Chapter 589: – One Year Later
One Year Later.
Xia Tian’s restaurant had been slightly at a loss lately, which kept him constantly running back and forth between the two restaurants, hoping to turn things around.
Fortunately, the loan for their house had already been paid off. Even though the restaurants were now at a loss, it was still manageable.
After handling the restaurant matters, Xia Tian returned home exhausted.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Lin Jin sitting on the sofa, playing with the baby in the crib.
This was his child.
"You're back?"
Lin Jin looked up, yawned, and had her legs crossed. Then like before, she came up to Xia Tian to help hang his coat on the rack by the side.
Lin Jin had gained quite a bit of weight recently.
After all, she had just given birth, gaining 10 kg was unavoidable. Fortunately, after getting past the initial weakness, Lin Jin had now started dancing again, so her weight had been steadily decreasing.
It was just that the child was too noisy. Although Lin Jin had mentally prepared herself, the child’s biological clock was still too much of a mess. She would often wake up and cry in the middle of the night, causing Lin Jin to be unable to sleep well. And since Xia Tian was often not home during the day, she couldn’t even catch up on sleep…
This made the dark circles under Lin Jin’s eyes a bit heavy.
“You go sleep for a bit?”
Xia Tian yawned and turned toward the nanny in the kitchen: “The nanny and I can take care of things."
Even though Xia Tian had hired a nanny to help with the child, this nanny not only had to care for the child, but also cook, clean, and she still had to go home at night. So like this, Lin Jin actually just had less housework to do, taking care of the child was still mostly on her.
"Then I'll go sleep for a bit."
Lin Jin sighed, glanced at the child beside her, and said: "Little Qing just ate, so she should be good for three or four hours. Come wake me up when she’s hungry."
"Mhm."
Their child’s name was Xia Wanqing, a name Lin Jin’s mom had picked. Lin Jin was quite happy with it, so they went along with her mom’s choice.
Wanqing was a really troublesome girl. Even though she was still just a baby and had nothing to do all day except eating and eating, the moment she woke up, she would transform into a tiny demon and cry non stop. She cried so loud that even the neighbors came over to complain.
And when it happened, neither the nanny nor Xia Tian could do anything. Only Lin Jin could calm her down.
Otherwise, Lin Jin would’ve definitely had it easy.
She walked into the bedroom and stood in front of the full length mirror, looking at herself.
Recently, she had listened to her mom’s advice and gotten herself a long wavy hairstyle, which was very suitable for her long waist length hair.
She took off the hair tie from her hair and used her hands to push back the hair behind her neck. That long wavy hair flowed back and became fluffy.
Even though her figure hadn’t yet recovered to what it previously was, she had gotten a beautiful hairstyle, as well as a mature charm in her eyes and eyebrows after giving birth. Even Lin Jin herself had to admit that she looked a bit too seductive.
If she had been just a pretty girl before, then she should be considered a goddess now, right?
Well, if you ignored the fact that she already had a child.
Her chest had also grown a lot after giving birth and was now at a full C+.
Back when Lin Jin had a flat chest, she had always wanted a bigger chest. But when her chest really became bigger, she now felt the hassle the increased size brought. But Xia Tian was quite happy, that guy had always been a big chest enthusiast.
She sat on the bed, looked down at the fat on her thighs, and patted them in dissatisfaction.
When Lin Jin used to sit down, the flesh on her legs had always stayed very firm and would never spread out like it did now.
She really did need to start exercising again.
They had a treadmill and an elliptical machine at home, and Lin Jin would recently exercise on them for an hour every day. But because she had only started recently, she had only lost 2.5 kg.
She still had another 15 kg before her previous figure.
Lying on the bed and staring blankly at the ceiling, she was already starting to doze off when Xia Tian suddenly came in.
“Wife.”
“What?”
Lin Jin turned her head over to look at Xia Tian, who was standing at the edge of the bed: “Aren’t you supposed to be watching the child?”
“The child’s asleep, don’t worry.”
He sat down and dishonestly placed a hand on Lin Jin’s stomach: “Is your small belly getting bigger and bigger? Pregnant again?
“Bah! Give me a month and my belly will shrink down!”
Lin Jin unhappily glared at him.
“Hey, wife. To be honest, I still want to have a son.”
“Get lost.”
