The Manager Is a Gangster - Chapter 129



129 – The Dream of the Stars

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People are greedy for things that they can reach if they stretch out their hands, but they are not greedy for things that are so far away that they cannot even dare to do so.

Instead, I feel as much awe as I would have felt if I were able to touch it, or more awe than that.

Whether it’s talent, background, or practical distance.

“Ha ha ha… Found.”

The best singer of the present era and the superstar Nova who is said to stand at the pinnacle of all stars, there was such a presence in Byeol.

“Sorry I’m late, ma’am.”

When we first met, he was just a vagabond with mysterious eyes, but the longer we spent together, the more unpredictable the end of his skills.

A strangely foolish man who calls that strength something like this, even though he has a strength that surpasses even his father’s opposite s*x, whom he thought would be the strongest in the world.

A man who laid the foundation of trust for his vanity dream, which he pretended to be strong, saying that he would definitely be able to achieve it.

The one who made the present farewell and present Nova possible.

“Everything is fine now. Because I’m here.”

He is like a star to Lee Byeol, who is praised as the most brilliant star by the people of the world.

“I’m uncomfortable being here, but bear with me.”

Kang Jin-hyeok.

Shining only for Byeol, she A star for only one person.

The words he uttered were revelations to be believed and followed by Lee Byeol, a follower of a star named Kang Jin-hyeok.

“I’ll be right back. I’m sleeping for a while. When you wake up, everything will be back to normal.”

That’s why the parting made his hand take a sedative sleeping pill, but he just slept peacefully without the slightest doubt or resistance.

“·······Sorry. I’m fine.”

That was still the worst choice in my life after parting.

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“······Brother?”

The first thing I said when I opened my eyes was a question about the last person I saw before I closed my eyes.

My older brother, Kang Jin-hyeok, who is more precious and special than anything else.

But he was nowhere to be seen.

“Dad? Where is your brother?”

The last words I vaguely heard right before I let go of my consciousness, but I never heard them wrong, were more ominous and fearful than anything else, so I asked again with a trembling voice.

“·······Sorry.”

What came back was not the answer I was hoping for, but a terrible apology.

I’m sorry. Why? Why are you sorry what? I just asked where my brother is, but why are you saying sorry?

With his head filled with questions, he asks for an answer with his gaze at his father, who is sitting on a chair in front of him and lowering his head.

But what came back was a heavy silence that pressed down on the shoulders.

That was enough. To know that something happened that shouldn’t have happened.

“Oh no. No way. It shouldn’t be the last voice you hear…”

Although her eyes were spinning and she felt muscle pain all over her body, she had to get up despite having slept soundly, perhaps because of the injection her brother had given her. I had to get up and go see her brother.

“Uguk······.”

“Star.”

My dad called my name when I tried to get up even though I couldn’t even control my body properly, but that didn’t stop me.

There is only one person in the world who can stop me right now, and since he is not here, no one can stop me.

With the intuition that if I collapse now, I will never be able to get up again, I got up from my seat and asked my dad.

“Don’t talk… I’m going. I have to go to my brother I don’t know what he was thinking when he left me, but it shouldn’t end like this. It’s all useless thoughts and whatever you’re thinking right now is a misunderstanding. I have to tell you. You have to go and tell your brother that you can’t go.”

“Jinhyuk is hoping that the stars won’t come to you.”

“What?”

This is nonsense. There’s no way my brother would reject me. I am your brother’s daughter. He always said that he was a life saver and cherished me so much, and looked at me with shining eyes every time I sang and danced. Saying I’m the brightest in the world He is the older brother who told me that I would become the biggest and brightest star. But doesn’t that kind of brother want me? It can’t be…

“Precisely, I don’t want to harm your life. That’s why I surrendered innocently.”

“What the hell does that mean? There’s no way you’ll harm my life…”

“This is a case in which a criminal organization that shook the country was wiped out by an individual, not by the police force. It literally feels like an overseas topic. But you got caught up in such a terrible thing.”

“But what? What about that I’m not wrong! The bad ones are those bastards!”

