Chapter 590: – The black cat is black
Ever since she had the child, Lin Jin felt like her entire life had been completely disrupted.
In other words, her life had been disrupted ever since getting pregnant.
Originally, she could go to work every day. The working hours also weren’t long, from nine to six every day, there were even two days off for the weekends. She also had seven thousand a month in salary, and her status in the company was relatively high. Both the newcomers and the senior employees all treated her well.
But after she got pregnant, she could only stay home all day with a frown.
Thankfully, after giving birth, her mom came to help take care of the child at first. Later, Xia Tian hired a nanny to help lighten Lin Jin’s load. As someone who had never been a mother before, Lin Jin wasn’t always the most patient with the child.
There were even times she was woken up by the child’s crying. It didn’t work no matter how much coaxing she did, making Lin Jin so distressed she almost cried herself.
There were even times when Lin Jin seriously thought that maybe it would have been better to abort the child.
She sighed and turned her head to look at Wanqing, who was lying in the crib beside her.
The child wasn’t asleep yet, but she seemed to be in a good mood. Even though she wasn’t sleeping, she wasn’t crying either. She just had those big eyes, inherited from Lin Jin, open and stared at Lin Jin, smiling nonstop.
This child inherited all of the best features of Lin Jin and Xia Tian. As for flaws, it was that she had a big and small feet.
Xia Tian’s feet were like that, slightly uneven with one foot a bit longer than the other. And this child was the same, one foot was a bit longer than the other. When she grew up, it was fine if the difference between the two feet weren’t that big. But if the difference was large enough, then buying shoes would be a pain.
"Should we take her to the hospital to check her feet?"
Lin Jin turned to look at Xia Tian, who was leaning against the headboard playing on his phone.
"Is it that big of a difference?"
Xia Tian frowned and looked up: "I think it’s fine. It shouldn’t be a big issue."
“Let’s still take her to get it checked, just in case there’s any problems.”
Lin Jin reached out and gently pinched Wanqing’s cheeks. Those chubby cheeks felt nice no matter how she squeezed them.
“Then tomorrow I’ll take her to get it checked, you sleep at home.”
Xia Tian stretched, checked the time, then got up from the bed and said: "I’m heading to stream, help bring me breakfast later."
"Mhm."
The nanny hadn’t arrived yet. Originally, Lin Jin wanted to hire a full time one, but because the current nanny had an elderly family member to take care of, she only worked from looked after Wanqing and did some housework at Lin Jin’s place from 8 am to 8 pm every day.
With the nanny around, Lin Jin’s life at home had become a lot easier, even though she still couldn’t sleep well at night thanks to Wanqing crying.
"Hey, hubby."
Lin Jin suddenly looked up and called out to him: "How about I sleep with the child in the guest room at night. Otherwise once she starts crying, you won’t be able to sleep either."
"It’s fine. If she starts crying, I’ll be helping too. I am her dad after all."
Xia Tian gave her a gentle smile before heading to the live streaming room.
It was only seven in the morning. Since Wanqing had cried for a while at around six, both Lin Jin and Xia Tian had woken up early. It had to be said that ever since they had a child, Lin Jin basically hadn’t had a single good night’s sleep.
The Braised Pork jumped onto the bed in the bedroom and curiously looked at Wanqing in the crib. This cat always followed Lin Jin around. Even though it was lazy and gluttonous, it was very nice to Wanqing.
This cat’s attitude towards Wanqing was even better than towards Lin Jin.
"Meow~"
Braised Pork stared at Wanqing for a while, stretched out its paws and placed them on the crib, then slowly pushed it back and forth.
This Braised Pork seemed to be only three or four years old, right? It should be in its young adult phase.
Lin Jin couldn’t help but laugh as she watched Braised Pork gently rock the crib. Braised Pork’s favorite thing to do was to play with Wanqing. But because Wanqing was still too small, Lin Jin was always worried that Braised Pork might accidentally hurt her, so she never let them interact directly.
Wait until Wanqing turned two or three, then Lin Jin would let her and Braised Pork play together. At that age, it wouldn’t be a problem even if Braised Pork accidentally knocked Wanqing over.
Watching as Braised Pork gently rocked the crib, Wanqing curiously reached her tiny hands out, trying to touch the black cat. She kept giggling like a fool and looked to be in a really good mood because of Braised Pork. Lin Jin looked on with a smile, feeling that the bond between pets and children was truly heartwarming.
Lin Jin very reassuringly left the room and went to make breakfast for both Xia Tian and herself. She then brought the breakfast to Xia Tian, who was currently streaming. Once she was done with everything, the nanny finally arrived. As soon as she came, she immediately went to the balcony to grab a mop and started cleaning, not like an outsider at all.
When Lin Jin returned to the bedroom, she found that Braised Pork had jumped into the crib and was currently lying beside Wanqing, gently teasing her with its paws. However, Wanqing showed no mercy to Braised Pork at all and directly bit its ears, tugging it back.
Braised Pork was always kept very clean. The cat was usually very clean and would take the initiative to run into the bathroom for a however whenever it got dirty. Lin Jin also took it to the pet store regularly for professional grooming sessions.
So Lin Jin wasn’t worried about Wanqing catching any weird skin diseases from the cat.
“Braised Pork! Come out!”
But she was still worried that there might be bacteria on Braised Pork that might infect Wanqing, so she reached her arms in and picked the cat up.
Braised Pork tilted its head and looked at Lin Jin. Suddenly, the phone in Lin Jin’s hand made a sound.
“Hey! Long time no see!”
The f*ck?!
Startled, Lin Jin immediately threw away the Braised Pork in her arms. The cat nimbly twisted in midair and landed steadily on the ground.
“Black cat? Where have you been?”
Lin Jin’s tone was filled with shock.
Even though the black cat had done a lot of unforgivable things to her in the past, Lin Jin had to admit that without the black cat, she wouldn’t have the life she had now.
Plus, she had been with the black cat for one to two years and Lin Jin would always vent to it. Ever since the black cat left, Lin Jin always felt that something was missing in her life.
“I went on vacation with my wife!”
The black cat stood up on its hind legs, confidently lifted its head and looked at Lin Jin.
“Long time no see, I didn’t expect you’d already have a child!”
Lin Jin rolled her eyes: “So what if I have a child? Isn’t that very normal?”
“That’s true.”
The black cat didn’t seem to have much of a concept of human aging. For a normal city person, having a child in their early twenties was quite rare.
So Lin Jin started chatting with the black cat about what happened in the past few years after it left. From graduation to work, then from work to pregnancy and marriage…
She had to admit that there were some things Lin Jin was unwilling to say to even Xia Tian.
But with the black cat, she could tell it anything. And the black cat would always comfort her or just quietly listen.