Chapter 185 – Graduation, New Life (5)
Yuri and Suyeon were able to rest for half a semester after graduating early from Seoul National University.
The two of them were always with me at home when I wasn’t working as a fitting model or filming for YouTube or other broadcasts.
Whether with clothes on or without them.
When I wasn’t filming, I was usually working out or staying home, except when I was invited by another YouTuber or appeared as a guest on a TV show, so I got to spend more time with the two of us.
While we were living like that, early fall.
“Ugh… Ugh…”
After she graduated early and was allowed to play and eat at home for half her semester, Yuri suddenly covered her mouth while watching TV and ran to the bathroom.
At first, she thought she was just feeling sick, but when Suyeon saw that, she felt something instinctively and was so surprised that she got up from the sofa and looked toward the bathroom.
After briefly hearing Yuri retching inside her, she came out of the bathroom.
Then I made eye contact with Suyeon, and they both looked at me as if they felt something.
“Seongjin.”
“Oppa.”
“Huh?”
“Do you have a pregnancy test?”
“Pregnancy test? Wait a minute, then you couldn’t have just thrown up… No, but Yuri, you’ve been taking birth control pills for a long time.”
“That’s true, but… You never know. Whether it’s a condom or a birth control pill, it’s not 100%. I think I need to check.”
I ran to the pharmacy near my house and bought a pregnancy test.
Because of the commotion in the living room, Yumin, who was editing the video in the room, also came out and asked me with wide eyes if she had heard of the situation.
“Baby, Yuri is pregnant? Really?”
“I don’t know yet. Yuri, I’m here.”
“Yes, thank you.”
Yuri went straight back into the bathroom and came out a little while later holding the imprint.
Her expression was an indescribable mixture of all kinds of emotions, and her cheeks were flushed with excitement.
“I… I…”
And Yuri showed her true identity.
There were two pink lines floating there.
“I… Am pregnant.”
“!!!!!”
Yumin and Suyeon both gaped, and I ran over and hugged Yuri.
“Really?! Congratulations, Yuri! You have my baby here!”
“Thank you! But… What should we do now? What about our marriage? It’s a wedding, even if I close my eyes and do something crazy…”
Only one person can register a marriage.
Yuri said she probably wanted to say that.
That’s right, in the past, she was an enemy who fought with her older sister and bickered with Su-yeon all the time, but now that she’s been living with her for over three and a half years, her relationship with all of my female friends has improved considerably, and they treat each other like family.
Yumin and I are a real family.
However, it is also true that now that Yuri has unexpectedly become pregnant, the other three people, including Eun-ji, may be anxious.
Yuri was worried about that.
Now, she didn’t want Yuri to be chosen as the royal family and cast out the rest.
And of course, I had no intention of doing that either.
“Let’s talk about it when Eunji comes home later.”
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Eun-ji heard the news of Yuri’s pregnancy over the phone while she was training, and as soon as she came to her house, she hugged Yuri with joy as if it were her own.
“Congratulations, Yuri! But what do we do now?”
“I’m going to talk about it with everyone. I really can’t imagine Yuri getting pregnant even though she was taking birth control pills. First, thank you all for congratulating me.”
And I laid out what I was thinking.
“Yuri was the first to get pregnant, but as I’ve said before, I have no intention of treating you differently or abandoning you. You know? I-“
“Are women greedy? Who doesn’t know that now?”
Suyeon received the message.
“That’s right. We’ll continue to live like this. It’s just the same as before. But because of the law, only one person can register a marriage. To us, it’s just a piece of paper, but that’s the law anyway… But Yuri got pregnant like this. I think you guys would be too disappointed to just write Yuri’s name right there.”
“That’s right. We were taking birth control pills too.”
“First of all, if you get pregnant and your name is on the marriage certificate, you didn’t even use contraception in the first place.”
“What do you think of Yuri?”
“Honestly, I also have a desire to just put my name on the line…”
Instantly, the other three looked at Yuri with slightly sad expressions.
“We’re going to continue living together, so how can you do something like that? I don’t plan on cutting in line just because I’m pregnant. But in the end, don’t you have to do it?”
“Yes. And the deadline for the promise I made to your parents on graduation day is almost over, and since I’m pregnant like this, we have to think about getting married. So, let’s just be as fair as possible…”
I looked around at the four people and expressed my opinion.
“How about deciding who will register the marriage using rock, paper, scissors?”
“Huh? Rock, paper, scissors? I just barely did that important document with rock, paper, scissors? Is that okay?”
“It would be important for a typical couple. But we are not typical, right? We have one husband and four wives. Of course, it is not recognized under Korean law.”
“Then in the end, there is only one legitimate wife.”
“So, no matter who is decided, there is one thing I have in mind. I will ask the lawyers from the agency’s legal team to stand in attendance and take a video to show that all property and rights are owned equally by the four of you. Umm… On paper, they are a couple. Even if it’s not true, if we do that, we’re practically like a couple, right? The other three people will be less disappointed, right?”
