122. partner
Hoyeong returned to Korea and stopped by the house first.
It was evening, so Hoyeong and Miru had dinner with their parents and met in the study on the second floor.
“Chief. Don’t you need a vacation?”
“it’s okay.”
“You must be very tired from going to the places I go every day. Besides, the manager also drives.”
Miru said with a gentle smile.
“Instead, I always take a break while the director is having a meeting. Actually, before I met the director, I didn’t seem to be moving any more than when I was working at a security company, so I was exercising more separately.”
“okay? I’ve never seen you go anywhere, but were you alone in your room?”
“That’s right. Fortunately, I like bare-body workouts.”
Hoyoung stuck out his tongue at Miru’s attitude.
When we first met in America, Miru was not like this.
He was a bit clumsy, but he was a fun young man who was cheerful and fulfilled his responsibilities.
But now, if someone I didn’t know saw it, it would be a little scary.
I thoroughly calculate every minute and every second and always strive to produce good results.
He is willing to do whatever Ho-young asks him to do.
“My girlfriend is… Of course there can’t be. sorry.”
Hoyoung thought he had asked a stupid question.
It was Ho-yeong who had been with Mi-ru almost 24 hours a day since he started being with him.
A girlfriend in that situation.
“ha ha ha. There’s nothing to be sorry about. What. I don’t even know if I really need a girlfriend right now.”
“Still, you have to make a manager, a lover, and get married.”
“Isn’t that the same for the director? Make a girlfriend soon. And you can introduce me too.”
“Chief, you know my schedule. How do I make a girlfriend?”
Miru laughed out loud.
“That is also true. haha.”
I dragged two chairs to the table in the middle of the study and said to Miru.
“Shall we have a cup of tea after a while?”
“Good.”
“Wait a little. I will prepare.”
“no. no. wait here I will prepare today.”
“okay…”
“Whatever you want to eat, speak quickly.”
Miru hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“I will make green tea.”
“OK. Please wait.”
After a while, Hoyoung returned to the study with two cups of tea.
“ruler. Get it here.”
After passing a glass to Miru, Hoyoung casually sat down on the chair she had just dragged in.
Miru, who was standing awkwardly, also sat across from Hoyoung.
“It’s been a while since we’ve been talking like this, even though we’re sticking together almost like one body.”
“I can’t help it because you’re always busy. During breaks, we try not to disturb you as much as possible so that you can relax as much as possible.”
Hoyeong looked at Miru with a funny expression.
I always took it for granted, but now that I think about it, I can believe that Miru is a different person than when I first met her.
“Do you remember when we first met?”
“sure. Of course I remember. When I met you at the Dallas airport with Brian?”
“yes. Just then. To be honest, I never thought that Miru would be this good.”
“Is that so?”
“It could be a bit misunderstood, but I didn’t ask Miru to work with me because I thought she would do such a good job.”
“okay? Then why did you hire me?”
“I thought it would be fun to be together.”
Miru laughed.
“Well, at that time I was a talkative and clumsy person.”
“haha. So good.”
Miru made a vague expression for a moment and said.
“My parents passed away, and I met Director for the first time in the United States, where I didn’t know anyone. Even then, I had no intention of returning to Korea, but I don’t know what will happen to people.”
Miru slurped her tea and continued.
“It was the moment when I, who only wanted to live freely, had a role model for the first time.”
“A role model?”
“yes. It’s embarrassing to say right in front of you, but I think I was really influenced by the director.”
Hoyoung couldn’t erase the embarrassed expression for a moment.
But even after seeing that expression, Miru didn’t care and continued talking.
“I think I thought I wanted to be like that as I always watched him from the sidelines, his attitude toward work, his skillful management of personal connections, and his continued professionalism. So, when I am working, I always think of the director and always think about it so that I can work without mistakes.”
Watching Hoyoung look embarrassed, Miru smiled humorously.
It was the same face when we first met in America.
“I don’t know if I am a person with so much to learn.”
“Don’t talk like that. I always trust only the director.”
