Xing Wanshuang suddenly stood up and regretfully stared at the red print on her blue skirt. Her delicate eyebrows knitted: “My limited edition VIRO!”
Beside her, Xing Yichen handed over a paper towel. With a light smile on his face, he comforted, “Never mind, brother will buy one for you again.”
“Brother!” Xing Wanshuang complained urgently: “It's all that Qiao Moyu's fault! Are those people online blind?”
Noticing that Xing Yicheng remained silent, Xing Wanshuang's frosty eyes sharply locked onto him: “Brother, you shouldn't suddenly have feelings for her, right?”
Xing Yicheng stared back and shook his head: “How's that possible?”
Then, as if to prove his words, his eyes flickered with a cold sneer: “That woman is just as ugly as when she's wearing nothing!”
Xing Wanshuang was unhappy at first because of her ruined skirt, but her bad mood disappeared after hearing her brother's words. She suddenly smiled brightly: “Yes! She's not as pretty as Sister Ruohuan!”
Then, she asked: “By the way, is Ruohuan coming back from France soon?”
Xing Yichen thought of Yu Ruohuan, who should now be called Qiao Ruohuan. There was a hint of tenderness in his smile as he replied: “Well, she'll be leaving the red carpet tomorrow and should return the day after tomorrow.”
“Brother, will you be her companion next time on the red carpet?” Xing Wanshuang asked again.
“Okay, let me check my schedule then!” Xing Yicheng said while staring at the screen. He found that even though most of the scenes were focused on Ye Peicheng at the moment, the comments below were still mostly focused on Qiao Moyu.
“Looking forward to seeing my hubby's first love appear on screen!”
“Husband is so handsome! When will you have more scenes with Miss Moyu?”
“Hubby's costume matches well with Moyu Sister!”
Unexpectedly, Xing Yichen's heart weighed down in discomfort. Not wanting to watch for much longer, he stood up: “Xiao Shuang, I'm heading back first. There's a meeting early tomorrow morning.”
His sister stood up and walked him to the door. “Alright brother, go back and rest. I'm going to sleep after I finish watching the next episode.”
After leaving Xing Wanshuang's place, Xing Yichen sat in the backseat of the car while his driver drove slowly to his personal villa.
The car was playing its own music playlist at first, but then the driver accidentally touched one of the dashboard buttons, replacing the soundtrack with the radio.
They could hear the host announcing: “Today is the premier of this summer's drama, Sheng Shi. I believe many of our friends are watching the first episode in front of their TV screens, but there are also many of our friends who are busy working at midnight, still on their way home. Then, let's listen to the first episode 'Blossom of Sheng Shi' of the drama 'Sheng Shi' on this lonely night…”
Soon, the music played, and a delicate woman's voice sang, “Night has fallen, the rain is light…”
Xing Yichen thought the song was somewhat familiar. It seemed to have played when Qiao Moyu first appeared.
As he listened to the song, he pulled out his mobile phone out of his pocket without thinking. The car passed through the quiet midnight street.
There was a game app on his cell phone. When he opened it, an ad for 'Sheng Shi' appeared on the front page.
He closed it and proceeded to his game. After playing for two minutes, the familiar prelude music sounded again. Then, the phone screen blurred and was replaced with a clear picture of a river surrounded by small, yellow flowers. There was only one person–a girl, washing her clothes by the river while playing with the water. She turned around and smiled charmingly at the camera.
Chapter 26
Qiao Moyu wore a very ordinary coarse blue dress, along with a matching blue tie on her hair. However, as soon as she turned around, it seemed as if the bright world around her paled instantly into black and white behind to her dazzling beauty.
Her eyes curved up into crescent moons as she laughed, and the bottom of her eyes seemed to glow with the world. Xing Yichen clearly felt his breath taken away for just a second.
However, that shot of Qiao Moyu was too short, and the picture quickly switched to another one.
Xing Yicheng switched off his cell phone impatiently.
Sheng Shi drama's premier had good ratings and a great response from the audience. Even a small star like Qiao Moyu caught several fans' attention within the few seconds she appeared. Her social media followers increased from 100,000 to 800,000, but the actress herself only took a mere glance at it before looking somewhere else.
Since she had no more scenes left to perform, there wasn't anything planned for today. So she decided take her sister-in-law and Luo Luo to go shopping at the mall.
Qiao Moyu has now figured out how her son thinks. Although his small mouth was pursed and he appeared reluctant, his big eyes were definitely full of joy.
Perhaps the original owner didn't spend much time with Luo Luo because her heart was only devoted to Xing Yichen. The present Qiao Moyu knew that the child must be craving a mother's love, but he subconsciously acts aloof, which makes him appear both proud and charming.
Looking at Luo Luo, she was reminded of her baby niece who was as sweet as honey. Unlike this boy, she laughed when she was happy and cried when she was upset. That little niece never concealed her emotions.
Thus, when Qiao Moyu first met Luo Luo, she felt a somewhat distressed for him.
