Chapter 182 (1822nd update)
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Zhang Ning was taken aback, looked at Ye Qingxi who had suddenly appeared, sniffed, and asked in confusion, "Who are you?"
"My name is Ye Qingxi, and I came here with my dad to record a program."
Zhang Ning nodded. "My name is Zhang Ning."
"Get up first," Ye Qingxi said, helping him up.
Zhang Ning then slowly stood up.
As he stood up, he realized he was taller than Ye Qingxi and asked, "How old are you?"
“I’ll be six next month,” Ye Qingxi said.
“Then I’m older than you!” Zhang Ning said happily. “I’m already six and a half years old!”
"Wow~" Ye Qingxi exclaimed enthusiastically, "Then yours is indeed quite big~"
Looking into his bright eyes, Zhang Ning felt as if she could see admiration in them, and instantly felt proud.
He stopped making a fuss about going back and, with the self-awareness of a grown-up, said, "Are you hungry? I packed some food in my suitcase."
"No need, I have some in my bag too," Ye Qingxi said.
"It's alright, it's on me."
As Zhang Ning spoke, she opened her suitcase and stuffed a bag of potato chips, two bags of biscuits, and three bags of spicy strips into Ye Qingxi's arms.
Ye Qingxi: ...
"Go ahead and eat," Zhang Ning said warmly. "These are all delicious; we can eat together."
Ye Qingxi: ...
Before Ye Qingxi could speak, she heard a voice behind her, "What to eat? What to eat? I'm starving!"
Ye Qingxi turned around and saw a chubby boy with a watermelon-shaped haircut running towards him.
The little fat boy's eyes lit up when he saw the snacks in his arms.
"Are all of these yours? Can I have a bite?"
"No way!" the man who had been chasing after him shouted. "Look how fat you are! You're here to lose weight, not to indulge in meat!"
However, the chubby boy pretended not to hear, looking at Ye Qingxi expectantly and fawningly saying, "Please~ handsome brother~"
Ye Qingxi: ...Handsome? Handsome brother?!
“But this isn’t mine, it’s this brother’s.” He turned to look at Zhang Ning.
Zhang Ning generously replied, "Sure, let's eat together."
"Yay!" the chubby boy exclaimed happily.
However, no sooner had he finished saying "Yay!" than his father grabbed his ear and said, "Tao Tao, didn't you hear me?!"
"Let go, let go, your ear is going to fall off!" Tao Tao shouted hurriedly.
Tao Rui let go of his hand, and Tao Tao said angrily, "You won't give me any food, and you won't even let me find food for myself. You're so domineering!"
Tao Rui was amused by him. "You find food for yourself, and when you find food you're begging me, you call me 'handsome brother'? Why don't you call me handsome dad instead!"
Tao Tao exclaimed "Eh!" with obvious disgust, "You should have some self-awareness, you ugly dad."
Tao Rui: !!!
Tao Rui was so angry that he wanted to hit him.
Tao Tao quickly hid behind Ye Qingxi.
Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?
Tao Rui: ? ? ?
Tao Rui: ...
"Look how thin she is! Do you think you can hide behind her?!"
Tao Tao poked his head out and made a face at his ugly dad.
Tao Rui: ...
"You come here right now!"
Tao Tao: "No way."
He looked at Ye Qingxi and said, "Handsome brother, let's have some snacks. That brother just said we can eat together~"
Zhang Ning: ...That brother?
Zhang Ning reminded him, "You can call me handsome."
Tao Tao: "Your name is Shuai?"
"My name is Zhang Ning."
"Then he should be called Brother Ning, not Handsome Guy."
Zhang Ning: !!!
"Of course it's because I'm handsome!"
Tao Tao: ? ? ?
Tao Tao: ...
Tao Tao looked at Ye Qingxi, "Handsome brother, which snack would you like to eat first? Can I have the spicy strips first?"
Ye Qingxi: ...
Ye Qingxi turned to look at the handsome man.
"What do you think, handsome?"
Zhang Ning was satisfied. He crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly at a 35-degree angle, and said arrogantly, "Either way is fine. You can choose whichever you want to eat first."
"Then let's eat spicy strips first," Ye Qingxi said nonchalantly.
