“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! This stupid kid is too naughty.” In front of a farmhouse, a sturdy woman came with a tall and sturdy boy, apologizing to a charming young woman. As she apologized, the mother smacked the back of Dashan’s head: “Quickly apologize to Aunt Ruoruo!”
Seeing the heavy smack, Fu Yunruo fidgeted a bit. She hurriedly said: “It’s okay, it’s okay. Everything is just a misunderstanding. After all, children like to play…”
“I’m sorry, Big Sister Ruoruo.” Dashan rubbed the back of his head and grinned: “Big sister, I will give you my younger brother. Will you give Wenwen to my family to be my new younger brother?”
Fu Yunruo: “Uh…”
“Nonsense!” Dashan’s mother smacked the boy’s head again. “Also, call her Aunt, not Big Sister!”
“She is so pretty. Of course she has to be called Big Sister!”
“Stinky brat!” Another smack fell on Dashan’s shoulder. Fu Yunruo almost stepped forward to stop the mother, but Dashan himself didn’t seem bothered in the slightest. The boy curled his lips and looked at the gentle and beautiful big sister with a grin: “Then Mom, can you give me to Big Sister Ruoruo to be her son?”
In any case, he still wanted to have a beautiful younger brother. The one at his home was dirty all day and only knew to cry. How could the kid be compared with the cute Wenwen?
“I think you need a beating!”
“…”
After making sure that Fu Yunruo really wasn’t angry at Dashan’s stupid action, the woman pulled her eldest son’s ear and dragged him to leave, disregarding the boy’s protest.
After sending off the mother and son, Fu Yunruo returned to her house and immediately saw the depressed Wenwen. Like a deflated little ball, the boy was crouching his chubby body on the corner of the room.
…no, no. She must not laugh.
Fu Yunruo tried her best to make a sympathetic expression as she approached the child. “Well, Wenwen, don’t be upset anymore. Brother Dashan has apologized to Wenwen. Wenwen will forgive Brother Dashan, right?” Fu Yunruo squatted in front of the fat dumpling and gave him a hug: “Our Wenwen is the best.”
Wenwen fell into a depressed mood. He buried himself into his mother’s arms, his small body twisted awkwardly in shame.
He lost a big face today! How shameful!
He, the village’s dignified children boss, was snatched away by the enemy. How would he raise his head in front of his charge after this?
Seeing Wenwen’s languid expression made Fu Yunruo remembered the whole story of today’s event. She couldn’t hold back anymore and burst into laughter.
Wenwen suddenly looked up. His eyes were full of condemnation.
“Pfft! Sorry, Baobao. Mom doesn’t mean it.”
Wenwen complained in grief and anger: “How can you hurt my tender young heart, Mom?” He was already hurt enough, but Mom still laughed at him!
Fu Yunruo quickly put back a straight expression and sincerely admitted her mistake: “Mom is wrong. Mom shouldn’t laugh. Baobao, forgive Mom, okay?”
“Humph!” Wenwen snorted loudly. After being coaxed for a while, he reluctantly forgave his mother.
Seeing the child’s tsundere attitude, Fu Yunruo almost burst into laughter again.
Fu Yunruo didn’t expect that children playing around would develop in such a dramatic way. She was chatting with Auntie Mei and other neighbors when several children ran to her in panic and reported with a cry that Wenwen had been taken away. Fu Yunruo immediately thought of the worst. Thinking that her son had been kidnapped by a trafficker, she almost fainted right there.
This village was located in a semi-enclosed area, and the residents here were related to each other in some way or another. When children were playing, all villagers would help to keep an eye on them regardless of whose children they were. If someone saw a stranger around, all villagers would soon be notified. Therefore, Fu Yunruo never felt wary of letting Wenwen run around the village with her playmates. Wherever they went, adults were looking after them, which was much safer compared with the big cities.
