Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 364: Three hundred sixty-four, the best teacher_1

Chapter 364: Three hundred sixty-four, the best teacher_1

Tangtang immediately obediently responded to the words, sweetly calling out.

"Uncle Chun Lei~"

"Ah~ such a good child."

Li Chunlei immediately beamed with joy, fumbling around on his person for a while.

At last, he finally found an unopened piece of chocolate in his jacket pocket and handed it to Tangtang.

Then he looked around with some curiosity before asking with a hint of confusion.

"Gu Chen, didn’t your wife come today?"

"Mmm~ Pian Ran is quite busy with work, so from now on, I’ll mainly be in charge of looking after the kids at home."

Gu Chen touched his nose and then said with a candid face.

However, no sooner had his words fallen than a whisper of gossip from the surrounding parents immediately grew louder.

Gu Chen’s image shifted rapidly from a successfully self-made man, the shining diamond bachelor raising a child alone,

to one that looked good but seemingly a freeloader—and a pretty boy at that.

This left him quite speechless, thinking to himself how meddlesome these women could be.

Everyone was there to drop off their kids. Who decided that men couldn’t be stay-at-home dads?

It wasn’t like the sky was falling down if a woman worked outside while the man took care of the home.

Each one was young and fashionable in appearance, yet so outdated in thinking, which was simply prejudice.

Gu Chen didn’t bother explaining further, considering the times were different from before his rebirth.

As for when these people would actually change their mindset, that would still take another decade or more.

But this was fine, too. After the group of mothers around him gossiped in whispers for a bit,

they lost interest in Gu Chen, the pretty boy living off his wife’s earnings.

No one else seemed bothered to strike up a conversation with him, which suited him just fine.

Li Chunlei couldn’t help frowning. Seeing his good friend being talked about like this made him feel pretty upset.

But he was now an intern teacher at the kindergarten, and it wasn’t the time to start conflicts with these gossiping parents.

He then waved his hand as if shooing away flies and said to Gu Chen beside him.

"Brother, don’t mind them. I think in today’s world, we men who take care of the home like you do are quite rare, and Tangtang is so smart and cute, this must definitely be a result of your good parenting."

Gu Chen couldn’t help but laugh and wave his hand continuously, saying that it was all thanks to his wife’s teaching.

He hadn’t been looking after the child for many days yet, and he couldn’t take all the credit for such a big achievement.

Seeing that he didn’t seem to care much about those idle rumors, Li Chunlei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Gu Chen couldn’t suppress his curiosity and asked his friend before him.

"Don’t just talk about me. Why have you ended up teaching at a kindergarten? This doesn’t seem like your style.

Could it be that you’ve changed your ways after not seeing each other for so many years?"

In fact, before his rebirth, Gu Chen had also heard some news about the other party.

But normally, that would have been something from ten years later.

At that time, Li Chunlei was a somewhat famous entrepreneur.

He had even made the front page of Haicheng’s newspaper for building a factory in his hometown and benefiting the local community, having his moment in the spotlight.

At that time, Gu Chen had been just an unknown worker.

Feeling that their statuses were worlds apart, he thus never took the initiative to meet up with him.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Li Chunlei couldn’t help but blush, then leaning in mysteriously close to Gu Chen.

He looked around nervously, as if afraid of being seen, before he whispered.

"Brother, given our relationship, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you.

Actually, to tell you the truth, I came to Little Sun Kindergarten mainly to pursue love."

"Pursue love?"

Pian Ran was a bit surprised, but after thinking about it, he realized that it was indeed something his good brother was capable of.

"That’s right, and it’s true love at that! Otherwise, who do you think would be like you, having kids already?

Man, I’m still a bachelor."

Hearing this, Pian Ran burst into laughter, then nudged the other with his elbow and asked with a face full of curiosity.

"Who is it? Let me have a look, to see who has bewitched my brother to this extent.

You’ve even given up on business to become a teacher here looking after kids. Could this person be an angel descended from heaven?"

Li Chunlei cleared his throat and then glanced stealthily to the side while humming softly under his breath.

"It’s, it’s that one by the roadside, the one holding the hand of a girl with a blue backpack...

Hey, don’t stretch your neck out to look, what if someone notices?"

Pian Ran followed his gaze, and this time he was genuinely shocked.

"She is indeed gorgeous, and you’ve got a good eye, but she’s married, and on top of that, it’s an unrequited love.

Aren’t you playing a little too dangerously?"

Li Chunlei was so irritated his nose could’ve been crooked as he pulled Pian Ran aside and couldn’t help but defend himself loudly.

"What married woman? She’s a widow, her husband just passed away last year, and now she’s raising her daughter alone.

You tell me, with no man in the house, life must be hard for her. I just thought of offering some help."

Having heard this, Pian Ran couldn’t help but marvel, though it still sounded a bit creepy.

But it did seem like something this guy would do; after all, back in high school,

Li Chunlei would often sneak peeks at their pretty English teacher, a young and attractive wife.

Who would have thought, after so many years, his taste hasn’t changed in the slightest.

And he’s even shifted from having a crush on a young wife to now a widow, as if his condition has worsened.

However, Pian Ran didn’t say much about it.

Compared to his and Wang Dachun’s past when they were so poor they couldn’t make ends meet, the Lei Family had always been well off.

In those years before it was fully clear which direction the country was heading, Old Wang was among the first batch to plunge into business.

Braving the constantly changing tides, he fearlessly made a fortune and then stayed in the village without leaving.

By the time Li Chunlei was in high school, word finally got out about their family’s past.

Afterwards, they fled overnight, leaving behind not even a whisper of news.

It was many years later before Pian Ran saw his old classmate’s name in a newspaper again.

Li Chunlei, by that time, was already a big boss with several companies to his name.

Despite his lack of seriousness in his actions, he had a solid foundation, and with a little more maturity,

it was only a matter of time before he’d make his mark. Even before Pian Ran was reborn,

Li Chunlei had always been the most successful one among their classmates.

If he truly liked that young widow and later felt like getting married, it might not be a bad thing for her either.

Li Chunlei, meanwhile, watched with a smitten look for a while until the lady was far away and out of sight.

Then, with a touch of reluctance, he withdrew his gaze and turned back to Pian Ran at his side.