Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121 - Portrait Of Titus (2)
Chapter 122 - Visitor From The Desert (1)
Chapter 123 - Visitor From The Desert (2)
Chapter 124 - Visitor From The Desert (3)
Chapter 125 - Visitor From The Desert (4)
Chapter 126 - Rookie Of Boston Red Sox (1)
Chapter 127 - Rookie Of Boston Red Sox (2)
Chapter 128 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (1)
Chapter 129 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (2)
Chapter 130 - Buddhist Scripture Written With Gold (3)
Chapter 131 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (1)
Chapter 132 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (2)
Chapter 133 - Chaebol, Painting, And Happy Tears (3)
Chapter 134 - Enemies Are Everywhere (1)
Chapter 135 - Enemies Are Everywhere (2)
Chapter 136 - More Paintings (1)
Chapter 137 - More Paintings (2)
Chapter 138 - To Florence, Italy… (1)
Chapter 139 - To Florence, Italy… (2)
Chapter 140 - To Florence, Italy… (3)
Chapter 141 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (1)
Chapter 142 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (2)
Chapter 143 - People Who Are After The Masterpiece (3)
Chapter 144 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (1)
Chapter 145 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (2)
Chapter 146 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (3)
Chapter 147 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (4)
Chapter 148 - The Medici And The Aristocrats (5)
Chapter 149 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (1)
Chapter 150 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (2)
Chapter 151 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (3)
Chapter 152 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (4)
Chapter 153 - Drawings In The Charity Auction (5)
Chapter 154 - Now, To London… (1)
Chapter 155 - Now, To London… (2)
Chapter 156 - Now, To London… (3)
Chapter 157 - Now, To London… (4)
Chapter 158 - Seeing The Light Again (1)
Chapter 159 - Seeing The Light Again (2)
Chapter 160 - Seeing The Light Again (3)
Chapter 161 - Seeing The Light Again (4)
Chapter 162 - Uninvited Guest (1)
Chapter 163 - Uninvited Guest (2)
Chapter 164 - Uninvited Guest (3)
Chapter 165 - Uninvited Guest (4)
Chapter 166 - Dark Shadow (1)
Chapter 167 - Dark Shadow (2)
Chapter 168 - Dark Shadow (3)
Chapter 169 - Change And Progress (1)
Chapter 170 - Change, And Progress (2)
Chapter 171 - Change, And Progress (3)
Chapter 172 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (1)
Chapter 173 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (2)
Chapter 174 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (3)
Chapter 175 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (4)
Chapter 176 - Appraiser Talks Through Appraising (5)
Chapter 177 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (1)
Chapter 178 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (2)
Chapter 179 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (3)
Chapter 180 - Inheritance Left By The Parents (4)
Chapter 181 - Star Appraiser (1)
Chapter 182 - Star Appraiser (2)
Chapter 183 - Star Appraiser (3)
Chapter 184 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (1)
Chapter 185 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (2)
Chapter 186 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (3)
Chapter 187 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (4)
Chapter 188 - Terms Of Return Of Artifacts (5)
Chapter 189 - Artifact From North Korea (1)
Chapter 190 - Artifact From North Korea (2)
Chapter 191 - Artifact Match (1)
Chapter 192 - Artifact Match (2)
Chapter 193 - Artifact Match (3)
Chapter 194 - Artifact Match (4)
Chapter 195 - Artifact Match (5)
Chapter 196 - What Happened In Austria (1)
Chapter 197 - What Happened In Austria (2)
Chapter 198 - What Happened In Austria (3)
Chapter 199 - What Happened In Austria (4)
Chapter 200 - Bait To Catch The Big Fish (1)
Chapter 201 - Bait To Catch The Big Fish (2)
Chapter 202 - What The Depressed Man Left (1)
Chapter 203 - What The Depressed Man Left (2)
Chapter 204 - Where The Faith Leads Him To (1)
Chapter 205 - Add Painting To Painting (1)
Chapter 206 - Add Painting To Painting (2)
Chapter 207 - Add Painting To Painting (3)
Chapter 208 - Finally, To There… (1)
Chapter 209 - Finally, In There… (2)
Chapter 210 (End) - Epilogue
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Chapter 34: Fishing (4)
Three days later, in a suite room of a five-star hotel in Seoul, a couple was talking on the bed.
“Then it is true, it has been sold.”
The woman who spoke with her red lips was Hyoyeon, Lim Sungjun’s daughter, while the man who
looked at her with love in his eyes was, surprisingly, Lee Jongmyeong of Mirae Group.
“They told me that Haejin bought it, the painting was taken from the gallery yesterday. That idiot, he
rambled about Ma Won and Yoon Duseo, and he suddenly buys a fake. I never imagined it, but it’s
good. We can send both of them away at once.”
