episode_0089

(This episode is from Kang Sunwoo’s perspective.)

On a clear and scorching summer day

Dragging my tired body through the sweltering heat, I punch in the passcode on the door lock. The familiar lock of my own house that I’ve lived in since becoming an adult.

It was just a quiet place to rest alone, and there was never much excitement coming home.

Joo Eunhye. Until the decision to live together as a prelude to marriage with my wife.

“I’m back!”

Filled with anticipation, an unfamiliar, rough voice escapes me. Wondering how she will greet me today, how she will try to tempt me with her gestures, my lips curl up involuntarily.

I’ve really fallen hard. As I entered the house, thinking we should hurry up with the wedding, I suddenly realized something was amiss.

I had even tidied up my shoes before coming in, but Eunhye was nowhere to be seen to greet me.

“Darling, are you home?”

Where could she have gone? There was no reason for Eunhye, who usually runs to me like a puppy when the front door opens, not to come. But the shoes were still there at the entrance earlier…

No way… She wouldn’t have lost interest in greeting me, right?

Calling out for Eunhye with an anxious voice, there was no response.

I must not have messed up… No. I need to do better for Eunhye.

“Oh, Sunwoo is here?”

“Eh? Father, why are you at our house… When did you come?”

Stepping into the house, I saw my father sitting on the living room sofa, smiling oddly.

And in my father’s arms, I saw a newborn baby I had never seen before.

“Father. Who is that child?”

“What? What are you talking about, Sunwoo? It’s your daughter that Eunhye went through so much trouble to give birth to.”

I really don’t understand what my father is saying right now.

Although I shared love with Eunhye as if we were a world apart, I have no memory of having a baby.

Is this another one of Danbi noona’s pranks? Yes, this time she’s even got my father involved to tease me.

This person is really…

“Sunwoo, shouldn’t you say hello to your dad?”

Although my father seemed to have said the child’s name, I couldn’t quite hear it clearly. That means this whole situation is just a bad prank.

“Father… If you keep this up, I’ll really lose it… Please stop—”

“Ah~!”

Just as I was about to get completely fed up with my father’s audacity, all my attention shifted to the child’s voice ringing in my ears.

The child’s clear, bright eyes were looking at me.

Her tiny, adorable hand reached out towards me, making a playful gesture in the air.

She smiled.

The child’s eyes, so pure that it was almost overwhelming, were smiling at me.

I have no memory of having a child. But the moment I saw the child’s smile, the moment her smile overlapped with the angelic smile Eunhye used to show me, all my senses and instincts began to tell me that the child was my daughter.

“Is she really… my daughter?”

As I stiffly reached out to the child like a robot, my father sitting on the sofa had disappeared without a trace.

In place of my father, there was only the child sitting alone, arms outstretched towards me.

As if waiting for me.

And I…

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I…

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It’s noisy…

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I have to hold my daughter. Don’t interrupt…

“Sobang~”

So, just let me… Huh…? Was that Eunhye’s voice just now…

“Husband!”

“Gasp!”

When I opened my eyes to Eunhye’s voice, the image of the sofa where the child was sitting disappeared without a trace, and the fluorescent light on the ceiling came into view.

Raising my head, I see Eunhye, who is tightly connected to me, pressing her body against mine, showing a seductive gaze with half-opened eyes.

Ah, so I fell asleep after persistently teasing Eunhye yesterday… How did I end up all the way to the front door.

“Darling, wake up! There’s a phone call, phone call~”

With a long yawn, Eunhye hands me the smartphone and collapses into my arms again, closing her eyes.

Checking the caller ID… Father?

“Hello?”

“Darling, where are you~”

To silence Eunhye’s rambling words, I hug her tightly, and her legs wrap around my thighs, pressing our bodies even closer.

Although I feel the urge to scold her again, I resist with all my might and focus on the call by putting the phone to my ear.

“Hello. It’s me, Dad.”

“Yes, father. What’s the matter at this hour?”

Checking the time, it’s exactly 6 AM. Calling at this hour can only be a nuisance, but since Dad doesn’t know that, it must be something urgent.

“In fact, I had a dream earlier.”

“A dream? What kind of dream?”

“A star fell into your house.”

“What do you mean a star fell?”

“A star! A very big star fell into your house?!”

Click.

Instinctively, I hung up the phone.

That doesn’t make any sense. What did I eat wrong yesterday? Normally, he wouldn’t say such nonsense.

“Dad~? What did you say~?”

“Don’t worry about it. It’s nothing.”

