The nanny in the villa only gets one day off a week, and every time Zhang Ma goes home for her break, she takes back the things she stole from the little cub.
There were still three days until the day off. After coming out of the little cub’s Moon Room, Zhang Ma hid that canvas bag under the bed in the nanny room.
The moment the door closed, there was a faint click of a camera shutter. The sound was so soft, so soft, that Zhang Ma only thought about how to get in touch with Chu Mingwan, and completely failed to notice the other nanny behind her.
After playing games with Mumu for a while, the phone Chu Mingwan had placed on the desk lit up.
Patting the fluffy head of the well-behaved cub, Chu Mingwan used face recognition to unlock the phone. As expected, he received several photos from the nanny auntie. Zhang Ma really had a huge appetite, the amount she had stolen from the little cub was enough to send her to prison.
Chu Mingwan was delighted. He was just about to put down the phone and play with the little cub a bit longer when WeChat was suddenly flooded with a barrage of messages.
After opening them and skimming through the whole string of texts, Chu Mingwan only then remembered that the original body was still an eighteenth-tier obscure little nobody. In order to prove that he was more outstanding than the real young master, he had almost starved himself into a skeleton.
Luo Yiyun: “Where are you?”
Luo Yiyun: “This is the variety show you secretly took on behind my back?”
Luo Yiyun: “Chu Mingwan, stop pretending to be dead, hurry up and reply”
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Having his phone bombarded by messages from a stranger until his head was a little dazed, Chu Mingwan’s hands reacted even faster than his brain. Before he had even figured out what was going on, he had already tap-tap-tapped out a reply: “Yes, I took this job myself.”
Ms. Luo Yiyun stared at Chu Mingwan’s completely unceremonious reply, and the veins on her forehead could not help twitching twice in anger. As expected of the young master of the Chu family, spoiled from childhood, even now that he had fallen to the point of being abandoned by the Chu family, he was still so haughty.
But very quickly, another finger-to-finger emoji was sent from the other side. The haughtiness from just now instantly turned into a soft, guilty look.
Luo Yiyun: This little young master couldn’t have been hit too hard and gone stupid, right?
Chu Mingwan had not gone stupid. He was just so embarrassed that his toes were practically digging into the floor. Only then did he finally remember that Ms. Luo Yiyun was his agent, and when he turned back, he saw the message he had sent in the chat box.
So arrogant, really arrogant. How had he managed to send such an arrogant message?
Red-faced and wanting to withdraw it, he regretted it too late. The withdrawal time had already passed, so Chu Mingwan could only send out a pitiful meme sticker, trying to salvage a little of his shaky reputation.
“Little Dad, eat candy.” The stepdad’s expressions kept changing in such a strange way that Mumu could not make sense of it, but he was not as afraid as before. He thought the stepdad was feeling unwell again, so he hurriedly peeled a piece of White Rabbit milk candy and stuffed it into Chu Mingwan’s mouth.
The milky fragrance instantly filled his mouth. Touched, Chu Mingwan pulled Mumu into his arms and took a deep inhale of the cub: “Wow, why is my Mumu so good to Dad? Dad loves my well-behaved cub so much!”
After inhaling the well-behaved cub for a good while, Chu Mingwan felt instantly full of energy again. He rested his heavy head against Mumu’s neck and continued replying to his agent’s messages: “Uh, Sister Yun, just pretend I was possessed by a demon just now.”
In his memory, Luo Yiyun was a very responsible agent. Even after the original body had caused all kinds of trouble and been removed from the Chu family, she had never done anything to kick him while he was down.
Luo Yiyun’s side had been showing “typing” the entire time, but no message was sent. While waiting for a reply, Chu Mingwan could not help pinching Mumu’s soft little hand again, and began recalling the job Luo Yiyun had mentioned.
The cause of the matter seemed to be that the real young master had been invited to a kids’ variety show, and would be taking the future male lead, who was only four years old now, onto the program. The original body was furious about it, so he simply contacted that same kids’ variety show as well, planning to take Mumu along to participate.
