Their fortune had both 지살 (Jisal) and 반안살 (Banansal). Jisal indicated a high possibility of parting with their parents, while Banansal meant that they would soon receive the blessings of their ancestors.
Wasn’t it ironic that a child with the possibility of parting from their parents would receive the blessings of their ancestors?
In conclusion, this child was either not a child of this family or had no blood connection with one of the parents.
Since the father was currently away from home and wandering outside, it was thought that there was a high possibility that the child’s father was different, and that turned out to be correct.
“What does the child’s father do?”
She shook her head, tears streaming down her face.
“I don’t know. I don’t know either.”
“You don’t know? Are you not in contact with the child’s father?”
“I don’t know. I couldn’t even think about finding out. If I met him, he would tell me to get rid of the child…”
“Hmm…”
Although it was a pity, Yeonghun was not too disappointed that hope had arisen for the child.
“Then tell me his name or what he was doing at the time.”
“Do I have to find the child’s father?”
“Can you continue living like this?”
“Yes? Even if I find the child’s father…”
The reason for her hesitation was obvious.
It was because she couldn’t know for sure what kind of help the man would provide.
She might also be thinking that she would only get emotional scars if she met him.
“You never know. He might want to help the child a little after seeing them.”
She was wary of Yeonghun, not knowing his true intentions.
“Would he? It’s true that I borrowed money and have to pay it back, but isn’t this too much? I don’t know how you found out about Eunji’s father, but I don’t think this is right. Let’s pretend this conversation never happened.”
“Then will you let this house go?”
“No, not that, but…”
“If we find him and he’s struggling, we don’t plan to ask him to pay back the money. It wouldn’t be legally possible. But what if we find him and he’s single, working at a large company, and living comfortably? Then you should receive child support for the child’s sake.”
“What about you?”
“We hope the child’s father will pay back the money instead. As I said, if the child’s father doesn’t seem capable, we won’t even ask him to pay back the money. We don’t plan to push him further if he doesn’t want to pay back even if he can afford it. As I said, we can just proceed with the forced execution.”
In fact, he didn’t know if this was legally possible.
He just thought that helping the struggling mother and daughter by finding the child’s father and solving their debt problem would be the best solution for their lives.
And this would be good for the company that lent the money.
He didn’t plan to persuade her further if she refused.
It was up to her to make the most of the fortune she had received.
The core keyword of one’s fortune is luck (운).
Luck for marriage, luck for wealth, luck for accidents, etc…
Just because one has luck for marriage doesn’t mean they will get married, and not all wealth comes in when one has luck for wealth.
It is one’s own talent and effort that turns luck into reality.
Eunji’s early fortune was undoubtedly that of a fortunate child, but if her mother, Lee Juhee, desperately blocked it, the child would follow her parents, and the early fortune would not shine.
“Is this okay?”
“If you don’t want to, don’t do it. I don’t want to force you and create unnecessary trouble.”
He spoke with genuine sincerity.
As he got up from his seat, she finally grabbed Yeonghun’s sleeve.
“I’ll tell you. But I don’t know exactly either. Just the name and the university he attended at the time.”
“Please tell me that much for now. Oh, by any chance… never mind. I’ll go check.”
He almost asked if she knew the child’s father’s fortune.
So, he wrote down the child’s father’s name and the university he attended and returned to the company. The female accounting employee spoke with a dumbfounded expression.
“Where on earth have you been? Mr. Yang said he dropped you off in Myeongdong a few hours ago. What have you been doing since then?”
“Ah, I’m sorry. I actually went back to Lee Juhee’s house.”
“What? You went there alone?”
“Is that not allowed?”
He asked with pure curiosity, but the accounting employee seemed to think he was being sarcastic and frowned.
At that moment, the door to the president’s office opened, and Song Byeongchang beckoned Yeonghun.
“Come in first.”
As Yeonghun entered the president’s office and sat down calmly on the sofa, President Song sat down across from him.
It wasn’t an atmosphere of interrogating a criminal, but President Song’s eyes were full of suspicion.
