VHBF -Chapter 130 The Bigshot Researcher Daddy (Part 30)

Mo Linqing originally wanted to refuse, but then thought that he could never refuse anyone’s kindness toward Yinyin on her behalf, so he nodded.

Captain Zhang probed, “Professor Mo, do you still remember the scene when you barged into the laboratory and discovered Lin Ju inside?”

“It’s just some details needed for the interrogation. Could you trouble yourself to recall it?”

Mo Linqing gave him a faint look. That glance seemed to see right through his intention, yet he didn’t expose it and cooperatively recounted the events.

For a father who loved his daughter, reliving the scene of seeing his child being bullied was not a pleasant thing.

From beginning to end, his brows never relaxed.

Whether from his description or his expression, it was clear that he had indeed been present.

Captain Zhang couldn’t help but doubt himself—had his sixth sense been wrong?

As the captain of a criminal police unit directly under the central authorities, handling confidential cases, Captain Zhang indeed possessed rich investigative experience and an astonishing intuition.

If Mo Linqing had been in his previous state, he might have been exposed.

But ever since that incident—when Yinyin was bullied by that woman Lin Ju—the two personalities had fought to come out. Although in the end the secondary personality, Mo Linqing, gained the upper hand for a short time by taking medication, unexpectedly, the primary personality Mo Linqing had already begun to share the secondary personality’s perspective. He was no longer blind and deaf like before—whatever the secondary personality did or said, he knew it all.

After hearing him out, Captain Zhang apologized to Mo Linqing and briefly explained the situation on their end—for example, because of Lin Ju and Li Jiaxing, some of his recent movements might require someone to accompany him.

This time, Captain Zhang hadn’t come just to deliver the Spirit Spring water, but also to notify Mo Linqing of this matter in advance.

Mo Linqing was someone worthy of such seriousness.

Mo Linqing nodded indifferently.

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Yinyin was waiting in her daddy’s office at the research institute, craning her neck in anticipation. When she got bored, she guessed with System Uncle whether the one coming out this time would be the good dad or the bad dad.

System thought it was more likely to be the secondary personality. That villainous secondary personality always pushed work onto the primary personality and only came out when there was nothing to do.

Now that the two-month experimental project had finally ended, if he wasn’t coming out now, then when?

During the days Mo Linqing was in the lab, Yinyin could still stay at the Mo family at first, playing with Grandpa and waiting for Daddy to finish his work. But after a week passed and he still hadn’t come out, Yinyin couldn’t sit still anymore.

She pestered Grandpa to bring her to look for Daddy.

The laboratory was sealed and no one could enter, so Director Lin brought Yinyin to Professor Mo’s office. In the days after that, Yinyin came to the institute to “check in” every single day.

This delighted everyone at the institute.

Their greatest daily joy became teasing Professor Mo’s daughter, and competing to feed her. Watching her hold snacks and nibble them in tiny bites, cheeks puffed up, instantly lifted their moods, giving them a strange sense of satisfaction.

When there was nothing to do, they’d chat with little Yinyin, and even listening to her milky baby voice felt like a kind of enjoyment.

Amid the snack-feeding and chatting, before Daddy even came out of the lab, Yinyin had already become the institute’s beloved mascot by sheer charm.

At that moment, someone knocked on the door outside and beckoned to Yinyin in a low voice. “Yinyin, little Yinyin, come out quick—time to eat!”

“Your Aunt Yang had someone bring back cookies from overseas. Try them? They’re especially delicious.”

The people from the institute didn’t dare enter Professor Mo’s office. They stretched their necks to look inside, where the fair and delicate little Yinyin was sitting on Professor Mo’s office chair. Hearing this, she looked up.

“Uncle Dai!”

The “Uncle Dai” Yinyin referred to wasn’t old at all—he was one of the doctoral students in this batch. Sunny and handsome, he somehow always wore a suspicious uncle-like smile whenever he saw Yinyin.

Yinyin pattered to the doorway, and Dai Wei, who was waiting outside, scooped her up in one motion. Taking advantage of no one looking, he secretly pinched her chubby baby cheeks.

Yinyin slapped Uncle Dai’s hand away and looked up at him. “Uncle Dai, when will Daddy come out? Didn’t they say Daddy finished his work?”

Dai Wei set her on the desk and laughed. “Still early. I heard it’ll be afternoon before he comes out. They’re wrapping things up over there—lots of soldier uncles guarding it, very strict.”

Yinyin propped up her chubby chin and sighed. “Daddy being too amazing is also very troublesome!”

Dai Wei: “……”

During this time, they had finally understood why Professor Mo was always different in front of his daughter.

Because his daughter was a hardcore dad-fan—her fangirl attributes completely exposed. Every time they chatted, Yinyin never went three sentences without mentioning her dad: how her dad was like this, how great her dad was, how amazing her dad was…

Dai Wei and the rest of the institute colleagues had gone numb.

As he spoke, he pushed over some nicely packaged snacks on the desk. “These are all Aunt Yang’s. Before she comes back, let’s finish them all for her.”

Yinyin looked behind him, covered her mouth, and snickered. The next second, Dai Wei’s ear was twisted. “Sneaking snacks?”

Yang Liu snorted and shoved him aside. “Little Yinyin can eat them. You can’t. Scram.”

“And you even dared to use Yinyin’s name to eat my snacks while I wasn’t around? Why don’t you just ascend to heaven?”

The other researchers’ shoulders shook as they gathered around.

You take one pack, I take one pack. Yinyin sat in the middle of the desk, with a pile of snacks laid out in front of her.

