Half an hour later, the doctor arrived.
He skillfully took out his medical equipment and examined Yu Siyi.
Yu Siyi cooperated very obediently, as though this kind of situation had already happened countless times before.
Jin Qiao silently gave Yu An a huge thumbs-up in her heart.
At least this father was doing an acceptable job.
She had originally assumed he completely ignored his son.
Otherwise, how could the little villain become so gloomy and twisted later in the story?
After finishing the examination, the doctor packed up his tools.
“Madam, the young master’s throat currently has no problems. But just like before, if he continues refusing to speak, his vocal cords will gradually deteriorate slightly. Over time, the degeneration will become more serious.”
Jin Qiao nodded.
Hearing this, Yu Siyi’s face revealed a troubled expression.
After the doctor left, Jin Qiao pulled Yu Siyi onto her lap.
“Mommy wants to apologize to you. And you shouldn’t forgive Mommy so easily either. What I said before was truly, truly awful! So now Mommy wants to make it up to our Siyi. Whatever you want or want to do, just tell Mommy, okay?”
Yu Siyi turned around and threw himself into Jin Qiao’s arms.
It was spring. The outdoor temperature wasn’t very high, but inside the house it was warm enough to comfortably wear short sleeves.
Feeling her shirt gradually dampen from his tears, Jin Qiao’s heart hurt terribly too.
After Yu Siyi finally calmed down, Jin Qiao took him to a nearby supermarket.
The tiny little boy was lifted into the shopping cart by his mother.
Yu Siyi was initially a little embarrassed.
But before long, Jin Qiao completely awakened his shopping instincts, and he happily accompanied his mother on a wild buying spree.
“There are so many notebooks here. Which kind do you like?”
Jin Qiao was overwhelmed by all the choices.
Yu Siyi picked up a notebook with a little rabbit on the cover and placed it into the cart.
He had already chosen it at first glance because the rabbit looked very similar to his stuffed bunny.
Seeing how quickly her son made his choice, Jin Qiao couldn’t help sighing inwardly.
People without decision paralysis really had it good.
When they shopped, they were far more decisive and efficient than others.
Seeing how much Yu Siyi liked the notebook, Jin Qiao was prepared to buy the entire shelf’s worth so they wouldn’t have to come out again once he used them up.
But Yu Siyi stopped her.
Seeing the seriousness on his face, Jin Qiao could only respect his wishes.
Then she took him to buy rabbit pencils, rabbit erasers, rabbit pencil cases, and more.
Of course, after finishing all that, Jin Qiao returned to the snack section to continue fighting another battle.
When it came time to check out, she originally thought there was no way they’d be able to carry everything home.
But the cashier informed them they could simply leave their address and the goods would be delivered directly.
Yu Siyi took one pencil and his notebook out of the bag, then happily held Jin Qiao’s hand as they walked home together.
The moment they got home, Yu Siyi immediately went to the living room, lay on the table, and started writing.
Jin Qiao had no idea what he was doing, so she ignored him and first poured herself a glass of water.
Soon, Yu Siyi carried the notebook over and handed it to her.
Written crookedly on the page was a sentence:
“Mommy, when da notebook is finished, can you pei me buy more?”
The pinyin for “wait” was wrong, but that question mark at the end was especially eye-catching.
Jin Qiao struggled not to laugh. She crouched down and pointed at the “da.”
“Baby, for ‘wait,’ it should be deng, third tone.”
Yu Siyi’s face instantly flushed bright red.
He hurriedly snatched the notebook back and ran toward the living room again.
Seeing him like that, Jin Qiao truly couldn’t hold back her laughter anymore.
“When you run out of notebooks, just tell Mommy and I’ll go buy more with you!”
By now, Yu Siyi had already buried his entire face into a throw pillow.
He had learned this pinyin before!
He’d just been too excited and accidentally written it wrong!!!
At dinner that evening, Jin Qiao was surprised to discover that Yu An had actually come home to eat.
The entire meal was painfully quiet.
