After boarding the plane, Jin Qiao fiddled with her phone.
【Be careful.】
The moment the screen lit up, Yu An’s message notification appeared.
Jin Qiao hesitated for quite a while before finally replying just as the plane was about to take off.
【Got it, got it.】
After finishing a meeting, Yu An saw her reply and was unexpectedly delighted.
After getting off the plane, the group boarded a bus that wobbled and swayed all the way to their destination.
Not long after everyone settled into the bus, the livestream officially started as usual.
Outside the windows, the scenery gradually changed from towering skyscrapers into endless stretches of green farmland and greenhouse sheds.
Jin Qiao and Yu Siyi had already slept enough on the plane, so now sitting on the bus, both mother and son stared curiously out the windows at everything around them!
Excitedly, Yu Siyi pointed toward the sky outside.
Mommy look, the sky is super pretty.
“Come on, come on, baby! Let Mommy take pictures!”
Jin Qiao raised her phone toward her son while Yu Siyi cooperatively made all kinds of goofy poses.
The mother and son laughed while taking photos the entire ride.
【Jin Qiao is taking pictures again! Hurry and post them!】
【This woman definitely has tons of photos saved on her phone!】
【Director, can you force Jin Qiao to upload a nine-photo collage?!】
【I’m not begging Jin Qiao anymore. Cameraman, zoom in closer so I can screenshot!】
【Cameraman hurry up before they stop taking pictures!】
After finishing, Jin Qiao directly packaged all the photos together and sent them to Yu An.
Yu An quickly replied:
【Very pretty.】
Looks like the man wasn’t busy right now.
Jin Qiao suddenly felt like teasing him.
Little Rice Bug: 【Isn’t this sky and these fields super beautiful!】
Y: 【You’re the prettiest.】
KO.
Jin Qiao instantly flipped her phone facedown onto her knees.
She genuinely felt like she needed medical testing.
Was she seriously developing love-brain syndrome or something?!
Her phone vibrated again.
Y: 【How much longer until you arrive?】
Little Rice Bug: 【No idea. Probably soon?】
Y: 【Have fun. I’ll be watching the livestream a lot.】
Watching what livestream?!
You’re a CEO! Don’t you have work to do all day?!
Jin Qiao silently complained.
【Can someone identify Jin Qiao’s phone model? The design on the back looks really nice.】
【She changed phones recently, right? I remember during the first filming it wasn’t this one.】
【It really is pretty.】
【I just searched it up. Guess how much it costs.】
【Okay never mind, I already know I can’t afford it.】
【At this point it’s not even about affordability. First of all, it’s the newest IX model. Second, it’s a couple’s edition. Besides Jin Qiao’s black version, there’s also a white version.】
【Most importantly, because it’s a couple’s edition, it costs several thousand more than the regular newest model.】
【It’s specifically marketed toward couples and married people.】
【Jin Qiao has the black one, so the white one is probably with her husband.】
【Turns out not all girls prefer white.】
Finally arriving at the destination, Jin Qiao carried Yu Siyi off the bus before setting him down and retrieving their luggage.
She looked around at the surroundings.
Very rural.
From the scenery she’d seen from the bus and the winding roads they’d taken, she already knew this place was extremely remote.
“Welcome everyone to Hongyang Village! First step, as always—luggage inspection!”
“All electronic devices, toys, snacks, and cash need to be placed into the basket in front.”
【A very familiar segment.】
【Prepare yourselves everyone, there’s definitely gonna be crying kids.】
【I’m betting everyone except the eldest brother cries.】
【Song Yinghou’s son might be difficult though.】
The moment the director finished speaking, Jin Qiao noticed two little boys clutching their game consoles even tighter.
As expected of the oldest brother, Yan Yuchen decisively handed over his own phone—and even took his mother’s phone too before placing them into the basket.
“We didn’t bring much anyway. Just some clothes and medicine.”
【As expected of Brother Yuchen! Great role model!】
【Beauty Yuan looked completely stunned. She hadn’t even finished typing before her son confiscated her phone.】
【This is too funny.】
Seeing how quickly big brother acted, Yu Siyi also stretched his hand toward his mother for her phone.
Jin Qiao found it amusing but cooperatively placed the phone into Yu Siyi’s tiny hands.
