April 3, 2017.

Zhuochuan received an invitation to attend a meeting and give a speech in the neighboring province. He dug Chuli out from under the quilt early in the morning and kissed him hastily. He held his son for a while and then left for his business trip, looking back every few steps. Chuli was left alone at home, feeling bored.

After having breakfast, Chu Li played with his son and dog on the sofa for a while, and then began to seriously consider going to work.

Before she could figure out whether to go along with Gu Baizhi, she received a call from Ah Gui. She heard that Ah Gui was already at the airport and on his way home. Chu Li held the phone in confusion, "What are you doing here?"

"Collecting materials!" Ah Gui said happily, "Help you recall the three years you spent in Yuanyue Society."

Chu Li said "Oh", thinking that these seemed to be the three years in her life that she least wanted to recall. However, since she was really bored at the moment, and Ah Gui could come and play with her since Zhuchuan was not around, she forced herself to suppress the urge to chase Ah Gui away with a broom, and politely ordered some fruits online, ready to entertain this unlucky guy.

About half an hour later, Ah Gui arrived. At that time, Chu Li was lying on the sofa, shaking his legs and eating watermelon with a toothpick... Chu Li looked at the bear-like creature standing at the entrance with a huge box and hugging Er Gouzi enthusiastically, and said lazily: "Such a big box, are you going to hibernate in my house?"

Ah Gui: "I don't eat much."

Chu Li laughed loudly, sat up, and said in a slightly serious tone: "You came at the right time. That annoying Zhuochuan is not here."

"I know he went to the next province for a meeting," Ah Gui followed instructions and dragged the luggage to the attic on the second floor where Chu Li used to live. "He told me yesterday and asked me to come and play with you for two days, so that you wouldn't be bored at home with Er Gouzi."

Chu Li sat up and said "Oh". Then he saw Ah Gui taking a notebook and a pen and going downstairs. Chu Li was stunned for a moment: "What are you doing?"

Ah Gui sat down on the other side of the sofa: "To collect materials."

"…You know there's something called a laptop these days, right?"

“Handwritten notebooks are more fun to flip through.”

“…” Chu Li waved his hands in disdain, feeling that he had lost the confidence to continue the conversation with this weirdo.

"By the way, when the news about the failure of social financing in January came out, didn't Ah Xian call you and invite you to take a psychological test? 233333333," Ah Gui said, "I wrote this content into the prologue today, intending to use it as a reverse narration of the whole article to make a connection between the beginning and the end. As a result, many readers couldn't understand it. What should I do? They all thought that Ah Xian, who used 'girl' as a personal pronoun, was the heroine! Then I helplessly changed Ah Xian to 'passerby girl', but readers still said they didn't understand it!"

"First, examine your own writing and expression abilities," Chu Li said expressionlessly. "Second, have you ever heard that the author is the ceiling of IQ, and your readers are crowded together in the room with this ceiling?"

"…Who are you scolding?"

"I curse you. You are the one who harmed your readers." Chu Li opened a box of cherries. "If they were in Suo Heng's place, they would probably be smarter and follow the local customs here."

Ah Gui thought for a moment and said, "What should I do?"

Chu Li: "What do you want to do?"

Ah Gui: "Deleted? Just put the main text?"

Chu Li: "Why are you asking me if you've already thought about it?"

Ah Gui: "... Let me tell you so you don't get accused of messing with your life."

Chu Li: "You are already very chaotic."

Ah Gui took out his notebook and pen with a grin, and excitedly tapped the notebook with his pen. Then the two of them prepared to start collecting materials. The story begins with Chu Li’s interview at Yuanyue Society. That day was quite interesting… Chu Li munched on cherries and recalled: “After the interview, I thought, even if this is my last time at Yuanyue Society, it would be nice to walk around and have a look. Then I wandered to the door of Moonlight magazine. I was squatting in front of the small sign to look at the poster for Zhuchuan’s new work when I heard someone yelling: Do you think I’m a beggar!!!!”

Ah Gui: “…Who?”

