Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 269: Two hundred sixty-nine, I want both!_1

Chapter 269: Two hundred sixty-nine, I want both!_1

Gu Chen hurriedly corrected himself, "Oh no, now that you mention it, my back suddenly started hurting, and it seems like my shoulders are weak too."

After speaking, he twisted his neck, feigning pain.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, even my neck is injured, did you hear it? My bones just cracked."

To tell the truth, the acting was really poor.

Ji Pianran couldn’t help but laugh out loud "giggle" at Gu Chen’s exaggerated actions.

What kind of husband is this, after all?

She had always thought Gu Chen was a warm man, but she never expected him to have such a funny side too.

Her smiling eyes were curved, and they sparkled with fine and beautiful light, her long eyelashes fluttered like two butterflies ready to take flight.

The apple muscles on both sides of her face were slightly puffed, and her skin appeared delicate and lustrous.

Her cherry lips revealed eight white and even teeth.

That smile, radiant as the blazing sun, only took one glance to be deeply affected.

Gu Chen smiled along too, and after finishing, he raised an eyebrow and looked at Ji Pianran.

"Wife, look how tired I am, how about we go home for some ’da bao jian’?"

He had been looking forward to it for way too long!

Hearing ’da bao jian.’

Ji Pianran blinked, the smile in her eyes and brows hadn’t even had time to fully vanish as she curiously asked, "What is ’da bao jian’?"

"This ’da bao jian’, ah, it’s a massage, yes, just a massage," Gu Chen said with an ill-intentioned smile.

Ji Pianran thought for a moment, "Alright then, let’s go home!"

She would have a good bath when they got back, then she’d give him a massage herself, ensuring that Gu Chen would have a good night’s sleep tonight.

The family of three took a leisurely walk back along the same route, and when they passed a shop selling small gifts, Tangtang’s steps suddenly came to a halt.

The shop’s floor-to-ceiling windows were clean and shone brightly.

Each shelf inside was laid with clean, white blankets, and on them were various Barbie dolls with different colors of skin and hair, posed in various positions.

But they had one thing in common: they were all equally exquisite and beautiful.

Tangtang stood in front of the display window, extending her small hand, her palm against the glass, her eyes brimming with longing.

The dolls here were so beautiful.

She liked them so much!

Seeing his child’s fondness, Gu Chen stopped his steps, crouched down beside Tangtang, and smiled at her indulgently.

"Do you like it?"

The little one nodded without hesitation, "Like it!"

After speaking, she raised her head and looked at Gu Chen with hopeful eyes.

If his daughter liked it, Gu Chen would certainly buy it.

He picked up Tangtang and walked into the store, "Which one do you like, let’s go in and choose?"

Hearing this, the little one pointed to the Barbie doll with pink hair in the middle.

"Tangtang wants that one!"

As there weren’t many people in the store at that moment, the salesperson immediately looked in the direction the little one was pointing.

That was the store’s signature doll, imported from Germany.

It was handmade, with hair dyed from real human hair, and the clothes were stitched meticulously.

"Little friend, that doll costs four hundred bucks, it’s quite expensive," the salesperson said with a smile.

Four hundred bucks, Ji Pianran was startled.

Her eyes seriously sized up the doll.

Was it made of gold?

She couldn’t see any difference.

Children don’t understand the concept of expensive, and after Tangtang pointed to that one, she eagerly pointed at another Barbie with golden hair, cooing, "Daddy, Tangtang wants that one too."

Gu Chen looked first at the pink-haired doll, in his past life he had scrolled through TikTok, where many people showed off such dolls.

To tell you the truth, dolls like these, in the future, many girls like them, regardless of their age. A ten-year-old likes them, a twenty-year-old still likes them, and even at thirty, the fondness remains.

Even though Gu Chen didn’t know why they liked them, he knew one thing.

In the future, these dolls are really expensive, a small one costs a few thousand yuan, and just a piece of handmade clothing costs more than clothes in a shopping mall, easily seven or eight hundred.

And then there are those who, for the sake of a doll, openly leave a message online saying whoever can buy it for her, she would accompany them for so many days.

What that accompaniment involves, naturally, doesn’t need to be said, as the main websites don’t allow it.

But everyone should be clear that it’s not something good.

After looking at the doll Tangtang pointed out last, the sales assistant smiled again.

"That one is only thirty, many kids like it."

She truly didn’t believe that Gu Chen would spend four hundred to buy a doll for a child.

Such dolls are the toys that those twenty-seven or twenty-eight-year-old petty bourgeois white-collar workers like.

They have money and an overflowing girlish heart.

This kind is what parents buy, economical, one for thirty.

After thinking for a while, Gu Chen said to the sales assistant, "I’ll take both."

Hearing that Gu Chen wanted to buy both dolls at once, Ji Pianran quickly reached out to tug at Gu Chen’s sleeve and whispered in his ear, "Don’t buy them, you can’t spoil the child like this."

However, Gu Chen didn’t quite agree with Ji Pianran’s view.

In fact, he wasn’t doing it to spoil Tangtang; on the contrary, it was for the better education of Tangtang.

Speaking honestly, a doll for four hundred is indeed outrageously expensive, truly a toy for the wealthy.

This pricing, eighty percent of it is because of gimmicks and brand premiums.

It’s outright price gouging.

But to a child not yet three years old, if you talk to her about this, she won’t understand at all.

She will only understand it as too expensive to purchase.

If this continues over time, as soon as she hears something is expensive, she will feel she won’t have it and doesn’t deserve to have it.

That can hurt a person’s confidence.

It’s a form of invisible damage to one’s character.

However, through comparison, it’s different.

She will truly understand that expensive doesn’t necessarily mean better.

I’m not buying because it’s not worth it, not because I don’t deserve it.

Children, ah, should be happy and full of boundless confidence in life.

As for working hard to earn money and experiencing the hardships of the world, that’s what adults ought to do.

Gu Chen smiled at Ji Pianran, "It’s fine, if the child likes it, then we’ll buy it for her."

Tangtang is not the kind of child who wants everything she sees; she can play with a favorite toy for a very long time, so when you calculate it, it’s actually quite cost-effective.

Besides, having it would allow her to thoroughly understand what this is all about.

That way, in the future, she won’t envy what others have.

It’s that saying, those who have seen roses won’t lose their way over a wildflower.

But the premise is that they have seen roses.

Gu Chen is not simply spoiling the child.

Correct values can change a person’s entire life.

He needs to establish the right values for Tangtang.

So even if it’s expensive, Gu Chen has to buy it.

When Tangtang discovers that, aside from the price, there’s no difference between the expensive and the cheap one, she will naturally choose the cheaper one.

And he believes that once Tangtang truly understands, she probably won’t buy such expensive dolls ever again in her life.

Ji Pianran couldn’t stop Gu Chen, but she wasn’t angry either. After all, in the previous life, Gu Chen made the money, and as the child’s father, he could decide what to buy for the child—what could she say?

Hearing that Gu Chen was going to buy both without hesitation, the sales assistant’s eyes widened.

In disbelief, she said, "Sir, you’re not joking, are you?"