Chapter 23:Give Daddy a Makeover 1
In the photo, he had been attending a commercial activity. Dressed in a black suit, he stood tall on the red carpet while smiling at the cameras.
As a guy in his early twenties, he was transitioning from a boy to a man. His eyes still had a hint of youthfulness in them, but his face was so handsome that it could make one scream.
Su Jiu innocently asked, "Daddy, is this you? How handsome!"
Su Shengjing looked at the photo; it was from a time when his appearance had been at his best. He embarrassedly replied, "Yeah."
Su Jiu said in a child-like voice, "Daddy, you look so good in the picture without such long hair and your mustache. I think you should cut your hair and shave your mustache!"
That was a simple thing she had asked. Su Shengjing did not want his mustache to prick Su Jiu anymore either, so he agreed, "Okay, I'll shave my mustache and cut my hair tomorrow."
He had decided to groom himself well and look for a job instead of wasting his days away. In the past, when he used to work part-time at small shops, he could barely sustain himself. Since he had a child now and his expenses would be higher, it was better and more reliable to look for a formal job.
Although he could live in an unpolished manner, a little girl could not live like that!
***
The next morning, Su Shengjing went to the toilet after waking up and completely shaved away his mustache.
After he had shaved, he felt like he had become a few years younger. It was like his youth had returned.
He stroked his smooth skin in satisfaction. Then, he walked out of the toilet and went toward the room Su Jiu was in.
His house was very small with an area of around twenty square meters. As there was only one bedroom, Su Shengjing had Su Jiu sleep on the bed, while he slept on the sofa. He had initially been worried that she would fall off the bed. However, she was obediently lying in the middle of the bed with her hands crossed over the pillow.
She looks so obedient even when she's sleeping.
Su Jiu had yet to wake up, and her dense eyelashes cast a faint shadow below her eyes. Her face looked as cute as a doll, and it made Su Shengjing want to poke her cheek.
He then actually extended his hand and lightly poked Su Jiu's face. Her face was very soft and bouncy, and he could not help but poke it again.
Sensing something, the little girl sleepily said, "Daddy..."
"Are you awake?" Su Shengjing spoke as he carried her up.
He was sensitive to smell, yet the child's milk-like fragrance did not put him off at all.
Su Jiu let him hug her. She leaned against his shoulder and rubbed her sleepy eyes. "Why are you up so early today?"
"Because I agreed to cut my hair today. Accompany me, okay?"
"Okay!" Su Jiu immediately got excited and looked forward to her father's new appearance.
However, this was not enough.
She patted Su Shengjing's stomach. "Daddy, if you want to become handsome, we need to remove this fat. That handsome uncle did not have so much fat on his stomach."
Su Shengjing was speechless.
It was Sheng Tianci again.
Sheng Tianci had quite a good figure with abdominal muscles and long legs. Did she take a liking to him? Otherwise, why can't she forget him, and why does she even know that he does not have any fat on his stomach?
Seeing how his daughter was thinking of another man, Su Shengjing felt a bit upset. He humphed and said, "Do you like him that much? Just let him be your father."
Su Jiu blinked. "Can I do that?"
Su Shengjing felt anger rise in his chest. "You really want him to be your father?"
Su Jiu nodded and seriously said, "He's handsome and rich. Plus, he said that he can buy a lot of delicious food and toys for me and give me a good life."
Chapter 24: Give Daddy a Makeover 2
Su Shengjing was shocked.
What the heck? She's making me so angry!
He glared at the little girl in his arms and unhappily said, "Alright, I'll give you to him so that you can be his daughter. Just call him your father from now on and live with him!"
After speaking, he placed Su Jiu back on the bed. He was about to leave when Su Jiu hurriedly pulled his arm and laughed. "Daddy, I'm lying to you! I like you the most. I don't want anyone else to be my father."
Su Shengjing stopped in his tracks. His fury immediately disappeared when he listened to her cute voice.
Turning around, he saw her cunningly smile as if her prank had succeeded. He now knew for sure that she was lying to him.
"You brat! You know how to lie, huh?" Although Su Shengjing was gritting his teeth, he could not bear to act fierce toward or hit Su Jiu. Hence, he just reached his hands out and tickled her.
Su Jiu rolled around on the bed and laughed. "Daddy, Daddy!"
Her cute laughter softened Su Shengjing's heart, and he stopped.
After catching her breath, Su Jiu pouted and looked at him. She seriously said, "Daddy, if you don't have all this fat, you'll be more handsome than that uncle!"
"Really?" Su Shengjing suddenly fell into deep thought.
Is it time for me to go to the gym and get back those chest muscles, abdominal muscles, and biceps from the past? Then, this little girl would definitely adore me.
Su Jiu kept nodding. "It's true! I don't want you to be fatty."
As he looked at the anticipation in her eyes, Su Shengjing had no choice but to say, "Alright. I'll destroy all the fat on my body."
Su Jiu secretly chuckled. The first step in giving her father a makeover had started! She was looking forward to the result.
