He had thought he could take the cub out for a company-paid outing directly, but now he still had to worry about how to report it to the cub’s biological dad. The original body really had left him a good job to do.
His fingers unconsciously picked at the fluffy carpet beneath him. Chu Mingwan could not help letting out a silent wail, then turned to stare blankly at the pitch-black avatar across from him. As expected, novels really did not deceive him, so a domineering CEO really did use this kind of pitch-black avatar!
Just as he was thinking about how to bring this up to the good cub’s biological dad, Chu Mingwan’s finger accidentally pressed on the other party’s avatar:
“Your biological father patted QY”
What the heck, what the heck, he seemed to have accidentally patted that big shot across from him, and who on earth would set such a ferocious pat message!
This was simply human-level drama, so awkward that Chu Mingwan wanted to hug the good cub and flee Earth immediately.
In a flurry of panic, he quickly withdrew that pat, but it still left behind a solid piece of evidence, “You withdrew a pat.”
The drama seemed to have escalated by another level. It would have been better not to withdraw it at all. Chu Mingwan wore a mournful face, silently found the place to change it, gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and once again poked the black avatar across from him twice:
“Manually sealed the coffin lid patted QY”
Yes, Chu Mingwan is already dead, please go burn paper offerings at his grave yourself.
After receiving the housekeeper’s weekly report email, Qi Yuan gave it a quick glance and had just left the mailbox page when the ding of a WeChat notification rang at just the right time. He lowered his eyes and opened WeChat:
“Your biological father patted me”
What was this? Qi Yuan could not help furrowing his brows. When he saw the three characters “Chu Mingwan” in the note above, that handsome face that still carried a certain authority instantly turned even colder.
Thinking of the email the housekeeper had just sent over, Qi Yuan looked at the pat message a little longer, and soon two more messages came through:
“Chu Mingwan’s pat has been withdrawn”
“Manually sealed the coffin lid patted me”
Qi Yuan was silent for two seconds. Thinking of Chu Mingwan’s little tricks from before, the expression on his face became more and more unpleasant.
“Mr. Qi, there are still ten minutes until boarding.” After setting the freshly brewed coffee he held onto the tea table, Assistant Jian reminded him in a low voice.
Qi Yuan gave a faint nod, picked up the coffee on the tea table, and just as he was about to put down his phone, another message appeared on the screen:
“Um… husband, a while ago a kids’ variety show contacted me. May I take the good cub to participate in the kids’ variety show?”
Qi Yuan’s motion of putting down the phone paused for a moment. His gaze fell coldly and lightly on those words on the screen. This did not sound at all like the tone Chu Mingwan used every time he wanted to pull some little stunt.
In the villa, Chu Mingwan stared at the word “husband” that he had sent, so embarrassed he wanted to curl his toes into the floor. But all the chat records on his phone had already been cleared by him with a one-tap deletion before. After all, deleting them one by one was too tiring, one-tap deletion was much more pleasant, but he had forgotten to keep the chat records with the big shot. Thinking about it now, it would have been good even if he had looked at them one more time before.
And for some reason, the impression of the Qi family head in his memory was especially faint. He could not even remember what the other party looked like at all, much less how the original body had gotten along with that Qi family head before.
In short, after pondering for quite a while, Chu Mingwan could only endure his shame and type the two words “husband” into the chat box. However, he was very sly and made the tone sound extremely honest and respectful. Maybe the big shot would think he had typed the word “boss” instead.
After all, mistyping a word was forgivable!
The other end of the phone remained silent the whole time. After quite a while, Chu Mingwan finally saw the words “the other party is typing” appear on the screen.
Changing into a cross-legged sitting position, Chu Mingwan waited with great anticipation for the reply from the other side. Very soon, he received a message from Qi Yuan:
“Yes, as long as you can bear the responsibility of taking him out.”
