Did he see Jihun's expression, his younger siblings came over and comforted him.
"Bro, don't worry too much. Not for a day or two that the professor is doing that."
"I'm fine."
Jihun waved his hand and walked into his seat.
He told others that it was okay, but Jihoon's expression was not good. His expression relaxed after he turned on his phone.
It was a photo taken with Chae-rin. Looking at that picture was both comforting and encouraging. I might even say responsibility.
'Yes. I'll just have to endure it for half a year. Until then, let's live as if we were dead. Don't be blamed, live as if you were dead.'
Jihoon vowed. Professor Zhang's personality is famous for being beggarly, sloppy, and braided, but he also had many seniors in front of him.
They've been through it too, but can't they be themselves? I can.
Jihoon blew himself into fighting.
Fortunately, Professor Zhang didn't care about Ji Hun after the morning, and nothing happened.
"Oh, now the grading is over. Ugh, I have to leave work. Yerim, do you know where you are?"
"I don't know."
Goyerim replied with an annoyed expression. A stressful answer.
'Why is he doing that these days?'
Ko Ye-rim was a friend who went on to get a master's degree as an undergraduate. I've known him for years, and lately he's been reacting hysterically.
"Looks busy. Sorry to bother you."
Jihun said that he would find Professor Zhang through someone else and leave work.
"Uh, yes. Good work. See you tomorrow."
Professor Zhang was as friendly as he had seen in undergrad. Carl I'm glad I was able to get home rather quickly, even if it wasn't until I got off work.
'Whoa, I need to go to Mom and Dad early. Charin wouldn't have even had dinner.'
Unexpectedly, however, Chae Lin-yi said that she took care of herself and ate the food.
"Dinner? Ate! Cooked rice! I did well, didn't I?"
"yes, good job."
I praised him for doing well, but it hurt.
Yesterday and today, I couldn't feed them properly. All she ate yesterday and today was cereal and microwave-heated retorts.
'I'm going to see you next week, but I'll have to see you tomorrow.'
Your parents may be a little surprised, but you can't help it. But I can't leave her like this forever.
Eventually, Jihoon contacted Professor Zhang the next morning to take care of some household chores and go to work.
- You, are the lab a joke? If that's the case, why don't you aim for completion rather than a degree at all?
Now that the project ordered from Hatch is also in the final stages, it is not a busy period, it is nothing else, and even though it is said that it is a family affair, he spits out a lot of curses.
How could he have such a personality and still act like an angel when he was an undergraduate? It was surprising that Jihoon wasn't the only one who thought so.
"I'm sorry. I'll just take care of this and get to work as soon as possible."
-We'll see what time it comes!
Professor Zhang shouted, and Jihun hung up the phone and looked to the side in surprise.
"Ah, Charin. Are you all ready?"
"Dad, who did you talk to?"
"yes, Daddy's professor."
"But why is he angry with Dad?"
"yes, no big deal. Dad made a little mistake."
"Did Dad make a mistake?"
"yes, it's because my dad made a mistake."
At Jihun's words, Chaelin nodded. However, Chae Lin's expression hardened coldly.
However, Ji Hoon didn't have time to pay attention to Chae Lin's expression. I didn't know what to explain to my parents, and that alone made my head explode.
'Whew, I'm not going to kick you out though.'
There was only one thing Jihoon could trust now. Paternity test result. I'm sure it's my own granddaughter, so I have to kick her out.
"Oh, what have you been doing since morning? Was what you said you were going to come real? I thought you sent the wrong thing again."
Mom greeted Jihoon with a beaming expression. Then he looked at Chae Lin-yi next to him and asked who it was.
"Who are you? You look so pretty."
"She's my daughter."
At Jihun's words, both his mom and his dad who came out from behind changed their expressions. A look of disbelief.
'Maybe that's how I looked when she first came to visit, right?'
Jihun said once more.
"She's my daughter. Greetings, Charin. It's Grandma and Grandpa."
"Hello. Grandma, grandfather. It's Kim Chae-rin."
Mom, who was still tight-lipped until she lowered her head, asked in a trembling voice.
"... Your daughter? Is it true?"
"Yes, I knew it yesterday."
Jihoon said what he knew. Her parents knew that Jena had dated her in high school, and she remembered going on a trip.
"Then the child you had on your trip at that time is Chae-rin, and until now, Yena Go-ga has raised her alone?"
"That's right."
"Then you should come with Jena, why did you come alone, you bastard!"
My father looked stern and angry.
"Jena said there was a situation. I haven't spoken to him since that day. Oh, and just in case, first of all, she is my biological daughter. I've checked everything."
Jihoon said that and handed out the results of the paternity test. My parents sighed when they saw the highlighter-marked "99.99% of the time the relationship is established."
"Honey, take the kid in. I think I need to talk to her."
"Got it. Baby, did you have breakfast? What do you want to eat with Grandma?"
Mom took Chalin away, and Dad asked with a sigh.
"What are you going to do?"
"How? You have to raise it. She's my daughter."
"Of course! Jena, Jena."
"I've been walking all the time, but I don't get it."
"Whoo...."
He sighed and saw Charin-yi smiling beside his mother.
"Did you say Charin anyway? Is that why Charin said you were coming over the weekend?"
"Yes, I tried to, but I couldn't take care of them while I was in the lab. I can't even take care of her, so it hurts."
