“Wow, is this Taehan’s?”

Yoo Se-ah burst into admiration as she faced her palms. In response to her reaction, Kang Tae-han nodded slowly.

“Yes?”

“I knew there were VVIP seats, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a ticket like this.”

Originally, it is difficult to obtain tickets for a fairly popular singer’s concert. To the extent that there is a separate agency that takes the place of ticket reservations.

However, VVIP seats differ in category among them. This is because even if you want to get a ticket, you can’t get it in a normal way.

Although the ticket configuration is different for each concert.

In most cases, such as VVIP seats, it is a concept that officials invite precious guests separately.

‘… It seems to be more valuable than I thought.’

Kang Tae-han puts on an embarrassed expression at the reaction beyond his expectations.

This was the vote I received from A1 himself, Park Si-joon, the day before. He came to the store, waited for Kang Tae-han at the office, and thanked him.

‘If you don’t want to receive a reward… Please accept this as well. I can’t think of anything other than this.’

I said that, but it’s a bit sad that I didn’t get it, and I remembered what Yoo Se-ah said to go to the concert, so I accepted it without thinking.

First of all, since it says VVIP, I thought it would be better than the ticket Yoo Se-ah showed me, but… Looking at Yoo Se-ah’s reaction, it seems that it is not just a good seat level.

“How did you get this?”

“that is… Among the guests, there was one person in charge of the concert. When I said that I was going to this concert, they gave me this.”

I met Aone himself and fixed his vocal cord nodules, and I received this in return… If I said that, it could have seemed like I was being condescending. Kang Tae-han turned around slightly and spoke.

First of all, it was true that the singer himself was involved in the concert, so it wasn’t really a lie.

“Wow… You seem to have a pretty high rank. It’s really hard to give it that easily. Oh, or did you want to look that good to Taehan?”

“I just have some personal business.”

Kang Tae-han only laughed with a hard-to-read expression.

Well, it wasn’t someone else, it was the singer who held the concert, so it wasn’t an incorrect expression to say that he was a person with a high rank.

“Anyway, I should thank him. Thanks to that, I was able to watch the concert with Taehan in a good place.”

On the other hand, Yoo Se-ah spoke with a excited expression and smiled brightly. It was a face that seemed to convey anticipation just by looking at it.

“Are you expecting that?”

“yes. Actually, I’ve seen musicals often, but it’s my first time at a concert. and… It’s the first time I’m going to see something with my boyfriend. Whoop whoop.”

Yoo Se-ah smiled and covered her mouth slightly shyly. Kang Tae-han smiled as well, as he seemed to be happy just by looking at them.

“Since Se-ah is happy, so am I.”

Kang Tae-han said that in a low voice, then took a sip of the coffee on the table. Maybe because of the good feeling, a fairly good flavor spread in the mouth.

* * *

Wednesday.

“It says about here… Oh, over there.”

Kang Tae-han, who walked slowly and took turns looking around the navigation and the street, eventually found his destination and drove inward.

‘At this rate, there’s a parking lot… … .’

A parking space with six painted spaces.

It’s hard to say that it’s such a large parking lot, but it’s definitely better than nothing. Kang Tae-han, who got out of the car after parking, looked around lightly.

‘At this point, accessibility seems good… The store has roughly doubled in size.’

I thought Jo Won-ho would find a good spot on his own, but even taking that into account, it was a pretty good position.

Kang Tae-han nodded his head slowly with a convinced expression.

After looking around, he started walking toward a store whose sign had not yet been hung.

“I’m here, Father.”

“Oh, yes. Are you here?”

The person who greets him inside the store is none other than Kang Ho-yeon. Now he is not wearing his usual neat chef outfit, but a loose, comfortable outfit.

“You must have had a hard time coming, but you should rest for a while.”

“a. It’s not even that far, well. What can I do first?”

“… Then, move those over there to the kitchen.”

The floor and wall work has been completed and the large furniture has been furnished, but there are still details and minor procedures to be done.

There was still a lot of time left before the store was moved, but it wasn’t worth leaving it as it is, so Kang Ho-yeon was tidying up here every Wednesday when the store was off.

“It’s okay.”

And today Kang Tae-han also came to help his father. He lightly lifted a large basket and started walking straight to the kitchen.

“Are you playing hand-to-hand here?”

A space that is right next to the hall from the kitchen.

