Chapter 466:

Chapter 466:

Glug glug.

Yoo-hyun poured more liquor into Park Seung-woo’s empty glass and asked casually.

“You’re not doing this because you’re afraid of being a pathetic senior who can’t take care of his junior, are you?”

“Huh? Did I say that?”

-Yoo-hyun, I wish you would become a pathetic senior who can’t take care of a single junior.

Yoo-hyun recalled his words from the past and chuckled as he nodded.

“Yes. You said that at the bar during the European exhibition.”

“I was talking nonsense back then.”

“It’s the same now.”

Park Seung-woo always thought of his junior first and himself second.

Yoo-hyun appreciated his heart, but it was time for him to let go and move forward for himself.

“You’re still a lacking senior?”

“Yes. You’re very lacking. You were so passionate about the PDA project that you broke so many things. And when it came to the color phone...”

Yoo-hyun answered bluntly to the question that wanted to hear a different answer.

As he pointed out his shameful actions sharply, Park Seung-woo’s face turned red.

But he pretended to be calm in front of his junior.

“Right. You’re not wrong at all. I’m still a pathetic senior even if I look at it again.”

“It’s not over yet. You also pushed for the new project in China that was doomed to fail and got a big nosebleed.”

“That was...sigh. You’re right, but it hurts a bit, doesn’t it?”

“Of course it hurts. You said you didn’t want to be a pathetic senior.”

“Well, yeah.”

Yoo-hyun threw a more realistic word at Park Seung-woo, who was mumbling with a flushed face.

“To be honest, you don’t suit LCD.”

“What?”

Yoo-hyun poked at his sore spot one after another, ignoring Park Seung-woo’s surprise.

“You’ve tried a lot of things with your overflowing passion, but not many of them worked out, did they?”

“Yeah.”

“You’ll probably end up doing the same thing even if you go back and use the knowledge you learned from MBA.”

“...”

Park Seung-woo emptied his full glass in one shot, unable to refute his junior’s cold but true words.

Some time passed.

Park Seung-woo, who couldn’t stand it, was about to say something, when Yoo-hyun said what he really wanted to say.

“So, you should go to the Innovation Strategy Office.”

“What?”

“That’s where your endless passion and challenge spirit will be applauded.”

“Why?”

Yoo-hyun didn’t budge at Park Seung-woo’s resistance.

“You’re better suited for a position that looks at things from a higher and farther perspective than making products.”

“...”

Yoo-hyun was sincere, but Park Seung-woo looked bewildered.

He rolled his eyes around as he sat still and asked.

“Why does it sound nice but mean?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know why either.”

“It feels like I lost all my money in gambling and got scolded.”

“You shouldn’t gamble.”

“Right. I shouldn’t...sigh. You’re weirdly nagging me.”

Yoo-hyun smiled and offered his glass to Park Seung-woo, who was shaking his head.

“Shall we have a drink?”

“Yeah. Anyway, it was a good thing, right? Right?”

“Of course. It was a compliment for my respected mentor.”

“Kekeke. Okay. That’s good enough. Come on, let’s have a drink.”

Park Seung-woo’s laughter seemed much lighter than before.

Yoo-hyun and Park Seung-woo’s pleasant drinking session lasted until dawn.

Park Seung-woo, who had a busy schedule at BCG and a flight, eventually collapsed.

And a few hours later.

He woke up from his dead-like sleep and was shocked.

He hastily packed his bags and got on the plane to New York again.

He flew boldly to take care of his junior, but he had a lot of things to do for his graduation.

Yoo-hyun stayed in the US for a while and took care of the things he couldn’t do.

First, he met with Paul Graham and Hyun Jin-gun again and settled the contract issues.

Yang Yoon-soo shrugged his shoulders and sent him a confident look.

It was then.

Kim Hyun-min, the director, who was stretching his neck from behind, looked at him incredulously.

“You guys are playing around.”

