The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 210

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Part 2, Chapter 2

On the way down to White Tiger Palace with Sanyu, whom she was meeting again after three years.

“I received the letter you sent recently and was counting down the days until we could meet again, but I never expected to run into you by chance in the mountains like this.”

Soya chattered happily as she quickened her steps with joy.

“Me too. I was planning to surprise you when I met Soya, but I ended up being the one who was surprised. Our Soya, how did you grow up to be so pretty.”

“I’ve grown a lot taller too, haven’t I? When I first came to White Tiger Palace, I was shorter than Arang, but now I’m taller than her. Oh, about who Arang is…”

While sharing various stories, they quickly arrived at White Tiger Palace.

“Oh right, this is your first time at White Tiger Palace, isn’t it? There are so many places I want to show you…”

“Somsom, you’re back…!”

Just then, Gaya, who was strolling through the backyard with a baby carrier on his back, spotted Soya and approached happily, but suddenly frowned.

“What’s that? Why do I see something strange and ugly next to our Somsomi?”

“Gaya! Sanyu is here!”

Seeing Gaya showing his displeasure for no reason, Soya smiled brightly.

“Come this way, Somsom. You might catch ugliness from that thing.”

“Oh my, Elder Brother.”

Soya burst into laughter at Gaya’s playful teasing as soon as he encountered Sanyu.

However, Sanyu couldn’t respond with his usual gentle smile.

When Gaya noticed Sanyu frozen in place with a deeply shocked expression, his eyes trembling.

“Lord Gaya… surely…”

“Huh?”

Soon Gaya realized that Sanyu’s gaze was directed toward his back, specifically toward the small boy sleeping peacefully on his back.

“Have you become a father?”

“What…?!”

Gaya’s handsome face transformed into that of someone who had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world.

“I’m a bit disappointed, Lord Gaya. I thought you would at least invite me to the wedding ceremony…”

Sanyu muttered in a deeply dejected voice.

“Hey, what are you talking about right now?”

“So it was just my one-sided friendship after all. I thought we were quite close…”

“Wait. I can guess what you’re thinking, but it’s not like that.”

At Gaya’s firm voice, Sanyu suddenly lifted his head with a look of realization.

“Ah, if it’s not that, then surely. Before marriage…?”

“No!”

Gaya immediately denied it.

“It’s alright. Having relations with an unmarried lady before marriage is certainly against a gentleman’s principles, but how can a person’s heart always flow according to a gentleman’s principles? Besides, Lord Gaya is quite far from being a gentleman anyway.”

“This isn’t my child, I tell you!”

“Haha, don’t be too embarrassed.”

“You bird brain…!”

Just as Gaya was about to retort in frustration.

The child on his back whimpered and opened his eyes.

“Waaah…”

“Cheongya!”

Soya quickly approached the child.

“Mmm… Nu, na?”

The child who had just woken up spotted Soya and immediately stopped crying.

“Big sister!”

The child stretched his arms toward Soya and squirmed.

“Little snake, you stay still… Ugh.”

“I want to go to big sister!”

The moment Gaya turned to look at the child on his back, a tiny fist like a fern leaf struck Gaya’s face with a thud.

“Lord Gaya, are you alright?”

Gaya’s groan from being hit directly in the eye sounded truly painful, so Sanyu looked at him with a sympathetic expression.

“Oh my, Cheongya. You can’t hurt Elder Brother.”

Though it was quite a chaotic situation, Soya seemed accustomed to such circumstances.

“Don’t do that, come here. Big sister will hold you.”

“Hehe, I love big sister!”

Soya put both hands under the child’s armpits and lifted him up.

The child giggled with delight.

“That little rascal… I tied him up so he wouldn’t trouble Somsomi.”

Gaya rubbed his sore eye and muttered miserably.

That cunning two-year-old beast-child was already old enough to walk and run, but whenever he saw Soya, he would cling to her asking to be held.

Thanks to his excellent bloodline, he was faster at everything than children his age and could speak in full sentences easily, yet he deliberately spoke cutely and clumsily only in front of Soya.

