Real Man-Chapter 827

Seol Mijin, who had cooked most of the food herself, apologized to Yoo-hyun.

“Mr. Yoo, did you wait too long? I’m sorry, I’m slow with my hands.”

“Not at all. It was fun watching Da-hye cook.”

“Our Da-hye is not good at cooking…”

Jeong Da-hye was dumbfounded by Seol Mijin’s apologetic expression.

“Mom, why do you say that?”

“I’m like that too. I have a prickly side. Mr. Yoo understands.”

“Ah… yes.”

Yoo-hyun answered Seol Mijin’s whisper and glanced at Jeong Da-hye.

Her chin was already wrinkled with walnut lines as she crossed her arms.

Seol Mijin, who was watching her daughter’s mood, changed the subject.

“Ahem. By the way, what are you studying for when Mr. Yoo is here?”

“I’ll bring it to you.”

Yoo-hyun suppressed the laughter that was about to burst out and got up from his seat.

Having a meal with Jeong Da-hye’s family was something that never happened in the past.

But now it became a very comfortable and familiar thing.

Did Jeong Da-hye know?

As the time with her family that had been empty was filled, her face brightened.

This change came to Yoo-hyun very warmly.

Jeong Da-hye, who was eating galbi-jjim, quickly covered her mouth with Yoo-hyun’s piercing gaze.

“Did I get something on my face?”

“No. You’re just too pretty.”

“What?”

Jeong Minkyo coughed next to the flustered Jeong Da-hye.

“Ahem! You’re very honest.”

“Our Da-hye is not good at cooking, but she’s pretty, right?”

Seol Mijin added a word, and Jeong Da-hye’s cheeks puffed up.

“Mom, why do you keep saying that?”

“Hahaha!”

The table was filled with laughter at Jeong Da-hye’s cute tantrum.

After finishing the meal, Yoo-hyun, who was sitting in the living room and chatting with them, followed Jeong Minkyo’s gaze and quietly went outside.

Jeong Minkyo, who was waiting outside the front door, said.

“They need some time for themselves, you know.”

“Don’t you just want to have a beer in the pavilion?”

“As expected. You know me too well.”

“Then let’s go. Before it gets dark.”

Yoo-hyun smiled and reached out his arm to guide him.

The place where Yoo-hyun went with Jeong Minkyo was a pavilion on the hill behind the house.

It was fun to sit there and look down at the open cityscape while having a beer.

Snap.

Yoo-hyun opened the can and drank the beer with a gulp, feeling the cool breeze at sunset.

“Ah! Refreshing.”

“Indeed. I had a lot of thoughts, but I feel like I sorted them out.”

“What were you thinking about so much?”

“Just… whether I deserve this happiness, whether I have the right to it, that kind of thing.”

Was it because of the guilt for the 20-year gap?

The happiness of being with his family now felt rather sorry.

But he didn’t need to be tied to the past anymore.

“Right? You’ve worked hard and tried hard all this time. You deserve to enjoy it.”

“I wonder if it’s too late because of my shortcomings.”

“You can make up for it from now on. There’s plenty of time.”

“Then I guess I should keep Da-hye with me longer?”

“That’s not possible.”

Yoo-hyun lightly smiled and clinked his can.

It was around the time when they emptied all the beer cans they brought.

The sky was dyed with sunset and the gray buildings wore yellow clothes.

Jeong Minkyo, who was sitting in the pavilion and quietly watching the scenery, opened his mouth.

“You’re amazing.”

“In what way?”

“Isn’t there a news about you every day? You’ve made a lot of money, and you’re shoulder to shoulder with the CEOs of domestic conglomerates.”

“I’m not shoulder to shoulder with them.”

“Anyway. You’ve achieved so much, you could be intoxicated with a sense of accomplishment, but you don’t seem to be at all.”

Yoo-hyun had traveled a lot in the past six months to grow the River Union.

He met with the representatives of domestic conglomerates, medium-sized companies, and venture companies, and had close conversations with foreign companies.

As the huge project revealed its outline, Yoo-hyun began to receive great attention, and that led to now.

“My life won’t change at all. I haven’t achieved my dream yet.”

“Still. The scale has grown a lot, hasn’t it?”

“You’re not easy either.”

It was a remark to Jeong Minkyo, the representative of Aiwon.

Aiwon, which was an offline security company, expanded its business by embracing WithC.

It was not only protecting the servers in the Future Tower, but also playing the role of connecting the servers scattered across the country.

It was not for nothing that Jeong Minkyo studied hard after work.

He waved his hand at Yoo-hyun’s gaze.

“It’s not me. It’s all my manager.”

“I’m the same. I’ve received a lot of help from many people to stand here.”

“But you made it.”

“No. We did it together. So there’s no reason to be arrogant or intoxicated.”

Jeong Minkyo smiled faintly at Yoo-hyun’s serious eyes.

“I want to meet your father once.”

“My father?”

“Yes. I wonder what kind of person he is, to have such a great son.”

“Well… He’s an amazing person.”

It was embarrassing, but Yoo-hyun had to admit it for his father.

That day, the two had a sincere conversation until the sun completely set.

Yoo-hyun, who returned home, thought of his father.

His father was always a responsible leader who cared for his employees first.

He had enough perseverance to revive a collapsing company.

He said that effort would not betray the result.

His father’s passion and expertise moved the heart of Andrea Gurski, a world-renowned architect, and through him, the eco-friendly bricks that he had been developing for a long time began to shine.

