A Wealthy Family’s Married-In Alpha Redemption On A Parenting Variety Show - Chapter 7

During the lunch break, Chu Siyun sat in the lounge eating while trying to remember exactly what she had said to Qin Shiyue during that video call.

They had actually talked for over a hundred minutes.

Even more unbelievable was that she did not remember a single thing.

How infuriating. Why had she drunk alcohol? It only caused trouble.

She definitely had made a complete fool of herself.

And she could not openly ask Qin Shiyue either. That would be so embarrassing.

But even if she did not ask, she had already embarrassed herself anyway.

Chu Siyun poked at the rice in her lunchbox. In the end, she tossed her chopsticks aside and stopped eating.

She was already full from anger.

She really wanted to travel back to yesterday and smack herself with a stick.

She had just put down her bowl when Bi Qiujun arrived, looking exhausted.

Chu Siyun forced up a smile. “Sister Jun, you worked hard.”

Bi Qiujun waved her hand. “No need to say that.”

Seeing Chu Siyun’s expression, Bi Qiujun asked, “What’s wrong? Who upset you? Or did the two of you fight?”

Chu Siyun opened her mouth, wanting to speak but stopping herself. How was she supposed to say this? There was no way to say it.

Bi Qiujun took a sip of the water Xiao Chen handed over and said leisurely, “Sigh, anyone would be angry in a situation like this. She got cursed out for no reason. Are you not even allowing her to be upset? Communicate properly.”

Chu Siyun said nothing.

Bi Qiujun carried the air of someone experienced. “Young people’s emotions come quickly and go quickly. Coax her properly. If that still doesn’t work, then do that once, and it’ll be fixed in minutes.”

Seeing Bi Qiujun’s ill-intentioned gaze, Chu Siyun’s whole body filled with resistance. “What are you talking about?”

Bi Qiujun put away her joking manner. “Tell me, what exactly is going on between you two? Are any of the netizens’ guesses true?”

Chu Siyun was confused. “What guesses from netizens?”

Bi Qiujun counted on her fingers. “Some say she’s your financial backer, and you left the industry just to have her child and tie her down. Some say she’s a pretty little freeloader you keep, that you love her to death, and that after you got pregnant, you insisted on giving birth, even if it meant giving up your career. There are also people saying…”

What was all this nonsense?

Chu Siyun interrupted Bi Qiujun. “Stop. The two of us just very normally met, got married, and had a child. There’s no financial backer involved, and she’s not some pretty little freeloader either.”

Bi Qiujun nodded. “Understood.”

Seeing Bi Qiujun’s calm expression, Chu Siyun actually felt a little guilty.

What part of her and Qin Shiyue “meeting,” “getting married,” and “having a child” was normal?

Bi Qiujun suddenly changed the topic. “A lot of people online are cursing her, aren’t they? The fastest way to whitewash someone is to go on a variety show, provided she’s clean in the first place.”

???

Chu Siyun asked, “And then?”

Bi Qiujun changed into a smiling expression. “After you two went public yesterday, someone came to me. You know him too, Director Fu Xiaohui. You’ve been on his show before. He said he’s preparing a parent-child travel variety show and wants to invite you all. If it were someone else, I would have rejected it directly, but I owed him a favor before, so I said I’d come ask you.”

Chu Siyun asked suspiciously, “You didn’t agree on my behalf, did you?”

Bi Qiujun looked at her with disdain. “Am I that kind of person?”

Chu Siyun nodded. “True. But if I don’t agree, will that be bad? Will your favor go unpaid?”

Bi Qiujun said, “It’s fine. Asking you already counts as helping him. Whether you agree or not is your business.”

Chu Siyun fell into thought.

Bi Qiujun frowned. “What? You want to go?”

Chu Siyun shook her head. “I don’t know.”

Bi Qiujun said, “Your career path doesn’t include this.”

Chu Siyun looked at her. “You won’t let me go?”

Bi Qiujun smiled. “It’s not that you can’t. As long as you’re happy.”

Xiao Chen, who had gone out to throw away the trash, came back in, and Bi Qiujun stood up. “I’m leaving. Give me an answer tomorrow.”

Chu Siyun nodded.

After seeing Bi Qiujun off, Xiao Chen asked curiously, “Sister, what answer? Are you deciding on a new project?”

Chu Siyun sighed. “Sigh, no. You’ll know when the time comes. Big surprise.”

A big surprise?

What kind of big surprise could it be?

Xiao Chen grew more and more curious.

The ringtone of Chu Siyun’s phone rang, jolting her back to herself.