“If the painting is gone, isn’t it too late? You should blow it up. Don’t wait till the exhibition is over.”
“Hhh… I gave the information to a reporter before I came here. He will write an exclusive report soon.”
“Hahaha! All that is left is to see Eunhae thrown away! Then, Saeyeon Gallery would naturally be
mine…”
“I will also be engaged to you, not to that annoying girl.”
Jongmyeong stroked her cheek with love, but she hit that hand and sat up. The blanket that had
covered her upper body went down and revealed her breasts, but she didn’t care.
“Huh! Don’t get too far. You know that can never happen if things don’t change. If you get rid of Mirae
Innovation’s executive director, then I might change my mind.”
This made Jongmyeong’s gaze turn cold, but soon he went to her and spoke tenderly.
“This is a start. Wait for a little while, and I will easily take care of my brother.”
“Okay, you should do that to be at my side. The report should be out by now, right?”
Hyoyeon pushed away the blanket and lightly walked to her handbag on the table, naked. Her back
made Jongmyong’s blood surge. He raised his upper body and stared at her, but Hyoyeon suddenly
looked back at him.
“What is this? Have you done things right?”
Her voice was as cold as the winter wind. Jongmyeong could feel his hot blood turn cool.
“What? Isn’t that the exclusive report? Eunhae is over now…”
“Then, what is this report?”
Hyoyeon threw her phone at Jongmyeong.
And it hit his head.
“Aak!”
Soon, the blood that came out of the wound wetted the white blanket red. Hyoyeon, however, didn’t
care about it. She didn’t even think about his wound and spoke.
“This is why I shouldn’t believe a bastard… get out of my sight, now!”
Hyoyeon was enraged. Jongmyeong didn’t say anything and picked up the phone to read the report.
[Exclusive: Saeyeon Gallery says its Sinsaimdang painting might be fake]
[Saeyeon Gallery, a gallery in Bukcheon, has declared the painting it is exhibiting now might be a fake
and is drawing attention. The gallery said the painting of Sinsaimdang, that is part of its ongoing
exhibition, Coming Home, is highly likely to be a fake. They are working with the police to track down
the forgers.
The person who bought this painting is an antique appraiser. He realized this painting is fake and
bought it to make the forgers lower their guard in order to track them…]
“What the… no way…”
“Idiot.”
Jongmyeong was in shock. He stared at the phone and lifted his head to look at Hyoyeon.
“This isn’t over yet.”
“Huh!”
Hyoyeon stormed into the shower room. Jongmyeong wore his clothes. He wiped off the blood with
his hand and came out of the room. A bodyguard in front of the door raised his hand and made a
gesture of zipping his mouth with a sharp glare. It meant Jongmyeong should forget everything that
had happened in this room and keep his mouth shut.
“I know.”
Only then, the bodyguard smiled.
Jongmyeong tumbled to the elevator.
“Okay, thank you. That’s a relief.”
Eunhae hung up and looked at Haejin sitting on the sofa.
“As you said, they found the forgers near Yangyang. The detective just called me to tell they have
retrieved the painting they were going to sell at Incheon Port.”
“That’s good.”
“But how did you know that the forgers were there?”
The fact that the painting was a fake made recently meant Haejin could always capture its forgers.
As he could see the process of the painting being made through magic, he could see where it had
been made and through who it had been sold.
“Byeongguk gave me a hint. He told me there was a rumor of a gang that forges eastern paintings in
Yangyang. He gave me the location he had heard about, so I didn’t have to do anything.”
As Haejin had told her Byeongguk used to be a grave robber before he became an art dealer, making
an excuse was easy.
“Huhu… by now, Lee Jongmyeong must be in trouble, too. He sold me such a painting…”
Soon after Eunhae found out that the painting was fake, she met the appraisers who had appraised it
in private.
She heard Jongmyeong pressed them to make them say that the painting is real, the buying process
was also not clear. She was then sure that Jongmyeong was behind everything.
“He will probably say he didn’t know. Mirae will just think that it is Jongmyeong’s personal business.
But, does he have power in Mirae Group?”
“No. His mother was an actress who was once famous. Easily speaking, she was a concubine. So,
although Jongmyeong is thought to be smart and capable, he has little power in the group. The
executive director of Mirae Innovation is thought to be the real heir of the group, and he is good at
work, gentle and generous unlike how an heir would normally behave, so to Jongmyeong, he is a
thorn on his side.”
“Then why did you get engaged to such man?”
“At that time, my father was an employee of a small company who had nothing. My grandfather didn’t
even acknowledge him. That is why I use my mother’s last name instead of my father’s. Now that both
my mother and my father have left me, this gallery is the only thing I have. So, the heirs of other
corporate groups would never choose me as a spouse.”
