“Thank you. Grandma, have a happy New Year.”
Seeing Seungyul, who was more polite than usual, Sunhye’s nose wrinkled.
People lie down where they see fit. Somehow, he seemed more mature without Dad during this time.
The child’s dignified appearance was impressive but also irritating, like a thorn in her throat.
“Baby, eat a lot and get stronger, especially in times like this. Got it?”
“I know, too.”
Oogoo, how admirable.
Sunhye put the lid on the side dishes, which were brimming with freshness, on top of the rice cake soup.
Team Leader Nam, Hyojin, Yonghun, the three of them stared at Sunhye without picking up the rice cake soup as if they had made a big mistake.
“Why?”
Sunhye couldn’t understand why the three suddenly stared at her.
“Grandma, our baby doesn’t eat chicken.”
Moreover, of all things, a chicken-based broth.
“Why doesn’t he eat chicken? It’s nutritious.”
“When I was raising a dog when I was young, it died after eating chicken.”
Yonghun was about to explain that he hadn’t eaten chicken since then.
“It’s okay, Grandpa. I can eat it.”
“……!”
Seungyul thought that since Grandma came all the way here, not eating would be rude.
And since the teacher was enduring Grandma’s opposition to be by his side.
If he complained about the side dishes, the teacher would be more embarrassed.
“Yeah, why aren’t you eating this nutritious food? To protect Dad, you need to eat heartily and become strong.”
Sunhye personally picked up a spoonful of rice cake soup with chicken toppings and fed it to Seungyul.
“Tasty?”
“Yes, it’s absolutely delicious. Please give me more!”
Oh my, Sunhye, who burst into laughter at the big reaction, patted Hyojin on the head.
“In fact, there was a time when Grandma couldn’t eat fish.”
“Really? I can’t eat fish either.”
Seungyul’s eyes widened as he looked at Sunhye.
When Grandma went to her in-laws’ house, her sister-in-law gave birth to a baby shortly after, and her mother-in-law told her to add fermented skate juice to the baby to help with postpartum recovery.
Putting the skate, as big as an arm, into a boiling cauldron.
“Heh, with the skate?”
Seungyul’s eyes couldn’t get any bigger.
“Isn’t that too cruel?”
Hyojin, too, was curious about this unfamiliar story.
“Exactly. Can you imagine how hot the skate, unable to speak, was when it went into the cauldron and started screaming like crazy? So, I was so shocked that I dropped the lid I was holding with my hands.”
Opening the lid, the skate jumped out of the cauldron, and it must have been a big fuss with her mother-in-law.
After that, just looking at a fish with gills attached made her heart pound.
“But how did you end up eating fish again?”
Seungyul was even more curious.
“But what could I do? I couldn’t stop a child from eating fish just because Grandma had an incident. So now, not only fish but also living things like octopus and native chicken gizzards are wriggling.”
“Parents’ hearts are like that. When it comes to children, they can show superpowers. Even if Dad seems to be lying down like this now, he would quickly get up if he thought about our baby, don’t you think?”
How would it feel for Sunhye, who was lying down for the exchange without even the baby by her side?
Sunhye gently stroked the child’s cheek, as if soothing the child’s mind, which was as bitter as hers.
“Baby, eat a lot. Dad will get up soon.”
“Thank you, Grandma. I thought he would hate being in the hospital with the baby.”
After finishing the meal, Sunhye, who was left alone with Hyojin, looked out the window while wiping the table with a wet wipe, sighing.
“The baby is so lovely.”
“…….?”
“When you get married, I was worried that our daughter-in-law might give you a hard time, but she’s so diligent and cute. Lovely.”
Now she wouldn’t become my granddaughter-in-law. Maybe that’s why it felt more affectionate.
“Grandma.”
“Yeah?”
“You know.”
Hyojin was about to mention the possibility that Dad might have been falsely accused and passed away, but she stopped.
“No. It’s nothing.”
It’s not certain yet.
Moreover, as a parent herself, she might be even more shocked.
“Later, when Dad wakes up, I’ll talk about it.”
That way, she could find out exactly what happened.
“It’s tasteless.”
Sunhye seemed unable to say that she wanted to be by the child’s father, so she gracefully glanced away.
“Yeah, do as you wish. How could I stop you?”
“Grandma is always on your side.”
I didn’t know she would collapse like that, pretending to be fine, even trying to secretly cook abalone porridge for me when I was sick.
Pretending as if everything was fine on the outside.
While my heart is in such pain, I wonder how Hyojin is feeling.
If I knew it would turn out like this, I should have just let it go from the beginning. I would have loved her as much as I wanted since we were going to break up anyway.
Sunhye regretted not siding with Hyojin back then.
“Leave the cleanup to me and go upstairs quickly. The baby or whatever it is will be waiting for you.”
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.”
