Chapter 2 Variety Show She will be participating in a variety show next week and needs...

When Xie Ran got up in the morning, he almost fell on his butt. She looked at her arms and legs that had been shortened, and her long, fat clothes that were dragging on the ground, and fell into deep thought: Is she still asleep?

Three hours later, she finally confirmed one fact with difficulty - she really turned into a child!

Xie Ran wanted to cry, but she couldn't because the matter was too outrageous and she didn't know how to explain it to others.

She told her parents cryptically on the phone that something had happened to her.

After receiving the call, Gao Chengsheng and Xie Yanzhi immediately took leave and came back to see her.

When they entered the room, they were dumbfounded.

Xie Ran didn't dare to mention anything related to the novel anymore, after all, the person really knew magic. She just vaguely said that she didn't know what happened and she became like this after waking up from a good sleep.

Fortunately, her parents still remembered what she looked like when she was a child and were sure that this was their daughter, not a mentally ill child who escaped from some hospital.

After all, they were people who were used to big scenes, so it only took them an hour to accept the fact.

Then he took her to the hospital.

They thought Xie Ran might be sick, a rare strange disease!

Xie Yanzhi is the director of pediatrics at a private hospital. She gave Xie Ran a full body examination. The examination results showed that her daughter now has the body of a five or six-year-old child, her bones and organ development are no different from those of a child, and she is very healthy.

Xie Yanzhi also arranged for Xie Ran to undergo a genetic test, and the results showed that everything was normal.

Worried about misdiagnosis, we took her to other hospitals for examinations, but the results were the same.

Since it couldn't be explained scientifically, it could only be explained by metaphysics. Gao Chengsheng asked if he should go to the temple and ask a master to read his fortune or perform a ritual.

Xie Yanzhi was speechless, but couldn't think of any other solution for the time being. Because Xie Ran's condition was so suspicious, we couldn't investigate her openly because we were worried that she would be kidnapped and used for experiments.

With the attitude of trying everything possible, the two of them went to several temples and even consulted a fortune teller. However, they did not dare to explain the situation directly and only asked Xie Ran to tell their fortune in a vague way.

Maybe she was unlucky and met laymen with little academic expertise, or maybe Xie Ran's situation was not on the hexagram. In any case, the results did not mention her current changes, but only said that she had an extremely good life, with smooth sailing and great wealth.

It's a bit fake, but it sounds nice and the money is not wasted.

After nearly a month of hard work, the three of them went back home obediently.

Compared to Xie Ran's depression, Xie Yanzhi and Gao Chengsheng were more optimistic.

Xie Yanzhi often took out her cell phone album with great interest, pointed to a photo of Xie Ran taken when he was five and a half years old, and said, "Look! Exactly the same! Mom's little cotton-padded jacket is back!"

Whenever she had time, she would pinch Xie Ran's rosy little face and kiss her. After each kiss, she would sigh, "It was more fun when we were kids."

In the eyes of parents, children are always cuter when they are young, because they become more mature and independent as they grow older.

Although Xie Ran looks like a child, she is an adult at heart and can't stand her mother being so clingy. Before her mother transformed into a "kissing monster" that day, she stood a little further away, interrupted the spell and said, "Mom, please help me get a new household registration."

She didn’t know how long she could maintain this appearance. She couldn’t use her original identity to travel or do business because she had no way of explaining to outsiders that the photo of her on her ID card, which showed that she was an adult, was the same person as her current five-and-a-half-year-old self.

Before, Xie Ran still held out a glimmer of hope. He wanted to wait for that voice to appear and then beg it for mercy and say some nice words to allow him to change back to normal.

But that voice never appeared again.

Xie Ran currently needs a new identity that matches her appearance.

But she is only five and a half years old, and it is rather troublesome to register her household registration at this time, as they cannot submit some of the information. But in the end I managed to get it done using some methods, and also got a child ID card at the same time.

Since it was a new identity, I had to change my name, so this time I used the name that I failed the lottery that year: Gao Luo.

*

Xie Ran doesn't like being a child because it is inconvenient - he has to crawl to get in and out of bed every day, and he has to stand on a stool to brush his teeth and wash his face. Xie Yanzhi also didn't allow her to look at the phone often, saying that her eyes were not well developed and she would go blind if she looked at it too much.

But things have come to this, she can only comfort herself: It's good to be a child, you don't have to compete with studies and work, you don't have to deal with complicated interpersonal relationships, you don't have to lose weight, you can eat whatever you want!

Thinking this way, it seems that becoming smaller is not so difficult to accept.

On the third night after Xie Ran's identity was transformed into "Gao Luo", a guest came to his house.

She was a young girl. She was very reserved when she first came in. She spoke in a low voice and didn't know where to put her hands.

Xie Ran thought she looked familiar, and then when he heard her call Xie Yanzhi "aunt-in-law", he remembered her.

She is her second uncle’s granddaughter, named Gao Shule.

The Gao family is large, and my grandparents had four children.

