Deal Breaker - Chapter 91
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“Saebyeok-ie, ahh…”
The baby sitting in the high chair, instead of copying Mom’s ‘ahh…,’ clamped her mouth shut and stared hard at the spoon charging toward her.
If you’re going to come at me like that, then Mom will initiate a deception operation.
“Saebyeok-ie, it’s meat, meat!”
“Kyah!”
The moment she scooped finely ground, cooked hanwoo with the other spoon, the mouth that had been tightly shut flew wide open.
She’s got Han Kanghyeon’s face, but I guess her palate takes after me.
“Ah! Ah!”
What slipped right into the cave of the baby’s mouth as she flailed her arms in excitement at the appearance of meat was, regrettably, broccoli porridge.
“Hwe…”
The instant she realized it wasn’t meat, her face scrunched up. When she tried to push the porridge down with her tongue, Hyeji quickly stuck the meat spoon into her mouth. Only then did Saebyeok gulp everything down, then slam the table with a bang bang bang, demanding more.
Who did she inherit that sensitive palate from.
“You.”
The man, busy freezing freshly made baby food cubes in the kitchen, cut in the moment their eyes met. Hyeji added something she had almost forgotten to her checklist.
Fill the inhibitor before leaving.
“Byaaah, amma, am, ma!”
“Yeah, I got it. Meat’s going in, zoom zoom zoom…”
“…You’re teaching our kid weird things.”
“You could call it early socialization so she doesn’t fall behind her peer group.”
Ignoring Kanghyeon’s remark that eighteen years was too early, Hyeji pretended not to hear and put another heaping spoonful of baby food into the baby’s mouth.
“Eeng…”
“Why don’t you like it? It’s meat.”
It’s not.
That tongue is seriously ghost-level.
She hurriedly covered the broccoli porridge with meat and attempted the perfect crime again. But Saebyeok didn’t eat it and pushed it away. Even the expensive and delicious top grade hanwoo.
“Hweeeeng!”
Is this really something to thrash around and cry over? Was the first scam she tasted in her eight months of life really that bitter?
“Her gums itch.”
Kanghyeon was right. The moment Dad, who had been putting baby food containers into the freezer, took out a fruit lolly and put it in her mouth, Saebyeok instantly calmed down.
While Hyeji quietly watched the baby, who was now completely absorbed in gnawing frozen apple purée with her gums and had zero interest in hanwoo, Kanghyeon did not stop moving for a second.
“Baby food’s done.”
He put the baby food trays into the dishwasher and was about to cross one item off the checklist on his phone when the screen switched to an incoming call notification.
“My parents are here.”
A moment later,
“Saebyeok-ah, Grandma’s here!”
“Grandpa’s here too.”
Kanghyeon’s parents rushed in competitively, both trying to scoop up Saebyeok first. The one who always lost the competition was Grandpa.
“Oh my, our princess is heavy. Looks like she’s grown again in just a few days.”
“Madam Yang Jeongmi, shouldn’t you put that in the fridge?”
“Oh my, look at me.”
Only after Yoonseok distracted his wife with the shopping bags was he finally able to monopolize his adorable granddaughter. The moment he had her in his arms, he devoted himself to her education like a model grandfather.
“Saebyeok-ah, say ‘grandpa’.”
Chomp chomp chomp.
At this rate, his only granddaughter might say ‘fruit lolly’ first. A sense of crisis set in, and Yoonseok grew impatient.
“Grand, pa.”
“Dad can’t even do it yet, and you think she’ll say grandpa?”
His utterly un-cute son tossed out that jab and walked past. He had thrown away a brilliant career to devote himself to childcare, on top of using his precious ability to read minds for her every single day, and yet he still hadn’t heard the word ‘Dad’ from his daughter. He was sulking out of sheer frustration.
No parent ever beats their child. Yoonseok was no exception. How satisfying it was to see that arrogant son who always thought he was right have his pride completely flattened in front of his daughter.
“By the time you get back, even if she can’t say ‘Dad,’ she’ll be saying ‘Grandpa.’ Right, Saebyeok-ah?”
“Uum…”
Just looking at how neatly she could already eat ice cream, you could tell how smart she was.
This wasn’t a doting grandpa’s nonsense but a fact verified by professionals. The hospital had said she was in the top 1% for growth.
Of course, since both Mom and Dad were tall with long limbs, it had been expected that she would inherit their physical build.
Her development was fast too. She could stand on her own before she was even eight months old. She couldn’t walk yet, but he thought that was thanks to her taking after her cautious mother.
Right. Our princess mustn’t get hurt.
That too looked admirable beyond measure in Yoonseok’s eyes.
“We need to leave in ten minutes.”
The son urged them to stop getting distracted and come to the nursery, then started his briefing.
“The outing clothes are in this drawer…”
“We know how to read Korean.”
Is this a nursery or an office? He had plastered labels everywhere, from the room to the attached bathroom, and yet he still felt the need to explain everything out loud, which was deeply annoying.
