Today was the day my piano teacher was coming.
I got up at my usual time, ate breakfast, and was studying English when Mom opened my bedroom door and came in.
“Our little princess~ Your teacher is coming at two today, so shall we have lunch and then get you dressed?”
“Yeah, I know. What’s for lunch today?”
“Cheese kimchi fried rice, just the way our daughter likes it~ After you eat, Mommy will pick out your clothes for you. Heehee.”
Mom seemed excited at the thought of putting me through another fashion show.
“I don’t like it when you pick my clothes because it takes forever. I’ve already chosen what I’m going to wear.”
“No, Mommy’s going to choose for you~”
Ah... This was truly hell.
After hurriedly eating lunch, I was dragged into Mom’s fashion show and became her fitting model.
After being dressed and undressed for over an hour, I was ultimately put in the checked dress I had tried on first.
If this was how it was going to end, why had we held a fashion show for an entire hour?
—Ding-dong.
“Oh my, the teacher arrived right on time.”
Mom went to the entrance and opened the door for her.
“Welcome. It must have been difficult coming here in the snow, wasn’t it?”
“Not at all. I live nearby, so I got here quickly. Haha.”
The new piano tutor looked like a university student.
And she had a large chest.
Oh.
“Hello.”
“Oh my, hello! What a pretty little princess~ What’s your name?”
“Lee Dohee.”
“Even your name is so pretty~ Ma’am, is this the princess I’ll be teaching?”
“Yes, that’s right. Our daughter is so cute, isn’t she?”
“She really is. I’d love to have a daughter like this someday.”
“Heehee. Our pretty daughter said she wanted to learn piano starting last week, so please take good care of her.”
“Oh my, I didn’t know Dohee was the one who wanted to learn. Then today, I’ll start by teaching her how to read sheet music. Where’s the piano?”
“Ah, the piano is over there in Dohee’s room. We bought an electronic piano. If she keeps working hard at it, we’ll buy her a wooden one later.”
“Ah, I see. Well then, Dohee, shall we go to the room with the piano and study?”
“Yes.”
I could have walked there by myself, but I deliberately held the teacher’s hand as we went.
She was a pretty college girl, after all, so it was fine.
Once we entered my room, she sat me down at the desk.
“Hello. My name is Ju Yeonji. It’s nice to meet you, Dohee.”
“Yes, hello. Please take good care of me.”
“All right. Today, rather than teaching you how to play the piano, I’ll teach you how to read sheet music and the names of the notes.”
“You don’t have to. I already studied that on YouTube.”
“Oh my, are you really five years old, Dohee? You’re amazing!”
Although my body was five years old, my mind was that of an adult. Still, everyone who saw me treated me like a baby, and it was driving me crazy.
“Anyway, I want to learn how to play the piano starting today.”
“Then shall we write the note names on the sheet music I brought? It’ll be easier to play if you write them down.”
The teacher took some sheet music out of her bag and placed it on the desk.
The piece looked very easy.
I immediately wrote in the note names and looked at the teacher.
“Oh my, you really can read music! All right, shall we sit in front of the piano now?”
When we sat down at the piano, the teacher placed the sheet music on the stand.
“All right. I’ll play it first, and then you can play it afterward, okay?”
Then she picked me up, sat down on the bench, and placed me on her lap.
“It might be a little uncomfortable, but I need to play the piano with you. Let’s sit together, okay?”
Once I sat on the teacher’s lap, her large breasts pressed against the back of my head.
Who would have thought I’d experience this sensation as a woman, something I’d never felt in my previous life...
As I rested my head against the comfort of her breasts, I felt my body growing drowsy.
‘Maybe being reborn as a woman wasn’t such a bad thing.’
“All right, I’ll play it first, okay?”
The teacher pressed the keys and began to play, but lulled by the comfort of her chest, I forgot to pay attention to the piano and spaced out.
“All right, shall we have Dohee play now?”
“Please show me one more time.”
“I guess you don’t understand it yet. All right, I’ll play it one more time, so watch carefully, okay?”
Watching the teacher play, it looked easy.
I should be able to do this, too.
“All right, now let’s have Dohee try.”
But even though it was a simple piece, my fingers wouldn’t move the way I wanted them to.
“It’s okay. Let’s take it slowly, one note at a time. Shall we start with the first line?”
In truth, I hadn’t expected to suddenly gain incredible talent and play perfectly just because I had been reborn.
This was only natural. Still, I had no intention of giving up.
“I want to keep trying.”
“Playing quickly isn’t important. Shall we start with one measure, using only your right hand?”
“Yes.”
This was the first instrument I had ever learned in either my previous life or this one.
As I focused and continued playing the piano, I eventually managed to play with one hand accurately, even if I wasn’t very fast.
“Good job. Now shall we try with your left hand?”
Since my left hand wasn’t my dominant hand, it took longer to play properly than it had with my right.
I continued repeating the piece with complete concentration until the teacher called out to me.
It seemed it was already time for her to leave.
“Dohee, I have to go now. Shall we stand up?”
‘I haven’t even played it perfectly yet...’
The teacher lifted me off her lap and helped me stand.
When I turned around, I saw that Mom had entered the room at some point.
