The wine valley | Jisung x Hyunjin x Minho

Part 1 Chapter 1

Hans' mansion was positioned in the middle of a wine valley, a business that took years to be built. Separated by a long gravelly road was a big vineyard. Around 30 acres of white grapes plantation were spreading on the right side of the road and double more of red grapes on the left side. Two big wineries were positioned on the right side as well, each of them working constantly during that time of the year to produce as much wine as they can.

Total of thousand people were working in this winery, hundreds of them working only on the vineyards and the plantations, all of them living somewhere among the nearest villages or some of them even living in Paris.

Paris was approximately five kilometers away from the mansion. This is the main reason why the family living in this mansion went to the city almost every day.

In Hans' mansion constantly lived Jiwon, the oldest member of the family and one of the co-founders of the Hans' Winery, alongside with his own retainer, Mr Korl; Mrs Yeona, his daughter in law and her retainer, Marion; and Jisung, Jiwon's grandson and his retainer - Leah with her husband and her beautiful child.

Donghyun, Jisung's father died sixteen years ago, when Jisung was still a kid. He didn't remember him at all, but he still thought that his father was the best father in the world. Since he learned the truth about his father's death, Jisung told himself that no matter what he had to take the business in his hands and do everything to make it even more successful and bigger. He thought about this as if it was a debt he owned his father. Jisung loved this place and spent all his summer around in the plantations not just to ask silly questions, but to learn more and more about the process. Now, when he was twenty years old, he knew most of the things and he just wanted to hear that his grandfather is leaving it all to him.

But if for some people this business was everything, there were people who didn't want their life to be surrounded by famous people and wine.

"We're still waiting." Yeona said and sat on a red suede couch in the big living room. The walls surrounding them were decorated with beautiful white ornaments made out of ceramics. A few paintings were hanging on the walls around them. She looked up to Jiwon, who was sitting on the other couch with a newspaper in his hands.

He was reading till the moment Yeona entered the room, but stopped immediately when he heard the words coming out of her mouth. More than a week ago, she sent a letter to her nephew. She invited him to come for a very important conversation with his grandfather and her son, Jisung.

Since Jiwon stopped reading for a moment, because he got his attention from his daughter in law, she decided to ask, "Why did we have to invite them? Changbin is not interested. Only Jisung will take good care of it." She continued slowly and breathed in.

The man didn't answer straight away. He was caught up in his thoughts. "Speaking of, where is he?" he asked, but even before hearing the answer, he shook his head a bit and looked back in the newspaper. "I have two male heirs and I think they both need to be here for this conversation." He finally gave his answer to Yeona and went back to reading. "I want Changbin to decide if he wants it or not. He has the right to know everything."

A few minutes after that there was silence. Yeona was thinking about what will happen if Changbin decides that they will have to take 50% each. Changbin has no idea of how this business works. And she was sure he wouldn't spend more than a few days here each year. She was scared of what the young boy would decide, but after all she trusted Jiwon and if he wanted to offer it to Changbin as well, he had an idea how to make it work if he accepted.

"I hope you're right with this decision." She finally whispered and looked at the watch on the wall. "I need to find Jisung."

"He's always somewhere... He's too distracted all the time!" The man protested, but she didn't listen to him.