Chu Li: "You are great, Chu Chuan."

Ah Gui: “…………………………what is he doing?”

Chu Li shrugged: "The first print on the contract for the Luo River Divine Book is too low."

Agui: "……………………"

Chu Li stared at her as she lowered her head and wrote quickly. She watched her silently write "Do you think I'm begging for food" in the notebook, and drew a circle next to it, giving her an OS: I didn't expect you to be like this." Gentle and smooth like jade, Mr. Chuan.

Chu Li: "...After I finished speaking, I remembered the saying 'family disgrace should not be made public'. Can I pretend that you didn't hear it?"

Ah Gui: “No.”

Chu Li thought about what Chu Chuan's reaction would be after seeing "Moonlight Variations". She actually shivered in the hot weather. She bit her lower lip and asked Ah Gui belatedly: "...You can do some artistic processing, right? Tell me you can. I really don't want to be stepped on the ground and beaten with a belt by my angry husband——"

Ah Gui: "If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, then Zhuchuan won't admit that he draws in this style, right?"

Chu Li coughed and pointed at the notebook on Ah Gui's knees: "Keep your notebook for me. Burn it immediately after finishing this article!"

Ah Gui picked up the notebook and covered half of his face, laughing slyly. It seemed that Zhu Chuan got a hint and called to ask what Chu Li was doing. Chu Li looked up at Ah Gui and laughed guiltily, "I'm collecting material for Ah Gui's new article..."

【Oh, you two should remember to have lunch. 】

"Well," Chu Li was feeling guilty at the moment, so she responded to whatever Chu Chuan said, "Have you arrived yet?"

【We have arrived at the hotel.】

"Why is it so noisy in a hotel? It sounds like we're in a shopping mall."

[There is a shopping mall downstairs of the hotel... What are you doing? Are you suspecting that I am cheating on you? Your ears are higher than Er Gouzi's? ]

Chu Li looked at his son who was already stumbling and running around, and chuckled, "When you reach middle age and your son is running around, there will always be some crisis."

…Then he was scolded by Zhuo Chuan, who didn’t give Chu Li a chance to talk back before hanging up the phone as if the person he was having an affair with was waving at him. Chu Li stared at his phone for a long time without coming to his senses, and finally sent him a text message in a huff—

[The monkey’s hired navy: If you don’t feel guilty, why are you making such a loud noise? Humph!]

【Zhuchuan: Roll, roll, roll, don't act like a fool. 】

Zhuochuan told Chuli to get out, and Chuli really got out.

The only significance of this phone call is that Chu Chuan successfully reminded Chu Li about lunch. Looking at the time, it seems that it is indeed time for lunch. Chu Li has a stomach full of fruits and is not very hungry, so she opens the food delivery app and asks Ah Gui what he wants to eat...

Ah Gui’s answer was always “whatever”, and Chu Li was too lazy to scold her: “If you say whatever, I will really order whatever. If you don’t eat it, I will push your face into Er Gou’s food bowl…”

Ah Gui: "You have been getting more and more irritable recently."

Chu Li snorted: "Menopause."

Ah Gui even counted on his fingers and found that Chu Li was less than 25 years old, nothing new.

In the end, in the spirit of hospitality, Chu Li still carefully ordered a table of dishes, including meat, vegetables, seafood, and a bowl of chicken soup... When the takeaway was delivered, the two were still continuing the tangled "collection of materials". Chu Li sat up from the sofa to get the takeaway, and then looked around for a newspaper to spread on the table -

Not found.

After thinking about it, she couldn't remember when she stopped subscribing to newspapers at home.

In the past, Chu Chuan would always take a look at it during breakfast.

"The era of paper media is really over," Chu Li glanced at the small notebook in Ah Gui's hand and said calmly, "What you have in your hand is probably the so-called twilight of the gods in the era of paper media... and then you have become the Sima Qian of the publishing industry."

Ah Gui dragged a stool and sat down at the dining table: "Please don't use such a joking tone to talk about something that even you can't laugh at."

