Chapter 27: Chapter 27 Huo Tingdong’s Goodnight Kiss to Momo
Huo Tingdong said coldly, “Get out!”
“Do you need help?” Lin Qi kindly asked.
Huo Tingdong said, “No need, get out!”
Lin Qi frowned and muttered a few words to herself before turning around and walking out.
After two hours of struggle, Huo Tingdong finally finished bathing the two children and carried them into the room.
Just as Lin Qi had finished making the bed, Huo Tingdong came in carrying the two fragrant Little Babies and placed them on the bed.
He also took a shower and changed into pajamas, but it looked like the two little ones had caused quite a bit of trouble, considering how long he took.
Momo crawled to the head of the bed, lifted the covers, and snuggled in, his little face red as he looked towards Lin Qi and muttered, “He spanked my bottom…”
“What?” Lin Qi didn’t hear clearly at first.
Huo Tingdong heard it, though, and he glared at Momo, frowning.
Momo was unafraid of him hearing and complained to Lin Qi, “He spanked my bottom!”
As he spoke, he pointed his little finger towards Huo Tingdong, his eyes filled with anger.
Lin Qi looked bewilderedly at Huo Tingdong.
Huo Tingdong explained, “He wasn’t behaving, squirming around, splashing water all over me.”
Momo retorted, “That’s because, he ‘harassed’ me!”
If it wasn’t for Momo using such an outrageous word, Lin Qi wouldn’t have had such a hard time holding back her laughter. Beside her, Han bit his lips, also struggling to suppress his laughter like an ascetic monk, probably recalling all the saddest things in the world to keep from bursting out laughing right there.
Lin Qi puzzled, “Uncle, how did he harass you?”
“He…” Momo hesitated, “He touched me…”
Lin Qi immediately glared at Huo Tingdong with a look of scrutinizing a pervert.
Huo Tingdong felt annoyed by how troublesome this little guy’s mouth could be, turning something white into black, “I did not.”
“Momo said you touched him…”
Han panicked, seeing his Daddy about to be accused by Momo of being a big pervert. He stood on the bed, clasped his hands together as if to clarify for Huo Tingdong.
Huo Tingdong said, “I scrubbed his whole body. Does that count as harassment?”
Han nodded vigorously.
Momo said, “I can scrub myself!” Usually, when bathing, it’s Lin Qi who takes off his clothes and lifts him into the bathtub, then starts busy here and there, scrubbing the bath ball to create bubbles, and Momo would scrub himself.
“Alright, uncle was just bathing you,” Lin Qi comforted Momo, “Momo, it’s late, lie down nicely.”
Momo always listened to Lin Qi and immediately lay down obediently.
Han also crawled next to Lin Qi and lay down on her other side.
Lin Qi said, “I’m going to read a bedtime story to Momo and Han, to put them to sleep, you can go back to your own room now.”
Huo Tingdong grunted in acknowledgment.
Before, Han used to sleep with him, but later, he sometimes worked until very late, always waking Han up in the middle of the night, so he arranged for a nanny to put her to sleep.
But, a goodnight kiss before sleep was essential.
Huo Tingdong walked to the bed, bent down, and gently kissed Han’s forehead.
Huo Tingdong tenderly said, “Han, goodnight.”
Han nodded and hugged Lin Qi’s waist.
Huo Tingdong got up, suddenly thought of something, and looked towards Momo.
Lin Qi had once set a condition for him, that however he treated Han, he must treat Momo the same way.
Huo Tingdong looked at Momo, his brow slightly furrowed.
According to common sense, he shouldn’t have any fondness for this child, who is not his biological offspring but a child Lin Qi had through betrayal and an affair with another man.
Such a “blemish,” he should despise, yet looking at Momo’s little face, an exact replica of Lin Qi, he looks too delicate, too adorable.
Moreover, he keeps his word; he promised Lin Qi that he would treat Momo as well as he treats Han.
Therefore, Huo Tingdong walked towards Momo’s bedside.
Momo didn’t know what he was going to do, his whole body retreated under the blanket, only half of his little face showing.
Suddenly, Huo Tingdong kissed him gently on the forehead.
Apart from Mommy, no one has ever kissed him.
Instinctively, he should feel resistant and averse, yet he lay there stiff, not moving at all.
Momo didn’t expect that Huo Tingdong would give him a “goodnight kiss” like the one he gives to Han.
Something inside his heart seemed to have moved fiercely…
Huo Tingdong received a reporting call from Mo Ke.
“Mr. Huo… I’m sorry, regarding Lin Jinmo, according to my investigation, there has been no progress.”
Huo Tingdong looked at the virus sample on his computer, a virus that had recently breached Huace’s entire security network. Programmers had dismantled the virus structure and found its design particularly complex and seamless, so complex that even the company’s top security staff couldn’t eradicate it from its root.
In the end, the virus was confined.
That child said that he had developed the virus.
Due to the virus’s invasion, Huace suffered heavy losses and needed to rebuild its protective network, luckily, important business secrets and client data were not lost.
It all seemed like a child’s prank.
He’s only seven years old, how did he develop such a terrifying virus program?
More importantly, he had Mo Ke thoroughly investigate the child’s background, to no avail.
He seemed just like an ordinary child, as simple as any other child his age.
But Huo Tingdong knew this child’s background must be extraordinary.
Late at night, lights blazing.
Lin Qianqian, feeling aggrieved, nestled next to Zhou Qin complaining, “Mom, you didn’t see today’s scene, how Lin Qi was flaunting in front of me, making me lose all my dignity!”
Zhou Qin, Lin Qi’s stepmother, when Mrs. Lin was gravely ill, Mr. Lin ignored his dutiful wife and indulged in Zhou Qin’s tenderness.
At that time, Mrs. Lin’s illness was not incurable; she could have gotten better with surgery.
Zhou Qin, however, clasped Mr. Lin’s arm and entered his household, saying only, “When you die, I’ll marry Lin Cheng and take his surname, to be called Zhou Lin Qin.”
Lin Cheng was greatly moved by this and proclaimed his intention to divorce Mrs. Lin.
Mrs. Lin couldn’t bear this shock, became utterly despondent, and jumped to her death.
Only that year, Lin Qi was still young and only knew that her mother died of illness, but in fact, it was Zhou Qin who had infuriated her mother to commit suicide.
Lin Cheng, a man extremely superstitious, afraid that Mrs. Lin’s wrongful death would bring disaster to the Lin Family, delayed her burial. He hired a Feng Shui Master to perform rituals in a deserted well in the suburbs, sinking Mrs. Lin’s coffin into it, never to transcend.
Not only that, but Mrs. Lin’s wandering spirit must also protect the Lin Family generation after generation to prosper; the graveyard was just an empty tomb.
From then on, Lin Qi was also neglected and faced cold eyes.
And Zhou Qin, after giving birth to a son and daughter for Lin Cheng, enjoyed all his affection.
Lin Qi had been unheard from for many years, Zhou Qin only knew of her miserable life, yet little did she expect, as fate would have it, she would cling to higher branches.