Gao Shule is from the second son's family, and Xie Ran is from the fourth son's family. The two are about the same age, but there is a generation difference between them.

Xie Ran is of the same generation as Gao Shule's father, so Gao Shule has to call her aunt.

Gao Shule came over with a gift. She greeted Xie Yanzhi and Gao Chengsheng first when she entered the house, and then asked about Xie Ran.

"How is my aunt lately?" he said with a stuttering tone.

Xie Yanzhi glanced at Xie Ran, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa eating potato chips, and smiled awkwardly: "It's fine."

Gao Shule followed her gaze and saw the person on the sofa.

It was a face as beautiful as a porcelain doll, looking like a work of art. On her fair and small rosy face, she had a pair of large, black and bright eyes, but the corners of her eyes were slightly raised. Her expression had a childlike innocence, but her facial features were strangely delicate.

Unexpectedly encountering the face in her memory, Gao Shule was stunned for a while, and stammered: "Is this... my sister? She looks exactly like my aunt when she was a child."

Xie Ran didn't have time to think about the meaning of this sentence. She was attracted by Gao Shule's next words -

Gao Shule was not good at socializing, so she just exchanged a few pleasantries before getting down to business.

This time she came to ask Xie Yanzhi for help. She said she would be participating in a variety show next week and needed a child under ten years old as her partner.

Xie Yanzhi is the director of pediatrics, and she usually comes into contact with children of all kinds.

Gao Shule wanted her to help introduce a smart kid to be her partner.

As she made this request, she lowered her head, her thin face turned red, and her expression was full of embarrassment.

Xie Yanzhi thought for a while and said, "Can you let me think about it and give you an answer tomorrow?"

"Okay, thank you, aunt!" Gao Shule said immediately.

She didn't stay any longer and left after finishing her business. Before leaving, he looked back at the little man on the sofa.

Xie Ran was looking at his phone and didn't notice her gaze.

*

Xie Yanzhi said she needed to think about it, but it was actually an excuse. When she heard Gao Shule's request, her answer was no.

Firstly, the children she usually interacted with were sick children, who were her patients and could not be treated as ordinary people; secondly, she herself did not approve of children appearing on TV programs.

Children are mentally immature, so programs tend to magnify their flaws and the audience can easily be incited, which is harmful rather than beneficial to children's growth.

But she knew that Gao Shule was introverted and didn't like to trouble others. She must have made a great decision to say this, and this matter is very important to her.

Xie Yanzhi really had no way of refusing outright.

Xie Yanzhi was just worrying about how to reply tomorrow. She turned around and saw Xie Ran sitting on the sofa looking at his phone.

The two small hands held a mobile phone that was almost as big as the face, and the light from the screen illuminated the entire face.

"Aluo, keep your phone away from your eyes." Xie Yanzhi reminded her.

Xie Ran did as he was told and moved the phone a little further away.

Xie Yanzhi added: "You can only watch for a short while."

"I know!"

Xie Ran replied while swiping the screen with his finger.

On the screen is the official Weibo announcement of the variety show "Wonderful Holiday".

Previously, Xie Ran only noticed that Feng Daiyue and Shen Siyan were on the guest list. Now, after taking a closer look, he found that at the end of the long list, there was an account @ed, which was Gao Shule.

In fact, if Gao Shule hadn't come over today, Xie Ran wouldn't have remembered that she also worked in the entertainment industry and was an artist like Feng Daiyue.

She said that her variety show will start filming next week and her partners will be children. Combining these two elements, Xie Ran naturally thought of "Wonderful Holiday".

This is such a coincidence. Xie Ran couldn't help but wonder if this variety show is as popular as the legend says. How could anyone participate?

As far as she knows, none of the guests are particularly famous: the female lead is a newcomer; Feng Daiyue has only one popular work; not to mention Gao Shule, who is almost an amateur and probably no one would recognize her if she walked on the street.

I wonder if Gao Shule’s career will improve after participating in the variety show.

Xie Ran didn't have much contact with Gao Shule, and his impression of her was that she was always quiet. As the other party's incompetent aunt, Xie Ran hopes that she will have a good development.

Maybe “that voice” captured her thoughts, but that night Xie Ran dreamed of the plot in the novel where Gao Shule participated in a variety show.

The situation is not good.

Gao Shule is socially anxious and doesn't talk much on the show. The child she takes care of was assigned to her by the company and is also taciturn. When you put two people who are not good at communication together, misunderstandings are bound to arise. As the program aired, netizens commented that Gao Shule was suffocating when interacting with children, and some even said that she abused them.

Because of her bad reputation, Gao Shule was maliciously excluded and isolated by other guests in the subsequent filming. And because she is socially anxious and dares not speak, the audience thinks that the problem lies with her, and that she is arrogant and uncooperative.

This is a vicious cycle with no solution.

After the show ended, Gao Shule was subjected to overwhelming abuse from the entire Internet. Her former friends in the circle publicly distanced themselves from her, fearing that they would be implicated by her.

