Chapter 459 – Part 3
Sungjin was bewildered.
Seongsu Bridge Collapse Incident, this important event had been forgotten.
If Seongjin, who even has a construction company, had properly remembered the collapse of the Seongsu Bridge, he could have investigated and prevented it in advance.
However, Seongjin hadn’t paid any attention to this until now.
Seongjin, who clearly knew the future, felt guilty for some reason.
But he soon felt that something was wrong with him.
‘Uh? Why has this already happened?’
Obviously, in the history before the return, the Seongsu Bridge collapse occurred on October 21st.
But this time, somehow, the incident happened a month earlier.
‘What? The same thing happened, but it happened differently from the history I knew… If this happens, I can’t stop it even if I want to.’
Sungjin was confused.
Until now, he thought that if he had the opportunity to make money because he knew the history of the future, he would surely be able to prevent future disasters.
However, it was only natural that if time was distorted like this, it would have a big impact on future decision-making.
The secretary who hurriedly delivered the news had already gone out of the chairman’s room, and Seong-jin moved to the sofa and sat down watching the news with a serious face without leaning back.
And because Seongjin knew how much the Seongsu Bridge collapse would affect the political world in the future, he was quickly organizing his thoughts.
It was the Seongsu Bridge collapse that was the beginning of the collapse of Korea’s first civilian government, a government established by the people after overthrowing the military government, and the government that expected unification immediately.
A few months later, a gas explosion accident in Ahyeon-dong, a collapse of Sampoong Department Store that will bring tears to the people next year, and an explosion at a subway construction site in Daegu, catastrophes almost equivalent to natural disasters will occur one after another in Korea.
As these disasters erupt one after another, the people fall into a crucible of confusion, and even strange rumors circulate that the country is ruined because one wrongly elected president of the country.
As a result, the Kim Hyeon-sam regime fell into lame duck, and in order to divert attention from the people, it shouted the pro-Japanese liquidation, causing a deterioration in relations with Japan. It will fall into a whirlpool.
And as the final blow, the IMF crisis, President Kim Hyun-sam remains with the stigma of being the worst president in history.
Sungjin had already made plans for this to some extent, and he thought of preventing these accidents if he could.
However, Seong-jin had completely forgotten these things, and moreover, if the incident occurred at a completely different time from the history before the return, Seong-jin would be unable to do anything about it.
Fortunately for Seong-jin, it was just that the time was different, but what would happen would inevitably happen.
That said, the rest of the accidents would happen, and eventually the IMF crisis would surely explode, and that would still be an opportunity for Sung-jin.
“Haa.. I can’t do this.”
Seongjin just stared blankly at the TV and sighed.
After all, he only felt sorry for the dead over there.
But then,
“President. It was a big deal.”
Again, the chief of staff burst open the door to the president’s office without knocking and rushed in.
Seong-jin looked at the chief secretary with a bewildered gaze as he opened the president’s office without knocking as if he were opening the door to his own bedroom.
“Future construction.. Vice President Lee.. Passed away. Kuheugh…”
For a moment, Seong-jin wondered who Vice President Lee of Mirae Construction was.
Seong-jin’s father, who was originally a managing director, was promoted to vice president early last year.
After a while, Seongjin, startled, jumped up from his seat.
“What… What? My father… Passed away…?”
“Yes.. Chairman.. Black.. It is said that while the vice president was on his way to work, the Seongsu Bridge collapsed and he fell down.”
Seongjin collapsed into his seat as if collapsing.
“Speak… Speak… No. Why? Why? Father..”
Seongjin was so confused right now.
His face turned white, his heart beating wildly, he couldn’t think of what to do first.
Apparently, the father was still alive until Sungjin returned in 2017.
But suddenly death…
What the hell happened?
Why do people who lived well and who were supposed to live well die suddenly?
While Seongjin was lost, the chief of staff rushed over and brought a glass of water.