As I pat her head and speak, Eunhye’s face lights up with joy. There’s no need to tell such nonsense from Dad to this kind of wife.

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As I comfort Eunhye by stroking her here and there, this time, a call comes to her smartphone.

“Oh~ This time it’s my phone~ Ugh… Minkyung~ What’s up?”

Eunhye, who was trembling under my touch, sat up and continued the call.

As she moved closer, I swallowed hard at the sight of her alluring chest, and buried my face with gratitude.

“Kyaa♡ Ugh♡ Oh, it’s nothing~”

Eunhye lets out a short moan. Wanting to hear her cry in a cuter voice, I focused on the sensitive areas.

I didn’t have any intention to torment her, but I couldn’t resist when she reacted like that.

“Ugh♡ Ugh♡ Ugh… What are you saying…”

Blushing, she tried to stop me with one hand, but as I gently shook her waist like knocking on a door, she tried to cover her mouth with that hand to suppress the naughty voice.

“If you’re going to say strange things, I’ll hang up~ I-I’m hanging up—♡”

Click.

Although I wanted to tease her a little more, Eunhye hurriedly hung up, not wanting to show her embarrassment to her younger sister.

“What are you doing! What if someone found out!”

“Haha~ Sorry, darling. You were just too cute, I couldn’t help it.”

“Ugh…♡ Well… I understand. It’s because you find me cute… I’ll forgive you this time, so please put it in or take it out♡”

“Got it. Ugh…”

“…♡!!”

I quickly grab Eunhye, whose head momentarily fell back, to balance her crumbling body.

If I start like this in the morning, what will I do at night… No, even when I take Viagra, it takes at least two hours. Yeah, I shouldn’t underestimate my wife’s libido.

“Honey, who called earlier?”

“Uh…♡ It’s nothing much… Minjeong said something strange, right?”

“What did she say?”

“That a big star fell in our house…”

“A star?”

Father also said he had a dream that a star fell in our house, and did my sister-in-law have the same dream?

— Knock! Knock! Knock!

In a moment of confusion at the strange coincidence, almost simultaneously, my and Eunhye’s smartphones buzzed with message notifications. Eunhye and I exchanged glances, then lifted our phones to check them.

“…Honey, what message is it?”

Trying not to show my surprise, I casually asked, and Eunhye widened her eyes and showed me the smartphone screen.

“It’s from Mom. She said a star fell in our house. What about your husband?”

“Me too. My sister and Mom. My brothers also had dreams that a star fell in our house.”

Eunhye’s family and my family had the same dream at the same time, can such a thing happen? No, it’s too perfect to call it a coincidence. What the hell! My dream was weird today too, and now my family is having strange dreams too—

“Oh…!”

“…Honey?”

What’s going on

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“Honey! You have to take a pretty picture~!”

I gestured in response to Eunhye’s bright smile. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were standing by her side, protecting her like a shield.

The reason I had to bring both of them was because Eunhye couldn’t refuse when she saw our family photo and wanted one of her own.

I’m not good at taking pictures, but I couldn’t refuse Eunhye’s request, so today I reluctantly became the family photographer.

“Honey…?”

Although my sister-in-law’s chilly voice sent shivers down my spine, it’s probably nothing serious.

“Then, if you’re ready, I’ll start taking the pictures?”

“Yes, I’m ready, Sunwoo.”

“I’m ready~”

“…If you take a weird picture, you’re in trouble.”

Is something wrong? The way they’re looking at me is not normal… What did I do to my sister-in-law…

“One, two, three. One.”

Eunhye grabbed the arms of her sister-in-law and mother-in-law tightly, pulling them close together.

“Two.”

Eunhye pulled their arms even tighter, lips pursed slightly.

Why is she doing that?

“Three.”

“Mom! Minjeong! I’m pregnant!!!!!!”

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“Pregnant?”

“Unni, are you kidding?”

“No~ I’m really pregnant. Look, two lines!”

Eunhye proudly showed the pregnancy test with two lines. Her mother-in-law covered her gaping mouth with both hands.

“You… You, Kang Sunwoo, you… you bastard… how dare you impregnate my sister…”

My sister-in-law glared at me with a face so red it was almost crimson.

“No wonder you called him ‘honey’ earlier… I’ll… I’ll kill you… you… you…!!!!! Ugh…”

– Thud

“Mi… Minjeong!! Snap out of it! Mom! Mom! Minjeong fainted!”

“What, what, what?! Oh my, Minjeong! Juminjeong!”

I should refrain from going out for a while.

Because I don’t want to die.