Gao Shule was abandoned by the market, and the black-hearted company arranged for her to "socialize" with a certain investor in the name of doing good for her.

Xie Ran did not see what happened, only the result. The media reported that she committed suicide by jumping off a building. The media showed a broken mobile phone and a pearl bracelet stained with blood.

*

In the morning, Xie Yanzhi came to Xie Ran's room as usual to see her and found that she was already awake. He didn't get up, but just sat there in a daze, with sweat on his forehead and his face pale.

Xie Yanzhi hurriedly and nervously asked her where she felt unwell and whether she wanted to go to the hospital.

Xie Ran shook his head and said it was nothing, he just had a nightmare.

According to scientific statistics, children aged three to six are more likely to have nightmares. Xie Ran's excuse was reasonable and Xie Yanzhi had no doubts.

While eating breakfast, Xie Ran asked Xie Yanzhi casually, "Will you agree to what Lele told you yesterday?"

Xie Yanzhi groaned and said, "It's hard to agree to this."

Thank you very much.

Xie Yanzhi is a rigorous worker who clearly distinguishes between public and private affairs, so she certainly doesn't look like someone who would agree to this. In the dream, Gao Shule is indeed taking care of a child hired by her own company.

Xie Ran guessed the result, so she slowed down and said, "Then I'll go with her."

Xie Yanzhi was just about to put a fried egg in her mouth. She paused when she heard this and looked up at her: "You're going? You want to accompany her to film a variety show?"

"I'm idle at home anyway, so I might as well go out and relax and earn some pocket money."

Xie Yanzhi glanced at her and said, "If our family needs you to earn money, should we let you go out to work?"

Xie Ran used to work for Song Rui and was complained about countless times by Xie Yanzhi and Gao Chengsheng because they could see that Song Rui did not treat her sincerely and was just trying to squeeze out the value of her labor.

Normally, an employee of Xie Ran's caliber should have a monthly salary of at least five figures, not including the share option. However, Song Rui only paid Xie Ran five thousand, the same as the receptionist in their company, which meant that Xie Ran even had to pay for gas every month.

But Xie Ran loves this kind of scumbag who can be seen at a glance by outsiders, so much.

Although Xie Yanzhi complained, she did not interfere too much with Xie Ran's behavior, because she was still young and had opportunities to make mistakes, and they could also provide the cost of trial and error.

Her view is that life doesn’t necessarily have to be smooth sailing, and it’s okay to suffer some emotional hardships. If you try to stop her, it will not only be counterproductive, but it will also easily create a rift between mother and daughter.

Looking back now, she made the right decision. Look, he wakes up quickly!

Xie Ran resigned smoothly, but Song Rui was in trouble. According to Gao Chengsheng, Cefeng was going to withdraw its investment, and Song Rui was still trying his best to save the company. He posted a job advertisement on the platform, looking for a new chief programmer, with an annual salary of one million.

When Gao Chengsheng said this, he carefully observed Xie Ran's reaction and found that Xie Ran just snorted coldly without any sadness. Then he spoke his true feelings - saying that her vision of looking for men is like panning for gold in shit.

Because his words were too rude, Xie Yanzhi ordered him not to go home for dinner for a week.

Originally, Xie Yanzhi had no requirements on Xie Ran. It didn't matter whether her career was good or bad, or whether she made money or not, they could provide for her. Now that she has become a child, of course she has even fewer requirements.

When Xie Ran said she wanted to earn some pocket money, Xie Yanzhi would think she was crazy, but she said she wanted to go out for a walk, and Xie Yanzhi began to think seriously about it.

The couple were too busy to spend time with her at home, but they were also worried about her going out alone. After all, you are still a child and you need someone to be around you all the time.

But she was also worried that she would be bullied when she went to film the show.

"Acting is different from your normal job. You have to appear on camera and be judged by the public. Can you handle it? If you don't perform well and get scolded, I will be heartbroken."

"No, I'm an adult and very smart! And how could I not perform well? I'm the best at pleasing people, you know that." Xie Ran winked at Xie Yanzhi.

Xie Ran has been likable since he was young because he is perceptive and sweet-spoken. Among the young people in the family, Xie Ran is the most capable and every time he returns to his hometown, he can make the elders very happy.

Xie Yanzhi's attitude softened a little, but she still wanted to ask her: "Do you have to go? Why?"

Xie Ran put down the rice spoon in his hand and said solemnly: "Because I am Gao Shule's aunt, if I don't help her at this time, who will help her?"

Xie Yanzhi was speechless.

Her daughter is not a high-ranking official, but she is a senior official.

Since her own daughter said so, Xie Yanzhi felt that if she did not agree, she would be unworthy of her status as an elder.

The next evening, Gao Shule arrived as promised.

About three or four minutes after I rang the doorbell, the door was opened from the inside. Gao Shule didn't see anyone at first glance, and when she was wondering, she felt a slight tug at the hem of her clothes. She lowered her head and saw a tiny figure that was not even as tall as the door handle.