Hoyoung thought that he hadn’t even been able to find a match because he brought up the word for nothing.
When he sneakily looked up at Miru’s face, he was able to spot Miru’s smiling face.
“Chief!”
“Why are you calling me?”
Ho-yeong finds out that Mi-ru is playing a prank on her and kicks Mi-ru out! I called, but Miru looked like she didn’t know anything.
“Puhahaha!”
“ha ha ha!”
Eventually, the two burst into laughter.
When the two of them laughed for a long time, Miru quietly spoke out.
“It’s no lie that I’m always learning.”
“All right. I will try to show you something I can learn more in the future.”
When Hoyeong said in a tone that she couldn’t help it, Miru shrugged.
Seeing Miru like that, Hoyoung laughed happily once more.
In fact, Miru hasn’t changed much compared to when he first met Hoyeong.
It could only be said that he became more skilled as he got older year after year.
And it is an undeniable fact that going around with Hoyeong and learning from Hoyeong’s behavior played a huge role in making Miru what it is today.
“I don’t know how the talk got to this point. Anyway, I mean, tell me whenever you want to take a break. I can either have someone else drive or I can do it myself, and our competent security team is working in Korea.”
Miru nodded.
He recalled that at the end of last year, Hoyoung brought Brian with him to start a security company.
Although Brian is not in Korea as he directly guards Smith, who is in charge of H&H America, the elite he picked and selected are guarding Ho-yeong in Korea without knowing or knowing.
“good. I promise to tell you anytime. But, that is not now.”
“All right. Time has already been like this. Shall I just go in?”
“Yes, I think that would be better. What is your schedule for tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow morning, I will stop by Bundang for a while, and in the afternoon I will go to Hermes to do some work.”
Miru took out a notebook and a ballpoint pen, not knowing when she took them out, and wrote down what Hoyeong had told her.
“In the morning, Bundang… Hermes in the afternoon. Okay. Can we leave around 8:00 tomorrow morning?”
“I see. I will eat breakfast made by my mother after a long time.”
“Good.”
The humorous smile that Miru had shown a while ago had disappeared before she knew it, and she was back to her face when she was working.
Hoyeong laughed at the fact to herself and stood up.
“Then sleep well. See you tomorrow.”
“Good night.”
Miru bowed her head.
In real life, Miru is four years older than Hoyoung, but Hoyoung only thought he was cute.
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next day.
Hoyoung and Miru grabbed the boat and left the house.
Ho-young’s mother prepared a delicacy for Ho-young and Mi-ru, who are leaving home after a long absence, saying that they should fill their stomachs before going to work.
“Director. Aren’t your hands too big?”
“This has gotten a lot smaller.”
“Ugh. Is that so?”
“When I was in high school, when we grilled meat at home, the three of us, mother, father, and I, ate three to four pounds.”
“Oh yeah. My father also ate too much.”
Miru hung her head and got into the driver’s seat.
Hoyeong also followed him and got into the back seat.
“Then, sir. I will go to Bundang.”
Bundang is quite close when traveling by car.
Gangnam is 15 minutes from Hannam-dong, where Hoyeong lives. Another 20 minutes from Gangnam to Bundang.
It takes about 30 minutes from home.
In the first place, since Bundang was a new city to disperse the population of Gangnam, it had to be a good location.
“Wow. It’s only been three years, but a lot has changed.”
Upon entering Bundang, Miru was impressed.
As he said, Bundang was already packed with apartments.
A few years ago, it was a change that no one would believe if they said that this place was a cucumber or melon field.
“Looks like we’re almost there.”
“Yes.”
Miru moved the car a little further and parked it in front of the apartment complex.
And as soon as the car arrived, the real estate door on the first floor opened, and someone jumped out and approached the car.
“Oh, boss!”
The person who jumped out was the previous owner of the Bokdeokbang.
“how are you?”
“sure. Have a good day. How does the boss… Kya! I think you’ve been doing well.”
