Chapter 136p1
“Baby, look here, smile, raise your right hand, higher, higher, you can almost touch the shark.”
Wei Maomao stared at Wei Chengli, who was a few steps away, holding the Polaroid camera and directing her poses, with an emotionless expression.
Enough was enough! Even the professional photographer at the studio didn’t have this many demands!
Thinking that she still needed this guy to go to Shi Dingshan and put their plan into action, Wei Maomao sighed, raised her right hand, then forced a smile, and continued to cooperate.
“Baby, you’re not tall enough, raise your hand a bit higher, just a little bit. Baby, you’re truly… a bit short…” Wei Chengli said, dejectedly, accidentally revealing his true thoughts as he almost lay on the ground, trying to capture the shot of the little chubby mermaid grabbing the shark’s face using forced perspective.
“Dad, you don’t have a baby anymore!” Wei Maomao said coldly, she lowered her hand, abandoned her stupid dad, and ran towards Cheng Tingyan, who was taking a photo with a group of fish around the corner.
“Hey, hey, hey…” Wei Chengli said, scrambling to his feet and reaching out to stop her.
But the short, little chubby dumpling, dragging her sparkly mermaid tail skirt, had already run away.
Wei Maomao stopped behind the photographer who was taking pictures of Cheng Tingyan. The same sparkly dress, the same shiny crown, Cheng Tingyan looked so pretty wearing them, standing among the floor-to-ceiling aquarium with a school of fish, she sparkled like a real little mermaid princess.
It was so good. Yan Yan, she should be like this, happy and carefree.
Just as Wei Maomao was watching with satisfaction, completely forgetting that she was also a fish waiting to be photographed, Cheng Tingyan, under the photographer’s instructions, turned around and saw the little chubby bunny.
“Maomao, let’s take a picture together!”
The beautiful little mermaid princess, lifting her skirt, ran towards her, her bright eyes filled with joy and anticipation.
Wei Maomao was momentarily stunned, she was pulled to the front of the large glass window.
“Okay, both of our little mermaid princesses, look this way, stand closer, the chubby… mmm, the smaller mermaid princess, raise your scepter.”
The photographer’s instructions came clearly, Wei Maomao, as she raised her scepter, looked down at her slightly protruding belly and instinctively sucked in her stomach.
During lunch, Wei Maomao thought she had to become a sparkling fish to avoid making Wen Jiangyue sad.
It turned out that her self-awareness wasn’t accurate enough.
What sparkling fish…
It should be a sparkling… chubby fish!
Why was this little mermaid dress so tight!
She couldn’t let the beautiful little mermaid princess take a photo with a chubby fish… Wei Maomao, absolutely unwilling to leave a chubby fish in Yan Yan’s childhood memories, tried her best to suck in her stomach.
And so, hidden from Wei Maomao’s view, the beautiful little mermaid princess and a cute, red-faced chubby fish left a precious photo together.
Wei Maomao’s efforts were witnessed and remembered by the viewers in the live broadcast room, they turned into laughter, tears of joy, and red hands from slapping the table too hard.
“Oh my god, hahahahaha, is this still our CEO Mao, who always runs around with messy hair? The three-year-old CEO Mao has finally awakened, is she starting to care about her image?”
“Truly adorable! I’m going to set this screenshot of Little Mermaid CEO Mao secretly sucking in her stomach and tiptoeing as my desktop wallpaper, it’ll be my motivation for 996, hahahahaha!”
“Our CEO Mao doesn’t need to do this! Let go of your little belly! Pretty little mermaids are all the same, I love the unique and adorable little chubby fish!!!”
“I also love the little chubby fish, I can’t stop taking screenshots, hahaha, but I disagree with ‘pretty little mermaids are all the same’! When Yan Yan came out in her costume, that turn, that flick of her tail, that shy and innocent glance, my heart melted! No matter how many pretty little mermaids I see in the future, I’ll never forget that glance, my precious baby!”
“Yueyue is also hilarious, after Yan Yan and Maomao changed into their costumes, Yueyue couldn’t come out of the changing room for a long time, I thought she couldn’t put on the clothes properly. But then she peeked out, looking all sneaky, and said she was embarrassed because the back was backless, hahaha!”
“As expected of our CEO Mao, she immediately turned around, showing her chubby fish back, making Yueyue laugh so hard that she forgot about her embarrassment.”
“Speaking of which, I think Yan Yan was also quite embarrassed when she first came out, until she saw our little chubby fish, hahaha, her expression immediately changed.”
“How did it change? From a shy little mermaid to a hungry little shark, hahaha! Speaking of which, both Yan Yan and Yueyue are quite suitable for this Little Mermaid costume, one is beautiful and delicate, almost ethereal, the other has this cute contrast of going from a serious scholar to a fairy tale character, and then CEO Mao, hahaha, CEO Mao is truly adorable, it’s just… compared to a mermaid princess, she looks more like a meal for a shark.”