Jin Qiao couldn’t stand it at all and quickly finished eating before fleeing back to her room.
Being alone was definitely the most comfortable.
After dinner, Yu Siyi eagerly scribbled something into his notebook before standing on tiptoe and holding it up in front of Yu An.
“Daddy, Mommy took me to buy notebooks today!”
Yu An took the notebook and glanced at it.
“Mhm. Daddy knows.”
Some time later—
After finishing a meeting, Yu An knocked on the bedroom door. Receiving no response, he opened it—
And a tidal wave of music instantly blasted into his ears.
“The Wumeng Mountains connect beyond the mountains, moonlight shines over Xiangshui Beach—!”
Jin Qiao was passionately singing in the bathroom.
Yu An froze mid-step.
Still holding the doorknob, he silently backed back out.
Then closed the door, finally restoring peace to his ears.
Returning to the study, Yu An rubbed his temples.
Today, he had deliberately come home after carefully considering how different Jin Qiao had been lately.
He wanted to test her a little.
Deep down, he still held onto a tiny bit of hope.
After estimating the time, Yu An returned to the bedroom.
Jin Qiao was lying against the headboard with a face mask on while scrolling through short videos on her phone.
Hearing the door open, she assumed Aunt Wu had come to deliver milk.
“Aunt Wu, just leave the milk on the table. I’ll drink it later.”
Instead of Aunt Wu’s response, another familiar voice sounded.
Yu An spoke calmly.
“Since when did you start drinking milk? Aren’t you allergic?”
Back when Jin Qiao had first moved into this house—
One day Aunt Wu had brought her a glass of milk, only for her to smack it onto the floor and declare that milk was forbidden from appearing in the house ever again.
Yu An had happened to return home for documents that day and witnessed the whole thing.
Jin Qiao was speechless.
She hadn’t expected this husband to pay such close attention to his wife—even remembering whether she drank milk or not.
“No? I don’t remember. I never said that, did I?”
Jin Qiao directly chose the shameless route and pretended to be clueless.
In the future, there would definitely be many more differences discovered between her and the original owner anyway.
Why should she force herself to suffer?
Yu An’s eyes darkened slightly.
He said nothing more and turned to enter the bathroom.
Jin Qiao found him completely baffling.
When Yu An came out of the bathroom, Jin Qiao had already put away her phone and was preparing to sleep.
Seeing him standing beside the bed, she looked at the bed, then at the man before her.
No way.
Were they really going to share the same bed tonight?
She absolutely wasn’t used to that!
“Um… where are you sleeping?”
“This is the master bedroom. Where do you think I’m sleeping?”
Jin Qiao was instantly rendered speechless.
With no other choice, she gave up entirely and sprawled across the bed in a giant starfish position.
“There’s no room left on the bed! Go squeeze into our son’s room for one night!”
Yu An merely replied casually.
He had never planned to sleep there in the first place.
There was no way he’d share a bed with her.
In the end, Yu An still went to sleep in the study.
The next morning, Jin Qiao had just started eating breakfast while Yu Siyi sat obediently in the living room drawing.
At that moment, the staff from the production team arrived according to the address and began installing cameras throughout the house.
“Have you girls eaten breakfast? Want to join us for a little?”
Several of the female staff members looked fairly young.
Seeing Jin Qiao warmly greeting them with a smile, they shyly shook their heads.
While biting into a piece of bread, Jin Qiao asked,
“You don’t need to install cameras in my bedroom, right?”
“No. The program will be livestreamed the entire time, and tomorrow a cameraman will also follow you throughout the day. The fixed cameras in the house are mainly for capturing additional footage that might not appear in the livestream for post-production.”
Jin Qiao nodded and didn’t ask further.
The staff secretly sighed in relief.
Before coming, the director had specifically warned them to be careful, saying the lady of this household had a terrible temper, but she’d been arranged into the show by the biggest investor.
Yet after meeting her in person, she seemed completely different from how Director Zheng had described her.
In fact, she was surprisingly easy to get along with.