Wenwen had grown up and should play with children of the same age. However, the flower garden was relatively deserted. Fu Yunruo stayed all day long taking care of two people and orchids and was not familiar with the people in the village where the garden was located. Moreover, the flower garden stored many precious orchids and didn’t easily let outsiders enter, especially young children of their naughtiest age. Never underestimate the destructive power of young children. They were the most curious creatures who wreaked havoc on anything they saw and could touch. For this reason, Fu Yunruo took Wenwen back to the village for one or two nights every weekend and let him play freely with his little friends.
As a result, her Wenwen was kidnapped?
Fortunately, under the adults’ questioning, the children quickly explained the whole sequence of the event.
It turned out to be a misunderstanding.
Fortunately, it was a misunderstanding. Otherwise, the group of aunties was ready to dispatch the whole villagers to chase the trafficker with hoes and sickles.
Fu Yunruo went to the neighboring village with Auntie Mei to take Wenwen back.
No wonder the children couldn’t snatch Wenwen back. Dashan, the boy who ‘stole’ Wenwen, ran home and shut the door tight. Wenwen’s friends couldn’t get in and finally cry outside the door.
Meanwhile, Wenwen and Dashan kept staring at each other inside the house.
Fu Yunruo really didn’t know whether to get angry or to laugh.
After returning, Wenwen seemed to have been hit hard and kept squatting in the corner of the room. If this was an animation world, layers of dark clouds definitely hung above his head. Even when Dashan’s mother came dragging her son to apologize, Wenwen hid in the house and refused to go out.
“Brother Dashan likes Wenwen very much and wants Wenwen to be his younger brother. However, Mom won’t send Wenwen out. After all, Mom loves Wenwen the most…”
“Mom’s baby is so popular. Who made you look so cute? You are also clever and resourceful, so other children regard you as their boss. Wenwen is really amazing!”
Wenwen was comforted by his mother’s endless blow of rainbow farts, and his depressed mood finally dissipated.
Mom is right. Who makes him so popular and cute?
Alas, popularity indeed comes with a price. At such a young age, he has endured trouble far beyond his age!
In order to help Wenwen completely let go of today’s incident, Fu Yunruo hurriedly thought of a way to divert the child’s attention. In the evening, she took Wenwen to the village meeting to listen to gossips.
As the village head, Uncle Mei presided over the meeting. The wide and open area was crowded with both adults and children, who brought various stools and benches from their homes. The villagers wore simple short-sleeved shirts, which was pretty cool for the current season. Fanning themselves with large palm-leaf fans and sitting on low stools or benches, they listened to Uncle Mei’s announcement.
The content of today’s meeting was to explain the rules that the villagers had to abide by when the TV station came to record the show. For example, during the shooting, the villagers were not allowed to go and disturb the shooting process, and they also had to restrain the children from doing mischief and damage.
There was a total of five densely printed papers full of detailed requirements to the village and villagers.
“Oh, then we can also appear on TV?” One villager commented.
“The show wants to show the real and natural village life, so just do whatever we do as usual. Just remember one thing: you cannot disturb the crew and the stars.”
The TV station rented one house each in four neighboring villages so the stars could live with the locals. One of the villages was their Shanghe Village. After discussing with the representative from the TV station, they decided to rent Uncle Mei’s house, and the couple would host several stars during this period.
The villagers have no objection. In a small village, the village head had the highest prestige. Moreover, villagers were related to each other. If such a good opportunity fell into one of them, others would definitely feel unwilling, and conflict would arise out of jealousy.
“Most importantly, after the TV crew comes, there will be many strangers here. Keep tight eyes on the children and do not let them wander around.” After explaining the do’s and don’ts to the villagers and made sure that everyone kept it in mind, Uncle Mei adjourned the meeting.
Auntie Mei was a bit flustered, and she pulled Fu Yunruo’s arm in excitement: “Oh, I don’t know if I can get along with big stars. What if they take shots of my bad appearance?”
Fu Yunruo calmed her down: “It’s okay, Auntie Mei. Don’t worry. Just behave as you usually do and treat them as your nephews who come to visit relatives.”
“Yeah.”