Because what Chu Mingwan had read in the original plot was all about the cubs after they grew up, it naturally did not go into too much detail about the grudges and entanglements of the previous generation, which was why he had not immediately thought of the kids’ variety show.
Even if the male lead was only a five-year-old little cub now, he was certainly still carrying the powerful male lead halo. Chu Mingwan could not bear to let his well-behaved cub go be another child’s cannon-fodder foil.
Clearly it was not a job he had taken, yet Chu Mingwan inexplicably grew more and more guilty: “Sister Yun, speaking of this kids’ variety show, can I… not participate?”
Even the punctuation carried a thick sense of guilt. After typing out a whole string of accusations, Luo Yiyun suddenly did not want to send them anymore. With a helpless sigh, she forwarded the kids’ variety show contract to the little young master, who still could not clearly see his own situation, with one click: “Of course you can not participate, but… 20 times the breach fee.”
The original body had also been tricked by the production team. The kids’ variety show itself was meant to be warm and slow-paced, and the director was also planning to use the most advanced livestream format. If there were no explosive, attention-grabbing moments in the livestream, the audience would definitely grow tired of watching it.
Yet right at this time, the original body, an obscure eighteen-tier nobody who came with all sorts of black hot searches, had delivered himself to their door. If the production team did not seize the opportunity, that would truly be stupid, so they had deliberately left a huge trap in the contract they had made him sign.
After counting the long string of zeroes on the contract, the office worker, who had never seen much of the world, drew in a sharp breath. Even if he sold himself completely, it still would not be enough to pay the production team’s breach fee.
Chu Mingwan typed out a few words without hesitation: “I’m going. If I don’t go, I’m a dog.”
In his last life, Chu Mingwan had done all kinds of dirty and tiring work just to make a living. Because he was good-looking, he had even run extras in Hengdian. He also had a little understanding of the various schemes and rumors in the entertainment industry. At worst, when the time came, he would just lie flat with his well-behaved cub on the kids’ variety show. After all, the contract did not say that guests were not allowed to lie flat.
There was nothing more comfortable in this world than being able to fish and lie flat while working, hehe!
Having found a way to deal with the production team, Chu Mingwan laughed happily. Mumu, who was in his arms and playing with a little toy car, could not help glancing over at his stepdad.
“Mua.” He planted another kiss on the little cub’s cheek. The new dad, who had turned into a cub-kissing maniac, was overjoyed: “In a while, Dad will take you out to play with other little friends.”
The little cub’s eyes instantly widened, and he asked in a milky voice, “Really? Is Dad going to take me out to play?”
“Of course, of course!” Chu Mingwan imitated the little cub’s soft, babyish tone and said happily, “Dad will go out to play with you!”
But before going out, they definitely had to deal with that greedy Zhang Ma who tried to swallow an elephant whole, otherwise when they were not at home, the whole house might get stolen away.
Mumu had grown this big without ever going out to play with other little friends. Happy as he was, he could not help feeling a little scared. Before, the stepdad had said he wanted to throw him away. If he took him out this time, would he never bring him back? Unconsciously, the little cub tightly grabbed Chu Mingwan’s clothes.
Thinking that his well-behaved cub was afraid of getting along with other little friends, Chu Mingwan kissed Mumu hard on the forehead: “Mumu, don’t be scared. Dad will stay by my well-behaved cub’s side every day then, and absolutely won’t let other cubs bully Mumu.” Even if it was the male lead cub during childhood, that was not allowed!
Children’s thoughts are especially sensitive, and they can keenly sense changes in adults’ attitudes. Mumu could no longer feel that sharpness and disgust from before in the stepdad. Although he still could not completely stop worrying, his little body had already relaxed a lot compared to before.
“Mumu will also protect Little Dad, and absolutely won’t let other people bully Little Dad.” Mumu put on a very serious little face, looking adorable beyond words.