In the middle, instead of a wall, there was a thick glass window, so it was a place where the intention of showing something from the inside to the outside was evident.

It didn’t look like it was connected to gas, and it didn’t even have a crater, so it probably wasn’t really a fire show.

Then all that’s left is a hand hit.

“You know right away. After all, hand-picking is a kind of spectacle in itself, so we decided to arrange it so that you can see it from the hall.”

As expected, too.

At Kang Tae-han’s words, Kang Ho-yeon replied with a smile.

“Compared to the last store, isn’t it spacious at first glance? The dough cutting board to be placed there is also being made to order.”

Then he said in a slightly excited voice.

It was like waiting for someone to ask. Kang Tae-han laughed at that voice and put the luggage he had carried into the kitchen.

“by the way… You could have gone to a bigger store.”

Kang Tae-han, who looked around the store leisurely for a while, said so in a low voice.

It is definitely wider than the last store.

Roughly twice as much.

The number of guests that can be accommodated at one time will also increase significantly, and as the kitchen expands, the father’s working environment can be seen as greatly improved.

but… It’s not even a very big store.

It is true that it has grown twice as large, but should I say that the old store was just that small?

Of course, as we looked at earlier, it was a store with a good location and a parking lot, but Kang Tae-han was thinking of even a large restaurant with a large parking lot.

Because of that, the scale is bound to feel small.

Maybe he reduced the size a bit because he was worried about his son’s bank account. The moment when Kang Tae-han tried to speak once more because of a sudden thought.

“No, what. I didn’t come here because I was worried about you.”

As if he had expected his son to come up with such a thought, Kang Ho-yeon spoke first. He said scratching his head with an embarrassed expression.

“If you suddenly move to a store that is too big, the quality of the food may be lower than usual.”

Business is going well, so I moved the store to a bigger place.

Customers are coming more than ever before.

However, as time passed, it was said that the taste of the food gradually changed.

There are more cases like this than you might think.

The wider the store, the more guests it can receive, but that also means the workload in the kitchen increases significantly.

In order to cover that, you may eventually have to supplement manpower, change the recipe so that it can be mass-produced, or take both methods.

Then, the quality of the food has no choice but to be different from before. Of course, there are stores that do better that way, but there are far more stores that close their doors without rumors, disregarding their former reputation.

“And I’m picking noodles by hand, right?”

There is a certain limit to the amount of handmade noodles that one person can pull out at one time. Of course, if you hire people, you can increase the amount, but that’s not easy either.

Not only is it difficult to find skilled workers who can skillfully hand-roll noodles, but the quality of the food can come out differently because the noodles are subtly different.

“Rather than going to a place you can’t afford and serving obscure food… I thought it would be right to serve the same food as usual, at a level I could afford.”

That’s why Kang Ho-yeon chose this store.

If you go to a wider store, sales might be better, but isn’t it normal to pretend to go in a hurry? This is the best in your situation right now.

“… If you chose it with that in mind, it’s not bad.”

“ha ha ha. right?”

Kang Ho-yeon laughs lightly at his son’s words.

Kang Tae-han also smiled as he looked at his father. He just wanted to make the store a little better, but… … .

‘That’s probably enough.’

My father is a man with a strong work ethic. Thinking back to his thoughts, Kang Tae-han scratched the bottom of his ear for no reason and then started to carry his luggage again.

In the midst of such a rich man working in silence for a while.

Kang Ho-yeon opened his mouth as if he had suddenly remembered.

“Oh, would you like to go to an open-air bath together later?”

“An open-air bath?”

“Why, President Cho said that hot springs came from a new place.”

“Yes… I heard.”

there is no way you don’t know

Because the one who stimulated the hot spring and raised it to the ley line was none other than himself. Kang Tae-han smiled and nodded.

“By the way, is the construction already finished?”

“no. The construction is still a long way off, but there is a separate bath made to keep water out of the place.”

“Aha.”

“I went to see Mr. Cho the other day and he said it was okay. I asked if I could go with you today, and he said that I could use it because I only had morning work today.”

Kang Ho-yeon said in a calm tone as she organized her luggage, but deep inside she was looking forward to it.

The feeling of warming up right in front of the forest was special in itself, so I wanted to give Taehan some experience.

“Right, what.”

Taehan Kang nodded his head willingly.

Because he had no reason to refuse.

“okay. You must have sweated a little while working… … .”

