dong.”

“Oh, that’s okay.”

Taesu pushes me with his good physique.

“What’s okay? Get out of here and wash up and go. We’ll take care of the paperwork today.”

Behind Taesu, the Sanggye-dong kids nod their heads and laugh heartily.

Guys, seriously.

“Okay, let’s do that.”

“See you later, we’ll all gather in front of your house.”

“I see.”

“uh.”

I can’t help but chuckle. I wonder how much louder cheering they’ll prepare today. When I imagine what it would be like if they didn’t show up, it doesn’t feel so good. Even if it’s noisy and annoying, I still want them to be there.

“One student.”

The old woman glanced out of the small semicircular hole and noticed me.

“Oh my- aren’t you bragging about Sanggye-dong-”

Now there is no one in the neighborhood who doesn’t know him.

“Is it today? Are you going to a photo shoot or something?”

“Yes, Grandma.”

The grandmother nodded and handed me banana milk, a washcloth, and a toothbrush over the counter.

“Go and have fun.”

What do you want me to do?

As I handed over a thousand won bill, the old lady suddenly turned her head away.

“it’s okay.”

“Milk is expensive too.”

“I told you, it’s done.”

“Yes, I will drink it well, Grandma.”

“Okay, eat that and you’ll get first place.”

“yes.”

Now it’s not so awkward to smile and answer someone’s question.

Maybe it was because I realized that if I smiled, the other person would smile back at me. I put my body in the empty hot water as if I had rented the entire bathhouse.

“Hey-”

After a long time, I feel good again. Naturally, various thoughts come to my mind. The most impactful one is, of course, the appearance of my older sister last night.

Sigh.

The thought that I hope you eat well and live well lingers in my head. What kind of revenge will my older sister have? The revenge of my older sister, who I know to be kind and righteous, doesn’t seem that scary. Will I be satisfied with just that?

Well, I guess I’ll have to watch what my older sister does slowly and then think about it.

Swish.

I wash away all the dirty stuff with the cool water pouring down like a waterfall. Just thinking about all those dirty things stresses me out.

I think about the things I like the most while soaking in the cool water. As expected, after family, money comes to mind. I guess I am a helpless materialist.

The financial stocks I invested in will gradually spread their wings and fly high in the sky. It will be a short leap, but that leap will be enough. How much will it cost to come back to me? How much will it cost to buy all of Sanggye-dong and Nowon-gu?

“Hoo-ha-”

As I was organizing my future investment plans in my head, I found myself outside in the cold.

This cold winter.

In the future, I should buy a long padded jacket that was common. I think I can use the first income to buy parkas for my family, and since it’s a holiday, my mother and sisters will probably accept it.

Crunch.

“Why are you so late!”

As soon as I opened the door, my little sister’s screams rang in my ears.

“Oh, I went to the bathhouse.”

“Are you pretending that the camera is off?”

“Just, it’s been a while.”

“If you draw lines on a pumpkin, will it turn into a watermelon?”

Suddenly, the mother appeared and hit the little sister on the back.

“Don’t be so crazy, don’t be so crazy, you punk! You’re frying your hair, you’re getting dressed, this is pretty, that is pretty, just like that from the morning!”

Come to think of it, my little sister’s clothes are lying around in my bedroom and living room. There is no full-length mirror, but the biggest mirror is hanging in the living room entrance, so it looks like she tried on clothes there.

“Hey! I have to look pretty! I don’t want my mom to compliment me! Hey!”

“At your age, you look good in anything! You look good in anything! I told you to just do whatever you want.”

I can understand how little sister feels, since she is appearing on the most popular show in the country.

“Okay! Kang-i, put this on.”

My mother gently pushes the top and bottom that are neatly folded.

“what?”

When I lifted up the clothes, I could tell they were new, even though they weren’t from a maker. A thick collared shirt with yellow and navy stripes, and jeans that were a bit lighter.

“It’ll be pretty since Hye-rin chose it herself.”

I glanced up and saw my older sister nodding with a smile.

“I! I! I am-”

The younger sister runs to the older sister, jumping up and down, and clings to her, waving her arms.

“Oh my – you have so many clothes!”

“Why do I have so many clothes! I always borrow my sister’s clothes!”

Once again, the mother hits her younger sister on the back and then picks up the clothes scattered all over the floor one by one and holds them out to her as if showing them off.

“This, huh? This? And what about this! Inside the closet, all your clothes are your clothes!”

Iron Fist.

