Chapter 28
“None of them fit.” Bai Qingyu compared the sizes of several pairs of underwear and muttered to himself, “Should I save them for Cha Bao to wear in middle school?”
He Renyuan felt a fire burning in his throat. He reached out and roughly pulled Bai Qingyu’s pajama pants down to his knees, covering the red marks, “A few pairs of underwear, and you want to treat them as family heirlooms?”
“I don’t have anything to pass down to Cha Bao.” Bai Qingyu suddenly moved closer to He Renyuan, his eyes sparkling as he sized him up, “Young master, how tall were you in middle school?”
Bai Qingyu firmly believed that Cha Bao would definitely grow as tall as He Renyuan, so he inquired in advance about when Cha Bao would grow taller.
He Renyuan, “Very tall, I sat in the last row.”
Bai Qingyu imagined Cha Bao, who could only sit in the first row at kindergarten, and felt a surge of longing. He gestured above He Renyuan’s forehead, “Cha Bao is not a picky eater, you are. Cha Bao will at least be as tall as you.”
He Renyuan, “Being picky or not is one thing, it’s also related to innate genes. Comparing him to me is useless.”
Genes, such complicated things. Bai Qingyu tidied up his packages, “You’re useless… forget it.”
He Renyuan’s temples throbbed. He grabbed Bai Qingyu’s wrist, “Throw the underwear away… return them.”
Bai Qingyu took out his phone and asked humbly, “How do I return them? What if the seller refuses?”
He Renyuan took his phone, originally wanting to operate it smoothly for Bai Qingyu and earn his admiration. However, Bai Qingyu’s phone lagged for ten seconds after opening the shopping app, and Bai Qingyu was still looking at him expectantly.
Lawyer He said irritably, “If he refuses, I’ll send him a lawyer’s letter.”
It took He Renyuan three minutes to complete the refund process, free door-to-door pickup, and schedule an appointment, “I’ll give you a work phone tomorrow.”
Bai Qingyu refused, “I can’t take too many things from you.”
He Renyuan, “I have an obligation to provide you with a work phone to make your work more convenient. Search online if you don’t believe me.”
Bai Qingyu searched online and found out that it was true. Those who didn’t provide work phones were criticized by netizens for being stingy. Bosses were really good, they provided everything.
“Thank you.”
He Renyuan calmed down, stood up, and took a box from the table, “The case is closed. Didn’t you say you wanted the jade spoons?”
Inside the black velvet box lay a pair of jade spoons, one perfect and flawless, the other broken into pieces.
Bai Qingyu gasped in distress. It was okay, he could repair them. Repairing inanimate objects that were pure and natural was much easier than healing complex humans.
“I’ll return them to you after I repair them.”
“I don’t need them, they’re for you and Cha Bao.”
“No.” Bai Qingyu said seriously, “The jade spoons are worth three million yuan, I can’t accept such a valuable gift. Moreover, large gifts can be reclaimed under certain conditions, such as when the relationship changes, so I can’t accept them.”
He Renyuan blurted out, “Relationship changes? Large gifts given with the intention of marriage can be reclaimed, we’re not even dating.”
Bai Qingyu gave him a strange look, “What are you thinking? We have an employer-employee relationship. If there’s a work phone, there should be work spoons. The work phone has to be returned after resignation, but you didn’t say anything about the spoons.”
He Renyuan was speechless. He wasn’t sure if he would resort to any means to stop Bai Qingyu if he wanted to leave with Bai Xiaocha. After a while, he forced out a sentence, “You know quite a bit about law.”
Bai Qingyu paused, “Yes, I do. How do I know so much about law?”
It must be because the legal programs he and Old Man Deng usually watched had been ingrained in his mind.
He Renyuan felt that Bai Qingyu was being sarcastic and compromised, “I’ll write you a gift contract.”
Before Bai Qingyu could react, He Renyuan had already strode upstairs, pulled up a gift contract template on his computer, printed it out, signed it, and placed it on the table with the jade spoons.
“Leaving aside the spoons, did you spray perfume?” He Renyuan smelled a faint tea scent, but it was different from the natural tea scent in the pool.
