Ever since Su Yuqing returned from the film set, she had been constantly keeping an eye on the news online.
The development trajectory of this world was basically consistent with what she remembered, except for... Gu Suisui's participation in the role of the female lead's childhood in Tit for Tat.
This hadn't happened in her previous life.
Su Yuqing had complex feelings towards Gu Suisui in this life. She hoped that she would become bad, as vicious and scheming as she was in her previous life, so that she could retaliate against her without any psychological pressure. But sometimes, another thought would flash through her mind, hoping that Gu Suisui could continue to be as innocent and naive as she was now.
Su Yuqing didn't know why she had such thoughts. She should hate this woman very much! In fact, she had always hated her. Whenever she thought of what Gu Suisui had done to her in her previous life, she couldn't wait to skin her, tear out her tendons, and let her taste the suffering she had once endured!!
But the contradiction was that when facing Gu Suisui, who was filming with her on the set, she was confused and hesitant.
Perhaps it was because Gu Suisui's personality at this age was very different from the Gu Suisui she remembered. Su Yuqing considered herself to be a person with a conscience, so she couldn't bear to hurt a child who would smile sweetly at everyone every day.
Buzz—the phone on Su Yuqing’s desk vibrated. It was a WeChat notification.
Su Yuqing, who was caught in a dilemma, came back to her senses. She opened WeChat and found that it was just a screenshot of a game record sent by an elementary school classmate. She felt a faint sense of loss in her heart, as if something she had been looking forward to had suddenly fallen through. Even she herself didn't realize this—
These days after leaving the film crew, Gu Suisui would often send messages to Su Yuqing. The three-and-a-half-year-old child couldn't type, so she could only send various emoticons on WeChat.
Of course, Su Yuqing hadn't replied to any of these messages. She had only reluctantly agreed to add her as a contact because she was annoyed by the child's persistence. Given their relationship as enemies in their previous lives, it was already good enough that she hadn't directly blacklisted and deleted her.
However, Gu Suisui had never given up on contacting her Su jiejie (older sister), and she would send "good morning" and "good night" emoticons on time every day.
But starting yesterday, the emoticons were gone.
"Qingqing, why did you come back at noon today?" The man who entered the door was wearing a black suit and looked about thirty years old. He had thick eyebrows, large eyes, and a heroic appearance. His facial features were somewhat similar to Su Yuqing's.
Seeing him walking with a limp, Su Yuqing quickly put down her phone, walked over to support his arm, and asked with a worried expression, "Dad, what happened to you?"
Su Yuanlang smiled and waved it off. “It’s nothing. I just slipped and fell. I’ll be fine after applying some medicine.”
Su Yuqing looked at the wrinkled suit pants on her father's body and frowned. She went to the TV cabinet in the living room to find the family's medicine box. While helping him apply safflower oil, she said, "Dad, I think you should go to the hospital to get it checked. What if you injured other parts of your body?"
Su Yuanlang waved his hand and said quickly, "It's not as serious as you said. Maybe it'll be better tomorrow after applying safflower oil."
The two of them were close, and Su Yuqing could smell the scent of alcohol that was deliberately covered up on Su Yuanlang's body.
...Her dad must have gone to a social event again. He was afraid that she would worry if she saw him coming home late at night, so after the business talk at the dinner table ended, he slept in the car for a night. Only when he thought she shouldn't be home at noon did he find a driver to send him back.
The Su family had a small company, but the company was still in the development stage, and Su Yuanlang, the company boss, also needed to drink and socialize in person to get projects.
Since Su Yuqing's mother passed away from illness, Su Yuanlang had devoted himself to work. He left early and returned late every day, often not eating at home. Su Yuqing had breakfast and lunch at the school cafeteria every day, and dinner was made for her by the hired aunt who came over at the appointed time.
In fact, before Gu Suisui and her mother entered the family, her dad had never treated her unfairly in any way, giving her all his love and preferring to suffer himself in order to give her a comfortable life.
