Chapter 65: Feeling Aggrieved
Because the filming schedule was quite tight, Qin Xiaobai had to go to the studio tomorrow. Yan Yuxiao came to the Gu’s house more frequently than before on the pretext of picking Qin Xiaobai up and always brought lots of snacks and toys to the boy.
On the van, Yan Yuxiao turned the music on and looked at Qin Xiaobai. But the latter only turned around to look at the scene outside. Yan Yuxiao then said,
“Xiaobai, what do you want to eat for lunch after finishing the shooting? I can take you to the restaurant.”
“No, I want to eat the things that Dabai and Nanny Chen cook.”
Hearing that, Yan Yuxiao felt a bit awkward and had to stop talking. These days, she found that Qin Xiaobai was not impressed by the snacks and toys at all. Although this boy was only five years old, he was actually hard to deal with than lots of the adults. Yan Yuxiao closed her eyes and started to think. ‘Qin Xiaobai has a prejudice against me at the beginning, otherwise he wouldn’t have threatened me in the restaurant. I have to do something to win his favor.’
Director Chen was quite satisfied with Qin Xiaobai since this boy had given a vivid performance of the character in the film which was a boy named Lu Cheng. When a lot of fans of Yan Yuxiao had come to visit her, they all couldn’t help but fix their eyes on the delicate chubby boy.
“Who’s that boy? He’s so adorable.”
“That’s right. My heart is softened.”
Hearing her fans’ words, Yan Yuxiao felt that the boy had stolen her thunder. Then she said in a cold voice with a frown,
“I still need to work afterwards, please leave now.”
Her fans looked at each other at a loss. They only liked Yan Yuxiao because of the latter’s appearance. Now that they had witnessed how rude she was, they started to wonder whether it was worth liking her. However, since none of them dared to offend Yan Yuxiao, they still listened to her and walked out.
After a short while, Qin Xiaobai’s photos were spread all over the Internet. When Qin Muxuan was at work, she saw Xiaobai’s photos on Weibo. Seeing Xiaobai lowering his head and trying his best to recite the script with a serious look on his face, Qin Muxuan was a bit touched. At this moment, Qin Feng walked over to her and put a cup of coffee on her desk, saying,
“You like kids?”
“Huh? No, no.”
Qin Muxuan explained in panic. Qin Feng, with a meaningful look in his eyes, didn’t say anything else. These days, he gradually found that Qin Muxuan was like a riddle and always gave him surprises. Not only was she able to cook and good at designing, but she was picked up by someone who drove a black Bentley a few days ago, which made him more interested in her.
However, Qin Feng couldn’t help but wonder what kind of relationship Qin Muxuan had with Gu Zijin whose social status was rather different from hers.
Then, Qin Feng left his doubt aside and sat down to work.
After three months, as Qin Xiaobai was about to finish shooting, lots of the behind-the-scenes footages were spread out. As people saw Qin Xiaobai on Weibo, they started commenting like mad:© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
@Mashed Potato: The boy gets the best genes! Oh my gosh! He’s so beautiful!
@Tomato and Broccoli: Ahhhhhhhh, I can keep my virginity for him for twenty years!
@Salted fish and Eggplant Pot: I don’t know which girl would be so lucky to be this boy’s girlfriend. Alas!
When Qin Muxuan saw those comments, she couldn’t help but raise the corner of her mouth. She remembered the time when she had hidden herself and Xiaobai from place to place and lived in a slum. At that time, Xiaobai was bullied by others at school because of his good grades. Now seeing that so many people liked Xiaobai, Qin Muxuan assumed that Xiaobai must be happy about that.
However, Qin Xiaobai whose name had become the top trending search didn’t feel glad about that at all and was only thinking about how much money he had earned. As he calculated his wages, he couldn’t help but give a beaming smile. Seeing his joyful look, Yan Yuxiao approached him right away and asked,
“Xiaobai, what makes you so happy? Today’s shooting is difficult, how about eating some ice-cream later?”
When he heard the words ‘ice cream’, Qin Xiaobai’s ears moved a bit. Yan Yuxiao caught his reaction and said in a hurry,
“How about treating you to Haagen-Dazs’s new ice cream?”
Over the past three months, although Yan Yuxiao and Qin Xiaobai had played mother and son in the film, Qin Xiaobai only clung to her and acted like her cute baby when they were in front of the camera. Every time Director Chen called ‘cut’, Qin Xiaobai changed the look on his face right away just like his father and wished that he could stay ten meters away from her. Yan Yuxiao had doubted several times if it was because she was too ugly. Though she was just a B-list star, she was still lots of men’s dream girl. She didn’t understand why Xiaobai hated her so much.
After Qin Xiaobai heard the word ‘Haagen-Dazs’, he found himself in a dilemma right away. He truly wanted to eat ice cream, but he didn’t want to eat the ice cream which was bought by Yan Yuxiao. Suddenly, he got an idea. Then he stared at Yan Yuxiao with an innocent look in his eyes, saying,
“Miss Yan, can you buy ice cream for Dabai too? I want to bring the ice cream back home to eat with Dabai.”
The smile on Yan Yuxiao’s face went stiff. She was willing to buy ice cream for Qin Xiaobai, but not for Qin Muxuan for sure. Seeing the reluctant look on her face, Qin Xiaobai then twitched his mouth and said,
“If you don’t want to buy ice cream for Dabai, I don’t want to eat either.”
Yan Yuxiao could only put on a smile and said,
“Of course I’ll buy it for her. I’m not that stingy.”
Qin Xiaobai ordered the most expensive ice cream straightly. As Yan Yuxiao went to pay the bill in sunglasses, someone shouted out,
“Yan Yuxiao!”
While Yan Yuxiao was in a daze, there were already a few people taking pictures of her with their phones. Normally, she would already ask her assistant to drive those people away. However, now that Qin Xiaobai was still with her, she then held Qin Xiaobai up directly and said in a soft voice,
“How does it taste?”
Qin Xiaobai was totally repulsed by her action. When he was held up by Yan Yuxiao all of a sudden, the passengers had taken photos of them before Qin Xiaobai had time to react. After that, Qin Xiaobai said with a sullen face,
“Let go of me.”
As Yan Yuxiao put Qin Xiaobai down, the latter ran out of the shop right away. Yan Yuxiao had to walk in a hurry to catch up with him while explaining to the passengers that Qin Xiaobai didn’t like it when others took pictures of him. When Yan Yuxiao walked out of the shop, she slowed down right away since she had already achieved her aim of letting others take intimate pictures of her and Xiaobai.
In the meantime, she stared at Qin Xiaobai with a cold look in her eyes, thinking, ‘I only treat you wicked boy so nicely to marry into the Gu’s family.’
After Qin Muxuan had prepared the meal, she was hugged by Qin Xiaobai from behind. The boy said in a sullen voice,
“Dabai, I want to take a bath. I was hugged by Miss Yan today.”‘
Qin Muxuan got dazed at first. Then she held Xiaobai up and said,
“Xiaobai, don’t talk like that. You’ll hurt her feelings.”
“But…”
Qin Xiaobai muttered, feeling a bit aggrieved. He had mysophobia and didn’t like to be hugged by others. When he acted in the movie, it was quite hard for him to persuade himself to get on intimate terms with Yan Yuxiao. After finishing the shooting, he still felt very uncomfortable when being held up by Yan Yuxiao all of a sudden.