"When you step on the snow. We can take care of her, but I like to merge with her mom quickly. The child should be raised by his parents, and if you are not going to get a job, he should live with Jena and raise him."
"I will."
Dad clicked his tongue and said regretfully.
"How much money I've sprinkled on weddings so far, but it just looks like it's going to fly. Aying, it's rotten to have a child."
"I'm sorry."
"It's a joke, so don't bother. Why don't you marry Jena later? You can get the principal back then."
At his father's joke, Jihoon could finally laugh.
I was worried about what if my parents were shocked and didn't admit that I was my granddaughter.
Jihun exchanged a few more words, and then hurried to get ready for work.
"Then I'll come in the evening. Chae-rin, you need to listen to your grandparents and grandparents, so let's go to a fun place together this weekend. Okay?"
"Really? Promise!"
She smiled brightly and held out her little finger.
Jihoon crossed his fingers and promised.
"Keep your promises? Daddy promised?"
"yes. See you later in the evening!"
I enjoyed the road to the lab. Yesterday and that I were worried that I could only feed Chae-lin cereal, but I definitely solved that part.
'Where are we going this weekend? Everland? Or Seoul Land?'
Virtually the first weekend to greet my daughter. She came last Saturday, but she was so hectic that she was a no-count. So this was my first weekend, so I wanted to do it no matter what.
Since I left it to my parents, I can decide the daycare issue slowly. Jihoon searched for an amusement park to visit on weekends instead of a daycare center.
'Yes. Everland would be my best. It's the biggest in our country.'
Jihoon decided so.
But that evening, I had to listen to the plan.
"This project is almost finished, and we're going to go hiking on the weekend for the New Year's party, what is everyone's time?"
Professor Jang Dong-ho walked around the lab and asked. When he heard Professor Zhang's question, Jihun's complexion turned pale.
'I'd be bored if I said I couldn't go. Ah, damn it. What should I do?'
Professor Zhang's favorite hobby is mountaineering. Then I can go alone, but I don't want to go alone, so I almost forced the researchers of the lab to go.
Of course, it was a voluntary consent on the surface, but there were no rap students who would not go to shake the evil that the professor could do in front of him.
"Kim Ji-hoon, you won't have a family this weekend, will you? Right? Could it be that I've missed it twice this week alone, and it's still not resolved?"
Jihun bit his lip. What Professor Zhang said was the paternity test and the fact that he stopped by his parents' house today.
Jihoon was told that he had a good medicine, but what came out in the end was something else.
"It will be. All family affairs have been settled."
"yes? That's good. Then let's go to the mountains and relax while feeling like a good keeper."
How is it easy to climb a mountain? Jihun wanted to ask. Now Professor Zhang began to ask others.
"Ye Lim, can you too? Changshu, are you too? Okay, so that's it? If you suddenly say no that day, I'll pout?"
He may have said that he was speaking with a youthful sensibility, but he had already done all the grunts and braids, and that caused even more irritation.
Sure enough, as soon as Professor Zhang left, there was an outburst of discontent within the lab.
", I'm going to the movies this weekend."
"Oh, it sucks, really. Who thinks they're scratching the house on weekends? Isn't it polite to ask if you have an appointment first?"
Jihun only sighed. He felt sorry for his helplessness.
'I thought you were looking forward to it. Oh, what can I do because I'm sorry.... That doesn't mean no....'
There was too much to go against Professor Zhang. From getting a job, to the military. In fact, how to start his thirties was in Professor Zhang's hands, so Jihun couldn't resist him.
The plight of the other students was similar. Depending on how Professor Zhang wrote a letter of recommendation or what he said to the HR manager, getting a job was dirty, but everyone was putting up with it.
'I'll put it off until next week. Let's make a reservation in advance.'
Jihoon looked bitter and entered a social commerce company and booked tickets for Everland.
Even though I had completed the reservation, I didn't feel comfortable with what I had to tell her.
* * *
"That's why my dad can't go with me this week."
On the way back with Chae Linyi, Jihun said frankly. I could have said it a little late, but I didn't.
It's better to say you can't go today than to say you can't go that day.
"Let's go next week instead. This time, it's real. Dad even booked tickets."
Jihoon said that and showed the ticket he had booked.
Then, Chae Lin, who was staring at him, opened his arms and embraced him.
"... Were you very upset?"
Jihun hugged Chae Linyi and asked softly.
Chae Lin-yi shook her head.
"I'm not going all weekend, and she's fine. It's just that I don't think my dad wants to go, but I don't like it because I feel like I'm being forced to go."
"Haha, are you worried about Dad? Dad is fine. It's nice to take this opportunity to work out, huh."
Chae Lin-yi looks at herself with clear eyes.
Jihun smiled as brightly as he could, trying not to cause concern.
"Dad, the guy who called me in the morning. You said you were going to the mountains because of him?"
"Huh? Oh boy... Correct. He's a professor, and he asked me to go to celebrate the end of the project."
He's not a professor, he's a real professor.
Just as Jihoon thought so, Chae Lin-yi hugged his neck.
"You have to come and go carefully, you can't hurt your dad."
"Don't worry, it's a safe mountain."
Chae Linyi's worried words warmed Jihoon's heart. He gently patted Chae Lin's back, so he couldn't see the blue glow in Chae Lin's eyes.