Chapter 40

Gu Tunan walked into the master bedroom and looked at Mrs. Gu's thin figure sitting in front of the dressing table. A flash of reminiscence flashed across his gray-blue eyes. How long has it been since he came here? It seemed that he had been living in the school since he entered the military academy in junior high school and rarely went home.

He was the only one in his family who went to military school. His elder and second brothers were devoted to academics, so they could go home often because of their older brothers' school.

Although Gu Tuanan spent less and less time with Mrs. Gu after going to school, he always respected his stepfather in his heart.

His self-control, perseverance, time management skills, and many other qualities that have helped him a lot were cultivated by Mrs. Gu in his childhood.

Gu Tunan still remembers that when his father was helping him with his homework as a child, he never entertained himself in front of him, but instead worked with him at the desk with a notebook in hand.

His stepfather is the first person to get up in the family. He prepares different breakfasts for each family member, matches clothes for his husband and children, helps the children with their homework, practices yoga to stay in shape, uses exercise instead of skin care, does not wear makeup or pay attention to dressing up, does not spend money lavishly, and is busy for his family every day, devoting his whole heart to this family.

Gentle and virtuous, independent and self-reliant, thrifty and housekeeping, filial to elders, good parenting...all these beautiful words can be used to describe his stepfather. Gu Tunan has always wanted to find a wife like his stepfather, so that his wife can be filial to his stepfather, so that his stepfather won't have to work so hard.

"Come here, after watching the video, do you know how to use skin wax?" Mrs. Gu took out the materials. His expression had calmed down now, and he looked up at Gu Tuanan with a little fatigue.

"Yes." said Gu Tunan.

He picked up the bottles and jars on the table and looked at them, then tore open a pack of alcohol pads. When he was about to wipe the back of Mrs. Gu's neck, he suddenly saw a white hair.

Gu Tunan paused.

"You've always been a fast learner. You can learn after watching a few times." Mrs. Gu was silent for a while, then said softly, "But why did you only learn the most superficial skills after watching that video?"

"Nannan, I taught you to reflect on your problems. During this time, I have been reflecting on why I taught you to be like this."

"At first I just thought you were inconsiderate to Tangtang, so I was wondering if I had done everything for you since you were little, taking care of your food, clothing, housing and transportation, and never letting you interfere, and never teaching you how to give."

Gu Tunan held the skin wax in his hand without saying anything.

"I always paid attention to your studies, cultivated your independence and courage, and taught you to be confident and focused, but I found that I was wrong."

"I never taught you how to love or respect an omega. This should be taught by the people closest to you. For you, what you saw was the relationship between your father and I. I was his good wife and I gave him everything. He only needed to stay away from cheating and come home occasionally to check on his children's homework. He would be a good alpha."

"But the truth is...I don't love him."

"Before I married into the Gu family, I was also a free and unrestrained person. I also liked dressing up. I used to be an omega like Tangtang."

"Just because the Gu family needed a perfect Mrs. Gu, from then on, no one knew my name was Li Songyun."

Li Songyun covered his eyes, tears dripping down his palms. He said, "I like Tangtang so much, how can you bully him like your father?"

Tang Bai was helping his mother adjust the position of the lighting, while his father stood by and said, "Your mother is so beautiful, she doesn't need any lighting."

"You still don't understand even if I tell you." Tang's mother said in disgust, "Have you learned how to imitate glandular makeup?"

Tang's father, who had studied the makeup videos carefully, said confidently, "I have learned it. I am definitely the alpha with the best skills in this series."

"Don't be so confident~" Mother Tang picked up the mirror to look at her own face, then looked at Father Tang's handsome face, and said with a smile: "I don't know if her makeup skills are good, but she is definitely the most handsome one. Come here, let me hold you."

Tang Bai: “?”

Tang Bai looked at his father sitting happily on the sofa and putting his big hands around his mother. Before the video started, the two of them were snuggling together happily.

It seemed that no lighting was needed. Tang Bai felt that he was quite bright now. He glanced at Snowball squatting at his feet and stroked the dog lonelyly.

I don’t know if Tang’s father is the most handsome alpha in this series, but he has indeed put a lot of effort into his makeup imitation skills and there were no mistakes during the recording.

Tang Bai was standing next to her parents with a camera in her hand, when she suddenly heard her mother say, "I feel so happy now. My husband is putting on makeup for me, and my children are recording videos for me."

Mother Tang raised her face and gave the camera a gentle smile. Her features were picturesque and her smile had a kind of stunning charm that could never be defeated by the passage of time.

"In fact, before watching Tangtang's glandular makeup video, what I thought about most every day was what kind of cookie baking method would be the most delicious, when my husband would be able to stop working and come home to spend time with me, and how to compete with my little baby Tangtang to get him to go on a blind date."

Tang Bai recalled the time when his mother pretended to be sick and tricked him into going home for a blind date. Thinking back on it now, he still felt angry and amused.