When Fu Yunruo walked back home, her mind wandering. Did every variety show had so much preparation behind the stage?
However, none of this mattered to her. Because she and Wenwen would have been back in the flower garden by then!
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Early the next morning, Fu Yunruo was picking vegetables in the yard when she suddenly noticed the movement outside the fence. She opened the gate and saw a boy squatted on the ground, throwing stones in boredom.
“Dashan?”
Hearing the voice, the boy quickly stood up. He glanced around before smiling suspiciously: “Big Sister Ruoruo.”
Fu Yunruo smiled back, “Are you coming to play with Wenwen?”
Dashan scratched the back of his head, then reached out his hand, “Big Sister Ruoruo, give me your hand.”
Fu Yunruo held out her hand in confusion.
Dashan placed something on Fu Yunruo’s palm, then turned and ran away quickly. As he ran, his voice rang loudly— “For younger brother!”
Fu Yunruo lowered her head and saw six candies wrapped in brightly colored paper on her palm. When she looked up again, the boy had run out of her sight. Since this was a gift of apology for Wenwen, she decided to let Wenwen handled it himself.
So Fu Yunruo returned into the house, gave the candies to Wenwen, and told him the origin of the candies.
Wenwen took the candies, thinking to himself: Alright, since he doubled the candies he took and returned to apologize, they were now considered to be acquaintances.
Wenwen carefully put the candies into his pocket and ran to find Zhuangzhuang.
Because the candies had returned, he finally regained his dignity as a little boss!
…
‘Different Life’ was a variety show produced by Star TV. The content of the show was to show people with different jobs and different lives. Each season would focus on a certain theme, giving the audience a glimpse of life experiences different from their own, complete with the hardships of each profession. The casts would assume the roles of related professions and showed the reality of different lives, spiced with tasks and drama provided by the production team.
In the beginning, the show only recruited second and third-tier stars as their permanent casts. Unexpectedly, The audience liked the concept of the show, and the pilot season became popular. Thanks to the show, the six original casts also became famous and were constantly growing in popularity.
However, no matter how prosperous a show was, it would eventually meet a bottleneck, and ‘Different Life’ had reached this stage. In response, the team behind the show decided to grit their teeth and spent a huge budget to invite two ultra high-ranking special guests, and also cooperated with the livestreaming platform Panda Life. This season, the show would be presented in the form of a livestream and strived to achieve the most natural and realistic portrayal.
When the show started, six permanent casts made their opening. After some light conversation and a lot of jokes as the warm-up, the first special guest was called out.
On the lens’ focal points, a beautiful and fair-skinned young woman in a white dress walked over. The gentle breeze swayed the hem of her dress, like a fairy descending to the earth.
The comment area instantly exploded, and countless audience commented in full excitement—
[Aaaah!! Goddess!]
[A true fairy descends on earth!]
The casts were equally surprised and excited.
“It’s Fang Xueruo!” He Daosheng clutched his chest. “Ah, my goddess!! My heart almost jumps out!”
Hua Caicai suddenly said from the side: “If your heart really jumps out, you will die.”
He Daosheng: “…Cai, even if you don’t speak, no one will think that you are dumb.”
Hua Caicai waved her hand: “Whether I say it or not, the fact is still the fact.”
He Daosheng rolled his eyes.
The comment area exploded into laughter.
“There is a beauty coming from heaven…” Ouyang Xingheng seemed to be struck by a poetic mood and began to praise the beauty.
Hua Caicai was about to speak again, but Ouyang Xingheng’s eyes were keener. He quickly clasped Hua Caicai’s shoulder with one hand and covered her mouth with another hand. As if a poet was possessing his body, he continued to say: “Eyes like a glitter of gems, eyebrows like distant mountain…”
Hua Caicai: “…”
The audience laughed again.
Fang Xueruo smiled sweetly. She walked forward, greeting the casts and the livestream audience in a friendly manner.
Not far away, a black modified RV was parking at the intersection. In the car, Yuan Xin warned with some worry: “This show is broadcasted live, so remember to hide your dog temper.”
