The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 112

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Gi Tae-ha’s brow furrowed slightly at the voice calling him. It was none other than Su-jeong who had called out.

It was already rude enough to interrupt a conversation between adults without permission, but Su-jeong didn’t even seem to have any intention of asking for forgiveness, even belatedly.

As expected, the physicians whose conversation had been interrupted frowned with displeased expressions.

But Su-jeong didn’t care.

“Family Head! I came because I have something urgent to tell you.”

She just pressed Gi Tae-ha again, as if asking him to listen to her words quickly.

“Right now.”

Gi Tae-ha looked down at Su-jeong without saying a word.

He might not feel emotions strongly, but he wasn’t lacking in judgment. No matter how much she was his son’s fiancée, this was an excessively rude attitude.

It was behavior that brought shame not only to the Great Antlered Deer Family but also to the Qilin Family that would become their in-laws, so it was right to correct it.

However, he couldn’t teach basic etiquette to a child in front of everyone. He was thinking of having a separate conversation first, but.

“As you can see, we’re in the middle of a conversation, so later…”

“No!”

Su-jeong shouted, cutting off Gi Tae-ha’s words.

“I’m telling you this is something I need to tell you right now!”

As if that wasn’t enough, she even grabbed his sleeve as if snatching it. The gazes of people around them all focused at once.

Gi Tae-ha had also judged that he couldn’t let this continue any longer. Su-jeong stood on her tiptoes and cupped her hands to whisper.

“It’s about the Snow Scale Flower.”

In an instant, Gi Tae-ha’s expression changed subtly. Ripples appeared in his coldly sunken gaze.

Su-jeong didn’t miss that reaction.

“I couldn’t bring myself to tell you until now, but… actually, there wasn’t just one Snow Scale Flower. What I discovered was two flowers.”

His golden eyes, which always maintained composure, also shook dramatically. It was that shocking.

The medicinal herb they had desperately searched for over the past ten years without finding even a single one – there were two of them?

It was hard to believe, but Su-jeong had already brought one of them.

Gi Tae-ha, who had been silent, looked at the physicians and spoke quietly.

“Please excuse me for a moment.”

“Yes, Family Head.”

The physicians bowed their heads and withdrew. Their expressions were full of bewilderment, but they didn’t dare to ask.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes, Family Head!”

Su-jeong confidently followed Gi Tae-ha. The moment she turned her back on the physicians, a twisted smile hung on Su-jeong’s lips.

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“Then please continue to get along well with our Seo-yu from now on. Don’t forget to all come visit our household together!”

“Yes, thank you. We’ll enjoy what you bought for us.”

“Seo-yu, enjoy the festival! We’re going!”

“Take care, kids!”

Ryeong-ah and Wi Un, holding snacks in both hands, walked away with excited faces. At first, both seemed nervous, but as they conversed with her parents, they appeared more comfortable, so Seo-yu was also relieved.

After the children completely disappeared, Bi-yeon lowered her posture and gently cupped Seo-yu’s soft cheeks with a pleased expression.

“Oh my, how wonderful! Our Seo-yu, when did you make so many friends?”

“We all became close because we take the same classes. There were group assignments where we had to work in teams, and we did those together too! I have other friends as well, so I’ll introduce them to you when we meet them later!”

Hyeon-rang also gently stroked Seo-yu’s hair from beside her. His large hand slowly passed over the top of her head.

“Since our daughter is so kind, all her friends seem to have good hearts too.”

“Yes! They’re all really good friends.”

As her friends received praise, Seo-yu’s voice became even brighter.

“They help me a lot and are very understanding. That’s why I want to be even better to my friends too.”

“I think your friends already know your heart?”

“Hehe, I hope so.”

Seo-yu kept smiling with her face flushed red.

After introducing the precious people in my life to each other, I felt an indescribable sense of pride. It felt like my heart was completely full.

Then suddenly I felt a bit regretful.

‘It would have been nice if Yi-eon was here too!’

Yi-eon couldn’t join this festival. He had returned home due to some circumstances.

‘Come to think of it, I haven’t introduced him to my other friends yet either.’

Strangely, whenever I visited the West Hall with my friends, Yi-eon wasn’t there. Since there wasn’t just one librarian, our timing must have been oddly off.

“Ah! And I have one more friend.”

Since it came to mind, Seo-yu decided to introduce Yi-eon as well.

“His name is Yi-eon, a friend I became close with at the West Hall. I’ll introduce him to you later.”

Bi-yeon’s eyes curved into thin crescents. A mysterious smile hung at the corners of her mouth.

“Yi-eon? Somehow that name sounds like a boy’s name?”

“That’s right! Yi-eon is a good friend who even saves seats for me when I go to the West Hall.”

Seo-yu nodded and explained enthusiastically.

“Last time when I sprained my ankle a little, he even carried me on his back.”

Actually, she wanted to say that Yi-eon was the benefactor who saved her at Cheongmyeong Valley. But Yi-eon had asked her to keep that story a secret, so she couldn’t.

“Oh my, really?”

Bi-yeon glanced up at Hyeon-rang and raised her eyebrows. Hyeon-rang chuckled at her mischievous gaze and said meaningfully.

“It would be nice to invite that child to our household as well.”

