Life is Easier If You're Handsome novel Chapter 202

Kim Seohyun is beautiful.

It's not just because she's six years old and cute. She was objectively beautiful, undeniably, no matter how you looked at her. She seemed to have inherited the looks of her older brother, Kim Donghu. Her appearance was as if it had been carefully crafted by the gods, shining everywhere she went.

And being a young child, she was especially sensitive to such matters. Kim Seohyun believed that because she was beautiful, she could do anything.

But then...

"...Seohyun, now that you're six, you should know some things." "Huh? What things?" "You can't marry someone in your family." "...Huh?"

The shocking truth struck six-year-old Kim Seohyun hard. It was something she found incredibly difficult to believe. No matter how much she adored her second favorite people in the world—her mom and dad—how could it be that she couldn't marry her absolute favorite person, her older brother?

"That's a lie!" At first, she thought they were just teasing her with a bad joke. In fairy tales, the prince on the white horse was always her older brother. How could that be wrong?

'Princesses are supposed to marry princes, right?'

Kim Seohyun, who had a sharpness beyond her six years, decided to verify this "truth" by asking multiple people if it was really true. And every time, she heard the same answer.

"Seohyun, children can't marry their families." Thud!

"...Oh, my dear. Yes, but you can't marry your brother." Thunk!

"Buy some mackerel... Huh? What? No... of course not, kid. You can't marry your brother. But where’s your mom? Fresh mackerel came in today."

Thud!

The cold reality slowly began to sink in, and Kim Seohyun realized something. How could this be? What happened to the life plan she had made back when she was five at the daycare?

After that day, Kim Seohyun tried hard to learn more about the world. She watched "Mysterious Apartments" and "Pororo," thinking deeply about things. And then, she asked herself,

"So, what... can I do?"

For the first time in her life, she felt helpless.

Surely, there must be many solutions to the world’s problems, but the limits of being six meant she still saw the world too narrowly.

So, she cried. For about a week.

There was nothing else she could do.

"I want to see my brother!"

At that age, crying was a privilege for six-year-olds. And so, as usual, after having breakfast, she prepared to cry in earnest.

Beep beep beep.

"Seohyun, I heard you’ve been crying a lot lately?" "Oppaaa!!!"

Her older brother arrived.

Just like that? Wasn't he busy? How did he get here? There were so many questions, but nothing came to mind.

"Can I sleep in your arms?" "If the princess wants to, then of course you can." "Then, I’ll go to princess dreamland!"

She ran into her brother's arms, and immediately fell asleep. She had cried so much that now she needed to sleep in the prince's arms.

"Son, didn’t you have any schedules today? You must be tired." "Yeah, lately, I’ve just been working out, so there wasn’t much going on, but I did have some things I wanted to ask." "Things to ask?" "Do you like baseball? Any teams you support?" "Baseball?" "Yeah, I’m ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) going to throw the first pitch. But I don’t really know much about baseball."

Kim Donghu briefly explained the situation.

The Korean baseball season would start at the end of March, and originally, he had planned to throw the first pitch at the opening game. However, he realized that all the games were played simultaneously, and he would instead go to support the team his parents favored.

"Baseball... Well, I don’t know much about it, but I’ll ask your father about it..."

Just as his mother, Lee Yoohyun, was about to continue speaking, there was a sudden interruption.

"Ahem! Ahem!" Suddenly, her father, Kim Jeongyeol, rushed into the room. He had a baseball cap on, which was unusual for him.

"...Honey?" "Uh, yeah, no... I thought I might wear a hat since it’s still cold outside."

Did Dad watch baseball? Kim Donghu tried to remember but only realized then that he might have seen his father watch it sometimes.

'Come to think of it, Dad used to watch baseball often.'

His mother would always bring up his father when baseball was mentioned, so Donghu knew how much he loved the sport.

"Son, wait a second... just wait." "Huh?" "Hold on a minute."

His father, feeling unsatisfied with just sitting in front of the TV, got up hurriedly from the couch and went to his room.

About two minutes later, he returned wearing a baseball jacket and a uniform with a player’s number on it.

"I know it’s a tough decision, there are so many teams in baseball... but I get it."

Right after that, his father began speaking for the first time in a long while. It was the longest speech he had given, apart from when he supported Donghu's acting career.

"I mean, when you throw the first pitch... there might be comments about which fans you’re supporting, and in a way, it might affect your acting career. But on the other hand, throwing the first pitch could just be a fun way to show your love for the sport... and if you do it, you could also show off your filial image, don’t you think?"

When a quiet person suddenly starts talking a lot, their neck turns red first, and eventually their face turns as red as a tomato.

"Ahem... Ahem! Ahem...!" "Uh, honey, maybe you should drink some water..." "Yeah, thanks, honey."

That was exactly what happened to his father, Kim Jeongyeol. His face was so red, it could easily be mistaken for a tomato. But he continued speaking.

"So, I was thinking, since I got some tickets... maybe I could also cheer on our son while cheering for the team. It’s like a two-for-one deal..."

Click.

His father even played a cheer song, unexpectedly filling the house with energetic cheering sounds, while speaking seriously.

He kept it quiet so Seohyun wouldn’t wake up.

"...I’ll cheer from there."

Kim Donghu patted Seohyun’s back and realized. So this is how talkative my dad is.

'Wait, this is even longer than my actor lines.'

How deep is Dad’s love for baseball? It was a curious thought at that moment.

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