Encouragement Under the Spotlight Chapter 10

After hanging up the phone, Professor Jin went out and saw her leaning on the sofa with her eyes closed, about to fall asleep again. He quickly pulled her arm and said, "Go back to bed with your mother, okay? Come on, get up."

If she just slept here like this, how could she, who was only 165cm tall, carry her, who was 173cm tall, back to the bedroom?

Ava was so sleepy and wanted to sleep, but someone kept moving her and wouldn't let her sleep. She struggled to break free from the hand that was holding her arm and opened her eyes a little angrily.

Seeing that it was Professor Jin in front of him, Ava's frown relaxed, and just after smiling, his expression suddenly changed again, and he said in surprise: "Where is my New Year's money! Mom, I can't find... New Year's money, what should I do?"

As he said this, he did the same thing as before, touching his body up and down where his pockets were, with a look of grievance on his face.

Professor Jin: "......." She was indeed drunk.

Raising his hand and patting her butt, Professor Jin pulled out the envelope that was pressed under her butt and handed it to her: "Here, it's not lost. It's here."

"Thank you, mom~" Ava took the envelope and thanked Professor Jin with a smile, then muttered to himself: "Where should I put it... Such an important thing... I must keep it well!"

After turning her head and looking around the room, she pulled the collar of her T-shirt and stuffed the envelope into her clothes. She raised her hand and patted the outside of her clothes, and smiled with satisfaction: "It won't get lost if I put it here...right..."

"Let's go, it's time for us to go to bed, mom." She looked up at Professor Jin and stood up slowly.

As soon as he stood up, the envelope fell out from the hem of his clothes. Ava lowered his head and stared at it for a while, then bent down to pick it up and asked in confusion: "Besides my mother and Aunt Tian, did anyone else give me New Year's money? How come there is another one!"

"Who cares~" She stuffed the envelope back into her collar, pressed it with her hands outside her clothes, lowered her head and smiled: "Anyway, it's all mine now~"

It turns out that her daughter is not only cute when she is drunk, but also silly. If you combine the two sentences, it would be... silly and cute!

Professor Jin: "... everything that's yours is yours, go to bed now."

Ava smiled and nodded stupidly: "Yeah, go to sleep."

After finally helping the drunk Ava to lie down, Professor Jin touched the sweat beads on his forehead, looked at the equally dense sweat beads on her forehead, nodded her head and walked to the bathroom.

When Professor Jin came back with a wet towel and was about to wipe her face, Ava, who had been lying down, suddenly sat up.

She tried to open her eyes and looked around for something. When she saw the phone on the bedside table, she smiled and murmured, "Finally I found you! How dare you hide!"

Professor Jin: What are you doing? Aren't you sleepy? Don't you want to go to bed? Girl, go to sleep, okay?

The phone was dialed, Ava lowered his head to the phone and whispered: "Caleb~"

Professor Jin: "It's that brat again!!!"

After she shouted "Caleb~" more than a dozen times and told the person on the other end of the phone several times that she was not drunk, she finally got to the point of the call.

Ava said in a voice even smaller than before: "I want to tell you a secret!"

On the other end of the phone, Caleb, who was 100% sure that she was drunk, asked patiently: "Really? What secret do you want to tell me?"

"I love you."

"I really really really love you. I love you so much."

After saying that, the two of them were silent for a while, and then Ava said in a drunken voice: "Hang up, I still have to call my mom and tell her that I really love her."

Without giving Caleb time to talk, Ava quickly hung up the phone, then fell on the bed, covering his face and grinning foolishly.

At the door, Professor Jin held up a towel and said, "Aren't you going to call my mom?"

"Yes! I also have to call my mom!" Ava, who was lying there with a silly smile, sat up again, fumbled with his cell phone and started calling again.

The cell phone rang in the living room, and Professor Jin turned to the living room to answer the call.

After calling her "Ou Ma" more than ten times in a row, Ava said, "Ou Ma, I really really really really really love you. I love you very much, I love you very much, I love you very much."

Professor Jin replied hoarsely: "I know."

"I promise to be a good boy and I will always love you, okay?"

Professor Jin wiped away the tears from her eyes and replied, "Okay, I promise you, I will always love you, forever."

The person in the bedroom stopped talking, only the sound of his slow breathing reached her ears through the phone.

The wine glasses were washed and put away, the music was turned off, and the candles on the coffee table were blown out. After Professor Jin finished cleaning up everything, he returned to the bedroom. Ava was already sleeping soundly on the bed.

She threw back the quilt and lay down, looking at Ava's hands still on her stomach, tightly pressing the envelope in her clothes.

She lowered her head and placed a gentle ki33 on Ava's forehead: "Mom loves you, forever and ever, no matter if you are good or not, I will love you."

After waking up the next day, Ava didn't believe at all what Professor Jin said about him being drunk last night.