The younger sister, sitting on the floor in the same posture as the heroine of the tragic drama, kicks her feet alternately and throws a tantrum at an inopportune time.

“Me too, clothes! I need clothes! Ooooooo-”

“Oh my! I’ll buy it with the prize money! I said I’d win first place anyway!”

“Why did you buy it for him but not for me! Why? Why did you discriminate? Why-”

Another regular repertoire.

And then I send it off. It’s a repertoire that doesn’t appear often in this life.

“Sister.”

At my call, my little sister lights up her twin flames and glares at me. She looks so vicious.

“We can’t wear this anyway.”

At my words, both my older sister and mother opened their eyes wide and looked at me.

“why?”

My older sister with a genuinely curious face.

I’m sorry and it’s a shame.

“We have to wear our school uniform.”

“ah!”

Both my little sister and my big sister.

And it seems like he forgot his mother too.

My younger sister and I have a sponsorship agreement at the training center.

“So, you should just worry about your pants. Your top won’t show anyway.”

“That’s right.”

While my younger sister went into the room and was rummaging through the closet, I smiled and said to my older sister.

“Thank you, sis. I’ll wear it well.”

“Yeah, even if you can’t wear it on TV… it’s a nice outfit.”

“Oh, I see.”

The older sister said, tapping the table with a look of regret on her face.

“Let’s eat quickly.”

I nodded and sat down in front of the table. Oh my, there is no banquet more exquisite than this one.

“Has Lunar New Year come early?”

There are two meat dishes that are rarely seen on our dining table. One is ribs and the other is beef soup.

“I showed off my skills, my kid, do your best on the broadcast today.”

Just as I was about to take a sip, nodding my head.

“hey!”

“uh.”

“Are you going to wear jeans?”

“uh.”

“Then I guess I should wear jeans too.”

My little sister, with her denim pants fluttering.

“Yeah, it looks like a team uniform, so it’s not bad.”

My little sister sits down at the table with a happy smile.

I play with the spoon again and poke the rice, and the yellow yolk rises up to the top of the rice. My little sister sees this and quickly puts the spoon in her rice, but there is no fry in her bowl.

“Lee again!”

The mother spoke, slightly avoiding her sister’s eyes.

“Oh my, Kang-i is having a hard time today.”

“I’m going out with you too!”

“Oh, right. That’s right-”

The older sister slaps the younger sister’s thigh and changes her food bowl.

“Here, eat this.”

“Why do you always discriminate against me? Only me!”

“Oh my, what discrimination are you talking about again?”

“This is discrimination!”

My mother, who had been avoiding my older sister’s eyes, quickly turned her head and glared at my older sister, who was burying her nose in her rice bowl.

“Our son eats a lot-”

Then, he hits the chopsticks of my younger sister who is heading for the ribs and pushes them away, and puts the ribs on my rice bowl.

“Mr. Lee…”

As if she was upset, the little sister ate quietly for a while. I also ate some rice without intending to, but my mother’s ribs were delicious enough to make me forget about the rice.

“Hey.”

I looked at my empty bowl of rice, my stomach rumbling. I wanted to have another bowl, but I decided to hold back because I knew that too much is not good.

“Let’s go quickly, quickly.”

My mother was in a hurry more than my younger sister and I, in case we were late.

“Mom, mom, you have to pack this.”

“Oh, right, that’s right.”

The moment my older sister took care of my mother like that, and we went outside.

Poop poop poop!

Bang bang bang.

Tadang tadang tadang.

There were everything from gongs to drums, to loud-sounding instruments like vuvuzelas, and even daegeums and recorders, so much so that you wondered where they came from.

Neighbors cheering us on by beating or blowing various instruments. The sheer size of the cars parked in front of the house makes us laugh.

“Four forklifts?”

At my words, David shook his head and approached me.

“Let’s go quickly.”

“yes.”

I totally agree.

“Sanggye-dong’s pride! Jeon Gang! Today’s winner too!”

Starting with the owner’s song.

“Fighting, West!”

Swimming is the accompaniment to Nuna’s singing.

And then the strange song that followed.

The guys from Sanggye-dong who cheer me on with a song that’s a modified version of a school song.

Today, the three siblings from the shantytown, including the old lady, came out in full force. The old lady was wearing a white headband with the words “Sanggye-dong’s pride, fighting!” written on it and was snapping her castanets, while the three siblings were raising up a crookedly written placard higher than their heads and shouting.

“I will win everything!”

