After Being Scummed – Chapter 93

Extra Chapter One: Tongtong’s Troubles 2

The worries are solved!

The excessive shock even made Tongtong forget to make any reaction. At this moment, she was just like the wooden person in the “One Two Three, Wooden Person”¹ game, standing on the spot without moving at all while holding her own flowers.

Only after Mommy finished kissing Fairy Sister, did Tongtong seem to come back to her senses, shouting a sentence towards her mom’s back: “Mommy…”

Mommy turned her head, looking towards Tongtong with her back to the beautiful sunset, and said with some surprise: “Tongtong?”

Mommy smiled a little, looking at the flowers² in Tongtong’s hand, and said very gently: “Have you finished picking your flowers?”

As Mommy said this, she pushed Fairy Sister’s wheelchair and walked over towards her with a smile: “Does Mommy need to weave a flower crown for you?”

Tongtong pursed her small mouth, looked at her mom, and said very seriously: “Mommy, what were you and Fairy Sister doing just now?”

Mommy blinked her eyes, walked over towards Tongtong, and said with an unchanged expression: “Just now, a bug got into Fairy Sister’s eye, so Mommy was blowing her eye for her, ah!”

Tongtong was so angry, ah! She thought to herself that she saw it all, she saw Mommy kiss Fairy Sister, and it was the mouth-kissing-mouth kind!

But Tongtong was a little too embarrassed to say it, so she could only say: “Okay, then Mommy, weave a flower crown for me…”

After a short while, Mommy came over, pushing Fairy Sister, to weave the flower crown.

Tongtong had many thoughts in her heart; for example, she wanted to ask Mommy why she would kiss Fairy Sister, why Fairy Sister appeared on Mommy’s bed, and why their relationship was so good, just like her previous dad and mom.

Tongtong felt that Fairy Sister might be about to become her “new dad.” But Fairy Sister is a girl, ah, how could she be a “dad”? It was truly worrisome.

However, if Fairy Sister was her “dad,” then what about her previous dad?

Wasn’t it said that one can only have one dad?

Although her previous dad hadn’t come to see her for a long time, Tongtong felt that it was very wrong for her to acknowledge a new dad so quickly.

Moreover, Fairy Sister was Fairy Sister; how could she be a dad?

Tongtong thought a hundred times but could not understand³, and gradually became sorrowful. When Mommy wove the flower crown for her, she was sorrowful; when they went home to eat dinner together, she was sorrowful; when she and her older sister (Wenwen) had Mommy give them a bath together, she was also sorrowful.

She was like a little adult, sighing and groaning, hoping Mommy would see this appearance of hers and take the initiative to ask her what was wrong. But Mommy didn’t ask anything, just kept looking at her with a gentle smile.

Looking at the smile on Mommy’s face, Tongtong became even more melancholy!

Forget it, I should still solve my own problems myself!

Thinking this, after Mommy finished blow-drying her hair for her, Tongtong walked pat-pat to Fairy Sister’s room door in her indoor slippers and knocked on her bedroom’s main door.

After a few knock-knock-knock sounds, Fairy Sister, sitting in her wheelchair, twisted open the door, revealing more than half of her body from the doorway, and looked at her with some surprise: “My little princess, what are you doing coming to find me so late?”

“Ah, you’re still holding your pink rabbit; could it be that tonight you want to listen to me tell a bedtime story?”

Tongtong held the pink rabbit, straightened her little back, and said very seriously: “Fairy Sister, can I have a talk with you?”

Fairy Sister blinked her eyes and said: “Of course you can.”

So, Fairy Sister opened the main door wide and welcomed Tongtong into her bedroom.

Tongtong sat on her sofa, holding her pink rabbit and swinging her little feet, looking at Fairy Sister sitting in the wheelchair opposite her, her gaze somewhat hesitant.

Fairy Sister leaned on her wheelchair, sizing her up with a lazy posture, and asked quite gently: “What matter do you have to talk with me about? Go ahead and speak, as a friend, I have an obligation to listen to your worries.”

Okay, okay, since it’s like this, Tongtong felt that she also shouldn’t be polite anymore.

Tongtong sighed a breath of air, looked at Fairy Sister, and asked very seriously: “When I was in the garden today, I saw Mommy kissing you.”

Fairy Sister nodded her head: “En, I know, so what do you want to say to me?”

Tongtong bit her lip with her own fine, shell-like teeth, her expression somewhat distressed: “I feel that you and my mom probably don’t have an ordinary friend relationship; it’s a kind of relationship I can’t describe… but a relationship that makes me feel uneasy.”

Fairy Sister blinked her eyes and asked with some confusion: “Why would you feel uneasy?”

Before, they often had this kind of confiding-like conversation. Tongtong thought for a moment and said very seriously: “Because I feel that you might snatch Mommy from me, and that Mommy will favor you more in the future?”

Fairy Sister shook her head: “No, no, no, my little princess, you need to understand this principle: Mommy is yours alone; the motherly love that belongs to you is something no one can snatch away. Including me, no one can snatch away this motherly love.”

“Is that so? But I still feel very worried.”

“This isn’t you being worried; it’s jealousy.”

Tongtong furrowed her brow in confusion and said with some lack of understanding: “What is jealousy?”

Fairy Sister paused and said to her: “This is a relatively advanced vocabulary word; with your current knowledge, it’s very difficult for me to explain it to you. However, you can understand it as, when other people have a good relationship with your mom, you will have a feeling that Mommy will be taken away.”

