Unexpectedly, Chengcheng turned the tables and ran to Lu Meifeng to complain: "Grandma, she has been bullying me. She's the one who spilled the juice on me."

As he spoke, he pointed towards the female lead with his short, delicate fingers, but the juice on him had accidentally spilled on himself when he was about to throw it at the maid.

Lu Meifeng looked a little displeased: "Is this how you raise children? It's normal for kids to be a little naughty. How old are you to still bully children?"

When questioned, the female protagonist had no choice but to explain, "Chengcheng was being naughty and damaging things, and she was the one who spilled the juice on the maid."

Unexpectedly, Lu Meifeng wouldn't listen to her explanation, saying, "How could such a young child lie?"

With just one sentence, he choked the female protagonist's rebuttal into silence.

Li Rou took the initiative to step forward and promote herself: "How about I do it? I have a child at home and I've taken care of children before."

While I was with Chengcheng, the child said, "Auntie, I want to go to the mall to play."

Li Rou then drove him to the city's largest shopping mall, which had everything from toys for children to food and drinks.

Chengcheng held up a half-meter-tall Ultraman figure and said to Li Rou, "I want this."

Without saying a word, Li Rou paid the bill. While looking around, Chengcheng saw a cute balloon that a child was playing with and reached out to grab it.

Unexpectedly, the other party was not someone to be trifled with either, tightly clutching the balloon in their hand, saying, "Don't touch my balloon."

Chengcheng had been spoiled since childhood, and everyone would give in to him whenever he wanted something, so he held onto the rope and refused to let go.

Seeing that the other party still wouldn't give it to him, Chengcheng tiptoed and pulled the balloon down, then stomped on it and popped it.

The other child started crying loudly, calling out, "Mommy, Mommy."

When the child's parents came over and saw their child being bullied, they yelled at Li Rou, "How do you manage your child? You have no manners! You're stealing other people's things. Can't you afford it?"

However, Li Rou was clearly not used to this kind of situation. She took out a hundred yuan from her wallet and gave it to the other person: "Is a hundred yuan enough?"

The other man's father persisted: "My child was just bullied and had his balloons stolen. You think you can settle this with just 100 yuan?"

Li Rou didn't want to get entangled with them any longer, so she took out another two hundred yuan from her pocket and gave it to them, and only then did they let it go.

On her way home, Li Rou saw some colorful candies nearby, and since she also had some imported premium candies that others had given her in her car, she gave them all to Chengcheng.

These candies were placed on Chengcheng's table, and whenever he was alone in his room, he would secretly eat several of them.

That evening, the female lead took him to brush his teeth, but Chengcheng was very unwilling. Children find brushing their teeth boring and time-consuming.

As the female lead turned to pack her things, Chengcheng spat out the toothpaste from her mouth, rinsed her mouth briefly, and said to the female lead, "Finished brushing."

A few days passed like this. Chengcheng felt that his gums were a little swollen and painful in the middle of the night. He vaguely felt that it might be because he secretly ate candy and didn't brush his teeth properly, but he didn't dare to tell the adults.

While eating, he took a bite of his favorite chicken leg, but his gums became increasingly painful as his teeth pressed against the chicken meat. After two bites, he put the chicken leg back on the plate.

He picked up the greens in front of him, took two bites, and then spat them out because his toothache was getting worse.

Lu Meifeng scolded him from the side: "Chengcheng, don't waste food. Take only what you can eat."

"Okay." Chengcheng gripped the chopsticks tightly in her little hands, not daring to argue.

Seeing his small gesture, the female lead realized he had a problem with his gums, so the next morning she took him out, saying, "Chengcheng, Auntie is taking you out to play. Aunt Li has something to do today."

Before getting into the car, the woman sent the driver a private WeChat message: "Go to the hospital first, I need to get a check-up."

Although Chengcheng is young, he became suspicious when he saw that the route didn't lead to the mall: "This isn't the way to the mall."

The female lead glanced at Chengcheng and tried to soothe him: "Does your tooth hurt?"

"Who said that?" Chengcheng asked guiltily, her voice rising considerably in an instant.

The female protagonist had no choice but to threaten him, saying, "If you don't get it checked now, you'll become a toothless child when your cavities flare up in a few days. A person can only get two sets of teeth, and normally you should have already had them replaced."

"So this is the last one, and if your grandma finds out about this, you know what the consequences will be, don't you?"

Chengcheng tensed up and whispered, "I'll go, just don't tell Grandma."

After arriving at the hospital, the doctor carefully examined Chengcheng and prescribed some medicine: "Eat less sugar in the future, and brush your teeth twice a day. Don't skip any steps."

"Okay, thank you, doctor." After saying that, the female protagonist took Chengcheng and prepared to go home.

On the way home, Chengcheng quietly said to the female lead, "Could you please not tell my grandma?"

The female lead was amused by his appearance: "Don't worry, as long as you brush your teeth properly and eat less sugar in the future, I promise I won't say anything, but if you can't do that, then who knows?"

"I promise I can," Chengcheng said, raising his hand to swear.

Chengcheng finally develops feelings for the female lead; before that, he had always disliked her.

And so the two of them, hand in hand, returned to the Lu family home, one after the other.

During a casual chat at home, Lu Meifeng mentioned Li Rou: "When I first returned to China, I lost my luggage at the airport. It was Li Rou who helped me find it. I immediately thought that this girl was exceptionally kind-hearted."

Grandma Lu was also very satisfied with Li Rou. "Li Rou and the male lead started a company together, and the company is now thriving. The Li family also has some resources. Li Rou is a college graduate, sensible, and polite. The female lead is no match for her at all."

The two nodded as they talked, and then Old Mrs. Lu expressed her opinion: "I still think Li Rou is more suitable to be the young mistress of the Lu family, even though the male and female leads are already engaged."

"Marrying someone of equal social standing is the most important thing. I don't know what kind of bewitching potion the male lead took to make him so infatuated with the female lead." Lu Meifeng thought so too.

When the Lu family held their banquet, Lu Meifeng informed Li Rou again: "Miss Li, we are holding a family banquet recently and would like to invite you to be our guest."

Li Rou declined, saying, "This is, after all, your family banquet. It's not appropriate for an outsider like me to come."

However, unable to refuse Lu Meifeng's invitation, Li Rou accepted the invitation to the Lu family banquet.

At the banquet, Lu Meifeng instructed the female lead: "Go and arrange the venue and see if there's anything that needs to be changed."

However, she took advantage of the moment when the female lead was away to create an opportunity for the male lead and Li Rou to be alone.

Li Rou is very clever. Even when she is alone with the male lead, she does not seduce him directly like Li Anran does. Instead, she starts to talk about the company's future development: "Although the outlook for new energy is very good this year, there are still crises."