Then he paused for a moment before adding.

“I’d like to see him in advance.”

“Actually, I wanted to do that too!”

At this welcome suggestion, Seo-yu smiled brightly. Since Yi-eon’s home was also in the Eastern Region, it would be even better if they could spend the vacation together.

“I’ll definitely ask Yi-eon to come!”

“Oh my, oh my!”

Bi-yeon sat up and poked Hyeon-rang’s side with her elbow.

Seo-yu didn’t quite understand why Bi-yeon was acting that way, but she seemed happy, so she felt glad too. Just seeing her family smile made her happy.

Then she suddenly noticed the Twins, who couldn’t focus on the conversation and kept looking around. Seo-yu asked with a worried expression.

“Yi-ryeong unnie, Brother Li-gon. Did you lose something by any chance?”

“Huh? Um… ah, no?”

Did they lose something, or not?

Seo-yu tilted her head at Li-gon’s vague response.

Yi-ryeong seemed too distracted to even answer properly, and Li-gon was stuttering unlike his usual self, which was quite strange. Both of them looked somewhat gloomy.

They had been so excited to go throw scented pouches just moments ago, but she couldn’t understand why they were acting this way.

‘Did something happen while I was away?’

As she worriedly tried to read the situation, Bi-yeon casually spoke up.

“Seo-yu, everyone’s probably getting hungry soon. Could you go bring Hyeon-ya and Li-han? Mother and Dad will take Yi-ryeong and Li-gon to buy some food.”

“Yes! I’ll do that!”

Seo-yu’s expression immediately brightened at the words “Mother” and “Dad.” Even though she couldn’t call them that herself, just hearing it said made her incredibly happy.

Someday, she hoped she could call them that with her own voice too.

“I’ll be right back!”

Seo-yu answered cheerfully and hurried away.

Watching her retreating figure, Bi-yeon swallowed a small sigh and called to the twins.

“Yi-ryeong, Li-gon. You’re making Seo-yu worry.”

“I’m sorry…”

Li-gon hung his head deeply with an apologetic expression, feeling that he had indeed failed to focus on Seo-yu. His shoulders drooped.

“Sorry, Mother.”

Yi-ryeong apologized as well. But she was still looking around restlessly, unable to settle down.

“But Hwang Li-gon, was it really Cho-ah? Are you sure?”

“I’m telling you it was.”

Li-gon nodded and spoke with a voice full of conviction.

“At first I thought it wasn’t her because she had grown so much taller. But her aura was unmistakable. It was definitely Sister Cho-ah.”

“You said she had grown much taller?”

Hwang Hyeon-rang asked with serious eyes.

“Yes! She grew this much!”

Li-gon spread his palm wide as he explained enthusiastically.

“She looked really grown-up somehow, which was strange… but it was still Sister Cho-ah.”

Bi-yeon and Hwang Hyeon-rang exchanged glances. Both their expressions hardened simultaneously.

‘Hyeon-rang, that child Cho-ah might have been a Tit Bird beast-person.’

‘I think so too.’

The two who had grown up together since childhood and become husband and wife sometimes understood each other without words. Just like now.

If she was a Tit Bird beast-person, an adult could pretend to be a child. That would also explain how she had deceived people so completely.

“Li-gon, you said that child transformed into a bird and flew away, right? I’ll call an artist, so can you describe it?”

“Yes, Mother! I can do it.”

While a person could disguise themselves in any number of ways, their true form would be revealed when hastily using Beast Transformation, so they would probably be able to uncover her identity.

‘Cho-ah was at the Medical Academy…’

Hwang Hyeon-rang’s eyes darkened.

Could it really be a coincidence that Cho-ah, a beast-person from the Southern Region who had infiltrated the Golden Dragon Family as a spy, happened to be at the Medical Academy? If so, too many coincidences were overlapping.

‘Hyeon-ya said it. That it was a fateful enmity.’

Hwang Hyeon-rang quietly looked up at the sky where Cho-ah had disappeared, lost in deep thought. The blue sky looked unusually high.

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Meanwhile, Seo-yu quietly called out to the spirits on her way to pick up Hyeon-ya and Li-han.

“Seollin, Seollin! Dragon Spirit!”

When she called their names in a small voice, familiar voices whispered in her ears.

[Seo-yu, did you call?]

[What’s the matter.]

Porong!

Seollin and Dragon Spirit appeared almost simultaneously. Seo-yu’s face brightened cheerfully.

“Thank you so much!”

Seo-yu spoke with her heart full of sincerity.

“You two helped me earlier by making the vines grow so Su-jeong couldn’t do anything bad to me, right? If it weren’t for you two, something terrible could have happened.”

But Dragon Spirit shrugged his shoulders and answered indifferently.

[I didn’t do anything.]

“Huh?”

Seo-yu blinked her eyes. Dragon Spirit said he didn’t?

“Then Seollin helped me!”

Seo-yu smiled and turned her head toward Seollin. But Seollin fluttered her small wings and spoke carefully.

[Um… Seo-yu, I don’t have that kind of power either.]

“Huh? Then who helped me?”

Seo-yu tilted her head in confusion. Not Seollin either? Then who on earth?

Seollin thought for a moment, then spoke in a small voice.

[Maybe it was Seo-yu?]

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