12 Hours After Chapter 135

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

“Then, we'll leave . ”

“Yes . ”

I looked out the window in the back of the car . The outside landscape moved back from the country office to the country road . I was silently reminded of that line . 'Oh, that's weird . '

Well, then, Secretary Seo in front of me opened his mouth .

“Boss . ”

“Hmm?”

“Well…”

Secretary Seo glanced at me in the rearview mirror and hesitated and told me, “Please talk to me . How was it? What was the luxury villa where the rich got together like?”

I looked at my wrist . Now it was half past eleven . Secretary Seo had waited here for more than four hours . It must have been boring . “First, it was not a luxurious villa . ”

“Is that so?”

“It was a luxury cruise floating on the Bukhan River . ”

“Aha . ”

“It was good . The drinks were expensive, the food was delicious, and there were many famous people . ”

Secretary Park, who had been silent at the time, added, “Lee Nyeon was there . ”

Secretary Seo exclaimed in astonishment, “Really?”

Lee Nyeon was not affiliated with our company, but she was one of the top stars, comparable to Oh Hyun-joo . I asked in amazement, “Really? I didn't see her . ”

“Yes, boss . When you went inside that cabin, I was on standby outside… a beautiful woman was coming by, and I turned around and saw it was Lee Nyeon . ”

The top actress must have been aboard the luxury ship . 'Why was the actress there…'

As I was thinking that, Secretary Seo said, “Wow, I envy you, boss . Please take me next time, not Secretary Park . ”

Secretary Seo seemed to be serious . 'I took Secretary Park for a reason…'

I said with my arms crossed, “Well… I don't know if I'll come back here . ”

“Why? Didn't you like anything?”

“No . It's not that I don't like it . It's just… It's just that I don't fit in there . ”

“Well, in terms of money, you're as good as them, aren't you?”

“That's right, but…”

That was all I had to say, and I said nothing more . When I closed my mouth, Seo didn't ask any more questions . I didn't need to explain any more . Secretary Park would tell him everything he wanted to hear when I was away . I thought again about the meeting that had just happened . 'It was very unusual . '

At the meeting where I was introduced, I was greeted with surprise .

“Ah, this is Han Sang-hoon, the main character of the storm, right?”

“Does every company you touch succeed so well?”

“That's what our people say . A genius has appeared in the market . ”

“That's right, genius . That's what my men say . He's a genius . ”

They didn't recognize my face, but they knew my name and my company's name . They knew our company's recent rapid growth and it seemed they had an informant that brought them their information .

Chairman Ko Jin-hee of JISUNG Fashion, who was in her forties but had the twenty-year-old skin, asked Jang Han-sul, “How did you know Chairman Han Sang-hoon and invite him?”

Jang Han-sul answered with a sly smile, “I was curious when I heard the news about him . Have a seat, please . ” He offered me a seat .

As I sat there, I saw Tak Mun-su sitting on the opposite side . He would be the one who had told everyone else the news . But he sat indifferently, as if he didn't need to look at me .

'Well… it must have been him who wanted me here…'

I sat down and asked them, what I was most curious about . “You often get together like this, don't you?”

In my words, President Kim Shin of Susung Planning, answered shortly, “About once a year . ”

“Aha . So are you all acquainted, except for me?”

He nodded, “Yes, but I didn't meet them here at first . ”

At my words, Vice Chairman Jung Sung-soo of Mirae Motors asked, “Didn't everyone meet here and there?”

Everyone nodded at that . Lee Won-jae used to say that before . I didn't know how it happened, but they were entangled by marriages . Each of the seven had a different family name and company, but whether they were cognate or married, they were all close or distant relatives .

'I'm the only outsider…' If I thought about it, it was natural . There were only a few who had made a billion dollars by their own efforts in our country . So these chairmen showed interest in me .

President Ha Ji-yeon of Hotel Baekje asked me, “Where did you study?”

“I graduated from Sungkyunkwan University with a degree in information and communication engineering . ”

“Oh, I see . But you set up an investment company?”

“I've been dreaming of starting a business since my school days, though it's a little bit different . ”

President Huh Joon-ik of LC Construction got involved . “Oh, you majored in science . Even if I had other kids run my account, the graduates of Harvard or Seoul National University economics are the worst, and there's someone else who's better at stocks . ”

Jang Han-sul nodded, “Yes, it is true . ”

They exchanged questions with me for a while in that way . They asked me this and that, as if this was a hearing . However, it was mostly about investment and company management, because they were all CEOs .

