The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 1

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Episode 1

“Saebyeol, just trust me and wait a little longer. I’ll definitely succeed and come back for you.”

On Hangang Bridge, Mincheol captured his lover Saebyeol in his resolute eyes. The man in a neat suit had features so sharp they were striking.

The woman called Saebyeol standing before him had a pale complexion, and her delicate body seemed to lack strength.

Her black straight hair swayed gently in the spring breeze, and her pleated skirt under the cardigan fluttered precariously.

The night waves reflecting the bridge’s light sparkled dizzyingly, almost cruelly.

“…Yes. But instead…”

The woman asked him with a smile that seemed on the verge of tears.

“Our baby… please give it a name before you go.”

Saebyeol’s hand moved to her slightly protruding belly. Inside the small bump, Mincheol’s child was growing.

The man who had to leave behind his lover and child, Mincheol’s sharp jawline bulged as if swallowing intense emotions.

At the same time, the drama’s open chat was burning hot.

(Haein) Wait, why is this ending? Today’s supposed to be the final episode!

(Singing Deer) No way… how can this be the final episode lololol

(WH) Surely the male lead isn’t going to run away like that.

(Yukgaejang) Oh Saebyeol unnie..

After a heavy silence, Mincheol opened his mouth.

“Chaea.”

Saebyeol’s eyes looking at Mincheol wavered.

When he first met her, she seemed to be wrapped in bright light. So the child too would be wrapped in beautiful light and shine brightly.

“Using the ‘chae’ for light and ‘a’ for beautiful – Chaea.”

“…Chae…a.”

Soon Mincheol could no longer hold back and embraced Saebyeol in his arms.

Her slender body fit completely into his firm embrace.

“I promise. No matter what happens, I’ll come back.”

Ragged breathing flowed from between Mincheol’s lips.

His deep eyes, seemingly filled with stories, were soaked in sadness.

Even to eyes accustomed to all kinds of glamorous actors, it was an admirably handsome face, but given the situation, the reaction couldn’t be good.

“I’m sorry. This is the only way I have left now.”

(Sunlight) Even for a drama set in the 90s, isn’t this sentiment too cheesy?

(Yukgaejang) Writer-nim, this isn’t right… What drama has the male lead get the female lead pregnant and run off to another country with ridiculous excuses…

(Singing Deer) I wish the female lead would just wake up and say it was all a dream.

(Tuttu01) Selling my eyes that watched this drama.

Then a heartfelt ballad began playing in the background.

The more it played, the more hostile the open chat atmosphere became.

(illiliill) Ah this is the ending song… damn

(Mala Flavor) The male lead is wasting oxygen, just dive into the Han River already

(Heart Sutra) Saebyeol-nim, just push him off.

(Yukgaejang) Kim Mincheol you piece of shit! Die!!!

The volume of the emotional ending song gradually increased, showing the male lead’s back as he headed to the airport, leaving the woman alone.

The drama 【Love You Till Death】 was a romance drama set in the 1990s, telling the love story between a rookie actress female lead and a businessman male lead.

As you could tell from the title alone, the story was extremely old-fashioned, the ratings were so low they set new records each week, and the 16-episode drama ended early after just 8 episodes.

Still, there were people who watched because all the actors were new faces and the male and female leads had good visual chemistry, but even they didn’t expect the drama to end with the female lead’s pregnancy and the male lead’s overseas escape ending.

(Yukgaejang) So what circumstances could possibly justify leaving alone a woman pregnant with your child without saying anything!!!

My angry echo reverberated through the chat room.

But when I saw the screen freeze on the scene of the male lead’s plane flying away with the BGM at its climax, followed by the sponsor company names appearing, I was left speechless.

-Thank you for watching

【Love You Till Death】-

Wow, this really is a crazy drama. Ugh.

* * *

This drama really was crazy.

No, it wasn’t a drama of this world.

Was it even a drama to begin with?

“…”

Inside the funeral home.

Despite the pungent incense smell, I sat there motionless and dazed.

My hair was roughly tied in pigtails with stray hairs sticking out here and there,

and the black hanbok top and bottom that fit my four-year-old small body revealed my current situation.

The portrait photo of the person who had once made me furious as the drama’s female lead, and who had been my mother until yesterday, sat alone on the altar.

“By the way, is that really all Saebyeol’s inheritance amounts to? Eunha, you didn’t hide anything, did you?”

“What are you saying, oppa. What would I hide?”

Behind me, I could hear the Kang Siblings, who were the villains in 【Love You Till Death】 and my mother’s half-siblings, growling at each other over the inheritance.

“…”

So here’s what happened.

