The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead-Chapter 375 - 364: Gao Shu’s Imbalance

The house was vacated on the third day, and after getting the keys, Xia Lin made a call to Jiang Nanzhou to let him know.

Jiang Nanzhou said he would discuss with his grandfather when to come over.

"No need to rush, I’ll clean up the house first. There are no cabinets at home, so I need to make a few cabinets, and the kitchen also needs sorting out. It will take about two weeks."

"Alright, if there’s anything to be done, let Ah Mu handle it. Don’t tire yourself out. Has the baby been making a fuss lately?"

"Yes, very lively at night. My belly is about to burst."

"What should we do, go to the hospital to check it out?"

Xia Lin chuckled, "No need, his kicking is a sign he’s healthy."

"That also means the little guy is feisty. Wonder if he’ll be hard to manage later on."

Xia Lin raised her eyebrow, "That’ll be for you to show your skills."

After the call with Jiang Nanzhou, Xia Lin went to the new house to take a look. The ground was made of bricks and somewhat uneven—Xia Lin worried about her grandfather tripping, considering his age.

The inside of the house didn’t need work; it was all quite even.

The walls were a bit stained—inevitable with children in the house.

There was no need to deal with it.

The toilet in the back was still a dry one, not very convenient.

So Xia Lin went to find Carpenter Uncle, to see if they had time, as the ground needed work, and a toilet and shower room had to be built.

Carpenter Uncle said he would be available in three days and told them to take the opportunity to get cement and gravel now.

Shen Mu took advantage of Sunday and made a trip to the rural cement factory, bringing back more than a dozen bags of gravel and over twenty bags of cement.

Xia Lin also directed him to the rural area to buy some tiles. Without her directions, Shen Mu really wouldn’t have known where to go. Luckily Shang Ze was free today, so he went with him.

She told him to buy extra; the bathroom, shower room, and kitchen would need a lot.

Xia Lin also used this time to visit Carpenter Uncle and order cabinets for three rooms.

This rental house, the ground, kitchen, bathroom, and shower room—on the way back, Xia Lin roughly calculated the costs: about fifty for the ground, and over a hundred for the kitchen and bathroom because the toilet and shower needed to be rebuilt, including the toilet, tiling, flush toilet, and faucet.

Plus three wardrobes, that would be another fifty or sixty.

All in all, it would come to over two hundred.

Even though it cost so much money, Xia Lin didn’t mind at all. Her grandfather was coming to take care of his future daughter-in-law, and since he was leaving his hometown behind, she wanted to make sure he lived comfortably.

As Xia Lin was wondering what else she might be missing, she coincidentally ran into Xia Lin who she hadn’t seen for quite some time.

She was wearing a very trendy jacket, and below were jeans that made her look youthful and beautiful.

In contrast, Xia Lin wore loose maternity clothes, looking clumsy, creating a stark contrast between them.

Xia Lin calmly walked past her without a second glance, as the two now had nothing left to say, not even the connection of strangers.

Xia Lin, on the other hand, was quite shocked. How long had it been since they’d seen each other... "A few months, I guess. Her belly’s so big already."

Xia Lin muttered to herself, feeling quite conflicted inside. Why was her life so good this time around?

She was supposed to be like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, reborn into a different life.

Looking at herself now, she hadn’t gotten involved with Wei Jincheng like in her past life and was honestly living her quiet life with Gao Shu, but it wasn’t very sweet.

She came home with an anxious heart, only to find the yard reeking of traditional medicine, which made her frown unconsciously.

As soon as the car was parked, Gao Shu came out of the kitchen, smiling, and approached, "You’re back, I’ve just finished boiling the medicine, drink it while it’s hot."

Xia Lin flatly refused, "I don’t want to drink it."

"Be good, Linlin, the medicine is expensive, and you need to take care of your health."

"Ah Shu, my health has already improved, can we stop having traditional Chinese medicine every day? It’s gotten to the point where my body is always emanating the scent of herbs. Today, when I had a meal with Factory Director Qi, he noticed it too," Xia Lin said.

Gao Shu frowned, "Factory Director Qi? You’ve been seeing this Factory Director Qi a bit too often lately."

"Isn’t it all for the sake of the clothing business... Gao Shu, what do you mean?"