She stared at the boy. Since she inherited this body, she would treat the original host's son as her very own. She will take care of Luo Luo and raise him in love, so he can laugh when he's happy and speak out boldly what he wants to say!
The three of them went shopping at the mall together. They went to a dessert shop at first and bought a pair of double skin double skin milk and some ice cream. The toddler was very curious since he's never tasted these before.
As soon as a small scoop was placed in his mouth, the little boy was amazed by the cool sensation. His dark, round eyes seemed to sparkle.
“Does Luo Luo like it?” Qiao Moyu planned to teach him how to express his feelings out of his own initiative. She continued on to say: “If Luo Luo likes it, mother will take you to eat it every week!”
The toddler bit his lip as he stared at the dessert on the plate. He looked back at Qiao Moyu and his lips moved slightly. The boy's fanlike lashes fluttered as he bowed his head low and gently replied: “Luo Luo doesn't like it.”
At that moment, Qiao Moyu felt as if her heart was pierced with a needle.
Nevertheless, she raised the corner of her lips to a smile and sent another spoonful of ice cream into his mouth: “Luo Luo should say what's truly on his mind! For example, 'Mom, I like this dessert a lot, so I want to eat it every week!'”
The toddler looked up at her for a few seconds. He hesitated for a moment, then cautiously asked: “If Luo Luo likes it, does that mean mother will really bring Luo Luo here every week?”
Qiao Moyu extended her pinky before Luo Luo and said, “Pinky promise! In the future, mom will bring Luo Luo to this shop every week. Not only this, if you want to eat other delicious treats, mom will buy them for you!”
The dimness in Luo Luo's eyes disappeared and his whole face brightened up with joy. He clapped his cheeks and laughed happily for the first time: “Thank you mom!”
Chapter 27
After enjoying some dessert, the three of them went to the supermarket to buy some water. Since the line was too long, Qiao Moyu left Nanny Yu and Luo Luo to wait in line while she fetched their groceries.
Just then, several fashionably dressed girls passed by Luo Luo and went to a VIP counter next to him.
There was a billboard of Xing Wanshuang at the counter's entrance.
One of the girls asked, “By the way, have any of you seen Shuang Shuang's new drama?”
“I saw it last night, she was so gorgeous!” another girl replied.
“Yes, yes, Shuang Shuang and Film Emperor Ye look so great together! It's a weekly broadcasting, so it sucks that we have to wait!”
“Yeah, nowadays TV dramas are broadcasted weekly so there' no choice but to wait…by the way, a new actress named Qiao Moyu appeared yesterday!”
Upon hearing this, Luo Luo suddenly turned and looked towards the girls' direction.
“Oh, are you talking about the Film Emperor's first love in the drama? She looks good.”
“What do mean 'looks good'? Obviously at first glance, she's just a fox! And what were fan's calling her? They said she was every man's white moonlight!”
“But I was really amazed when she first appeared. I wonder where she had her cosmetic surgery done. Ha ha, in other words, she hasn't acted in a show before, has she? Is this her first drama?
“Maybe. If she's able to act alongside Film Emperor Ye on her very first drama AND play the male lead's first love, maybe she slept with other men to get her role!”
“Seriously?”
“Of course, people like her are a complete mess. If Qiao Moyu was driven out by the Qiao family, how else was she able to get the acting role for Female no.3? So, ah, she's just someone too dirty, even for our Shuang Shuang's shoes!”
Luo Luo stood only two or three meters away from the three girls, so he could clearly hear their conversation. Although he couldn't understand most of what they said, he could sense the obviously hostility and disgust coming from the girl in red whenever she spoke of Qiao Moyu.
Luo Luo clenched his little fist angrily.
Since the girl in red wouldn't stop talking bad about his mother, the boy turned to his nanny and said, “Aunt, Luo Luo wants bananas!”
His nanny usually carries water and fruits for the toddler to snack on whenever they head out. She she pulled out a banana from her backpack and peels it open for him.
The little toddler seemed really hungry; he opened his mouth wide and took a big bite. Before swallowing it completely, he took several quick bites until he stuffed the very last one into his small mouth.
Fearing that he might choke, Nanny Yu quickly bent over to rummage for a water bottle in her bag, but by the time she pulled it out, she discovered that the toddler had disappeared.
Feeling anxious, she looked around while shouting: “Luo Luo! Luo Luo!”
At that moment, there was a sudden 'bang' sound, followed by a girl's scream. When Nanny Yu turned around, she saw a girl in red, just three meters away, step on a banana peel before falling heavily on the ground in an awkward posture.
And close to where she fell was a billboard. Luo Luo's little figure hid behind the board while he desperately struggled to swallow the banana in his mouth.
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Author's Afterword:
Well, our little Luo has a potential to become a Villain Boss. Mom says she needs to educate her son well; violence is wrong. Of course, if the other party offended him badly, he could slap them back.