The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 20

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Episode 20

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“I wonder if it arrived safely?”

Misuk had thought about sending a pretty dress but worried it might be too burdensome, so she sent a children’s stationery set as a gift instead. She gazed out at the snowy scene outside the window while recalling that child’s face.

“Actress Kang Sae-byeol was my late mother’s name.”

Is this what they call fate?

While that name lingered in her mind, she remembered the existence of that child’s mother.

Kang Sae-byeol, a child with an exceptionally clear face and jet-black eyes.

She was a child who had caught Misuk’s attention even when Misuk helped with her grandmother’s preschool work since middle school.

“Older Sister…”

‘So Chaea was your child…’

While she was lost in thought for a moment, the phone in the director’s office rang.

A staff member who answered the call spoke to Misuk.

“Director, a child named Gu Chaea urgently wants to speak with you. What should I do? Should I tell her parents to have her call back later…?”

At this completely unexpected caller, Misuk unconsciously shot up from her seat.

“No, please transfer the call to me right away.”

Soon after a few connection tones, a bright and clever voice came through.

-Director, hello!

It was the voice of the child Misuk had thought about countless times.

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Inside the set.

“Hah…”

Junho placed one hand over his pounding heart and took a deep breath.

The scene he had just finished was over, but the harsh words that had been hurled at him kept echoing in his ears, making it impossible to concentrate on preparing for the next scene.

He held back tears that were about to well up, thought of Chaea’s face once, then straightened his shoulders resolutely again.

‘I’m Chaea’s father. Fathers are… strong.’

Fathers don’t get weak over such trivial matters.

‘I need to work hard and make our Chaea comfortable… So pull yourself together, Gu Jun-ho.’

Everything was going well step by step. He was building recognition with the public through 【Typhoon Internal Medicine】, and yesterday he even finished signing with an agency.

Soon they said they’d prepare a manager, a car, and other conveniences, and if he filmed commercials and such…

‘Phew…’

He barely composed himself and was moving to prepare for filming when a familiar voice that shouldn’t be heard anywhere around here rang out.

“Daddy!”

Reflexively turning his head toward the sound, there was surprisingly Chaea, smiling brightly.

Junho was so shocked he raised his hands to rub his eyes.

Was he seeing things because he’d been tired and stressed lately?

There was no way Chaea could be on the set.

But Chaea casually walked over and approached Junho.

“Daddy, aren’t you going to greet me?”

Junho, who had been staring blankly at Chaea smiling with wide eyes, belatedly lowered himself to meet the child’s gaze.

“Chaea! Oh, hello! No, that’s not it… How did this happen? How did you get here…?”

Ordinary people, especially young children, couldn’t enter the film set.

More importantly, this place was over an hour away from home, so how could Chaea have found her way here?

Junho couldn’t understand why Chaea was in front of him.

“Well…”

Chaea raised her hand to brush back her bangs shyly as she opened her mouth.

At the same time, a voice suddenly interrupted the father-daughter conversation.

“Who is that kid?”

At the sharp woman’s voice, Junho’s eyes flinched.

Junho didn’t see it. The way Chaea’s black eyes instantly turned cold.

Ah, I finally found the culprit who’s been tormenting my daddy.

Junho slowly hardened his brow and stood up.

“A child actor? I’ve never seen her before?”

And he stopped in front of her, blocking actress Im Su-yeon’s gaze.

Im Su-yeon, twenty-three years old this year. Having debuted as a child actress at ten and now in her 13th year, she played the role of Oh Young-il’s daughter in 【Typhoon Internal Medicine】 and had romantic chemistry with Junho.

With deep double eyelids and delicate features, she had quite a glamorous face, but was notorious for her difficult personality.

“She’s… my daughter. Senior.”

Junho answered in a quiet voice.

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The function added to Noah with the upgrade pack was none other than ‘Today’s Fortune.’

When I asked Noah to read my fortune, it would bring a scroll with a message printed in traditional calligraphy, and surprisingly, the content was quite accurate.

‘The day I received the message 【Today, misfortune will fall from the sky, so refrain from going out】…’

I rubbed my bulging forehead with my small hand and shuddered.

‘…I got hit by bird droppings on my forehead.’

And when it brought the message 【Today is a day of many complaints and a bland mouth】,

Due to the sudden closure of the neighborhood supermarket, Junho couldn’t buy sausages, so we had to eat rice with only kimchi.

So, even though the expressions were vague, the content was exactly right!

“Noah, please check Daddy’s fortune for today!”

[Please provide the name and date of birth.]

