If he had known about Lin Momo’s existence earlier, he would have done his best to give her a better childhood.

Thinking of this, for the first time since the incident, Lin Cheng felt guilty about his original self-righteousness.

Hearing Lin Cheng’s words, Lin Momo shook her head.

As if she had read Lin Cheng’s thoughts, Lin Momo grinned at Lin Cheng and said, “Dad is not late at all.” 

Lin Momo thought of the realistic dream that scared her so much.

In the dream, she didn’t know why, but her father didn’t know yet about her real identity at this point in time.

And at this time, the Internet was full of curse words about them.

And after, Lin Cheng seemed to have gotten in big trouble.

However, that dream was incomplete. Lin Momo didn’t know what happened to Lin Cheng after everything.

“Dad,” Lin Momo called out to Lin Cheng, having thought of something.

“What is it?”

“You have to be well.” Don’t let anything bad happen like in the dream, Lin Momo added silently in her heart.

She looked at Lin Cheng seriously, and said, “Try to be more popular, don’t make others dislike you, don’t be scolded by netizens.” 

After hearing what Lin Momo said, Lin Cheng’s mouth twitched slightly. He felt a little surprised, but he still responded seriously, “Okay.” 

“And…”

Lin Momo bit her lower lip, hesitated for a few seconds, and then continued in a low voice, “In the future, I mean, if you have something to do and don’t have time to take care of me anymore, can you send me to another place? You can also give me to someone else. Just don’t send me to an orphanage.” 

Lin Momo believed that in the dream she had, Lin Cheng must have run into trouble that he couldn’t solve and was unable to do anything else, so he let those people send her to an orphanage.

However, Lin Momo didn’t want to be sent there. She didn’t want to get her pictures taken with those people in her dream, and really she didn’t want to be forced to smile with them in front of the camera and tell everyone that she was happy.

Obviously it was a dream and she shouldn’t have felt any pain, but when the strangers came to comb her hair, Lin Momo could feel the pain of her hair being pulled harshly.

Lin Cheng didn’t understand what Lin Momo was really afraid of. When he heard this, he thought that Lin Momo was afraid of being abandoned again, and his chest tightened, his heart hurting for his daughter.

“No, never,” Lin Cheng looked at Lin Momo seriously and promised with all his might.

Hearing Lin Cheng’s promise, Lin Momo felt relieved, and the fear in her heart seemed to subside a lot in an instant.

“Really?”

“Yes, really,” Lin Cheng nodded, and then added, “I won’t give you away, and I won’t send you anywhere else. I will always be your Dad.” 

Hearing this, a big smile appeared on Lin Momo’s face.

“Thank you, Dad.”

Regarding Lin Momo’s saying ‘thank you’ to him, Lin Cheng knew that he couldn’t change it for a while, so he could only rub Lin Momo’s head helplessly.

“Okay, let’s go back.”

“Sure, I’ll take you out.”

“No need.” There was a wide road full of cars further outside, so it wasn’t safe.

“But the way out of here is a bit circuitous. What if you…”

Lin Momo didn’t finish the second half of her sentence, but from the worried expression on his daughter’s face, Lin Cheng guessed what she wanted to say.

Is this little girl afraid that he would get lost?

The corners of Lin Cheng’s eyes twitched, and he began to think about how to improve his ‘comprehensive survival score’ in Lin Momo’s mind—at least to the passing level.

“I remember the way in so I definitely won’t get lost,” Lin Cheng exposed Lin Momo’s little thoughts.

“Well, okay then…” Lin Momo said dubiously.

“Then tomorrow—” Lin Momo stopped mid-sentence.

Lin Momo hoped that Lin Cheng could come early tomorrow, but her long-term habit of not wanting to bother other people made her instinctively afraid to make any requests.

“What is it?” Lin Cheng asked.

“It’s nothing,” Lin Momo shook her head and waved to Lin Cheng, “Goodbye, Dad.” 

“Goodbye, I will come early tomorrow.”

Hearing this, Lin Momo’s eyes were filled with something bright, and her smile was beautiful.

Lin Cheng stood there, watching Lin Momo run back into the corridor before he turned around and left.

Leaving the old-fashioned residential area where Lin Momo and Liu Cuifang lived, Lin Cheng went directly to the Lin family’s house.

… …

The Lin Family.

When he heard that Lin Cheng was coming, Old Master Lin was overjoyed. He happily put on his Squidward shirt and waited at the gate for a long time.

After a while, when he saw that only Lin Cheng had come back and not Lin Momo, the old man’s face fell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“Why is it just you? Where is Momo?” The old man reluctantly glanced at the car behind Lin Cheng again, and indeed did not see Lin Momo in it.

“She’s with her grandma,” Lin Cheng replied.

Hearing this, Old Master Lin pursed his lips in dissatisfaction, looked at Lin Cheng with disdain, and muttered, “Then why are you here? Why even come back?” 

“I came to get the household registration book,” Lin Cheng said.

Old Master Lin stopped in surprise, “Household registration book?”

Lin Cheng nodded, “I want to enter Momo into it.”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

When Old Master Lin recovered his health and once again resumed managing the affairs of the Lin family, in addition to teaching his two sons a lesson for driving Lin Cheng out of the family—he also did one other thing: he removed Lin Zhenhong and Lin Zhenming from the Lin Family’s household registration, allowing them to ‘set up their own branches.’

Among the entire Lin family, only Lin Cheng’s household registration was still here.

This was how Old Master Lin insisted this matter to be concluded.

Today, Old Master Lin was happy when he heard that Lin Cheng came to get their household registration book and enter Lin Momo in it.

“Yes, yes, I almost forgot about this. It’s time to register our Xiao Momo.” And the sooner, the better, Old Master Lin nodded repeatedly.

Although he was quite dissatisfied with Lin Cheng for not bringing back his cherished great-grandchild, the old man instantly became happy again when he thought that Lin Momo would be registered under his own household registration soon

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

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