Tao Tao was overjoyed, "Thank you, handsome brother! You're so kind, handsome guy!"
Zhang Ning smiled, then put his hands in his pockets, still looking incredibly cool.
Zhang Ye looked at him and reminded him, "Who just said they were leaving? Was it you, Zhang Shuai? If you don't leave now, you'll miss your flight!"
Zhang Ning: !!!
Zhang Ning's cool demeanor vanished instantly, replaced by annoyance as he snapped, "Shut up!"
"Oh, is the handsome guy getting angry?"
Zhang Ning: !!!
Enraged, Zhang Ning lunged at him!
Tao Tao, who was standing to the side, immediately pulled Ye Qingxi back, afraid that Zhang Ning would knock the snacks in Ye Qingxi's arms away.
Ye Qingxi: ...I have a feeling that the kids who came to record this variety show with him are all quite lively.
After arguing with her father for a while, Zhang Ning came back, unpacked the spicy strips, and prepared to eat them with Ye Qingxi and Tao Tao.
Tao Tao's father forbade it, saying, "You're not allowed to eat it!"
“This is something I earned through my own efforts! I’ll eat it!” Tao Tao shouted.
Without saying a word, Tao Rui tried to grab his son, and Tao Tao quickly ran forward.
This run resulted in him bumping into He Lei, who had just entered the courtyard.
He Lei exclaimed "Ah!" and stepped back.
Tao Tao quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
He Lei shook her head, somewhat awkwardly holding the hand of the filming director.
Her filming director introduced her, "This is He Lei, you can call her Lei Lei, she is the baby of intern dad He Yao."
Ye Qingxi immediately stopped eating the spicy snack and turned to look at He Lei.
He Lei was clearly a little younger than him, with her hair in pigtails, and she looked very well-behaved.
Seeing everyone looking over, He Lei greeted them politely, "Hello, uncles and brothers."
"Hello," Mu Shaowu and the other parents greeted.
Tao Tao, who was closest to her, also said, "Hello, my name is Tao Tao, and I am five years old."
“I’m four and a half years old,” He Lei said.
"Then you're very young." Tao Tao blinked. "You're the little sister, the cute little sister~"
He Lei smiled, looking a little embarrassed.
Looking at her, Ye Qingxi suddenly understood why He Yao in the book was able to become famous because of this show.
He Lei looks like the kind of child that adults would really like.
She looks sweet and has a gentle temperament. She probably cooperated with He Yao throughout the recording process, which made He Yao seem gentle, patient and good at taking care of children. Plus, they both have the same surname, He, which gives people a sense of a father and daughter destined by fate.
She was practically the perfect assistant to He Yao.
As expected of the main character, even the intern baby can meet such a suitable baby.
As Ye Qingxi was reminiscing, she heard a new voice from outside the door, "Have we arrived yet? Why aren't we here?"
“This is it,” an adult replied.
"Finally here, honestly, I'm exhausted."
As soon as she finished speaking, a child wearing a black short-sleeved shirt walked in. He was a boy about the same age as Ye Qingxi.
He was very handsome and had a refined, scholarly air about him. Tao Tao was about to greet him when he heard him say, "Where's my dad?"
"Your intern dad is stuck in traffic, so you'll have to wait a bit longer," the filming director explained to him.
Huo Zinan snorted, somewhat disgruntled, "Why is he so slow! He's the father, and he's making me wait!"
The filming director could only coax, "He can't do anything about it. He'll be there soon. You can play with the other kids first."
Upon hearing this, Huo Zinan looked around and finally fixed his gaze on Ye Qingxi.
Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?
What are you doing?
However, Huo Zinan didn't say anything. He turned around and took the initiative to find Zhang Ning.
"What's your name?" Huo Zinan asked obediently.
"Zhang Ning."
"My name is Huo Zinan, and I am five and a half years old."
“Then you’re about the same age as Ye Qingxi,” Zhang Ning said.
"Ye Qingxi?"
“That’s him.” Zhang Ning pointed him out. “Ye Qingxi is a little over five years old now, and he will be six next month.”
Upon hearing this, Ye Qingxi smiled at him.