“The name is Gu Jun-ho, and the date of birth is…”

I told Noah what I had seen on Junho’s license. Soon the message Noah brought was…

[You will suffer due to incompatible relationships, so take care of your health.]

When I checked again the next day,

[You will suffer from a superior’s jealousy. It’s not your fault, so don’t be hurt.]

And the day after that too.

[It would be better to strike the opponent’s neck than to harm your own body.]

And the next day.

[If you don’t have a strong personality, how about installing a banana peel on the opponent’s path?]

It was clear. Someone was tormenting Junho!

‘Then I can’t just sit still!’

That’s how I came to be here. With the help of Director Jo Mi-sook from Edinburgh.

Just from seeing Junho’s hand tremble as he looked at me, I could tell this woman was the perpetrator.

As 【Typhoon Internal Medicine】 became a hit, most of the actors who appeared in the work opened new chapters in their careers.

The same was true for actress Im Su-yeon, who enjoyed popularity even after 【Typhoon Internal Medicine】 ended, but around 2020, when other actors’ school violence incidents came to light, her school violence incident was also exposed.

There were opinions ranging from forgiving since it was long ago, to supportive voices saying why make a big deal out of such things, but later even worse behavior was brought up,

‘Among them were cases of violence against junior colleagues in the entertainment industry.’

As a result, no one covered for her anymore, and perhaps thinking she had been punished enough, she retired from the entertainment industry.

Suyeon, with fierce eyes, crossed her arms and arrogantly looked down at me, pursing her lips.

“Ha, daughter?”

When Suyeon glared at me, Junho hid me further behind his back so I wouldn’t be in her line of sight.

Suyeon raised her snake-like eyes and immediately picked a fight with Junho.

“You. I’ll let it slide that you’re pathetic for having a kid from some accident when you were young, but is this a playground? Bringing a brat here?”

At those words, my eyebrows hardened with a crack.

Even if she was a senior in the entertainment industry, saying “you” to someone three years older than her was incredibly rude – did she eat her manners with rice?

Showing just how much she usually tormented Junho, she poured out abusive language without batting an eye.

“Hey, Gu Jun-ho. Get your head straight, no wait. Instead of this, I should tell the PD…”

“Oh my, our Chaea is here!”

Just then, a hearty voice cut off Suyeon’s words. Her brow furrowed at this.

Actor Oh Young-il, who was walking this way with the PD, waved his hand toward me.

Junho looked at Oh Young-il with surprised eyes, and Suyeon also looked around the situation with a flustered expression.

“Uncle!”

I waved my hand cheerfully at Oh Young-il.

“…Chaea?”

A puzzled voice flowed from Junho’s lips.

That was understandable, since there was no way I should know Oh Young-il. He had never met me directly either.

“Ah… Senior, PD.”

Suyeon, who had just been glaring at Junho like a viper and berating him, stiffened her expression as she observed them.

Unlike the rookie actor Junho, Oh Young-il was a veteran with 30 years of acting experience and the protagonist of 【Typhoon Internal Medicine】, so he wasn’t someone she could dare to mess with.

He was also famous for being well-respected among actors and production staff.

“Haha. Junho. Surprised? My wife contacted me. She said she got permission from Chaea to be a kindergarten promotional model.”

“…Ah…”

Junho’s eyes widened as he looked at me.

“You said you’d leave all decisions to Chaea, didn’t you? Kindergarten enrollment and everything else.”

When Misuk came to our house to announce the acceptance news for Edinburgh Kindergarten, she had asked for cooperation as a promotional model for Edinburgh Kindergarten along with the full scholarship conditions.

And I decided to use that as an opportunity to visit Junho’s film set.

I called Misuk and asked if I could do the modeling even though I wouldn’t be enrolling at Edinburgh, and Misuk’s reaction was naturally enthusiastic welcome.

But I said it would be good to observe a film set since I had never stood in front of a camera before.

So Misuk asked Yeong-il for cooperation, and Oh Young-il, who got permission from the PD, picked me up and brought me to this film set.

He said let’s surprise Junho since he was filming too.

“But Uncle…”

I slightly bowed my head in front of Oh Young-il with a gloomy expression.

Oh Young-il, who had become like an uncle to me on the way here, hurriedly knelt down and looked at me with a surprised face.

“Why, what’s wrong? Is this place scary?”

I shook my head and bit my lips as if holding back tears.

The PD standing next to Oh Young-il also looked at me puzzledly and asked.

“Why would our cute princess want to cry?”

“Because Chaea… because Chaea came, Daddy got in trouble.”

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

Oh Young-il and the PD both made puzzled sounds at the same time.

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