Real Man

As soon as the cake fell to the ground, Yoo-hyun caught the grandmother who was about to collapse.

His other hand supported the bottom of the falling basket.

Heavy.

Surprised by the unexpected weight, Yoo-hyun quickly used his other hand to hold the basket.

It all happened in an instant, and the traffic light was still green.

The grandmother who got up bowed her waist and thanked him.

“Oh, thank you so much, young man. Give me the basket.”

“No, please cross the street first.”

Yoo-hyun lifted the basket on his head and handed him the cake that had fallen to the ground with his free hand.

“Oh dear, what should I do.”

“It’s okay. It’s still in the box.”

Yoo-hyun smiled and crossed the road first.

The grandmother who followed quickly looked sorry.

Her hands were thick with calluses and her eyes were wrinkled, as if they showed a glimpse of her hard life.

But for that, the energy in her eyes was very kind.

“I’m sure the contents are all spilled… I’m really sorry.”

“It’s all the same when you eat it. Oh, where are you going? Let me carry this for you.”

“No, thank you. You’ve helped me enough. Please give it to me.”

“It’s very heavy. I’ll carry it to your destination for you.”

He couldn’t tell what was inside the basket because it was covered with a cloth, but it was no joke.

But since the grandmother insisted, Yoo-hyun gave her the basket.

The grandmother who lifted the basket on her head thanked him again.

“Thank you so much, young man. Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. Please be careful.”

She expressed her gratitude over and over, and Yoo-hyun could tell that she was a good person.

He bowed to her and went into the building.

He still felt her gaze behind his back.

“It was so heavy…”

He thought she would greet him again if he looked back, so Yoo-hyun went up the stairs quickly.

The second floor office of Double Y was still empty.

The furniture was all in and the partitions were up, but there was not a single bookcase on the desks.

There was nothing to put on them, since the CEO was in his office and Nado was in the conference room.

The spacious office was just a place for the gym people to come and chat.

Why did they rush to bring in the furniture?

Yoo-hyun entered the CEO’s office and mentioned this to Park Young-hoon.

“Are you going to keep playing with the office?”

“There’s no hurry. We don’t have to hire any employees right away.”

“Why? You said you wanted to hire employees quickly and grow the business.”

Nado was full of enthusiasm before he went on a trip to the US.

Especially when he saw the image of the mobile investment app that Han Jae Hee made, he wanted to jump in right away.

But now he seemed to have changed his mind and waved his hand.

“Later. Nado is too fast for the other employees to catch up.”

“What did he do?”

“Do you want to see? Come over here for a second.”

Yoo-hyun followed Park Young-hoon, who got up quickly, to his desk.

On the four monitors that were on, graphs were moving frantically.

But the UI was different from the usual stock window.

It looked like a game.

“What is this?”

“It’s a stock auto trading program that Nado made for me. It works exactly the way I want it to, and the return rate is very good.”

“Wow. Nado must have made it well.”

“Anyway. Isn’t it amazing?”

Park Young-hoon showed a very innocent smile.

He never looked like that when he was working at the company, so Yoo-hyun chuckled.

“You look so happy since you left the company.”

“Of course. I feel like I’m living the best time of my life. I wonder why I worked so hard at the company.”

“It’s because you don’t have any employees yet. Wait until the company grows. Being a CEO is also a headache.”

It was hard enough to be a team leader who evaluated the employees, let alone a CEO who was responsible for their livelihood.

Park Young-hoon nodded lightly at Yoo-hyun’s advice.

He looked very relaxed, having money, a building, and a reliable employee.

“That’s true. That’s why I’m going slowly. I feel sorry for you when I see you working hard.”

“It’s not hard. It’s just doing what I have to do. By the way, where’s Nado?”

“He must be at the gym.”

“What’s wrong with him? He was like a workaholic for a while.”

Nado had been overflowing with enthusiasm since he came back from the US, and he practically lived in the office.

When Yoo-hyun and Park Young-hoon told him to stop, he took his laptop and went to a cafe to work.

He had so many secrets that he didn’t want to show his results.

Of course, he also finished his tasks ahead of time while doing that.

Park Young-hoon guessed why Nado had changed.

“He’s probably finding some leisure. The gym owner is so pretty, so he must enjoy going to the gym.”

“The gym owner?”

“Nado fixed the gym attendance program for them.”

“Wow, he even fixes the gym program now?”

“He likes it, so what’s wrong with that.”

Park Young-hoon shrugged his shoulders and sat down by the window behind his desk.

Yoo-hyun, who sat next to him, looked at him with disbelief.

“Do you talk like other company employees?”

“I’m grateful enough to get that program. I can just give him a year’s salary.”

“That’s generous of you.”

“Is that generous? It’s going to be huge when it’s connected to the platform. I have a very big dream.”

Nado was a person who conquered Instagram and Airbnb in Silicon Valley.

No matter what grand plan Park Young-hoon had, it would be small in front of him.

Yoo-hyun didn’t bother to bring up that story and answered vaguely.

“I’m just saying. But what are you going to do with the first floor of the building? Are you going to leave it vacant?”

“I don’t know. There’s no hurry, so I’m waiting for a store that I like.”

“Okay. There’s no need to rush… Huh?”

As Yoo-hyun was speaking, a familiar face passed by the window.

Park Young-hoon also looked at the same place.

“What? What’s wrong?”

“No, that grandmother, she’s still there. That basket is so heavy.”

“What are you talking about? Oh?”

Park Young-hoon’s eyes widened as he looked at where Yoo-hyun pointed.

