My Girlfriend Is Very Good To Me [EN]: Chapter 137

Ep. 136

Winter was approaching, and Christmas was just around the corner.

Every day was exhausting yet filled with happiness as I watched Sarang grow.

Having reached her tenth month, Sarang had moved beyond just flipping over and was now freely crawling around the floor.

Since Sarang started crawling all over the house, our family members began visiting Heena’s house even more frequently. Even before, Mom, Dad, and Yoonjung noona [older sister] would drop by often, but now they were coming almost every single day.

Of course, there was only one reason for their visits.

“Granddaughter~ Come here. Come to Grandma~”

“No, come here! To Grandpa! I even brought a cat doll for Sarang~”

“Princess~ You know who plays with you every day, right~?”

“Han Sarang! Think about who the owner of that cat doll you have is! I bought 90% of them!!!”

“Big Aunt is here, Sarang!!”

“Babu?” [baby in Korean]

Each of them stood with their arms open wide, waiting for Sarang to crawl to them. No, they were pleading.

Simply holding Sarang wasn’t difficult. But the fact that Sarang would come to them on her own gave them a strange sense of joy, which is why they were acting like this.

With the whole family gathered like that, Sarang was dazed, just sitting there blankly, looking around.

“Sarang, who are you going to go to?”

Heena stood behind Sarang, holding her back in case she fell, and asked her. She could sit on her own well enough now, but Heena still felt anxious watching her.

Besides, she was even trying to stand up while holding onto things, so someone had to follow her around whenever she was at home.

Sarang glanced around once, then fixed her gaze on Heesung hyung [older brother]. Seeing this, Heesung hyung shouted even louder.

“Han Sarang!! Over here!! Kitty, who you like the most, is here!!”

“Ah! Lee Heesung, that’s so unfair!! When did you get that again!”

“Noona [older sister], you should have bought one too!”

“I, I have one here!! The one I bought you before!”

“Do you think a kid would like that black mouse doll?”

“You, you! Are you dissing Mickey right now?!”

“Isn’t Sarang the one dissing him, not me?”

“Sob…”

Everyone else had brought cat dolls, so Yoonjung noona thought she would try something different and gifted her a Mickey Mouse. But Sarang never even touched the doll. She really didn’t pay any attention to it at all.

Anyway, noona, holding Mickey Mouse, collapsed on the spot. Next to her, Heesung hyung, holding the Kitty that Sarang had been frequently playing with recently, stepped forward.

“Umma!” [Mommy]

And as soon as she saw Kitty, Sarang cried out, wanting to be let go. It seemed that she was more used to hearing ‘Umma’ than ‘Appa’ [Daddy] on a regular basis, so she started saying ‘Umma’ before ‘Appa’. She did say ‘Babba’ soon after, though.

“Do you like that?”

“Aeuwoo!”

When Sarang showed that she wanted to go to the Kitty doll, Heena let go of Sarang’s body. Then, she slowly crawled towards Kitty.

Heesung hyung waited for Sarang with a triumphant look on his face. The adults each had a doll in their hands, but since Sarang liked Kitty the most recently, there would be no variables.

I leaned back on the sofa, watching the competition. But suddenly, I felt a hand grabbing my arm.

-Grasp

“Huh?”

“Yeonhoo, help Dad out.”

“Help with what?”

Dad pulled me and sat me next to him, then started clapping.

-Clap! Clap!

“Sarang~ You have to come to Dad! Dad is waiting for Sarang!”

“Awoo?”

Sarang reacted to the word ‘Dad’ and stopped moving. Now that she could even talk, she definitely understood the words ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’.

But isn’t using me too much of a cheat code? Our Sarang likes me so much.

“Uncle, that’s cheating!”

“Yeonhoo’s dad is too much~”

“Hey, hyung [older brother]. Let’s not do that!”

Faced with this cruel foul play, the Heena family immediately protested. Honestly, I thought it was a bit unfair too, but blood is thicker than water.

“Han Sarang! Come to Dad~”

“Abube!”

Sarang, who had been hesitating between Kitty and Grandpa, crawled towards us when she heard my voice added to the mix.

Sarang, crawling diligently on her hands and feet, was quickly snatched up and hugged by Dad.

“Oh my~ Sarang, did you come to see Grandpa?”

“Babba!”

“Hahaha! It seems Sarang wants to go to you.”

“You used me to call her over in the first place, what do you mean.”

Although she was in Grandpa’s arms, she twisted her body and struggled to look at me. With that struggle, I ended up holding Sarang.

As soon as she came to me, Sarang started tapping my neck and face with her tiny hands.

Oh, so cute.

“Hey! We can’t lose either! Lee Heena, you come here and call Sarang too!”

“Yeah, Heena! Show your strength… huh?”

Heesung hyung and Yoonjung noona, who had been fighting over dolls, were now working together to find Heena.

