Chapter 409: – The father caring for Lin Jin
Before seven o’clock the next day, Lin Jin was woken up by the noises in the living room. She got up and groggily walked out of the bedroom, only to find that her dad was mopping the floor.
Hey, we’ve lived together for so many years, and you've never once done any cleaning. What the hell is up with you cleaning now?
And she had just mopped the floor yesterday, alright?
Lin Jin stood dumbfounded at her bedroom door, watching her dad clumsily mop the floor. She helplessly scratched her messy long hair, completely at a loss for words.
Maybe she should just go back to sleep!
But her dad noticed her and immediately called out to her with a smile: "I’ve bought breakfast for you. Come eat."
"It's wok paste soup with fried dough sticks, your favorite."
But Lin Jin wasn’t moved at all by her dad’s attempt to please her. In fact, her face turned dark.
Has her dad never tried the wok paste soup around here? It was all too strong, using all kinds of who knows what seasoning to create a seafood flavor. People like Lin Jin who could basically be considered to have grown up eating seafood everyday felt sick just smelling it.
On top of that, the thick, somewhat dark soup with all those weird ingredients, when compared to the authentic wok paste soup back home, was just downright disgusting, okay?
Lin Jin glanced at the bowl of wok paste soup her dad had placed on the table. Seeing its dark, ominous color made her face turn even darker.
It looked no different from the wok paste soup she had last time, probably just as inedible.
Not only was it inedible, but the overwhelming seafood flavor just made people sick.
She immediately took two steps back, staring at the bowl of wok paste soup as if it were some kind of dark cuisine.
She even wondered if her dad was deliberately trying to poison her.
“What’s wrong? Come, have breakfast" her dad said to her with a gentle look.
“No need. I’m going to sleep a bit more. I have class at eight.” Lin Jin turned around and went back into her room, yawning as she continued “When I’m back at noon, I’ll take you to rent a place. You can sleep a bit more in the morning, anyways there’s nothing else for you to do.”
With that, she locked the door, flopped back onto her bed, yawned and wrapped herself in her quilt.
So sleepy, she didn’t seem to have slept well last night.
Even though the weather was getting warmer, she somehow woke up from the cold twice last night. Now, her stomach actually started hurting a bit. When she touched her belly, it felt extremely cold.
Lying in bed, Lin Jin thought she’d fall back asleep within a few minutes. But she found she wasn’t sleepy anymore as soon as she laid down. After staring blankly for a while, she didn’t bother getting up and instead pulled out her phone, deciding to play around on it until 7:30.
Anyway, there was enough time if she left for class around 7:50, so there was no need to get up so early. If it wasn’t for the fact that she was now a girl and had to deal with her long hair, Lin Jin could’ve even stayed in bed until 7:45 before washing up.
However, her dad didn’t let her stay in bed as she planned. About ten minutes later, he finished cleaning the living room and ran over to Lin Jin’s bedroom, knocking nonstop on the door.
“Get up for breakfast. Skipping breakfast is bad for your health.” Her dad knocked on the door and called out to Lin Jin in a concerned tone “Skipping breakfast is bad for your health.”
Sigh, what’s with you suddenly caring about me so much?
It was hard for Lin Jin to adapt to her dad showing concern like this. After all, before she was ten, he had always been busy with work. After ten, her parents got divorced and he basically didn’t pay her any mind. Not to mention breakfast, he wouldn’t say a word even if she spent all night at an internet cafe. It was better if it were her mom as she had always disciplined Lin Jin, but her dad suddenly acting all caring made Lin Jin feel a bit weird.
Feeling annoyed by the noise, Lin Jin simply changed into some casual clothes, opened the bedroom door, and walked out. She coldly glanced at her father, then said without concealing her disdain at all “The wok paste soup here in Xiamen is inedible. Why didn’t you try it yourself first? The color alone is off.”
“Is that so?” Her dad then realized and awkwardly laughed “Then are you heading to class now?”
“Not yet. I’m leaving at fifty. Stop bothering me.”
Lin Jin sighed, feeling completely at a loss with her dad’s sudden arrival. She just hoped that renting him a place this afternoon would go smoothly.
She ran to the bathroom to freshen up and then carefully tied her long hair into a ponytail before the mirror.
Although tying a ponytail wasn’t exactly a complicated task, Lin Jin still spent more than ten minutes doing her hair to make it look more beautiful.
She clipped a cute hairpin on her bangs to keep them out of her eyes, tilted her head and puffed out her cheeks in front of the mirror. Only then did Lin Jin feel satisfied and decide to head out for class.
“Want me to walk you there?” The helpless father sitting on the sofa saw Lin Jin ready to leave and immediately stood up, attentively saying “I can also go see what your school is like.”
“No need.”
Lin Jin remained indifferent. She grabbed the keys from the coffee table and put them in her pocket. She walked to the door, put on her height increasing shoes and instantly felt her height had gone up a level. Then she closed the door and left without saying goodbye to her dad.
Only after she was out did Lin Jin realize that there was only one set of keys and it had just been taken by her. This meant that her dad wouldn’t be able to go out all morning.
Leisurely walking down the street, Lin Jin took out her phone and called her mom, wanting to ask what was going on with her dad.
The call quickly connected. Her mom seemed to have just woken up and sounded a bit groggy.
“Hello, Lin Jin?”
“Yeah.” Lin Jin nodded and got straight to the point “Mom, do you know what’s up with dad? He suddenly borrowed 500 yuan from me and then showed up at my rental apartment here in Xiamen and said he wanted to do business here.”
Her mom was completely confused and had no idea what was going on. She just said a: “Ah?”
“I don’t know about this. Is he with you right now?” Her mom asked. “I’ll ask him.”
“I’m going to class.” Lin Jin sighed. “He’s at my place and it’s so annoying. Also, he’s acting all caring, it’s making me uncomfortable.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll talk to him and figure it out. You go to class.” Her mom frowned, muttering to herself “This guy, what’s he up to now? He can’t ever seem to just settle down.”
After hanging up the phone, Lin Jin, who didn’t get an answer from her mom, was still curious about what was going on with her dad. So, what did her dad actually come here for? There’s no way he’s really here to do business, right?
Thinking it over carefully, Lin Jin still didn’t believe her dad would suddenly turn over a new leaf. After all, it had been so many years. Nothing had happened recently that would push him to change like that.
Could it be that he found the casinos in Xiamen easier to blow money on?
Translator’s Note: Wok Paste Soup / Ding Bian Hu / 锅边糊. Basically some flour poured along the edge of a wok that is then put into soup.