[Episode 145] Seo Il-kwon’s sincerity
Cho Il-chul thought it was better.
He wanted to imitate Nuri’s current business and adopt a method called arboretum.
And Seo Il-gwon has been active as the backbone of the Nuri landscape.
Therefore, I thought it was a good opportunity to absorb Nuri’s know-how as it is.
“It’s fine anyway. I will destroy the materials, so move on to Sunrise Landscape.”
“I have no reason to listen to your orders.”
“Are you going back to the scene? I have to move to sunrise landscaping and live in awe.”
“Live with a tantrum… … .”
At Jo Il-chul’s confident voice, Seo Il-kwon laughed.
I didn’t want to be found out by Lee Min-goo, so I just moved as he said, and it didn’t matter whether his plan was successful or not.
Even that, now suffering from guilt, was about to quit everything.
‘You idiot who doesn’t know who Siwoo Lee is.’
Besides, Cho Il-chul was so stupid.
At one time, although it was only for a short time, it was Seo Il-kwon who did not understand why he was doing this, although he must have had experience working with Si-woo Lee.
Working in Nuri Landscaping, and in a fairly high position, I could only use myself like this.
“Now, this is the end of your relationship with me.”
“Aren’t you mad? You want to get revenge on Siwoo Lee, who fired you for doing something wrong. how is it? It is possible if you and I hold hands.”
impossible.
I don’t know if Cho Il-chul’s ability was outstanding.
No, even if that were the case, it would not be able to bring down Si-Woo Lee.
Siwoo Lee was such a capable representative.
“Do you really think you can catch CEO Lee Si-woo?”
“Of course! I am Cho Il-chul.”
“It’s the funniest joke I’ve ever heard.”
Seo Il-kwon turned around coldly.
I have nothing to do with him now.
“Hey, aren’t you going to have a family too? Even thinking of that family… … .”
Cho Il-chul tried his best until the end, but Seo Il-kwon had already made up his mind.
It wasn’t worth hearing any more.
* * *
Inside the empty Nuri landscaping office.
Lee Min-goo, sitting alone at the entrance of the office, thinking deeply about something, bit his lip hard.
Then he clenched his fists and trembled.
Employees working in the office were moving to another location to continue their work.
profit-
At that time, Seo Il-kwon opened the door to the quiet office and entered.
He found Lee Min-goo sitting with a chair at the entrance and bowed his head.
“Why?”
“sorry.”
“Don’t say you’re sorry and tell me. I’m going to have to tell you from one to ten why the hell did this happen.”
For a year, Seo Il-kwon had been working for Nuri landscape garden with a determined determination.
If he had been a lazy, effortless person, he would have done so.
However, he was a person who came and went regardless of the field or office for the growth of Nuri Landscape Architecture.
Seo Il-kwon looked at Lee Min-goo’s weeping eyes and knelt down on the floor.
“at first… only once. After that, I didn’t get caught even if I did it once, so I can continue. When I came to my senses, the situation was already beyond my control.”
“I don’t want to hate you. Please tell me why I can understand.”
“I’d rather hate you. Because I am one of the main culprits who ruined Seo-il.”
“… How did this happen? Do I not know you?”
“sorry. I will not make excuses.”
“brother!”
Lee Min-gu jumped up from his chair and looked down at Seo Il-kwon with intense eyes.
I was betrayed by the person I trusted the most, and I was betrayed once more.
Seo Il-kwon, who was sure that he would be on his side in any situation, hit the back of the head properly.
“My mother was very ill. They said it was a rare disease. I used a few hundred a month for medicine alone. If you include hospital bills, it’s over a thousand.”
“… What?”
It was the first time I heard it.
Still, I found out later that Seo Il-kwon’s mother had passed away.
I didn’t know why he died.
“Did you have any interest in the employees who stood by you while you were resting in your position as CEO?”
Seoil was decaying one by one.
Even if Kang Se-jin did not betray, Seo-il seemed certain.
