Chapter 36p2
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Speaking of which, the lights were already out at the Wen family’s house.
The sky was dark, with a few scattered stars shining above Wen Dongyu’s head.
“Do you want to switch places with me?” Wen Xiang looked at Wen Dongyu lying on the bed next to him and said stiffly, “I have a roof here.”
Wen Dongyu turned over, facing his back to Wen Xiang.
“The staff told me you took all your Baby Coins to Maomao’s house. What’s wrong? Afraid I’ll take yours?” Wen Xiang kicked the covers in annoyance.
Wen Dongyu didn’t answer.
Wen Xiang tugged at his pillow. “Didn’t I promise you I would get your plane and fire-breathing dragon back after the show? Why are you so stingy, not talking to Dad anymore?”
Wen Dongyu didn’t move, as if he had fallen asleep.
“If you don’t talk to Dad anymore, Dad won’t buy you any more toys.” Wen Xiang was also angry. “Was I wrong before? The room full of toys at home, didn’t your mother and I buy them all for you? Even if we took a few, it’s our own stuff, are you justified in being angry?”
Wen Dongyu suddenly sat up and turned to look at Wen Xiang. “Dad, aren’t those toys mine? You bought them for me, aren’t they mine?”
“Your mother and I spent the money, of course, they are ours. Buying them for you is like lending them to you to play with, how are they yours?” Wen Xiang had been quite annoyed by Wen Dongyu throughout the day and disliked his current ungenerous behavior, so he naturally went along with his words. It was true, wasn’t it? A few-year-old child, and everything in the house was his? They were just a few toys, and they had bought them for him, they weren’t not going to buy new ones if they gave them away, was it necessary to make such a big deal out of it? If this child continued to be so selfish, would there be a place for them as parents when he grew old?
“Oh, you lent them to me, they’re not mine.” Wen Dongyu was stunned for a moment, repeating in a low voice. Ah, he suddenly felt a bit sad.
“That’s right, we lent them to you. If you’re not well-behaved and don’t know how to share, we can stop lending them to you. You have to be obedient, be a good boy, learn to share with others, then we will buy you new toys.” Wen Xiang felt that Wen Dongyu seemed a bit more receptive than during the day and quickly seized the opportunity.
Wen Dongyu sat there silently.
The toys weren’t his, they were lent to him by Mom and Dad, none of them were his… The plane and fire-breathing dragon he liked were also lent to him by Mom and Dad.
So that’s how it was.
Wen Dongyu felt a bit dazed, as if something in the world had suddenly changed.
Wen Xiang, who had been lecturing his son, suddenly felt that the silence in the room had lasted a bit too long, so long that he had a slightly uneasy feeling.
But before he could speak, Wen Dongyu on the bed next to him spoke first.
“I’m sorry, Dad. I didn’t know those toys weren’t mine, I was wrong, it turns out they aren’t my property, they’re your and Mom’s property. Then the plane and fire-breathing dragon, they’re yours, if you don’t want them anymore, don’t ask for them back.” Wen Dongyu apologized sincerely, then asked weakly, “Dad, do you charge money for lending me toys?”
“…” Wen Xiang.
Sometimes, sincerity could be truly disarming.
Clearly, Wen Dongyu had yielded, but he was so utterly yielding that Wen Xiang felt a lump in his throat.
But he had just made such a big declaration, he couldn’t immediately backtrack and say that what he had said was a lie…
In fact, it wasn’t a lie. They had indeed bought the toys, but it wasn’t really lending… They just felt that they should have the right to control them.
“Dad, do you… charge money?” Wen Dongyu asked nervously. “I don’t have much money, five yuan a day, I’ve spent a lot of it… on food, now I only have Baby Coins…”
“I don’t want your money.” Wen Xiang replied in a muffled voice.
“Thank you, Dad!” Wen Dongyu instantly relaxed and lay back down on the bed with a thump. But before he could fully lie down, he sat up again. “Ah, then my bed, my books, the food I eat, are those… also not mine?”
Wen Xiang felt very uncomfortable. He suspected that Wen Dongyu was playing dumb on purpose, trying to provoke him.
