Lin Youxiang nodded vigorously, then asked, "Dad, what's my reward for being so good?"
Lin Zhiyan sat down on the sofa, held his daughter, kissed her on the cheek, and said with a smile, "Is this reward enough?"
"That's not the reward I want." Lin Youxiang shook her head.
"Then what reward do you want?" Lin Zhiyan asked.
"Money," Lin Youxiang replied.
Lin Zhiyan was stunned for a moment. "Doesn't Mom give you plenty of pocket money every day? Isn't it enough?"
Lin Youxiang shook her head, then nodded. "It's enough."
"Then why do you still want me to reward you with money?" Lin Zhiyan was very puzzled.
Lin Youxiang looked very pleased with herself. "I want to save it up. Later, if you and Mom favor my little brother and don't love me anymore, I'll take it out to spend, buy delicious food, and pamper myself."
Lin Zhiyan: "..."
Just then, Nanase Mayumi came downstairs with their two-plus-year-old son.
She handed their son over to Lin Zhiyan and asked in passing, "Back so early today?"
"There wasn't much going on, so I finished work early and came home," Lin Zhiyan replied.
"Dinner isn't ready yet. You watch the kids, I'll go make dinner." Nanase Mayumi said, then turned and went into the kitchen.
Given Lin Zhiyan's current financial status, hiring a nanny would certainly be no problem, but dinner was usually made by Lin Zhiyan or Nanase Mayumi themselves; it was generally breakfast and lunch that they hired a nanny to prepare.
Given Lin Zhiyan's current economic status, hiring a nanny is obviously not an issue. However, dinner is generally cooked by either Lin Zhiyan or Nanase Mayumi themselves, while breakfast and lunch are mostly prepared by the nanny.
It was past ten o'clock at night.
Both children were already asleep.
Lin Zhiyan and Nanase Mayumi were sitting on the balcony, cooling off and enjoying the moonlight.
"The moon is beautiful tonight," Nanase Mayumi said, looking up at the moon.
Lin Zhiyan nodded. "Speaking of which, didn't you say before that you wanted to watch an anime with a school romance theme? 'Your Name' isn't a school romance, but I do have a school romance anime project recently titled 'Tsuki ga Kirei' (The Moon is Beautiful)."
"The moon is beautiful... 'I love you'?" Nanase Mayumi immediately understood the metaphor in the anime's title.
"Yes."
Lin Zhiyan confirmed, "Although it's a school romance, this anime tells a story of first love, so it's about middle school students. And I don't intend to base the characters on us."
"That's fine, do whatever is appropriate; there's no need to force characters based on us."
Nanase Mayumi didn't mind at all, but she quickly added, "Why must first love be a story about middle school students? High school students can also have it. My first love didn't start until I was in university, for example."
Lin Zhiyan smiled. "So, I was your first love?"
"Who else could it be but you?" Nanase Mayumi glanced at Lin Zhiyan, somewhat speechless. "I don't ever recall liking anyone else."
"You never told me that, how would I have known?"
Lin Zhiyan defended himself.
"Do you know now?"
"Yes, I know now."
"You never told me this, how would I have known?" Lin Zhiyan defended himself.
"And now you know?"
"Yeah, I know now."
"..."
Suddenly, Nanase Mayumi realized something was wrong: "You think a first love story should be about middle schoolers, could it be that you dated some girl back in middle school?"
"No, no, don't accuse me of that!" Lin Zhiyan waved his hands, indicating that no such thing had happened.
"Then when was your first love?" Nanase Mayumi asked curiously.
After asking, she revealed an expectant expression: "I wouldn't happen to be your first love, would I?"
Without waiting for Lin Zhiyan to answer, she shook her head herself: "No, that's not right, you were so experienced with everything before, I'm definitely not your first love."
"What are you thinking about?" Lin Zhiyan lightly tapped Nanase Mayumi on the head.
Nanase Mayumi was immediately pleasantly surprised.
But soon she heard Lin Zhiyan say: "You really don't count as my first love, at most my second. Because my first love was already, back in elementary school..."
"You dated a girl in elementary school? No way, right?" Nanase Mayumi was shocked.
Lin Zhiyan smiled and finished his sentence: "...was already given to anime."
Nanase Mayumi: ( ̄ー ̄)
She was at a loss for words at first, but after thinking it over, she immediately felt pleasantly surprised.
Although the two were already an old married couple and whether they were each other's first love would not affect their relationship, she was still very happy to realize that she was indeed Lin Tomohiko's first love.
She playfully slapped Lin Tomohiko on the shoulder and said, "Animation doesn't count. If animation could be counted as a relationship, wouldn't I be the third party? And from the day we got together, you would have been two-timing me every single day."
After saying this, Nanase Mayumi sighed with emotion, "Time flies. In the blink of an eye, we've been together for over a decade."
"Yeah, it really does," Lin Tomohiko agreed, also feeling sentimental.
He had been with Nanase Mayumi for over a decade, and it had been even longer since he was reborn—from '95 to '14, nearly twenty years.
In those nearly twenty years, he had participated in the production of countless animations, but there were only a few that he had deeply involved himself in as supervising director and scriptwriter.
Animation production was truly a very time-consuming job.
However, from now on, he would shift his focus to being a producer.
The era of animation led by supervising director Lin Tomohiko was coming to an end, and the era of animation led by producer Lin Tomohiko was about to begin.
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