Chapter 38: Heaven is Blind

  After the waiter left, Liu Li placed the cake on the dining table, inserted four candles, and let Tingting wear the hat inside the cake. After doing these, Liu Li walked to the bar in the hall and exchanged a few words with the bartender. A few moments later, the bartender changed the light music playing in the hall to "Happy Birthday to You" and set it to loop playback mode.

  For the past month, Liu Li has been taking Tingting out to play every day because there's not much going on at work. Sometimes, Liu Li and Lin Shuangshuang would take Tingting to kindergarten, but as soon as Lin Shuangshuang left for a hotel, he would pick up Tingting and take her to an amusement park instead.

  There were several days when Lin Shuangshuang was busy with work and had no time to take Tingting to kindergarten, so Liu Li took on this task. However, he made Tingting pretend to be ill and asked for a sick leave from the kindergarten teacher, then drove her out to have fun.

  Through this period of contact, Tingting has now become somewhat inseparable from Liu Li. Sometimes when Liu Li is on night shift in the team, if Tingting doesn't call him, she says she won't sleep at all.

  Now Tingting is no longer aloof in kindergarten, gradually playing with some little friends, and at home, she is much happier. Seeing the smile on Tingting's face also brings up a sense of happiness in Liu Li's heart.

  Tingting listened to the music echoing in the hall, looked at Liu Li, and then asked seriously: "Uncle, if I make a wish later and the god grants me a father, can you be my dad?"

  "Ting Ting, why did you want me to be your dad?" Liu Li asked with a smile.

  "Because I don't have a dad by my side." Tingting replied crisply to Liu Li.

  Seeing the expectant look on Tingting's face, Liu Li deliberately paused for a moment. As Tingting's expression gradually turned into disappointment, he smiled and said: "If the gods let me be Tingting's father, then I'll be it, okay?"

  "Great..." Hearing Liu Li's words, Tingting excitedly clapped her hands.

  "Two noble guests, what's making you so happy? I heard that this little princess is celebrating her birthday today. Happy birthday to the little star, and good health." Just then, a sweet voice came from beside them, Lin Shuangshuang's voice.

  Seeing Lin Shuangshuang holding a bottle of red wine and a bottle of milk standing in front of the dinner table, with two waiters carrying dishes coming over to serve, Liu Li couldn't help but joke: "Boss, today our little birthday star is celebrating his birthday, doesn't your hotel want to make a gesture?"

  "We can waive the bill." Lin Shuangshuang said with a smile.

  "Freebies don't count, we've brought money." Liu Li said with a sly smile: "How about this beautiful boss sings a song? Our little princess loves watching 'Heidi and the Wolf', would you mind singing it live for our little birthday star?"

  "Ugh, get out of here with these trivial matters, so many subordinates are watching. " Lin Shuangshuang gave Liu Li a glance, sat down beside Tingting, personally brought the dishes to the table, opened the red wine and milk, and then told the waiter: "If anyone asks for me, just say I'm not here."

  After finishing, Lin Shuangshuang poured a glass of red wine for Liu Li, helped Tingting pour a glass of milk, and then the three people sat together like a family eating dinner. When Tingting made a wish in front of the birthday cake and called Liu Li "Dad", Lin Shuangshuang was shocked and couldn't close her mouth.

  "Daughter, look at the gift your old man bought for you. This is that lovely Beauty Sheep you've been going on about all day." As he spoke, Liu Li pulled out a cartoon Beauty Sheep toy.

  After taking over the toy from Liu Li's hand, Tingting looked very happy: "Thank you, Dad. Tonight I want to sleep with Beautiful Sheep."

  "Before, Tingting always slept in Mom's arms. If Tingting sleeps with Mei Yangyang tonight, where will Mom sleep?" Lin Shuangshuang smiled and stroked Tingting's hair.