Huo Zinan smiled and continued talking to Zhang Ning, "I also have an older brother at home, about the same age as you."
"Yeah?"
Huo Zinan nodded, "My brother's favorite thing is Transformers."
"Me too!" Zhang Ning exclaimed in surprise.
The two quickly began discussing Transformers.
Seeing that Zhang Ning didn't want to eat snacks anymore, Ye Qingxi returned the snacks in her arms to Zhang Ning's father.
Zhang Ning caught a glimpse of his actions out of the corner of her eye and quickly came over. "Why are you giving it to him? You eat it, let's eat together."
Tao Tao: "Yes, yes, yes!"
Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?
No, where did you come from?!
"Tao Tao, you're not allowed to eat this." Tao Rui was speechless.
Tao Tao turned a deaf ear.
Huo Zinan: ...
Huo Zinan reached out to Zhang Ning, "I brought a Transformer, do you want to play with it?"
Zhang Ning: !!!
Zhang Ning nodded quickly.
Tao Tao looked at him and asked, "Are you still going to eat snacks?"
Zhang Ning: "Eat! Let's go play after we finish eating!"
Huo Zinan: ...
“I don’t eat snacks,” he said. “I’m going to play Transformers now, but I won’t play them for a while.”
Tao Tao raised his hand, "Bye-bye~"
Huo Zinan: !!!
Huo Zinan looked at Zhang Ning.
Zhang Ning: ? ? ?
Zhang Ning thought for a moment, assuming he wanted her to say goodbye too, "Then...bye-bye?"
Huo Zinan: ? ? ?
Huo Zinan: ...
Huo Zinan turned and walked away in anger, but only after he had gone a distance did he turn back and glance in the direction he had come from.
Ye Qingxi was standing in the middle with potato chips in her hand, Zhang Ning was chattering away to her, and Tao Tao was eating them non-stop.
Huo Zinan clenched his fist, somewhat unwilling.
He thought he would be the best-looking child on TV, but he was surprised to find that there was a child who was even better looking and had a nicer name than him.
He seems to be more popular now than her!
How annoying!
He Lei looked at Ye Qingxi and the others standing together not far away, eating snacks and talking. She wanted to talk to them, but was too shy to go over.
Her filming director whispered, "Why don't you go play with the brothers?"
He Lei clutched the hem of her skirt with her small hands, remaining motionless.
Ye Qingxi noticed that the little girl was standing with her head down in a corner of the yard. After thinking for a moment, she walked over to her.
He Lei is innocent; she is only four and a half years old and is not He Yao's biological daughter. Therefore, Ye Qingxi did not want to extend her dislike for He Yao to He Lei.
"Do you want some candy?" Ye Qingxi asked her.
In his hand was a fruit gummy candy.
This was bought for him by Mu Shaowu before he came.
Ye Qingxi had a handful in her pocket, and just then she took it out.
He was handsome and always smiling, which immediately made He Lei feel close to him.
"Thank you, brother," He Lei said softly.
After she finished speaking, she took the candy from Ye Qingxi's hand.
Ye Qingxi shook her head, took out another candy, and ate it.
He Lei then started eating as well.
"My name is Ye Qingxi," Ye Qingxi introduced herself. "That's my father."
He Lei followed his gaze and exclaimed in amazement, "You and your father are both so good-looking!"
Ye Qingxi smiled and said, "You look good too~"
He Lei was a little shy, and thanked him again, saying, "Thank you, brother~"
Ye Qingxi looked at her and thought she was indeed quite well-behaved.
What a pity, it turned out to be He Yao's intern baby.
"Is this the place? I haven't come to the wrong place, have I?"
"I think so."
Ye Qingxi looked up at the sound and saw two people pulling suitcases as they walked in from outside.
One of them looked somewhat familiar to him.
Ye Qingxi was certain she had never seen him before, yet his features seemed vaguely familiar.
This situation—
"You must be Leilei? Leilei, hello, I'm your temporary dad, He Yao." The other person's tone was gentle.
Ye Qingxi laughed.
Sure enough, he said that the only person who could make him feel a sense of familiarity despite never having met him before was He Guang and He Han's older brother, He Yao, the main target of his visit.
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