A Billionaire CEO Brings His Child Home: The Awakening of the Stay-at-Home Dad System

"I'm so hungry!!!"

"I can smell the aroma even through the screen; my mouth is watering all over the table."

"Tingting is eating so well, her chubby little face is so cute."

"Grandpa and Grandma's reaction was so real, hahaha."

"That's typical of Chinese parents. They don't say it, but their actions speak louder than words. Look how many pieces of meat Mr. Chen has eaten."

"I've already ordered takeout, but seeing these dishes makes me feel like my takeout is garbage."

"Host, please give me the address! I want to drive there tonight and try it!"

"I want to go too! Let's form a group and go to the streamer's house for a free meal!"

"Mapletree Flat, right? I checked the navigation, it's 800 kilometers away. If I leave now, I can get there by tomorrow morning!"

"Are you serious upstairs? Hahahaha."

"What's 800 kilometers for this braised pork!"

Gifts started floating across the screen again, this time in greater numbers than before.

Hearts, roses, lollipops, sunglasses, glow sticks, bunny ears, heart shapes with hands, confetti cannons, hot air balloons, love launchers, and helicopters all took turns appearing.

One after another, special effects exploded across the screen.

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Current popularity: 18927.

Chen Hao ate while keeping an eye on the live stream.

Seeing that his popularity score was almost 19,000, he was secretly pleased.

At this rate, I'll be able to exchange for bricklaying and carpentry skills in no time.

He picked up a piece of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, mixed it into his rice, and took a bite.

The dishes made by a master chef are truly different—the eggs are tender and smooth, the tomatoes are sweet and sour, the broth is rich and flavorful, and they are a perfect match when mixed with rice.

He couldn't help but eat a couple more bites himself.

"Ah Hao," Meng Meiling suddenly spoke, putting down her chopsticks and looking at Chen Hao.

"How long do you plan to stay this time?"

After finishing his meal, Chen Hao thought for a moment and said, "I'll probably be staying for quite a while. The exact duration... hasn't been decided yet."

"What about Tingting?" Meng Meiling glanced at her granddaughter, who was engrossed in eating vegetables. "Has Tingting been living here too?"

"Okay." Chen Hao nodded. "Tingting will be living with me."

Meng Meiling was silent for a moment, then said, "So where will you stay? Your old room? That room is empty, but..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but Chen Hao knew what she wanted to say.

Although his original room was empty, the other rooms of the convenience store were filled with goods—drinks, snacks, and daily necessities, box after box, piled from the floor to the ceiling.

Moreover, there was no private bathroom in the convenience store; people had to use a large basin to collect hot water and shower in the room.

He's a grown man, so he can do whatever he wants, but Tingting is a three-year-old girl, and it's too inconvenient for her to take a bath like this.

"Mom, I'm planning to renovate the old house," Chen Hao said.

"The old house?" Meng Meiling paused, then asked, "Which old house?"

"It's the one behind the village, the one my grandparents left behind," Chen Hao said. "The one I lived in when I was a child."

Meng Meiling and Chen Bingzhong exchanged a glance, their expressions both somewhat complicated.

"That house..." Chen Bingzhong put down his chopsticks, frowned, "That house has been uninhabited for a long time, and it's very dilapidated."

Many roof tiles had fallen off, the paint on the walls had peeled off, several pieces of window glass were broken, and the windows were full of dust and cobwebs.

Where are you staying?

"I'll just modify it a bit," Chen Hao said calmly.

"Fix the roof, repaint the walls, lay the flooring, and add a bathroom and kitchen, then it'll be ready to live in."

Chen Bingzhong shook his head:

"You make it sound so easy. Renovating a house costs a lot of money. Hiring a construction team and buying materials will easily cost tens of thousands of dollars."

"I have money," Chen Hao said. "The company gave me a subsidy, and I've saved some money myself. That's enough."

"It's not about the money," Meng Meiling interjected.

"Why do you have to do this? Can't you just stay at home? Your dad and I can clear out a room and add a bathroom. It's not like you can't live there."

Why do you insist on living in that dilapidated house?

Chen Hao shook his head: "Mom, it's really inconvenient at home. You and Dad run a small shop, and with so much stock piled up at home, it's not spacious to begin with."

My old room was only so big, it was too cramped for Tingting and me.

Furthermore, Tingting needs a private bathroom, which her home doesn't have.

"We can build one," Chen Bingzhong said. "We can build a small house behind the house and make a bathroom. It won't cost much."

"There's no need for that," Chen Hao insisted.

"The old house is just sitting empty anyway, so I'll renovate it. I might live in my hometown for a long time in the future, and it will be convenient to have my own place."

Meng Meiling and Chen Bingzhong exchanged another glance.

Meng Meiling wanted to say something more, but Chen Bingzhong reached out and pressed her arm, signaling her to stop talking.

"Fine," Chen Bingzhong said, "Do it if you want."

But you need to think this through. Renovating a house is no joke. You need to know masonry, carpentry, plumbing, and electrical work. You're a coder, do you know any of that?

Meng Meiling nodded repeatedly:

"Yeah, Hao, you're a programmer, can you build walls? Can you lay floor tiles? Can you connect water pipes and electrical wires?"

Don't try to be a hero. What if you can't finish it halfway through?

Chen Hao smiled, his tone reassuring and confident: "Dad, Mom, don't worry."

I have a friend who works in the renovation industry. I helped him out for a few days when he was working, and I learned some bricklaying and carpentry skills.

Renovating an old house isn't a big project; I can handle it myself.

Actually, he had never learned any bricklaying or carpentry. When he said this, he was thinking about the three skills available in the system shop—

A top-tier bricklayer requires 5000 popularity points;

A god-level carpenter requires 5000 popularity points;

A god-level electrician requires 5000 popularity points.

He currently has nearly 19,000 popularity points, which is more than enough to exchange for these three skills.

Chen Bingzhong looked at his son with some doubt, opened his mouth as if to say something, but seeing the calm and confident expression on his son's face, he swallowed his words back.

He lowered his head, picked up a piece of braised pork, stuffed it into his mouth, and mumbled, "Fine, you decide."

Meng Meiling was still somewhat worried, but she knew her son's personality—

They seem easy to talk to, but once they make a decision, nothing can change their mind.

She didn't try to persuade him further, but simply reminded him, "Be careful, don't hurt yourself."

"Okay, Mom." Chen Hao nodded.

Shen Xiaoting had been quietly eating her meal the whole time. Hearing her father and grandparents' conversation, she looked up and asked with her greasy little mouth:

"Dad, don't we live here?"

Chen Hao smiled, reached for a tissue, and wiped the sauce from his daughter's mouth.

"Let's stay here for a few days until Dad fixes up the old house and makes it look nice and tidy. Then we'll move into the old house, okay?"

Shen Xiaoting thought for a moment, then nodded and said seriously, "Wherever Dad lives, I will live."

Chen Hao was stunned for a moment, then reached out and ruffled his daughter's hair, his heart melting completely.

"Okay," he said, his voice a little hoarse. "Wherever Dad lives, Tingting will live."