Looking at her dad, whose eyebrows revealed a hint of fatigue, Su Yuqing thought that perhaps she could use her memories from her previous life to do some profitable business.
For example, buying a house, speculating in stocks, etc. But buying a house required enough capital, and she, an elementary school student, couldn't possibly have that much money. Besides, buying a house wouldn't make money in the short term. She would have to wait for the house price to rise and sell the house before she could earn money.
It seemed that she still had to find a way to make money by speculating in stocks first. As for her studies... Su Yuqing had graduated from university for several years before her rebirth. It was a piece of cake to compete with a group of elementary school students in the final exam. She didn't have to worry about not doing well at all.
"By the way, Qingqing, you haven't told me why you came back at noon yet?" Su Yuanlang originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that his daughter hadn't come home to catch up on sleep in bed, but who knew he would see her as soon as he entered the door? Now he couldn't hide.
Su Yuqing casually made an excuse: "Dad, I just came back to get something. I forgot to bring the textbooks I need for class in the afternoon." Actually, she forgot to bring her phone. She was afraid of missing a notification for an audition recently.
Since she said she forgot to bring her books, Su Yuqing had to put on a good show. She returned to her room and randomly took a book from the bookshelf.
Still thinking about her plan to make money in this life, Su Yuqing opened her laptop, searched for the trends of recent years’ stock performances, and jotted down the codes of a few stocks that were guaranteed to soar in the future.
She was just about to close the computer and go back to school to continue her class when she noticed that there was a topic on the Weibo trending search list that was rising at a rocket-like speed. In less than half an hour, it squeezed out the social news that was originally in first place and reached the top of the trending searches!
—#Traveling with Babies Officially Announces Guest Lineup#
Su Yuqing knew about the variety show Traveling with Babies. It had started the craze for parent-child variety shows in the future, but she remembered that the celebrity guest lineup at that time seemed to be different from this time?
Ke Jingyang, a male star who would become a top celebrity in the entertainment industry in the future, shouldn't have participated in this kind of parent-child variety show before??
Could it be that she remembered wrongly?
Su Yuqing was also a little unsure. She was only interested in filming in her previous life. She knew everything about who starred in movies like Tit for Tat and how much the box office was, but she didn't really know much about what guests were on these variety shows.
On the other hand, Gu Suisui in her previous life loved to be on various variety shows the most, and she always maintained a well-behaved woman persona. From the time she became popular with the role of the princess of a fallen kingdom in the movie Dormancy, she had always maintained this image in front of the public, day after day for more than ten years.
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On the other hand, after the unremitting efforts of the celebrity parents, the handmade dragon's beard candy was finally completed. Although the craftsmanship was definitely not as good as the master craftsmen in the shop, they had at least come up with a rough shape.
Ke Jingyang carefully pulled the sugary strands into fine threads to make dragon’s beard candy, then followed the instructions to sprinkle shredded coconut, white sesame, and crushed peanuts on top, wrapping it all together... Just like that, one piece of dragon’s beard candy was done.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, Ke Jingyang looked at the candy in his hand with a sense of self-satisfaction. The more he looked at it, the more he felt he’d done a great job—his whole morning hadn’t gone to waste after all.
Just then, the adorable children who had gone to collect ingredients also returned.
Ke Jingyang stuffed all of the small box of dragon's beard candy that he had made into Gu Suisui's hands, coughed lightly, and said, "Here, it's for you. You have to eat it all up." This was the result of his hard work all morning! It would be a waste if she didn't eat it all!
This small box of dragon's beard candy was clearly made specifically for little Gu Suisui, but the tone of his voice sounded particularly awkward, as if he was forcing her to eat something particularly nasty.
But fortunately, Gu Suisui never relied solely on her eyes to judge people. She could tell whether a person was good to her by sensing the changes in human emotions.
Although this older brother always bullied her at first, he had given her almost everything delicious these past two days... For example, the steamed buns yesterday and this candy today.
The little cotton candy thought that this older brother was also a good person (/≧▽≦/)~
Ke Jingyang didn't know that he had been labeled as a "good person" by a certain little one. Even if he knew, he would only sigh and shake his head. Perhaps in the eyes of this carefree little one, there were no bad people in this world.
