Chapter One Hundred and Ten: The Marketplace

Yin Shanshan’s words were utterly unceremonious. Fang Wei could not keep her face, and although no one else was around, she still lowered her head.

“I really have stayed at home far too long...”

Guilt was written all over Fang Wei’s face. Seeing her like that only deepened the disdain in Yin Shanshan’s eyes.

“Enough. Stop saying useless things and hurry up and think about what activity we’re actually going to do!”

With that, Yin Shanshan turned her gaze out the car window. “No idea what Su Wanning and the others are up to.”

At the same time, Feng Rui, having realized she had been cast aside and isolated, was venting her anger at the camera.

“Didn’t the director say each group was supposed to hold its own event? Then why did they all go and gather together?”

“Ha ha ha, Feng Rui’s jealous face could not be more obvious.”

“They just don’t want to play with you.”

“Honestly, if it were me, I wouldn’t take her either.”

Feng Rui automatically ignored the ridicule in the bullet comments and stubbornly said, “So what if it’s an event? I can host one by myself!”

On the other side, in Su Wanning’s livestream, there had been no sign of her for quite some time. Instead, the viewers had been watching Sui Sui and Nian Nian play with a jigsaw puzzle.

The two children had utterly different personalities. Sui Sui was perfectly focused, yet he did not follow the instruction manual at all.

Those tiny pieces seemed to sort themselves into numbered rows beneath his hands; he would pick up any piece at random and fit it together with another. At first the viewers could not make sense of it, but before long a complete image began to take shape.

“Is Sui Sui some kind of genius? Hurry up and send the child to take the entrance exam for graduate school!”

“I’m begging the heavens to let me have a son like that too. I’d gladly lose ten years of my life for it.”

“From a hundred years of fate comes a shared boat ride; from ten thousand years of fate comes one Sui Sui!”

By contrast, Nian Nian had not only ignored the manual, she had not even tried to recreate the original picture.

Her imagination ran wild. With all kinds of pieces in hand, she assembled them according to her own vision, and before long a kingdom had been born beneath Nian Nian’s fingers.

She even introduced it enthusiastically to the livestream audience.

“Look, everyone, this is the princess.”

“And this one here is the prince and the queen.”

The cameraman could not help asking from behind the lens, “Nian Nian, the uncles and aunts in the livestream are asking why that one is the princess.”

The little figures Nian Nian had assembled all looked more or less the same; it was impossible to even tell male from female. Naturally, the viewers were curious why only that one was called the princess.

“Because she’s being protected by the prince. This is the prince.”

Nian Nian casually picked up another little figure and placed it in front of the princess.

The cameraman murmured absentmindedly, “So the one protected by the prince is the princess.”

It was only a casual remark from the cameraman, but Nian Nian heard it.

She immediately lifted her head and said seriously to the camera, “No. A princess is a princess to begin with. Even without a prince protecting her, she is still a princess.”

“I’m shocked. A princess is a princess to begin with. Is that really something a four-year-old could say?”

“I don’t know why, but hearing that makes me want to cry.”

“A princess is a princess to begin with. A commoner is a commoner to begin with.”

The cameraman did not understand the little twists and turns in a girl’s heart, and teased her by asking, “Then does Nian Nian think she is a princess?”

“Of course! Because my mommy is the queen, and she’s so beautiful, so I must be a princess!”

Nian Nian looked completely earnest. As she spoke, she nodded hard, as though cheering herself on.

“Haha, Su Wanning is more like an evil queen.”

“When I was little, my mom also told me I was a princess.”

“Children with mothers are all princesses!”

So when Su Wanning came back, she merely glanced at the bullet comments at random and saw a scene of the viewers crying in a huddle, which she found rather strange.

“Nian Nian, what did you tell the brothers and sisters in the livestream?”

“That this one is the princess, and this one is the prince.”

Nian Nian grabbed Su Wanning and told her an entire grand tale. In the mouth of this four-year-old child, that kingdom was full of happiness, and the princess and the prince eventually lived happily ever after.

“Help, I’m actually listening to a four-year-old tell me a story in a livestream.”

“But Nian Nian speaks very clearly. I think the story is lovely.”

“Su Wanning, you might as well just hold a children’s lecture. The effect would definitely be great!”

Su Wanning shook her head and explained with complete seriousness, “A lecture won’t do. These two children are naturally gifted. I haven’t really taught them anything. Wouldn’t that be misleading the children?”

“Humility mode activated.”

“Warning: arrogant green-tea behavior.”

Su Wanning rolled her eyes and ignored the viewers’ teasing.

She took her phone to Vincent and spent a long time in a small room with the production team in a meeting.

Two hours later, Wang Zan had been worn to the bone by Su Wanning. Even his voice had grown faint and tired.

“Your idea is good, but it’s too hard to pull off!”

Su Wanning did not care in the slightest. “Didn’t you say the show has money? If there’s money, what can’t be done? Besides, I’ll bring in plenty of sponsors. This will be a win-win.”

Su Wanning refused to give an inch and kept trying to brainwash Wang Zan.

“Let me be frank with you. This time the production got an investment from your husband, but even that money isn’t enough for you to play around like this!”

In the end, Wang Zan simply threw caution to the wind, leaned back in his chair, and laid all the cards on the table.

Su Wanning had not expected to hear that. Her eyes widened slightly, and surprise was written across her plain little face.

“You mean Qin Jingchen?”

“Exactly, him.”

Wang Zan looked at Su Wanning with a strange expression.

These two spouses were odd indeed. One was silently investing behind the scenes, while the other knew nothing at all. They hardly looked like a loving married couple with two children after many years together; instead, they seemed more like a pair of sweethearts in a lovers’ quarrel.

Once she left the room, Su Wanning felt Vincent’s gaze beside her prickling all over her skin.

“What do you want?”

“Qin Jingchen is so rich. Why don’t you just tell him to put in another round of investment?”

Su Wanning shook her head without hesitation at once.

A faint blush crept onto her cheeks without her even noticing.

Thinking of how she had devoured the man that night and then fled like a rogue, she found it hard to open her mouth about it.

She had originally thought the matter would be set aside just like that, but to her utter surprise, that afternoon Wang Zan came looking for Su Wanning in high spirits and, with a grand wave of his hand, signed every document she had handed over.

Su Wanning stared at him in shock. “Director, have you come into money?”

Wang Zan gave her a suspicious look.

“What are you talking about? Qin Jingchen specifically added another round of investment for you, and he also brought in sponsorship from two cosmetics brands. Take a look.”

Su Wanning took the two sponsorship contracts. After glancing at the figures on them, she nearly dropped her jaw.

“Is he serious?”

Wang Zan frowned, his expression grave. “With this much money thrown in, you’d better make this event a good one.”