Seong-jin, who did not even know that the chief secretary brought water, came to his senses and drank water without hesitation when the chief secretary put a cup in his hand.
It was only when the cold water hit my neck that it passed, and I finally came to my senses.
Sungjin quickly picked up the phone.
When I called home, her mother, who hadn’t come to work yet, answered the phone leisurely.
“Mother. My father… My father… Passed away.”
Seong-jin’s voice trembled, but it wasn’t so sad that she didn’t realize her yet.
“What?”
The only word that came out of her mother’s mouth was ‘what’.
Neither Seong-jin nor her mother said anything for a while, and she only held onto the phone.
“You. Are you still in business? Wait a minute. I’ll be leaving soon…”
After a while, her mother’s voice was surprisingly calm.
She was holding her phone for a while longer, which had just been cut off after saying her own words. Seong-jin, who had put her down, suddenly trembled with various emotions.
“I… Chairman. Are you okay?”
Seong-jin didn’t even know that the chief of staff was by her side, but it seemed that the chief of staff was standing next to her, waiting for Seong-jin’s next instructions.
Then she asked cautiously with her worried face as Sungjin suddenly started shaking her body.
Seongjin still couldn’t stop shaking, so she just stared blankly at the secretary’s office.
“President. Shouldn’t you go to the hospital soon?”
“Uh? That.. Yes.. That’s how it should be. I have to go.”
Sungjin suddenly jumped up from his seat and she quickly went outside.
The head of the secretary followed her sideways and guided Seongjin.
She was clearly distraught, even though her mother had told her to wait.
The company has an emergency.
If the vice president of an affiliate had just died, there wouldn’t have been such an uproar.
However, since the vice president of the affiliate is the real father of the chairman, Seong-jin, this was not something to be overlooked.
When Sung-jin left the chairman’s office, another secretary was already holding the elevator, and she quickly descended to the first floor.
Several vehicles, including secretaries and security vehicles in front and behind Seong-jin’s car, departed for the nearby university hospital where her father’s body was moved.
As soon as the car started, Seong-jin, who finally came back to her senses, began to sharpen her eyes.
The incredible thing happened to her, but she couldn’t let her mind go on forever.
“This Seongsu Bridge incident, we will take action so that Mirae Construction can investigate it. And thoroughly investigate what the cause is. If an error is found, we will thoroughly investigate the error. Do you know?
And Mirae Construction will switch to an emergency system starting today. And…”
Seong-jin quickly began to give instructions to the chief of staff who was sitting in the front seat, and the chief of staff opened a notebook and wrote down Seong-jin’s instructions nervously while answering them.
Seongjin, who came to his senses, was calmer than ever before and quickly sorted out the situation.
However, Seong-jin, who got out of the car after arriving at the university hospital, could not move his feet when he arrived near his morgue.
As if he had already been contacted, everyone from the university hospital staff to guides were there, and now, if you go through the door in front of you, you can see the body of your dead father.
However, Seong-jin, who started to tremble again, stood in front of the door and could not enter.
She was Seong-jin, who had been so calm until recently, but when she heard that she had to see her father’s corpse, so many thoughts passed by like a kaleidoscope.
He couldn’t be said to have been a very good father to Seong-jin, but he wasn’t a bad father either.
His business went bankrupt, so he threw his wife and children into a single room on the roof without running water, and made them suffer under the yoke of poverty. He was a father who rarely hit In Seong-jin and tried to make him smile.
Seong-jin took her mother away from such a father.
And she made her mother have a child of her own.
It’s just what I’m thinking now, but it was clear that the father was aware of whose child her mother’s child was to some extent.
However, he had been guilty of neglecting his wife and cheating on him, and he couldn’t go out and talk about his wife and son getting along with each other as a disgrace in the family. It would have been a matter of just asking and moving on when the construction company executives and even the majority shareholder were allowed to do so.
However, if the relationship between Seong-jin and his father was bad, that was not the case either.
Seong-jin did everything for his father to enjoy the rest of his life to the fullest, and his father was very happy with it.
