Chapter 106 Chapter 106 (Two in One) Ao Xinyi stayed up all night...
Bai Shuting remained silent, looking at his wife's expression, and said nothing more.
Holding her hand, he continued walking forward.
Ao Xinyi's mind was a little confused. The scenes of his interactions with his daughter unfolded from a different perspective and flooded into his mind.
The distant voices in her memory now hovered in her ears, overlapping and becoming clearer and clearer.
While having a midnight snack at night, my daughter unconsciously made a soft "tsk" sound.
From Bai Riqingqing's thoughts during the conversation with Mu Ning, to her previous calculations of Xiao Wu's accident at the bar, and her prediction that Ao Teng would meet with a fatal disaster...
During the first family dinner, Qingqing and Mu Ning were both scalded by the boiling soup. She said nothing, and even her complaints about the injustice were faint, as if she had known that they would ignore her.
And the day when mother and daughter reunited in the hospital.
The first time Qingqing saw her, she recognized her as her mother, and described her in her heart as "the Asian movie queen who committed suicide by shooting herself, becoming the tear of the times"...
She not only knew who she was, but also her destiny.
Or rather, it is their destiny...
Ao Xinyi tried hard to maintain her expression in the dim light, not wanting it to look too ugly at the moment. She held Bai Shuting's hand, exerting force on her fingertips, and asked, "Okay, besides this hypothesis, what other possibilities are there?"
"Isn't this the only 'what if'?" She looked up at her husband.
Bai Shuting looked at his wife's incredulous eyes and replied in a deep voice, "Assuming Qingqing is talking nonsense, then I'm afraid we have to pay attention to our daughter's mental health."
"It's getting cold, let's go back."
He changed the subject quickly.
Ao Xinyi has been with her husband for decades, and has long learned to read his feelings from his face, which has remained unchanged for decades.
She understood that her husband didn't think that Qingqing's words were all nonsense.
Girls of this age will certainly have some fantastic ideas, but most people's fantasies are divided into time and place, and are not logically consistent and rigorous.
The most terrifying thing is that when she really guessed that "the world is fake", many strange things that seemed strange during this period of time made sense.
Ao Xinyi was taken back to the room by her husband in a daze.
She has to remove her makeup and take care of her skin every night, but she was absent-minded tonight. After Bai Shuting brought her back to the room, he stayed by her side the whole time, reminding her to turn off the faucet from time to time, or reminding her of the next step.
Hand her a towel after a while, or follow her and replace the bottle caps of the face cream one by one to the correct position and screw them back on.
Ao Xinyi's immersed thoughts were disturbed by the hands that kept reaching out to her. Her thoughts silently shifted to her husband and she looked at Bai Shuting's face.
Bai Shuting was keenly aware of her gaze, paused his hand that was holding the essence, and turned his eyes silently to his wife.
Ao Xinyi: "How could I give birth to six children for you in a row?"
Bai Shuting: “…”
Ao Xinyi reviewed his life and began to reflect on himself for some unknown reason.
She has been beautiful since she was born. When she was held in her mother's arms, she was a doll with white skin and big eyes. Her beauty during her youth was famous throughout the city.
She has been proud since she was a child, and she excels in both academics and appearance. She knows that she is good-looking and likes to show it off in front of others.
She knows exactly what she wants to do in the future. She wants to be an actress and leave different identities and faces on the screen. She is not afraid of getting old. She wants to be active in front of the screen until the day when she can no longer dance or speak clearly, and preserve every inch of her life.
It was natural that she entered the entertainment industry at the age of fourteen, and since then she has become a darling of major directors. She has been filming one drama after another, and her name has become more and more famous, and she is popular all over China.
At the age of 20, her collaboration with Tang Yingzhu in the film "Ruan Fanglin" made her name known internationally.
It was also in that year that she met Bai Shuting.
Ao Xinyi's gaze stayed on her husband's wheat-colored face. His high, three-dimensional brow bones and broad nose bridge gave him a cold and hard look.
