My Daughter is a Music Genius

Episode 8

– Are you really going?

In the past, Jo Sung-hyun was indifferent to his daughter, Chae-yoon.

To the extent that his mother, Lee Soo-hyun, was surprised to hear that he was going to an autumn sports day.

“yes. I’ll go. I’m talking to the teacher right now, so I’ll call you back later.”

– Uh, yes. Contact us later.

So Seong-hyeon finished the call, sighed once, and turned to look at Ms. Eun-jeong Min.

“sorry. Teacher. I think Chaeyun’s grandmother received a letter from her family.”

“ah… Yes. It would be good for you to check with your father as well.”

“We will check it closely in the future.”

From https://readwn.com

Min Eun-jung spoke carefully, but firmly.

He felt that he was worried about Chae-yoon, but he was right, so Jo Sung-hyun answered without saying a word, bowing his head.

“Anyway, I was a little worried because my grandmother always came after that… Still, I am so glad that my father is coming to the autumn sports day. I think Chae-yoon will like it.”

“I was stupid.”

At Jo Sung-hyun’s words, Min Eun-jung said no and waved her hand, but her face was smiling awkwardly.

It means that you can’t completely deny it inside.

Jo Seong-hyeon tried to ask Min Eun-jung more about Chae-yoon, but he resisted.

Because I wanted to see Chae-yoon more than just asking her a few words.

It was enough to confirm that Chae-yoon was not being bullied.

“thank you. Teacher.”

That’s how the consultation ended.

Jo Sung-hyun, who was leaving the director’s office, paused.

“… ?”

When Min Eun-jung makes a puzzled face.

Jo Sung-hyeon looked at Min Eun-jung and opened her mouth.

“I, sir.”

“Your father.”

“Should I pack a packed lunch?”

“Probably… It’s better if you and Chae-yoon and your father come together cheaply.”

Jo Sung-hyun’s face changed strangely.

Because he had never packed a lunch.

* * *

on the way home.

Jo Sung-hyun glanced at the paper bag containing Chae-yoon’s diary.

I’m also worried about Chaeyoon’s diary, and I’m also very worried about what to pack for lunch next Saturday.

In the midst of complicated brains, Chae-yoon was always smiling about what was so good.

As soon as our eyes meet with Jo Sung-hyun, he hesitates and smiles once more.

“What do you like so much?”

“Just good!”

Chae-yoon answers without hesitation.

She was so special and grateful that she just liked him, so Jo Seong-hyeon gently took her hand.

“Chae Yoon-ah.”

“yes?”

“What would you like Chae-yoon to pack with her lunch box when she goes to the sports day?”

“uh… Well… .”

After thinking about it, he glances up at Seong-hyeon Jo and falls into trouble again.

She frowned and pondered as much as she could, but in the end, she looked at Jo Sung-hyun as if she didn’t know.

“Daddy… ?”

“uh? Am I just like Chaeyoon?”

Seong-hyeon didn’t care what he ate, so it was enough for him to just pack whatever his daughter wanted to eat.

But in response to that answer, Chaeyoon’s forehead narrowed even more.

A very troubled face.

In the end, Seong-hyeon Cho laughed.

“Chae Yoon-ah, what did you usually pack when you went on a picnic or sports day?”

“Byeok Kim.”

“kimbap?”

“yes. Kim 🥺. Chae-yoon eats well.”

Chaeyoung nodded her head vigorously.

Fortunately, he seems to like kimbap.

It wasn’t very difficult, and Jo Sung-hyeon was able to make gimbap of course.

“Then I will have to buy the ingredients for kimbap before the sports day. I had seaweed for kimbap at home, so I just need to buy ham and pickled radish.”

As Jo Seong-hyeon muttered like that, he nodded once more as if Chae-yoon was right.

From https://readwn.com

Meanwhile, I got home.

Jo Seong-hyeon slipped the paper bag containing Chae-yoon’s diary into the bedroom.

Seeing Chae-yun leaving a bag in his room, Seong-hyeon opened his mouth as he remembered a home correspondence.

“Chae Yoon-ah, did your teacher give you anything today? My parents told me to bring it.”

“note?”

“Do you have any notes?”

“It’s something grandma sees every day.”

“Uh, can you give me that?”

Not sure what he was talking about, Jo Sung-hyun told her that his mother always sees it, so he decided to check it out too.