I tried to tell them as much as I knew by the present information . It was because I'd been watching the future news every day, and I had a lot of future information in my head . So when I was talking, I had to add maybe's to everything .

“I think the retaliation against THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) will be completely lifted as of this year . Maybe . ” I told them what I really thought . “I think Trump will win re-election . That's what I assume when I run a company . It would go before and after the U . S . presidential election without any drastic changes . ”

“Oh, I see . ”

The funny thing was, these people took my words quite seriously, perhaps because of the achievements I had .

“CEO Han Sang-hoon thinks so . It's a little different from our staff . I'll have to think about it again . ”

'I'm just saying what comes to mind…' It would be a little funny if my words changed the strategy of Mirae Motors . As I talked to them, I continued to be conscious of Tak Mun-su . He only clapped at other people's stories, but he didn't talk to me in person .

'Well… he really wanted to see me once . Is this it?'

But it finally happened . “You have such great insight . CEO Han Sang-hoon,” he said to me .

I naturally turned my head to him and replied, “That's too much praise . Vice Chairman Tak Mun-su . ”

Tak Mun-su smiled and spoke to me .

'So what did he say…' I rubbed my chin and looked back at my conversation with him . No matter how much I thought about it, there had been nothing unusual . He had just talked to me about investment and management, nothing else .

I had been trying to figure out when a nuclear bomb would hit in the middle of the conversation, if I could . There had been no such thing at all, possibly since other company representatives were watching . Therefore, he might not have brought up something sensitive first . I had only had a very normal conversation with him .

What was amazing was that as I had been talking to him, I had felt it . 'This man… is really a good man . ' He had had some kind of charisma . He had had the charm of leading people . If I had not seen him hitting his wrist in the dream, I would have thought of him as a good man . But I couldn't put a good man and an abettor of murder on the same line, no matter how evil Tak Joon-gi was .

'It was weird… really…'

But now that I thought about it, all six other CEOs had something that attracted people's attention . I could feel their natural leisure . They had been born in a rich family and had lived running toward the top, without any ups and downs of life . It was a little different from me .

At the end of the meeting, Jang Han-sul, the host, handed me his business card, 'Chairman Jang Han-sul of KJ Shopping . ' He said, “Nice to meet you today, CEO Han Sang-hoon . I'll call you directly next time . '

To be honest, I didn't think this was a suitable place for me, either . I wouldn't be able to get along with these people after all . But it was worth attending . It was such a high-level gathering place that Crow could gather some information . That was what it was today .

'The constitutional amendment for two four-year terms… The next presidential candidates are Joo Sung-won for the ruling party, and Han Sang-hoon, Lee Soo-won, and Jung Kyung-wha for the opposition party . '

I picked up my cell phone, went to the portal site, and searched for 'the constitutional amendment . ' Some news came up soon .

[Discussion over the power structure of the National Assembly on the constitutional amendment has been slow to make a difference . ]

[The people are behind the debate on the constitutional amendment, and it turned into a pie fight for lawmakers . ]

[Two four-year terms? The parliamentary government system? What will happen to the presidential system?]

The constitutional amendment had been making little progress since last year . I had forgotten, but they must have been talking . I went on to the future news . I hadn't seen the second one today . At 8:55, as the news had arrived, I had been in the cruiser .

I entered the future news of 12 Months After and put 'Park Hyung-joon, the name of the incumbent president' in it . These last few days, I had stopped tracking the names of the president for the search of other CEOs and celebrities . There was news coming up .

[Lame-duck phenomenon with one year left in President Park Hyung-joon's term?]

I clicked on it . The article was news of July 2020, after nine months . The last presidential election was 2017 . If it properly worked, it should be done by 2022, but it said only one year left in the president's term . It was just as the people who had been talking on board the ship had said .

'Certainly, inside the political world, it's been talked about . '

Soon, the Korean constitution would be amended to limit a president to two four-year terms . Then, two years later, we would have a presidential election . Depending on who would become president, it would affect me for four or eight years .

'This is definitely… I need to get my hands on it . ' I closed my cell phone, thinking about it .

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