“Ah, that’s too much!”
Jiho was surprised, and his expression turned awkward.
“I already took it. What should we do?”
Minje smiled awkwardly. Jiho wasn’t particularly fond of taking pictures, but Minje didn’t expect him to dislike it this much.
“Should I delete it?”
Hayan asked while observing the child’s reaction. Jiho, exhaling deeply, said with a heavy heart,
“It’s fine.”
Then he hurriedly disappeared to look in the mirror. Perhaps he was shocked by his toothless face, as confident as he was about his appearance.
Hayan, smiling at the tired back of the child, whispered to Minje,
“Director, please send me that photo too.”
His gaze was so earnest that Minje couldn’t help but laugh. What kind of pleading was that?
“Sure.”
Unable to ignore her pitiful expression, he immediately sent her the photo.
Checking the photo, Hayan smiled happily.
“Isn’t he so cute?”
A blush appeared on her face. Seeing this, Minje somehow coughed as if to clear his throat, feeling Jiho’s photo had disappeared from his sight for no reason.
As he pondered what to say, Hayan suddenly exclaimed as if something had come to her mind.
“Oh! A lost tooth should be thrown on the roof!”
After looking at her face in the mirror, Jiho, who was coming back to the living room, heard that and asked,
“Throw a tooth on the roof? Why?”
“If you throw the lost tooth on the roof, a magpie will pick it up and bring a new one.”
While Hayan kindly explained to Jiho, Minje’s eyebrows twitched. In the 21st century, people still believe in such superstitions.
“Do magpies really pick up lost teeth? What happens if you don’t throw it? ”
Jiho was already deeply fascinated by the unfamiliar story. Hayan, who was petting the child’s head while bombarded with questions, smiled and said,
“Our ancestors have been doing that for a long time. And if you don’t throw it on the roof… well, the new tooth might not come.”
Hayan playfully explained, and Jiho’s expression stiffened.
“The new tooth might not come?”
The face of the child who thought he had to live without front teeth for the rest of his life became blurry with shock.
Minje, who was listening to the conversation, groaned and rubbed his forehead. What on earth was she teaching the child?
“Just go out and throw the tooth on the roof. Why worry so much?”
Hayan affectionately patted Jiho’s head. Upon hearing this, the child seemed to make up his mind, strengthening his gaze and nodding.
“Okay, then let’s go throw it right now.”
Although a conclusion was reached, when the gazes of Hayan and Jiho turned simultaneously to Minje, he shrugged his shoulders. What on earth were those looks for?
“Am I going out with you?”
“Of course!”
“Were you thinking of not going out together then?”
Hayan and Jiho shouted almost simultaneously. Minje, seeing these cool-headed individuals, sighed briefly. They might have forgotten, but he had just come home.
“Okay, I’ll go.”
Upon Minje’s response, Hayan and Jiho were thrilled and went outside. Minje briefly suspected whether they were teasing him.
Minje, who had hung his coat on the sofa, followed them outside.
But why did the atmosphere of the two seem a bit strange now?
Just a moment ago, they were excited to go out, but now both had stiff expressions.
“What’s going on?”
Finding it odd, Minje asked, and Hayan and Jiho pointed to the roof as if they had made a promise to each other.
“Oh my goodness…”
Minje couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Since it was a two-story house, the roof would naturally be high.
“It seems too high; what should we do?”
Jiho looked distressed. Perhaps he was afraid of having a nightmare where his front tooth never came back if he fell asleep.
Hayan was also hesitant, as she had to take responsibility for what she said. Why hadn’t she thought that this house might have a second floor like a fool?
Moreover, the modern building was just a square shape; there was nothing that looked like a roof.
Did all the magpies move to the countryside, and they wouldn’t come here? Or was it because there was no roof? When Hayan was rolling her eyes, wondering how to tell Jiho, Minje came up with something.
“I’ll do it.”
Minje reached out to Jiho for his lost tooth.
“What?”
Hayan was surprised, raising her eyes to look at him.
“If not me, who else can do it?”
He said arrogantly, tilting his head. It was just throwing one tooth on the roof, but he said it with such confidence.
Nevertheless, what couldn’t be denied was that his appearance was so cool that her heart began to beat fast. Moreover, why did he say, “If not me, who else can do it?” Such unrelated impure thoughts kept creeping into her mind.
So, Hayan pretended to be nonchalant and quickly handed Jiho’s lost tooth to him.
“Then, here you go.”
Minje, who received the tooth, looked at the building as if measuring the distance. And at the moment he was about to throw it.
“Oh, wait, just a moment!”
Hayan shouted loudly, stopping him. Minje’s eyebrows trembled for a moment.
After glancing at his face, Hayan cleared her throat with a huff and said,
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