Completely ignoring the coldness of the latter half of the sentence, Chu Mingwan’s eyes could only see the word “yes.” He immediately sat up straight, his back rigid, like a model student about to answer the teacher’s question:
“Okay, yes sir.”
He glanced at the time on his phone. Boarding was about to begin. After giving no further reply to the other side, Qi Yuan turned off his phone and stood up, leaving the waiting lounge.
Mumu probably slept for about an hour. When he dazedly opened his eyes, he saw that the little dad who had coaxed him to sleep had not left. He was still holding his phone, poking at the screen nonstop.
When the little cub saw the stepfather’s figure, he instinctively shrank a little in the blanket with some fear. When he looked up, he met Chu Mingwan’s delighted starry eyes: “My good cub is awake!”
That cheerful and gentle tone instantly scattered Mumu’s fleeting fear completely. He blinked his black-and-white eyes and called out in a soft, milk-like voice, “Little dad.”
“Good cub, come quickly and help Dad take a look at which pajama looks better.” Happily pulling the just-awake Mumu cub into his arms, Chu Mingwan continued poking at his phone without stopping.
The original body’s flashy taste did not match him at all. Chu Mingwan really was too embarrassed to wear those bizarre pajamas in the bedroom. Just now he had been wandering through the sea of online shopping when he felt the little cub’s movement as he rolled over on the bed.
Mumu cub obediently sat in the little dad’s arms, his gaze falling on the colorful clothes on Chu Mingwan’s phone.
“Little dad, this one looks good… mm, this one looks good too…”
“Heh, my good cub’s taste is really great. This store even has parent-child matching outfits, buy them, buy them.”
The father and son shopped frantically for more than half an hour. When it came time to check out, Chu Mingwan experienced for the first time what happiness felt like when you did not look at the price.
But in order to save a little for his hard-working tool-man husband, Chu Mingwan still happily activated the shopping system membership card and claimed a super-large coupon.
Carrying the fine tradition of “save where you should save, spend where you should spend” all the way through, Chu Mingwan finally turned off his phone in satisfaction and took the little cub downstairs for a stroll.
At 8:30 that night, when internet users were all happily surfing online, the variety show Adorable Kids Are Here finally released its first announcement.
Adorable Kids Are Here announcement board:
Season 1 #The kids’ variety show is here, we are honored to invite six groups of guests to step into the children’s magical little world, to play together with the children, to challenge together, to grow together… In addition, the production team is using, for the first time, the format of a livestream slow variety show plus edited broadcast. All viewers, please look forward to it @Luo Yating and her daughter, @Yu Yizhou and his sister, @Chu Xiayun and his son, @An Qun and his son, @Cao Xinghuai and his son, @Chu Mingwan and his son. (Tomorrow night we will bring you the latest teaser image preview！)
The production team picked the timing just right. In no time at all, the netizens who had been following this kids’ variety show in advance had already arrived at the battlefield:
[Kids’ variety show! And it’s a livestream slow variety show too. The production team really knows how to play!]
[Wuwuwu, hurry up and show me the little cuties’ photos, I need to suck up the cuties before I can stand up.]
[Ahhh~, mom and dad, what am I seeing? My goddess Yating is actually going to take her daughter on a variety show. Who knows how long it’s been since I last saw my goddess appear on the big screen.]
[Heeheehee, as expected of our single top star male celebrity. The other guests are bringing their own sons and daughters, but Yu Yizhou is actually going to bring his younger sister to participate in a kids’ variety show. I won’t say who’s dying of laughter!]
[There’s even my Xiayun precious baby. Being able to participate in a variety show with an actress and a top star, my precious baby has really made it, so moving!]
[Chu Xiayun? Isn’t he the true young master that the Chu family in the capital just found back? I heard the one at the very end used to go after him all the time, precisely because he knew early on about Chu Xiayun’s identity as the true young master.]
[So how does the one at the very end have the nerve to appear on this kids’ variety show? His skin really is not just thick in the ordinary sense!]