Today too, he kept insisting on going up Horim Mountain to find Soya, so Gaya had wrapped him tightly in a baby carrier and carried him on his back.

Of course, Soya was also a direct descendant of one of the four great families, so she wouldn’t be troubled by merely holding a young child, but in Gaya’s eyes, he was always worried that his sister’s slender wrists might break.

“Sanyu, this is the younger brother I mentioned in my letter.”

Soya smiled brightly as she turned to Sanyu.

“Ah, I see. This child is…”

“Cheongya! Baek Cheongya!”

This child with blue hair, unlike the four siblings of White Tiger Palace, was none other than Soya’s three-year-old younger brother ‘Cheongya’.

“He just turned two recently, but he already speaks so well and is so smart.”

Sanyu quietly gazed at the child in Soya’s arms.

The young master of the White Tiger Family, Baek Cheongya.

Originally, in beast-person society, direct bloodline members who weren’t chosen as the next family head would traditionally have part of their direct bloodline power sealed in their spirit core when they married.

This was to prevent direct bloodline from flowing to other families, and the reason why Gaya, Ga Hyeon, and Gayul, born between Saeon and Cheongha, were all tiger beast-persons.

However, three years ago, when Saeon and Cheongha reunited.

Saeon’s heart was so eager that they made love and conceived a child without sealing the direct bloodline power in Cheongha’s spirit core.

In beast-person society that valued bloodlines, such behavior was something only the most shameless beasts would do.

Some said that the head of the White Tiger Family was quite romantic, wondering how deep his love for his wife must be to be unable to wait, but that was only the opinion of some women who admired Saeon for his appearance.

The majority pointed fingers, saying how could a beast-person with reason, unlike real beasts, do such a thing, calling the head of the White Family worse than a beast.

His sons Gaya and Ga Hyeon were no different.

Upon hearing the news, Gaya looked at Saeon with cold eyes, and Ga Hyeon, who usually respected his father, also wore a somewhat displeased expression.

However, Gayul and Soya, who didn’t understand the adults’ circumstances well, were simply happy about having a younger sibling.

In fact, around that time, Soya had been feeling dejected for a while after Seolyeo left, but she was able to cheer up thanks to the baby sibling in her mother’s womb.

And the child who was born had blue hair resembling the vast sea, not the snow-white hair characteristic of the White Tiger Family.

This caused quite an uproar.

Though they would know for certain when the child had his first beast transformation, there was no doubt that the child had Cheongryong blood mixed in.

The child would most likely be a Cheongryong beast-person.

The Cheongryong Family claimed they would take the Cheongryong child, and the retainers of the Western Lands also whispered that it wouldn’t be proper according to beast-person society’s principles.

Most importantly, the Cheongryong Family had a young family head with no heir, so they seemed eager to bring the child immediately, even if he had White Tiger blood mixed in.

As the situation became complicated and conflicts deepened, Soya, who had been listening to the adults’ serious discussion, spoke up.

[But just because he has different colored hair and isn’t a tiger doesn’t mean he’s not family.]

[…!]

At Soya’s words, the retainers who had been discussing the principles of beast-person society felt as if they had been hit in the head with a hammer.

[Uh, well… Young Lady, you might be too young to understand, but stealing direct bloodline is a very serious matter that shakes the foundation of beast-person society.]

[We’re not trying to steal Cheongryong blood, we’re trying to protect our family. The baby needs family. Even if we send him to the Eastern Lands, he’s still just a young baby who can’t even receive heir education yet.]

When someone carefully spoke up, Soya responded with a clear voice. When Saeon and Cheongha joined in as well, the retainers had no choice but to agree.

In the end, through the Imperial Palace’s mediation, it was decided that until the child came of age, regardless of bloodline, he would be raised in his family’s embrace, but at the Azure Dragon Family’s request, the character ‘Cheong ‘ would be included in the child’s name to preserve his bloodline identity.

Thus, the child’s name became Cheongya.

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