***
After a simple breakfast, Su Shengjing walked out of the house with Su Jiu. There was a barber shop near the block. When they reached the shop, Su Jiu unexpectedly saw the future villain.
The skinny boy was standing in front of the bun shop. As he looked at the steaming buns, he swallowed his saliva and touched his empty pocket. He just stood there without taking a step forward.
Suddenly, a middle-aged woman walked past him and roughly pushed him to the side. He quickly regained his balance and did not fall. However, he merely glanced at her and left without saying anything.
Before he left, he shot a longing look at those buns.
Su Jiu observed everything. When she thought about his miserable fate in the future, she felt a sense of pity. Tugging Su Shengjing's sleeve, she raised her head and said, "Daddy, that's the boy collecting trash the other day. He must have not eaten anything. Should we buy some buns for him?"
Su Shengjing was speechless.
Although he was poor and in no position to help others, he could not dismiss his daughter's kind intentions. A few buns weren't that expensive either. Hence, he nodded and said, "Alright, I'll buy them now."
Rong Si had not eaten from the previous day's noon till this morning. He was starving, but his mother's illness had relapsed and she could not work; they did not even have money to buy rice. Hence, he had no choice but to collect trash. This was the only way he could earn money at his age.
He had walked for a distance when a child-like voice rang behind him. "Wait up!"
The voice sounded familiar. Rong Si subconsciously turned around and saw Su Shengjing walking over while carrying Su Jiu.
Su Jiu was holding a bag of steaming meat buns. She passed it to him and said, "This is for you!"
Rong Si pursed his lips. He hesitated, and instead of taking the buns, he looked at her.
Su Jiu shot him a smile that was as sweet as the strawberry-flavored candy he had eaten.
Chapter 25: Give Daddy a Makeover 3
Su Jiu passed the buns to him again. "Just take it. If you don't want them, Daddy and I will be unhappy."
Stretching his arm out, Rong Si took the buns. He pursed his lips and muttered, "Thank you."
This surprised Su Shengjing a little. "You can speak? So you aren't mute."
When Su Jiu saw that Rong Si's expression seemed strange, she instantly pouted and clarified to Su Shengjing. "Daddy, he's not mute. He just doesn't like to speak."
Rong Si was stunned.
Is she explaining on my behalf?
When Rong Si had moved here with his mother, she had told him to be polite and build a good rapport with the aunties, uncles, and children in the block. However, whenever others saw him, they would call him an illegitimate bastard, claiming that he was born because his mother slept with a random man. They even said that his mother was a prostitute.
Some ugly and disgusting uncles even asked him with a smile about how much his mother cost a night. They even said, "I'll help your mother give birth to a little brother or sister for you, okay?"
Rong Si did not understand why they said that. Whenever he went out with his mother and met the aunties, they would point at them behind their backs and say, "Did you see her? She's that prostitute. I wonder how many men she has slept with. How shameless! Do you think that she has some disease?"
"Haha! She looks average. The bastard at home even said that she's pretty!"
"No matter how pretty she is, she's still a prostitute who society looks down upon. In the past, she would've been imprisoned and drowned!"
He had curiously asked her then, "Mommy, why are they calling you a prostitute? Why did they ask me how much it cost to sleep with you?"
Rong Si's mother had been shocked at first, then she had turned pale and silent. She had simply hugged him and silently cried.
After a while, she had sobbed and said, "Be obedient and don't listen to what they say. Just pretend like they don't exist. We'll just go about with our lives, okay?"
Ever since then, even if these people kept mocking and teasing him and his mother, Rong Si ignored them. As he instinctively felt disgusted when he saw them, he would just walk away.
Gradually, these people lost interest in him and said that he was mute. The children did not want to play with him either. Whenever they saw him, they would make faces, throw pebbles at him, and call him an illegitimate bastard like the other adults.
However, this little girl did not look at him with a disgusted gaze. Not only did she act favorable toward him, but she also asked her father to give him money. This time, she even bought buns for him.
Rong Si's mother had told him that he must know to be grateful. He decided that after growing up, he would definitely repay this little girl.
At this moment, the fat woman who had finished buying her buns spotted Su Shengjing when she squeezed across the crowd. When she saw that he was hugging a three-year-old girl with the infamous illegitimate child standing in front of him, she immediately felt disdainful. She deliberately walked over and sarcastically said, "Oh my! You little bastard! Are you here to buy buns too?
"My daughter told me that the netizens have been discussing you recently. They said that you have become a father. By the way, where did you get this child from? Is it true that you don't know who her mother is and that she did not want to raise your daughter?"
The woman gloatingly looked at Su Jiu. "Did your mother run away with another guy and abandon you?"
This fat woman was called Madam Zhang, and she was notorious for having a sharp tongue. When Rong Si saw her, his dark eyes immediately became hostile.
She was the one who kept saying bad things about his mother, making her cry every time she returned home after leaving the house.
Although Rong Si's mother did not say anything to him, he knew that those people must have said bad things about her.