“That’s right a hundred times a thousand times. It’s the bad guys, and they’ve already been judged.”

“That’s it. Oppa only came to rescue me, so why?”

“But, byeol, you are a celebrity.”

“Huh?”

“You are the most famous person who was kidnapped there. Fortunately, I was able to get you out before the police arrived, but if you meet Jinhyeok now, it will definitely be talked about.”

I don’t understand this situation. He was a father who cared for his brother as if he were his own child, sometimes even more than me. Words coming out of his father’s mouth seemed to be sacrificing his brother for me.

“What the hell are you talking about? Do people talk about me because I’m famous? What’s so important about stopping me?”

“Star. Stay calm. Calm down and think a little more…”

“What are you thinking! My brother told me he turned himself in because of me! Then, if I go, I can prove that my brother is innocent! You’re the one who got caught up in it, don’t you think you don’t even know that?”

A needle-like headache pierces my temples.

My vision narrows, my vision blurs, and my heart beats faster.

I feel like a situation I don’t understand sinks my entire body like a swamp.

“How could a father do that to his brother! You can’t do that! We’re not supposed to do that to you! How could you abandon your family so easily!”

So I got angry. I felt like I had to get angry so I could endure this situation and go see my brother.

I forced myself to vomit this terrible feeling that would remain like sticky tar that would not be resolved.

But my father’s continued words took away even the freedom to be angry with me.

“······It was Jinhyeok’s wish that the stars would not get in the way of your dreams. There’s no way I could betray a guy who sacrificed himself for that one thing.”

“·······What is that?”

The moment I heard that my brother’s wish was to make my dream come true, my reason that had been dazed came back and I was able to anticipate what the consequences of my actions would be.

If I had been a little more emotional, what if I hadn’t looked for the opposite s*x despite my brother’s words of cheating? Did he ignore the will of both his brother and his father and run to the police station to defend his brother?

But I liked him too much to do that, so I couldn’t give up on his wishes.

“If I hear that, there is nothing I can do about it.”

The moment I admitted it, the strength in my legs, which I had been forcibly maintaining, gave way and I sat down on the floor.

My intuition that if I collapsed now, I couldn’t get up, didn’t go astray, and there was nothing I could do as I stopped now.

“Ugh, uhm… Ugh… Black.”

Frustration, loss, and helplessness gushing out from the collapsed dam called the heart became tears and dripped down my cheeks.

Is this how it feels when the world collapses? It was an unbearable sadness to see the precious person I believed I would be with for the rest of my life disappear in an instant.

No matter how many tears I pour out, the weight of sadness in my heart does not decrease. Rather, the weight of sadness only grows as much as the tears poured out.

If I stay like this, I might die of sadness.

At the time that intuition passed through my head, my father, who was looking at me with miserable eyes, parted his dry lips and said to me.

“Why is there nothing I can do? I just said This is something that only you can do.”

“Huh, huh. What can I, only me, do?”

“Yes.”

Something only I can do.

The moment I heard those words, my heart, which had sunk into the endless darkness, began to surface again.

An earnest wish that my brother had longed for even while willingly sacrificing himself. That’s right

“······To be the best singer in the world.”

My dream, built on my brother’s faith, was the only thing I could do for him.

To make my dreams come true is the only thing I can do for you.

It’s ironic enough to be difficult to understand at first glance, but there is no other option.

If that’s what my brother wants, then I have no choice but to do it.

“I will. I will do it right.”

My dream was a dream that could only come true if I gave my all and went through dozens or hundreds of needle holes.

That’s why I no longer shed tears. Because I don’t have the energy to spend on sadness.

“Being the best singer in the world. I’ve risen to a position high enough that I don’t care about gossip.”

Close your fists and open your eyes wide. The narrowed field of view widens and the blurry field of view becomes clearer.

My body was still a mess, but my mind was clearer than ever.

In that state, I firmly declared to my father, my brother’s agent.

“I will make you a better person than anyone else. I will let the world know how great you are, so no one can separate me from his brother.”

I will make you a star.

That was my new dream.

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