Chapter 65 p1
Although Wei Maomao had already embarrassed herself in front of the person she wanted to maintain her dignity in front of the most, it didn’t mean she could completely let loose in front of everyone else in this world.
The deception and concealment made Wei Maomao’s anger flare.
But her anger was fleeting, her rationality gradually returned.
Admittedly, the downsides of live broadcasting were obvious… The bed-wetting incident, and the clear “map” left behind, were already facts that couldn’t be hidden through editing. She could imagine many viewers laughing about it right now.
But, setting aside her adult and slightly fragile sense of shame, all the audience saw was a three-year-old child’s nighttime mishap. Having lived a tiring life in her previous life, Wei Maomao was determined to be a happy, carefree person in this life. She didn’t want to enter the entertainment industry, she didn’t even have any ambition for a bright future. The future her would be an ordinary person among the masses. Years later, who would be able to connect this three-year-old who wet the bed on a live broadcast variety show to her?
Thinking this way, her anger gradually dissipated.
After all, the downside of live broadcasting was just this one incident. But the benefits were overwhelming.
In her previous life, the third season of “Where’s Baby Going” was a normal, pre-recorded show. Jin Youliang’s team’s malicious editing, along with the trolls, media, and who knew whether they were hired by the program team or the Cheng family, successfully portrayed Cheng Tingyan as an arrogant, indifferent, and extremely jealous person. In contrast, Cheng Feiying was depicted as a loving father, and Cheng Rongrong as a clever, adorable, and popular little sister.
In this life, from the first day of filming, Wei Maomao had been working hard, trying to catch every flaw in Cheng Feiying and Cheng Rongrong, trying to derail their plans and expose their hypocrisy. Sometimes, she even had to magnify small issues, prolong the duration, and make the conflicts more obvious.
Wei Maomao worked so hard, put in so much effort.
Making the incidents clear and increasing their frequency.
For what?
It was so that after filming was completed, during the editing process, some of these incidents would be deemed important by the editors, included in the final cut, and broadcast to the audience, generating positive public feedback. When the Cheng family tried to buy trolls and media again, there would be other voices speaking out for justice.
These past few days, Wei Maomao had worked hard and seemed to have succeeded in some incidents. But she was also constantly worried, worried that those incidents wouldn’t meet the editors’ selection criteria, worried that the quality and quantity weren’t enough, worried that they wouldn’t generate enough screen time in the final cut, worried that Cheng Tingyan wouldn’t receive enough support.
But now, it wasn’t pre-recorded, it was live broadcast, most of Wei Maomao’s worries were instantly resolved.
So, the audience had already seen it.
They saw how Cheng Feiying was being inconsiderate at the beginning, how he didn’t care about his daughter’s preferences, repeatedly cooking mushrooms that Cheng Tingyan didn’t like into the dishes, they saw…
They wouldn’t miss a single thing, it was truly… great.
Wei Maomao, thinking about how Cheng Feiying’s loving father persona had crumbled multiple times these past few days, felt a sense of satisfaction. Looking at the two tables of people in the courtyard, eating next to her bedsheet, she didn’t feel as uncomfortable anymore.
Forget it, it had already been broadcasted and seen by everyone, so be it if these people saw it up close.
But they could at least stop smiling at her meaningfully.
Wei Maomao met the amused gazes of Wen Qiming and Shen Jianghe at the table next to her and quickly turned her head away.
Wen Qiming, seeing the little chubby girl turn away with a haughty expression, rubbed his nose awkwardly.
“The little girl is embarrassed and angry, hahaha, she’ll forget about it after a couple of days.” Shen Jianghe, also being ignored, raised his glass and clinked it with Wen Qiming, chuckling.
Wen Qiming chuckled along, but inwardly, he sighed.
Wei Maomao was fine, but his own daughter was truly stubborn. She had been lectured by him this morning and refused to come home for lunch. If Wen Jiangyue had just come to freeload at the Wei family’s house, it would have been fine… But after the program team mentioned that she had cried, all the children, oh… except for Cheng Rongrong, all the children came to the Wei family’s house and refused to go home.
Originally, each family was supposed to have their own lunch. But with all the children gone, Wei Chengli didn’t have enough food, while the other families had food but no one to eat it. So the program team discussed it with the other dads and decided to have a potluck at the Wei family’s house.
The cause of all this trouble was Wen Jiangyue crying and running here.
Now the children were sitting at one table with Wei Chengli, while the other dads were sitting at this table.
Wen Qiming, facing the other dads who had brought pots and bowls here, felt guilty and apologetic, he had no appetite at all.
He wasn’t the only one who had no appetite.
At least Wen Xiang, who hadn’t had a proper meal with his son for two days, and Cheng Feiying, who was forced to participate in this potluck at the Wei family’s house, could also be counted.
The children’s table was fine, everyone was eating heartily.
Even Cheng Rongrong, on the surface, seemed to be enjoying her meal, it’s just…
Cheng Rongrong felt that Wei Maomao was acting strangely today, especially when she looked at her, there seemed to be a strange… happiness? What was there to be happy about, were they close? Tsk… She was looking again, with that same look, it was giving her goosebumps.
Wei Maomao’s mood was indeed improving. Once she figured it out, the live broadcast bed-wetting incident was just a minor episode in her three-year-old life, and the live broadcast of the entire show would greatly increase the success rate of her plan, what reason did she have to be unhappy?
Live broadcast was a good thing.
Take the situation right now, for example.
For the morning’s memorization task, Wei Maomao wasn’t sure if Cheng Rongrong was truly that smart, or if she had received leaked information as some people had speculated in her previous life. But how Cheng Rongrong performed wasn’t the most important thing. The key in this matter had always been Wen Jiangyue’s feelings.
In her previous life, the memorization activity was held much later in the show. From the moment Wen Jiangyue lost to Cheng Rongrong in memorization and was lectured by Wen Qiming, until the end of the show, Wen Jiangyue’s mood had been low. She had gone from being shy and timid but still somewhat happy in the earlier stages to becoming very introverted and even less talkative. In the later stages, besides doing tasks, whenever Wen Jiangyue was captured on camera, she was mostly seen quietly reading.
Combining the situations from both lifetimes, Wei Maomao felt that Wen Jiangyue must have been heartbroken by Wen Qiming in her previous life. But in her previous life, in the later stages, everyone except Cheng Tingyan revolved around Cheng Rongrong, and Wen Jiangyue was also closer to Cheng Rongrong, she barely interacted with Cheng Tingyan. So after losing to Cheng Rongrong in memorization and being lectured by her father, Wen Jiangyue was in… an awkward situation where she had no other friends to confide in. Her heart became introverted, closed off, and she sought refuge in books, but she wasn’t happy.
But now…
Wei Maomao tilted her head and looked at Wen Jiangyue.
Although her eyes were still red, she seemed less sad when she was taking big bites of the ribs.
Wei Maomao then looked at Wen Jiangyue’s bowl, piled high with eggs, potatoes, duck meat… those were all from other babies’ comforting offerings. It seemed that although she didn’t have a chance to change what happened during the memorization task, Wen Jiangyue’s feelings were indeed different from her previous life.
Then all that was left was to prevent the Cheng family from using Wen Jiangyue’s diligence to build up Cheng Rongrong’s genius persona.
If it was pre-recorded, it would be a bit troublesome.
But now it was live broadcast.
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