Kang Ho-yeon looks back with a smile on his words.

However, he was silent for a moment and stared blankly at Kang Tae-han, who was carrying the luggage. After staring at her for a while, she slowly opened her mouth.

“… Are you exercising hard these days?”

“Exercise is something I do all the time.”

Kang Tae-han speaks in a tone that doesn’t matter.

He set down the luggage he was carrying in the kitchen, then looked in Kang Ho-yeon’s direction and asked again.

“But why?”

“no… I want to have a little bit more power.”

Kang Ho-yeon wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at what his son had just put down.

A large gravy pot.

It’s a fairly heavy guy by itself, but with all sorts of extra cooking utensils inside, it’s safe to say it’s just a chunk of iron.

It wasn’t actually put together to be moved, but it was more of a use to just put it there and take it out in turn… carrying it in its entirety.

“Hmm. It was a bit heavy.”

Only then did Kang Tae-han shake his hands and say.

Unlike the words, the voice and expression did not look like that at all, and despite the fact that some time had passed since starting work, there was no sign of sweating.

‘… Well, nothing bad.’

My son is strong and healthy.

Wouldn’t that be something to worry about? Kang Ho-yeon, who had been staring blankly at Kang Tae-han for a while, scratched her head and started working again.

* * *

“Brother, here you are.”

A cafe located near Yeouido KBC Station.

Cho Chan-hyeok, who had just opened the door and entered, greeted his younger brother who was waving at him, ordered a drink, and walked to his seat.

“It’s been a while, bro.”

“I know. After a year?”

“Is that enough?”

At Cho Chan-hyuk’s words, Hwang Ji-woon, the man sitting across from him, smiled brightly.

“I’m nervous seeing the great actor after a long time.”

“Don’t talk white. You are doing well these days.”

Hwang Ji-woon is a middle-aged musical actor who is gaining a lot of popularity these days.

Through this, he was able to make his name known not only to musical lovers but also to the general public, and an actor who can be said to be a star in the musical world, who is said to have brought about a boom in the musical market beyond his personal popularity.

And thanks to its popularity, his most representative work, [The Wheel of Twilight], was scheduled to start again… … .

There was a big problem there.

Cho Chan-hyeok, who was quietly looking at Hwang Ji-woon, cautiously opened his mouth.

“… Are your legs okay?”

“Well, it’s getting better.”

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Legs bound in casts.

It is the trace of a wrong step on the stairs not too long ago.

At the time, it was an accident that decorated the front page of Internet news for a while.

Fortunately, the face was not injured, and the injuries were not deep elsewhere, so recovery was over quickly… This happened because his left leg, which had been misplaced, was broken.

“Can you meet the deadline?”

I didn’t bother to say what the deadline was.

It was obvious what that meant. Hwang Ji-woon shook his head with a bitter expression.

“I think I’ll be better by the day of the performance, but… Considering the rehabilitation and practice period, it must be difficult.”

A musical performance requires all three elements of dancing, singing, and acting, and at the same time, it requires physical strength to maintain condition until the end of the performance.

In addition, a lot of practice is required because you have to match your breath with other performers, and the detailed movement and acting change depending on the stage.

so that.

No matter how short it is, you need a week of spare time.

Even if a miracle of recovering from a broken bone occurs on the day of the performance, there is no way I will be able to stand on the stage.

“… But how is your brother?”

It wasn’t a particularly pleasant topic, so Hwang Ji-woon, who finished the answer, naturally decided to pass the story on.

“What am I, I’m doing well these days.”

“That’s fortunate. Originally, when I was a patient, it was my older brother.”

“Whoops. It was.”

Cho Chan-hyuk smiled and leaned his back on the backrest.

Originally, he complained of severe migraines once a month, but… I’ve never felt it before these days.

“How are you better?”

“Because I got help from a certain benefactor.”

At Hwang Ji-woon’s words, Cho Chan-hyeok spoke in a voice that sounded meaningful and a smile appeared on his lips.

“You spoke well. Actually, the reason I asked to see you today was because of this person.”

The story of a sad junior who was on the brakes due to a sudden injury while continuing his heyday. Cho Chan-hyuk, who heard the story belatedly, immediately contacted Hwang Ji-woon and made an appointment to meet today.

Cho Chan-hyuk could be of help to Hwang Ji-woon… No, because I knew a solution that was bound to be of great help.