When I Reach You (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 142

Looking back, Joo Sung looked somehow anxious that day. No, he was acting really strange.

“Hyung-nim. You might not remember. When I was growing up getting beaten by the orphanage director, if it hadn’t been for you, hyung-nim, I would’ve been as good as dead. Whatever you told me to do, I did it. That’s what I thought was the only way to repay your kindness.”

Even the way he had asked those weird questions, so unlike him.

“Why me? Back then, why did you save me?”

“Because out of everyone in that orphanage, you looked the most pitiful. You reminded me exactly of myself.”

Had those words shaken him? I remembered Joo Sung’s pale face as he repeatedly tried to stop me from getting into the car and change my mind.

“Hyung-nim, even now, should we return this and go back to our hometown? My limbs are all intact, so whether it’s construction work or anything else, we can start over—”

What did I say to cut him off? No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t remember.

Did he feel a pang of conscience at that moment even though he had sold me out? Why say something like that.

“So, if I borrow money from that old geezer, what exactly did you promise to do for that bastard Won Ju Seong? Give him an officetel or something?”

“20% of the money you borrowed. Of course, that’s also money you have to repay.”

“20% of 500 million…”

What? Won Ju Seong betrayed me for a mere 100 million? Kwon Seung Cheol looked like he was desperately denying something completely absurd.

I hadn’t even thought that far, but it seemed Won Ju Seong’s betrayal had hit him pretty hard. Once again, he gave me reason to feel proud of my choice.

“Why are you getting your blood pressure up already? You have to live long, you know. So you can pay back all my money before you die. Work yourself to death without a single day off. That’s probably how it’ll be, and that’s how it should be.”

Read full content of this chapter on r e d c a t t y . c o m