  Ting Ting was fiddling with her toys, head down. After hearing Lin Shuangshuang's words, she said without thinking: "I sleep with Beautiful Sheep, and Mom sleeps with Dad."

  "Hmph...... Cough, cough, cough......" Liu Li, who was drinking at the time, couldn't help but choke on a mouthful when he heard Tingting's words. He looked at Lin Shuangshuang, whose face had turned slightly red across from him, and then glanced at Tingting beside him. Liu Li thought to himself: "This girl...... really wasn't a waste of recognition."

  After dinner, Lin Shuangshuang still had to attend a gathering on the fourth floor, so Liu Li took Tingting back alone. Thinking about what just happened, Liu Li felt a warmth in his heart. After Tingting fell asleep, Liu Li took a bath, changed into pajamas, and habitually sat in the living room watching news.

  Around 10 o'clock in the evening, Lin Shuangshuang returned. She seemed to have drunk a lot of wine and was staggering as she walked. Seeing this, Liu Li handed her a can of milk: "Have you been drinking?"

  "Uh, tonight on the fourth floor there were several tables of distinguished guests. After we finished eating, I went up to entertain them again, and since I was late, I was penalized with a few cups of wine." As he spoke, Lin Shuangshuang felt dizzy and stumbled backwards, falling down.

  At this time, Liu Li happened to hand over the milk to her, and after seeing Lin Shuangshuang's situation, he subconsciously hugged Lin Shuangshuang, feeling the fragrance of jade in his arms, with one arm half-encircling Lin Shuangshuang's slender waist, smelling the fragrance on her body, especially feeling two soft objects pressing against his chest. Liu Li's hormones suddenly burst out, and little Liu Li below had a reaction.

  "Hmm..." Lin Shuangshuang was held by Liu Li, and as she felt the masculine aura surrounding her, she realized that a pair of strong arms had wrapped around her. Under the influence of alcohol, she couldn't help but let out a soft hum.

  Lin Shuang's soft hum, after reaching Liu Li's ears, seemed to ignite a certain fuse in his heart. He looked down at the beautiful woman with a slightly red face and Liu Li's hands began to touch her inappropriately.

  After feeling Liu Li's movements, Lin Shuang felt a flame in her body that seemed to burn herself up. When Liu Li's hand stroked her body, Lin Shuang's breathing became urgent, and her jade hands also unconsciously grasped the erect little Liu Li and gently caressed it.

  Just as the dry firewood was about to ignite, Liu Li's mobile phone suddenly rang. Originally, Liu Li didn't want to answer his phone, but unfortunately, he had previously downloaded a personalized ringtone online, "The Heart Sutra of Prajna Paramita".

  Liu Li downloaded a segment of an old monk reciting scriptures as his ringtone to achieve the effect of refreshing his mind: "Guanyin Bodhisattva, when practicing profound prajna paramita, sees that all five aggregates are empty and crosses over all suffering. Sariputra, form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form, form is exactly emptiness, emptiness is exactly form..."

  This sutra is indeed a treasure of Buddhism, with profound and abstruse meaning. When matched with the mournful tone of Old Master Lao's dirge, its destructive power is beyond description. It directly caused Liu Li and Lin Shuang, this pair of lost souls, to awaken from their confusion in an instant.

  Lin Shuangshuang felt a bit embarrassed as she recalled what had just happened, and tidied up her disheveled hair: "I'm a bit sleepy, I won't take a bath tonight, I...I'll go back to sleep first, you should get some rest too, goodnight."

  "Who the hell called me at this critical moment?!" Liu Li was furious, jumping up and down in the living room as he heard the unlucky ringtone coming from his phone again.

  After finding his phone on the sofa in the living room, he didn't even look to see who was calling and stormed over to the window, opened it, and without hesitation, Liu Li threw the annoying phone out.

  After closing the window, Liu Li looked at Lin Shuangshuang's bedroom with some regret. Seeing the tightly closed door, he returned to his bedroom with a disappointed face and went to sleep.