Chapter 2:
After I lost my consciousness, everything becomes black I see myself in a white space—all white, with a body of water on the floor. I look around and say "Hello, where am I, is anyone here, is anyone here? I then see a handsome young man standing far away, and I say "Thank goodness someone is here, I breathe a sigh of relief and say hello, do you know where we are?" The Man doesn't respond and I think to myself is he a mute? Then I keep trying to talk to him, but no response, but suddenly he starts running, wtf. I start chasing after him, and after chasing after him for a while we reach the end of the whitespace. I'm out of breath and he shows no sign of tiredness, I breathe heavily. Then I walk up beside him and say hello do you know ..., but he suddenly pushes me and I start falling. I think to myself is this the end of my life, will I die as a nobody
After 17 years as a cashier, I dedicated 17 years of my life to the Hansol group, and yet my bank account never reached 1 million won($737). Was I destined to be a nobody in my life, if I ever get another chance at life I hope to become someone, someone who can take care of their family, someone who has no restraints, and someone who lives their life not scared of the costs of Happiness. I scream "I will reach the top". Wait a minute, I've been falling for so long. Why am I not dead yet? I look below me and see that my body has stopped falling and is just stuck levitating in the air. Suddenly I feel the thrust of a heavyweight hit my body, I start sweating and suffocating and crying out. I start feeling something drain me, then the next moment I wake up I find myself lying down on a hospital bed and I see an angry fat chubby man with a mean walking towards me. I think "Isn't this that bastard manager Kim, why is he walking towards me, why haven't I reincarnated yet, why haven't I become the son of a chaebol family, or a rich young man, or have time traveled? Why can't I be like the main characters of those novels? Oh maybe I have a system," system, system, open the system "I accidentally scream out system system system " The other patients around me and Manager Kim look at me crazy and the other patients start whispering, one old patient grandma saying "This lazy crazy b*stard, he thinks life is a drama huh, he thinks he is Jin Do jun from Reborn Rich(Famous drama about the main character being reborn in the body of the youngest son of a conglomerate family) Then Manager Kim stands in front of me and says "Lee Ji-hoon, you crazy b*st*rd are you mental, look the lady you bumped into was Baek Ah Rim, the youngest daughter of the chairman of our Hansol Group, and she is also the new vice chairman of Hansol Foods. You better hope she forgets you and doesn't fire you, but you will have to pay for the things you fell on, it will be withdrawn from your salary." But Sir my salary is only 9 million won($7000) I still have to pay off my loan, then I grab him and start ch*king him and I accidentally remove his toupee(wig for men to cover up bald spots)" Is what I imagine in my head, but I respond by slightly bowing my head and saying ne seonsaengnim (yes sir). Then he continues his mean face and says you better get back to work today, the company is not paying for your hospital bills and he walks away arrogantly. I start cursing him in my head, then I remove the plastic tube from my wrist get up from the hospital bed, and walk to the front desk I ask the receptionist how much is my bill she says 200,000 won ($147) Then I quickly do the math in my brain and that brings me down to 300,000 won($220) since I had 500,000 won($368) before. I asked her if I could pay in installments she said yes then I said thank you. Then I chose the payment plan I liked, then she gave me a small plastic bag that contained my clothes, then I headed to the bathroom and changed into my clothes which are a white Hansol Foods uniform shirt, black trousers, black shoes, and a fake "Tissot Le Locle" watch which I bought from the market for 67,882 won($50). I look at the mirror and look at myself, 5 foot 9 inches (170 centimeters), hair black and short hair, Brown eyes with thick eyebags, and a slim body. My face is an average face, others would rate me a 5/10. I sigh, then leave the bathroom and I walk out of the hospital.
