Chapter 8: Spending time together

Ivan smiled while gently explaining looking at his son's curious look: "These are the ingredients for me to cook you some delicious food like vegetable soups, sweet pork and fried shrimps so be good, go and play for a while and dad will prepare the food first." Then he gently added: "When your daddy comes back, we will eat together, okay?"

Yuan nodded and also smiled showing his two deep dimples on his cheeks which made him more cute. Now that his Dad is not at all the same as the one who came to their house to ask for daddy's money every time, he feels more happy. 

The transparent number above Yuan head has already changed to -10 percent now.

Yuan smiled and approached his dad, stretched out his small chubby arms to hug his dad's thigh, looked up at him with a smile and asked: "Dad what is that red fruit that looks like a heart? It is so sweet and I had never eaten it before."

Ivan's heart melted by his son so he simply carried him in his arms and went to open the refrigerator, took out a pack of strawberries and gently explained: "This kind of fruit is called strawberry and do you know there is a legend about it."

"What is it dad?" Yuan curiously asked while blinking his eyes.

Ivan gently said narrating a short story copying how narrator talk telling a story: "Long ago, a higher male being and a woman quarrelled. The woman left in anger and went to our world and because of that the man always sent strawberries here to send his love for his wife and asked for forgiveness. That's why strawberries were shaped as a heart because it symbolizes love." Ivan gently asked: "Did you love dad's stories about the strawberries?" 

Yuan nodded vigorously with his little head and gently said: "Yuan Yuan likes it so much and even though the man was stupid for arguing with his wife in the end he still asks for forgiveness." Then he added like an adult man reprimanding others: "Dad you should also always ask for daddy's forgiveness so that you will never fight, okay?"

Ivan held his son and gently said: "Okay Dad will always remember it." Then he rubbed his son's hair and carried him back to the living room then said with a smile: "Son don't eat too much fruit. If you are too full, you can't eat rice."

Yuan nodded and obediently said in his cute voice: "Okay Dad then I will leave some fruit for daddy."

Ivan sighed, a child who is only five years old is too obedient and he knows how to leave delicious food for his parents.

"Okay then Dad is going to cook first." Ivan settled Yuan, took out the ingredients to be used from the eco bag put the remaining vegetables and meat into the refrigerator started to cook.

System 005 said while flying around Ivan: [Ding! Host now that you finally get adapted to the new environment in such a short period of time you will receive 500,000 credits and since you took the initiative to take care of your son Yuan and cook food for him today, you will also receive 100,000 credits.] Then 005 added: [All your rewards has been added into your bank account.]

Ivan said while happily cooking: '005 you can order what you want to order online and I will be the one paying it but the limit is ten thousand credits." Then he happily added while removing the pork from the plastic bag: "You already know the address of my parents, you can just send it there using my name.' 

[Really?! Thank you host! I will definitely buy a lot!] System 005 happily said while flying around the entire kitchen and checking online shopping what to buy.

Then his terminal brain vibrates and he knows that it was a message from the bank but he doesn't have time to look at it, he just continues what he was doing while listening to system 005 who was happily singing "Thank you song" from who knows where he got those lyrics.

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Then he remembered his mother who should be waiting for him to go back now so he called his mother that should definitely waiting for him to go back home.

Ivana's heart sank when he saw that it was his son's call because every time his son called it meant something bad has happened to him again it is either he owed a loan or needed pocket money.

His son was surprisingly good these days, she always felt that there might be something important waiting for her so she took a steady breath before answering his terminal brain.

"Mom, I will go back late so you can cook something and eat first with dad. Yuri my ex-wife has some work to do overtime." Then he added: "Now I'm here at his place taking care of our son."

Ivana was silent for a while, thinking that it was impossible, his ex-son-in-law did not want Ivan to enter his rental house in the past, how could it be possible to let Ivan stay at his house now? She sighed and now her son started to lie to her again.

"Okay, then let my grandson answer the call."

Ivan was stunned for a moment, thinking about what the original owner had done before, he understood why his mom reacted like that so he walked out of the kitchen and went to the living room and gently said: "Son grandma wants to talk to you." 

In the past, Dad treated him badly and it was his grandma who always took good care of him and treated him to eat delicious food that's why when he heard it was his grandma he immediately looked at the transparent monitor of his dad's terminal brain and coquettishly said: "Grandma, Yuan Yuan misses you a lot."

Ivana's heart felt warm, the reason why she gave the child to Yuri at the beginning was because his son was an unreliable father. The child would not have a good life staying by his Dad's care and she herself had to take care of her husband so she doesn't have time to take good care of his grandson. She has no time to take care of the child: "Hey, I missed you too, wait a few more days for grandma to visit you again and stay with your dad well, okay?"

After Ivana and Yuan said a few more words then Ivan said: "Mom I'm really here at my ex-wife's place, let's talk later, I'm going to continue cooking first."

After Ivan hung up the call, he went back to the kitchen then after thinking about it, he opened his terminal brain and called Yuri.

The call was connected and he embarrassingly asked: "When will you be back? I just want to know if I will prepare more food for you and our son to eat?"

Yuri looking at his terminal brain monitor and seeing the man who once beat and abandoned him and their son, he coldly said: "It's finished, you can make for our son and for you to eat first."

"I'm not that hungry yet then I will cook for you and for our son to eat. Slow down on your way, I will hang up first." Ivan reminded him of a few more words and then he hung up the call.

Yuri looked at his terminal brain in his wrist, feeling mixed feelings towards his ex-husband, in fact he used to want this kind of ordinary life and always dreamed that after getting married he would leave a good life with his husband but he broke his hope from time to time until he finally gave up dreaming such a life which he will never have in this life. 

Until now he still remembered the arrogance of the people from the loans shark when they came to ask for money that his ex-husband owed at that time he did not know where Ivan hid from those people, leaving only himself and his son behind being mocked and he almost got raped by one of them but because his ex-father-in-law came to save them which made his ex-father-in-law got a stroke being hit by one of those people. 

His son Yuan was so frightened by those people and loudly cried and until now he still got a trauma and doesn't want to interact with other people.

All their belongings were moved by them and he did everything to pay them always working every time and couldn't take care of his four year old son. Even the most precious gold bracelet that was left to him by his father before he passed away was given to them, that gold bracelet was the only thing he got from his dad to remember him but it was all gone now because of him.

If his ex-mother-in-law hadn't sold the house they were living before to pay off that huge some of debt, he wouldn't know when such a day would be the end.

He married Ivan not because of love but because of being forced by his own father and also to pay back the good deeds that Wolford couples gave him when he was still a college student. 

Both of them supported his studies even though he was just a stranger to them when they learned his situation from the nurse on the hospital where father Wolford work before which he was very grateful for more than his own father who abandoned him and only remember him when he was asking for his money

He was sent to that hospital because of being bullied by his highschool omega classmates who has a good background and always wanted to trample him who got a poor background.