Rebirth: Daily Face Slaps - Chapter 11

Just like now, Wang Qin had dragged Lin Mengting into a dessert shop. With the familiarity of an old customer, she chatted briefly with the owner before leading Lin Mengting to a window seat.

“Tingting, what do you want to eat? Order whatever you like.” Wang Qin handed the dessert menu to Lin Mengting and recommended, “The Black Forest cake, tiramisu, egg pudding, durian pastry, sago, and grapefruit juice here are all very good.”

Lin Mengting quickly decided after glancing at the menu, “I’ll have the Black Forest cake and a glass of grapefruit juice.”

“Isn’t that too little? The ingredients they use here are good, so the desserts aren’t too high in calories. We’ll walk it off when we continue shopping later.”

Wang Qin shook her head, looking at Lin Mengting’s slightly thin frame, disapprovingly, “You’re still young. Don’t diet to lose weight. Add a tiramisu too.”

“I ate a lot for lunch, so I’m not very hungry,” Lin Mengting said as she lightly patted her stomach. She didn’t realize that Wang Qin had already made a plan to nourish her back to health. Smiling, she reassured her aunt, “Don’t worry, I won’t diet just for my figure. To me, eating is the most important thing. I’m a true foodie!”

“Foodie?!” Wang Qin raised her hand and lightly tapped Lin Mengting on the forehead. “If you’re a foodie, how could you end up so pale and cold-handed? You’re just a picky eater!”

Thinking of the ice cream that every girl loves, Wang Qin warned, “Girls need to stay warm. You shouldn’t have any coldness in your body. You may not understand now, but you’ll appreciate my advice in the future. Remember, no more picky eating. You have to finish all the soups and dishes I cook every day, got it?”

“Okay.” Lin Mengting nodded earnestly, not intending to tell Wang Qin that it wasn’t picky eating that made her look like a ghost. Rather, after coming to S City, she was tricked by her Third Uncle’s family into working as a factory laborer and then into a job at a pseudo-company as a tour guide.

Fortunately, she was reborn and could use her past life’s memories to leave the quality education base a year early. She wouldn’t have to spend six months struggling to find a decent job after the base’s closure, forcing her to save to the bone and damaging her health.

Even later, when she spent a lot of time and effort to recuperate, she could never fully recover.

“Is this your niece?” The shop owner, who had been listening, smiled and said, “Young girls don’t understand the importance of taking care of themselves. You, as her aunt, should teach her more.”

“Of course!” Wang Qin laughed, “Tingting is great in every way, just too complacent. If it were us, working under the sun, getting sunburned, wind-blown, and earning such a meager salary, we’d quit in a few days. But Tingting managed to stick it out for three months.”

“Just three months to get this tanned?” The shop owner was astonished, “Did she not use sunscreen and stay out in the sun all day?”

“Girls always work hard at their first jobs,” Wang Qin said with a smile. Seeing more customers entering, she added, “I’ll have the usual.”

“Sure.” The shop owner replied and hurried to serve the other customers.

“Don’t be fooled by the size of this shop. They do good business. In the food industry, the key is quality ingredients. Never treat customers like fools…” Wang Qin continued chatting, and Lin Mengting listened intently, occasionally asking questions that spurred Wang Qin to keep talking.

However, soon Lin Mengting experienced the bittersweet feeling of being treated like family by Wang Qin.

After half an hour in the dessert shop, Wang Qin dragged Lin Mengting to shop for another four hours. Even their dinner was settled at a food court near the mall.

Satisfied, they sat in a taxi heading back. Wang Qin glanced at Lin Mengting, who was sprawled in exhaustion in the back seat, and laughed, “Do you realize how poor your stamina is? You young people only start exercising when faced with reality! Everyone knows ‘health is the foundation of revolution’ and ‘life is movement,’ but sticking to it is the hard part, right? Starting tomorrow, wake up at six and join me for a run in the park.”

…

“Ring ring!”

Entering the room, Lin Mengting regretfully eyed the soft bed just within reach. She imagined herself lying on it, stretching her limbs and relaxing every muscle, trying to soothe her fatigue with the thought.

“Hello?” As soon as she answered the phone, the familiar nagging voice of her mother reached her ears.

“Tingting, didn’t you say the base was good and planned to work there for a few years? Why did you suddenly resign? Did you encounter difficulties at work? Or did something happen at the base? That’s unlikely! An education base like that, linked with the Education Bureau, has policy support and various resources…”

“Mom.” Like a wanderer finally returning home after a long journey, Lin Mengting’s voice was filled with emotion, bringing a rush of indescribable complex feelings.

“Ah!” Yufeng Qing responded loudly, sensing something amiss, and quickly asked, “Tingting, what happened? Did someone bully you?” If they did, she’d make sure to deal with them!

“No one bullied me.” Lin Mengting softly reassured her mother. In her previous life, she had been foolish and was taken advantage of by one “wolf in sheep’s clothing” after another.

In this life, with a strong and steely heart, she wouldn’t let herself be pushed around, watching others climb to the top while she remained at the bottom.

“That’s good. If you ever feel wronged, call us right away.” Even though they were far away in M City and couldn’t immediately come to her aid, they could still offer comfort.

And later? They’d find a way to settle the score.

Otherwise, why would there be the saying, “A gentleman’s revenge is never too late”?

“Okay.” Lin Mengting replied, though she didn’t take Yufeng Qing’s words to heart.

Every child who leaves home to work elsewhere knows to “report the good news and not the bad.” Lin Mengting was no different.

After all, if she couldn’t fulfill the expectation of “not traveling far while parents are alive,” she should at least ensure they didn’t worry about her.