Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 4

Ding-dong-

“Daddy’s home. Seo-jun!”

Seo-jun, who was playing with a doll on the soft mat in the living room, turned his head at his mom’s words.

The door opened and his dad appeared at the entrance.

Seo-jun crawled towards the front door.

Well, he tried to crawl, but his chubby belly rubbed against the floor.

The baby’s arms and legs flailed on the ground.

Lee Min-jun, who had worked until Saturday evening and barely got off work, picked up his son who was trying to crawl towards him.

“My son!”

Seo-jun stretched out his arms and hugged his dad.

Lee Min-jun hugged his son tightly and kissed his wife Seo Eun-hye’s cheek, who was standing next to him.

He also kissed Seo-jun’s rosy cheeks.

“Son, kiss too!”

“Let’s wash up first!”

Seo Eun-hye said and Seo-jun pushed his dad’s cheek with both hands.

Lee Min-jun laughed.

It was always a warm home.

Lee Min-jun quickly washed up and played with Seo-jun while Seo Eun-hye prepared dinner.

Seo Eun-hye talked about what happened during the day while preparing the side dishes.

“So, when Seo-jun drank formula, the other babies followed him, right?”

“That’s amazing!”

“That’s what I’m saying. You know Mina’s mom is a vlogger, right?”

Lee Min-jun remembered Mina’s mom’s videos.

She uploaded fusion dishes that mixed American and Korean home cooking or introduced small interior items.

“Yeah. You showed me last time.”

“Yeah. So Mina’s mom said, our Seo-jun is a mukbang star. A mukbang star of the baby world.”

Seo Eun-hye said with a laugh in her voice.

Lee Min-jun also laughed out loud and looked at his son who was playing with dolls.

He was happy to see his son having fun, but he felt like sighing whenever he saw the dolls.

The dolls that his son played with were made by his friend when he was five months old… Actually, Lee Min-jun was amazed that his son played with those dolls.

He and his wife wanted to throw away the dolls, but their son, who had never been stubborn before, cried and made a fuss. So they gave up on it.

Lee Min-jun’s friend liked games and had good hand skills, so he often made figures, dolls, miniatures, etc.

He had made the dolls by hand.

The dolls were monster dolls.

There was an ugly green orc, ogre, a twin-headed troll, and a dragon with huge wings.

The dragon was so well-made that even the scales were expressed, and it looked very scary.

The other dolls didn’t look very cute either.

‘Is this a waste of talent…?’

His son often played games where he knocked down the dragon with the orcs.

He seemed so excited that Lee Min-jun couldn’t stop him.

He was doing that now too.

He held a small slime in one hand and hit the dragon doll.

“Kyaaaaa!”

He looked completely excited.

“Do I have to stop him…?”

Lee Min-jun was worried that his son would develop a violent personality.

Seo Eun-hye came out of the kitchen after finishing preparing dinner.

“It’s okay. Seo-jun is very nice.”

“Yeah?”

“Today, he got surrounded by babies for a moment while I wasn’t looking. But he didn’t hit any of the other kids and just stayed still.”

“Surrounded?!”

Lee Min-jun was shocked.

‘Surrounded?’

He imagined his son being miserable and unable to move because of the other babies.

Seo Eun-hye noticed his thoughts and lifted Seo-jun up and shook her head.

“No, not like that, more like he was popular and they wanted to touch him?”

“Oh, oh. That’s good.”

Lee Min-jun also headed to the dining table.

A splendid table was set with delicious soybean paste stew and rolled eggs.

Seo-jun also sat in a baby chair.

Seo-jun didn’t eat with them but ate after they finished eating.

He had just finished taking revenge on the dragon that killed him when he had been born as a slime.

Well, it was a model.

He thought he would enjoy dinner tonight.

Seo-jun flapped his arms excitedly.

“Hehehe!”

“You’re really happy, huh?”

Lee Min-jun pinched the baby’s cheek.

He smiled involuntarily at the sight of the baby laughing happily.

Seo Eun-hye brought rice and dinner began.

“So I filmed him drinking formula earlier, but you’ll have to film him eating solid food. It’s hard to feed him and film at the same time.”

“Okay. I’ll finish eating quickly and film him.”

Lee Min-jun answered and scooped up a big spoonful of rice.

***

Dinner was over and it was time for the baby to eat.

Seo-jun, who was sitting in a baby chair, watched his dad look for a camera in the drawer.

His mom brought the solid food.

‘She wants me to use the glitter, right?’

Seo-jun remembered what happened during the day.

He had heard the moms asking Seo Eun-hye for help because the babies wouldn’t eat, while he was surrounded by the babies.

‘I didn’t know the glitter would be used like this…’

He thought his skin and hair would be popular with the babies because they sparkled.

He fed them to stop their crying.

He didn’t expect it to come back like this.

“Seo-jun, let’s eat!”

Seo-jun sighed inwardly and looked at his mom and dad.

He was a well-fed and well-slept baby who had no worries, but other parents might be different. He remembered the face of Ji-yoon’s mom who cried.

‘No choice.’

The problem was that [Fairy’s Sparkle] was in his palm.

If it was on his finger, he could have shaken it slightly without being seen by the camera. But to shake his palm, he had to shake his arm.

And it would be obvious if he only shook his right arm, which had the mark.

‘Do I have to raise both arms? I’ve never eaten with both arms waving before.’

Hoping that his mom and dad wouldn’t think it was weird, Lee Seo-jun looked at his dad who was calling him.

***

-You got a message! Ding ding!