"It means nothing much, just that you’re barely home these days, and I’m not happy about it.

I stay at school every Monday and Friday, and when I finally come home, you’re too busy to be there, where’s the sweetness we used to have?"

"Me not being home? I too want to spend sweet days with you, but sweet days also need capital, don’t they? We both are studying, and it’ll be four years at that. You don’t have parents to rely on, and mine can’t help us either. We have to depend on ourselves.

I’m trying to start my own business. It’s fine if I don’t get your support, but now that there’s a quality issue in the factory, I’m so worried I could explode. You don’t help me with ideas, instead, you question me.

Are you or are you not a husband? If you cared for me even a little, supported me a bit, you would’ve bought a car to come home every Monday and Friday.

Sweetness you say, it was sweet before but we were also poor. We couldn’t eat or drink well, what’s the use of just sweetness?"

Gao Shu listened to Xia Lin’s questioning with total bewilderment, his mind spinning without getting into a quarrel with her. Instead, he wondered, had he really been in the wrong? "Do you really want me to come back every day?"

"Why can’t I? Look at Shen Mu. His brother bought a tricycle, and he pedals back and forth every day, how far can it be?"

"I’ve seen that tricycle of theirs; it was discarded by the brigade, makes a loud noise. Over a thousand yuan, not worth it."

"Even if it’s not worth it, you can’t buy one now even if you wanted to. What are you implying? That you don’t want to come home, is that it?

All the time thinking about having kids, yet have you considered how often you come home in a week? You say I’m not home on Sundays, but you also go to work on Saturdays. And that’s without pay, sometimes even at a loss."

Gao Shu was taken aback, then he hurriedly put on a smile and embraced Xia Lin, saying, "Linlin, I was wrong, I was wrong. From now on, I’ll bike back every day to be with you, alright?"

Xia Lin paused for a moment. Her original aim was not to remind him about having children, but she found his words hard to counter. So she didn’t let Gao Shu see through her.

But still, she haughtily huffed and pushed him away, "I saw Lu Jingqiu today, she’s pregnant. You’ve been so anxious recently, it wouldn’t be because you saw someone else pregnant and felt rushed, right? Does Lu Jingqiu’s pregnancy really matter to you that much?"

"... Why would I care about her? I’m just thinking that we’re at the right age, and we should have a baby, to make up for our regret."

Xia Lin saw Gao Shu steer the topic back there again and hurriedly said, "Humph, I wouldn’t dare to. I’m afraid if I did, your family would ruin it again."

"Linlin, don’t say that. This time it won’t happen, it will never happen again."

Xia Lin truly did not want those two defiant children, but somehow, Gao Shu of this lifetime was stubbornly persistent about having children, a never-ending topic.

"Linlin, starting from next week, I’ll come back every day to be with you. Also, if there any problems at the workshop, you can talk to me. Men think differently from women. Maybe I can help you solve them. And about that Factory Director Qi, you don’t see him anymore."

Xia Lin pushed him away in annoyance: "It’s already been resolved, so there’s no need for you."

"Resolved? So, you won’t need to see him anymore, right?"

"What are you implying, Gao Shu? He’s a major client. When you have one steel factory, it leads to a second one approaching you. I can’t forfeit the chance for my business to grow. Besides, if you bike back and forth to school, wouldn’t it take over forty minutes? Perfect timing—Factory Director Qi’s friend has a motorcycle.

He bought it from the port side, and now he wants to sell it, I bought it for you. It’s arranged for them to ride it over for us later."

"You... already bought it? For how much?"

"Three thousand? I wanted to surprise you."

"Three thousand? That’s enough to buy a house."

"You think your wife hustles everyday, early till late, just for what? To make money. This three thousand is nothing but a small sum to me."

Xia Lin was happy to bring up money, but for Gao Shu, the thought of his wife earning more than him brought him no joy at all.

He felt suffocated, inferior to a woman.

And this feeling of suffocation, he couldn’t share with others.

Nor could he show it in front of his wife.

He had always been striving to blend into the bureaucracy and to win the praise of his superiors, hoping they would fight to have him upon graduation.

By then, things might change. But for now, since his wife could make money, he would just let her be.