Eunhae spoke as if it was nothing, but her shaking eyes said that the story was not so short.
“Oh… that is why you inherited only this gallery.”
“And it is hard to keep it. The profits are not comparable to other companies of Hwajin, and I didn’t
know sharks would try to attack from all sides. Anyway, congratulations. You earned four billion in no
time. Against an evil art dealer in Japan…”
Haejin had told her everything about why he had done this. As she had taken a risk to take part in
this, he thought she deserved to know some truth.
However then, there was some noise from outside and they heard a familiar voice.
“Let me go! Don’t you know who I am?”
Eunhae shook her head and opened the door. Outside, enraged, Yang Sojin was pouting. The
employees were holding her.
“It’s okay. Let her in.”
The employees went away. Sojin then straightened her clothes and went in with arrogance. She sat
down opposite to Haejin with her legs crossed and glared at him.
“Nice to meet you. It’s been a while.”
“A while? Ahahahaha! A while? I think we met just a few days ago in the hotel!”
“Did we? I can’t remember…”
Sojin didn’t think Haejin would be that bold. She turned nervous for the first time and bit her lips.
“Are you really going to do this? Aren’t you afraid of the consequences?”
“Consequences of what? Trying to sell a fake painting to Ando Hadake? But I do feel bad about the
painting not getting to him. If the police had moved just a little slowly, it would have crossed the sea
and gone to Japan…”
Haejin was teasing her. Sojin’s eye widened.
“How did you know my client is Ando Hadake?”
“That is not important. What’s important is that neither you nor Ando Hadake can get that four billion
back. If you want to tell the police, you can. But can you? You have so much to lose.”
To use the power of law enforcements, she would have to confess that she was a broker who tried to
illegally sell Sinsaimdang’s painting to Japan. The moment that happened, her reputation and money
would be gone.
“I have many powerful friends.”
“Oh… you will borrow the power of politicians? Then do that. Ms. Eunhae, this woman is threatening
me now. What should I do?”
Eunhae had been standing and watching. Haejin looked at her and she then sat down. Eunhae glared
at Sojin and warned her.
“What you just said about pressing him, you can exactly do that. However, you must remember it. I
won’t just let you hurt him.”
“Ha… why? Is he your boyfriend?”
That was an unusually offensive remark, probably she had just lost four billion, but Eunhae didn’t even
blink an eye.
“He isn’t, but one thing that’s sure is that befriending him is more useful to me than befriending you.
Look, the reputation of this gallery might have dropped to the bottom because of Sinsaimdang’s fake
painting, but thanks to Mr. Haejin, I was able to turn the tide around. Our clients will trust us more, and
I would get more influence over the board members.”
“How dare you… you are just a kite without a string. You don’t know your place…”
Sojin couldn’t control her anger. Her face was red, and she was gritting her teeth. However, Eunhae
leaned to her with a cold expression.
“You should be careful. I might be a kite without a string, but I still have Hwajin’s blood. You want to
play a power game? I will be ready.”
Eunhae looked like a different person. Sojin saw that and tried to cool her anger. She stood up.
However, she couldn’t leave like that, so she glared at Haejin once more and spoke.
“You know what Ando Hadake is like, right? He won’t let this go.”
She turned to leave, but Haejin opened his mouth.
“I once saw his face when I was a kid. He grabbed my arm and threatened my father with a long
samurai sword. Give me the painting, or I’ll cut your son’s arm. He won’t let me go? Haha, let him do
that. I don’t think I have fully repaid that debt, either.”
“You… you did that on purpose. You are after Ando Hadake…”
Sojin stared at Haejin with shaking eyes. Eunhae looked at him with a new-found interest.
“That is what you meant by bad history.”
“It is not that important. Anyway, thank you for taking care of this. If she really comes after me, I would
really be in trouble.”
“Those were not empty words. The jade buddha, Ma Won’s painting and this case… if it hadn’t been
for you, I would have been forced to step down. If I become Yang Sojin’s enemy, I would lose a little,
but that loss is nothing compared to losing my position.”
“Well, then…”
Haejin had no more business here, so he stood up to leave. Eunhae, however, also stood up and
spoke.
“Wait. I have a favor to ask.”
“What? What kind of…”
“A few days later, an auction on Rembrandt will take place in a meeting in LA. Unlike ordinary
auctions, it will be small and only include acquaintances, but I have no one I can trust except for you.”
“Going to the U.S. is too…”
“I will pay you well.”
“Fine. I don’t want the money, but I have a condition.”
“A condition instead of money?”
“Yes. Help me to excavate. That is my condition.”
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