“It’s here!”

“Is it?!”

Ji-yoon’s mom, Lee So-young, still hadn’t eaten dinner.

Ji-yoon’s dad, who had just come home from work, was the same.

It was because their precious only daughter refused to eat again.

“At least she ate once in the afternoon… That’s a relief…”

Lee So-young felt like crying at her husband’s words. But she held back her tears and quickly opened Banana Talk. Seo-jun’s mom had sent two videos to the group chat.

-This is the formula version

-This is the baby food version. Sorry for being late!

Lee So-young typed a message quickly.

-No! Thank you so much!

Then she played the videos.

She opened the baby food version, which had more nutrition.

Her husband, who had heard about the afternoon from Lee So-young, also watched the video.

Seo-jun was sitting in a baby chair and looking at the camera.

A small male voice said, “Seo-jun, look this way!”

It sounded like Seo-jun’s dad.

At his dad’s voice, seo-jun’s eyes turned to the camera.

He smiled brightly.

A small baby bowl was placed in front of Seo-jun.

Seo Eun-hye held a small baby spoon in her hand.

“Seo-jun, let’s eat!”

At Seo Eun-hye’s words, seo-jun opened his mouth wide.

The spoon disappeared into Seo-jun’s mouth.

He closed his mouth and chewed. Then he raised and shook both of his arms.

“Huh? Are you excited? Is it that delicious?”

At Seo Eun-hye’s words, seo-jun opened his mouth again.

The baby food was gone.

Seo Eun-hye put more baby food into his mouth.

For about 10 minutes, seo-jun’s eating scene was filmed.

Lee So-young commented on the well-filmed video.

“Good! Ji-yoon, let’s eat!”

Her husband ran to the kitchen to heat up the baby food.

Even as they prepared to feed their child, they were doubtful whether this video would work. But they wanted to try anything, so they quickly went to their daughter.

They fixed the smartphone in front of her and put Ji-yoon in a chair.

“Ugh.”

Ji-yoon started to whine.

Ji-yoon’s dad quickly put the baby food on the table.

Lee So-young stirred the cooled baby food with a spoon and pressed the start button on the video.

“Seo-jun, look this way!”

Seo-jun’s dad’s voice was heard.

At the same time, Ji-yoon’s dad said,

“Ji-yoon, look this way!”

Ji-yoon turned her head to where her dad’s voice came from.

The smartphone came into Ji-yoon’s sight.

Seo-jun was inside it.

Lee So-young quickly pushed the spoon toward Ji-yoon’s mouth.

Ji-yoon saw it.

Seo-jun raised and shook both of his arms again.

And he shone brightly.

She felt like following Seo-jun.

The simple baby mimicked what she saw in front of her eyes.

When Seo-jun opened his mouth, Ji-yoon also opened her mouth.

When Seo-jun bit the spoon and chewed, Ji-yoon also bit the spoon.

There was baby food on the spoon.

When the baby food entered her mouth, Ji-yoon chewed and swallowed.

‘She ate!’

Lee So-young clenched her fist.

Ji-yoon’s dad, who was about to shout in joy that his daughter finally ate, barely swallowed his voice at the pain he felt on his thigh.

It was because his wife was glaring at him with fire in her eyes.

His wife whispered softly without opening her lips much.

“Be quiet! She has to finish the whole bowl!”

“Okay.”

The couple quietly fed their daughter.

As if all the trouble they had gone through was a lie, Ji-yoon finished a bowl of baby food in no time.

They wondered if she had ever eaten so obediently before. Tears blurred their eyes.

Lee So-young patted Ji-yoon’s back.

Ji-yoon, who had eaten well, slowly closed her eyes.

She fell asleep with a soft snore on the fluffy bed. Her chubby cheeks were very cute.

They had been so worried that something was wrong with her that they had even gone to the hospital.

They had tried to feed her all kinds of formula and baby food that babies liked and were tasty.

They all failed.

The more they failed, the more they felt guilty that they were not qualified to be parents.

Lee So-young, who could smile now, said to her husband.

“We should buy Seo-jun a gift.”

“Let’s do that! And send a message quickly! That Ji-yoon ate well. And a thank you.”

“Oh, right.”

Lee So-young laid Ji-yoon on the bed and picked up her smartphone.

The group chat was already full of messages.

It was Mina’s mom and the twins’ mom.

-Really! What’s going on! Mina ate everything! She didn’t even fuss about food!

-The twins ate too! In an instant!

Lee So-young, Ji-yoon’s mom, also left a message.

-Ji-yoon ate too. It’s only the second time she ate today. Really… Thank you so much!

Seo-eun-hye, who read the message, told her husband who was putting their son to sleep.

Their son, who had eaten well, was half asleep and fell asleep on the soft blanket. His round cheeks were very cute.

“They all said it worked.”

“Hmm… Maybe they were just hungry and ate?”

To Lee Min-jun, who had only seen his son eat well, a baby who didn’t eat well was an unfamiliar being.

Seo-eun-hye knew a little bit about the mothers’ feelings because she had baby mom friends.

“They don’t eat if they don’t want to. Ji-yoon’s mom even went to the hospital.”

“To the hospital?”

Only then did Lee Min-jun realize how serious it was and patted Seo-jun’s stomach.

He thought that his and Seo Eun-hye’s son was really a kind and gentle child.

“I hope it works tomorrow and the day after too…”

“Me too.”

As the couple wished, seo-jun’s formula eating show and baby food eating show were very effective tomorrow and the day after too.