Chapter 10
Late at night, in the quiet children’s room, Wei Maomao tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
She had only stayed up late for a few nights, and her biological clock was already messed up… Wei Maomao sighed, it was a waste that she had deliberately gone to bed early today.
This was the last night before the show. When dawn broke, the program team would come to their house to start filming, from getting up to going out, from getting on the plane to arriving at the destination. Then… she would be able to see Cheng Tingyan.
As expected, she couldn’t sleep because she was too nervous.
There was nothing she could do about it. After two lifetimes, tomorrow would be her first official meeting with Cheng Tingyan, the kind where they would exchange names and face each other for real. It was really hard for her not to overthink things.
In her previous life, Wei Maomao first learned about Cheng Tingyan when she was in sixth grade. At that time, a girl group survival show was very popular, and everyone was talking about it during breaks. Wei Maomao also followed the trend and watched it. From then on, she started to catch up on the sitcoms, movies, and parenting reality shows that Cheng Tingyan had starred in earlier.
This happy binge-watching continued for two years. It wasn’t until Wei Maomao was in her second year of junior high school, when her mother died unexpectedly, her father became an alcoholic and was scammed into debt, that she became exhausted from life and lost interest in entertainment, and gradually paid less attention to news about Cheng Tingyan.
A year later, Wei Maomao was in her third year of junior high school. Wei Chengli was falsely accused by an actress on set, and Cheng Tingyan spoke up for him online. From then on, Wei Maomao’s feelings for Cheng Tingyan went beyond the simple admiration of a fan from the previous years, and she felt more admiration, gratitude, and many other things that she couldn’t explain later.
It was also at that time that Wei Maomao followed some netizens on Weibo who spoke up for her father.
But at that time, Wei Maomao didn’t expect that one of the people she casually followed was Cheng Tingyan’s alternate account…
Later, the matter of Wei Chengli being falsely accused didn’t last long, and he was eventually cleared of all charges. But perhaps it was because of the series of blows, the last straw broke the camel’s back and caused him to have some mental problems.
Then Wei Maomao’s life became taking care of her father, dropping out of school to work, and paying off debts. Later, she lost her father, continued to work, pay off debts, work, pay off debts… This cycle continued.
In those dark years, the only thing that made her feel like life was still worth living was Cheng Tingyan.
A silent fan, watching all her dramas and variety shows, over and over again.
Their relationship was that of strangers separated by a screen.
It wasn’t until Wei Maomao was eighteen years old that she saw Cheng Tingyan for the first time, a real person off the screen.
It was Wei Maomao’s last day working at the airport coffee shop. A customer was bumped into by a child, and coffee spilled all over him. She grabbed a pack of tissues to help, and then she didn’t know whether to be surprised that the person who took the tissues was actually Cheng Tingyan, or to first look away from the phone screen on the table next to her.
The Weibo interface she accidentally glanced at, the familiar username.
With her damn good eyesight, Wei Maomao discovered that Cheng Tingyan’s alternate Weibo account was someone she had been mutuals with for several years, and they had even interacted occasionally in the past few years…
Before she could react further, Cheng Tingyan was taken away by her manager in less than a minute.
They only had the interaction of handing over a tissue, less than a second long.
That was their first meeting, and Wei Maomao felt like her soul had been taken away as well.
Wei Maomao tried to control herself, she really tried, she swore. But… it was really hard. That night, she finally clicked on the username she had seen during the day.
It was Cheng Tingyan, another real world.
Three years passed. Wei Maomao finally opened several dessert shops with her skillful hands inherited from her mother, paid off her debts, and slowly started to save some money. Cheng Tingyan was also recognized by a mentor on a new variety show and gradually began to get rid of the bad reputation and bad luck that had been attached to her since she was young.
In the online world where they both had alternate accounts, they became good friends who talked about everything.
That offline meeting was their first planned meeting. Wei Maomao was very nervous because she had decided to confess the secret that had started at the airport coffee shop three years ago. Their initial mutual following might have been a coincidence, but later… it was indeed intentional on her part. Wei Maomao didn’t know what would happen in the future, but she hoped that from their first official meeting onwards, she could be honest again.
However, fate was always cruel. In her previous life, they didn’t officially meet.
In this life… they would be able to meet smoothly, right…
Wei Maomao tossed and turned in bed, thinking about her past and present lives, and finally sat up in a state of turmoil.
She got out of bed, took out the tablet hidden in the cabinet, turned it on, and checked the time. Okay… it was a new day.
Thinking too much about the past put too much pressure on Wei Maomao’s three-year-old body. She sighed, listened carefully to the sounds outside, and finally opened the software. Since she couldn’t sleep, she might as well make a few more animations and put them in the background, and then set them to play a few each day.
The most essential ones had already been made and watched with Wei Chengli. But it would be a bit strange if the animations suddenly stopped updating when they went to film the show.
Although it was a very small possibility that it would be noticed, caution was a necessary rule for a reborn person.
Wei Maomao worked until almost three o’clock. When the past events that had been lingering in her heart dissipated, she went back to bed.
She fell asleep quickly, but inevitably, she dreamed of the road where they were supposed to meet in her previous life…
Please let this road be longer, longer, don’t let it reach the end.
“Beep… beep…”
“Beep beep beep…”
The sharp sound of car horns entered her young ears.
Traffic jam?
Good, traffic jam.
Please never let it reach that ending.
“Beep beep beep beep beep…”
The car horns kept honking.
Wei Maomao… finally opened her eyes, and then… her eyes widened.
A moment ago, she was in the car. Now, she was still in the car.
A moment ago, she was on the road. Now, she was still on the road.
But the problem was!
A moment ago, it was a dream, now it was reality!
Wei Maomao raised her hand, white and chubby.
“Maomao? You’re awake?” Wei Chengli touched the little dumpling next to him and smiled. “We’re already on our way, we’re almost at the airport, we’re about to get on the plane.”
Wei Maomao stiffly turned her head to look at her young father, then looked around the car… strangers, cameras, mobile phones… Shi Hongxiao.
“We’re going to participate in ‘Where’s Baby Going,’ are you happy, baby?” Wei Chengli squeezed the little dumpling’s hand.
She was carried into the car like luggage! You ask if she’s happy…
Staying up late was ruining things! This body that fell into deep sleep at any moment! It was really too bad.
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