Zhou Tian carefully examined Niannian’s eyes.
Niannian’s gaze seemed able to speak. It was incredibly lively and expressive.
It really did give her a strange sense of familiarity, as though she had seen eyes like those somewhere before.
But after thinking through every acquaintance she knew who had children, none of them matched Niannian.
Zhou Tian shook her head.
“Maybe beautiful people all resemble each other a little.”
Especially in the entertainment industry these days. Many newly debuted trainees all had similar-looking faces.
At a glance, it was often hard to tell who was who.
Zhou Tian did not think further about it. With the police cooperating, she signed a contract for Niannian.
Meanwhile, the police temporarily assumed supervisory guardianship over Niannian.
After the contract was finalized, Wen Chengxi asked, “Then let me take care of Niannian. I’ll be Niannian’s intern dad.”
Niannian looked confused.
“Uncle… is Daddy?”
Wen Chengxi smiled and explained, “It’s like this, Niannian. After you leave the hospital, we’ll be teammates. Do you know what teammates are? I’ll pretend to be your daddy, and you’ll pretend to be my daughter. Since Uncle isn’t married yet and doesn’t have a baby, I want to practice being an intern dad first. Then when I have my own baby in the future, I’ll understand better how to take care of one.”
Niannian instantly understood.
So Uncle wanted to become better at taking care of his future baby, and so… um… he needed to practice with her first…
Just like the older brother next door who practiced basketball every single day!
“Is Niannian willing?”
Niannian nodded hard.
“Niannian is willing!”
During the period Niannian stayed in the hospital, Happy Parent-Child Travel completely exploded across the internet.
On the first day of the show’s broadcast, Niannian’s sudden appearance as a suspected trafficked child had already caused a massive uproar.
But after the director shouted, “Call the police, now!” there had been no further updates.
As viewers waited longer and longer without news, more and more people began suspecting it was scripted by the production team.
Over the past few days, the program continued filming as usual.
The celebrity families’ chaotic parent-child relationships generated plenty of funny moments and hot topics too.
Yet viewers still flooded the livestreams every single day with comments—
[What happened to that Niannian? There’s still no follow-up?!]
[Hah! I already said it was scripted. And you people actually believed it? How could something so coincidental happen? The moment the show starts, a trafficked child just conveniently appears.]
[Trash production team! Is it fun tricking people?! Using something like this as a joke!]
[You people are so annoying! Are you done yet?! This is our goddess Yu Chu’s livestream channel. Stop discussing unrelated people here!!]
At that moment, Movie Queen Yu Chu had no idea what was being said in the comments.
She was currently trying to persuade her sulking son Qiqi to complete the production team’s assigned task with her.
Each family group had been given a task by the show: selling flowers.
She and her son had to wear mascot costumes and carry baskets of flowers around the amusement park to sell.
The money they earned would become their living expenses for the next three days.
But her son Qiqi was completely uncooperative.
Not only that, he snapped all the flowers in the basket and stomped them on the ground.
Yu Chu knew her son had a bad temper, but she had not expected him to become even more violent than he was at home.
Ignoring the cameras still filming, she sternly scolded him.
“Qiqi! How can you do this?! These flowers were supposed to be sold! You ruined all of them—what are we supposed to eat tonight?! And one bouquet was supposed to be taken to the hospital for a little sister who was trafficked! Mommy already told you before, that little sister named Niannian is very pitiful.”
During filming, they were not allowed to use their phones, but all the families already knew what had happened over the past few days.
The production team had explained the details to everyone.
One of their tasks was to bring flowers to Niannian at the hospital and pick her up after discharge so they could all continue filming together at the amusement park.
Qiqi rolled around on the ground throwing a tantrum.
“I don’t want to sell flowers! I don’t want to sell flowers! I want to play on my tablet! I want my tablet! Give me my tablet!”
Yu Chu angrily replied, “We already agreed before coming to film the show. This is work, so no playing! You clearly promised me!”
Qiqi continued screaming and rolling around.
“I don’t care! I don’t care! I want to play! Go get my tablet! Go get it for me!”
Yu Chu was still trying to reason with him when Qiqi, seeing he would not get the tablet, suddenly climbed up and started punching and kicking her.
“Give me the tablet! You’re not a good mommy! Hurry and give me the tablet! You bad mommy!”
The livestream viewers exploded upon seeing the scene.
[Geez! This is the Movie Queen’s son? What kind of demon child is this?! So embarrassing!]
[Holy crap, who even is the kid’s father? Forget him not looking anything like Yu Chu, why is he so violently aggressive?!]
[Yu Chu secretly married and had a child years ago, disappeared from the industry for so long, and this is what she gave birth to? Might as well shove him back in!]
[The goddess is so pitiful! It must be because the father has been absent for too long, leaving her to shoulder all the childcare responsibilities alone. She tried her best, but it still turned out like this…]
While everyone was still discussing it, the livestream suddenly switched to advertisements.
But the scene was enough to infuriate Yu Chu’s fans.
And it also gave Yu Chu’s haters the perfect chance to attack her viciously.
In truth, Yu Chu had already regretted bringing her son Qiqi onto the show from the very first day.
After giving birth, because Qiqi had been born with heart problems, she had shifted her entire focus onto taking care of him and seeking treatment for him.
The entertainment industry changed rapidly, and her career soon declined dramatically.
Yu Chu had always been highly career-driven, and after seeing her son grow a little older, she could not help wanting to make a comeback.
However, after working busily for a period of time, when she returned home, she discovered her son had completely changed.
His personality had become extremely violent.
Left with no choice, Yu Chu brought her son back to stay by her side again.
Then, with the invitation from Happy Parent-Child Travel, Yu Chu also wanted to leave behind a variety show memory with her son, so she agreed to participate.
Unexpectedly, after arriving at the program, Qiqi not only failed to control his temper, he became even worse.
Yu Chu deeply regretted it now.
If she had known earlier, she never would have brought Qiqi onto the variety show.
She could practically imagine how many mocking comments were filling the livestream.
Qiqi, who had been punching and kicking Yu Chu, was finally restrained by staff members.
But he still lay on the ground wailing loudly.
The staff looked helplessly at Yu Chu.
“Ms. Yu Chu, this…”
Even the directing team felt somewhat sorry for her.
Yu Chu had a good reputation, and they did not want viewers to see even more humiliating scenes of her, which was why they had cut to advertisements.
Yu Chu slowly sighed and gave a bitter smile.
“Qiqi wasn’t like this before. He used to be very obedient. I only went on a business trip for one month, and when I came back… I don’t know why he changed…”
Before Yu Chu could finish speaking, the chief director interrupted her.
“Yu Chu, one month isn’t enough time for a child’s personality to change this drastically.”
The chief director was close friends with Yu Chu, so only he dared to say such things directly.
Yu Chu froze.
Some children were probably born rotten to the core, not changed merely because their parents had been absent for one or two months.
If Qiqi had experienced some danger or major incident during that time, then a personality change would have been understandable.
But nothing had happened.
During that month, Yu Chu video-called her son every day and monitored the home cameras.
The housekeepers all cared for him attentively.
Yet his tantrums only became more and more severe.
And perhaps Yu Qiqi had simply been born rotten.