When he was young, he was even more rustic and dull, unlike the smooth and steady person he is now. He always had a face that didn't allow strangers to approach him, and with his height of 1.95 meters, many people were afraid of him.
She dared, she felt that Bai Shuting had a fierce face, but he was gentle in everything he did.
After getting used to his taciturn appearance, I felt very safe when I looked at Bai Shuting's mountain-like figure.
Like a big, floppy black bear.
Every day, the big black bear clumsily learned the trendy ways that young men at that time used to pursue girls, and made a lot of jokes in front of her.
When Bai Shuting saw her smile, he felt embarrassed, but he came again the next day. His figure was always by her side, and he participated in her life bit by bit.
Later, when a gun was pointed at her head and she was asked to film a pornographic film, Bai Shuting held the gun in the black helper's hand and pointed it at his forehead, and even paid most of the Bai family's property in order to save her.
At that moment she felt that she wanted to spend her whole life with him.
So she retired from the film industry, and the two of them got married. She got pregnant in the first year of their marriage. When they were almost three years old, Tang Yingzhu invited her to make a comeback. Less than two weeks into filming her new film, she found out she was pregnant with her second and third children.
Tang Yingzhuo said it was okay and they would have a chance to work together again in the future.
At that time, she only wanted to give birth to these two children, and then gradually come back to work when they grew up and could walk and run. But why did she become pregnant with her fourth and fifth children, which completely extinguished her idea of returning to the film industry?
She obviously loves acting so much.
However, her career and desires were tripped up by trivial things in her day-to-day family life, and were constantly eroded and eventually disappeared from her life.
And she is already luckier and has much more choices than most women.
But she still lives like this.
Ao Xinyi originally wanted to say that, looking back at the past fifty years or so, she had grown from a young girl to someone who looked so unlike herself today. Could it be that this was caused by the so-called ridiculous concept of "the world is a book"?
But when she really looked back on the past bit by bit, she felt that these ideas and opportunities changed very naturally at every step.
It seemed like it was just... her destiny.
This was her destiny...
Ao Xinyi stopped talking, sighed, and began to think about the things in his life that went against common sense in his confused thoughts.
Bai Shuting understood what she was thinking in an instant. After she sighed, he silently took her hand and said, "It's my fault."
"I should have started sterilizing my fourth child, and aborted the fifth child if I accidentally got pregnant."
Bai Shuting recalled what happened back then. After his wife gave birth to their first son and a pair of twins, the couple felt that enough was enough. They just took contraceptive measures at the time. As a result, she got pregnant with the fourth child two years later. After finding out that she was pregnant with the fourth child, he immediately went for sterilization. As a result, a few years later, Xinyi accidentally got pregnant with the fifth child and Qingqing...
At that time, Xinyi said that it seemed as if there was a divine will stopping her and keeping her at home.
It was from that time that Xinyi completely gave up the idea of making a comeback.
Ao Xinyi slapped his hand away, his thoughts interrupted: "That's all nonsense!"
Bai Shuting's brows gradually knitted together, and he thought: "Xinyi, is Tang Yingzhuo inviting you to cooperate? I saw that you two had made several appointments recently, and you looked worried every time you came back. If you want to make a comeback, I support you."
The husband is observant and will find it no surprise that she is distressed.
He always waited for her to make a decision, but this time he spoke before her and gave her advice. Ao Xinyi raised her eyelids, looked at her husband's serious expression, and said "hmm" in a muffled voice: "I know you will support it, but I haven't thought about it yet..."
"I'm already this old. I've been away from the camera for so many years. My spiritual energy has long been worn out, and my basic skills have become rusty. Qingqing just returned home, and she's already busy enough. If I'm not at home, I'm afraid we won't see each other very often. And after all these years, how many times have I been out..."
"And then there's your timidity." Bai Shuting held Ao Xinyi's hand, his calm eyes seemed to illuminate all her little thoughts.
