When Lin Cheng returned home, he happened to see this scene: Lin Momo and Old Master Lin, one young and one old, sitting next to each other on the swinging bench in the garden.

Lin Momo swayed her legs slightly, keeping the swing rocking in a small arc.

Old Master Lin seemed to be sleeping soundly.

Lin Momo had her head lowered and was playing with her fingers next to Old Master Lin. She seemed a little bored, but she did not wake him up.

… …

At this time, Lin Momo on the swing also saw Lin Cheng. Her eyes suddenly lit up, she called “Dad” in surprise, then jumped off the swing and ran towards Lin Cheng.

Behind her, Old Master Lin secretly squinted his eyes, looked at Lin Momo running away, whispered, “Little white-eyed wolf¹”, then changed his position and continued to close his eyes, pretending to sleep.

“When the old man starts to wake up, let him wake him properly and go inside to sleep. It’s easy to catch a cold outside,” Lin Cheng instructed Butler Zhou on the side, and then led Lin Momo into the house.

Back in the house, Lin Momo glanced at Lin Cheng several times in curiousity.

Finally, Lin Momo couldn’t help but ask, “Dad, did you go to work today?”

“No,” Lin Cheng replied, “I went to meet someone.”

“Someone?” Lin Momo’s curiosity was aroused.

As a result, Lin Cheng just raised his hand and rubbed the top of her head, and then said calmly, “An unimportant person.”

Once he finished speaking, Lin Cheng considered, looked down at Lin Momo, and asked, “Do you want a mom?”

“A mom?” Lin Momo was stunned when she heard this.

The word ‘mom’ was so unfamiliar to Lin Momo that when she heard Lin Cheng ask this question, she subconsciously thought of another aspect.

“Are you going to find a stepmother for me?” Lin Momo looked at Lin Cheng nervously and asked, her words careful.

Lin Momo knew the word ‘stepmother’ from her classmates. The parents of one of her classmates in school got divorced, and then her father found a stepmother for her who was only interested in herself. That stepmother was only good to her own children and didn’t treat her classmate well at all.

Subconsciously, Lin Momo didn’t want a stepmother.

Although Lin Momo didn’t know whether the stepmother Lin Cheng found for her would be good or bad to her, her life experience since she was a child made Lin Momo very sensitive in this regard.

But….

“If you want to find me a new mom, you can do that.

“That is, I will behave well and not make the new mom angry or make her dislike me. If I have a little brother and sister in the future, I will also be a good older sister, take good care of them, and let them…” Lin Momo lowered her head and kept whispering, as if she had already begun to make serious plans for the future.

Hearing Lin Momo’s serious words, Lin Cheng almost couldn’t help laughing.

Helpless and amused, he gently poked Lin Momo’s forehead.

“There is no stepmother,” Lin Cheng said to Lin Momo with a firm tone.

“I mean the person who gave birth to you,” Lin Cheng leaned over and explained to Lin Momo, “We found that person, and I went to see her today.”

On the way back, Lin Cheng kept thinking about whether to tell Lin Momo about her biological mother.

Although Lin Momo’s life circle was very small in the past, a 9-year-old child actually already knew a lot and understood many things.

And while Lin Cheng instinctively wanted to protect Lin Momo, he did not want to deprive her of her right to know.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Lin Cheng decided to tell Lin Momo about the existence of her biological mother.

Sure enough, Lin Momo was stunned when she heard Lin Cheng’s words.

“Do you wish your mother was by your side?” Lin Cheng asked, with a bit of caution in his tone, but also a bit of unnoticeable nervousness.

He was not sure whether Lin Momo would have an instinctive desire for her biological mother and maternal love like other children.

However, to Lin Cheng surprise, when Lin Momo heard his question, she immediately shook her head without thinking and said with a very firm tone, “No.”

“She has already abandoned me. She definitely doesn’t want me, so I don’t want her either,” Lin Momo said seriously.

“And,” after a pause, Lin Momo continued, “she doesn’t like me, so we won’t be happy if we get together.”

In reality, although Lin Momo has never met the person who gave birth to her and she didn’t know what kind of person she was, in that realistic dream she had, Lin Momo once dreamed about her biological mother. At that time, Lin Momo had been taken away from Lin Cheng, forced to separate from her grandmother, got sent to an orphanage by many unknown people, and was forced to do many things that she didn’t want to do every day.

Later, some omnipotent netizens found the person who was suspected to be Lin Momo’s biological mother and contacted her through some means.

But that person didn’t seem to want Lin Momo. She neither acknowledged her relationship with Lin Momo nor was she willing to come back from abroad to cooperate with the investigation.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Hearing Lin Momo’s answer, Lin Cheng couldn’t help but smile.

“You understand things quite well,” Lin Cheng chuckled.

Originally, he was worried that Lin Momo would accept that person without hesitation just because she was her biological mother and she would even have excessive expectations for maternal love. However, it seemed that he was overly worried.

Although Lin Momo was used to treating everyone and everything with sincerity, she was not stupid. On the contrary, she was very smart and rational enough.

Hearing that Lin Cheng seemed to be praising her, Lin Momo raised her chin and said, “Of course, who are good people and who are bad people; who will be good to me and who will harm me, I know all of it.”

“Huh? How do you know?”

“A dream. I had a dream before. There were many people in the dream who wanted to harm you…” Lin Momo couldn’t see clearly who the blurry figures in the dream were, but she could feel a strong sense of malice from those shadowy figures.

Lin Momo told Lin Cheng everything she had dreamed about. This was also the first time she confided that terrible dream to Lin Cheng.

A dream that foresaw the future was already unbelievable, and it was even more unbelievable to hear it from the mouth of a child.

However, Lin Cheng believed what Lin Momo said.

If his and Lin Momo’s performance when recording the show was really as unsatisfactory as it was in Lin Momo’s dream, the end they would face would really be black.

As for the bad guys Lin Momo talked about… there were quite a few.

Lin Cheng narrowed his eyes and took some of the details Lin Momo said to heart.

Facing Lin Momo, Lin Cheng adjusted his attitude, patted her head comfortingly, and said softly, “Don’t worry, dreams are the reversal of reality, and those terrible things will not happen.”

Lin Cheng’s words were full of comfort and assurance.

Hearing them, Lin Momo smiled, nodded vigorously, and said, “I also think it’s the opposite of truth. Many people online like us now.”

“That’s right.”

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

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T/N: In transmigration/rebirth/awakening stories, I always like it better when the people important to the MC also learns about  it. It somehow completes the character’s journey for me. When you think about it, it must be hard to be burdened with that kind of fore-knowledge and have no one to share it with—not to mention for a 9 year old orphan.

1. White eyed wolf. Someone who’s ungrateful and turns against the person who was good to them ↩︎