Bai Qingyu realized that his tea scent had leaked out because of swimming tonight, so he hurriedly sprayed some green tea perfume to cover it up, “Yes.”
He Renyuan thought, “Not only do you bathe in tea, you also spray perfume, you like tea that much?”
Bai Qingyu, “Yes.”
He Renyuan remembered the most talked about gossip in the Shu He Group’s tea room—
[A certain manager favors earth-toned green suits, uses cups, spoons, paper, and pens with tea patterns at the company, only drank coffee before coming to the company but now only drinks tea, sprays green tea and white tea perfume whenever there’s a meeting with President He… do you think he’s doing all this to seduce President He?]
The gossip was about him, but he never bothered to listen. Now, he wished he could study workplace psychology with his colleagues in the tea room.
He Renyuan looked at the honest-looking Bai Qingyu and asked on a whim, “Do you like tea because I like it?”
Bai Qingyu looked up at He Renyuan in surprise. How could anyone ask a tea deity if he liked tea because of a human? It was preposterous.
He Renyuan understood from his momentary expression that he was humiliating himself, “Alright, you don’t have to answer.”
Bai Qingyu said frankly, “It’s because of me that you like tea.”
He Renyuan: “…”
He Renyuan was embarrassed and angry.
Before Bai Qingyu came, he indeed couldn’t taste the flavor of tea anymore. So what? He had already fallen in love with tea three years ago, what did it have to do with Bai Qingyu?
Bai Qingyu picked up the two packages he was about to take upstairs and the jade spoons, “I’ll take these upstairs to repair.”
That night, Bai Qingyu used his divine power to restore the spoons to their original state and put them away in the box.
He hadn’t figured out how to return them to He Renyuan yet.
The next day, during breakfast, Cha Bao was surprised to find that the scooter his dad bought had arrived.
Bai Qingyu put him on the scooter and taught him how to use it, “Baby, do you like it?”
Bai Xiaocha shouted, “Yes!”
The housekeeper saw He Renyuan coming downstairs with wet hair and raised his voice slightly, “This seems to be the first time Qingyu has bought a toy for Cha Bao, no wonder Cha Bao is so happy.”
Bai Qingyu, “If he likes it, I’ll buy more.”
Bai Xiaocha, “Dad, one toy is enough for Baby.”
He Renyuan paused, a look of annoyance on his face. He had been so busy feeding Cha Bao recently that he forgot to prepare toys for him. He would take Cha Bao to the toy store after work today.
“Young master, did you go swimming?” The housekeeper wondered, he hadn’t been this diligent before, swimming three times a day now?
“Do you need to change the water today?”
He Renyuan, “No need to waste it. I’ll be back at nine o’clock for something and will drop Cha Bao off at kindergarten on the way.”
Bai Qingyu had a feeling that He Renyuan came back specifically for this, “I found that taking the subway and then a taxi is very fast, I’ll send him myself.”
He Renyuan, “Alright.” Then he would pick him up after school.
An hour later, Bai Qingyu kept his promise, taking Cha Bao by subway and taxi, arriving at the kindergarten more than half an hour earlier than usual.
They arrived too early and had to line up outside the kindergarten.
Bai Qingyu, who always arrived just on time, suddenly realized that some grandparents would send their children over very early, lining up at the gate, chatting and coaxing them before sending them inside.
Bai Qingyu held the little one and waited for the security guard to open the door.
The two children next to him were probably good friends, chatting non-stop.
“My mom is the most beautiful, she has a lot of lipsticks.”
“My mom has a lot of dresses, my mom is the most beautiful.”
As they chatted, the topic of whose mom was the most beautiful almost broke their friendship.
Bai Xiaocha held a piece of bread and listened for a while, then muttered to himself, “My dad is beautiful.”
After that, he continued eating his bread.
The other two children heard him and gathered around, “Cha Bao, I’ve never seen your mom.”
“What does your mom look like? Is your mom beautiful?”
Bai Xiaocha insisted, “My dad is beautiful.”
“No, Uncle Bai is not beautiful, it must be your mom who is beautiful.”
“Yes, yes.”
Bai Qingyu scratched his face awkwardly. Children always spoke the truth.