Ao Xinyi admitted that she was afraid.
She had always been a strong-willed person since she was young, and she was unwilling to show weakness in front of her husband. She kicked her legs in annoyance and uttered a few "ahs". She walked back to the bed and threw herself on it. The quilt covered her head, and a buzzing sound came from under the quilt: "Stop chatting, I want to sleep!"
Bai Shuting had no choice but to move the stool she had just been sitting on back under the table, gently turned off the light, and lay down beside her.
"Good night, wife."
Two thirty-four in the morning.
A fluorescent light lit up above the big bed in the master bedroom.
Ao Xinyi stretched her neck out from her quilt, turned her head to look at her husband who was breathing evenly and had fallen into a deep sleep on the other side, secretly covered her cell phone with the quilt, and fumbled to download a website for women's green reading novels.
"The touching love story is all here"
The screen flashed briefly, and the bookshelf homepage popped up.
What we are going to see today is not a love story.
Ao Xinyi thought about it and realized that the most bizarre thing that had happened to him in his fifty-plus years of life was being able to hear the voice of his biological daughter who had been lost and then found again.
She found the search bar and typed in the words "voice of the heart".
"...xxx can hear my voice."
"The secrets are revealed... the group's favorite..."
Ao Xinyi read ten lines at a glance and felt that the situation was somewhat different from the actual situation. After thinking for a while, he searched the word "awakening" again.
According to Shu Ting's guess, their world is a book. Assuming that they are all characters in the book, then the description of realizing this problem should become... awakening.
She had seen the word in a skit commercial.
After searching again, a long list of book lists came out. Ao Xinyi took a deep breath and poked at the texts of several books, finally finding a few that were similar to the real situation.
"Lu Renjia had a dream in which he was a cannon fodder in a novel, committing suicide in front of the heroine in various ways, with a tragic ending.
After waking up...」
"I woke up the day before I was to go home, and saw everything I would experience in the future. My biological parents would come to take me home tomorrow, but that would be the beginning of my unfortunate life...
(Third person in the text)
"After the three-year-old little ancestor revealed his true feelings"
"After awakening, I was spoiled by my five big brothers..."
"After the Stand awakened, the five bosses went crazy."
Ao Xinyi turned her head furtively and glanced at her husband who was breathing evenly and still sleeping quietly. She clicked on the main text with caution and remained motionless in the quilt all night long.
…
The next morning.
Bai Qingqing went downstairs to have breakfast.
On the first day without Bai Mu Ning, my steps going down the stairs were especially brisk.
Without the white lotus, the control of destiny and plot is avoided to a large extent, which is great!
On her way downstairs, she ran into Bai Mincheng and Bai San.
Bai Lingcheng nodded slightly when he looked at her: "Are you in a good mood today?"
Bai Qingqing put her hands behind her back and nodded: "Not bad, not bad. You seem to be in a good mood today."
Everyone is willing to chat with her.
She glanced at Bai Siqi inconspicuously, who had a gloomy face. It was obvious that he was in a bad mood, but she could understand him.
Bai Muning went home. Not only did Bai Siqi not see her for a few days, but the chances for the two of them to meet would be even fewer in the future.
Bai Qingqing didn't care whether he was in a good mood or not. Since Bai San didn't say hello to her, she pretended not to see him. She ran to the restaurant in three steps and jumped, took the warm water that Aunt Qiao handed to her, and poured herself a glass first.
He glanced to the side casually and was startled to see Ao Xinyi turning around with two big walnut eyes.
Bai Shuting, who was not far away from her, looked somewhat helpless.
Ms. Xu handed her two ice spoons and said, "Madam, please apply it."
Ao Xinyi took the ice spoon and felt a little embarrassed when he saw the children had arrived. He sat down on the sofa, slightly turned his body to the side, and while applying pressure to his eyes, he asked the children to take their seats.
