Chapter 56

To describe the three siblings' tacit understanding in one sentence: they can tell what kind of poop you want just by the way you stick your butt out.

As soon as the live stream ended, Xu Qingyan and Xu Niancheng called at the same time, their urgent ringing sending chills down everyone's spines.

Guessing that He Nianzhu wouldn't answer, Xu Qingyan decisively called the baby's mother, and Xu Yirou's children's smartwatch started beeping.

"Mom, don't answer it yet!"

"...Have they grown wings?"

Xu Qingyan's deep and authoritative voice drifted out, and He Nianzhu's face stiffened, revealing a regretful expression. She shrugged helplessly, realizing that it was hopeless this time.

The mother cub blinked innocently.

"Brother, just let me see, we're all family, don't be distant with me." He Nianzhu didn't mince words, trying to persuade his older brother by appealing to his emotions.

However, how could a cold-faced, domineering CEO be so generous as to let his younger brother witness his embarrassing past? He's not out of his mind.

"Impossible." Xu Qingyan coldly refused, "Don't even think about trying anything funny with me."

He Nianzhu was at a loss, but then she thought that her older brother wouldn't be back for a while, and since she was with her mother, she wouldn't have to worry about not having a chance.

He Nianzhu subtly curled the corners of her lips, intending to deal with the situation first.

Xu Qingyan knew perfectly well that her younger brother wouldn't let it go so easily, and was about to warn him again when her younger sister Xu Niancheng's voice came from the other end of the phone.

He Nianzhu answered the phone.

"I knew I was a step too late. I knew my older brother would call Mom."

Xu Niancheng said in a coquettish voice, "Big brother, it's just an artistic photo, just be generous and show it to us. You're not a young lady, what are you shy about?"

Jiang Yan, who had been watching the show with amusement, burst out laughing. This time, she was on her sister-in-law's side.

Xu Qingyan glanced at it helplessly, but Xu Niancheng, with her sharp ears, immediately beamed and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm Chengcheng. You also want to see my brother's artistic photos, right?"

Ignoring Xu Qingyan's hint, Jiang Yan nodded with her chin: "Yes, I want to see it too."

With her sister-in-law's help, things went much more smoothly. Xu Niancheng smiled happily, "Brother, the minority should submit to the majority, so don't struggle anymore."

He Nianzhu quickly echoed, "That's right, that's right."

Xu Yirou was completely confused and didn't understand what they were doing: "Dabao, Erbao, Xiaobao, haven't you seen the pictures of yourselves wearing little dresses? Mommy has taken several pictures of you."

"..."

The three siblings are all quiet.

He Nianzhu stammered, "Mom, I've filmed that too? No, no way."

He had absolutely no recollection of it.

Xu Niancheng was extremely excited: "Mom, quickly send me pictures of my eldest and second eldest brothers!"

Why didn't we discover this wonderful thing sooner?

Xu Yirou remembered it clearly and said in her childish voice, "Dabao was wearing a pink tutu and holding a pink feather fan for a photo. Erbao and Xiaobao had their hair in pigtails and were wearing red bibs for a photo. They were so cute."

The three siblings were all present and accounted for; none of them escaped.

Xu Niancheng is a little girl, so it's normal for her to wear skirts. Xu Qingyan and He Nianzhu are different; the two brothers are both pure, tough, straight men.

The impact they each experienced was indescribable, and Xu Niancheng and Jiang Yan's faces broke into wide smiles.

They absolutely love hearing about this kind of embarrassing history.

"I'll take some pictures for you now." Xu Yirou jumped off the bed, ran to the cabinet, opened the drawer, and carefully pulled out a large photo album.

"Found it!" The cub smiled and opened the heavy cover. "This is it."

He Nianzhu squatted down beside her to look at the album. It was quite old, and the photos were slightly yellowed. Each photo carried precious memories from different periods.

He Nianzhu casually initiated a video call in the group, so that the embarrassing history they saw together wouldn't count as embarrassing history.

The album mainly contains individual photos of the three siblings from birth to adulthood, plus a few family photos. When she flipped to the family photo, Xu Yirou paused for a moment.

Her gaze seemed to have a hidden meaning.

The man standing in the center held Xiao Xu Niancheng in his arms. He had deep-set eyebrows and broad eyes, black hair, and a handsome and refined appearance. He was wearing a crisp and well-tailored suit and had a gentle, scholarly air about him.

The three siblings looked solemn, and without prior agreement, they all held their breath and looked at the cub's mother in the video with worried eyes.

Xu Yirou's small, soft fingers landed on him, and she looked up in confusion: "Who is he? Why is he taking pictures with us?"

The three siblings' expressions went blank for a moment, and none of them spoke.

Jiang Yan pursed her lips. Even if she were just an ordinary passerby, she could recognize that it was He Ting, the former president of Senming Group, who died in a car accident five years ago.

That was the father of the Xu siblings, and also the grandfather of their daughter, Paopao.

To her surprise, her mother-in-law did not recognize him.

Xu Qingyan was the first to regain his senses. He composed himself and asked in as gentle a tone as possible, "Mom, don't you recognize him? Please look at him again."

Should she know her? Xu Yirou scratched her head in confusion, but still obediently stared at her for a while.

She racked her brains and searched her memory, but her mind remained completely blank; she had absolutely no memory of this person.

"Da Bao, who is he?"

