Chapter 21 Compromise
After Ji Yunqi finished her instant noodles, she rested. She had to get up early the next morning to prepare breakfast for her son, the old father. If she slept too late, she wouldn’t be able to wake up.
Lying on the bed, Ji Yunqi still felt a bit lonely in her heart…
Although she really wanted to acknowledge her son, she didn’t know how to start. Perhaps a catalyst was needed, but she didn’t know when that catalyst would come.
Maybe it would come tomorrow?
Or perhaps it would be difficult to wait for it in this lifetime. However, she had returned to being 18 years old. Although this body was malnourished, at least there were no root causes of illness.
If she took good care of herself, she could at least live to her natural end. But by then, how many familiar people would be by her side?
At this moment, Ji Yunqi’s mind once again drifted to many beautiful memories of the past. If only she could go back to that time.
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The next morning….
Ji Chengyun woke up groggily. Sticking to his habits, he didn’t put on any clothes and walked out of his room to wash up.
However, after washing his face, he suddenly realized what was happening because he heard clattering sounds. These seemed to be the sounds of plates being placed on the table.
Following the sound, Ji Chengyun saw a beautiful figure wearing an apron busy in the kitchen, and on the table was a prepared plate of scallion oil noodles.
Moreover, the presentation and appearance of the scallion oil noodles seemed incredibly familiar…
Ji Yunqi placed the freshly fried egg into the plate and brought it out. As soon as she exited the kitchen, she saw Ji Chengyun, who had already woken up.
“Son… Senior… Senior brother, you’re up? Come and have breakfast.”
Ji Chengyun looked at Ji Yunqi with a strange expression, then looked at his own body. Although he was thick-skinned, he wasn’t so shameless as to stand shirtless in front of a junior female classmate. After a moment of hesitation, he returned to his room, intending to put on some clothes first.
Ji Yunqi didn’t think there was anything wrong with her son not wearing clothes at the moment. After all, her son wasn’t like this before?
Or was it that she herself simply hadn’t reacted, forgetting that her current identity was a “junior female classmate” and how she should be reacting?
Watching Ji Chengyun’s retreating back, she finally realized.
“Hey, this kid, he’s shy now… Why wasn’t he like this when he brought girls home before?”
After preparing everything, Ji Yunqi took off her apron and planned to return to her room to change, as she was also wearing pajamas at the moment.
She was still a woman now, and it was best not to dress too casually in front of her son, especially since her son didn’t know they were father and son.
What if… what if her son developed inappropriate feelings for her…
Ji Yunqi got goosebumps all over her body. She couldn’t even think about such a thing. It was too terrifying, and she would be struck by lightning!
………
When Ji Chengyun came out of his room after getting dressed, he didn’t see Ji Yunqi. He didn’t look for her, assuming that Ji Yunqi had woken up too early and had gone back to catch up on sleep.
Looking at the exquisite bowl of scallion oil noodles and the fried egg on the table, Ji Chengyun felt a thousand emotions.
This familiar breakfast, as always, his breakfast used to be like this…
So, was all of this just his own imagination? Or was there really something wrong with Ji Yunqi? But if it was as he thought.
Why was she unwilling to acknowledge him?
Since Ji Yunqi didn’t say anything, Ji Chengyun was unwilling to pry. Some things were enough as long as they could be maintained, and there was no need to get to the bottom of them.
When she was ready to say it, she would tell him everything. If she wasn’t willing, then there was no point in him asking.
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After Ji Chengyun left, Ji Yunqi knew it was time for her to get to work.
Her son’s clothes were still piled up. She knew that a good portion of her son’s clothes could only be hand-washed and couldn’t be put in the washing machine. Moreover, these clothes were bought by her for her son.
However, she didn’t complain. After all, it was normal for a father to wash clothes for his son, wasn’t it?
Whether it was normal or not, home was home. Even if Ji Yunqi wasn’t given much compensation, she was still willing to clean it meticulously and earnestly.
However, the house was a bit dirtier than Ye Mingkong’s room, as Ji Yunqi had expected.
Her son must have been living quite sloppily on his own. He probably only cleaned the room when he really couldn’t stand it anymore.
She heard that young people nowadays were all like this.
Another day passed, and even Ji Yunqi couldn’t help but wonder if she could become a housekeeper.
She had heard from Jiang Youwei before that working as a housekeeper and a nanny now paid quite well. Coincidentally, Ji Yunqi didn’t think she would be bad at either of these jobs.
Housekeeping, in other words, was cleaning. As a middle-aged, greasy uncle who had been independent for so many years, cleaning the house should be absolutely no problem.
As for being a nanny…
She would reconsider. Nannies were usually full-time, and she didn’t have time to be a full-time nanny. She could only do it part-time.
In the evening…
This time, Ji Yunqi didn’t wait for Ji Chengyun to come home. She ate first, kept the food warm in the pot, and then locked herself in her room.
Now, she found it difficult to find a job, especially part-time ones. However, she had fewer classes next week, so she had more time to look.
In her current situation, Ji Yunqi had no choice but to humble herself and accept part-time jobs that she found somewhat unacceptable.
For this, she could only pray to be favored by the god of luck and not encounter any danger.
She hadn’t realized it before, but only when she became a woman did she understand that society posed many threats to women. Even she, who had only been a woman for less than half a month, knew that some professions were prone to danger.
Not to mention those proper young ladies.
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On Monday, she only had classes in the morning. Ji Yunqi planned to go and see what the evening part-time job was like in the afternoon.
Just as Ji Yunqi was about to enter the classroom to wait for the class time, a hurried figure rushed to her side.
“Um… classmate, can you accompany me to get something?”
Ji Yunqi looked sideways and recognized the boy. His name was Jiang Beiyun, Jiang Youwei’s son. However, he was a bit younger than her son, seemingly only 19 this year.
But why would he ask her?
Ji Yunqi knew well that she was just a weak woman now. Getting something? She probably couldn’t help much.
Just as she was about to ask Jiang Beiyun why he didn’t ask someone else, she realized that it seemed to be only the two of them around. The others were from different classes, and only they were from the same class.
……..
“Get what? If it’s too heavy, I might not be able to carry it.”
“Don’t worry, it’s just some small things that need you to carry. I’ll take care of the rest,” Jiang Beiyun patted his chest and guaranteed.
Ji Yunqi hesitated for a moment and then agreed. It was probably Jiang Youwei who asked Jiang Beiyun to get something. Coincidentally, his class was the first period.
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[Let me just say, please don’t say if the male protagonist is the son or anything like that, it’s easy to get censored… They are father and son! Biological father and son!]
[My theme is explosive.]
[But there are still no such outrageous existences as a son rebelling against his father.]