Bai Qingqing didn't bother to be polite with her. She sat down directly at her seat and prepared to have breakfast.
By the way, observe Ao Xinyi and make guesses in your mind.
[What's wrong? Have you been crying all night? ]
Ao Xinyi paused as he held the ice spoon. Everyone in the Bai family silently turned their eyes to Ao Xinyi and sat down in their seats in silence.
[Is it because Bai Mu Ning returned home and he was sad? ]
Ao Xinyi pursed his lips when he heard the name Bai Mu Ning.
She finished reading two novels all night last night.
Reflect on yourself while watching.
The daughter in the book was just like her daughter, who was taken away by mistake. After returning to her parents, she was ignored everywhere. She cried because of her inferior background and various misunderstandings created by the plot. She really wanted to rush into the book and beat someone up!
Fortunately, the daughters in the two books, one was reborn and the other awakened, and both changed their own destinies.
She was still immersed in the emotions in the book and had not yet fully recovered.
Now when she suddenly heard the three words "Bai Mu Ning", she felt a little heart-attacked.
Ao Xinyi couldn't close his eyes anymore. He threw the ice spoon onto the coffee table, turned around and ran back to his daughter. He met his daughter's inquiring gaze with his big walnut eyes.
She pretended that she hadn't heard anything and that nothing had happened. She opened the porridge jar and personally served her daughter a bowl of glutinous and thick porridge. She smiled and said, "Qingqing, how did you sleep last night?"
"I asked you to come out for a midnight snack so late. Later I thought about it and regretted it. I should have asked your dad to cook less. Eating too much makes your stomach uncomfortable when you sleep."
Bai Siqi raised her head as Ao Xinyi chattered and cared: "Did you get up for supper last night?"
"Well, your dad and I made a bowl of longevity noodles for Qingqing before twelve o'clock." Ao Xinyi nodded with a smile and gently placed the prepared porridge in front of Bai Qingqing.
She took the bowl of porridge that Bai Shuting had served her, moved it in front of her, and replied to her son, "We originally planned to eat at nine o'clock, but it was our first time pulling noodles and we had no experience, so we kept delaying it. In the end, it was half past eleven before we went up to call your sister down."
Bai Siqi thought of Bai Muning, who had just returned to the Jiang family alone. He didn't know how he was feeling, whether he was used to it, or whether he had eaten longevity noodles.
He called her last night, wanting to wish her a happy birthday alone. He called several times, but Mu Ning didn't answer, and he didn't get a call back from her later.
After Ao Xinyi finished talking to him, he continued to ask about his daughter's situation.
Bai Qingqing replied, "I told you last night that I'm not uncomfortable. I normally eat that much for a midnight snack, so I can digest it."
The two of them were talking quietly. Bai Siqi was watching from the side and couldn't help asking Ao Xinyi, "Did you call Ningning last night?"
Bai Qingqing: “…”
After he said this, everyone at the table fell silent.
Ao Xinyi, Bai Shuting, and Bai Yancheng turned to look at him. Ao Xinyi still had the smile on his face when he was talking to Bai Qingqing. He answered his third son, "No."
Bai Siqi felt a little sad.
It was Mu Ning’s first day back home, and it was also her birthday...and her parents didn’t even call her.
At least you should ask her if she is adapting to the new home?
Bai Siqi's seemingly gentle face showed a change of mood, and several people could see that he was a little unhappy.
Ao Xinyi saw what Bai Siqi was thinking, and when he thought about the novel he had read all night last night, he felt a surge of anger in his heart.
The third brother’s attitude is exactly the same as those biased brothers in novels!
I was already annoyed by having too many sons.
She was about to speak when there was a sudden "ding" sound from the elevator in the distance. The fourth child, who had just returned home and was suffering from jet lag, and the fifth child, who stayed in bed and couldn't get up for breakfast every day, arrived late.
