Tensegrity

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Thank you for Ko-fi @nonchi. So sorry that I’ve been busy with work to sit down and translate.

 

Sitting at the edge of the table in an open-style cafe in the middle of a large mall, Jun-Kyung looked around while drinking his ice-Americano. It’s because the party he was with disappeared while he was picking up coffee for a while.

“Oh, Mina. Again and again.”

Jun-Kyung should’ve recognized that the moment when his daughter who was sitting well in the stroller suddenly asked for a hug from President Min between the two of them.

In the short time that Jun-Kyung was ordering an order, President Min must have been dragged.

“How did she even see the toy store?”

When Jun-Kyung checked the stroller in the elevator going up to the mall, she was clearly asleep. He doesn’t understand how she could suddenly wake up like a ghost as soon as they pass the display of a pink shelf.

At some point, colorful toys appeared in a house filled with achromatic colors and simple wooden or leather materials. The rarely used 3rd floor piano room was organized and turned into a playroom.

At first, it was well-organized, but after Mina followed her dad up and down from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor, leaving traces in every nook and cranny, the playroom became just a toy storage.

All kinds of toys from the storage room overflowed into the living room.

Jun-Kyung chose a calm light gray color carpet to match the cold and sophisticated marble floor, but he suddenly felt dizzy when he thought of the baby mat that was smeared with various crayons and the car full of all kinds of baby items, dolls, and wet wipes.

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“They’ll be back soon.’

Anyway, who dares to touch Hyun-seung Min, now promoted to the President of Taewon Conglomerate? It’s just tiring to worry about useless things. Jun-Kyung better just enjoy his little bit of free time while he has time.

It’s a popular shopping mall, so it’s a bit crowded. Since it was a weekday morning, it was easy to secure space for a stroller. He can’t block traffic, so he grabbed a seat at a table on the edge of the cafe and parked the stroller next to it. When Jun-Kyung is with Mina, he can’t afford to do anything else for a moment. He should check the accumulated messages while waiting.

He found a photo that caught his eye while checking the daily messages.

Only the chin appeared out in the preview picture under the link, but no matter how he looked at it, it was clear that it was President Min.

When he clicked on the link, he was connected to a portal blog that collects gossip on the Internet.

The post with this title started with several photos taken on the same day and in the same place.

He could see the background of the banquet hall familiar to his eyes.

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“Ah, this day.”

The memory was vivid.

It was the day of an event hosted by the government. At that time, perhaps because Children’s Day was near, the grandchildren of the business world were accompanied by their grandchildren, including Taewon Chairman and his son Hyun-Seung Min, Taewon TIC president.

He couldn’t forget it because he had been in a lot of trouble since that morning.

President Min, wearing a gray three-piece suit and a purple tie, wore black sunglasses with his hair well combed as he always does when he goes to work. It was an important event that attracted mass media attention, and children were invited to attend, so it was made public.

The chairman, who wanted to brag about his granddaughter, asked Jun-Kyung to dress Mina well and to bring her.

At first, Jun-Kyung searched for luxury children’s clothes, but after, he deliberately visited a domestic hanbok designer and matched a small handbok korean dress because of the secretary’s concern that wearing a young baby overseas luxury clothes could lead to gossip.

The dress was very cute and pretty with a light gray check pattern and white cotton lace.

The problem was Mina.

She was the person who said she liked it when she tried it on the day before, but she cried and cried and said she wouldn’t wear it the morning of the day.

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The dress itself wasn’t the problem. It’s just that Mina’s mood that day was a sky-blue princess dress. How could a child who can’t even talk be so picky about what she wears?

She made a fuss about wearing a light blue dress full of beads that she had bought before and which she hadn’t worn twice.

If Jun-Kyung had a lot of time, he would scold her, but he has no choice as the schedule was tight that day and the chairman was secretly looking forward to it. Jun-Kyung and the President Min who were already exhausted could not stop the little devil.

The little devil, who won by crying, eventually got into the car. Jun-Kyung quickly saw off President Min and his daughter and immediately came back home and collapsed. Then, he slept the whole time.

Mina always likes to sleep in President Min’s arm when she’s outside because she finds them comfortable. President Min, who hugged the little devil with one arm, seemed to have a fatigue that’s not covered by sunglasses. There was also a plastic princess wand stuck in President Min’s suit pocket.

The media seemed to have taken that picture while President Min was standing blankly at the edge of the venue. There was even a joke that chaebol Alpha, no matter how much money they have, is equal in front of children.

Returning to the group chat, there was laughters. The colleague who is married and has kids expressed condolences while talking about their experiences with children.

While the parenting comrades encouraged each other and chatted for a while, President Min and his “master” appeared.

“Daddy!”

Instead of her huge doll or toy box, Mina was wearing a colorful flower headband and smiled at Jun-Kyung as she held out her plump arms. As expected, Mina was fine. However, the moment his gaze turned to President Min holding Mina, Jun-kyung almost spit out his coffee.

“Pfft.”

Even as he reflexively stood up to accept the baby who was coming Jun-kyung’s eyes were always on President Min.

As expected, it’s hard to hold Mina all the time even with steel strength.

President Min immediately slumped down in his chair and immediately emptied half of the ice-America at once. In the meantime, the flower decoration on his headband showed off his splendid appearance towards Jun-Kyung.

Like a crow who is obsessed with swaying and sparkling objects, Mina had colorful flowers in her hands.

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“Is it that funny?”

“Yes.”

President Min’s eyes wavered at Jun-Kyung’s firm answer, and his hand slipped over his head.

“No!”

However, as soon as President Min made an action to take off the flower crown, Mina started making a fuss. President Min has no choice.

“Does Dad really have to wear it? Can’t he take it off?”

“No!”

Junkyung tried to coax her, but it was useless. There was stubbornness dripping from her dark eyes that were unique to the Min family. Just look at how those small lips are twisted.

If he forcibly removes it, the next target may be Jun-Kyung. He didn’t want to risk it in exchange for President Min’s embarrassment.

It’s been a long time since they had time together. This was a rare vacation after completing the project that’s been working on for the past two years. Overseas business trips were so frequent that there were times Jun-Kyung wandered around the house sadly looking for President Min.

It was nice that they came out to spend precious break time together.

Even on a weekday morning, there were quite a few people because it was a famous shopping mall complex in the middle of a big city.

President Min, who radiates an overwhelming aura, and Jun-kyung, standing next to him, drew attention because they were an unusual group of two young men with a baby.

Still, since he’s not a celebrity, Jun-Kyung came out thinking that it would be okay to go shopping quietly and eat out normally. The damn flower headband was the problem.

A splendid flower swaying from the top of the head of a 2meters tall handsome man, who at first glance, looks like the head of a gang. It would be better to walk around wearing a balloon dinosaur set.

“Look at that, isn’t it Hyun-seung Min?”

“Who is Hyun-Seung Min?”

“That handsome 3rd generation conglomerate.”

“It must be his husband is next to him.”

There were quite a few people who recognized President Min, who married a male omega and raised a daughter with a perfect personality. Who wouldn’t pay attention to a huge man with cheap flowers in his hair?

Passers-by secretly took pictures. It wasn’t just one or two people, so it couldn’t be stopped. Relaxing shopping trips and normal dining out schedules were eventually canceled.

Instead, Jun-Kyung decided to have lunch at the parent’s house, which always serves delicious food whenever they visit. When asked if she wanted to visit the grandparents, Mina got even more excited.