The original body really deserved to die. To have been so cruel as to bully such a cute and sensible well-behaved cub, Chu Mingwan felt a wave of heartache, then suddenly realized that the original body should already be gone by now. Did that count as evil meeting evil, and getting what he deserved?
After receiving Chu Mingwan’s crying meme sticker, Luo Yiyun rubbed her forehead and was speechless again. But compared with that earlier attitude of not knowing the height of the sky and the depth of the earth, she would rather Chu Mingwan be a little silly.
The matter had already come to this. Since he could not produce the huge breach fee, he could only grit his teeth and take part in this kids’ variety show.
Luo Yiyun could not help sending a few more words of advice, and very soon received a cat nodding meme sticker from Chu Mingwan.
No matter what, the Chu young master, whose eyes had always practically grown on the top of his head, was at least able to listen to advice, and that was enough for Luo Yiyun to let out a breath of relief. She only hoped that the little young master could quickly recognize the fact that he had been abandoned by the Chu family, behave a little on the variety show, and stop targeting the Chu family’s true young master.
As for whether he would behave on the show, Chu Mingwan did not know. He only knew that he was very, very angry right now. If not for the little cub accidentally getting that highly polluting, highly destructive little fire dragon fruit dinosaur all over himself when he was eating fruit, Chu Mingwan would not have known that Zhang Ma had already started abusing his well-behaved cub.
Staring at the patch of blue and red finger marks on Mumu’s lower back, Chu Mingwan was really so angry he was about to explode, and so heartbroken it was beyond words.
“Zhang Ma pinched the cub, didn’t she?” Chu Mingwan leaned over and gently blew on the spot where his well-behaved cub was hurt, his voice full of heartache. “Well-behaved cub, does it hurt a lot?”
Being blown on by Little Dad made him a little itchy. Mumu tightly held Chu Mingwan’s clothes with one hand, while his eyes shone brightly as he looked at Little Dad.
The little friends on TV always get blown on by daddy and mommy after they fall. Now he also had Little Dad blowing on him. The little cub sat on the stool Chu Mingwan had sat on before, happily swinging his legs.
After lowering his head and gently blowing twice on the little cub’s blue-and-purple lower back, Chu Mingwan forcefully suppressed the anger in his heart and asked even more gently, “Tell Dad, was it Zhang Ma who pinched my well-behaved cub?”
Mumu thought of the nanny granny’s threatening words and could not help trembling, but the little cub had always been obedient and never lied to Little Dad. He stopped swinging his legs, which had been moving happily just a moment ago, and now could no longer hold back his tears. “It was granny who pinched Mumu, Little Dad, don’t throw Mumu away…”
Chu Mingwan heartbrokenly pulled the cub into his arms and rubbed the back of the little cub’s head. How could he still not know exactly what Zhang Ma had said to the child?
He directly carried the little cub to sit on the sofa in the living room, then faced the butler who had come over and said coldly, “Please have Xing’an ge call the police right away. Say that the nanny has gone insane and is abusing the master family’s child, plus repeatedly stealing valuable luxury goods.”
With a bang, an ornament display stand was accidentally knocked to the floor by Zhang Ma. The butler immediately understood what Chu Mingwan meant. Seeing the little young master curled up in the lady’s arms, still sobbing with grievance, he immediately opened his phone and called the police.
By the time the police arrived, Zhang Ma had already been pinned to the ground by the people arranged by the butler. She struggled hard, looking as ugly as could be.
“Who called the police?”
Chu Mingwan obediently raised his hand: “Police officer, this nanny abused my family’s child, and also repeatedly stole the child’s toys, with the amount reaching several hundred thousand.”
The young police officer had been called uncle as soon as he arrived, and the corner of his mouth could not help twitching, but he still barely kept a stern expression on his face: “Do you have any evidence?”
“Of course. Filing a false police report carries legal responsibility.” Chu Mingwan obediently handed his phone to the police officer.