“Don’t do that! Now is the time to gather strength, even if it’s just one more person! This granny really doesn’t know anything!”
“Oh, well! I am against redevelopment and reconstruction, okay?”
Kwang Soon yelled toward Representative Dong, who was knocking on the front door of his wife’s house. However, Representative Dong, who had already been rejected at this house several times, seemed determined and gently changed his attitude.
“Madam, now is not the time to be stubborn. Do you think I’m doing this just for my own benefit? It’s a way for all the residents of our Hwa Mi Apartment to live well.”
“Stubborn? The ones who have nothing better to do would do such a thing.”
Kwang Soon clicked his tongue as he finely shredded the wellcooked chicken breast, reducing it to the level of ingredients for baby food. It was a restorative ingredient for her skinny Seok Dong, who had become noticeably thin due to the trouble caused by uneducated people, even to the extent of going to the police station.
“Knock on the door a hundred times, I won’t give you my seal. If redevelopment happens, all sorts of insignificant people will come and live here, muddying the waters of Gangnam, do you want me to watch that? No, just because they have money, they think they can do anything? Everyone claims to be from Gangnam, when they make noise, it brings down the neighborhood’s reputation!”
Her grumbling soon turned into a loud outcry that could even be heard outside the front door. Whether Representative Dong was frustrated enough to kick his foot or not, it wasn’t persuasive enough to reach Kwang Soon, who was preparing chicken and mung bean porridge.
“Yes, Mrs. Shin.”
When the elegant classical bell sound set by her son rang out, Kwang Soon turned on the speakerphone and answered elegantly.
Representative Dong, you’ve been to Mr. and Mrs. Nam’s house too, right?
“They’ve made such a quiet neighborhood into a mess. Everyone has become blinded by money.”
Well, Mrs. Nam… You know her son, right? The one who passed the administrative exam last year.
“Oh my, I know him. What about that smart young man?”
She did answer in a friendly manner, but Kwang Soon found it amusing that Mrs. Shin was boasting about her son who had just passed the administrative exam.
What’s so great about passing the administrative exam? It just earns a civil servant’s salary.
Snickering and flicking her nose, Kwang Soon was engrossed in shredding the chicken breast.
Well, her son says so. He asked me to sign the consent form?
“Mrs. Shin.”
Kwang Soon, who had been holding the chicken breast, put it down and wiped her hands on a towel. Her sharply slitted eyes shone fiercely.
No, I told him. I said the redevelopment would only make the neighborhood noisy. But my son says that’s not it. So, I listened, and it seemed like everything my son said was right…
“Is that so?”
Mrs. Shin was one of the opposition to the redevelopment and reconstruction of Hwa Mi Apartment, centered around Kwang Soon.
To proceed with the reconstruction of Hwa Mi Apartment, the consent of 4/5 of all the residents of Hwa Mi Apartment and 2/3 of the residents of each block was needed.
However, a group sharing the same purpose with Kwang Soon was blocking the meeting of those criteria.
The reason Kwang Soon was vehemently opposing the redevelopment was clear. The Nam Kwang Building, which Kwang Soon owned, was just outside the planned redevelopment area.
If they were going to completely demolish and modernize the area across one road from the Nam Kwang Building, there would be nothing good for Kwang Soon’s old building.
If that’s the case, include the Nam Kwang Building in the redevelopment area too. Mrs. Choi, who owned a building as old as the Nam Kwang Building across the road, had already sold her building for a lot of money and was happily singing around.
“Tsk.”
It wasn’t that she was begrudging the money, like those who have nothing. It was just more annoying and irritating the more she thought about it.
So…
“So, did you sign it, or not?”
Well, I haven’t yet.
The gaze of Kwang Soon, who had been glaring at her phone, softened a bit.
“Mrs. Shin. What will happen if we waver? Aristocrats are not aristocrats for nothing, right? If aristocrats become common, are they still aristocrats?”
That’s true.
“We need to maintain discipline and determination in our households, especially at times like this. Are we not going to leave this precious Gangnam golden land to our children?”
We have to pass it on, right…?
“I trust you, Mrs. Shin. How did we raise our kids? Innocently, unknowingly of hardships, we raised them only to see and hear good things. Trying to raise them without a speck of dirt, right?”
Yes, yes. That’s right.
“That’s why the kids don’t understand. They just think it’s like that because they’re being tricked by plausible words from around them. They’re too kind and naive.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
