Chapter 430
Three months later.
Lim Soonwook, wearing a silk dop’o and a stylish gat, was passing through the streets in a rickshaw. Wearing a newly fashionable horsehair gat and a ch’ailgyeong, Lim Soonwook’s appearance exuded nobility to anyone who saw him.
However, Lim Soonwook, actually sitting in the rickshaw, was looking at the street with a bitter smile and muttering.
“They say human life is unpredictable…”
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Until a few years ago, Lim Soonwook had been the head of a fairly solid trading company. But then, through a connection made by Hyang’s rickshaw, he put on official robes and became a government official.
Although he entered office through special appointment, he went through all sorts of trials alongside other officials, including overtime and all-night work, and was promoted repeatedly.
When he rose to the position of vice minister through fierce overtime, all-night work, and competition, Lim Soonwook was overwhelmed with emotion.
“A despised person from the northwest has risen to vice minister! Hahaha!”