Chu Li raised her hand and touched her nose in disappointment, then opened all the takeout and placed them directly on the dining table... She remembered that Ah Gui loved to eat meat, so she specially ordered a braised pork for him. In her memory, the braised pork in this restaurant was always well made, fatty but not greasy, and melted in the mouth.

However, when Chu Li opened the lid of the lunch box, something unexpected happened -

She swore that she just smelled the aroma of the braised pork, took a look at the braised pork, and her stomach suddenly began to churn. The sour water that made her dizzy gushed out all at once. She covered her mouth, made a "gasp" sound, turned around and ran to the toilet!

I vomited a lot.

It feels comfortable.

After rinsing his mouth, he walked out and pushed the door open while saying, "I guess it's because I didn't have breakfast this morning and ate too much frozen fruit. As people get older, their stomachs become more delicate..."

Ah Gui still sat at the table holding his chopsticks, staring at her silently with his black and white eyes. After thinking for a long time, he uttered, "……………………You, are you sure it's because of something extra in your stomach, not something extra in your uterus?"

Chu Li was rubbing his stomach with a frown on his face at this time. When he heard Ah Gui's words, his whole body trembled. He raised his head and stared at Ah Gui, his eyes slightly widened as if he had really seen a ghost.

Ah Gui's hand holding the chopsticks trembled: "...Why are you looking at me? It wasn't me who did it."

Chu Li: "No way? I haven't healed the scar and forgotten the pain yet."

Ah Gui: "You're asking me? Don't you have any idea whether your period came this month?"

Chuli: "My aunt has never allowed——"

Ah Gui: "Zhu Chuan said you said the same thing when you were pregnant with Zhu Yueli."

Chu Yueli: "Who called me?!"

Chu Li's eyes widened even more: "Zhu Chuan told you all this!"

Ah Gui looked sympathetic: "That's right, men will gossip without hesitation."

Chu Li: "..."

…

A few days later.

Chu Chuan is back.

The flight was scheduled for the afternoon, and it was the 15th day of the lunar month. The man returned home under the big, round moonlight. Before he even put the key into the door, he heard Er Gouzi's excited voice, his son's scream of "Dad", and the clacking sound of Chu Li's slippers as he walked toward the entrance...

Under the orange voice-activated lights outside the house, the man flirted and put away the key——

He went home.

A few seconds later, the door of the house opened, and a fair little face poked out from behind the door. Along with the aroma of rice being cooked in the house, Chu Li blinked and said, "You haven't eaten yet? I'm waiting for you."

Zhuo Chuan reached out and threw the suitcase into the door, then squeezed into the room with his tall body. Before he could stand firmly, a person was hanging on his neck the next second. The soft body came up with a familiar breath. When he bent down, soft lips fell on his cheek: "Teacher, I want to tell you something..."

Warm breath hit his ear.

The man's raised lips became clearer: "Well, I have something to tell you too."

"Then you go first."

"You go first."

"You go first."

"You go first."

Behind him, Zhuo Yueli and Er Gouzi stood on the entrance steps, silently watching the conjoined monster leaning against the door and turning on the repeater mode.

Chu Li reached out and touched the man's soft hair, and said with a smile: "Then let's talk about it together?"

Zhuochuan: "Okay, one, two, three——"

"——This time I went to S City, in addition to the meeting, the main purpose was to order a wedding dress for you. This time you can finally..."

"—I'm pregnant again."

“——…”

“——…”

Five seconds of mysterious silence.

Chu Li's arms around the man's neck froze for a second, she let him go, and took two steps back. Only then did she see that the man was holding a very large dust bag. On the dust bag was a brand of very expensive wedding dresses. One time when she was flipping through a magazine, she casually told him that this brand of wedding dresses was beautiful, and Chu Chuan said that he wanted one customized, and then the conversation ended...

Now, Zhuchuan carried the wedding dress she wanted back home.

And she——

And she...

And she.

At this point, thousands of words turned into nothing, and Chu Li could only say "Oh fuck" and didn't know whether he should say it or not.