“Huh. Director.”

Yang Yoon-soo stepped aside and Kim Hyun-min grabbed the rice cakes himself.

“What’s the big deal about rice cakes? Why are you talking so much? Here, Kwon Deputy Director, take the rice cake for 500 billion won in operating profit.”

“Thank you.”

“Jun-sik, take the rice cake for the world’s number one achievement. You worked hard.”

“Thank you, Director.”

Jang Jun-sik, who got up from his seat, looked grateful, and Kim Hyun-min gestured for him to sit down.

“Sit down. It’s not my rice cake, so you don’t have to get up.”

“Still, it’s the result of our hard work. I’m satisfied.”

“You worked hard and did well, so you should get something better, not rice cakes. Rice cakes, what are rice cakes. This damn company.”

Kim Hyun-min grumbled and Yoo-hyun said out of the blue.

“Then, you can give us something better, Director.”

“Huh? Me?”

“Yes. That’s what a leader should do. Right?”

Yoo-hyun winked and Jung Saet-byul, who was quick to say what she thought, followed suit.

“Yes. Let’s go eat lobster that we couldn’t eat last time.”

“Lobster?”

“As expected, the leader of the innovative product TF that feeds the company. Thank you for your decisive decision to save the country.”

Yang Yoon-soo spat out a pearl-like flattery and Kim Hyun-min was dumbfounded.

“That’s a nice thing to say, but the decisive decision to save the country is a bit...”

“Then, I’ll make a reservation.”

Jang Jun-sik, who took his words as a positive sign, made a quick decision.

The three-hit combo that came in was so powerful that even Kim Hyun-min, who had a lot of experience, couldn’t withstand it.

“Fine. Let’s go, let’s go. Just the exhibition members for now.”

“Yay. Lobster dinner today.”

Jung Saet-byul, who didn’t even hear Kim Hyun-min’s words, clenched her fist and shouted.

At the same time, the people behind the partitions also turned pale.

“Oh? Another dinner?”

“From beef to lobster. The director is really generous.”

“Even if the team budget is low, the director’s balance is overflowing. You’re the best.”

“...”

Kim Hyun-min, who lost his words, looked at Yoo-hyun, the culprit of this whole situation, with a resentful look.

Yoo-hyun approached him with a smile and whispered.

“If you’re short of money, you can use it in advance. You’ll get a bonus soon.”

“Thanks for deciding how to use my bonus, you bastard.”

Kim Hyun-min reached out his arm and Yoo-hyun dodged it smoothly and incited him.

“Come on, let’s applaud the director’s decisive decision to save the country.”

Clap clap clap clap clap.

A sudden applause broke out in the office.

The atmosphere of the 13th floor of Hansung Tower was very lively.

The atmosphere of the 35th floor executive-only conference room was extremely tense.

Shin Hyun-ho, the chairman, who had returned from treatment in the US, scanned the people with an angry expression.

“How dare you do such a shameful thing while I was away?”

“It wasn’t us, it was Elliot...”

Yoon Joo-tak, the executive director, answered cautiously.

Shin Hyun-ho’s old friend and the chief operating officer of Hansung Group, Son Tae-bum, the vice president, who had never raised his voice, yelled.

“Is this the time for Yoon Executive Director to blame others? Is that all you can say as the head of the Group Strategy Office? If you did something, take responsibility. Responsibility.”

“But, it wasn’t me...”

Son Tae-bum pushed Yoon Joo-tak aside and spoke to Shin Hyun-ho bluntly.

“Chairman, I’m sorry to cause you trouble. I’ll take care of it myself.”

“You?”

“Yes. I think this happened because I trusted and left them too much. I’ll use my last to fix Hansung.”

Shin Hyun-ho looked at his longtime friend for a long time and opened his mouth.

“This should never happen again.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Son Tae-bum’s voice, full of determination, signaled a drastic change in the political landscape within the group.