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Title: Le Indignazione
Series: 빈센조/Vincenzo
Characters: Vincenzo Cassano/Park Joohyeong, Hong Cha-young, Hwang Minseong, mentions of Oh Gyeongja, Fabio Cassano
Summary: He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Did Cha-young... and Mr Nam want him to romance the current president of Shinkwang Bank whose father was said to have been murdered by his mother?
Unbelievable!
---------------------------------------------
"Joohyeong-ah, can you do this for me?"
"There's something that I need to do, something important. So to do that I have to leave you here for a while. Can you wait for me here?"
The last time he did something for his mother, he ended up being shipped to Italy as Marco and Lucia Cassano's adopted son. Back then, his mother told him to wait for her with a promise that she would return for him later. But it turned out that it was just a lie that his mother had made as she abandoned him without his realizing it.
Once he realised that his mother had abandoned him at the orphanage and practically signed him off to allow himself to be adopted by some strangers, he wanted nothing to do with his birth mother. But then, as he grew older... the older brother of his foster father, Fabio Cassano, told him something he once heard Marco told him when they first adopted him as their own child.
That the true reason why his mother gave him up for adoption and let go of her parental rights over him, was because she got sick. Very sick.
Still, that doesn't explain why his mother never contacted him again ever since then. If his mother had somehow miraculously recovered from her lung cancer back then, why wouldn't his mother come looking for him afterwards? Why wouldn't she try to come back for him to explain the reason why she did that to him? Why was it that it ended up being so hard for anyone to try to find her all these times? Doesn't she want to see him again? Does he not matter to her? He was her ONLY son!
After Marco and Lucia's untimely deaths due to one robbery attempt gone wrong, Marco's brother, Fabio Cassano, once considered returning him back to Korea. But then, after some considerations... Fabio decided to take him in as his own son. All those years, he never thought that Fabio would still try to locate his mother for him. After all, he was just an underboss of the Cassano family back then. But many years later, once Fabio had managed to take over the leadership of the Cassano Family... Fabio suddenly told him that he had found his mother!
But unfortunately, the news Fabio told him wasn't quite a happy one. Since it turned out that his mother had ended up being accused of a crime. A murder! His mother had been accused of murdering the previous chairman of Shinkwang Finance.
Fabio had told him to go back to Korea to see what's going on with his mother's case. But it wasn't like there was anything that he could do for his mother if he DID go to see the trial proceedings. He was just a normal lawyer back then... and he couldn't even practise law outside of Italy. There was nothing he could do for his mother!
Yet, if there was anything he got from witnessing the unjust trial of his birth mother, it gave him a reason to strengthen his resolve to become a powerful lawyer in service of the Cassano family. Fabio hadn't even forced it on him when his adopted father sent him to the Italian law school. But he made the choice himself because he wanted to do something for the Cassano family.
He had asked Fabio to let him join the mafia.
So since then, he ended up channelling all of his anger and frustration in becoming the best lawyer in Italy. And since he had joined the Cassano family as part of the mafia, he ended up dealing with the mafia business.
Thus in the span of five years, he ended up becoming the Cassano family's most trusted lawyer and advisor. A Consigliere.
xxx
"But there IS a way to stop the investment and bring down the president."
"Is there another way?"
"We'll use a homme fatale. A charismatic man who'll bring him down."
Vincenzo hummed his approval as he thought about that option. That made sense. Since this guy seemed to have this odd preferences for men and gets abusive when said men didn't respond to his advances the way he wanted; they would've needed someone who can fight back against the guy in return. It's a brilliant idea, to be honest.
"I've looked into it. President Hwang has an ideal type. They need to have a pale face and glistening eyes."
He sipped on his tea as Vincenzo tried to process the things that Cha-young just said. An ideal type, huh? What a weirdo...
"They should look young, handsome and naturally exude intelligence..."
Vincenzo tried to keep himself from laughing. How ridiculous. It's one thing to try finding a love match for someone who earnestly looking for love but right now they're talking about the guy who still harrassed his mum—he turned his eyes upwards and met Cha-young's JUST as she finished talking.
A young, handsome guy who naturally exude intelligence, huh? Yeah, he IS young and handsome, if he could say so himse—!
He turned his face back towards Cha-young and Mr Nam to see that both of them still didn't stop staring meaningfully at him...
What... why?
What were those looks mean...?
Cha-young kept smiling at him.
You don't say... she meant—!
"And lastly..."
Vincenzo immediately spat the tea he was drinking as his brain started connecting the dots together.
"Stop!"
"Don't you dare!"
He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Did Cha-young... and Mr Nam want him to romance the current president of Shinkwang Bank whose father was said to have been murdered by his mother? That father, who tried to sexually assault his mother... which led to his mother pushing him away in defence and giving the family an excuse to blame the death of that man on his mother?
