Ten minutes later, Lin Cheng had finished preparing breakfast for two people in the kitchen, but when he brought it out, he found that Lin Momo didn’t peacefully wait in the dining area. Instead, the child was standing at the door of the small restaurant saying ‘hello’ to the noodle shop proprietress.

When the lady boss asked about Lin Momo’s overly conspicuous clothes. Lin Cheng heard Lin Momo reply in an excited voice, “This is what my dad bought for me when we went to the store yesterday!” 

Lin Cheng: “…” He really did not want to bear the blame for this aesthetic demise.

Then Lin Momo got into the groove of chatting and started to tell the noodle shop owner where to buy such a nice and cheap T-shirt; Lin Cheng’s head was covered with black lines by now, and he walked to the door and stopped Lin Momo.

“Momo, don’t delay Auntie from going to work.”

“It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter. It will take me seven or eight minutes to wait for the bus to arrive.” The noodle shop proprietress was waving her hand to show it’s ‘okay’ but stopped mid-gesture when she saw Lin Cheng and his pink T-shirt, completely stunned by the sight.

“I see, you bought one too.”

“Yeah.” 

Before Lin Cheng could say anything more, Lin Momo nodded and said, “I am SpongeBob SquarePants, and my dad is Patrick Star. What we are wearing, this is a set!”

Looking at the same series of T-shirts for two people, one big and one small, the boss lady smiled and said, “Is that so? It turns out they are parent-and-child clothes, which is really good.” 

The boss lady’s comment about these being parent-and-child clothes made Lin Cheng very satisfied, and his estimation of this pink T-shirt suddenly increased by several levels.

… …

In the livestream channel, the discussion about the father and daughter’s outfits never stopped.

[Is there something wrong with my aesthetics? I suddenly feel that these two clothes are not that ugly.]

[Indeed, after looking at it for a long time, it seems to be pleasing to the eye.]

[Haha, Daddy Lin is obviously good-looking and looks good in anything he wears.]

[Agree.]

[Gee, now I want to buy the same style.]

[Me too…]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Over at the Lin family.

Old Master Lin was also holding his mobile phone at this time, watching the livestream with obvious delight on his face.

Downstairs, Butler Zhou had arranged breakfast and was standing at the foot of the stairs waiting for Old Master Lin to come down.

Seeing the old man walking down the stairs, Butler Zhou was about to speak when all words seemed to have left his mind.

“Old master, what are you wearing…”

At this time, Old Master Lin was wearing a gray-green shirt. There was a big head of an unknown creature in front of the shirt—this thing had big eyes and a big mouth.  Zhou Xing didn’t know what it was, but somehow its unhappy expression looked quite similar to the old master’s expression when he was younger.

Looking at this shirt, Butler Zhou was a little dumbfounded. After holding it in for a long time, he finally said, “I don’t think I’ve seen you wear this before.” 

“Of course you haven’t seen it before. I just asked Zhou Ming to buy it for me yesterday.” 

After that, Old Master Lin stroked the lines of his shirt and with an extremely smug look on his face, asked Butler Zhou, “How is it? Is it good?” 

Seeing Old Master Lin’s ‘proudly showing off’ appearance, Butler Zhou was reminded of the way Lin Momo showed off the dishes cooked by Lin Cheng to the shop owners next door.

“This…” Looking at this shirt, Butler Zhou couldn’t say in good conscience that it looked ‘good’, so he could only come up with a smile.

“The design on the old master’s shirt looks very unique to me. Is it an alien?” Butler Zhou asked.

As soon as these words came out, Old Master Lin immediately gave him a glare.

“What alien? This is Brother Squidward!” Old Master Lin said. 

After that, he glanced at Butler Zhou with disdain and complained, “Zhou Xing, how do I even talk to you about these things. You don’t look at your phone or surf the Internet. You’re already this age, but you don’t even know this.”

Taking another look at the shirt he was wearing, Old Master Lin nodded with satisfaction. He hummed all the way to the dining room, obviously in a good mood.

Halfway there, the old man stopped and asked Butler Zhou, “By the way, I told you that I will eat less this morning; you didn’t forget to ask the kitchen not to prepare too much, right?” 

“Don’t worry, I asked the kitchen to slightly reduce the amount of food to be served. You still need to eat some, so this much is okay,” Butler Zhou replied.

Hearing this, Old Master Lin nodded and muttered, “That’s good. I have to go out to eat delicious food at noon. It’s enough to just have a little something for breakfast…” 

Seeing Old Master Lin enter the dining room, Butler Zhou withdrew his gaze and looked to his grandnephew standing by the side.

“Where did you get such an ugly outfit for the Old Master?” Butler Zhou asked Zhou Ming with a frown of disapproval.

When attending formal occasions, the old master would wear tailored western-style suits or Chinese tunic suits. When at home, he would wear more casual clothes, such as custom-made Tang suits, but there was absolutely no T-shirt of this style in his wardrobe.

“Grandfather, please keep your voice down,” Zhou Ming quickly grabbed Butler Zhou and said, “You don’t know how much effort I put in and how much money I spent on this shirt.”

Yesterday, Old Master Lin saw the two shirts bought by Lin Cheng and Lin Momo in the livestream, and asked Zhou Ming to also buy him one.

Zhou Ming didn’t know which small factory produced it, and he didn’t know where the stall owner stored it. Where could he go to buy a shirt from the same series?

There was no other way. Zhou Ming could only watch a recording of the livestream, screencap scenes featuring the SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star shirts, and bring them to an atelier to make a custom-made shirt overnight.

“Why even do this?” Butler Zhou was puzzled.

“Go watch the livestream yourself if you want to know.”

After listening to Zhou Ming’s words, Butler Zhou opened the livestream.

When he saw the two bright figures in the livestream, Butler Zhou finally understood.

“What does the Old Master’s octopus-head shirt have to do with the ones on the Eldest Young Master and our little Young Lady?” Housekeeper Zhou asked.

“They are neighbors—Brother Squidward lives between Spongebob and Patrick.”

Hearing this, Butler Zhou nodded and watched the livestream on his phone for a while.

“This shirt looks pretty good.” Especially the one on Lin Momo, the bright color suited her well.

On the side, Zhou Ming: “…” Who was the one who said it was ugly before? Don’t you have too much of a double-standard!?

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Ahh, it turned out Assistant Xiao Zhou (Zhou Ming) is Butler Zhou’s (Zhou Xing) grandnephew.