Chae-yoon blinked and looked at Seong-hyun for a moment, then fumbled through her bag and pulled out a notebook.

A notebook with the name of Chae-yoon Jo written on it.

When I said something, it was a class journal written by Eun-Jeong Min.

Jo Sung-hyun checked the diary of today’s date.

[I ate the pork cutlet for lunch, and I felt good overall.

Today, while talking about working with my father, he also shared that a certain older sister gave me jelly.

From https://readwn.com

My father said he likes green jelly, and he said we should remember it.

Since yesterday, Chaeyoon has been talking a lot more than usual, so it was nice to see him.]

Seeing the memo left by Min Eun-jung, Jo Seong-hyeon looked at Chae-yoon.

Chae-yoon grabbed her bag and looked at Jo Sung-hyun, but as soon as he looked at him, she moved her gaze.

In response to Chaeyun’s behavior as if looking at her, Seonghyeon just smiled and brought a pen and left a small note under the memo left by Min Eunjung.

There was nothing great about it.

Thank you for your concern.

After writing that, I handed it over to Chae-yoon, who smiled and put the notebook in the bag.

I had to eat dinner slowly, but all my nerves were focused on Chaeyoon’s diary.

‘Still, I have to eat rice first.’

Jo Sung-hyun thought to himself and opened his mouth.

“Chae Yoon-ah, what do you want for dinner?”

She looked troubled again.

Seeing her wrinkling her brow, Jo Sung-hyun, who wanted to think about it again, smiled and solved her troubles.

“Chae Yoon-ah.”

“yes?”

“Shall we practice the gimbap we eat when we go to the sports day, like today?”

“value?”

“Uh, with Dad.”

“I like Chae-yoon!”

As if excited right away, Chaeyoon raised her arms and shouted.

Jo Seong-hyeon got up from his seat and took out the kimbap and asked a question to Chae-yoon.

“Chae Yoon-ah, do you know how to make gimbap?”

Stop.

At that question, Chae-yoon turns to Seong-hyeon with a bewildered face.

With a face not knowing what to do, she groaned.

“I don’t know about Chae-yoon… Grandma knows… ”

Jo Seong-hyeon couldn’t help but smile when he saw Chae-yoon looking at him in embarrassment.

It was okay to just make kimbap, but Jo Sung-hyun opened his mouth as he looked at Chae-yoon, who looked at him with an expression that he did not know what to do.

“Do you know how grandma makes gimbap?”

“I know.”

Was it because she wanted to let her know that she knew?

Chae-yoon strongly affirmed.

Jo Seong-hyeon looked around and took out his smartphone.

“Then will Chae-yoon call her grandmother and ask her to tell her?”

“Chaeyoon can do it!”

“yes. Let’s ask Chae-yoon.”

Jo Sung-hyun said so and handed his smartphone to Chae-yoon.

After seeing that Chae-yoon was calling her grandmother, Lee Soo-hyun, Jo Seong-hyeon abruptly got up from her seat.

It wasn’t because he didn’t allow Chaeyoon to call him directly.

-“hello?”

“grandmother. I am Chae-yoon.”

Watching Chae-yoon call, Jo Seong-hyun pulled out Chae-yoon’s diary that he had left in the bedroom.

While the boy was on the phone, he thought of checking his diary.

Reading what it contains will help you understand Chaeyoon.

Cho Seong-hyeon carefully turned the first page.

A small picture and Chaeyun’s diary written underneath it.

[There is nothing to do in kindergarten.

So I stayed still.

The other kids kept talking and didn’t sleep.

I played the piano.]

I started reading from the open part, and the story about kindergarten came out right away.

I tried to write it correctly as much as possible.

But still, it was a figure that could not escape the limits of a child.

There was no problem at all in reading.

On the last line, when he saw that he was playing with the piano, Jo Sung-hyun smiled softly.

He seemed to annoy his friends, but he seemed to like the piano.

It’s nice to have something you like.

[Today, I went to a restaurant with my grandmother.

I enjoyed the tonkatsu.

Grandma said that Dad also likes pork cutlet. I knew it.]

Tonkatsu appeared.

One of Chae-yoon’s favorite foods was pork cutlet, which could be understood by reading the memo left by Min Eun-jung earlier.

He focused on the last word.