It was also the time when he achieved his dream of expanding the factory.

And now.

That dream was not the end, but the beginning of a new one.

Data center.

A facility that collects, operates, and manages the equipment needed for IT services, such as servers, networks, and storage, in one building, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is the core of cloud service.

Usually, internet service companies that need a large amount of data build these data centers, but the construction and maintenance costs are enormous.

What if they don’t use all the space in the data center?

They could waste all the money they invested.

But WithC changed that concept.

By sharing the leftover server space with numerous connected companies, they minimized the loss from vacancy.

And since A1 provided server operation support, they didn’t need any maintenance skills.

The technical barrier was lowered, and with the support of River, the construction capital was also reduced.

Above all, the profitability was high compared to the investment.

Was it because of that?

At first, the hesitant companies also jumped in after seeing the success stories.

The data center construction fever rose across the country, and more and more people looked for his father’s bricks.

There was someone who got busy along with that.

It was his friend Ha Jun-seok, who worked at a construction company.

Ziing. Ziiing.

After taking a shower, Yoo-hyun received a call from Ha Jun-seok while looking at the night view through the living room window.

“Hey, what’s up with you, busy guy?”

-Just. I’ve been running around so mindlessly that I couldn’t even say thank you.

“What are you talking about?”

He was doing something he didn’t usually do, either he felt guilty or he drank, one of the two.

Yoo-hyun sensed that he was the latter, judging by his personality.

Sure enough, a slurred voice came through the receiver.

-Thank you, man. If it wasn’t for you, when would I ever get recognized at work? Hehe.

“You did well.”

It wasn’t something Yoo-hyun would normally say.

When his father’s factory expansion was in danger of being canceled, Ha Jun-seok reached out to help.

Through that connection, Ha Jun-seok achieved a great feat of winning the contract for Andrea Gurski’s eco-friendly complex construction, and the know-how he accumulated then led to the data center construction.

-Ah, no. I’m grateful to your father for giving me the opportunity, to Won-seok for supplying me without any problems even though the supply was tight, to Won-young for promoting our construction company. I’ll leave out Hyun-soo because he doesn’t play with me. Hehe.

“Did you drink a lot?”

-Thanks to that, I became the head of the new business planning team. How can I not drink?

“Planning team leader?”

-Yeah. This is a position that the executives do, you know? But I squeezed in between them. This Ha Jun-seok. Haha!

There was no news as happy as promotion for a worker.

Listening to his friend’s cheerful laughter, Yoo-hyun’s mouth curled up.

“You’re amazing. Congratulations, really.”

-Amazing, what. Hehe. I have to buy you a drink soon.

“They’re building one in Yongin soon. I’ll see you then.”

That’s what the representative of Naver, who joined the River Alliance, said to Yoo-hyun.

They also entrusted their data center construction to Baekdo Construction.

-Okay! Then let’s see Jun-ki then. Jun-ki will say he’s busy because he’s doing business, but.

“Okay. Let’s do that.”

-Buddy, I love you. Mwah! Puhahaha.

Ew, gross.

Was it that good?

Yoo-hyun pulled the receiver away and hung up.

He muttered, looking at his friend’s name on the screen.

“It’s amazing.”

Before he knew it, his precious friends were with him on his journey to the future.

The next day after resting on the weekend.

In the conference room on the 20th floor, Jang Man-bok’s voice rang loudly.

“Hahaha! President, did you watch the show? Wasn’t it great?”

“Yes. Ju-yeon did very well, didn’t she?” ƒгeewebnovёl_com

Thanks to the first post by Jang Man-bok’s wife Hong Ju-yeon, River House Review was created, and it sparked a self-interior and furniture DIY craze, launching a house introduction entertainment program.

It was a simple thing that started by chance, but it grew so big that it stirred up the country.

The first house introduced on the show was Jang Man-bok’s house.

“President, what about me, not my wife?”

“Um… You worked hard, didn’t you?”

“Not hard. Didn’t you feel the aura of an actor? My visual was different, wasn’t it?”

Was it?

It was funny when he played the guitar and sang out of nowhere.

He looked at Jang Man-bok, who clasped his hands and twinkled his eyes, and felt awkward to tell the truth.

Yun Bo-mi, who sat next to him instead of Yoo-hyun, snickered.

“Why bother? You were riding on your sister’s back the whole time.”

“Eh-heh! Do you know how many posts about me were up on the viewer’s board yesterday because of my performance? They even said I was the best as a husband.”

“You need someone to take advantage of, right?”

“Tsk tsk. Jealous. I might become famous and not come to work. That’s how hot the reaction is, hot.”

It was the president’s duty to cheer on the employee who left to find his dream.

Yoo-hyun nodded calmly.

“Then there’s nothing we can do.”

“Eh-heh. That’s not what I mean. I’m River even if I die. River is the best!”

“Ah, stop it. My ears are falling off.”

“Hahahahaha!”

At Yun Bo-mi’s scowl, Won Gi-jun, Lee Ji-hyun, and Gong Hyun-joon, who were sitting next to her, burst into laughter.

In the warm atmosphere, Yoo-hyun looked around the five original members.

In the past six months, their positions had risen along with River’s growth.

From team leader to director.

There were three team leaders under the director.

Each person had the same scale as Han Sung’s charge.

They took care of the overseas branches and firmly established River’s center.

All Yoo-hyun did was receive simple reports.

‘It’s well done.’

He felt proud every time he saw them.

Thanks to them, Yoo-hyun was able to draw a much bigger picture with ease.