“!!! What shark meal! She’s clearly an adorable Hakimi! Princesses are high and mighty, people look up to them, Hakimi is short and chubby, people want to pet her~~~”
*Hakimi(哈基米) : slang for cute cat*
“Hahaha, with that explanation, Hakimi and shark meal aren’t that different! Are you guys even being polite! If you continue like this, CEO Mao will expel you from the bunny fandom!”
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Wei Maomao, immersed in managing her image, trying to make the photo look better, was oblivious to the joy online.
Solo shots, duo shots, trio shots… Photos with sharks, photos with octopuses, photos with schools of fish… Photos with the floor-to-ceiling aquarium, photos in the underwater tunnel, photos with specimens… Indoors, outdoors, outdoors, indoors…
By the time it was over, Wei Maomao, who had been sucking in her stomach and tiptoeing, was… exhausted.
Truly, beauty came at a price.
On the bus ride back, Wei Maomao, as soon as she sat down, without even saying a word, she leaned her head against the seat and fell asleep.
Some people slept peacefully, even snoring softly.
Some people… their eyes were red with anger, but they couldn’t close them.
Cheng Feiying glanced at his daughter, who was sitting upright next to him, her lips pursed, she hadn’t spoken much since lunch, her expression serious, he kindly opened a bottle of water and handed it to her. “Drink some water.”
Cheng Rongrong shook her head, refusing.
“Then play with this doll you just redeemed.” Cheng Feiying said, picking up the mermaid doll from the bag next to him and handing it to her.
Cheng Rongrong looked at the little mermaid doll, it was delicate and cute, wearing… the same dress as those three, she felt even angrier, she snatched it and stuffed it back into the bag forcefully.
Cheng Feiying knew why Cheng Rongrong was angry, but whose fault was it?
Today, the vouchers were distributed based on the number of qualified photos the babies took. It was her who didn’t take the pictures properly, during the tallying, many of her photos were either missing the head or the tail, obstructed, or blurry… She didn’t even have enough qualified photos to redeem one voucher. And he had to go back with her, find the locations again, and retake the photos. By the time they got enough for one voucher and redeemed this doll, the other families were already eating in the cafeteria.
That was when they found out that the other three girls had all redeemed that photo-taking package.
Not to mention anything else, that package required two vouchers to redeem, even if they returned the doll, they wouldn’t have enough.
Either they had to retake the photos after lunch, reach the next tier, then return the doll and go take the pictures together, or they had to visit the other exhibits with the remaining babies and head back together after they were done.
At that time, Cheng Feiying saw that Cheng Rongrong seemed a bit frustrated, she also seemed to want to take the pictures, so he kindly suggested that they go and retake the photos. After all, the voucher redemption was tiered, each tier required fewer photos than the previous one, they wouldn’t need to take many more photos to redeem another voucher.
Cheng Rongrong refused, so Cheng Feiying didn’t say anything more.
After all, he was also tired from walking around, if Cheng Rongrong didn’t want to retake the photos, he definitely wouldn’t force her to work, right?
It was her own inefficiency, her own choice, she didn’t get to take the Little Mermaid photos, what was she angry about now?
Cheng Feiying glanced at the doll that Cheng Rongrong had stuffed back into the bag, he was starting to feel apathetic. Since she wasn’t grateful, he wouldn’t bother anymore, he leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes, trying to rest.
Cheng Feiying’s perfunctory parenting was clearly displayed on the tablet in Bai Lei’s hand.
But Bai Lei didn’t even look at it.
All her attention was on the two phones in front of her.
On the newer phone screen was the security footage that Bai Lei was constantly rewinding. The footage showed the room she was currently in.
Soon, Bai Lei found what she was looking for in the zoomed-in footage.
The older phone next to it was turned on, the latest password entered, the screen unlocked.
Bai Lei, her beautifully manicured fingers hovering between two icons, hesitated for a moment, then finally clicked on the notepad.
This phone, she had seen it countless times on the security footage. She had seen it being used, being hidden, being carefully moved from one place to another, she had seen it being unused for days, then being secretly used every day…
During those days of waiting, to avoid spoiling the fun too early, she always squinted, holding the phone far away, not peeking at the content inside.
Now, life had finally become so boring that she had to unravel this miracle.
Then let her see, how interesting this little one truly was.
In the Cheng family’s car, Cheng Feiying was silent, his eyes closed, the quietness made Cheng Rongrong feel… lonely.
Cheng Rongrong didn’t understand.
She had prepared for so long, from the first day of this variety show, she had worked hard to build good relationships with the other babies, to gain their favor, and then isolate Cheng Tingyan together. But those ungrateful brats, they still gravitated towards Cheng Tingyan bit by bit, now it was her who was being isolated.
They started eating before she even reached the cafeteria.
The other three girls all got to take Little Mermaid photos, no one called her.
Why!
Was this the female lead’s halo?
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