Unlike Gu Suisui, who was overjoyed to receive the dragon's beard candy, Huo Ling'er, who came in later, had red eyes from crying. Seeing this, Zhang Huijin took off her gloves, helped her wipe away her tears, and asked, "Ling'er, what's wrong? Didn't you go to collect ingredients with everyone? Why are you crying for no reason?"
"Mommy, Brother Qingyan wouldn't help me carry things!" When she mentioned this, Huo Ling'er felt extremely wronged. Why did little sister Suisui have someone to help her carry things when she couldn't carry them, but she didn't?!
Chang Yi, who was on the side, was stunned when he heard Huo Ling'er's accusation. Then, he looked at his son and asked in a deep voice, “Qingyan, is what Ling’er said true?”
Chang Qingyan, who had been accused by his friend to an adult, still stood tall and raised his head: "Dad, I was almost unable to carry it myself just now. I didn't have any extra strength to help Sister Ling'er carry things."
Chang Yi looked at his son, who had a "I didn't do anything wrong" expression on his face, and said, "Then next time you encounter this situation, you can first let your sister wait for you in place. After you come back and put your things down, you can go over and help your sister carry them."
Chang Yi had always educated his children this way at home. He wouldn't blame him without explanation just because of one thing. He would reason with him properly. What's more, he hadn't done anything wrong in today's matter. It was just that his method was wrong. There was actually a better solution.
Chang Qingyan's little head turned, and he felt that what his dad had said just now seemed to make sense: "Dad, I know. I'll help Sister Ling'er carry things next time."
"...Qingyan, I'm sorry. It's all my fault for spoiling Ling'er too much, so she can't even carry these things." Before coming to this show, Zhang Huijin had told her daughter that no matter what they did, there would be many cameras around filming them. She couldn't be as willful here as she was at home.
For example, in this matter just now, no matter from which perspective, Ling'er was in the wrong.
Zhang Huijin was thinking about how to end this matter properly. She thought for a moment and gave the handmade dragon's beard candy to Chang Qingyan, saying in a gentle tone, "This dragon's beard candy is Auntie giving to you on behalf of Ling'er. Let's just let go of the unpleasantness that happened between the two of you today, okay?"
"Okay!"
Children of this age didn't dislike eating candy. Chang Qingyan got a box of dragon's beard candy and immediately shook hands with Huo Ling'er and made peace.
Gu Suisui, who had completed her task, handed her small basket to a staff member on the side. When she turned her head, she saw a little person squatting on the steps in front of the store.
"Brother Doudou, why are you here?"
Lin Doudou, who had been sulking for quite a while, suddenly heard someone asking him a question. His little mouth dropped, and his voice was on the verge of tears: “I lost my little basket.”
The little confused one had only now remembered that he had forgotten his things on the road.
Gu Suisui pursed her lips and smiled, saying, "It's okay, I can go with you to find it."
After saying that, the energetic little cotton candy pulled Lin Doudou and walked out the door. Their cameraman followed close behind.
In fact, as soon as the basket containing the ingredients was dropped, Lin Doudou's cameraman had reminded him if he had forgotten something, but the little one only cared about being relaxed and left without looking back, completely forgetting about it.
The two children walked along the road they had come back on and finally found the discarded small basket by the stone bridge. The ingredients inside were all there.
"See, I told you we could find it this way!" Gu Suisui said with a proud expression.
Lin Doudou also complimented her very politely: "Sister Suisui, you're so amazing."
They didn't know that the basket had been put back by the production team's staff. After Lin Doudou forgot the basket on the road, a staff member helped pick it up. They didn't expect that the two children would actually return to look for it.
Ke Jingyang, who knew that Gu Suisui and Lin Doudou had gone off together to look for something, came over and happened to overhear their childish conversation. He couldn't help but stroke his forehead and sigh—
These two little kids, one carefree and the other scatterbrained, are seriously a perfect match.