Chapter 108: Daddy, Are You Asleep?
Chapter 108: Daddy, Are You Asleep?
Night had fallen.
The little Pete was currently reading at the big desk. Upon hearing what Justin said, he looked up from
the book silently and nced at the bottles. He stretched out his arms, opened the bottles, and took a
couple of looks at it. Then, he said, “I’m not taking them.”
Justin replied, “…These vitamins are nutrition supplements. You have to take them.”
Pete fell silent for a moment before he asked, “Can they boost brainpower?”
“… Probably?”
As soon as he said that, Pete pushed the bottles to him and said, “You’ll need them very much, then.”
Justin, “?”
His expression instantly darkened and he said sarcastically, “Peter! Hunt! I have an IQ of 301!”
301 was the highest IQ among human beings thus far!
It was just that he was a low-key person who never behaved ostentatiously. Neither had the test results
ever been publicly announced.
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Pete, however, nced at him disdainfully and said, “It’s said that people with high IQs have low EQs.
True enough, you’re really very stupid. It’s been so long, yet you haven’tnded Mommy yet.”
They were supposed to be reunited today, but he had displeased Mommy again.
Sigh!
Poor tyrant.
He pushed the two bottles of vitamins toward Justin again and said, “Remember to take them every day.
They can boost both your brainpower and EQ.”
“…”
Justin walked out of Pete’s room sullenly. The man, who had always been shrewd and unreadable, often
found himself so exasperated by Pete that even his chest hurt.
He couldn’t help but think of the little girl that Ms. Smith had brought today…
To be honest, before meeting Cherry, he had been somewhat averse to her.
He couldn’t help feeling somewhat ufortable whenever he thought of how she was a child that the
woman had with an idiot. He had thought that even if he did ept Nora, he wouldn’t be able to ept a
child that she had with another man.
But for some reason, even though the little fellow had been painted to look like a clown, her voice was so
young and tender. She sounded just like how his son did during his asional bouts of abnormality.
Did all children add a ‘yeah’ at the end of their sentences?
Then, he thought of the unceasing flow of praises that had poured out of her mouth that had been
painted big and red. The things she said—such as how he was ‘even more handsome than Prince
Charming’ and how his ‘good looks were out of this world’—were clearly very explicit, yet they sounded
so nice when she was the one saying them.
After that, the little fellow even naturally held his hand.
Children were all soft and tender. He wanted to push her away, but what he instead did was carefully
hold her, for fear that he might identally break her hand if he was too forceful…
Afterparing them like that, it seemed like a daughter was more lovable after all.
For some inexplicable reason, he was actually starting to miss how Pete had behaved during his
rpses.
Justin felt that he must be out of his mind. Otherwise, why would he possibly think of having his son turn
into a girl again?
His gaze fell onto the two bottles of ‘vitamins’ that he had brought back with him. In the end, he actually
really opened the bottles and took a couple of pills.
Heid down casually after taking the pills. Then, he realized that he had missed Sweetie’s live-stream
today.
Come to think of it, there were some who addressed sweetcherry as Cherry, too. It was actually the
same name as the little girl who hade over today…
Why was he thinking of that little girl again?
She was a child that Nora had with another man! Why was he caring about and missing her so much?
Justin felt that he must not have taken enough medicine.
He suppressed his irritability. When he took a look at his cell phone, he identally opened his
Facebook ount and saw that Chester had posted a photo of the gathering that afternoon. The photo
was captioned ‘Happy birthday, Justin! Do you like my gift?’
‘Gift’…
Why was it back to the topic of gifts again!
Justin coughed. He had suddenly thought of a way to remind Nora about the gift!
He got up, entered the storage room, and took random photos of a few things in his own collection. The
man who had slight obsessivepulsive disorder arranged the photos into a nine-box grid coge.
Then, he wrote: ‘Thanks for the gifts today, everyone.’
After that, he set the post’s privacy level so that it was visible only to Nora.
After posting the photo, he tossed the cell phone aside. The man, who had originally decided not to work
that evening so that he could spend some time with his son, couldn’t stop himself from picking up his
laptop and using work to distract himself.
A minuteter, he picked up his cell phone and nced at it.
There weren’t any notifications.
Thinking that he wouldn’t get a response so quickly anyway, he put down the phone.
Besides, what was he being so nervous for? He just wanted to give Ms. Smith a reminder and another
chance to send her birthday gift for him over, that was all.
For example, she could leave ament saying ‘Oops, I forgot to pass you the gift’.
Then, he would reply: “It’s okay, I’m on a business trip nearby. Go get it.”
Oh, but it didn’t seem quite right to tell her to go and get it. That would make him seem like he was
asking her for a gift.
He would just say that he was on a business trip nearby, then. She would definitely say that she would
bring it over…
While thinking about it, another five minutes went by. Justin picked up his cell phone again, but there still
weren’t any notifications.
He frowned and stared hard at the phone.
Half an hourter!
He finally got a notification—there was a red ‘1’ at the alerts!
The corners of Justin’s lips curled upward and his slender and well-defined finger tapped lightly on it. His
heart even skipped a beat when he tapped on the notification.
Then, he saw the words ‘Nora Smith likes your post’.
“…”
Justin stared at the notification for a very long time until he was sure that that was all there was. Then, he
chucked the phone aside angrily.
—
At 8 pm.
The person-in-charge of the live-stream app called the supervisor who had just knocked off. He said, “Sir,
hurry and take a look at Facebook!”
The supervisor, who had only just got home, suddenly had a bad feeling. He hurriedly opened Facebook
to see that another hashtag, #fantasiaimssweetcherryisfake, was now trending.
Fantasia was also a live-streamer registered with them. However, she wasn’t in the gaming channels but
in the entertainment channels. She was supposedly a youngdy from a wealthy family.
During her live-stream today, someone had asked her about sweetcherry in thements. She had
immediately replied, “Oh, sweetcherry? Do you guys actually believe that a princess-y background like
hers is real? Real wealthy families will never allow their children to show their faces in public like that
when they’re just five! I only managed to start live-streaming after fighting with my family for a really long
time!”
Her words suggested that sweetcherry’s background was fake and that it was just an image that a
managementpany had created in order to hype her.
Due to sweetcherry’s poprity, the post about what she said had shot straight up to the top 20 trending
topics!
The person-in-charge asked nervously, “What should we do about this?”
The supervisor frowned and replied, “I suppose you can also say this is a different way of trying to get
poprity. But Fantasia really just leeches off the poprity of whoever is a hot topic at the moment.
Issue her a warning.”
The person-in-charge said, “Okay, got it. sweetcherry is the most promising live-streamer in my opinion
this year. Besides, she’s only five; the things that children say are the cutest. I mustn’t let Fantasia ruin
it.”
Cherry, the topic of their discussion, was currently tucked snugly under her covers at the moment. After
sending some stickers to ‘Grandpa’ on Facebook Messenger to maintain their spark of friendship, she
said happily, “Mommy, I added Daddy on Facebook today! What should I say to him?”
After thinking, she typed a message seriously: ‘Daddy, are you asleep?’
Her message filled Justin’s mind with question marks right away: ??
He was still in the midst of being mad at Nora for being so heartless, yet she had thrown herself right into
the line of fire. Who had given her permission to call him Daddy?
Justin replied coldly: “I’m not your father.”
Then, he blocked Cherry on Facebook.
He wasn’t going to ept the child that woman had with an idiot! Not even if she was free of charge!