But Heena had already come behind me and was hugging me. And with her face buried in my back, she let out a silly laugh.

“Heuheuheuh.”

“She’s gone. She’s already lost her mind…”

“Our hope…”

At that, hyung and noona despaired, and Mother-in-law shook her head.

“Both my daughter and our princess are completely obsessed with our son-in-law~”

“It’s not like Heena acting like that with Yeonhoo is a one- or two-day thing.”

Even Father-in-law added a word. But Heena acting like this with me was really an everyday occurrence, so I had nothing to say.

With Heena hugging me from behind and Sarang grabbing my face from the front, could I be any happier than this?

However, I was a little burdened by the attention of the whole family, so I sent Sarang to my mom.

“Mom, please watch Sarang for a bit.”

“Okay, let me hold our granddaughter for a bit too.”

Then, as if she had been waiting for it, she carefully took Sarang into her arms. Usually, it was hard to see any change in expression on my mom’s face, but in front of Sarang, even my mom’s face was full of smiles.

Come to think of it, my paternal grandmother had once said that she wanted a daughter as the third child. But since it ended up being a house with only three sons, it was understandable that she liked Heena so much and was so smitten with Sarang.

And that was the same for my dad too.

-Tap! Tap!

Next to Mom, Dad was constantly snapping his fingers, trying to get Sarang’s attention.

“Ueeueueue…”

Unfortunately, Sarang only looked at me while being held by Grandma. But even that was cute, and he smiled and gently stroked Sarang’s cheek with the back of his hand.

However, while doing that.

“Sarang is so pretty, how will Yeonhoo be able to go to the military later?”

He ended up saying a word that should never be uttered in this house.

“Gasp, Dad! That’s forbidden…”

-Squeeze

Sure enough, Heena, who had been quietly hugging me, began to squeeze my arm tightly. As if she would never let go.

“No way… Honey can’t go…”

“Keueok… Hee, Heena… It’s far away… I still have a long way to go before I have to go…!”

“You can’t go even later!!”

“I won’t go… I won’t go! Let go of my neck!”

I was being choked to death, so I tapped and declared surrender. When I made a dying groan, she finally released her grip.

“Don’t go to such a place…”

“Where would I go without you.”

But she was still burying her face in my back and whining. I gently stroked Heena’s arm around my neck and soothed her. At the same time, I shook my head at Dad, telling him with my expression not to bring up the military story anymore.

Dad saw that and smiled silently, then focused on Sarang again. Seeing that, I breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

I was planning to go to the military after graduating from college, so it was still a long way off. Moreover, thanks to Sarang, there was a very high possibility that I would go as a full-time reserve [a system where draftees can continue living at home while serving], so even if I did go, the only time I wouldn’t be able to see her would be during the training period.

And this was a fact that Heena knew as well. In the first place, Heena had researched it more diligently than I had and told me about it. But she didn’t even want to imagine the five weeks that she wouldn’t be able to see me during that training period, so she struggled whenever that story came up.

Before, Heesung hyung had jokingly teased her, saying, ‘What are you going to do when Han Yeonhoo goes to the military~’, and Heesung hyung almost had his memorial day then. It was so brutal that even I had to take Sarang and flee outside.

Thanks to that, the military story became taboo in this house ever since.

“Mom, have the hyungs [older brothers] not arrived yet?”

I continued to soothe Heena and asked Mom. Today was also the hyungs’ day off, so I thought they would come with my parents, but they hadn’t arrived yet because they had something to buy.

“They should be here soon, though.”

“Are the hyungs also trying to buy Sarang dolls?”

“At this rate, we’re going to run a doll business at our house~”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

I had to agree with Mother-in-law’s smiling words. Of course, Heena and I also bought dolls, but in addition to us, the family and relatives all bought dolls, so the house was just full of cat dolls.

-Ding-dong!

As the saying goes, speak of the devil, and he shall appear. The interphone rang as soon as the hyungs were mentioned.

“Ah, they must be here. I’ll go out and…”

“…No. I’ll go.”

Having calmed down a bit, Heena got up and headed for the front door. But soon after, Heena’s bewildered voice was heard.

“O, oppa [older brother]? I appreciate it, but… this is too much…”

“Don’t you know that more is better?”

“Sorry. By the time I realized it, you had already finished paying, so I couldn’t stop you.”

Everyone looked towards the conversation coming from the entrance.

How much did they buy that Heena is acting like that?

And that curiosity was immediately resolved when I saw Sunhoo hyung, like Santa, carrying a bundle on his back.

No joke, the huge bag that looked like it could fit a person was full of snacks. A whole bunch of organic rice snacks that babies Sarang’s age could eat.

Seeing that, Yoonjung noona blurted out a word as if she was dumbfounded.

“Sarang is going to die from eating rice puffs, really.”