The Dragon Family’s Beloved Baby Cat - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75

Deep within the Garden of Gyeongan Palace.

Only after going between the trees where people couldn’t easily see them did Rin finally let go of Moa’s hand.

Her eyes were sharp as she surveyed the surroundings.

“Sister?”

“How is it? Are you satisfied with the results?”

“Hm?”

Moa tilted her head briefly, then nodded.

“Yes. But… did you also arrange for my brother’s quarters to be changed?”

“Well, what do you think?”

Rin smiled mysteriously at Moa’s question.

‘That’s right, it is!’

Moa applauded inwardly, admiring Rin’s abilities.

“Now then, keep your promise.”

Rin pulled Baeksa from her voluminous sleeve.

Instantly, the surrounding air grew cool due to the eerie chill emanating from Baeksa.

“You promised, didn’t you? To treat him.”

Rin’s face up close was pale and haggard despite being covered with makeup.

Moa nodded and grasped Baeksa’s body without hesitation.

“Don’t worry. I’ll make him warm right away.”

Divine power flowed from Moa’s small hands.

Moa’s divine power, which repelled illness and evil, flowed through Baeksa’s cold veins.

Then Baeksa’s aura, which had been writhing in pain, became calm as if by magic.

Rin exhaled languidly and closed and opened her eyes.

Since she needed to be treated slowly, it wasn’t completely healed in an instant, but the chill that had penetrated to her bones subsided somewhat.

“As expected… it has to be your power.”

Rin muttered.

She tucked Baeksa deep into her sleeve again and looked at Moa.

This power was necessary.

Rin looked down at Moa with a regretful expression.

“I wish I had discovered you before the Jinryong Clan did… Or perhaps, would you consider meeting my younger brother? I’ve beaten him into submission so he listens well.”

“What would I do meeting your brother?”

“Sigh, right. You’re still only five years old.”

Seeing Moa innocently tilt her head, Rin waved her hand in defeat.

“We need to meet frequently from now on, don’t we? To continue the treatment.”

“Yes. But my family doesn’t let me out much…”

“There’s a way.”

Rin smiled kindly and gestured with her chin toward Danhwi in the distance, who was being held by Dowoon and looking troubled.

“We can use His Majesty the Crown Prince’s tea gatherings.”

“Tea gatherings?”

“I’ll suggest it to His Majesty. We’ll hold regular tea gatherings, and both of us will attend.”

Rin’s eyes gleamed cleverly.

“I’ll have the pretext of monitoring His Highness, and you’ll have the pretext of being the Crown Prince’s only friend. There’s no more perfect excuse than this.”

Moa’s eyes widened.

If it was an imperial command, even her family couldn’t object.

She could meet Brother Danhwi often, and she could cure Sister Rin’s illness too.

For Moa, there was absolutely no reason to refuse this proposal.

“Wow… Sister, you’re really a genius!”

“Hehe, so keep your promise well. Got it?”

“Yes! Just leave it to me!”

And so the secret deal was made.

When they returned to their seats, Dowoon made a fuss asking ‘Are you hurt anywhere? Did she make you eat anything strange?’

“It’s a girl’s secret!”

Moa grinned widely, copying Rin’s words that had seemed somehow cool.

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Returning to Jinryongseoga, Moa shut herself in her room and fell into deep thought.

On the table lay the invitation Danhwi had sent, along with a private letter she had received separately before coming home.

[It says good things keep happening after meeting you. Thank you…]

‘Mm.’

Moa listened to what Somi was reading and alternately stared at the stiff, formal writing of the invitation and Danhwi’s somewhat clumsy real handwriting.

Looking down at Danhwi’s writing, which showed slightly shaky traces as if written hesitantly, Moa suddenly puffed out her cheeks.

‘I want to write a reply too.’

But Moa still couldn’t read or write the letters of this world.

She could speak fluently, but she was illiterate.

‘I don’t like always asking Somi or the adults to read for me.’

Moa’s pride was hurt as she pouted and stuck out her lips.

“Sister Sehui! Sister Yehui! I want to learn letters!”

“What? Suddenly?”

“Yes! I’m going to write letters with my own hands!”

“Well, it is about time to start.”

While most commoners were illiterate, Moa now had a noble status, so it was sufficient to begin her education.

From that day, Moa’s high-difficulty calligraphy training began.

Yehui, who wrote beautifully, was in charge of Moa’s training.

“Now, Miss. You hold the brush like this. Don’t grip it too tightly.”

Yehui demonstrated while placing the brush in her hand.

