“No.
I’m going to guard this place until the end.
If you’re tired, you go in and rest, Brother.”
It wasn’t the usual Min-jun, who would complain at the slightest hardship and try to slip away however he could just because he was the youngest.
Yeong-jun tilted his head, but thinking he must be acting this way out of shock from their father’s sudden death, he didn’t urge him any further.
At that moment, Min-jun was biting his lip hard enough to draw blood while looking at the portrait of the deceased.
This was clearly his own mistake.
Even though he knew there was something wrong with Jang Do-myeong’s body when he came to visit him in the hospital, he had believed his words that he would get a checkup and forgotten about it.
He should have made him get a checkup no matter what that day.
He had promised to live as a member of the family on behalf of the Min-jun who had lent him his body, but he had failed to keep that promise.
He couldn’t make this kind of mistake anymore.
‘These people are my family now.
I must not forget that.’
* * *
Even after returning from the family burial grounds in Hadong, they couldn’t rest.
His uncle, Vice Chairman Jang Do-hun, came to visit along with Chief Lee Ho-geun and the advisory lawyer.
Woo Hee-yeong and the brothers, Yeong-jun and Min-jun, gathered together.
Jang Do-hun spoke.
“I came because we cannot leave the Chairman’s seat empty for long.”
“It’s something we have to go through at least once anyway, so it’s fine.
Please speak.”
“If we follow tradition, Yeong-jun should take the seat, but he is still young…”
“That’s right.
It’s still too early for Yeong-jun to sit in the Chairman’s seat right away.”
At Woo Hee-yeong’s words, Jang Do-hun’s face brightened.
If so, then he himself…
However, his face immediately stiffened at Woo Hee-yeong’s following words.
“While Yeong-jun gets ready, I will lead the group in his stead.”
“You, Sister-in-law?”
Leaving the surprised Jang Do-hun, Woo Hee-yeong asked the lawyer.
“Is there any legal issue with me becoming the Chairman?”
“There is nothing of the sort.”
Everyone listened to the lawyer’s answer with surprised expressions.
After getting married, she had only done housework and had not been involved in the group’s affairs at all.
Therefore, this decision couldn’t help but be unexpected.
But Woo Hee-yeong drove the nail in one more time.
“Please consider it decided and make the preparations.”
“…Understood.”
Jang Do-hun clenched his jaw and stood up first.
Only after Jang Do-hun left did Lee Ho-jun open his mouth.
“I came with the lawyer because I thought we should handle the inheritance issue first.”
“How much does it amount to?”
“Well, that’s… It doesn’t amount to much.”