Seriously?
He could still remember the anger and frustration that he felt after the final verdict was given to his mother by the judge who presided his mother's case. And NOW he has to flirt with the son of the man who died trying to assault his mother?
"—A soothing voice and a composed manner of speech!" Suddenly Cha-young's voice got louder and her smile getting wider. Even Mr Nam started nodding at her words.
"What are you looking at?" Suddenly he could feel his heart beating rapidly in panic. "What are you implying?"
No... NO! They can't really think that—! No, there's no way! There's no way he can do that!
"I won't do it I can't!"
"Just think about it..."
"Don't get mad!"
Cha-young grabbed his arm as he glared at her in disbelief. "Don't be ridiculous, this is absurd!"
Seriously he could do anything to help his mum... but no... NOT to this extent! Oh my god, please no?
xxx
Mr Nam and Cha-young kept sending signals to him from the other side of the bar as he willed himself to not curse them aloud suddenly.
"I just never told you this, but speaking as a man you are indeed attractive—!"
He tried to stop himself from cringing very badly. Why did he have to recall Mr Nam's earlier comment about him again now?
It was an absurd plan that Cha-young has thought up. Yet, surprisingly things were going so smoothly for them at the moment. As Cha-young has predicted, he did indeed fulfilled all of the criteria of Hwang Minseong's ideal lover. And just as planned, the said person had hopelessly fallen in love with him.
They managed to achieve the result that they wanted, but Vincenzo couldn't quite be happy about that achievement.
While he was very grateful to his mother for giving birth to him and having him born into such a handsome, charming and intelligent person; to have to use his god-given looks for something like this—he couldn't quite agree! What would Fabio think of him if he knows that he went as far as to do this? His Mamma and Papa would've turned in their graves if they knew...!
Vincenzo continued to force his smile at Hwang Minseong as he tried to get the guy drunk. Aside from making Hwang Minseong fall head over heels over him, he might as well try to get any crucial information from the guy. At least, there was something else he could focus on doing aside from thinking about how a guy could've found him attractive as a love interest...
"You know what? I envy you."
"How could you become the president of the great Shinkwang Bank at such a young age?"
It was worth a shot to try asking the guy that. But then, the guy started to get up and threw himself on the other seat next to him. And just as he was about to try to flee from the drunkard, Hwang Minseong pulled his seat—along with him on it!—a bit more closer.
"Tae Ho?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you want to know how?"
"Yes?"
Hwang Minseong kept fidgeting at his seat as Vincenzo willed himself to remained calm.
"When my father was the chairman of Shinkwang Finance, he was against me becoming president of the bank. But he was a despicable womanizer. Whether they be his employees or housekeepers, he'd be all over them. Gosh, that geezer."
"Then one day, he was sexually harassing one of his housekeepers. She said no and fought back and... she pushed him."
He wasn't expecting that it could be so easy to get Hwang Minseong to talk about the incident that led to his mother being jailed. So his mother did indeed told the truth about what happened to her. So how could—!
"My mom was secretly watching it happen. Through a chink in the door."
Immediately, Vincenzo felt his blood ran cold. He turned his head slowly as he stared back towards the guy.
"She was watching?"
"But my dad couldn't get back up."
As Hwang Minseong continued telling him the details of what happened on that one day, Vincenzo's blood that had chilled earlier started to boil hotter. The more Hwang Minseong talked about what the chairman's wife did and how they decided to blame everything on his mother, the more the anger that has started to brew inside him bubbled. So this was what they did to his mother, huh?
And because of them, his mother had to be locked up in jail and suffering from her illness alone...
"Tae Ho?"
"Yeah?"
"We couldn't let the world know the truth. After all, my family has a reputation to uphold, right?"
Hwang Minseong was still drunk-talking but now the guy no longer looked like a silly, naive idiot. The person in front of him has finally revealed to him how sly and scheming the person really was. The exact kind of person that he hates.
"Right. Your family's reputation."
Suddenly, this was no longer some silly plan that Cha-young planned to get Hwang Minseong to be under their control. Now it got really personal for him to get into Shinkwang's business. This was revenge.
There was no way he could sit still and do nothing after hearing all that. Vincenzo straightened up as he leaned closer towards Hwang Minseong.
"Minseong..."
Suddenly, whatever he thought earlier about this plan of theirs being silly ceased to exist in his mind. The people that made his mother rot in jail turned out to be even more despicable than he imagined. And if he had to pretend to be a homosexual guy to teach this guy a lesson, well... he could do it without hesitation.
For his mother...
Vincenzo ran his fingers gently over Hwang Minseong's hand.
