Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 97: Ninety-seven, they finally slept together!_1

Chapter 97: Ninety-seven, they finally slept together!_1

Tangtang was still energetically shouting, waving her little hands around.

"Hug, Daddy hug!"

Gu Chen took a deep breath.

He made an effort to adjust his mindset before reaching out to hold his daughter in his arms.

"Good girl, it’s getting late. Time to sleep now. Little kids shouldn’t stay up too late."

Tangtang’s tiny body was soft and carried the scent of milk, and she clung completely to Gu Chen’s embrace.

"Tell a story, Daddy, tell a story."

Gu Chen took off his cotton jacket and lay down somewhat reluctantly.

With a lot of patience, he said, "Alright, Daddy will tell you the story of Little Red Riding Hood."

Upon hearing that a story was about to be told, the little girl immediately behaved herself, lying between the two, ready to listen attentively.

"Once upon a time, there was a little girl who always liked to wear a red hat, so everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood..."

Gu Chen patiently told the story.

He had only gotten halfway through when the little girl started to get fidgety again.

After all, Mommy was there too!

She wanted to play with Mommy!

She first burrowed into Ji Pianran’s embrace, feeling the warmth of her mother, and then couldn’t resist the urge to hug her father again.

Tangtang turned over and then crawled toward Gu Chen’s embrace.

Mommy’s body was soft and fragrant, and Daddy also...

Wait a minute!

Tangtang, as if discovering a new continent, had her eyes suddenly light up.

"Daddy, why is this so hard here?"

Gu Chen: "..."

Ji Pianran: "!!!!"

The atmosphere suddenly turned awkward.

Both adults were clearly taken by surprise by Tangtang’s question.

Gu Chen felt as if half of his scalp had gone numb. How was he supposed to explain this?

Because of Mommy’s hug?

Daddy didn’t have one?

Ji Pianran’s face turned red instantly; it really was too embarrassing.

How was she supposed to answer?

"Um, because Daddy is a boy, Mommy is a girl, so of course, there are differences."

She tried to suppress the awkwardness inside and gently explained to the young Tangtang.

Gu Chen took a deep breath on the other side.

Thank goodness Ji Pianran explained.

Otherwise, he really wouldn’t have known how to describe it.

Tangtang seemed to understand but also not quite. The little girl tilted her head and thought for a moment, and the next second, she naively touched herself!

"So, am I first like Daddy, then like Mommy?"

One had to admit, kids really do have wild imaginations!

And sometimes they are scarily expansive!

But you can’t just not explain it. After all, they know so little about the world at this age.

If you want them to grow up smoothly, you have to answer their questions, not avoid them!

Ji Pianran felt the nerves at the back of her head jumping.

She was truly starting to feel overwhelmed.

In this era, thinking was far from being as open as in later times.

Discussing these matters with her daughter in front of Gu Chen always made Ji Pianran feel uncomfortable.

But she was also helpless.

She had no choice but to bite the bullet and awkwardly explain.

"All children are like this, and Mommy was the same when she was little."

Hearing that Mommy was like her when she was little gave Tangtang peace of mind.

So she was the same as Mommy.

She liked being like Mommy!

Tangtang turned her little face and looked at Ji Pianran obediently.

"Mommy, Tangtang wants to hear ’Two Tigers’."

Ji Pianran stretched out her hand and gently patted her.

"Okay, Mommy will sing it for you. But after this, it’s time to go to bed."

"Okay!"

Tangtang agreed quickly.

One can’t help but say that, even though it was a mother-child bed, it really wasn’t big; Gu Chen was afraid of crowding the mother and daughter, so he slept on his side all the time.

He tried to take up as little space as possible, so that they could sleep more comfortably.

In this room, no more than twenty square meters, Ji Pianran’s gentle and soft voice began to ring out.

"Two tigers, two tigers, run fast, run fast..."

The nursery rhyme was short and ended after just a couple of lines.

Not only was Xiao Tangtang not yet satisfied, but even Gu Chen hadn’t had enough.

The little girl was clearly not pleased; she pouted her lips, acting spoiled.

"Mommy, Xiao Tangtang still wants to listen."

As Ji Pianran agreed, she gently patted Xiao Tangtang’s little body with tenderness and patience.

"Okay, mommy will sing for you again."

Preferring singing lullabies to soothe her to sleep over tackling various sensitive issues, it was simply too easy.

She sang over and over again until, after some time, Xiao Tangtang finally quieted down.

Ji Pianran’s voice gradually got quieter, and she slowly stopped singing.

Looking at Xiao Tangtang who hadn’t moved for a while, Gu Chen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Finally asleep."

But just as he spoke, Xiao Tangtang’s eyes popped open.

Xiao Tangtang began to sing loudly and earnestly.

"Two jee nao fu, two jee nao fu, run de pai~ run de pai~"

Her voice was soft and cute, causing both adults to feel a mixture of frustration and amusement.

Gu Chen shook his head.

He really couldn’t do anything about her.

He reached out to touch Xiao Tangtang’s little head, speaking in a soft voice to comfort her.

"Xiao Tangtang, you need to sleep early, or else if you can’t wake up tomorrow, you won’t be able to go home early, and Yan Yan misses you."

Hearing about Yan Yan, the little one immediately calmed down.

Yan Yan brother was her good friend!

She missed Yan Yan brother!

The little girl obediently closed her eyes.

The two of them were afraid of waking Xiao Tangtang.

Nobody dared to speak; they just lay there motionless.

The air instantly became silent.

So quiet that they could hear each other’s breathing.

Gu Chen did not sleep well all night.

His mind was a mess, sometimes picturing the first time he had seen Ji Pianran in his past life.

Sometimes it was filled with the laughter and voices of his rowdy friends.

Ji Pianran didn’t have a good sleep either.

After all, the bed was small; Xiao Tangtang was never still while sleeping, constantly shifting now and then, sometimes even ending up head down, feet up.

She simply couldn’t sleep at all.

This continued until the middle of the night, when she finally sat up, looking helpless.

Gu Chen hadn’t fallen asleep either and seeing her sit up, he asked with concern, "What’s wrong? Not used to the bed?"

Ji Pianran nodded toward Xiao Tangtang.

It wasn’t that she was not accustomed to the bed, there was just no room to sleep; the child had pushed her all the way to the edge of the bed against the wall.

If there hadn’t been a wall to stop her, she would have fallen off.

On the contrary, there was a rather large empty space next to Gu Chen.

Looking at the empty space beside him, Gu Chen swallowed hard, "Why don’t you move over here? At least you could sleep more comfortably."

Before Ji Pianran could reply, Xiao Tangtang turned over and went straight to sleep behind Ji Pianran.

Now she really couldn’t get over to the other side even if she wanted.

At this point, there was no other option but to sleep with Gu Chen.

Ji Pianran, feeling a bit shy, nodded her head, "Mhm."

After speaking, she moved towards Gu Chen’s side.

Ji Pianran always had a very faint and pleasant scent on her, which, with her movement,

immediately wafted towards Gu Chen.

He took several greedy sniffs, before reluctantly moving a bit more to the side.

There was nothing he could do; who doesn’t dote on their wife?

It was already the middle of the night, and if they didn’t sleep, it was likely that the whole family wouldn’t be able to get up the next day.

Neither of them spoke again, as if they had both fallen asleep.

In fact, inside, both their minds were a tangled mess.