Chapter 158 (1/2)

Volume 4 / Chapter 158

TL: LightNovelCafe

[TN: A millionaire]

“What… What! You already have a lot of money!”

He could hear Lim So Mi’s short shouting over the phone.

“This is from album sales, these are track revenues… So this is what copyrights are. Performance fees? But… What’s this?”

Lim So Mi was murmuring when she spoke again.

“Jun Hyuk, what’s Violon?”

“Violon? Oh, that’s my friend’s band. There’s some music that I arranged for that band.”

“I see. So that band gives you arranging fees.”

Lim So Mi looked through the history for a while and discovered something new.

“Jun Hyuk. There are investments in the U.S. Treasury and stocks with the money that you made… Did Lawyer Baek do this?”

“I don’t know that kind of stuff. Oh, that’s actually probably from my boss.”

“Who? Your boss? Mr. Yoon Kwang Hun?”

“Yes. He said that he used to be quite successful on Wall Street.”

“No wonder… Lawyer Baek doesn’t know about these things. Oh right. All of it comes to a little over $3 million. Hey, so you’re rich.”

Jun Hyuk was speechless when he heard that he had $3 million.

“You earned this much in half a year. You’ll be getting royalties from this new album too… They said that album is going to do even better. This is big. You’ll have to get a tax lawyer first. I’m not on the tax side.”

Jun Hyuk had thought that he had made a couple tens of thousands since jazz is not a genre that sells hundreds of thousands of albums. However, America is taking care of its music distribution.

The more thorough music distribution is, the greater profits there are for the creator and those profits increase taxes. Though there might be measures from the U.S. protecting the creator’s interests, it makes sure to scrape out taxes to the last cent.

In these circumstances, royalties come in to Jun Hyuk every time Stanley Clarke performs the songs, and headquarters of large franchises like Starbucks sign contracts to use the tracks.

Jun Hyuk checked how much money he has, went for a walk in the forest, and thought about matters other than music for the first time.

2 days later, Jun Hyuk revealed his intentions to release the rest of the score for ‘Inferno’ to the 16 maestros. He sent Lim So Mi the information she would give to the press, and he sent messages to Yoon Kwang Hun and Amelia as well.

When he told them that he would get a camping car and travel around Europe for a year, Yoon Kwang Hun started.

“Hey! Won’t it be dangerous? Even though it’s Europe, I’m iffy about you staying on the street.”

“Sir, who am I? I lived on the streets for 10 years since I was young. I’m telling you there’s no problem. Ha ha.”

Yoon Kwang Hun was at a loss for words. He had not even thought of that and felt like he had said something he should not have. He did feel better that Jun Hyuk talked about that period of his life as if it were nothing.

It could be that Jun Hyuk’s wounds from the past have healed and there are now only traces. Yoon Kwang Hun tried to act as if it were nothing and complained,

“Someone is locked up in the cafe, and you’re saying you’ll be having fun all over Europe? I resent it.”

“If you’re jealous, do you want to close the cafe and go with me? I have a lot of money. He he.”

“Forget it. Kid. A man has to make his own means.”

Amelia also started up, but she had to accept it as she is also tied down with touring.

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