“I received a report that you went back to Lee Juhee’s house. How much is the debt?”
“It’s currently at 8.8 million won.”
“Hmm… I heard from Mr. Yang that there’s no more to collect, so we can proceed with the forced execution. Is that correct?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“Then why did you go?”
Yeonghun scratched his head.
How should he explain this?
It was obvious that he would look like a complete lunatic if he said he went to see the child’s facial features and thought that they wouldn’t be so poor in the future, so he wanted to find out if there was a real father or a connection to an ancestor who could help.
He could say that he was good at reading fortunes like a famous philosophy institute, but he could never say that.
If he did, all sorts of shady characters would scream at him to read their fortunes.
He had tried so hard to get away from that, but all his efforts would be in vain if he mentioned facial features or fortune.
After thinking for a moment, Yeonghun said.
“I went to counsel her.”
“Counseling?”
“Yes. I thought I could help her since she was having a hard time.”
“Ha…”
He looked at him as if he was crazy.
Yeonghun understood his feelings well.
“It may seem strange, but I’m confident in stabilizing the subject’s psychology through personal counseling. Of course, if this doesn’t help with debt collection, it would be unnecessary.”
“That’s not the case?”
Interest began to grow in President Song’s eyes again.
“Yes. As we talked, I found out that the father of the child she is raising now is not the real father. So I’m going to try to find the child’s father.”
“Can you do that? It’s not the 1980s anymore, and it’s not a world where you can find people around you and ask for money.”
“I know. I don’t intend to force the child’s father to give money. I won’t even bring up the subject of asking for money.”
“Then what?”
“I’m just going to see how the child’s father reacts. If he has the means, he might help, and if not, he’ll probably ignore it.”
The calm expression on Yeonghun’s face left President Song perplexed.
He wondered what Yeonghun’s real intentions were.
Yeonghun continued speaking to the bewildered President Song.
“And I’ve decided to quit the company after this case.”
“Why? Is the job not suitable?”
“Honestly, it seems too suitable.”
It wasn’t a joke, it really seemed too suitable.
People with wealth in their fortunes tend to have a high probability of incurring large debts.
Conversely, those who incur large debts are often born with the fortune to repay them.
People without wealth in their fortunes may incur small debts, but they never handle large amounts of money in their lifetime.
So why do some people acquire wealth while others only acquire debt?
It depends on how they unfold during their growth process.
Even if the same knife appears in their fortune, if it unfolds well during their growth process, they become a prosecutor or a police officer, and if it doesn’t unfold well, they become a murderer.
At a glance, it’s easy to estimate whether a person can repay their debt or not, and there couldn’t be a job more suitable than this.
But the problem was that it was too suitable.
Even though the job is about collecting money from those who borrowed it, it involves squeezing money out of people who are financially struggling, not those who are currently capable of repaying.
He didn’t want to make money that way, and he didn’t want to lose himself by getting used to making money that way.
“Why quit if it’s suitable?”
“Sometimes, I think you have to quit even if it’s suitable.”
If someone else had spouted such nonsense, President Song would have cursed at them in anger, but since he thought of Yeonghun as a monk (even though he wasn’t), he reluctantly agreed.
“Let’s do this. Since you’ve started, work for just one more month. Since you’ve started, you should gain what you can from here, so you can say you’ve done this kind of work somewhere else.”
The reason was absurd, but strangely persuasive.
“That’s true. Okay, I’ll work until the end of this month.”
Anyway, after settling the work and using the information he got from President Song to find the person, he was able to confirm the whereabouts of Jieun’s father just two days later.
And the identity of Jieun’s father that was revealed was surprising.
“Baek Soon-de?”
President Song looked at Yeonghun with a bewildered face, holding the report.
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. But this guy’s father owns three buildings in Gangnam. He also has one more building coming up.”
Yoon, the deputy who brought the coffee, blurted out with a disappointed expression.
“If my dad owned three buildings, I’d be unemployed too.”
That’s a valid point.