“Yes, yes, yes, those are also bought by your mother and me, lent to you, no charge!” Wen Xiang said angrily. “What money do you have, even your daily allowance of a few yuan is borrowed from us!”
He didn’t know what was going on with his son, was he taking it seriously? Forget it, this was good too, let him learn a lesson, let him know where his food and necessities came from. It would save him from constantly talking about protecting his own property, as if someone was coveting his meager possessions. Such a young child, talking about property…
“Oh, oh, oh.” Wen Dongyu nodded repeatedly and lay back down. He hesitated for a moment, then whispered, “Then don’t say you’re buying me this or that in the future, I’ll misunderstand.”
“What do you mean, Wen Dongdong?” Wen Xiang felt angry but couldn’t pinpoint exactly why. He couldn’t help but raise his voice slightly. “What do you mean by ‘don’t say it’?”
“Just, don’t say you bought it for me, say that you bought it for yourselves and then lent it to me.” Wen Dongyu explained patiently and obediently. “I’m afraid that after a long time, I’ll forget that it’s borrowed.”
Wen Xiang: “…”
Whether Wen Dongyu would remember that the things were borrowed was another matter, but the viewers in the live broadcast room certainly wouldn’t forget.
“Oh my god, I heard in Shen Zilin’s live broadcast room that the stars here are beautiful, I came to see the stars! But what did I see! Someone killed the stars in a little baby’s eyes!”
“Sigh, I’m eating dates, but they taste so sour, they made me cry. I wish I could lend this sourness to Wen Xiang, no need to return it.”
“Wen Xiang is famously naive and sweet in the industry, it seems that after tonight, he’ll only be naive… Can he even handle this? Wen Dongdong suddenly became so humble, can’t he see it!”
“I’ve seen it now, this is the legendary ‘living under someone else’s roof in your own home’…”
“What else can we say, we can only say that Wen Xiang is still a decent human being, he didn’t say that he would charge for the things he lent out, otherwise, Wen Dongdong would probably have to work overnight.”
“Let’s call him Wen Yuyu, only we treat him like a precious little one…”
“Actually, I think there’s something wrong with Wen Dongyu too, he thinks the toys at home are his, so his parents don’t have the right to control them. That plane and that dragon, Wen Xiang and his wife were just taking back the things they bought. Wen Dongyu calls someone else ‘dad’ just because of this, it’s normal for Wen Xiang to be angry, right?”
“Wen Dongyu isn’t an unreasonable child, as soon as Wen Xiang said it was borrowed, he didn’t have any more demands.”
“How should I put it, this situation… If you feel you must have control over your child’s belongings, and you’ll die if you don’t, then it’s better to be upfront from the beginning and say, ‘This is mine, I’m lending it to you.’ This way, the child doesn’t think it’s theirs from the start, they don’t develop a sense of ownership, and they won’t say anything if you take it back or give it away. The most annoying thing is when you initially say, ‘This is for you, I got this for you, how hard I worked for it,’ making it sound so grand, the child is touched and grateful, thinking the thing is theirs, they invest their feelings and develop a sense of ownership, and then you take it back and give it away.”
“As for calling someone else ‘dad,’ Wen Yuyu is still young. For him, a dad is someone who can protect him, protect his property. It’s mainly because Director Wei is doing too well, outstanding people always attract others…”
“What are you talking about, it’s mainly because Wen Dongyu hasn’t eaten Director Wei’s mush, hahaha.”
“Sigh, does Wen Xiang even realize Wen Yuyu is sad? I can see his hand moving in the dark, is he wiping his tears? Aww…”
“It seems like he started pretending to sleep while wiping his tears.”
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Some people pretend to sleep because they are sad, while others simply pretend to sleep because they don’t want to answer questions.
After taking a bath, Wei Maomao, upon learning that she couldn’t call her mother, threw herself onto the bed.
As expected of Shi Dingshan, he changed a lot of rules… Wei Maomao thought gloomily, completely unaware that they were still live.
“Baby?” Wei Chengli came over with a hairdryer, drying the little chubby dumpling’s hair as she lay face down on the bed. He gently nudged her chubby arm. “Let’s chat.”