Xu Yirou opened her clear eyes: "Erbao, do you know him?"

He Nianzhu took a moment to react, then stared blankly at the cub's mother: "Mommy, he's our father, your husband, don't you remember him?"

The words "father" and "husband" felt completely unfamiliar to Xu Yirou.

She shook her head, replying with annoyance, "I don't remember."

"Then where is he?" Xu Yirou pressed. "Why isn't he at home?"

He Nianzhu was speechless.

The three siblings realized that their mother had completely forgotten their father, He Ting. She didn't remember having a husband, didn't remember that the children had a father, and didn't remember the car accident that took He Ting's life.

That most painful memory has been completely erased from my mother's life.

They didn't know whether to feel fortunate or sad.

The three siblings looked at each other silently across the screen. Xu Niancheng's voice was filled with sadness: "Mom, Dad left us five years ago. We will never see him again."

Overwhelmed with grief, Xu Niancheng found it difficult to say the word "death" to the cub's mother; selfishly, she didn't want her mother to be sad as well.

"Why did you leave?" Xu Yirou was even more puzzled.

She puffed out her cheeks and said unhappily, "I know, he must have thought you three ate too much and didn't want to be your dad anymore, so he secretly ran away."

Just like Yinyin's little rascal dog, after having a baby, he found it troublesome and didn't want to take care of it, so he ran off to play every day.

It seems the father of these three kids is a scumbag.

Xu Yirou was filled with righteous indignation: "Hmph, what a scumbag."

“Mom, Dad isn’t a jerk, he’s a very good father.” Xu Qingyan couldn’t help but speak up for He Ting. “He was even better to you, you just don’t remember.”

He Nianzhu and Xu Niancheng also defended their father who died young.

“Babies, you’re just too kind.” The mother cubs trusted her intuition and pouted, “If your dad was really that good, how come I don’t remember him at all? He hasn’t come home for five years. What else could he be but a scumbag dad?”

Xu Niancheng tried to salvage her father's image: "Mom, Dad isn't a scumbag at all. He has many good qualities..."

“I know, I can tell,” Xu Yirou said to herself, her round little face beaming with pride. “Your scumbag dad is handsome, not like a big bad guy.”

That's his only redeeming quality.

The cub's mother's memory has significant gaps and inaccuracies, which raises concerns and worries among the three siblings.

In the ensuing phone call, the three took turns trying to extract information from her, and finally came to a shocking conclusion: in her mother's memory, she had raised the three siblings independently, and her experiences of starting a business, dating, getting married, and having children were all missing.

"I found Da Bao on the roadside, and I found Er Bao and Xiao Bao in a garbage dump."

"..."

Xu Qingyan: So they are not their biological children?

He Nianzhu & Xu Niancheng: ...It would be better if they had just popped out of a rock.

That night, the three siblings tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Although the loss of memory did not seem to have any substantial impact on their mother's physical health, what about other aspects?

Could there be any hidden dangers that they haven't discovered? We didn't arrange a physical examination for Mom last month, but we need to arrange one in the next couple of days.

*

The premiere of "My Dearest Baby" went exceptionally smoothly, receiving rave reviews and maintaining high ratings throughout the day, which truly put the production team at ease.

The remaining half depends on the situation after "Our Trip" premieres tomorrow, so we cannot let our guard down. It's a fight to the death for similar programs.

It's really embarrassing for whoever looks worse.

Director Chang Yi barely slept that night, occasionally getting up to check his phone. The backstage and official Weibo were flooded with messages asking for photos of He Nianzhu in women's clothing.

[Director Chang, we, the audience, are making such a small but big request. You can't possibly not meet it, can you? You can't possibly not, can you?]

[One person wrote a petition in blood requesting a photo of He Nianzhu in women's clothing!]

[Don't rush us. Knowing how variety shows usually are, we should see it tomorrow.]

It's clearly a tactic to pique the audience's interest. Do they think they don't know that?

Chang Yi was extremely excited. To be honest, he wanted to see it too, and he had an even bigger appetite. Cough cough, if he guessed correctly, Da Bao was Xu Qingyan, the person in charge of Senming Group.

If the show reveals the brotherly relationship between He Nianzhu and Xu Qingyan, and accidentally exposes photos of the two brothers in women's clothing...

Then what is he worried about? Who can compare to these two in terms of popularity? They can easily crush "Our Trip".

Chang Yi was so excited that he couldn't contain his excitement. His chubby face contorted into a grimace, and he writhed like a maggot in bed in the dead of night.

After the initial excitement came a sigh. As soon as the broadcast ended, he eagerly discussed the matter of taking photos in women's clothing with He Nianzhu, but unsurprisingly, he was rejected.

There's no other way, I'll just go to sleep.

The next morning, "My Dearest Baby" and "Our Trip" started airing at 8:00 AM sharp.

The traffic for "Kiss Baby" was instantly pulled away, and it was much less than yesterday, which was very painful.

The moment He Nianzhu's live stream started, all that came into view was a white blur. Before the viewers could even figure out what it was, pink nostrils touched the camera.

Slurp slurp—

"Hey, stop licking! I just washed my face."

[Wow, that's a surprise! I saw Meimei licking the camera lens.]

[It's wearing a blue bow tie, this is clearly Yangyang, you fake fan!]

A soft, gentle voice-over: "Meimei, you can't eat random things or you'll get poisoned! Come back quickly~"