Yu Siyi removed his smartwatch too and placed both items into the basket together.
【41 is so well-behaved too!】
【Baby seriously stretched his hand out to ask Mommy for the phone.】
【Jin Qiao is trying so hard not to laugh.】
“Siyi.”
Suddenly being called by the director made Yu Siyi turn around in confusion.
The director coughed lightly.
“The stuffed toy inside your backpack also needs to go into the basket.”
Ah!
Yu Siyi’s eyes widened instantly.
His hands tightly clutched the stuffed rabbit.
【41 is visibly panicking now.】
【He carried that doll around all through the first season too. Looks like it’s his sleep companion toy.】
【I also have a sleeping companion plushie. Without it beside me I literally can’t sleep well.】
【Completely understandable.】
“Siyi little brother, stuffed animals count as toys too, so you can’t bring it.”
Seeing the younger child’s unwilling expression, Yan Yuchen proactively stepped forward to explain things gently.
Jin Qiao also walked over and crouched in front of Yu Siyi.
“Mommy won’t force you. But you need to understand that the older brothers and sisters are only collecting your toy because they’re following the rules. Since we came here together, shouldn’t we follow the rules too?”
Yu Siyi pouted and lowered his head even more.
Jin Qiao knew he’d listened, so she continued,
“If you’re really unhappy, Mommy can take you home, okay? We don’t absolutely have to film this show anyway. There’s not even hotpot or barbecue here. Totally boring.”
That last sentence, Jin Qiao whispered quietly into Yu Siyi’s ear.
Though she thought she whispered it secretly, the production team had prepared extremely high-quality recording equipment.
【Did Jin Qiao forget she’s wearing a microphone?】
【What she thinks is whispering sounds super loud to us.】
【She has to be intentionally creating variety-show effects. There’s no way she forgot the mic.】
【Well her variety-show effect succeeded because that was genuinely hilarious.】
【Jin Qiao: the second my son says yes, we’re leaving immediately.】
Hearing her words, the director’s forehead nearly turned black.
Jin Qiao genuinely waited for Yu Siyi to say he wanted to go home.
That way Old Master Yu wouldn’t be able to blame her.
Inside Yu Siyi’s little head, thoughts spun round and round.
This stuffed rabbit had been bought by Mommy long ago.
It accompanied him every night when he slept.
He’d finally gotten the chance to spend time alone with Mommy.
If they went home now, Daddy would definitely monopolize Mommy again.
Then he’d lose his chance.
But—
No.
They absolutely could not go home!
Jin Qiao watched as Yu Siyi somehow suddenly figured things out.
Determinedly, he placed the stuffed rabbit into the basket, carefully tucking the bunny ears in neatly too.
Watching this, Jin Qiao could only sigh repeatedly.
Sigh…
It’d be such a long time before she could eat properly again.
【Okay yeah, Jin Qiao is genuinely disappointed. I can tell.】
【I don’t think she’s capable of acting this realistically yet.】
【After she mentioned that barbecue place last time, she never went back. I demand a restaurant review video.】
【41 is really so well-behaved. But I’m genuinely curious how he convinced himself.】
【Same. He just lowered his head and thought for a bit, then figured it out without even crying.】
Meanwhile, while Yu Siyi struggled internally, Qin Qiqi and Chen Xiao’s side had already descended into complete chaos and crying.
【I knew it. These two were definitely gonna cry.】
【Game consoles really are impossible to part with. I’m twenty and still can’t separate from mine either.】
【I completely understand them.】
Especially Qin Qiqi.
With grandparents at home, whenever he wanted something, even if his parents refused, his grandparents would secretly buy it for him anyway.
He absolutely refused to hand over his game console and snacks.
If he surrendered them, then he’d have nothing to eat and nothing to play with!
Song Qiruo could only stand there helplessly while watching Qin Qiqi roll around crying on the ground.
She herself had insisted on joining this show because work kept her too busy to spend much time with her child.
This was also her chance to strengthen their relationship.
【You can really see Movie Queen Song’s helplessness here.】
On Chen Siyu’s side, it also took endless persuasion and promises to buy him the game console he wanted most after returning home before the child finally calmed down.