Chapter 170 – GOY 170
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Ju Tae-han held out, refusing to leave for the United States under the pretext of preparing for study abroad.
Chairman Joo did not force him to leave immediately, but neither did he permit him to stay at Seong Han’s main residence.
The day Joo Seung-hyuk moved his room to the main house, Ju Tae-han was kicked out of the mansion and stayed at a hotel.
Shortly thereafter, Ju Jeong-han returned to Korea. It was to prevent his younger brother from being sent abroad.
Even if it was called ”studying abroad,” there was a vast difference between entering a prestigious university for academic purposes, as Ju Jeong-han had, and being exiled. Moreover, he had to prevent Tae-han from being kicked out on the charge of tormenting Chairman Joo’s only biological child.
Seong Han had expanded into various fields to the point of visit our sitebeing called ”octopus-style management,” but it had grown primarily [stolen content]around businesses related to ability users.
Recently, the focus on the ability business had become even more intense.
Joo Won-chan trusted Ju Jeong-han. However, he intended to leave the position of successor to Ju Tae-han. Although Ju Tae-han was dull, he was still an ability user. He intended for Ju Jeong-han to serve as his brother’s aide.
Ju Jeong-han ground his teeth inwardly. Like his biological father, Ju Gyeong-chan, he had no intention of giving up everything while trapped in the shackles of being a Non-Ability User.
He knew that Joo Seung-hyuk was Chairman Joo’s biological child.
This was because the person who played a major role in manipulating the results of Joo Seung-hyuk’s paternity test was his own biological mother.
She was a clever woman. As soon as her husband, Ju Gyeong-chan, died, she immediately went abroad and remarried.
People criticized her for abandoning her children, but it was actually the opposite. She had deliberately acted cold in the hope that Chairman Joo would adopt her children.
After she left, Chairman Joo adopted Ju Jeong-han unauthorized copyand Ju Tae-han as expected. However, a problem soon arose. Chairman Joo had a biological son. [stolen content]If things continued this way, his own children would end up as outcasts.
Ju Jeong-han’s biological mother had sent someone to approach Secretary Ahn. Then, she orchestrated everything. She revealed this fact only to Ju Jeong-han. At the time, Ju Tae-han was too young and might have leaked the secret. And it remained a secret to him even now, because Ju Tae-han was still immature and reckless.
No, to be honest, it wasn’t just a matter of being immature. Ju Tae-han was incompetent and stupid. Even a seven-year-old would put more thought into living than that fellow.
But Ju Jeong-han liked that side of his brother. That way, he could control everything as he pleased.
His plan was to make Ju Tae-han the Chairman of Seong Han and then reign as the actual power behind the scenes. Of course, this wasn’t his final goal.
Ju Jeong-han was secretly conducting research on the Awakening of Non-Ability Users in Texas.
Chairman Joo had said that once Ju Jeong-han graduated from university, he would give him Seong Han Pharmaceuticals and Abite Island. Hearing those words, Ju Jeong-han found it absurd.
Both Seong Han Pharmaceuticals and Abite Island had originally belonged to his biological father, Ju Gyeong-chan. To speak as if he were granting a favor by returning what should naturally be returned.
Furthermore, it was unpleasant that he specifically mentioned giving him Seong Han Pharmaceuticals. It meant that as a Non-Ability User, Ju Jeong-han should just take the pharmaceuticals and be done with it, [unauthorized copy]just like his father. It was drawing a line, stating that no [visit our site]matter how hard he tried, there was a limit to how high a Non-Ability User could climb.
However, he did not let it show. Since Ju Tae-han was such a blockhead, Chairman Joo would eventually have no choice but to give power to Ju Jeong-han.
Moreover, once he inherited Seong Han Pharmaceuticals and Abite Island, he planned to proceed more seriously with research on abilities and Manifestation.
If the research bore fruit and he managed to Awaken, all of Seong Han could become Ju Jeong-han’s.
Whether Ju Jeong-han Awakened through the power of medicine or controlled Ju Tae-han from behind, Seong Han would be his.
However, the existence of Joo Seung-hyuk continued to bother him. It would have been easier if the boy had died from abuse on the island, but he had survived with a tenacious vitality.
Still, he thought it wouldn’t be bad if the boy were forgotten amidst Chairman Joo’s indifference.
But one day, Chairman Joo spoke.
‘How is that fellow doing?’
‘Pardon? Why suddenly ask about that fake…?’
‘When he was young, he resembled his mother quite a bit.’
‘A child’s face changes often.’
‘It’s vacation, so go to the island with Tae-han. Pay your respects to your elder and take a photo. I am curious.’
‘Elder’—meaning his biological father—was just an excuse to pay respects. Although it was said that Ju Gyeong-chan died there, his grave was in Korea.
The objective must have been a photo of Joo Seung-hyuk.