"Are you free this weekend?"
Series: 빈센조/Vincenzo
Characters: Vincenzo Cassano/Park Joohyeong, Hong Cha-young, Hwang Minseong, mentions of Oh Gyeongja, Fabio Cassano
Summary: He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Did Cha-young... and Mr Nam want him to romance the current president of Shinkwang Bank whose father was said to have been murdered by his mother?
Unbelievable!
---------------------------------------------
"Joohyeong-ah, can you do this for me?"
"There's something that I need to do, something important. So to do that I have to leave you here for a while. Can you wait for me here?"
The last time he did something for his mother, he ended up being shipped to Italy as Marco and Lucia Cassano's adopted son. Back then, his mother told him to wait for her with a promise that she would return for him later. But it turned out that it was just a lie that his mother had made as she abandoned him without his realizing it.
Once he realised that his mother had abandoned him at the orphanage and practically signed him off to allow himself to be adopted by some strangers, he wanted nothing to do with his birth mother. But then, as he grew older... the older brother of his foster father, Fabio Cassano, told him something he once heard Marco told him when they first adopted him as their own child.
That the true reason why his mother gave him up for adoption and let go of her parental rights over him, was because she got sick. Very sick.
Still, that doesn't explain why his mother never contacted him again ever since then. If his mother had somehow miraculously recovered from her lung cancer back then, why wouldn't his mother come looking for him afterwards? Why wouldn't she try to come back for him to explain the reason why she did that to him? Why was it that it ended up being so hard for anyone to try to find her all these times? Doesn't she want to see him again? Does he not matter to her? He was her ONLY son!
After Marco and Lucia's untimely deaths due to one robbery attempt gone wrong, Marco's brother, Fabio Cassano, once considered returning him back to Korea. But then, after some considerations... Fabio decided to take him in as his own son. All those years, he never thought that Fabio would still try to locate his mother for him. After all, he was just an underboss of the Cassano family back then. But many years later, once Fabio had managed to take over the leadership of the Cassano Family... Fabio suddenly told him that he had found his mother!
But unfortunately, the news Fabio told him wasn't quite a happy one. Since it turned out that his mother had ended up being accused of a crime. A murder! His mother had been accused of murdering the previous chairman of Shinkwang Finance.
Fabio had told him to go back to Korea to see what's going on with his mother's case. But it wasn't like there was anything that he could do for his mother if he DID go to see the trial proceedings. He was just a normal lawyer back then... and he couldn't even practise law outside of Italy. There was nothing he could do for his mother!
Yet, if there was anything he got from witnessing the unjust trial of his birth mother, it gave him a reason to strengthen his resolve to become a powerful lawyer in service of the Cassano family. Fabio hadn't even forced it on him when his adopted father sent him to the Italian law school. But he made the choice himself because he wanted to do something for the Cassano family.
He had asked Fabio to let him join the mafia.
So since then, he ended up channelling all of his anger and frustration in becoming the best lawyer in Italy. And since he had joined the Cassano family as part of the mafia, he ended up dealing with the mafia business.
Thus in the span of five years, he ended up becoming the Cassano family's most trusted lawyer and advisor. A Consigliere.
xxx
"But there IS a way to stop the investment and bring down the president."
"Is there another way?"
"We'll use a homme fatale. A charismatic man who'll bring him down."
Vincenzo hummed his approval as he thought about that option. That made sense. Since this guy seemed to have this odd preferences for men and gets abusive when said men didn't respond to his advances the way he wanted; they would've needed someone who can fight back against the guy in return. It's a brilliant idea, to be honest.
"I've looked into it. President Hwang has an ideal type. They need to have a pale face and glistening eyes."
He sipped on his tea as Vincenzo tried to process the things that Cha-young just said. An ideal type, huh? What a weirdo...
"They should look young, handsome and naturally exude intelligence..."
Vincenzo tried to keep himself from laughing. How ridiculous. It's one thing to try finding a love match for someone who earnestly looking for love but right now they're talking about the guy who still harrassed his mum—he turned his eyes upwards and met Cha-young's JUST as she finished talking.
A young, handsome guy who naturally exude intelligence, huh? Yeah, he IS young and handsome, if he could say so himse—!
He turned his face back towards Cha-young and Mr Nam to see that both of them still didn't stop staring meaningfully at him...
What... why?
What were those looks mean...?
Cha-young kept smiling at him.
You don't say... she meant—!
"And lastly..."
Vincenzo immediately spat the tea he was drinking as his brain started connecting the dots together.
"Stop!"
"Don't you dare!"
He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Did Cha-young... and Mr Nam want him to romance the current president of Shinkwang Bank whose father was said to have been murdered by his mother? That father, who tried to sexually assault his mother... which led to his mother pushing him away in defence and giving the family an excuse to blame the death of that man on his mother?