She spoke a step slower, and then she heard the third brother say in a gentle voice: "After all, Ningning is going home for the first day, and I don't know if she is adapting well. Why don't we give her a call today?"
Ao Xinyi clenched his fists.
Bai Qingqing glanced at him.
Bai Si and Bai Wu approached and saw that they were talking. The atmosphere was a little tense. Bai Songxu scratched his messy hair and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Bai Heyun also pulled out a chair and sat down. He opened his sleepy eyes and blinked at Bai Qingqing: "Good morning, sister."
Bai Qingqing glanced at Bai Si's wink, then withdrew her gaze indifferently and reached out to swipe her phone: "Well, good morning."
She immediately raised her head and held up the phone she had just swiped. When her eyes scanned Bai Siqi, she paused for a moment and said, "Your Mu Ning has changed his name to Jiang Mu Ning. This morning's hot topic. I heard that there will be a news interview with Jiang Jin at 10 a.m. today. The comment section is quite lively."
Ao Xinyi pressed her hand down: "Don't look at it, Qingqing, eat first. Even though it's summer, you still have to drink the porridge hot."
Bai Qingqing nodded, picked up the soup spoon with one hand, and said to Bai Siqi with a hint of meaning, "They are returning to their own home, what's there to worry about?"
Bai Songxu listened for a long time and finally realized that everyone was talking about Mu Ning.
He found Bai Qingqing's words harsh, but when he thought about how Mu Ning had changed his last name to Jiang, his heart ached. He didn't bother to talk to her and picked up his phone to check the trending searches first.
Sure enough, the first one was #Jiang Muning#.
Bai Siqi was silenced by Bai Qingqing's retort. He didn't care about anything else and just looked at the trending searches first.
A photo of Bai Muning, Jiang Jin and Nie Wanqing's family of three was placed on it.
The eyebrows and temperament are exactly the same...
Now, it's time to call him Jiang Muning.
Bai Qingqing was right, she was going back to her own home, wasn't that what he wanted?
I can't cross the red line, and I don't want to be on the same household registration book with her or hear her call me brother.
Bai Siqi endured it and said nothing.
Uncle Yan hurried over from outside, with a beaming smile on his face, and said to the people around the table: "Sir, Madam, Miss Mu Ning is back with her gifts."
Bai Siqi stood up suddenly: "She's back?"
"Ningning is back home?" Bai Songxu said with shining eyes.
Ao Xinyi frowned and looked at the third brother, thinking that his reaction was a bit strange.
A subtle feeling briefly passed through her heart, and she quickly turned her gaze to Uncle Yan and asked, "You're back? Where have you been? Why are you back at this time?"
Qingqing just said that Jiang Jin and his wife will have an interview at 10 a.m., most likely about this matter, and Mu Ning should be present.
Besides, it was only the next morning, there was no way the Jiang family would let us go.
Bai Lincheng and Bai Heyun sat quietly in their seats, without moving, obviously not thinking that the person had really come back.
Uncle Yan waved his hand and said, "It's not that Miss Mu Ning is back, it's that Miss Mu Ning sent gifts to everyone, and they were just brought into our yard. I came here to ask, where are these gifts going to be sent?"
Uncle Yan said this, looking towards the living room.
Now that everyone is here, it will definitely be lively opening gifts together in the living room. It just depends on how the husband and wife arrange it.
If it is not demolished now, it will be sent to the rooms of the young masters and young ladies.
"Just put it in the living room, Lao Yan." Ao Xinyi said.
"Okay, I'll go down and arrange it." Uncle Yan smiled, turned around and left.
Ao Xinyi asked the children to sit down, calm down, and finish their breakfast first. He said, "Mu Ning just went back home with the Jiang couple yesterday at noon. They must have a lot to say. If I call them, wouldn't it be too rude to disturb their family reunion?"
Ao Xinyi said this while looking at Bai Siqi somewhat unhappily, answering his previous question.
"Since Ningning has returned with a gift today, let's call her back together later when she's free."