“Why? Do you know her?”

“She looks like Nado’s grandmother… Wait a minute.”

Park Young-hoon took out his phone and showed a picture he had received from Nado.

It was a vacation photo that Nado had sent a while ago, and it had the grandmother’s face in it.

He confirmed her face and exclaimed.

“That’s right, it’s Nado’s grandmother.”

“Damn. You should have told me sooner.”

“How could I tell you when I just saw her?”

Leaving behind Park Young-hoon, who was dumbfounded, Yoo-hyun ran down the stairs.

He had a hunch why the grandmother was lingering outside the building.

Sure enough, Nado’s grandmother was as cautious as ever.

She hesitated because she thought she might bother her grandson who was busy working.

Yoo-hyun left a message to Nado and guided the grandmother to the CEO’s office on the second floor.

The grandmother said she was fine, but the fact that Nado was waiting for her moved her.

The grandmother, who didn’t dare to sit on the sofa in the CEO’s office, asked anxiously.

“Where is Nado?”

“He’ll be here soon. He’s working out on the third floor. Please sit down.”

“I’m sorry to bother you, sir…”

The grandmother bowed her head, and Park Young-hoon, who was sitting across from her, waved his hand.

“No, no, grandmother. It’s not a bother at all.”

“Thank you for letting Nado work in such a good company.”

“It’s all thanks to him. He’s my friend who went to the US with me.”

Park Young-hoon passed the baton to Yoo-hyun, and the grandmother bowed to him again.

“Oh, you’re the benefactor that Nado told me about. I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you. Thank you so much.”

“I’m the one who gets more help from Nado.”

“No, Nado likes you so much.”

The grandmother bowed her head so much that Yoo-hyun felt very embarrassed.

It seemed like the atmosphere would never end, so Yoo-hyun changed the subject by pointing to the basket.

“By the way, what is this?”

“Oh, this is some kimbap that I made for you and the people here.”

“Kimbap?”

Yoo-hyun was surprised, remembering the heavy feeling.

Crack.

When he removed the cloth, there was a huge amount of kimbap individually wrapped in a white box.

Yoo-hyun and Park Young-hoon gasped at the sight of the mountain of kimbap.

“Wow.”

It was enough for the gym people to have a feast together.

That’s when it happened.

The door opened and Nado came in.

He asked his grandmother with a flushed face that hadn’t cooled down from the sweat.

“Grandma, it’s your day off, why don’t you rest, what are you doing here?”

“You said you wanted to feed the people here some kimbap…”

“Don’t say that. I can bring it myself.”

“I thought I might bother you while you’re working.”

“There’s nothing like that here. It’s a nice place.”

Nado seemed unhappy that his grandmother had worked hard by herself.

He sounded like he was scolding her, but his affection was obvious.

The grandmother looked sorry at her grandson.

“Nado, sit down first.”

“Yes, hyung.”

Nado answered Yoo-hyun’s words.

Then.

Bang.

Kang Dong Sik came in and grabbed the grandmother’s hand warmly.

“Grandmother, nice to meet you. I’m Nado’s hyung, Kang Dong Sik.”

“Yes? Oh, I’ve heard about you. You’re such a kind person…”

Before the grandmother could finish her sentence, the gym owner appeared.

“Nado, you can’t lie to your grandmother.”

“Why are you saying that, hyung-nim?”

Kang Dong Sik pouted his lips and the gym owner greeted her.

“Nice to meet you. I’m the gym owner, Jung Baek Hyun.”

“Oh, nice to meet you.”

The grandmother bowed her waist as Oh Jung Ho came in behind her.

And then more people followed.

As a result, the grandmother didn’t have time to straighten her back.

This is ridiculous.

Yoo-hyun felt sorry for no reason.

Soon, the CEO’s office was full of people.

They filled the empty chairs with the ones from the office.

They should have sat in the spacious office, but there was no time to say that now.

That’s how amazing Nado’s grandmother’s kimbap was.

“Grandmother, it’s really delicious.”

Oh Jung Ho, who had finished a roll of kimbap in no time, exclaimed, and the grandmother gave him another one.

“Have one more.”

“Can I really have more?”

“Of course. I can make as much as you want, so please help yourself.”

The grandmother meant well, but she didn’t know Oh Jung Ho’s appetite.

Oh Jung Ho ate a lot, ignoring his protein diet.

The gym owner looked at him with pity.

“You need to lose weight, you bastard.”

“You’re eating too, gym owner.”

“You brat. You have a big mouth.”

Crunch.

While he was talking, Kang Dong Sik quickly took a kimbap.

The situation was like that, so everyone became more aggressive.

Yoo-hyun was no exception.

The grandmother looked at them with a pleased smile, and Nado’s mouth, which had been spitting out compliments to his grandmother, was caught by his ears.

Nado’s mouth was full of praise for his grandmother.

“My grandmother worked at a kimbap store for over 10 years…”

“Really? She worked at a kimbap store?”

“Yes. This charcoal grilled beef kimbap was the best-selling menu, and she developed it. She also developed many other kinds of kimbap.”

The kimbap had perilla leaves, charcoal grilled beef, and ssamjang, which made it different from other kimbap.

The rice was well seasoned, and the vegetables were plentiful, making it high quality.

But the grandmother was modest and waved her hand.

“Nado, don’t say that.”

“Why, grandmother. It’s true.”

Nado looked more proud than when he was recognized as a genius in Silicon Valley.

Yoo-hyun smiled and praised Nado’s grandmother more.