"I used to hope that my little baby Tangtang could marry into a good family and be as happy as me, but this time Tangtang's video made me realize that there are still many unfortunate people in this world. I hope he can be happy, and he hopes that more people can be happy."

"It's embarrassing to say that as a mother, I was taught a lesson by my child. Parents, if your children also took this relay video, please don't get angry. They didn't take this video to follow the trend, expose themselves, or rebel. They are loving the world in their own way."

Tang's mother looked at Tang Bai who was holding the camera and smiled proudly: "He is your pride."

Looking at the stunned Tang Bai, Tang's mother's eyes were sore. She knew that her Tangtang was under a lot of pressure this time, so much so that she had to have her glands removed. Her baby Tangtang was like a misunderstood revolutionary in history!

As a family member, she can't hold Tangtang back! Not only does she have to shoot the relay video herself, she also has to get all her friends involved! Let's cheer for Tangtang together!

Holding back tears, Tang's mother turned on her laptop and asked Mrs. Gu, "Have you arranged the makeup video?"

"Have you arranged it?" Director Huang said to the teacher at the computer: "Tang Bai's makeup tutorial this time is very good. You can add Tang Bai's tutorial to your makeup classes so that students can learn from the outstanding students of our etiquette college."

"Yes, yellow tea makeup is arranged, glandular scar simulation makeup is also arranged, everything is arranged!"

After hanging up the call, the middle-aged male omega sighed as he looked at the makeup video that had over 100 million views. He used to talk about Tang Bai, the top student, every day because the alphas Tang Bai found were all high-quality alphas.

But this time, he was not proud of anything else but Tang Bai himself.

More and more relay videos were uploaded to various social platforms. In a very short period of time, the wives of dignitaries from all walks of life appeared with their husbands. For a time, it was very popular and wreaked havoc in the military, political, business, scientific and academic circles...

In just one day, even students from the etiquette academy began recording gland scar videos.

Some curious people analyzed the popularity of the gland scar video and found that the popularity of this video is inseparable from three points. The first is that the participants in the video at the beginning were either rich or noble. In simple terms, they are high-class and have their own traffic.

New internet celebrity Tang Bai made a good start as the first mover. Tang Bai was born in the Tang family, and Tang's mother mobilized almost half of the celebrity circle to support her son.

The other half of the socialite circle had little communication with Tang's mother, but under Bai Zhi's leadership, they took over the relay.

These omegas themselves may not be famous, but their husbands are big names in various industries. When a group of big men come together, the crowd of spectators will also click on the video out of curiosity.

The second is the Star Network release and the subject matter itself. The threshold for network release is low and the spread is strong. Topics such as omega glands and gland scars can attract the audience's attention. Some netizens who want to follow the trend don't even need to prepare a complete set of materials. Simply drawing a scar on the neck with a red pen is considered a successful relay.

Third, the meaning behind this video. This is not a meaningless video. It calls on people to pay attention to the protection of the rights of the lower-level omegas. Because of this video, there have been spontaneous fundraising activities on the Internet. Relaying this video can not only entertain but also do charity. Is there anything better than this?

After closing the gossip analysis post, Bai Zhi, who was guiding public opinion, sat in the parliament building and took a sip of the steaming hot black tea.

On his desk was a proposal that he had just made, titled "Rectifying Red Light Districts."

The green eyes were a little dazed in the mist. Bai Zhi remembered that when he saw Tang Bai's video, he had the urge to go to the slums and communicate with Mr. Ling.

"Mr. Bai, you are a good councillor who fights for the rights of omegas, but you are too far away from our lives, your proposals are too idealistic, and you may not understand what the red light district means to people like us."

"I voluntarily entered the red light district to work because my father was ill at the time and my family needed the money. Many omegas also had to enter the red light district to make a living. Being kidnapped or sold into the red light district as you said is a minority. The red light district affects the interests of too many people. It is a gray industry. Instead of removing the red light district, it is better for the government to give us other career options."

"In fact, I hope the government can pay more attention to the resettlement of omegas who have left the red-light district."

"Those omegas in their 50s and 60s are in worse shape than their peers because their glands were removed. They are infertile, unable to work, and have a lot of sexually transmitted diseases. They are abandoned by the red-light district and have no choice but to live on the streets. It won't be long before they die quietly, and no one will even collect their bodies."

"If the government could build a nursing home specifically to accommodate these people, I think this would be the biggest improvement to our lives at this stage."

Bai Zhi blew gently on the teacup and looked at the black tea in the cup. For no reason, Tang Bai's words during the live broadcast, "Black tea pretends to be an intellectual sister" emerged in his mind.

In fact, before Tang Baifa's makeup video, he had not expected the response to be so good. Maybe some people are born with audience appeal -

Full of vitality, kind and warm, lovely sunshine.

She is also an aristocratic omega, but she has the warmth that he lacks.

Bai Zhi put down his teacup, threw away the proposal on the table, and began to write a new proposal under the light.

He wrote very seriously.

Tang Bai discovered that his author ID had been @ed by a reader, and the @ed message was a report on the preliminary results of the Mecha Manufacturing Competition!