‘So close.’

what was so sad

Why didn’t you eat more tonkatsu?

Or is it because I can’t eat with Jo Sung-hyun?

With such doubts, Jo Sung-hyun continued to read the diary.

[Grandma said that Dad was busy every day.

When I asked if Dad wasn’t busy when he slept a few nights, Grandma said he was an idiot.

Chaeyoon was sad because her father wasn’t an idiot.]

He gulped and swallowed.

I was shaking and felt like something was going to pop out.

In Chaeyun’s diary, there were many stories about her grandmother and kindergarten, and there was also a story about Jo Seonghyeon.

[Is the phone always busy?

Dad went out with the phone while eating.

Grandma carried Dad.

The song the phone sang is amazing.]

I also wrote a diary with Jo Sung-hyun’s smartphone.

[It rained from the sky today.

Heaven is a sad day

I was sad too.]

[Elisa sang at the cinema.

Elisha sings well.

Do I like Elisha?]

For the first time, there was a diary where someone other than Lee Soo-hyun or Jo Sung-hyun appeared.

As I read it, it seems to be the latest date.

And Jo Sung-hyun could feel a slight change.

The frequency of his appearance was much higher.

All of the recent diaries were written about myself.

I could feel her feelings very well.

[Tomorrow is the day I go to see my mom, but my dad didn’t tell me.

Daddy is not the best

Grandma again said that my dad was an idiot.]

September 29.

The day before my wife’s anniversary.

Chae-yoon expressed her disappointment by using the expression ‘not the best’.

Since he had never used negative expressions about himself in his diary, Jo Sung-hyun was a little surprised.

It also meant that Chaeyoon was greatly disappointed in herself.

[Yesterday, kindergarten was loaded.

I went to see my grandmother and my mother, but at first I thought he was an idiot because he wasn’t there.

But my father came and cried. Dad is also what Mom wants to see.

I like being with my dad.]

There was also an expression that he thought he was an idiot.

Seong-hyeon Cho agreed.

Because he really was an idiot.

At the same time, I felt a sense of relief.

Little by little in the previous diaries, I could feel myself moving away from Chaeyun’s heart, but in this diary, the words that I like myself again appeared.

Since then, the mood of the diary has completely changed.

[Dad went to kindergarten.

felt good.

I imitated the song sung by the piano and the phone.

Dad adores the green jalari.]

[I’m glad my dad isn’t busy.

Dad laughs when I laugh.

I like being with my dad, but he doesn’t know.]

tuk.

A tear fell on the back of my hand.

Jo Seong-hyeon hurriedly closed the diary.

I don’t want my diary to get wet because of tears.

Jo Sung-hyeon, who struggled to calm his emotions and put the diary back into the paper bag, took a deep breath.

‘I like being with my dad.’

‘Dad likes green jelly.’

‘I like being with my dad, but he doesn’t know.’

It may be a trivial sentence to some, but it was a sentence that resonated with Jo Sung-hyun.

Although he is not an expert, I could tell that Chae-yoon was very disappointed with him once.

Perhaps, if he hadn’t been able to go to work on his wife’s anniversary like last life, a great barrier would have been erected in Chaeyun’s heart.

I was so happy and so sorry.

He lowered his head quietly, thinking that if someone touched him, tears would flow uncontrollably.

However, Chaeyoon, who was holding a smartphone, cautiously entered the room.

“Grandma is Kim Bak… !”

Instead of talking excitedly, Chaeyoon keeps her mouth shut.

She approached Jo Sung-hyun with a worried face.

“Dad… ? I can’t cry… .”

-“ok? Who is crying?”

A small voice is heard over the phone.

When Seong-hyeon saw Chae-yoon, he cried again and tried to swallow the rushing emotions and raised his head.

“grandmother! Dad is crying!”

– Why is Dad crying?

“Because of the kimbap… ?”

-… … Chae Yoon-ah. Tell Dad it’s okay if you can’t make kimbap. It’s probably because your dad never made kimbap. Chae-yoon needs a lot of help.

“Daddy! It’s okay if you can’t make kimbap! Chae-yoon can make kimbap!”

Chaeyoung said.

Seeing her like that, Jo Sung-hyun laughed.

He only realized today.

The day it was my wife’s anniversary.

It was also the day he returned to his daughter.

At the same time, it was also the day his daughter returned to him.