After hearing Young-Eun's reasons on why she wanted to marry a rich man, Gun-Ho realized that he hastily jumped to conclusions.
Gun-Ho slowly rolled up his left sleeve. His burn scars and stitches appeared on his left arm. Young-Eun's eyes widened.
"I earned these honorable scars in an effort to make money when I worked at a factory. I worked in a plastic factory and got burned in handling injection molding machines there. I was paid daily, and I worked so hard by taking day and night shifts. I had to make money. I did everything in order to make money. I invested in the stock market and in real estate as well. I wanted to make money more and more indefinitely. I now have enough money to buy tens of condos in Gangnam District right away, which cannot be bought with a medical doctor's salary even with their twenty years of saving. It's not like I have a conglomerate or anything like that, but I do have money to help you. I want to spend the rest of my life with someone who has lofty goals and values in life like you, Ms. Young-Eun."
Gun-Ho inadvertently grabbed Young-Eun's hand, and Young-Eun pulled her hand out quietly.
"Let's call it a night. I have an appointment with someone."
Young-Eun then started walking in her usual soldier-like walking style toward the parking lot.
An art exhibition with sculptures was ongoing at GH Gallery.
It was not one artist's solo art exhibition, but several young artists participated in it. GH Gallery became a popular place to hang out among the young office workers in GH Building. They often spent time in the GH Gallery during their lunch break. Sometimes, junior or high school students stopped by the gallery and asked if there was any plan to hold another cartoon exhibition or similar.
Gun-Ho usually went to the gallery before or after lunch hours in order to avoid the crowd during the lunch break. Since several artists participated in the current exhibition, sometimes a few artists were sitting on a bench in the center of the gallery. Gun-Ho was laughing while looking at a sculpture at the gallery.
"These artists are very skillful. This one looks very well made."
There was a figure of a candlestick with a bird sitting on it, and another sculpture next to it depicted an earphone and a butterfly on it. Gun-Ho was thinking if he wanted to buy a sculpture that he liked the most just like he had often done at the previous art exhibitions. He then decided not to do it this time.
"I don't want to pile up artworks at home. They would cram my condo."
When he came back to his office after looking around the art exhibition at the gallery, he received a call from Min-Hyeok Kim in China.
"I just made a lease agreement for an office in Zienzilou (office building) located in Ping Qi Lu in Suzhou City. No security deposit is required. We just need to pay 5.4 million Korean won upfront for a one-year period of rent."
"Hmm, so it would be 450,000 won per month."
"It's about 99 ㎡ (30 pyung). I already obtained the business registration."
"450,000 won per month for a 30 pyung large office is not bad at all."
"Yeah, it took a great deal of legwork on my side."
"It's not far from the storage, right?"
"No, it's not. The office is less than 4 kilometers away from our storage."
"The storage doesn't belong to the joint venture company, so once you start generating enough revenue, you will need to send the monthly rent to my personal bank account."
"Okay, I will do that."
"Since the office is ready, you will need to fill in the office with furniture and stuff. You also need to hire a few workers, too."
"For now, we will place three desks in the office and hire one bookkeeper. We won't hire a security guard for the storage as an employee."
"Well, do what you think is necessary. You will need a car though in order to do sales activities. Get an Audi."
"An Audi is too expensive. Maybe we will get a Jincou xing (compact) car in installments. What do you think?"
"You can buy a car in installments?"
"Yeah, it's possible. It works just like a loan. Since Dingding can prove her income from the international school, we can make it in installments."
Chapter end
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