My Dreamy Old Husband

“Alright, sweetie. I’ll have a word with your teacher soon,” Michael promised.

To Carmen, the first grader’s tests were too easy. Usually when Linus tutored her at home, he would be teaching her high school and college-level math knowledge, which she had no difficulty in understanding. Perhaps, they could let her skip a grade.

As a first grader in elementary school, Carmen started to develop a sense of awareness and was no longer a baby who sat around and did nothing. Back in kindergarten, she was already selling pet dogs and her father’s autograph even though it was only a small-scale business that operated offline. Granted, it was a no-cost business, but sales were slow and it carried high risks. Now that she was in elementary school, her horizons had widened and she began to learn the basics of the internet from her Uncle Linus. As such, she opened up her own online store that sold her father’s autographed posters, and merchandise made of the fur that the family pets had shed.

She operated the online store all by herself—she was the manager as well as the customer service officer. Meanwhile, the shipping of the sold goods was assigned to Hale. Recently, she had been gathering her pets’ fur and had them made into pillows and keychain charms by Nicholas to be sold on her online store. In fact, it was being sold at a rather high price—a pillow would cost about a hundred.

With the help of Linus, she also modified Nicholas’s program and added an extra function of embroidery and sewing. Since then, Nicholas had been working overtime for Carmen and doing odd jobs for her every day.

Meanwhile, a national children’s opera competition was also coming up, and the winner would walk away with a prize of 500,000. She signed up for it enthusiastically and was aiming to win first place.

Looking at Carmen’s achievements so far, Michael was content and proud. With the way things were going, he would have nothing to worry about. Even if she didn’t have a father, Carmen would still grow up healthy and happy. She was a business-minded child who would grow up to have a career and great accomplishments of her own, just like her grandfather, uncle, and mother.

When they arrived home, Michael held Carmen’s hand and spoke in a firm manner, “Carmen, you’re a big girl attending elementary school now. You’ll have to leave Mommy and Daddy to live on your own in the future, so you have to learn to be independent, okay?”

Nodding confidently, Carmen assured, “Don’t worry, Daddy. I can take care of myself now.”

gloves to collect the fur of their pet cats, dogs, and alpacas. She also plucked the feathers from the rooster’s tail to make shuttlecocks. Meanwhile, Maria disinfected the fur and feathers before passing them to Nicholas

She took her job seriously and worked overtime. Recently, her little store received too many orders, and she was being

He strived to help Carmen in increasing sales and inventory. In fact, his signed posters were a hit, and the demands were largely exceeding the supply. At that point, Carmen’s illegal home-based workshop was fully

eleven’ shopping festival, so she had been busy with work until late at night recently. Even when she

Even Cooper who had fled would often call to

of encouragement, Carmen was full of confidence and worked even harder to the

After the fur was collected and disinfected, Sophia would wear a face mask and a pair of gloves to stuff

The family of three were busy making little keychain charms and pillows while they discussed bringing home the dogs that were being kept at the Edwards residence at Riverdale for Carmen to collect their fur

year’s was around the corner. This year, they would be making more cured meat to be sold on the online store. At the same time, Carmen could

were designed by Carmen and sent to JNS Group to be produced by a specialist. After the items were delivered to them, they only had to stuff it with fur and sew them shut to complete them. The keychain charms were sold in a complete set as well as in separate units. The designs were dog figures, baby girl figures, and even parent figures. The whole set would be figures of a happy family of three,

of keychain charms. She had stitched

of keys, while Carmen’s was hooked onto her backpack.

brought it to Sophia before saying sternly, “Mommy, look. Doesn’t this look like the baby brother you promised to give me, but didn’t?” She needed a lot more child workers at her illegal shop, and a little brother or sister would be able to help her in managing her

out and patted the top of her head with a smile while he subconsciously glanced at Sophia’s belly. Their second child seemed

him, on which her smell and warmth seemed to have lingered. Meanwhile, Sophia had started to make a baby boy charm and put together a family