Chapter 98: The Reality Show
Gu Zijin compressed his lips and said,
“Grandma, if you don’t want to lose your grandson, you’d better stop doing this, otherwise I don’t know what kind of things I’ll do to you.”
Gu Zijin stood up and walked away. Elderly Lady Gu threw her walking stick away straightly and kept coughing with anger. Nanny Chen who came over to comfort the old lady heard the latter saying furiously,
“I shouldn’t have told him to look for his kid, or else he wouldn’t have brought that slut to our house!”
“Elderly Lady Gu, Xiaobai is the Gu’s boy after all. Calm down, please.”
“If she hasn’t given birth to Xiaobai, I wouldn’t have tolerated her for this long!”
After saying that, Elderly Lady Gu walked upstairs in anger.
Qin Muxuan had been waiting outside the car. As Gu Zijin walked over, they both got into the car. Then she couldn’t help but ask,
“Gu Zijin, did you say anything to Elderly Lady Gu?”
“Nothing.”
Gu Zijin looked ahead and started the engine. Actually, Qin Muxuan had already known the answer of her own question. The relationship between Gu Zijin and Elderly Lady Gu had got worse and worse because of her existence. She had thought that if she left, this family might change back to the originally peaceful state. However, she didn’t want to part with Xiaobai and gradually became reluctant to leave Gu Zijin.
Sometimes one would really get addicted to relying on someone else. For example, now she had already got used to relying on Gu Zijin.
In the filming site.
Qin Xiaobai had just signed a contract to shoot a new film in which he played the role of an orphan with a poor family background. The story told how the orphan grew up, so Qin Xiaobai only needed to play the role in his boyhood.
As he was reading the script, a glass of coke was handed to him. He got startled first and then raised his head. As he saw Yan Yuxiao’s face, he got sullen right away with his mouth twitched,
“Miss Yan, what are you doing here?”
“Xiaobai, I’m going to play in the same movie with you. Don’t you know that I’ll play your mother as a guest actor?”
Qin Xiaobai uttered ‘Oh’ and then lowered his head to recite the script without paying any attention to Yan Yuxiao. The latter held the coke in her hand awkwardly. The fact that Qin Xiaobai had completely ignored the coke irritated her a bit. This time she had paid to act in this film in order to work with Qin Xiaobai. Little did she expect that this little boy would completely neglect her.
‘When I saved this kid, even Qin Muxuan has changed her opinion of me, why does this child have such a great prejudice against me?’
Thinking of that, Yan Yuxiao asked in a gentle voice,
“Xiaobai, I see that you don’t like drinking coke, what do you like to drink?”Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.
“Miss Yan, my manager will buy me drinks if I’m thirsty, please don’t bother.”
Yan Yuxiao got a bit angry hearing that and then stood up to do something else. After Yan Yuxiao left, Qin Xiaobai raised his head, feeling a sense of relief. He didn’t know why he disliked Yan Yuxiao a lot. However, he knew that this Miss Yan wanted to take his dad away, and he didn’t want his Dabai to be sad.
After Qin Xiaobai changed into his costume and walked into the movie set, a figure showed up in the corner quietly. As Qin Muxuan watched Qin Xiaobai working hard in acting, she was a bit touched. Yan Yuxiao, having caught sight of Qin Muxuan, got a bit displeased and thought to herself, ‘Why did they let in the irrelevant person?”
After Qin Xiaobai finished shooting, he saw Qin Muxuan waiting for him on his seat. Then he jumped over with a cheerful look,
“Mommy, you are here! I thought you wouldn’t come.”
Qin Muxuan held Qin Xiaobai in her arms tightly. Then the boy rubbed her face. As he saw the lunch box on the table, his eyes sparkled instantly,
“Dabai, what did you make for me?”
“I made some snow fungus soup.”
Qin Xiaobai liked everything Qin Muxuan cooked. Right now, he was drinking the soup one spoon after another. Seeing that, Yan Yuxiao took a photo of the mother and son and sent it to the paparazzi. ‘Since you have to come, I guess it’s not a problem that the media would know about this, right?’
Qin Muxuan couldn’t stay for too long. Then Qin Xiaobai looked at Qin Muxuan, feeling reluctant to part with her,
“Dabai, you should come to see me more often.”
“No problem.”
Qin Xiaobai’s manager happened to see that. Although there was some negative news about Qin Muxuan before, those stories had already been blocked. She then had an idea of letting Qin Xiaobai and Qin Muxuan join a reality show. ‘The audience ratings will be rather high, and it’s good for making Xiaobai even more popular.
In the evening, after Qin Muxuan had gone back home, she offered to cook dinner. At dinner table, Gu Zijin tasted all the dishes she made as an encouragement to her. While Qin Xiaobai was gulping down the food, something suddenly occurred to him. Then he looked to Qin Muxuan and said,
“Dabai, are you interested in doing a reality show?”
“A reality show?”
“Yeah, my manager said that to me and told me to ask if you wanted to do the show with me. When those people on the Internet see you on the show, they wouldn’t make absurd assumptions of you.”
When those people rebuked Qin Muxuan on the Internet for no reason, Qin Xiaobai was furious. He didn’t understand why someone would slander his mother who was such a great person.
Qin Muxuan had wanted to refuse. However, seeing the expectation in the boy’s eyes, she didn’t know how to turn him down. After a long while, she said,
“Fine.”
After Qin Xiaobai heard Qin Muxuan’s answer, his eyes were filled with excitement. At night, his manager sent the materials about the show to the Gu’s house. Qin Muxuan checked the papers, finding that it was a family travelling show called ‘Travelling with My Mom’ in which a lot of stars would participate. Qin Muxuan got a bit surprised at first because she thought that only the star parents would be invited.
‘Why me?’ Qin Muxuan, mouth twitched, took a glance at Gu Zijin who was dealing with his business affairs. Then she realized that Gu Zijin might be the reason why she had been invited. Although Gu Zijin wasn’t in the show business, he was even more famous than the top stars.
Elderly Lady Gu was the first one who raised an objection when hearing that Qin Muxuan and Qin Xiaobai would join a reality show together. Mrs. Gu tried to persuade the old lady,
“Mother, let’s not interfere with the young people’s affairs. You know Zijin well. If you force him too hard, you’ll make everyone suffer.”
Elderly Lady Gu, having considered Mrs. Gu’s words, could only try her best to restrain her anger.
It would take a month to make the show, so Qin Muxuan asked for a month’s leave from Qin Feng. She had thought that he would disagree since the work in the firm was quite busy these days. However, Qin Feng didn’t say anything and granted her leave at once. Then Qin Muxuan only said thanks to him.
Gu Zijin had no opinion about Qin Muxuan joining the show, being neither supportive nor unsupportive. Then, Qin Muxuan began to concentrate on the preparation. There were a lot of things she needed to prepare for the trip with Xiaobai, so she had to do it early.
As time went by, the show was about to start. Today, Qin Muxuan and Qin Xiaobai finally sat in the car which had been prepared for them by the staff of the show.