Chairman Joo had slept with Secretary Ahn. However, it was strictly a physical relationship; he could not forget his deceased wife.
And he was trying to find traces of his wife in Joo Seung-hyuk.
Ju Jeong-han immediately visited Abite Island with his brother, Ju Tae-han. If he hesitated even slightly, Chairman Joo would issue an order to his subordinates. It was better that he went than someone else.
‘Ugh, why do I have to go there! What does that man Ju Gyeong-chan have to do with me?’
Ju Tae-han grumbled continuously from the moment they departed. He was satisfied with becoming Chairman Joo’s adopted son and wanted to erase the existence of his biological father.
‘Why did that man choose a place like this even when buying an island? That’s why he lost to Dad.’
Every time Ju Tae-han belittled his biological father, anger boiled deep within Ju Jeong-han’s heart, and even the affection of siblings vanished.
But he didn’t show it. If it were that idiot Ju Tae-han, he would have immediately tattled, saying, ‘Dad, I think Hyung likes that man Ju Gyeong-chan more than you.’
Anyway, the important thing now was Joo Seung-hyuk. And the moment Ju Jeong-han saw Joo Seung-hyuk at the mansion, he was speechless.
His hair was disheveled and his clothes were dirty. unauthorized copyBut even in the state of a beggar, his beautiful stolen contentface could not be hidden. He wasn’t just pretty; he looked exactly like his biological mother.
If Chairman Joo saw Joo Seung-hyuk now, he would summon him immediately.
In the end, Ju Jeong-han did not take a photo of Joo Seung-hyuk. He gave instructions to teach Joo Seung-hyuk how to read and write Korean and then left the island.
Ju Jeong-han intended to prevent Joo Seung-hyuk’s return by any means necessary, but there was a slight possibility of failure. When Chairman Joo sent Joo Seung-hyuk to the island, he had left everything regarding him to Ju Jeong-han.
A lack of knowledge could be excused as laziness or a failure to study, but if he didn’t know the Korean alphabet at all, it could become a problem.
However, this was merely preparing for a worst-case scenario; he believed there was no way Joo Seung-hyuk would actually return to Korea.
Upon returning, Ju Jeong-han claimed that Joo Seung-hyuk resembled a lover, and Ju Tae-han, even without being told, sang praises of how Joo Seung-hyuk was a filthy and vulgar brat.
Hearing this, Chairman Joo stopped requesting photos of Joo Seung-hyuk. And he seemed to forget about Joo Seung-hyuk’s existence once again.
But an unexpected event occurred. Joo Seung-hyuk Awakened as an S-Class Esper.
Before Ju Jeong-han could do anything, Joo Seung-hyuk returned to Korea. Moreover, he ended up staying in the annex of the Seong Han Group’s main residence.
Ju Jeong-han tried to send him back abroad, but it was useless.
‘Jeong-han, that fellow’s face is different from what you described.’
‘Pardon? I’m not sure… To me, he looks like that man…’
‘You should work on improving your eye for people.’
It was the first reprimand he had received since being added to Chairman Joo’s family register.
Ju Jeong-han decided to retreat for a moment and returned to the United States.
He felt somewhat ambiguous upon hearing the news that Lee Yeon-soo had been decided as Joo Seung-hyuk’s exclusive [stolen content]guide. The selection of [visit our site]an S-Class Guide [stolen content]was threatening, but compared to a High-rank Guide from a good family who had a high probability of manifesting as an Omega, it was also a decent choice.
However, his biological mother hated even that. It seemed she tried to use Secretary Ahn to interfere with the matching rate test itself, but in the end, she failed to block the contract.
She was furious, and Ju Tae-han also whined for Lee Yeon-soo to be given to him. But Ju Jeong-han thought this was actually for the better.
Lee Yeon-soo was the eldest son of a poor family. His father didn’t have a proper job and had even been scammed, losing whatever meager assets they had, and since there were many siblings, Lee Yeon-soo had grown up sacrificing himself in many ways.
Just hearing the conditions gave him a rough estimate. He was the type who would be easy to handle in many ways.
It would be much better to use Lee Yeon-soo while pretending to help him.
However, this was the worst judgment of Ju Jeong-han’s life. He never imagined that fellow would realize that Chairman Joo and Joo Seung-hyuk were biological father and son…
Of course, he had only mentioned that the two of them had similar mana forms, and Chairman Joo, finding this suspicious, seemed to have conducted a paternity test, but as a result, it was practically because of Lee Yeon-soo that everything was exposed.
To make matters worse, Ju Tae-han was on the unauthorized copyverge of being kicked out for the crime of tormenting Joo Seung-hyuk.
The revelation of the biological child was inevitable, but he had to prevent Ju Tae-han from being kicked out. Given Chairman Joo’s personality, if he were abandoned
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