“… In the end, it’s all my fault.”
“No, it’s my fault. I, with the title of Issa, committed corruption without your knowledge. The guys below saw it and started following them one by one. If I had stayed in place, none of this would have happened.”
“You better tell me! why… … !”
By the time he woke up to the guilt, he was already too deeply involved.
However, he did not want to break the relationship with Lee Min-goo.
It was greedy and stupid.
“I know that saying sorry is not enough. I know that I have committed a mortal sin. I have no intention of being forgiven by you. I’m just here to apologize.”
“… … .”
“I don’t want you to be swayed too much. This is the last piece of advice I can give you.”
“If you leave like this… What should I do?”
“Now you have Jesu and you also have Eunha. And there is also CEO Lee Si-woo. There’s no reason to put me by your side anymore.”
Seo Il-kwon, who got up from his seat staggering, bit his lip until it bled.
Then he calmly walked forward and put the items in his seat into the box.
“Do you remember when you and I first met?”
Seo Il-kwon, who had been holding back his tears and was holding the items in the box, stopped acting at the question.
“… remember.”
“At that time, my brother did that to me. If you and my experience are enough, you can be successful. If I become the CEO, I think I will be able to do my best.”
“It’s already been seven years.”
“I trusted my brother and founded Seoil. But what the hell is this?”
“… I have nothing more to say.”
Seo Il-kwon reflected on the wrong actions he had committed in the past.
When Seo-il went bankrupt, he lived in agony.
He thought it was his fault that Lee Min-goo was locked up in the mountain.
‘I didn’t come here to answer the phone that day.’
Seo Il-kwon regretted the day he came after being contacted by Lee Min-goo, who became the representative of Nuri Jojo.
As much as I did wrong, I tried my best to make Nuri landscaping with the thought that I would give it back to Lee Min-goo.
Still, it wasn’t a meaningless time.
After Seo Il-kwon left, Lee Min-gu, who was left alone in the office, bowed his head.
‘I’d rather be shamelessly caught saying no. you stupid.’
* * *
Seo Il-kwon, who left the office, stared blankly at the building of Nuri Cho-gyeong with a sad expression.
He couldn’t afford to leave this place.
‘I wanted to stay longer… … .’
Someone walked beside him, unable to move.
“Are you sorry?”
Seo Il-kwon, who was looking up at the building without knowing who was approaching from the side, turned his head in surprise.
It was a familiar voice.
After he first moved to Nuri Jojo, he realized that it was a pride he did not feel when he was a teenager.
The representative, Si-woo Lee, took care of him thrifty.
He was a person who took care of the employees more meticulously and mildly than Lee Min-goo.
“… We apologize for causing great damage to Nuri and leaving.”
“I don’t think Director Seo, whom I have seen, is the kind of person who can do things in such a sloppy way.”
The reason Lee Si-woo came here in person was to listen to Seo Il-kwon’s intentions.
He wasn’t the type to move around like this.
So I wanted to ask if he did it on purpose.
“… I am not that smart.”
“If Director Seo wasn’t wise, he wouldn’t have kept his position in the first place. CEO Lee Min-koo seems to be unable to see reality right now because of a sense of betrayal.”
If he had been a fool, Lee Si-woo would never have left him as a director for a year, even at Lee Min-goo’s request.
Seo Il-kwon has led the landscape of Nuri without any problems.
He understands the relationship between himself and the lord group, and is acting outrageously.
It was suspicious.
“Sir, I am just a traitor.”
“You must have been threatened. Did Cho Il-chul have the data of embezzling public money from Seoil Jojo 3 years ago?”
Seo Il-kwon’s expression hardened at Lee Si-woo’s direct question.
I thought you didn’t know
“Did you forget? The predecessor of Gyeonggi-do was Gyeonggi-do. It seems that CEO Cho Il-chul left in a hurry, so he went crazy and couldn’t handle the remaining materials in the Gyeonggi landscaping.”
“ah… … .”