“Is that so?” Tongtong furrowed her brow and retorted: “But Wenwen-jie’s relationship with Mommy is also very good, how come I don’t have this kind of feeling?”

Fairy Sister sighed: “Because Wenwen-jie has her own mom, but I don’t, ah.”

Okay, it seems it can also be explained this way.

Tongtong pouted her mouth, hugged her pink rabbit tightly, and said very seriously: “Then will you snatch Mommy from me?”

Fairy Sister shook her head: “I won’t. I’ve said it before, your mom is someone I cannot snatch away.”

Tongtong became a little bit happy: “Okay, okay, it was me who wrongly blamed you. But I still have one more question: your relationship with my mom is so good, does that mean you are going to become my new dad?”

Tongtong very quickly discovered that her old friend revealed the same kind of expression as when she had discovered Mommy and her kissing this afternoon.

Fairy Sister said, with eyes wide and mouth agape: “Why would you have such a thought?”

“Because today I saw Mommy kiss you, I just felt it was like how Daddy used to kiss Mommy before… Mommy must really like you, that’s why she would kiss you, so I feel that you are going to become my new dad.”

Fairy Sister blinked her eyes, and only after a good while did she swallow her surprise: “Dear, I need to correct your way of speaking. Although I am in a romantic relationship with your mom—it’s not an ordinary friend relationship, it’s a more intimate relationship—this has not one bit of connection with me becoming your new dad.”

“I am a pretty girl, a girl! How can I become your dad?”

Tongtong curled her lip and said with some disapproval: “In our class, there is a classmate whose dad is a girl, ah, I think you can also…”

Fairy Sister sucked in a breath of cold air and looked at her in surprise, saying: “Why would you think that way? Could it be that me being in a romantic relationship with your mom must definitely affect my friendship with you! Must I definitely be your dad or new mom?”

“It’s not like that, ah, dear. Before I started dating your mom, the two of us had an even more intimate connection, okay?”

“First, you and I are friends; second, I am your mom’s lover.”

“How can you think that my becoming your mom’s lover would mean I would abandon the friendly relationship we had already established before? Is our friendship really a fragile relationship?”

“Listen, my little princess, I also love you very much, and I very much cherish my friendship with you. How could I snatch your mom and destroy your happiness?”

“In your eyes, am I such an unreliable person?”

Fairy Sister looked a little angry. Tongtong understood her meaning, jumped down from the sofa holding her pink rabbit, hugged her arm and shook it, and said softly: “Okay, okay, it was my fault, I misunderstood you. I’ll give you today’s flower crown, okay?”

Fairy Sister looked at her, pointed at herself, and said very doubtfully: “Do I look like a person who is that easy to buy off?”

Tongtong pursed her lips and smiled a little, extended one finger, and said mysteriously: “Then what about the seashells collected today?”

Fairy Sister hmphed a sound: “Then I will, with great difficulty, accept it.”

After Fairy Sister finished speaking, she turned her head to look at Tongtong and said very seriously: “I can very responsibly say to you that I love your mom very much, and hope that I can accompany you both for a lifetime like the dad in your ideals. Of course, this is only speaking from the perspective of you being your mom’s daughter.”

“As your friend, I promise you, as long as you don’t want it, I will never be your dad.”

“My loving your mom, my maintaining my friendship with you, and respecting your thoughts, have no conflict at all.”

“Even if in the future I separate from Mommy like your dad and your mom did, it will not affect my friendship with you.”

Tongtong tilted her head up to look at her reliable big friend, extended her arms to hug her, and said: “I also want to be friends with you for a lifetime, Fairy Sister.”

“But you must not separate from Mommy. If she separates from you, she will definitely be very sad.”

“I will also feel very sad.”

Fairy Sister reached out her hands and hugged her, patted her little back, and said with great solemnity: “Okay.”

She released the embrace, held Tongtong’s shoulders, and looked at her very seriously, saying: “However, regarding this matter, you also have to talk it over with your mom and state your own views.”

“Also, in the future, if you have any worries concerning me, I hope you can still directly find me just like today. We’ll talk, make the words clear, and not have any misunderstandings, okay?”

Tongtong nodded and said obediently: “Okay.”

Fairy Sister extended a finger and said very solemnly: “Then let’s link hooks⁴ and make an agreement.”

“You and I will be good friends for a lifetime and be the listeners of each other’s worries.”

“I promise you, I will forever be your loyal and reliable partner.”

Tongtong nodded, extended her tail finger to hook her tail finger, and smiled sweetly: “En, I am also your partner!”

“We link hooks; link hooks, hang, one hundred years, not allowed to change⁵.”

“We must always be good friends.”

Following the end of this oath, Tongtong felt that many of her worries had been solved. She decided to adopt her big friend’s suggestion and, still hugging a pillow, have a good talk with Mommy tonight.

Ai, she really is a sensible daughter.

However, if it’s like this, then Wenwen will have to sleep alone.

Forget it, forget it, I should still go back and sleep with my older sister after finishing the talk with Mommy!

Okay, it’s been decided so happily! She really is everyone’s good partner!

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The author has something to say:

A teenage Tongtong, one day, shouted a sentence at Yin Bai: Daddy!

Yin Bai: Dumbstruck.JPG

Tongtong hesitates: Mommy?

Yin Bai packed her bedding overnight and went to a small island.

Too scary, too scary, I considered you a friend, but you actually considered me a mom!

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LP: Re-translated on September 09, 2025

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