For a moment, Tang Bai thought his vest had fallen off, but when he clicked on it, he found that readers were happily sharing with him the joy of "novel shining into reality":

Look! Your fans registered for the competition under the name "君同页" and even made it to the semi-finals! It's really impressive!!!

Tang Bai, who was giving himself a good impression: "......"

The results of the preliminary round of the Mecha Manufacturing Competition were announced directly on the official website. It was also through this reader's reminder that Tang Bai remembered that he had been too busy recently and almost forgot about this competition.

He clicked on the official website and saw a list ranked according to the preliminary round results. The pink rabbit mecha stepped on a group of mecha heads, and Ke Ke Ai Ai won the first place in the preliminary round.

There are a total of ten judges in the preliminary round, from the Ministry of Military Affairs, Parliament, Ministry of Finance, Federal Military Academy, Weapons Research Institute, and five relatively famous mecha manufacturers, with a configuration of three military and political fathers and seven professionals.

The preliminary results are based on the scores of ten judges. The mecha simulator will give each contestant's work an intelligent score and provide a reference for netizens.

Tang Bai's design drawings received the highest score of the whole event. Seven professional mecha manufacturers gave it scores of eight or nine points. Their comments focused more on the innovation and overall strength of the mecha. They said a lot from a professional perspective, but netizens couldn't understand them. They preferred to read the comments of the other three judges.

Look, the three military and political fathers have different focuses.

The Minister of Finance gave Tang Bai a score of seven because the materials he chose were expensive and included a lot of fancy but impractical materials. The judge thought the mecha had a low cost-effectiveness.

A judge from the military believed that Tang Bai's design did not have much practical value in the war and gave Tang Bai a score of seven.

However, the scoring records have historical records. Netizens found that in the first version of the scoring, this judge only gave Tang Bai six points, and noted that the pink color and rabbit shape easily attracted the enemy's attention and were useless designs.

Then the military judge received a comment from the parliamentary judge Bai Zhi: "This contestant used the latest memory metal, which can change the appearance of the mecha. The contestant also prepared cat, dog and other mecha appearances for the mecha as well as normal mecha appearances."

So the military judges quietly changed the scores.

Netizens who were eating melons: “!!!”

The netizens found that Bai Zhi gave "Jun Tongchen" a full score of 10 points, and in the comment he also emphasized the height of "Jun Tongchen's" thinking, believing that this mecha that can be operated by omegas has broken the traditional AO stereotypes and so on.

The 10 points Bai Zhi gave to "Jun Tongchen" was the only 10 points in the whole audience, which can be said to be an undisguised preference.

With Bai Zhi's ten points, "Jun Tongchen" topped the list with one more point advantage over the second place "Cheng Yangbin".

For a time, many people on the Internet raised questions. In addition to the comments attacking the appearance of the mecha, the biggest questioning voice was marketing and backdoor.

One netizen said:

Glandular scar imitation makeup has been very popular recently. In Tang Bai's first video, Tang Bai mentioned "Jun Tongchen". As the video has been viewed over 100 million times, Jun Tongchen and the novel "This Omega is a Master of Mecha Manufacturing" have gained amazing popularity.

Councillor Bai Zhi has always been an O-rightist. Not only did he participate in the makeup video relay, he also forwarded and liked the Star Network message from the original author of "This Omega is a Master of Mecha Manufacturing".

Can we assume that the judge Bai Zhi gave a 10 not because of the mecha itself, but because of the contestant's ID name "Jun Tongchen"?

Such ridiculous scoring appeared in a formal, well-known, authoritative and fair mecha manufacturing competition. This is unfair to other players who participated in the competition seriously, and it is an insult to the IQ of us spectators!

This Star Network message received countless likes, and many replies were complaining below:

"I can't stand watching that glandular makeup video any longer. Can you please stop marketing it? I go online to have fun, not to understand the suffering of the world."

"This Omega is a Master of Mecha Manufacturing is promoting AO opposition, it is a banned book, can the website be blocked?"

"I'm speechless. People talk about how hard it is for omegas in the slums. We alphas also have a hard time. Why doesn't anyone sympathize with us and donate money to us?"

......

Soon, a hot search #机甲制造大赛黑幕# landed on the Interstellar Entertainment Gossip List. In response, the official judges clarified that the judges conducted a formal evaluation of the mecha of contestant "Jun Tongchen", and the evaluation results were fair and impartial, and there was no shady deal. However, most of the replies under this message were disbelief.

In desperation, the official had to find Tang Bai’s small account and ask Tang Bai if he was willing to make the evaluation process public.

The official staff's attitude was very humble, because if the detailed evaluation of the contestants' mechas were leaked in advance, it would be disadvantageous to the finals. If "Jun Tongchen" was unwilling to cooperate, they could not force him.

After a while, they received a reply from "Jun Tongchen": "Okay, but I need to designate the evaluators."

Official staff: "Which evaluator do you recommend?"

"Xie Ruheng."

I don't know what to say, so I'll ask for some nutritional solution (shy