In the kitchen at the back of the restaurant, the landlady continued to prepare breakfast for customers and sweet soup for the guests at noon.

When the landlady finally went to the dining area, she looked at the scene before her with a surprised look on her face.

She originally thought that cleaning would be just a casual, random thing for children of this age to do, so when Lin Momo said that she would help her clean the tables, the landlady didn’t take it seriously. But contrary to her thinking, Lin Momo actually cleaned up the entire dining area!

There were seven or eight tables in total, all of which had been wiped down by Lin Momo with clean water again and again. In the air, you can still smell the faint scent of soap and refreshing cleanliness.

The table had been cleaned to a polish by Lin Momo, and the stools had also been wiped down and placed neatly in a circle around the tables.

At this time, Lin Momo was holding a stack of disposable napkins and had her short arms stretched out to place them on the table.

After laying the napkins down, Lin Momo would carefully circle around the table, making sure that each seat had some, then she would take the menu, condiments, and toothpick box, and neatly place them all in the middle of the table.

“It’s okay, Momo! Thank you for your hard work. You don’t have to do it anymore. Let the older brothers and sisters in the store do the rest later.” The landlady was greatly afraid of tiring the child, and she quickly went up and patted Lin Momo to stop.

Seeing that Lin Momo’s bowl of glutinous rice balls was still on the table next to her, the landlady came forward and led her to sit down at the table, and said with some distress, “Why didn’t you eat it first? Come here and have breakfast first.”

After Lin Momo was settled down, the landlady looked back from Lin Momo to the clean tables, and then back to Lin Momo.

Was this really a child from the family of a celebrity?

“She cleans better than our staff,” the landlady muttered to herself.

Because this was a Film and Television City, there were too many people coming and going. In addition to preparing to deliver meals to the crew every day, she and a few assistants also had to deal with the continuous flow of customers who came to eat, which made everyone so busy they were dizzy; so when they cleaned the table, they could only wipe it with minimum effort and were never really quite as careful as Lin Momo.

“Eat quickly, it will get cold after a while if you don’t eat,” the landlady urged Lin Momo again.

Lin Momo nodded, buried her head and began to eat breakfast quietly.

The landlady deliberately did not put sweet fermented rice in Lin Momo’s bowl but instead added osmanthus honey. It was sweet, fragrant, glutinous, and soft.

Lin Momo quickly finished her bowl of rice dumplings and said to the landlady, “Thank you.”

“Auntie…” 

“What’s wrong?”

This was really so delicious that Lin Momo also wanted to give Lin Cheng a bowl of it. “Can you fill it for me a little more, just a little.” Lin Momo handed over her bowl, a little embarrassed.

“Of course, no problem. There is a big pot in the kitchen. You can take as many as you want,” the landlady said. 

So, the landlady generously served Lin Momo another large bowl of glutinous rice balls.

After receiving another bowlful again, Lin Momo ran upstairs with a happy face.

“Dad! Dad!” Lin Momo went back to the room, calling Lin Cheng several times.

“What?”

“Here, the landlady cooked small glutinous rice balls, which are super delicious. This is for you.” Lin Momo happily took the bowl and handed it to Lin Cheng.

After thinking about it, Lin Momo added and explained, “I helped the landlady clean up the tables downstairs, so this is in exchange of work.”

After listening to what Lin Momo said, Lin Cheng roughly understood what had gone on. He rubbed Lin Momo’s head and said, “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome! ”

“Dad, please eat quickly, it’s so delicious!”

Lin Momo and Lin Cheng both had a preference for sweet tastes when it came to food. In this manner, father and daughter were indeed very consistent.

If Lin Momo thought something was good to eat, Lin Cheng would also think it was good.

Halfway through eating, Lin Momo’s voice that was happily chirping next to him suddenly disappeared. Lin Cheng raised his eyes and saw Lin Momo with her brow wrinkled, looking at him with a troubled expression.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Cheng asked.

“That, that is…” Lin Momo pointed to the bowl of glutinous rice balls in front of Lin Cheng and whispered, “I have eaten from this bowl before.”

Lin Momo didn’t think too much about it at first. When she was downstairs, she didn’t want to bother the landlady by asking her to give her another bowl, so she just used her own bowl when asking for more.

Lin Momo looked at Lin Cheng nervously, fearing that Lin Cheng would dislike it.

In the end, Lin Cheng just paused, then continued to eat the remaining glutinous rice balls.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Over at the Lin family.

Watching this scene through the livestream, both Old Master Lin and Butler Zhou behind him both had a dumbfounded look on their faces. Although Lin Cheng rarely spent time in the main house these days, his attributes of mysophobia have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people who have known him for a long time.

They never even imagined this could happen…

“The Eldest Young Master does not dislike the little Young Lady at all,” Butler Zhou finally said with a smile on his face.

After hearing this, Old Master Lin pursed his lips and said, “This is his daughter, how could he dare despise her!”

“By the way, for my breakfast, you haven’t prepared anything yet, right? If you haven’t done anything yet, just cook me a bowl of glutinous rice balls in fermented rice wine. Remember to add some osmanthus honey,” Old Master Lin ordered.

Butler Zhou wanted to remind the old man to eat less glutinous food, but when he saw Old Master Lin staring at the scene of Lin Cheng eating small glutinous rice balls on the screen with a greedy look on his age-worn face, he just nodded. 

He went and asked the kitchen to prepare just a small amount of glutinous balls in the same style for Old Master Lin.

… …

After breakfast, Lin Cheng was preparing to go out.

Originally, Lin Cheng did not plan to take Lin Momo with him.

But when Lin Cheng turned around, he saw that Lin Momo had already put on a set of sportswear, a sun hat, her school backpack, held the filming crew strategy guide in one hand, two plastic fans with the advertisement of ‘XX Hospital’ in the other, with a water bottle clipped on the waist…

She had completely prepared for everything and was radiating a ‘ready to go any time now’ posture.

Seeing Lin Momo’s appearance, Lin Cheng’s words telling her to just stay ‘at home’ rolled in his throat several times, but he still couldn’t bear to say them.

In the end, Lin Cheng gave in and said to Lin Momo, “The roads in the Film and Television City are complicated and there are many people. Follow me closely and don’t run around.”

“I promise,” Lin Momo nodded seriously.

“If anything happens during the process, or if you feel uncomfortable, tell me immediately.”

“Okay,” Lin Momo nodded again.

Looking at Lin Momo’s well-behaved face, Lin Cheng finally sighed secretly and said, “Let’s go.”

“Yeah!”

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

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T/N: 酒酿 ‘Jiuniang’ is fermented rice wine. It kinda looks like watery congee and is quite sweet.

The landlady used it as the base for the ‘sticky rice balls.’ But like what she did for Momo’s bowl, the base could be something else.

The sticky rice balls or 汤圆 ‘Tangyuan’ are generally eaten as dessert. They can be filled with a sweet paste or unfilled, depending on the region. They’re traditionally served during Lantern Festival or weddings because the word is a homophone for ‘union’ and thus symbolizes ‘togetherness’. 

I was once read a c-novel where the little one was nicknamed ‘Tangyuan’ by his family because he was sweet and round. A chubby baby 😂