11 Chapter. The Old Debt

Since then, Marina took care of Arjoona like her own child. She was not married and had no family, so Arjoona was her first and only son. Marina died shortly after Arjoona obtained his double master's degree at the age of 24.

Because of Gerald's help and Marina's upbringing, Arjoona grows up to be a normal young man without any flaws. He is not rich and knows exactly who he is. Arjoona has been working side-by-side since he was a teenager. The hip hop and rap music is changing his life one day. He has become acquainted to it after he overheard American rapper Nas's album "It Was Written" on the streets. Since then, Arjoona brought out his hip-hop talent and rapping skills by writing several bars and song lyrics. At the age of 14, he started appearing on the school stage and since then he has the confidence to stop feeling inferior in front of many people.

He has two opposite lives, a rapper by night and an engineer by day well together. And it continued until he was asked by Gerald to start a career on his company. He started as an ordinary technical staff then shot up to become a division head in charge of hundreds of workers in Winthrop's electronic equipment production plant.

His charm gets stronger with age. Now when he is 28 years old, he has a good career even though he doesn't have abundant money, but Arjoona is already living independently and is quite well-off. He was starting to grab the attention of several of Winthrop's competitors to take him with them. But what kept him was his gratitude to Gerald which he would not be able to pay in any lifetime. Apart from the work environment at Winthrop which is very pleasant for Joona.

18 Years Later

Arjoona is now sitting opposite Gerald Winthrop who looks at him closely waiting for his answer. Arjoona did not think that he would have to pay his debt at this time.

He so stressed that he could not sleep at night but now he probably won't be sleeping at all.

"Is there any another way that I can pay besides having to marry your granddaughter?" asked Arjoona still not giving up. Gerald smiled

"Arjoona, have I ever asked you something in return all this time?" Gerald asked in return. He leaned closer to Joona. Arjoona shook his head.

"Arjoona, if it weren't for me so worried about Claire I wouldn't have asked for your help like this, I know you both are just like water and fire but I have no choice." Arjoona snorted irritably. He didn't know what to answer. If only he could just vanish like dust in the air, he would gladly do it.

Sir, please don't force me to marry Claire. She was... just too irritating for me. I could stand next to her for more than one minute." Arjoona kept complaining and still hope that Gerald would listen. But it looked like the old man had his own unbreakable decision. Gerald just quite for a while and leaned his back against the chair.

"Can't you just being patience as you always be?"

"No... not to her. She's annoying!" Arjoona responded without a doubt. Gerald smiled at him.

"Just like that, you sign the marriage certificate and it's up to you whether you want to live together or not, Claire needs the marriage certificate so that she can obtain the Winthrop's to seat as the owner as soon as possible." Arjoona frowned.

"Are that the conditions for your will?" Gerald nodded

"Why do you even make a will like that?" Arjoona asked, surprised

"So that someone like Keith can't take anything from my granddaughter. If Claire doesn't marry she is consider deemed unworthy to lead and the company. And it can fall into the hands of my daughter in law, that means Keith can take over it easily." Arjoona now looked away.

"I beg Arjoona, Keith has taken control of our mansion in England. If Claire is not married shortly he will also come here and control this factory and when that time comes, she will also be eliminated." Gerald added again.

"How can he is in power but you are the owner of Winthrop?" Gerald sighed and lowered his head.

"Winthrop is not a single company, the ownership is collective, some members of the Winthrop family has the same ownership as me. Only, they have chosen me to be the leader. Keith managed to manipulate several family members who made him their representative now, I know he diverted a lot of money."

"The only way is to raise my descendants to be the only heir. The problem is that Claire is considered immature because she's just 22 now so she needs a companion to make good decisions. A husband." Gerald added while pointing and

continuing to convince Joona.

"Then why not just Louis, can't he take care of Claire?" Gerald raised his eyebrows

at Arjoona.

"You've met Louis, haven't you? is he a good man?" Arjoona snorted and folded his

arms across his chest.

"He's a jerk, I want to beat him so badly!" replied Arjoona, looked away.

"See... you don't even like him yourself, how can I trust him to take care of my granddaughter now, he can't even be a loyal gentleman, he's a player." Arjoona pursed his lower lip while nodding slowly.

"But ..."

"First, just read the contract, please consider it again." Gerald handed a contract document of the marriage agreement in front of Arjoona. He looked again at Gerald who nodded at him.

Arjoona could only snort and tilt his head then squeezed his back hair. He was still looking at the document in front of him and thinking. What should he do now?