After that, we talked for a while, but in the end, no one could come up with a better way.
The four people agreed to my proposal, but added one additional condition.
“Then promise me this. No matter who wins, everyone else will wear it at the wedding!”
“If you have four weddings, it’s expensive, and it’s hard to attract guests, right? And I don’t want to feel left out!”
“I don’t care if I get criticized and pointed at for being crazy. The four of us have to do the wedding and honeymoon together. Can you promise me that? You said we won’t discriminate, right?”
“Of course I’m okay with it… Are you really okay with it? It’s a once-in-a-lifetime wedding, so you don’t have to be the main character?”
They say a wedding is a woman’s dream.
Is it okay for me not to shine alone in that precious moment that only happens once in my life?
I said it because I was worried about whether everyone would accept it, but…
“Oh my? How many times have we fucked each other in bed together over the past 3 years? Are you suddenly worried about that?”
“I can’t even remember the last time we did something just the two of us.”
“If it were like before, I would have jumped, but why do I feel like it doesn’t really matter now? Have I become strange?”
“Seongjin, you love us the same way, so what are you worried about?”
The four people seemed okay with not being the main characters.
And the four gathered together and hid their hands behind their backs with nervous expressions.
“Okay, it’s a single game! Nae-myeon loses, it’s rock-paper-scissors!!!”
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After that, I cleared my schedule for the next weekend and visited Yuri’s house with Yumin and Yuri.
“Mom, Dad! We’re here!”
“Eldest daughter, younger daughter! Come in quickly. Wasn’t it hard to get here?”
“Seongjin did all the driving, so why?”
“Hello.”
“It’s been a while, Seongjin. It’s her first time since graduation, right? Come in first.”
Yuri’s mother called us inside, and soon she was cutting some of her fruit and bringing it to her table.
Yuri, her father looked somewhat calmer than at her last graduation, but he was still looking at me with a slightly uncomfortable expression.
Last time, I was busy looking down out of guilt, but this time, I confidently faced Yuri’s parents and opened my mouth first.
“Father, mother. I came back to keep the promise I made on graduation day.”
“Okay…”
“Yeah, how could you not know that? She’s a fitting model, a famous YouTuber, and even appeared on You Quiz. Even the lady saw it.”
“You may still think what I’m doing is shameless, but… I’ve really worked hard to become a man without any shortcomings. The deadline I promised back then is almost over, so I wanted to meet you again and tell you.”
“…”
“Father, mother. Give your daughters to me.”
“Oh my-“
“Honey, just stay still.”
Yuri’s father got angry when I boldly demanded both of his daughters and was stopped by his wife.
“I know it seems like I’m crazy, but the four of us have been dating each other since 4 years ago. I was the one who first persuaded them to come over, but now I can’t abandon anyone so irresponsibly. Yuri, Yumin… Of course, the same goes for you. .
I knew it was shameless, so I worked really hard to be able to handle it all. I now have over 700,000 subscribers on YouTube, and my job as a fitting model comes in fairly steadily. You can earn several thousand per month just from Instagram and YouTube profits. Absolutely no one can take responsibility for everything materially and psychologically.
Even though I have virtually no parents and didn’t graduate from college, I can make my girlfriends happy. I can now definitely keep the promise I made to my mother on my graduation day. Please allow our relationship, .”
I said that and put my head down on the table.
“Whoa… Yes, the lady lost. Seongjin, you won.”
“Mother…!”
“It’s been a little less than 4 years since you graduated, right? If you’ve lived a strong enough life to become independent during that time, you’ll do anything. It means you have a sense of responsibility. In fact, all this time, Yumin has been listening to Yuri tell you how hard you work. You only stay at home. “When you come here, we talk about you a lot… Honey, you admit that, right?”
“Hmm…”
Yuri’s mother took that as a positive and ultimately acknowledged my victory.
“When I talked to the kids, they kept saying that they were really happy with you. You said they were living together, right? The kids said they were happy, but no matter how much I told them, they wouldn’t listen… What can I do as a parent? They are happy. But she has the ability to do that, so she won’t say anything about your relationship.”
“You… Huh… Yes, my daughters are like that, so you tolerate it… But if you make them even a little bit unhappy, then…”
“That will never happen. I swear with everything I have.”
Her father closed her eyes tightly, tilted her head back, and sighed, and her mother looked at me and her daughters with an expression that was half resigned and half proud.
After many discussions with Eunji’s parents in Manila, she succeeded in persuading them, and thus also persuaded Yuri’s parents, which was her last obstacle.
So now all that’s left is…
“Mom, Dad. Actually, I have something to confess.”
“?”
At Yuri’s words, her parents’ eyes turned to their second daughter.
“I… Actually, I’m pregnant with Seongjin’s baby! It’s 5 weeks now!”
“!!!!!”
In front of her startled parents, Yuri continued to make bombshell declarations.
“And from now on, I’m going to start looking into marriage arrangements with Seongjin! Of course, her older sister and the other kids too!”