Left hand one, right hand another—she was surrounded by female researchers, while the male researchers received the same treatment as Dai Wei and were squeezed to the outside.

“……”

“Yinyin, how about Auntie takes you to the cafeteria for lunch this afternoon?”

“Bah, today was clearly my turn! I’ll take Yinyin—mind your own business!”

“Get lost, get lost—come, Yinyin, let Auntie hug you.”

Squeezed outside, Dai Wei looked left and right and weakly spoke up. “Um… can I count too?”

“Why is it that we uncles can’t take Yinyin to eat, but you can? This is gender discrimination, you know?!”

The female researchers turned back and looked at him like he was an idiot. “We’re women—we won’t threaten Professor Mo’s daddy status. You’re men. If Professor Mo finds out that while he wasn’t around, his daughter was held by you, fed by you—what do you think he’ll do?”

Dai Wei and the other male comrades imagined Professor Mo’s expression that could kill without spilling blood, and immediately shook their heads. No, no, no—that was too terrifying.

Compared to cuddling Yinyin, they felt their lives were more important. It was enough to admire her occasionally.

The male researchers looked at the group of female colleagues with envy and resentment. Were they even women?

They always said women in science were hardcore, one stronger than the next—and the women in their institute were the elites among elites.

They were even more outstanding than men to make it into the institute. Toward them, the male researchers felt only awe.

Can’t mess with them, can’t mess with them—even wanting to play with Yinyin meant getting squeezed out. Such a bitter fate!

These days, Yinyin had the family driver bring her to the institute every day to clock in and wait for Daddy. Seeing that no one was taking care of her, the director originally wanted to pay extra and have a logistics aunt help look after Professor Mo’s child, take her to meals and such.

The female researchers all scrambled to take on the task. When they weren’t in the lab, they were just organizing data and writing papers anyway—very free. They said they could take turns babysitting, bringing little Yinyin to the cafeteria. No trouble at all—this was way too easy!

Yinyin got along very well with the aunties and big sisters. Not only did she eat herself, she also fussed over the snacks in front of her, offering them up—one for each auntie.

The odd aunties were completely satisfied as they accepted the candies offered by the little one. “Yinyin is so good!”

“The candy Yinyin gives is the sweetest!”

In no time, several lipstick marks were stamped on Yinyin’s face. She looked around in confusion, finally noticing the uncles standing pitifully on the outer edge, staring this way. She waved her chubby hand.

“Uncles, Uncle Dai, come over here.”

“Eat, eat.”

The male researchers were teary-eyed. As expected, only the baby was the sweetest—those female dinosaurs were all heartless villains!

—

When Mo Linqing came out of the laboratory, he saw his daughter—who shouldn’t have been there.

Yinyin was sitting on the office desk, surrounded so tightly by researchers that not even water could get through. Her milky baby voice drifted out from time to time.

The researchers were arguing about who should take the baby to lunch at noon. Even though a rotation had clearly been set, every day at this time someone would pull tricks, insisting on fighting it out.

Just as the winner was about to be decided, the female researcher who was about to be eliminated rolled her eyes, picked up Yinyin from the desk, and ran.

“Holy crap, cheating! Stop right there!”

“Come back! My baby!”

“(O)… P-Professor Mo…”

The female researchers’ outstretched Erkang hands froze in midair as they awkwardly looked at the cold-faced Professor Mo.

The one who grabbed Yinyin and ran almost crashed straight into Professor Mo. She froze stiff in front of him, face flushed red.

Wasn’t this basically snatching someone’s child right in front of the biological father?

Caught red-handed, the female researcher’s head nearly dropped to the floor.

In this awkward atmosphere, it was Yinyin who saved them.

The little one didn’t understand what the aunties were thinking at all. Seeing Daddy suddenly, she wasn’t shy in the least. She immediately raised her two chubby little hands high.

“Daddy, hug!”

In the female researcher’s arms, she tilted up her little head and looked eagerly at Daddy, her milky voice full of both delight and grievance. “Daddy, you’re out! Yinyin waited for you for a really, really long time—waited until the sea dried up and the rocks crumbled.”

“Pfft… hahaha…”

The super awkward caught-in-the-act scene instantly dissolved into laughter. The researchers really couldn’t hold it in, even with Professor Mo standing right there.

They laughed themselves silly—little Yinyin was just too funny. She always managed to turn a serious atmosphere into something completely different.

Yinyin looked at the uncles and aunties whose shoulders were shaking nonstop and urged, “Daddy, hurry and hug Yinyin. Auntie keeps shaking—Yinyin’s going to fall.”

Mo Linqing looked at the researcher holding his daughter, fell silent for a moment, then reached out and took Yinyin back.

“……”

Holding the familiar, sweet, milky-scented Yinyin in his arms, Mo Linqing lowered his head and looked at his daughter. “Why are you here?”

Yinyin raised her eyebrows proudly. She was smart—having the driver bring her every day meant she could catch Daddy the moment he came out.

“Daddy went to work somewhere Yinyin couldn’t find for a really, really long time. So Yinyin asked Grandpa to bring me here. The first time Grandpa brought me, and later Grandpa’s driver uncle brought Yinyin.”

A nearby female researcher chimed in, “Our little Yinyin has been coming for over a month now—every single day, rain or shine. She’s more punctual and diligent than us going to work.”

As she said this, the female researcher looked at Professor Mo with envy and jealousy. Professor Mo must have saved the galaxy in his past life to have such a caring little treasure!