The Youngest Son of Sunyang (Reborn Rich)

[021] Secretly, Bigger Money 1

Jin Yoon-gi, who liked to call his home theater his own personal cinema, silently tilted his glass while watching a movie with his wife.

His only hobbies were theater and film. To indulge in these hobbies, he had set up a home theater complete with a screen and a projector, and he even collected film reels from time to time. This room was a testament to how much he loved movies.

His wife noticed that the film on the projector was running, but her husband seemed uninterested.

"Honey, is it because of Do-Jun?"

"Hmm? Oh, well... yeah."

When his son had shown him the bank book and asked him whatever he wanted to do, Jin Yoon-gi had lost his words. In that moment, he had felt more captivated by the bank book than by his son's words, and he berated himself for it.

"It was a well-intentioned remark from an inexperienced kid. Don't worry too much."

"Honey."

"Yes?"

"I'm not angry. I just felt stupid."

Jin Yoon-gi gave his wife a gentle smile and put his arm around her shoulders.

"When Do-Jun said that, I felt my heart racing. He said to use this money, which is more than a hundred billion, to do anything we wanted. This is an opportunity! I even had thoughts like that."

Jin Yoon-gi's memories of that moment suddenly came flooding back, and he shivered.

"I felt so pathetic... Like a dad spitting on his child's piggy bank."

"It's because it's such a large sum of money. I felt the same way. With that money, I even thought, 'We could all go abroad and live together – you, me, and Sang-gi.' Thoughts like that crossed my mind."

Her attempts to console him couldn't erase Jin Yoon-gi's crumpled self-esteem, shame, and guilt as a father.

"But, honey, I'm also curious... What do you really want to do? If you have enough money. Do you still want to be a film director?"

Jin Yoon-gi didn't want to discuss the dream he had long abandoned, but he couldn't ignore his wife's efforts to change the subject.

"No, I know I lack the directorial talent. If I were to make a movie, it would turn out terribly dull."

"So, have you completely let go of any lingering attachment to filmmaking?"

"I still have a lot of attachment. If I had the means, I'd like to be involved in production and planning. Especially with the novel I'm reading right now, it resonates with me. I wish I could turn it into a movie."

As they began discussing movies, Jin Yoon-gi's eyes lit up. It was the gleam of a boy chasing his dreams.

"Movies are not much different from manufacturing. If a film makes enough to cover the production costs, you can make the next project. But if you can reduce the production costs, the burden of succeeding at the box office also decreases."

"How can we reduce production costs?"

"Right now, Korean films are produced haphazardly. There's a lot of waste, and plenty of people siphoning money off in the middle. We can cut at least 30%. By the way, you know about this."

Jin Yoon-gi exchanged glances with his wife, who had once been an actress.

"I've only acted in one film. I didn't have time to learn about these things."

"If it weren't for me, you might have become a star... Isn't that unfair?"

"What? It was you who told me to give up since my acting skills were abysmal."