Wei Maomao quickly closed her eyes.
“Don’t pretend to be asleep. I won’t talk about the cartoons anymore, okay?” Wei Chengli rubbed the little chubby dumpling’s soft, wet hair. “Tell me, did you have fun playing with your friends today?”
“Fun…” Wei Maomao yawned.
“Then who do you like playing with the most?” Wei Chengli asked again.
Wei Maomao opened her eyes a crack and gave Wei Chengli a speechless look.
“Alright… I was just asking. Did our Maomao have fun playing with Rongrong?” Seeing that the little chubby dumpling was about to fall asleep after another yawn, Wei Chengli quickly got to the point.
“Daddy…” Wei Maomao opened her eyes and looked at Wei Chengli seriously. “Baby remembers! Don’t play with Rongrong who bullies Daddy!”
Wei Chengli: “Baby! Nobody bullied Daddy! Daddy already explained it to you at noon, you were asleep and didn’t hear! Baby! Baby? Baby, baby?”
The soft little dumpling burrowed into the bed, her eyes tightly closed, seemingly having drifted off to dreamland.
Wei Chengli: … So fast again?
No, it couldn’t end like this.
It was the same at noon! Because of a certain someone’s sleepiness, he hadn’t been able to explain things properly!
“Ah! Spider!” Wei Chengli, who was half-squatting beside the bed drying the little chubby dumpling’s hair, suddenly jumped up.
The viewers in the live broadcast room were startled, they searched the screen for a spider but found none. Then they saw that Wei Chengli wasn’t trying to swat any bugs, he was just looking at the motionless little dumpling on the bed and sighing.
Well… The one who should have been scared awake was asleep, and the ones who shouldn’t have been scared were startled.
Wei Chengli wasn’t one to give up easily, but “rat,” “snake,” and “big bad wolf” all failed to rouse the child. It seemed he could only believe that she was asleep again.
Heh, as if.
Wei Maomao closed her eyes, letting Wei Chengli shout all sorts of nonsense while drying her hair. Gradually, she actually started to feel sleepy.
Just then, she heard two soft knocks on the door.
Then she heard Wei Chengli’s footsteps as he went to open the door.
“Yan Yan? Why are you here?” Wei Chengli lowered his voice and asked softly to the person outside the door.
In the blink of an eye, almost as soon as he finished speaking, Wei Chengli turned around sharply. The little chubby dumpling, who hadn’t even reacted to the “rat” crawling around earlier, had already climbed out of bed and was frantically trying to put on her slippers.
Heh… Wei Chengli laughed in exasperation.
The wide-open door, her father’s cold smile, the empty doorway…
Wei Maomao couldn’t believe it. She stepped out of the room, walked around the outer room, then clenched her little fists, turned around angrily, and stomped back to her room, her little feet, which had gotten dirty again after getting out of bed in such a hurry, thumping with each step.
“…” Wei Chengli couldn’t laugh anymore.
While someone couldn’t laugh, others were laughing their heads off.
The viewers in the live broadcast room were speechless.
“Hahaha, why is Director Wei so mean! He had to wake up our little bunny who was pretending to sleep! Poor little bunny feet, all clean and then stepped on mud again!”
“Director Wei just likes washing those chubby little feet, right! They’re so squishy and stress-relieving, right! Let go of those little feet, I’ll wash them!”
“I just watched CEO Shen teaching his son how to befriend little girls, and then Wen Xiang on how to make his biological son feel like an outsider, I thought that was funny enough… But I didn’t expect, it still has to be Director Wei, Director Wei is truly a dog!”
“Hahaha, it’s no wonder Maomao made Director Wei famous with her ‘My daddy said…’ routine, he deserves it.”
“Director Wei still has some tricks up his sleeve, I think he has found a way to handle the little chubby bunny. But the problem is, hahaha, he used the wrong amount of force, I’m afraid he’s about to be beaten by the little chubby bunny.”
“When it comes to getting beaten, Director Wei is a professional!”
“Hahaha, the little bunny will regret it, the mush from noon was thrown away too early.”
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