After watching that shitty ending that would go down in drama history and sending angry messages in the open chat, I went to sleep fuming and woke up in the body of a baby I’d never seen before.

And not just any baby – the baby of the drama’s female lead, Saebyeol.

Saebyeol, no, my mother, who comforted me as I burst into tears with a “waah-” of surprise, was much more beautiful than she appeared on screen.

In the drama, she was a rookie actress with many dreams, and she raised me with utmost devotion.

Just like her character in the drama who was always bright and lovely even in difficult situations, Saebyeol was that kind of person in reality too. Even in our impoverished circumstances, she never once made me feel lacking.

At first, I was completely flustered by the fact that I had been reincarnated as the baby of a drama character, but gradually I adapted to the comfortable life and grew up well.

“Mama, pwetty!”

“Thank you, our Chaea. Mama thinks our Chaea is the prettiest in the world too.”

No, that’s not it – mama is really, really pretty! She’s gorgeous! Mama is the best!

The screen couldn’t capture her real beauty!

Saebyeol would hold me close and pat my back as I flailed my arms.

Her body had that warm, comforting mother scent.

“Chaea… I love you.”

My mother’s gentle touch as she stroked me, that feather-like feeling that made me drowsy.

Although I wasn’t particularly fond of the name given by that male lead Kim Mincheol who turned out to be a piece of junk when I thought he was a Mercedes, anyway, I, Kang Chaea, was living a happy baby life, loved and cherished after being reincarnated into this drama.

That is, until yesterday, when my mother suddenly passed away in a traffic accident.

‘I miss mama…’

Even in my previous life, I had to endure the destruction of my family due to circumstances beyond my control.

Once again, I lost my family without being able to do anything about it. Tears welled up in my eyes again.

I knew well that Saebyeol’s love was the most genuine thing for me, who came into this world in a powerless baby’s body with nothing to my name.

My feelings of love for Saebyeol, no, for my mother, were also sincere, and this place was no longer just a world inside a drama for me.

Sniff-

I raised my hand and wiped my tears with the rough hanbok sleeve.

I had cried so much that my eyes stung.

Please make my mother’s death all just a dream. God. Buddha. Grandfather Dangun…

“Anyway, we can split the inheritance she left between you and me, oppa. But that kid…”

The gaze of the Kang Siblings, who had been bickering about the inheritance, turned toward me.

“Who’s going to raise her?”

“Can’t we just put her in an orphanage?”

I don’t expect those people to raise me.

They were the villains who had repeatedly held Saebyeol back in the drama too.

But their existence was also reminding me of something.

‘I need to get my act together from now on…’

From when I became a newborn until now at four years old, I had thoroughly lived a baby-like spoiled life under my mother Saebyeol’s warm protection (there wasn’t much I could do in a baby’s body anyway),

but now I had to steel my heart and properly observe my surroundings.

This place was dynamic 1990s South Korea.

Because if you let your guard down even for a moment, you never know when you might end up on the streets without a penny to your name.

But.

‘Even if I go to the orphanage, if I have the knowledge I possess… I can survive!’

No, would it just be surviving?

‘This drama was incredibly accurate in its historical details.’

The major events that happened in reality occurred exactly the same way in the drama.

Since the protagonists’ episodes unfolded within actual history, this world was essentially like traveling back in time for me.

In other words, I know what’s going to happen next. Every event that will shake the economic markets of Korea and the entire world.

So from the IMF to housing redevelopment, to Bitcoin.

‘That’s right. I’m the only person who knows the future.’

I had no intention of carelessly wasting the second life Saebyeol gave me.

And perhaps…

If I build wealth here and gain power that others can’t mess with.

“Sister died…”

Maybe I could even prevent my family’s tragedy that I could only watch helplessly in my past life?

Since this place was no different from the real past, there was a high possibility that my family was alive somewhere.

A second chance to change the worst tragedy of my life. It felt like the final gift Saebyeol had given me.

‘Mom…’

I thought I had already received more than enough from Saebyeol.

‘Mom, thank you. I’ll do well on my own.’

With my goal now clear, as I clenched my small fist tight, someone cast a shadow over the shabby funeral hall that no one else visited.

“Huff… huff…”

The man in a black suit jacket was breathing heavily as if he had rushed here. A worn purple tie dangled over his loosely opened shirt.

A remarkably handsome face and tall stature that caught the eye. The man’s gaze, which had been looking around frantically, soon turned toward me standing alone in the middle of the funeral hall.

‘Ah…’

Seeing those gentle eyes like warm milk made my heart start pounding.

I definitely knew that face.

‘That person is…’

The man who had been approaching step by step reached out his hand and called my name.

“Chaea.”

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