“It’s not that Lee Min-koo didn’t know, so he just stood there and accepted him again.”
“Did you know?”
“Actually, when I found out about it, I told CEO Lee Min-koo that I should cut him off right away.”
Siwoo Lee was convinced that people do not change.
At that time, Si-Woo Lee investigated the remaining materials in the landscape of Gyeonggi-do and even found out about the embezzlement of Seo Il-Kwon.
Very kindly, it was recorded from one to ten how much he was paid and what kind of benefit he brought to the landscaping of the game.
“That idiot… … .”
“After a month, two months, and a year, I was convinced why CEO Lee Min-koo chose Director Seo.”
“sorry. No facets… … .”
“At least, if it was difficult to tell CEO Lee Min-koo, it should have been told to me. If I had, I wouldn’t have come this far.”
Seo Il-kwon bowed his head at Si-woo Lee’s words.
He was really ignorant.
“… I was afraid.”
When Siwoo Lee found out about this by any chance, he was afraid that he would be disappointed in himself.
“Where did Director Seo, who was always proud, go?”
“sorry.”
“Stop saying sorry. Can you tell me the truth now?”
Seo Il-kwon raised his head to see Lee Si-woo looking straight at him.
Cho Il-chul did what he asked for.
It was a troublesome operation, but he did not bother to dissuade him.
“I followed the instructions given by Cho Il-chul. In fact, I went ahead with it even though I knew it was a problematic instruction.”
“Why did you do that?”
“… Once again, I didn’t want to cause trouble to Min-gu. If I do this, I decided that it would end safely with me alone.”
“Did you think that if something bigger happened and an accident happened, I would have beaten Lee Min-koo as well?”
“yes… … .”
“It’s sadder that Director Seo doesn’t know me than that he betrayed me.”
Unless he commits a very serious corruption or embezzlement, Siwoo Lee never abandons his person first.
Although he tried to show it in action, Seo Il-kwon seemed to only see himself in a fragmentary way.
“Why don’t I know you? After watching countless times over the course of a year, I have decided to become a boss like this.”
“But why… … .”
“So I was afraid and scared that the CEO would disappoint me. You can say it’s stupid. You can even say it’s bad.”
I wanted to remain a good person to Siwoo Lee.
I wanted to be remembered as a director who did a great job.
The most fearful thing for Seo Il-kwon was not the breaking up of his relationship with Lee Min-goo.
Of course, I was afraid of that too, but I was afraid that Siwoo Lee would remember him as a bad person.
That was scary.
“I have no intention of seeing an employee who betrayed Nuri again.”
“All I can say is I’m sorry… … .”
“Please stop it. As the representative of Nuri, I will ask you a question. Would you like to remain a traitor? Or would you like to remain as Nuri’s employee?”
Everyone makes mistakes.
However, if the mistake increases from one to two, it is only intentional.
“… There is no way for me to remain in Nuri.”
“Why are you so sure you won’t be able to stay?”
“I did a lot of damage to Nuri… … .”
“Nuri has not been harmed by Director Seo’s actions.”
“… … .”
“If you want to remain as an employee of Nuri, keep the Nuri landscape. It’s worse to see him trying to run away.”
The embezzlement he committed in the past was an opportunity to see him negatively.
However, Siwoo Lee erased all the negative perceptions he had in the beginning.
He was a man who tried his best to protect the landscape of Nuri in his position.
I wanted to repay him for his dedication.
“If I run away from here, I know that I will be a terrible human being to the employees of Nuri.”
“You know what? Nuri’s employees never believe what others say. I will keep only the memories of working with Director Seo.”
“… … .”
“When I first went to persuade CEO Lee Min-koo, I will tell the director again as it was.”
Ishiu smiled faintly and held out his hand wide.
“CEO… … .”
“Would you like to hold my hand? If not than CEO Lee Min-koo, at least in this industry, I will make sure that I will never ignore Mr. Seo. I will make it possible for you to walk confidently with your back straight without being swayed by others.”