The younger sister walks down the street as if she were a victorious general or Miss Korea Jin, waving her hands and shouting.

I hurriedly got into the car.

It feels like my face is burning because it’s so hot.

“Hey, if you don’t get the top spot… shouldn’t you move?”

I completely agree with what Mr. Kim Chun-sik said.

“So, Chunshik hyung, please look into the house.”

“Hey David you punk!”

I smiled and leaned back against the seat, closing my eyes. I need to get things in order, because the loud cheering is making me dizzy.

By the way, Isa-ra, I really need to move. I feel that even more as I see the houses in the shantytown being transformed for the better.

“I’ll be moving soon.”

David, who had just started talking to me, is startled and grabs my arm.

“What! Why! No, honey! I have to get first place this time! I’m filming the textbooks and videos like crazy!”

No, I wasn’t saying that I was moving because I couldn’t get a scholarship.

“That’s not my job.”

“Hey! Please don’t press that button today, okay? You’re going to win, right? Right?”

“Well, I saw what Chunshik hyung was doing.”

“Oh my… I said David…”

David can’t rebel loudly for fear of making me feel bad.

“Okay! Family members, please wait in the audience, and the performers will move to the waiting room-”

The broadcasting station we arrived at after many twists and turns.

“All right! Do your best!”

“Fighting, West!”

“I believe in the pride of Sanggye-dong!”

“Our son must become a Jang Won!”

“My little brother, fighting!”

Stop making that cap noise.

I shrug my shoulders and shake off the goosebumps that are running down my hands and feet, and then I hear my older sister mumbling next to me.

“Hey… I’m going out too.”

Now that I think about it, people were cheering me on and didn’t mention my little sister.

As we entered the waiting room, Director Baek seemed to be concerned about us because he gave us a separate waiting room from the other actors. My younger sister, sitting on the sofa with a very pouty face, glared at me venomously.

“Wouldn’t that be nice? Huh? Being cheered on? You’re really the main character, you’re the main character.”

I have nothing to say to my little sister’s words that make me feel jealous.

“Aren’t you nervous?”

My little sister is nervous and speaks quietly, without any playfulness in her tone.

“Be good to your mom and sister, you brat. How sincere are you?”

Until a little while ago, she had looked like a naturally jealous woman of her age, but now that she had grown up, she had become like the little sister I know.

“You have to do well, sister. You were making a fuss about wanting to participate in the scholarship quiz, right?”

The little sister laughs brightly.

“Why did you cause such a fuss again?”

“It was a big enough mess. Why did you want to get out so badly?”

I had a rough idea, but I didn’t really have anything to say. I felt bad that I was the only one getting attention, so I asked a question without much sincerity.

My older sister smiled bitterly at my question and looked through the script as if it was nothing special.

“Just because my mom likes it… and gives me a prize? Huh? And a scholarship? How great is that?”

I guess what my mother said in a crawling voice was true, not the prize money or scholarship.

My little sister always says she’s being discriminated against. But she’s a fool who only thinks about her family.

“Just keep doing what you do now, Mom seems to be having a good time these days. Got it, punk?”

I think it’s enough.

It’s not strange for the little sister to feel sad at this age and in this situation.

Even in such situations, my little sister speaks to me as an older sister. I feel even more bitter at this mature attitude.

Now that I think about it, my older sister and my younger sister too.

What a great person you are.

I thought I was the only special one and the only smart one, but when I looked into it, I realized that maybe I was the most lacking one in my family. Maybe they treated me like that because they thought that the lacking one, the hated one, would get an extra piece of rice cake.

Because it was the most lacking and inadequate.

Have you always been devoted to me?

Crunch.

“You’re here early? Are you ready?”

“Hello, director.”

“Hye-ri is pretty today too.”

“thank you-”

Director Baek speaks to me with a bright smile.

“Protagonist! Are you well prepared?”

Because he’s the main character.

I glanced at my little sister.

Then he turned his head, looked at Director Baek, and said.

“You did well, our protagonist.”

Director Baek tilts his head.

It might sound weird since I spoke in the third person instead of the first.

My family is stronger than me.

I want to live this life as a third-person supporter for those families.

Their grace penetrates to the bone.

This time, in return.

like that.

“Ask the protagonist, is he well prepared?”

The little sister blinks her big eyes and points at herself.

“Me? Am I the main character?”

I smiled and nodded.

“Oh, you’re the main character.”

To be continued in the future.

I wish you were the main character in my life, not a supporting actor who helps me.