“Our little princess is so cute, even when she’s concentrating on the piano. Whose daughter are you?”
Apparently, she had been filming me the entire time I was playing.
Sigh.
The teacher stood up, smiled at Mom, then looked at me and took something out of her bag.
“All right, before I go, I’ll give Dohee some homework.”
It looked like a piano workbook.
“You need to study this if you want to be able to look at sheet music and play it right away. Dohee, you can finish these five pages, from here to here, right?”
“Yes.”
“Ma’am, I’ll be going now. I’ll see you the day after tomorrow.”
“Yes, thank you for your hard work. Goodbye, and be careful on the snowy roads.”
After the teacher left, I went into my room and opened the worksheets she had given me.
They had been made for young children and looked easy, but they seemed like they would take quite a while.
I might as well do them now. There was no reason to put them off until tomorrow.
I had been working on the worksheets for some time when I heard the front door open.
‘Dad must be home from work.’
I had finished more than the five pages the teacher had assigned, but that shouldn’t matter.
I heard Dad’s delighted footsteps approaching my room.
As soon as he opened the door, Dad came toward me with his arms outstretched.
“Our little princess, Daddy’s home, but you didn’t even come say hello. I’m hurt. Sob, sob.”
He said it was because he loved his daughter so much, but I couldn’t exactly stop him. Sigh.
“Welcome home, Dad. But wash your hands first before you hug me. They’re dirty.”
Dad washed his hands, came back, and hugged me.
Sigh. I’d let him play with me for a while, then we could eat dinner.
“What did our daughter do today?”
“I studied piano today.”
“Oh, is that so, princess?”
Sigh...
“Do you want to see me play?”
“Yes, yes. Show me quickly.”
I sat down at the piano and diligently played the piece I had learned that day.
I was still lacking, but it had been a decent performance, hadn’t it?
“Wow, our daughter is incredible! You’re the best.”
It was praise colored by a father’s partiality, but it still made me feel rather proud.
If I became truly good at piano later, I’d be even happier than I was now.
“I’m going to get even better at playing, so you have to buy me a wooden piano, okay?”
“Of course. If our princess is going to play piano, Daddy can’t be stingy. If our Dohee keeps practicing hard, I’ll buy her a wonderful piano, okay?”
Mom’s voice drifted over from somewhere in the distance. It must have been time for dinner.
“Dear, Dohee, dinner’s ready, so come eat~”
Whew. Dad had played with me enough, so now it was time to eat.
I went to the dining table and waited for someone to lift me into my chair.
Once again, Mom took a picture before putting me in the chair.
She must have been uploading a whole series of my photos to social media.
Sigh. I needed to grow taller soon so I could sit down by myself.
“Put me up already! Stop taking pictures.”
It was hard to eat even a single meal around here.
As always, I ate a balanced meal to help myself grow taller, then went to my room to study.
I had been able to take care of English through YouTube lessons, but studying other subjects wasn’t easy without any worksheets.
I felt like I needed some, but how was I supposed to bring it up with Mom and Dad...?
I was afraid they would think I was pretending to be a genius and then be disappointed later, so I hadn’t said anything.
‘But I can’t just avoid studying, either... I should go out and ask.’
I opened my bedroom door and went to my parents, who were chatting as they ate fruit.
“Mom, I want to study elementary school subjects in advance.”
Mom and Dad stared at me with their eyes wide, as if I had just made some explosive declaration.
I had deliberately avoided acting smart since I was little because I was afraid of being disliked, but it was inconvenient now.
From now on, I should show it a little more.
“Our little princess, Mommy doesn’t want you to be doing things like that already. I guess you must have seen some advanced-learning videos on YouTube. Mommy just wants our daughter to grow up pretty and healthy.”
“It’s not like that. I want to do it.”
“Daddy would be happy as long as our daughter grows up healthy while having fun, but do you really want to study?”
“Mm-hmm. I’m going to become someone who’s good at studying. I even learned multiplication by myself on YouTube.”
Mom and Dad looked at each other and laughed, as though they thought I was joking when I said I had studied multiplication by myself.
“Oh, did you? Then what’s eight times seven, princess?”
Mom began giving me questions.
“Fifty-six.”
Mom and Dad looked surprised, apparently not expecting me to know the answer.
“Then what’s four times nine?”
This time, Dad asked the question.
“Thirty-six.”
“Oh my, you really did study by yourself! Honey, our daughter was smart from a young age, just like me. She must really be a genius.”
“Indeed. She really is a genius, just like my darling.”
The two of them were fawning over each other again. Sigh... Why hadn’t I met a partner like that in my previous life?
“Anyway, it would be nice to have some worksheets.”
“All right. Daddy will buy our princess some worksheets. But if you don’t want to do them anymore, you don’t have to. You don’t need to push yourself, okay?”
“Okay.”
Fortunately, Mom and Dad accepted it without any particular suspicion.
I could smoothly move on to middle school and high school subjects later.
Now that the worksheets were taken care of, I should do some jump-rope exercises and stretching.
Come to think of it, I could add piano practice to my daily routine starting today.
I’d finish exercising, practice the piano some more, and then go to sleep.