Lin Jin turned her head away and rolled over to turn her back at him.
“There’ll be both a boy and girl at home. They’ll also take care of each other in the future.” Xia Tian climbed onto the bed, lay down behind Lin Jin, and gently held her from behind. “You sleep first, I might still need to go to the restaurant later.”
“If it really doesn’t work, just shut them down. There’s no point running the restaurants, you’re still so busy every day.” Lin Jin turned over to look at him and seriously said “Besides, it just happens to be losing money lately. Quickly sell the restaurant now, and you can still make a little off of it.”
“Then what about in the future? We can’t just rely on live streaming for money, right?”
“But what if you accidentally go bankrupt? It’s whatever to me, but what about Wanqing?”
If it was before, Lin Jin would definitely support Xia Tian’s idea. But now that they had a child, she kind of didn’t want to take any risks.
Xia Tian was silent for a moment, and then suddenly smiled and rubbed Lin Jin on the head.
“Don’t worry, I have a lot in my private stash.”
Lin Jin stared into his eyes, not sure whether to let out that motherf*cker on her lips.
Back when they had not yet married, the two’s finances were kept independent. But ever since they got married, Xia Tian’s money had always been placed with Lin Jin. Of course, Lin Jin had never been stingy with his money, but this guy actually still kept his own secret stash.
“My dad always said, a man without a secret stash of money isn’t a real man.”
Xia Tian shamelessly joked.
“And you listen to his nonsense.”
Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him, but suddenly turned over and sat up: “Hey, you say, will little Qing be very pretty when she grows up?”
“With your genes, she wouldn’t not be pretty, okay?”
“Then what do you think little Qing will be in the future? A civil servant? Or take over your restaurant? Or maybe start live streaming like us?”
Xia Tian thought for a bit, then finally shrugged: “This kind of thing’s up to her.”
“If she’s good at studying, and also likes to study, then we’ll send her to the best university abroad. If she likes singing and dancing, then we’ll just send her to training classes. Being a dance teacher in the future is not bad. If she likes to play games, then we’ll just train her to become a pro esports player?”
“Female faker?”
“That wouldn’t be too bad!”
Xia Tian enthusiastically nodded: “By then, maybe esports will even be in the Olympics. We could be considered as having raised an Olympic champion!”
“Pfft!”
Lin Jin was amused by him.
Even though some people have proposed that esports should be included in the Olympics, it completely wasn’t possible yet, okay?
Lin Jin leaned against the head of the bed, hopefully imagining the future.
Before Wanqing was born, Lin Jin liked to imagine her and Xia Tian’s future. She imagined that when she and Xia Tian had grown old, they would eat all kinds of delicious food in the country and travel around the world.
But after having Wanqing, Lin Jin placed all thoughts on her, imagining Wanqing’s future and thinking about how best to raise her.
She didn’t expect Wanqing to achieve anything in the future, nor did she ask for Wanqing to return the efforts Lin Jin invested. Lin Jin just hoped that her child would live a safe life and have a happy childhood.
And not be like how she was…
“I’ll go to the kitchen and get you some food?”
“Go ahead.”
Their bedroom was quite spacious, with a mahjong table placed next to the bed. Normally, Teacher Lin and some others liked to come visit and torture Lin Jin when they had time. Even though Lin Jin had a gaming proficiency, it was very obvious that mahjong had not been included in its scope.
Xia Tian set down dinner on the mahjong table, pulled a chair over, and sat down. With his chin resting on one hand, he looked at Lin Jin with a smile.
“Come eat, sleep after eating. The nanny still has two hours before going back.”
“Mhm.”
Lin Jin sat down at the table.
Even though the two had been together for several years, they still had endless things to talk about, as if they had just gotten together.
“Oh right, it seems the Switch is getting an upgraded version? Let’s go buy one?”
“The new game seems pretty good, it should be quite good on stream, we’ll need to buy that too.”
“Fatty G supposedly said Left 4 Dead 3 is coming out. Who knows if it’s true.”
Although most of their conversations revolved around situations in their daily life, but in their free time, the two unserious parents still liked to talk about games.
“Isn’t it said that fatty G is going to release a card game, I’ve been waiting for years and it still hasn’t released. Don’t hold your breath for Left 4 Dead 3.” This card game enthusiast, Xia Tian, firmly believed that fatty G was a liar.