Chapter 585: – Three consecutive denials!
Time passed little by little. By the time news of Lin Jin’s pregnancy made it to most of her relatives, her mom also arrived at her home.
Carrying a big bag of stuff, she knocked on the door of Lin Jin’s apartment. The one who greeted her was Xia Tian, this man who had already decided to stay home every day during this period to take care of Lin Jin.
“Mom, good afternoon.”
Xia Tian very naturally called Lin Jin’s mom “mom” and welcomed her in with a smile.
“You still know to call me mom?” Lin Jin’s mom rolled her eyes “But you didn’t come to the North Station to pick me up, causing me to search all day for this place.”
She had been here last year, but back then, Lin Jin and Xia Tian hadn’t moved yet. Now that they moved to a new place, she got a little lost.
“It can’t be helped. Lin Jin is streaming right now, I was afraid that if I left, Lin Jin would get riled up by the chat. It wouldn’t be good if she got angry.” Xia Tian smiled and poured a glass of water for her, then washed a few apples and placed them on the coffee table.
“Lin Jin is still streaming, I’ll call her out.”
“Why are you guys still playing around with this live stream thing?” Mom frowned a bit “You’ve been streaming for so many years, aren’t you tired of it?”
“Streaming occasionally is still okay, and it can even cover the rent every month.”
Xia Tian laughed as he went into the streaming room to call Lin Jin out. He then sat before the computer to take over the stream.
Lin Jin was playing Dota today, it wasn’t like her usual single player games that could be paused at any time so Xia Tian had to go cover for her.
Lin Jin was called to the living room by Xia Tian and immediately saw her mom looking at her with a smile.
“My stepdad didn’t come?”
She had already expected her mom’s visit, but then she noticed the big bag placed by her mom’s feet: “There’s so much, what did you buy?”
“Gifts for my grandchild!”
Her mom opened the bag with a smile and then started taking the things out one by one.
Baby bottles, diapers, all kinds of boys’ and girls’ baby clothes, and even some weird little baby toys.
Lin Jin’s expression darkened.
“No, I’m only a little over a month pregnant. Why did you buy all this stuff?”
“It’s just eight or nine months away, we definitely have to prepare early!” Her mom righteously said “Back then, I wasn’t even pregnant yet and your grandma already bought you a bunch! I also thought it might have been too early at the time, but only later I realized that you won’t even want to leave the house in the later months of pregnancy, let alone go out to buy these things.”
“No, we have online shopping now.”
Lin Jin rolled her eyes: “And the delivery people here will directly drop it off at my door.”
Her mom also didn’t continue saying anything. She just touched Lin Jin’s belly, and then curiously asked: “Did you check yet? Boy or girl?”
“It’s only one month, what are we checking? It’s still a lump of meat, okay?”
Even though Lin Jin had already spent a year out in society, she was still like a child in front of her mom. She sat cross legged on the sofa, half leaned her body against her mom, and then continued to complain: “Xia Tian also has problems. I’m only a month along, yet he won’t let me go to work. Causing me to stay home every day like a salted fish.”
“And he even makes me go downstairs and walk for an hour every day, saying more exercise is good for the baby. What good for the baby, what if I get bumped into by someone and the baby’s gone?”
“Nonsense!”
Lin Jin laughed out loud: “Anyway, he just has problems. It’s only one month and he’s treating me like I’m his ancestor. I suspect he’s just worshiping the baby in my belly.”
“Men are all like this. When I was pregnant, your baby also treated me this way. Later when you and Lin Chen both grew up, he started messing around.”
Mom let out a sigh: “Oh right, what do you think of that uncle? I’m planning to wait a couple years and then marry him.”
“I think he’s fine? Looking at him, he doesn’t seem like the kind of person dad is. You observe a few more years and see how it goes?” Lin Jin tilted her head and asked “Why didn’t he come? Isn’t he supposed to be together with you all the time now?”
“He’s managing the store.”
Her mom’s clothing store hadn’t been growing. But after her step dad joined in, the online sales have increased a lot. Now, her mom had even bought a small house in the city, seemingly planning on using it as their wedding home.
“Oh~”
The two suddenly fell silent, and the atmosphere in the living room became somewhat awkward.
But a moment later, Xia Tian finished his game and walked out. Smiling, he asked Lin Jin’s mom: “Mom, how long are you staying this time?”
“That depends on how long it takes Lin Jin to learn how to take care of children.”
Mom smiled and reached out to ruffle Lin Jin’s hair: “You don’t look like you’ve changed at all these past few years. At most, your temperament got a little more mature. Can’t you change up our hairstyle or something?”
“Long hair is quite nice, I’m used to it.”
“Go get a wavy perm, it’ll look great.”
“Ugh, I don’t like that.”
Lin Jin vigorously shook her head in refusal: “And perming is too damaging to your hair. Just a slight trim normally is fine. For formal occasions, tying it in a ponytail is enough, why get a perm?”
“Perming your hair increases your charm! What if Xia Tian suddenly finds other girls are prettier than you?”
Xia Tian, off to the side, was dumbfounded as he looked up at Lin Jin’s mom.
What did this have to do with him?
Lin Jin glanced over at Xia Tian and thoughtfully took Xia Tian’s phone he had set on the coffee table.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m looking at the photos on your phone.”
Xia Tian immediately panicked: “Hey! Don’t, there’s nothing inside!”
But Lin Jin had already unlocked the phone. Opening the photos, she found that the photos were organized in three groups.
One group was Xia Tian’s phone screenshots. The other group had the most photos and were basically all pictures of herself. As for the last group, it was all photos of beautiful women.
Even though there weren’t that many, maybe twenty or thirty in total, Lin Jin still narrowed her eyes slightly.
Her mom took a quick look, then smiled as she patted Xia Tian on the shoulders: “I’ll go cook.”
“Mom… you sabotaged me.” Xia Tian looked dumbfounded.
Those photos were all of beautiful women and every single one of those beautiful women all had two things in common. One was a big chest, the other was that they all had a beautiful wavy hairstyle.
Well…
Lin Jin sweeped over Xia Tian with a dangerous look. Xia Tian’s face instantly fell and he helplessly explained: “I just occasionally send our fan group some benefits…”
“Is that so?”
“Yes! That’s all!”
Lin Jin lightly smacked him on the head and scolded: “You think I’m dumb?”
“Alright, I just occasionally take a look. It should, be very normal, right?” Xia Tian desperately tried to explain his behavior “Those friends of mine all still watch those island country’s movies and stuff even after getting a wife. It doesn’t mean anything!”
The more he spoke, the more confident he became: “Collecting photos of beautiful women is just a man’s romance!”
“What you mean is that if your friends go find escorts, you’re okay to go as well?”
“If they keep a mistress or something, you can learn from them too?”
Xia Tian’s expression instantly turned pale. He shook his head in denial: “No, I didn’t, I’ve never done that!”