I hail a taxi get in and greet the driver by saying, Annyeonghaseyo(hello), then I pay through the taxi's payment system using my T-Money card which costs 10,000 won($7 dollars), and brings me down to 290,000 won($213), then I tell the driver my address in yeongdeungpo-gu Seoul. I sit back and fall asleep. After 30 minutes I'm woken up by the taxi driver, then I say thank you and slightly bow, I get out of the taxi and enter the apartment building. Then I walk upstairs to the rooftop where my rooftop small studio apartment is, I enter my apartment and relax for 1 hour then I warm a bowl of leftover kimchi stew, then I eat it with a fried egg and a cup of green tea. The next few weeks my life went normal nothing crazy happened except that I have to stand and see that annoying and mean manager Kim who always acts like a d*ck every day.On March 18th,2016 exactly 11:45 pm,im alone at work after I had to stay after work because that b*stard manager Kim made me clean out the entire storage room alone. I make sure all the aisles are ok and all the lights are turned off then I head outside then I lock the doors. In the parking lot, I see a light of a car on, then I go closer to check and once I look at the license plate I notice it is the car of Vice Chairwoman Baek Ah Rim (the character mentioned in Chapter 1 and early this chapter, the youngest daughter of the chairman of Hansol Group), I think let me greet her before I leave to make sure she doesn't me bumping into her the other day, then I walk closer to her car and I see the door to the front seat of her car open and I see 2 tall buff men older men who look like gangsters who say young miss come with us and are dragging her hand but she tells them no and says did my elder brothers sent you, which of them?. I then say vice chairwoman is everything okay, then she says who are you? I think thank God at least she forgot me, but then one of the men looks at me and says just leave then. But I say, ahjussi this is our vice chairwoman of Hansol Foods, she isn't someone you can offend, but they don't flinch one bit and act normal. Then one of them who has a big scar on his right eye walks up to me and touches my shoulder, grips it with force and says just go ok, this doesn't have anything to do with you. I look nervous and start thinking of what to do, then I pretend like I'm walking away, then I immediately turn back and rush at the two men and pin them to the ground and I tell Baek Ah rim, misses go then she mouths thank you, closes her door and drives away. Just after I can barely see her car from a distance the two men push me off them and one of them says ahh sh*t, you could have walked away and left with your body intact, you just had to interfere then he brought a hammer from his pocket. I become scared but don't show it, So I get up and start running back to the door of the mart. I look back and see the 2 men chasing me. I quickly open the door with my keys and barely manage to close the door then I run to the freezer room and hide. I took out my phone and tried to call 112(emergency number), but it doesn't work I tried 3 more times until it works then someone said "Hello what is your emergency" Just as I was about to say something, the 2 men enter the freezer room and see me and one of them throws the hammer at my hand which hits my hand and my phone causing my phone to break and land on the floor. I look at them nervous with my body shaking, but not noticeable, and they walk towards me, one of them grabs me and kicks my body, specifically my stomach causing me to fly on the floor to the door. Once my body touches the cold floor, my entire body feels cold and numb with my stomach feeling like it's about to explode. I think to myself I have to survive and I start panicking in my mind then I'm able to get up, even though I still touch my stomach feeling the pain I then remember there is an emergency phone in the manager's office upstairs. then I start running, I head to the stairwell and begin running up the stairs even though I can hear the 2 men close chasing after me. As I'm running up the stairs I think, this is the first time this b*stard manager Kim is actually useful, thank God he put an emergency phone in his office. I keep running and I get to the rooftop when I get to the rooftop, as I am about to walk towards Manager Kim's office I see the 2 men and they look at me and run toward me, I then run around Manager Kim's office and they chase after me then with my back turned to the edge of the roof, the 2 men walk slowly up to me and say "you should have never gotten involved, you would have left alive" Then he pushes me off the roof, as I'm about to fall, he says in your next life don't get involved with Hansol Group or anybody from the Baek family.
Then as I fall off the roof slow-mo I rethink all my life decisions, then once my body hits the ground, blood slowly comes out of my body and flows on the ground, my body feels numb, and I can't move or do anything, As I barely hear the faint sounds of a siren coming close, I think to myself is this the end, am I about to die, I spent 39 years on earth as a nobody. If I have another chance I will live well and reach the top, then my eyes close and I slowly begin seeing pitch black and all I hear is a buzzing sound. I suddenly see myself in a hazy garden surrounded by flowers with a voice humming, I can't control my body but I keep walking, and I walk to a stop and the only else that remain are 2 signs that say "The End" and the other sign saying "One More Chance" I pick the obvious choice and subconsciously try to open the door of One more chance but it doesn't budge. I tried multiple times and it still doesn't work. My body then walks towards "The End" door once I open it and step foot in it, I feel something draining my life as I start falling into the spiraling darkness.
The End of Chapter 2
Characters:
Main character: Lee Ji Hoon(39-year old, sales associate at one of Hansol Foods grocery mart, hates his life)
Other characters: Manager Kim (manager of one of Hansol Foods grocery marts), Baek Yi Sul (chairman of Hansol Group), Baek Ah Rim (youngest daughter of Hansol Group Chairman and vice-chairwoman of Hansol Foods )