Seriously?
He could still remember the anger and frustration that he felt after the final verdict was given to his mother by the judge who presided his mother's case. And NOW he has to flirt with the son of the man who died trying to assault his mother?
"—A soothing voice and a composed manner of speech!" Suddenly Cha-young's voice got louder and her smile getting wider. Even Mr Nam started nodding at her words.
"What are you looking at?" Suddenly he could feel his heart beating rapidly in panic. "What are you implying?"
No... NO! They can't really think that—! No, there's no way! There's no way he can do that!
"I won't do it I can't!"
"Just think about it..."
"Don't get mad!"
Cha-young grabbed his arm as he glared at her in disbelief. "Don't be ridiculous, this is absurd!"
Seriously he could do anything to help his mum... but no... NOT to this extent! Oh my god, please no?
xxx
Mr Nam and Cha-young kept sending signals to him from the other side of the bar as he willed himself to not curse them aloud suddenly.
"I just never told you this, but speaking as a man you are indeed attractive—!"
He tried to stop himself from cringing very badly. Why did he have to recall Mr Nam's earlier comment about him again now?
It was an absurd plan that Cha-young has thought up. Yet, surprisingly things were going so smoothly for them at the moment. As Cha-young has predicted, he did indeed fulfilled all of the criteria of Hwang Minseong's ideal lover. And just as planned, the said person had hopelessly fallen in love with him.
They managed to achieve the result that they wanted, but Vincenzo couldn't quite be happy about that achievement.
While he was very grateful to his mother for giving birth to him and having him born into such a handsome, charming and intelligent person; to have to use his god-given looks for something like this—he couldn't quite agree! What would Fabio think of him if he knows that he went as far as to do this? His Mamma and Papa would've turned in their graves if they knew...!
Vincenzo continued to force his smile at Hwang Minseong as he tried to get the guy drunk. Aside from making Hwang Minseong fall head over heels over him, he might as well try to get any crucial information from the guy. At least, there was something else he could focus on doing aside from thinking about how a guy could've found him attractive as a love interest...
"You know what? I envy you."
"How could you become the president of the great Shinkwang Bank at such a young age?"
It was worth a shot to try asking the guy that. But then, the guy started to get up and threw himself on the other seat next to him. And just as he was about to try to flee from the drunkard, Hwang Minseong pulled his seat—along with him on it!—a bit more closer.
"Tae Ho?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you want to know how?"
"Yes?"
Hwang Minseong kept fidgeting at his seat as Vincenzo willed himself to remained calm.
"When my father was the chairman of Shinkwang Finance, he was against me becoming president of the bank. But he was a despicable womanizer. Whether they be his employees or housekeepers, he'd be all over them. Gosh, that geezer."
"Then one day, he was sexually harassing one of his housekeepers. She said no and fought back and... she pushed him."
He wasn't expecting that it could be so easy to get Hwang Minseong to talk about the incident that led to his mother being jailed. So his mother did indeed told the truth about what happened to her. So how could—!
"My mom was secretly watching it happen. Through a chink in the door."
Immediately, Vincenzo felt his blood ran cold. He turned his head slowly as he stared back towards the guy.
"She was watching?"
"But my dad couldn't get back up."
As Hwang Minseong continued telling him the details of what happened on that one day, Vincenzo's blood that had chilled earlier started to boil hotter. The more Hwang Minseong talked about what the chairman's wife did and how they decided to blame everything on his mother, the more the anger that has started to brew inside him bubbled. So this was what they did to his mother, huh?
And because of them, his mother had to be locked up in jail and suffering from her illness alone...
"Tae Ho?"
"Yeah?"
"We couldn't let the world know the truth. After all, my family has a reputation to uphold, right?"
Hwang Minseong was still drunk-talking but now the guy no longer looked like a silly, naive idiot. The person in front of him has finally revealed to him how sly and scheming the person really was. The exact kind of person that he hates.
"Right. Your family's reputation."
Suddenly, this was no longer some silly plan that Cha-young planned to get Hwang Minseong to be under their control. Now it got really personal for him to get into Shinkwang's business. This was revenge.
There was no way he could sit still and do nothing after hearing all that. Vincenzo straightened up as he leaned closer towards Hwang Minseong.
"Minseong..."
Suddenly, whatever he thought earlier about this plan of theirs being silly ceased to exist in his mind. The people that made his mother rot in jail turned out to be even more despicable than he imagined. And if he had to pretend to be a homosexual guy to teach this guy a lesson, well... he could do it without hesitation.
For his mother...
Vincenzo ran his fingers gently over Hwang Minseong's hand.
"Are you free this weekend?"
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