The director suddenly appeared behind Abel, who seemed to have lost his composure as if he was flustered, with loud cheers. He was making such a fuss that anyone who saw him would have thought he had heard the news that his nephew was born.

“Oh my, the baby is going to have a baby! How cute, huh? I wish he looked just like Leoruka. Oh, have you decided on a godfather? Nana na na na! Can’t I do it?”

“Haha, he wasn’t even born yet, Director.”

“But I think I’ll have to line up early. The competition for godfathers will be fierce! When is the due date? By the way, is it a boy or a girl? Was Leoruka a gray wolf? Then is it a gray wolf mini-me? I want to see it soon, yeah!”

He couldn’t say anything and just smiled. It seemed like the director and the director Bruno would end up bickering.

“This is my child.”

“When is the due date… Huh? What, what did you say?”

The director, who had been jumping around excitedly and not knowing what to do, suddenly stopped. It was because of Chase, who had been standing silently, suddenly blurted out a bombshell. The surroundings suddenly became as quiet as a mouse.

Chase looked back at the director, who had frozen like a statue, and at Abel, who was frozen with his eyes wide open, and smiled wryly.

Then he pulled me by the shoulders, gestured to his stomach with his chin, and spoke in a proud tone.

“I’m his dad. He is a black panther baby.”

“…”

“…”

“…”

The director’s mouth gaped open like a nutcracker. Chase reached out and closed his mouth. Then, he looked at Abel, who couldn’t even blink, and smiled brightly with a face that was almost too pretty to be annoying.

“That’s why I can’t send Leo here alone, senior.”

“…”

Abel’s expression slowly grew colder, perhaps because of his face, which seemed to be arrogantly saying. “I won?” was either ridiculously handsome or because he found it annoying. It seemed like the medicine had really taken effect.

The expression that had always been affectionate and gentle had completely cracked. It seemed as if he was trying to forcefully raise the corners of his mouth, but the way his lips were trembling was so pitiful.

But what are you winning at? What are you competing with Senior Abel for? Could it be me?

As soon as that thought occurred to me, my mind snapped. No matter how I looked at it, this was like a love triangle where I was waging a war of nerves with my rival in front of the person I had a crush on. Am I being an axe-wielding man right now?

I covered my mouth with both hands in a hurry, as if I was going to scream without realizing it. My cheeks were burning and my heart was pounding loudly. I didn’t know if my heart would burst out of my mouth.

For a while now, only one thought has been spinning in my head. What should I do with this? What should I do with this?

Chase really likes me!

“They said the two of you were going to meet…”

It really was, or maybe we were still dating. Abel looked at me with a face that seemed to want to say something like that but held back. It seemed like he still didn’t believe me when I timidly told him that Chase and I were meeting at the year-end party.

But Abel’s eyes were shaking wildly, as if he wanted to question how he had a baby out of nowhere. He shrugged his shoulders and thought to himself.

‘It’s because I’m a sinful soul.’

Maybe Chase liked me from that time? It was love at first sight the moment I was possessed! What should I do? It wasn’t me! Chase is the only one who’s going through this difficult unrequited love!

“Why are you acting like you’re crazy?”

Chase, who had his face pressed close to my ear, whispered in my ear. My cheeks were red for no reason, and I waved my arms around, asking when I had ever been so sloppy. Chase looked dumbfounded and grabbed my wrist.

“What were you imagining by yourself that made your face turn red? Huh?”

“No? I didn’t blush at all. Did Chase see if my face was red or not?”

“What are you saying? I’m watching you right now.”

“No, it’s just… It’s cold!”

“You’re saying it’s cold? Winter is almost over?”

“I guess it’s because I’m pregnant! Why isn’t Chase the one who’s cold when I’m cold?”

“Why are you getting upset again? Are you hungry, puppy?”

Chase took off his denim jacket and placed it over my head, looking dumbfounded. The hood of the jacket fell off, blocking my view.

“What should I buy? I saw there’s a taco place nearby.”

“Hmm I’m not in the mood for tacos right now.”

“then?”

“Um… Samgyetang?”

“Here?”

“Yeah, I want to eat……”

I hadn’t thought much about it until a moment ago, but the moment Chase asked what I wanted to eat, a picture of a hen lying in a pot with its legs crossed suddenly came to mind and my mouth started watering.

Of course, Chase didn’t know what Samgyetang was originally. But one day, when I felt like I was going to pass out if I didn’t eat Samgyetang right away, I grabbed Chase and cried and told him that I wanted to eat something similar to chicken soup, but I wanted to call it Samgyetang. He calmed me down and told me to speak slowly.

So I explained, sniffling, that it was a soup dish made by buying a trimmed chicken, cutting open its belly, filling it with glutinous rice, twisting its legs, and boiling it with various ingredients. Then Chase took out an ice cream cone and gave it to me, told me to play, and when he came back from shopping, he quickly made it just as I said. Although he made a face and asked me if I really had to twist its legs.

“It’s not me, it’s Yeon-tan who wants to eat…”

After that, Chase often cooked Samgyetang for me. But it was a bit much to suddenly look for Samgyetang in the middle of a movie set. When Yeontan was added as an excuse in a slightly timid voice, Chase smiled with a sigh and pinched my cheek.

“Why are you saying that? What you want to eat is more important than Yeontan.”

“…Is that so?”

“That’s true, but samgyetang here?”

“…”

“Should I buy chicken now? Is there a kitchen here?”

“I don’t think so…”

I had no choice but to put off eating Samgyetang, I should stop by the mart on the way home to buy groceries. Or, it would be delicious to boil it with kalguksu like a whole chicken, I have never tried a whole chicken before. Thinking about it, my mouth started watering again.

But if I want to eat kalguksu, do I have to buy flour, knead the dough, and make hand-made noodles? Looking at Chase’s arms, I think he could make hand-made noodles well.

I must have completely lost focus as I tried to keep up with my thoughts that were floating endlessly into the air. Chase called out to me, waving his palm in front of my eyes.

“Puppy, wake up. Are you dizzy from hunger?”

“No, I said no. What, where did everyone go?”

“We started filming while you were mumbling and shouting at the water level. Did you fall asleep while standing up? You were drooling.”

A long finger came up and wiped my lips. Feeling a little awkward, I avoided Chase’s gaze and looked around. Abel was standing close to the director, saying that it wasn’t my turn to shoot, and was turning away from me.

I looked at that sight and muttered without thinking.

“He said he would show me around the filming set, but he left.”

Did Chase’s behavior make you feel bad? Well, Chase was a bit strange in front of the director and Abel. I absentmindedly thought about that scene and started to laugh. I didn’t know why I was laughing like this all along.

“Who is showing whom? Why is he talking nonsense while filming when he is getting paid a lot of money for his work? Does that make sense?”

“Okay, okay.”

Oh my, that black panther is so jealous, what should I do?

Stop being jealous and let’s just look around. I grabbed Chase’s arm and walked towards the filming set. The old-fashioned period film set looked charming at first glance. It looked even more atmospheric than the movie background depicted in the original. It could be that the investment was much greater than before, so things have changed.

“What do you think, do you think the movie will be good?”

“What would I know?”