There was a hint of coldness in Ao Xinyi's expression.
[She didn’t call either?]
Bai Qingqing crossed her legs, drank her porridge, and looked at Ao Xinyi's expression. She felt that the current situation was different from what was described in the original text.
Ao Xinyi seems to have changed a lot in the past few days.
[I thought everyone would call Bai Mu Ning privately to wish her a happy birthday. ]
[Especially these good brothers, I should have caught them calling Bai Mu Ning. ]
[Now... is this part also off track...]
Bai Qingqing thought about it, and recalled the time last night when this scene was supposed to happen. She was being dragged by Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting to eat longevity noodles.
The strange thing is that Tiandao didn't come out to control her plot last night.
She tapped the edge of the bowl with her fingertips, and suddenly heard a subdued noise coming from the door. Seven or eight security guards from the Bai family, dressed in black suits and wearing white gloves, lined up and carried piles of gifts into the living room.
It was done quietly and peacefully in one trip.
Bai Songxu didn't want to eat breakfast at all, but the family rules said so. After taking a few bites, he chuckled, slid down the table impatiently, and ran to the living room: "Uncle Yan, which ones are mine?"
Uncle Yan pointed to two gifts from the pile and said with a smile, "Young Master, it's more fun to look through the gifts yourself."
Bai Songxu couldn't wait any longer, he threw himself onto the sofa, held the gift box in front of him, and violently unpacked it with both hands, tearing off the outer shell in a few seconds to see the gift inside.
Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting looked helpless.
Bai Siqi's mind had already flown to the gift. He looked a little absent-minded, and his slow movements became much faster while he watched the progress of the other people at the table.
My mother doesn't eat much to begin with, so this is almost enough for her.
Father just added his second bowl of porridge.
The brothers are all nearing the end.
Only Bai Qingqing was swinging her feet slowly, and it looked like she could eat for a long time.
Bai Siqi waited for a while, and saw that Ao Xinyi didn't move at all. Seeing Bai Siqi so anxious, Bai Qingqing raised her hand holding the bowl of porridge and smiled: "I'll eat slowly, you guys go and watch first, I'm also very curious."
Bai Songxu, who was not far away, was already cheering in surprise, calling for everyone to come and see.
Seeing his younger son making so much noise, Ao Xinyi patiently didn't give him a cold look and smiled at his daughter, "Don't worry, I'll eat for a while too. When eating, you have to chew slowly and thoroughly."
Bai Qingqing finally discovered it.
Ao Xinyi didn't know what had possessed him, and now all his attention was on her.
As for Bai Shuting, he and her were just tied together as pendants. Ao Xinyi revolved around her, and Bai Shuting also revolved around her.
Bai Qingqing didn't like being stared at, so she waved her hand again: "You guys go ahead. I know you're done eating. You don't have to wait for me. It's more comfortable for me to eat here while watching you guys unpack your food."
Seeing her sincere expression, Ao Xinyi had no choice but to stand up and pull her husband over.
Bai Siqi stood up before them and couldn't wait to walk ahead.
The other two brothers also stood up from the table one after another.
Ao Xinyi followed behind the third brother, and seeing his steps were much faster than usual, the strange feeling in his heart rose again.
This time she did not let it go. She kept it in her heart and sat quietly on the sofa in the living room. Together with her husband and children, she searched for the card with her name on it from a pile of gifts.
Bai Qingqing held her bowl in her hands, rested one hand on the high back of the chair, turned slightly, and looked at the lively family in front of her.
Bai Siqi opened his gift.
Compared to the heavy gifts of others, his gift was just a few pieces of light paper and a set of carving knives.
There was a card written on it in the set of engraving knives. After he looked at it for a few seconds, he carefully placed it beside him.
However, the few sheets of paper in another package softened his brows and raised the corners of his lips slightly under the warm light of the day.
Jiang Muning...
What kind of extraordinary gift is this?
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