Bai Xiaocha also froze, holding the bread for a long time without moving, looking heartbroken, “Don’t talk about my dad.”
The little one couldn’t stand hearing others say his dad wasn’t good-looking, and his eyes reddened.
Bai Qingyu panicked and hurriedly carried Bai Xiaocha away, “Baby’s dad is the most beautiful.”
He thought for a moment. Since the Jiang family had moved away and there was no one who knew him nearby, it wouldn’t matter if he showed his true form occasionally. Dad’s appearance was Cha Bao’s pride, “Tonight, beautiful Dad will come pick you up from school, okay?”
The little one’s red eyes cleared up instantly. His emotions came and went quickly, and there wasn’t a trace of sadness in his round eyes, “Okay, Dad!”
“Dad will have long hair!” Bai Xiaocha hadn’t touched his dad’s hair for a while.
Bai Qingyu agreed, “Okay.”
He had to keep his promise to his child. In the afternoon, Bai Qingyu left home to pick up his child, specifically wearing a mask and a loose jacket. When he reached a secluded place with no one around, he transformed back into his tea deity form.
On the way to the kindergarten, Bai Qingyu noticed many people looking at him. He smiled. It seemed everyone thought his hair was dyed, and he was like a scene kid, with a high rate of turning heads.
He only had one hair color, and it was even more eye-catching than a scene kid, which meant everyone liked the color of tea leaves.
Usually, when picking up his child, Bai Qingyu blended in with the crowd. Today, he stood out, especially among a group of grandparents.
The dark green long hair made his skin look even fairer, his sideburns pinned behind his ears with a black clip, his arms and forehead seemed to have their own lighting effects.
However, what was even more attractive were his eyes above the mask. When he looked at people, there seemed to be a smile in his eyes, as if he was above the clouds, with his own vacuum around him.
Bai Xiaocha came out with the after-school procession and saw his dad at first glance, “Dad!”
Bai Qingyu bent down and picked up the little one, “Baby, you’ve worked hard at school.”
Bai Qingyu’s hair instantly attracted the attention of countless children, who all gathered around, standing on tiptoe and reaching out to touch it.
Bai Qingyu didn’t mind, calling out the names of the children he knew.
“Cha Bao, did you change dads?”
“Your new dad is so handsome!”
“My dad has a big belly, can I change too?”
Bai Xiaocha answered uniformly, “This is my dad!”
Teacher Zhou looked at the person in front of her with both confusion and amazement. He was breathtakingly beautiful, his gender ambiguous.
Bai Qingyu had told her on WeChat that Cha Bao would be picked up by someone else today, also Cha Bao’s “dad.”
Teacher Zhou thought of many possibilities, such as single fathers supporting each other, or Cha Bao’s godfather… but she didn’t expect it to be a dad who was even more handsome than a celebrity.
She vaguely remembered Cha Bao’s uncle… no, this family’s genes were too good, weren’t they?
And she felt that this person looked even more like Cha Bao’s dad.
A guess formed in Teacher Zhou’s mind: Bai Qingyu and this beautiful person’s children must have been switched at birth. Cha Bao was reunited with his biological father, so he had two dads.
Bai Qingyu felt he had attracted enough attention and was about to leave with Cha Bao when Cha Bao suddenly said in his ear, “Dad, that’s Uncle Boss’s car!”
Bai Qingyu froze, not daring to turn around, and quietly asked, “Baby, which direction is Uncle Boss in? We have to run quickly.”
Bai Xiaocha, “In the car behind us.”
Bai Qingyu started running, “Baby, hold on tight to Dad.”
In a race against humans, the tea deity wouldn’t lose. As long as he ran away, he could say that he found an actor dad for Cha Bao to show off.
Bai Qingyu was full of confidence, but humans were too despicable.
He heard a cold warning from behind—
“Put Cha Bao down, or I’ll call the police!”
Both the tea deity and the little tea deity were nervous and looked at each other.
Bai Xiaocha, “Don’t arrest me—”
Bai Qingyu calmly pinched his mouth, applying what he learned from He Renyuan, “Baby, call me Uncle later, Uncle is a type of dad.”
Bai Xiaocha blinked. Oh? Baby had so many uncles?
