Chapter 1385: Chapter 997: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 5 (Three Thousand)
Picking up the child at six thirty, the time from then until nine in the evening is normal dinner time for people. The early morning orders don’t suit her, and she worries about her son being home alone and unsafe, so she only dares to deliver orders between six thirty and nine.
Compared to afternoon tea orders, there are considerably more orders in the evening, but they are mixed with all sorts of people and places. Not all of the communities have elevators, and those with stairs are orders that few compete for; as long as the delivery fee is reasonable, she goes for them. It’s unsafe to leave the child downstairs, so she carries him up together. It’s truly tiring, but having the child in her sight is much better than feeling anxious when he’s out of view.
For dinner, the mother and son usually have a flatbread with vegetables or a meat sandwich, drink a bottle of water when thirsty, and pass the time until nine. After getting home, she’ll cook an egg custard or make some rice porridge for the child. By the end of the day, not counting wages, there’s about 30 to 40 yuan in income.
Wen Han would feel sleepy after taking a bath upon returning home, sometimes even dozing off on the road. Qi Qi felt distressed but had to be strong due to life’s burdens pressing down on her.
She never tries to play the victim on her video channel; she simply records videos of herself making various dishes, even if it’s preparing a late-night snack for her son when they return home in the evening.
Later, when the edited videos revealed vastly different renovation styles, viewers left comments asking about it, and she always replied seriously.
"The lavish meals are cooked at the employer’s house, while the cozy daily meals are made in the rental apartment with my son."
To avoid repeated explanations, she straightforwardly changed her profile to—
[97 divorced single mother, raising a three-year-old son alone, nanny by day, delivery driver by night, father refuses to pay child support, mother stands by her, striving with her son, documenting life’s moments through video.]
She also changed the name of her channel to [Full-time Mother’s Reversal Chronicles].
As the saying goes, "Getting started is the hardest part," but after a day’s work, Qi Qi felt backaches and soreness. She took out her notebook and jotted down that day’s income and expenses, writing down her first goal: [repay father ten thousand yuan principal and offer five thousand yuan interest by the end of the year].
This is how Qi Qi began her journey of perseverance, working industriously as a nanny during the day, delivering food orders in her free time when her child is in class. If she has no orders, she picks up a book and reads. She already plans to take the college entrance exams as a non-student. The nanny job isn’t demanding, nor is it 24/7; when she can slack off, she does.
She has already taken the exams several times and is quite experienced, but taking it as a non-student is a first.
She consulted the education bureau, confirmed her eligibility, and since she has a vocational diploma, she only needs to register with her certificates at the education bureau from October to December this year. With a year left until the exams, she has enough energy to review adequately. Whether she enters a first-tier university or settles for a second-tier institution and becomes an elementary school teacher is acceptable.
She wishes for a proper job now, and besides a formal job, she plans to find a part-time job, which would make her life fulfilling.
Indeed, attending university at her age seems a bit much, but she already has a child, and when her child goes to school, she goes to school too; when he finishes, she finishes too. Spring and summer vacations almost sync perfectly, so it feels like going to college now is more worthwhile.
Of course, planning is planning; practical execution is much harder. Raising a child while studying relies on using any extra space in her schedule.
Being a nanny during the day and making videos keeps life stable, with hardly any fluctuations. She’s efficient and has obsessive-compulsive tendencies; whether it’s hygiene or meals, and even the little garden, she takes care of it well. Even the picky Zhang Family elders couldn’t find faults. And even if there were occasional minor comments, she quickly resolved them. They not only promoted her within a month, but also asked her to be a live-in nanny, offering ten thousand yuan, but she refused.
Being constrained during the day is tolerable, but she did not want her bit of evening freedom taken away. Thus, even with high wages, she wasn’t tempted.
July’s salary was 5,000 yuan, earning 1,400 yuan from food delivery, 600 yuan from video streaming, and solving two tech issues for an IT company while delivering for them got her a thank-you fee of five hundred yuan. Hence, her July income totaled 7,500 yuan.