The window of the black RV was half lowered. Seeing the appearance of the female guest, Si Yue frowned in displeasure. He lifted his lips and sighed: “Do you want me to relax or make me disgusted?”
Yuan Xin saw the female guest, and he too was startled, “In the info I received, the female special guest invited is not her.” It should be Xia Wanning, with whom Si Yue had worked together before.
Had Yuan Xin known Fang Xueruo would be here, he wouldn’t accept this variety show for Si Yue. Although this woman was very popular in the circle and basically had no bad gossips or scandals, Si Yue simply disliked her. Yuan Xin also conducted some investigation and knew that this woman was not as pure as she looked on the surface. Coupled with the hostile rivalry between their respective company, they always stayed away from her.
In other word, the show crew changed the female guest at the last moment without notifying them beforehand.
Yuan Xin frowned. He had never thought that Fang Xueruo would also come to this show, “It’s my negligent.” They had arrived at the scene, and critique would fall on Si Yue if they turned around now, especially because the show was streamed live.
Yuan Xin contacted the production team to inquire about the situation. The explanation given by the director was that the female guest they originally were going to invite couldn’t come because of some issues. The crew therefore had no choice but to contact Fang Xueruo to fill the special guest slot.
Yuan Xin wasn’t being polite: “You change the guest suddenly without informing us. Do your team look down on Movie Emperor Si or our Apple Entertainment?”
Director Peng smiled apologetically: “Of course not. Just, we also received the news very suddenly. The special guest was changed hurriedly this morning, and it was too late to inform you.”
Director Peng was also helpless. Movie Empress Fang expressed her wish to join their show as a special guest. How could they refuse? Although the whole industry basically knew that Movie Emperor Si refused to appear on the same stage as Fang Xueruo, she was a star backed by Fu and Chang family. It was clear that they couldn’t offend Fang Xueruo more than they couldn’t offend Si Yue!
Yuan Xin pressed the director again, but he knew that they could only accept the fact. After all, the contract didn’t stipulate who the female special guest was, so the production team didn’t violate any clause.
Si Yue’s public persona was that of an approachable and humble young actor. Even so, his status in the circle was obviously not low, and he wasn’t someone that could be bullied. The production team and director knew this, and that’s why their attitude was very cautious.
Of course, Yuan Xin decided to never do any work with this team anymore. Just because Si Yue seemed to have no background or backing, he had to swallow this mistreatment? The leader of this production team must be blind. They couldn’t even see whom they couldn’t afford to offend the most. Anyway, Yuan Xin had given his warning. If the team was still being stupid and dared to touch Si Yue’s bottom line to blindly raise the rating or to kiss Fang Xueruo’s stinky feet, then they only had themselves to blame for the aftermath.
When Yuan Xin was busy threatening the director, Si Yue made his appearance on the camera.
When Si Yue appeared, he proved the extent of his popularity, and the server used to broadcast the livestream almost collapsed by the sudden surge of viewers.
The casts were no less excited. They never expected that the production team would be able to invite such a big figure. As everyone knew, Si Yue was always low-key and rarely participated in variety shows. But as long as he appeared in one, the show’s popularity was guaranteed to explode!
Sure enough, the number of people watching the livestream instantly surpassed the historical peak and still rising upward.
Hua Caicai no longer cared about her image and screamed like a fangirl.
“It’s Si Yue! Ah, ah, aaaah!!!”
“I’m not hallucinating, right? It’s really him?!”
Other casts also turned into instant fans. They were all extremely surprised. This season, the production team was very mysterious and didn’t reveal who the special guests were until the last minute.
With Si Yue joining, their show would definitely take a huge leap forward! For them, there were only advantages and no disadvantages!
“Welcome, welcome. We warmly welcome you!” The six casts raised their hands in a tacit understanding and waved non-existent ribbons.
As if he was walking on the runway, Si Yue walked gracefully with his long legs, gathering everyone’s eyes on him. Once he arrived, his lips curled into a friendly smile as he greeted: “Hello everyone.”