My father met another woman two years ago and even remarried, and he took his youngest brother, Seong-hun, and was living a proper family.
Also, Seong-jin would have meals with his father’s family at least once or twice a month, including Jin-hee and So-hee. Of course, my mother wasn’t there, but…
Even the woman who remarried her was treated with respect as her stepmother, and her father was proud of such a seongjin and had fun with her seongjin and a drink with her.
That’s how Seong-jin said he would do his best for his father.
But maybe it was the feeling of sorry and guilt for taking away his mother from his father.
Seongjin looked at the door marked her mortuary and felt frightened as he lost himself in all sorts of thoughts.
Even though he had to open the door right away and check his father’s body, Seong-jin had no intention of seeing his father’s body.
While Seongjin was hesitating, he heard the sound of people coming in.
“Tongue.. Hyung.. Black.. Black..”
The people who entered were Seong-hoon and his stepmother.
Seonghun, who had just returned to school, received an urgent call and came with his stepmother.
Seong-hoon came closer and grabbed Seong-jin’s arm with tears in his eyes as if he were about to shed tears.
The stepmother, already covering her mouth with her handkerchief, approached, and Seongjin slightly bowed her head toward her stepmother with her hard face.
“Sung.. Seongjin-gun. Father… Did you check the body? Black…”
The stepmother has been seeing Sung-jin for nearly two years, but she still couldn’t let go of her words.
Even when Sung-jin asked her to stop talking, he treated her as an adult rather than her son, saying that he had a social status.
“No, I have to check now. Would you like to come in with me?”
Sungjin still had a hard expression, and when he asked her stepmother a question, she again wiped her tears with her handkerchief and nodded her head.
“Phew.. Let’s go, Sung Hoon. Eat heartily. Got it?”
It was Seonghun, now 17 years old and a freshman in high school.
Just a few years ago, the guy who held Seongjin’s hand and followed only Seongjin around as hyung, hyung, had grown to nearly 180 cm in height before he knew it.
However, perhaps because he was still young, Seonghun’s hand holding Seongjin’s arm was trembling as tears flowed without his knowledge.
After taking a deep breath, Sung-jin led Sung-hoon and his stepmother into the morgue.
In the middle of the mortuary room, filled with chicken coop-like morgues, there was a silver iron bed, on top of which lay a corpse covered in white cloth all the way.
As Seongjin and his party approached, a man in a white coat rolled up a piece of cloth to reveal his father’s face.
Fortunately, the father’s face was very clean, considering that the car had fallen off the bridge and died.
However, the moment his father’s dead face was revealed with his eyes closed and his lips turning blue, the tears Seong-jin had been holding back burst out.
“Kheuuuuu… Sin… I’m sorry.”
In the end, the first word that came out of Sungjin’s mouth was sorry.
Only Sungjin would know what he was sorry for.
As Seong-jin collapsed on the floor and began to cry, his stepmother and Seong-hoon followed suit and began to weep loudly.
The man in the gown approaching Seongjin to confirm that the corpse was Seongjin’s father was stopped by the secretaries and bodyguards. Took it out
For a moment, it was becoming a sea of tears, but the outside became noisy.
It seems that Jin-hee came.
Jin-hee was crying and screaming to go in, and it seemed that the secretaries were stopping Jin-hee from doing so.
Seong-jin, who did not want to show the cold face of her dead father to Jin-hee, a woman, stopped her crying, got up, covered her face with a cloth again, and came out.
“Oh.. Brother. Black.. Black.. Dad.. Dad?”
When Seong-jin came out the door, Jin-hee ran over and grabbed Seong-jin’s arms with both hands and howled.
“Father… Passed away. My brother confirmed it.”
“Heuuuuuwuuuuuwuuuuu…”
Dad and oppa were only two words, but Seong-jin could understand what Jin-hee wanted to say.
Seongjin hugged Jinhee tightly to her chest.