How could she do that! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Although... when she woke up, the envelope containing the New Year's money was indeed under her body.

No! My mom must have done it on purpose. She put the envelope on the bed to tease her!

Professor Jin: Why didn’t I take a video yesterday? Really!!!

Putting aside the incident of getting drunk that day, the few days during the Spring Festival holiday were simply the most leisurely days in her life.

I get up at nine in the morning, make breakfast and then call Professor Jin to get up. After breakfast, the two of us snuggle on the sofa and chat about all kinds of red and green lines in the stock market.

Normally, Professor Jin would talk about his years of experience and tell her some of the insights he had summed up, and then Ava would sit aside and look at the computer screen, nodding and learning, "Oh, so that's how it is~".

By noon, Ava searched for recipes from all over the world on the Internet. As compensation for not being able to travel with her, he and Professor Jin studied and tried together. Some of the food they made was delicious, while others were very unpalatable despite no idea what had happened.

The usual scene is that Ava is cutting the food in her hand, while Professor Jin is standing by and eating snacks, pointing at her and saying, "Smaller, smaller. The recipe says to cut it into two centimeters, but you see it's too big, it's almost three centimeters."

Ava looked helpless: "Aren't there two more words in front of it? How about that? Mom, can you bring me a ruler?"

"Hehehe, that's it~~~~" Professor Jin smiled and fed her a handful of snacks in his hand: "Keep going."

After lunch, the two of them would curl up on the sofa and watch a movie or variety show. When they saw something funny, Professor Jin would pat Ava's thigh and laugh.

Ava looked at her puzzledly and asked, "Is it so funny?"

Professor Jin's response was usually to pat her thigh, then laugh and nod wildly.

She didn't know what was so funny about the scenes in the movie, but she turned her head to look at Professor Jin with a smile in her eyes.

Whenever he saw something touching or sad, Professor Jin would sob and hug his knees or lean on Ava's shoulder, with red eyes and nose.

Ava was handing me a tissue and asked calmly, "Are you so touched?"

Professor Jin stared at her with tearful eyes and asked again and again: "Aren't you moved?"

Under her "tyrannical power", Ava could only nod and be moved together. After the movie was over, he silently added: "I won't watch the movie with my mom tomorrow."

Then... the next day, she was still handing me tissues, and whispered at the end of the movie, "Don't watch a movie with my mom tomorrow."

A mother with rich emotions and a heart as young as a girl, and a daughter who often has no expression and can't understand the funny or crying points in the eyes of the public, watched many movies together in a few days.

The Spring Festival holiday is over, and people who returned home for reunion have begun to return to work, and the quiet Seoul has returned to its normal state.

Although the university has not started yet and Professor Jin does not have to teach, she still has company matters to deal with, so it is impossible for her to stay with Ava like she has done in the past few days.

"I don't want to go to work~~~~" Professor Jin, who was packing up to go home, looked up at Ava and said, "If I come home after a busy day at get off work and see my dear daughter waiting for me at home, my fatigue will definitely be swept away."

Ava: "......." I can't refuse...

Firstly, Professor Jin’s reasons were so convincing that she couldn’t refuse. Secondly, she actually wanted to stay with her mother for a few more days.

Once she starts to get busy, she doesn’t know how long it will be before she can see her mother again. She has to cherish every moment she can spend with her mother.

In the end, she obediently packed her things and followed him back to Professor Jin's home.

Actually, packing up things doesn't mean packing her clothes or anything like that. Everything she usually wears and uses is there, even more and more complete than here.

What she meant by tidying up actually was taking out all the stock in the refrigerator and then turning off the power in the house. Anyway, judging from her schedule in the near future, she wouldn't have time to come back and live here in the short term.

During the day, Professor Jin was busy at the company, so Ava also stayed in the company's composition studio for the whole day, learning and trying to compose his own music.

Then he would rush home before Professor Jin got off work, prepare dinner and wait for her to come home.

Some time ago, she studied with Lee Soo Man whenever she had free time. Then Lee Soo Man assigned her a lot of homework and gave her some completed songs, asking her to learn to write lyrics.

I hope the theme of this song is about love, and the theme of that song is to criticize the unfairness of society. It would be better if the lyrics of this song were a little cuter, and that song should be a little more domineering, explaining a lot to her.

At the end, he said to her in a considerate manner: "It's just the beginning, so the difficulty will be lowered a little. Just write the lyrics in Chinese."

Ava: "......."Simple...b*llsh*t!

For someone like her, when everyone else is crying while watching a movie, but she is the only one with a straight face, the point is not the language, but that she simply cannot grasp that emotion.

Maybe he discovered her problem, so he assigned her these homeworks according to her situation.

Ava's method is to listen to music, read books and watch movies constantly, trying to make up for the emotional gaps she has lost.