Moa nodded and grasped the brush handle.

‘So this is my name.’

Yehui wrote the three characters ‘Jin Moa’ on the paper.

‘Gracious child.’

It was the name Jin Saheon had chosen the meaning for after adopting her.

‘It looks strange.’

Moa squinted and observed the shape of the letters.

Unlike Hangul, the letters looked like pictures.

Still, clever Moa grasped the structure of the writing without much difficulty.

From top to bottom, left to right.

But her hands were the problem.

Her eagerness got ahead of her, and Moa’s small hands were filled with too much tension.

Thud.

As soon as the brush tip touched the paper, black ink spread out in a blob.

‘Ack! It looks like a wooden club!’

The first stroke was stamped thick like a club head.

Panicked, Moa hurriedly drew the stroke.

This time she used too much force and the paper wrinkled up following the brush.

Yehui let out a pitiful exclamation from beside her.

“Oh my, Miss. Slowly, relax your strength a bit…”

But Moa didn’t stop.

Sticking out her tongue in concentration and frowning, she dotted the smudged strokes here and there.

It was crooked and ink had splattered, but strangely the balance of the letters was correct.

Anyone could see it looked like ‘Moa.’

It just looked very fat and angry.

‘Why are there so many strokes? And why does it bend here?’

Moa looked at the paper with a displeased expression, turning it this way and that.

She carefully examined the unfamiliar strokes, using her keen observation skills to finally grasp their form.

In the process, ink got all over the back of her hands and cheeks, making her look messy, but Moa’s eyes were as serious as a craftsman’s.

After dozens of sheets of paper met their heroic end, evening time arrived.

The time when the whole family gathered together.

Tension filled the room that was usually overflowing with warm and harmonious atmosphere.

‘Me? It’ll be me, right? She’ll take care of this father first, of course.’

‘Little one, big brother will be first, right?’

‘My child loves mommy so much. Hehe.’

Their inner thoughts were as solemn as a battlefield.

This was all because of Moa’s letter writing practice.

All the family members who heard that the child wanted to learn to write letters were convinced that the first letter would naturally be theirs!

“Ahem, when will our baby come? She must be busy studying hard…”

And the most anxious one was naturally Jin Wonbaek.

Since he had spent the shortest time with Moa, he wasn’t confident that Moa would naturally think of him first.

‘No, no. Our baby is a child who knows how to respect her elders, so she’ll come to this grandfather first.’

Jin Wonbaek was staring at the door more nervously than ever before.

Then, seeing his son’s anxious face, he laughed heartily and put on a show of bravado.

“Why do you look so anxious? How poorly must you have done as a father to lack such confidence!”

Of course, even while shouting that, his insides were shrinking with worry.

Jin Saheon felt a surge of emotion for a moment, then shook his head.

“Father must be fine without Moa’s letter, is that it?”

“Tsk, instead of setting an example by respecting your elders in front of your children.”

Jin Wonbaek scolded Jin Saheon loudly.

He thought he was scolding his son with a very relaxed and confident expression.

However, Dowoon and Yeongang who were watching thought differently.

‘Grandfather is really looking forward to it…’

‘If the little one leaves out grandfather, there’s really going to be chaos.’

Contrary to his delusion of being relaxed, Jin Wonbaek was waiting for Moa with his face bright red and even snorting through his nose.

While everyone was waiting for Moa like this.

Moa walked in with shuffling steps, her face clean as if she had just washed.

“I’m sorry for being late. There was so much ink… I was late in attending to the young lady.”

Yehui, who came in with her, apologized first.

It was a situation where the youngest had made all the adults wait.

“Our baby worked hard studying.”

“Huh? But Moa was writing letters.”

Not knowing that studying meant the same as learning, Moa tilted her head while thinking of numbers.

Yehui guided Moa to her seat and stood by to help with the meal.

“Ahem. Then let’s have dinner.”

When Jin Wonbaek, the eldest, picked up his spoon first, everyone began eating.

Moa, who had used her brain too hard studying, combatively shoved rice into her mouth.

In contrast, the family members were so anxious about when the letter topic would come up that the rice wouldn’t go down their throats.

Finally, Yeongang, unable to bear it any longer, casually asked first.

“Hey, little one. Did you write a letter today?”

“Huh? That’s right. You know about it too, big brother!”

Moa said with a beaming smile.

Then Yeongang, whose throat was completely blocked, asked while drinking water with a flushed face.

“When… when are you going to give it?”

The family’s gazes focused on Moa’s mouth.

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