Chapter 2: Nian Nian mistakenly recognizes her father
No one could empathize with Shi Guilin at this moment. Just imagine who could accept waking up with a cub by their side.
This cub is cute though.
The cub with rosy cheeks sleeping seemed to be woken up by his loud voice. Its whole face wrinkled and it tried to open its eyes.
Seeing the child's reaction, Shi Guilin thought he was going to cry, so he hurriedly leaned over and patted the little one's chest, "Don't cry, don't cry, you must not cry, I don't know how to comfort a child."
The patting seemed to have some effect. The cub didn't cry. He pouted, struggled to lift his eyelashes, and opened his eyes.
When Shi Guilin bent down, he suddenly met her eyes with those wide-open black eyes. He was stunned and said, "You're quite well behaved..."
"Brother Shi? Brother Shi!" Li Yan saw that he didn't get out of the car and shouted through the door.
Shi Guilin glanced outside the car, then quickly retracted his gaze and sighed heavily, "Oh, what a sin. Baby, go into the hotel with your uncle first."
After saying that, Shi Guilin unskillfully picked up the child, pulled out a piece of the blanket wrapped around the child, and covered the cub's head.
"You'd better bear with it for now, otherwise my fans and paparazzi who have been waiting for me will take pictures of me, and my reputation of twenty-three years will be ruined." Shi Guilin strode out of the car holding the baby and walked briskly to the hotel room.
"Hey, Brother Shi, Brother Shi, wait for me." Li Yan looked at the figure in front of him who was as fast as a meteor, and trotted to catch up in confusion.
Shi Guilin ignored him, swiped his card to open the door in a very embarrassed manner, and entered the suite.
Li Yan followed him in, "Brother Shi, why are you so anxious? Hey, how did we find this blanket again? What's so bulging about it..."
After walking this short distance, Shi Guilin felt like the sky was falling. He said nothing and did not ask Li Yan to leave. He silently held the baby in his arms and sat down on the sofa, reaching out to lift the blanket covering the baby's head.
Immediately, Li Yan met a pair of bright eyes. He was completely stunned, pointing at the cub and mumbling incoherently: "Ahhhhhhhh... child, child, child..."
Shi Guilin's face was numb: "Child."
"Yes, child. But where did you get this child, brother Shi?"
Gui Lin had no answer for this question. He looked at the cub with big, sparkling eyes, then glanced at Li Yan and then at his own cub, and closed his eyes in despair. "Do you believe me if I say I don't know? The moment I open my eyes, he's sleeping next to me."
I don’t know if the cub understood or not, but he stuck his little arms out from under the blanket and made two cooperative sounds.
Li Yan was silent.
"I suspect this child was secretly sent to the RV while we were filming." Shi Guilin sorted out his thoughts and analyzed rationally, "The purpose is very strong. Perhaps the other party had planned it all along."
"Then, this counts as abandonment, right? Brother Shi, what should we do with the child?" Li Yan had never seen such a bizarre thing and didn't know what to say.
When Shi Guilin thought of the possibility of abandonment, he looked at the cub with pity in his eyes.
The cub blinked and looked at Shi Guilin: "Hmm?"
"Baby, what's your name?" Shi Guilin asked patiently.
"Hey, hey." Zizi shook his little hands.
Shi Guilin asked, "Your name is Nian Nian?"
Cub: "Yeah."
Li Yan was watching from the side and thought Shi Ge was crazy. He was so deaf that he couldn't help but complain: "Shi Ge, he is so young, he can't speak clearly at all."
Shi Guilin paused, ignoring Li Yan's words, and continued to "interrogate" the cub.
"Nian Nian, do you remember what your father looks like?"
Li Yan muttered quietly: "What's the point of him remembering it? He can't speak or read, and he can't find it..."
Shi Guilin took a deep breath and glared at Li Yan, who immediately shut up. After silence settled around him, he once again looked at Nian Nian patiently and hopefully.
"Papa..." Nian Nian tilted her head to look at him.
Shi Guilin's tone was full of encouragement: "Yes! It's Dad, do you remember?"
Nian Nian stretched out her arms with all her strength, and her warm little hands touched Shi Guilin's chin, "Papa?"
"I'm not your father." Shi Guilin felt a chill in his heart for a moment, but a strange feeling inexplicably rose in his chest.
"Woo..." Nian Nian retracted her little hand, blinking her dark round eyes aggrievedly, her eyelashes fluttering, "Papa..."
"I, I...ah, help me." Shi Guilin turned his head and wailed softly. Facing Nian Nian's expression, he couldn't say a single cruel word. This was really the end of him. Was he really going to take his son home?
Shi Guilin's brows were furrowed in worry. Just as he was thinking about what to do next, he suddenly felt a warm touch on his forehead.
"Papa...papa..." Nian Nian's speech was a little unclear. He was held in the blanket and raised his arms with difficulty. His small palms touched Shi Guilin's tightly furrowed brows. He pouted his face, as if he was trying hard to make an expression.
Shi Guilin subconsciously relaxed his brows, his eyes revealing an unconscious tenderness, "Such a good baby, and their family was so cruel to abandon him?"
As he said this, he hugged Nian Nian again.
Li Yan spoke cautiously: "Brother Shi, what are you going to do?"
Shi Guilin lowered his eyes, pursing his lips slightly. "I'll be back in Hengdian tomorrow. The final scene can be filmed in half a day. After that, I'll try to call the police and find his parents."
Li Yan: "They've abandoned it. Even if we find this little kid, he won't have a good life..."
In fact, it is more likely that the parents who abandoned their child will not be found at all. Beyond the bamboo forest is a deep mountain forest with almost no surveillance. Apart from the occasional film crew and local families scouting for locations, it can be said that there are very few people.
Shi Guilin's mind was a mess. He was twenty-three years old, a beloved celebrity, and came from a wealthy family, but he couldn't just casually raise a child. Furthermore, his mental state... was far from optimistic.
He is lucky enough to be able to live well, but as for raising a child, he cannot do it for the time being.
"You go back and rest first. I'll take care of the child's affairs by myself."
"Okay. If you need help, Brother Shi, just give me a call."
After Li Yan left, Shi Guilin felt a little distant from the cub. However, he discovered that the cub really liked Nian Nian, a name he had only heard by accident. Specifically, whenever he called Nian Nian, the cub would grin and respond positively.
"Little Nian Nian?"
“Papa!”
"Zhong Niannian?"
“Papa!”
"Da Nian Nian?"
“Papa!”
As the two of them went back and forth, Nian Nian became more and more proficient at calling him dad. Shi Guilin played with the child for a long time before he realized that his face had become stiff with laughter, and he had strangely become accustomed to Nian Nian calling him dad.
Could it be that he has the potential to be a stay-at-home dad?
As he was thinking, Shi Guilin began to pull Nian Nian out. He found that Nian Nian was only wrapped in a blanket, without even a piece of clothing!
"Why are your parents so stingy? They are reluctant to give you a piece of clothing, and they even stole my blanket." Shi Guilin looked at Nian Nian's naked little body, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he was completely convinced.
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