"Chapter 22: This is what was going on..."
After we entered the study, my mother handed one piece of copy paper to me.
"This is..."
"This is a copy of what I faxed to the press."
"The Lee family's eldest son, Lee Byung Hun, and eldest daughter, Lee So Hyun will be joined in marriage...Omma, why did you fax something like this...?"
"Because this is the last method we have to the Lee Corp."
"Why are you doing something so senseless...? How the hell will faxing something so unreasonable save the Lee Corp?"
"Fine. I'll explain it to you from the beginning." My mother explained to my brother what she had told me this morning. However, my brother's expression just got grimmer.
"Absurd...It's something an amateur who doesn't even know the M in management would think up!"
"Oh, is that so?"
"What would getting the stock prices up for a moment do? That won't be advantageous for the Lee family itself at all.Actually, if we're played around with by speculators, they'll just fall backdown right away!"
"You're really negative, just like that namja."
"So Hyun ah, did you know about this?"
"Eh? Um..."
"Omma told me this morning, but it's not like I approved..."
"If you'd told me earlier, things wouldn't have become like this..."
"Mianhae..."
"Aniyo, it's not your fault....Mian for saying somehing harsh."
"Your marriage will be a ceremony that symbolizes the rebirth of the Lee family.We'll be able to sweep away that old image that's been clinging on to the Lee name.
"That's just idiotic! In the first place, why do we have to marry?"
"You can't say that after sleeping with So Hyun, can you?"
"What did you...?"
"I won't let you say that you don't have that sort of relationship. Even though I look like this, I'm a omma. Or are you saying that you were just fooling around with So Hyun?"
"I wasn't just fooling around..."
"Then there's no problem. You've already called off the engagement with Hyuna, haven't you?"
"But appa,,,And we're oppa and dongsaeng..."
"That person wants you to cooperate with So Hyun to rebuild the Lee family. This lives up to that hope. Don't you think it's the best idea?"
"The reason appa collapsed was because he found out about our relationship...He wouldn't want us to marry!"
"You can't know that without asking him."
"There's no way I could ask appa that now, right?"
"In any case, he's noticed your relationship. As a relationship between a namja and a yeoja, that is."
"In any case, he's noticed your relationship. As a relationship between a namja and a yeoja, that is. The point is, the only way to make over the Lee family is with a gamble."
"You probably don't know, but the Lee family still has a hope. We don't need to do something like this!"
"Oh...I'd love to hear it."