The owner of the bokdeokbang also recognized Hoyeong’s car and luxury suit at a glance to see if he had touched some money as Bundang soared.
“The things I asked for must have gone smoothly, right?”
“sure. It wasn’t a job that took out a loan, and everyone did a head-butt, so what was the difficulty?”
The owner of the bokdeokbang laughed out loud.
Even after the announcement of the new city, Hoyoung has been purchasing land in Bundang from time to time.
And that is only in the land where the 2nd and 3rd apartments are built.
The price was dozens of times higher than before the announcement of the new city, but Hoyoung knew that the price would rise ten times from this price even after a few years.
“ruler. Come in this way. Thanks to the boss, I also have a small office.”
The owner of Bokdeokbang treated Hoyoung as if he were welcoming a king.
It was because Ho-yeong had purchased both the land and the apartment through the owner of the Bok-deok room, so Ho-young paid a considerable amount of money.
“Can I see the apartment first?”
“sure. Please follow me.”
The owner of Bokdeokbang took Hoyeong and walked into the apartment complex.
In the first place, the real estate was located in the commercial district of the complex where the apartment owned by Ho-young was located.
The owner of the Bokdeokbang said, pointing to an apartment building far away.
“ruler. president. Do you see the east end over there?”
“yes. It looks good.”
“That’s it.”
For a moment, Miru couldn’t understand what the owner of Bokdeokbang was saying and looked back at him.
“That’s it?”
Miru looked at Hoyoung’s face this time.
A relaxed smile hung on his face.
The owner of the Bokdeokbang nodded as if Miru’s reaction was natural.
“From where you are standing now. The boss has purchased all six apartments by the end of that.”
Miru couldn’t hide her surprised expression.
“I thought it would not be possible to buy it neatly like this because of the lack of purchases, but it was possible thanks to the hard work of the owner. thank you.”
“no.”
The owner of Bokdeokbang said no, but Hoyeong knew very well that this was difficult.
“And with the exception of one building, most of them are already living on monthly rent.”
“yes. Boss, please take care of me.”
“sure. It’s my job. Would you like to go home now?”
“good.”
“Director. What else do you have?”
“haha. Please follow me.”
The owner of Bokdeokbang took Hoyeong and Miru to the top floor of an apartment building.
However, this floor has a slightly different structure from the others.
It should have been two houses on one floor on either side, but there was only one door here.
“Let’s see. The construction has been completed, and structural changes have been approved by City Hall.”
When I entered Miru’s house and looked at it, the admiration came out naturally.
This house was a house converted into a spacious house by removing the walls of two apartments.
“this···. This place.”
“I also thought that I would soon become independent. It seems to be close to the company and nice. How is it here?”
“It’s very nice. I don’t know much about the interior, but I think the interior materials and flooring materials are of the highest quality?”
“I asked you to put some effort into it.”
Hoyoung and Miru looked around the house and left the room.
“president. How do you like it?”
“I don’t like it, there’s nothing to do. You have worked so hard.”
“haha. I’m glad you like it. I don’t know how much I polished the interior contractor. Now let’s go downstairs.”
“Is there anything downstairs?”
Hoyoung didn’t answer that and went downstairs.
Originally, there were doors on both sides.
“This is my studio.”
As soon as I opened the door, the living room was full of various equipment and computers.
Hoyeong closed it and opened the front door of the house across the street.
When Miru looked at the house, it was a beautifully decorated house with high-quality interior materials almost the same as the one on the upper floor.
“And this is now the chief’s house. You should buy one near me. I decided to go downstairs.”
Hoyeong smiled at Miru.
“And this place belongs to the manager. Now, paying your property taxes every year is going to hurt your stomach.”
The procrastinating Hoyeong looked at him with surprised eyes.
Hoyoung looked at him and smiled.
“ruler. Now, let’s take a quick tour of the house.”
“All right. Do you have any urgent business?”
“haha! I’m going to Hermes in the afternoon. I have to work fast. Work.”
Watching Hoyeong shrug her shoulders, Miru couldn’t help but laugh and say it.