[No, who are you talking about, what true young master, fake young master?]
[Chu Mingwan, who else? You guys don’t dare say it, I will. In short, insider sources are revealing online that this fake young master made trouble until he ruined himself. The Chu family already removed him from the family register some time ago, so if you want to curse him, go ahead and curse him.]
[Really? Then I won’t be polite. Before, this fake young master relied on the Chu family backing him and bullied our Xiayun precious baby quite a lot. Now that Xiayun has become the Chu family’s true young master, he has instead become the drenched rat everyone is shouting at. It’s simply hilarious!]
[And where did Chu Mingwan get a son from, to even bring him onto a variety show? Could it be an illegitimate child he already had before!]
[Tsk tsk tsk, back when he was still the Chu family’s little young master, he must have played pretty wildly in private!]
[Trash. The production team really stopped being human for the sake of traffic.]
[Chu Mingwan, hurry up and take your illegitimate child and get the hell out of Adorable Kids Are Here!]
[What a single rat dropping ruining a whole pot of porridge. A perfectly good kids’ variety show was ruined by Chu Mingwan like this.]
One of the production team’s purposes in inviting Chu Mingwan over was right here. It was only a simple preview, yet the heat was quickly pushed up by the netizens.
The more outrageously Chu Mingwan had caused trouble before, the stronger the backlash came now. The director looked at the traffic and popularity feedback from backstage, satisfied as he stroked his not-much-left bald head, then turned to the assistant and said, “There’s still only the promotional photos for Chu Xiayun and Chu Mingwan that haven’t been shot yet, right? Tomorrow call them both over to shoot the promotional photos.”
The assistant pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. “Calling the two of them over together to shoot the promotional photos, aren’t you afraid they’ll start fighting at the filming site, Director?”
“If they fight, wouldn’t that be even better.” The director smugly patted the stack of contracts beside him. “The current Chu young master can’t afford a 20-times breach of contract fee, can he? He’ll still have to obediently let the production team do whatever we want!”
The assistant gave the director a thumbs-up. “As expected of the director, truly scheming.”
“Get lost.” The director shot the assistant an irritated glare, then continued carefully reading the comments under the announcement so he could keep track of the situation at all times.
What he had just said about letting the guests fight was only a joke, after all. The director held very high expectations for Adorable Kids Are Here. How could he possibly let Chu Mingwan ruin the program he had carefully prepared for a full two years?
Less than an hour after the production team’s announcement went out, the related hot searches were already steadily climbing. Chu Mingwan had just coaxed the little cub to sleep, and at this moment he was sitting on the sofa, soaking his feet while scrolling through Weibo:
#Adorable Kids Are Here officially announced it will soon air#
#Your actress is going on a kids’ variety show#
#Chu Xiayun has a promising future#
#Top star Yu Yizhou, single for ten thousand years, confirmed#
#The Chu family’s real and fake young masters, fiction becomes reality#
#Chu Mingwan has a son#
#Chu Mingwan get out of Adorable Kids Are Here#
A thin layer of sweat had formed on his body. Chu Mingwan leaned comfortably back against the sofa, casually browsing those trending topics.
The original body suffered from congenital night blindness, the kind that cannot be cured, so although he could still see when using his phone at night, it was still somewhat uncomfortable. Chu Mingwan did not look at the comments under the trending topics. He already knew they would not say anything nice.
But Chu Mingwan did not really care either. He probably would be happily leaving the entertainment circle after filming this kids’ variety show. As long as these netizens did not insult his good cub, everything was fine.
He tossed the phone beside him with a casual fling, poured out the foot-soak water, and comfortably plunged into the blanket.
The phone on the sofa lit up and dimmed again. Chu Mingwan lying in bed did not notice at all. One hand rested on the towel bear that had just been tied up today, and he absentmindedly rubbed it for a while before falling into a deep sleep.