It was a video call request from Qin Shiyue.

Chu Siyun held it like a hot potato, momentarily unsure whether she should answer or not.

In the end, only after it automatically disconnected did Chu Siyun feel full of regret.

Wouldn’t it have been over if she had just answered earlier?

If it was fortune, it was not disaster. If it was disaster, she could not avoid it.

In the hospital ward, Qin Shiyue stood by the window, looking at the call no one had answered, her brows deeply furrowed.

What was going on?

Could it be that Chu Siyun felt so guilty that she had no face to see her?

Yesterday, after Qin Shiyue finished playing and returned to her room, she had seen a whole row of missed video calls on her phone, and her head had ached.

Were drunk people really that capable of causing trouble?

And she had kept calling nonstop.

After Qin Shiyue picked up, that woman refused to let her hang up and even insisted that she stay awake to keep her company.

It seriously affected her sleep.

Chu Siyun’s mother, Ms. Meng Ruolan, said, “It’s fine. Maybe she’s still busy. No rush.”

Qin Shiyue said, “Maybe she didn’t hear it. I’ll call again.”

Busy, my ass. She had already asked Xiao Chen in advance.

Chu Siyun answered the second call instantly.

Seeing that face, Qin Shiyue momentarily did not know what to say.

Making this WeChat video call now felt somewhat awkward.

Chu Siyun did not speak either. The two of them stared at each other in silence. It was strange.

Meng Ruolan called softly, “Shiyue?”

Qin Shiyue came back to herself and said, “Ah, um, Grandma wants to see you and talk to you.”

As she spoke, Qin Shiyue walked toward the hospital bed and turned the phone screen around to face the old woman lying there.

Chu Siyun smiled obediently. “Grandma.”

The white-haired old woman had an oxygen tube inserted, but she still pulled out a smile. “Baby, is work going well?”

Chu Siyun nodded. “Everything is fine. I’ll be done soon. Once I’m finished, I’ll go back and visit you.”

Grandma’s smile grew even brighter. “Don’t worry about me. It’s just an old problem.”

Chu Siyun said, somewhat coquettishly, “Grandma, I miss you so much.”

Hearing this, Meng Ruolan finally could not hold back anymore. She snatched the phone out of Qin Shiyue’s hand and roared, “Chu Siyun, all you know how to do is talk. Is it fun to make empty promises and coax your grandma? You only use your mouth to say things. Why don’t you act on them? Are you qualified as a daughter? As a granddaughter? You’re unfilial.”

She had never approved of Chu Siyun’s work.

Running all over the country from north to south, not staying home, not taking care of the child, not taking care of the elderly—she was not even as proper as Qin Shiyue, this daughter-in-law of hers.

Chu Siyun had also always known that her mother had been holding back anger for a long time because of the nature of her work, so she did not dare make a sound.

Seeing that the situation was not right, even Grandma, who was lying on the bed, grew a little anxious.

Qin Shiyue quickly went over to persuade her. “Mom, don’t get worked up. She’ll wrap up filming soon. Let her talk to Grandma a little more. She has to go back to work later.”

Meng Ruolan turned back to glance at her mother on the bed, guiltily returned the phone to Qin Shiyue, then waved her hand.

Qin Shiyue watched her mother’s expression and brought the phone back to the bedside.

Meng Ruolan was unwilling to listen to Chu Siyun’s sweet little mouth coax the old woman, so she left the ward directly.

Chu Siyun’s father, Chu Dongnan, had taken Chu Xiao out to buy something, so only Qin Shiyue and Grandma remained in the ward. The atmosphere became much more harmonious.

Grandma said a rather long sentence. “Baby, don’t mind your mother. Do whatever you want to do. Grandma is fine.”

Perhaps because she was seriously ill, she was a little breathless after speaking.

Chu Siyun felt terribly guilty. “Grandma, I’ll be done very soon. Once I’m finished, I’ll go back to see you.”

Grandma did not have the strength to speak, so she smiled and nodded.

Qin Shiyue smoothed things over and said, “Go get busy. Let Grandma rest.”

Seeing Grandma close her eyes, Qin Shiyue said softly, “That’s it for now. I’m hanging up.”

Chu Siyun quickly stopped her. “Don’t rush. I have something to tell you.”

???

Chu Siyun lowered her voice. “Go somewhere private.”

Qin Shiyue: ???

“There aren’t any outsiders here.”

Chu Siyun still insisted, “Just go.”

Qin Shiyue went to the bathroom. “What?”

Chu Siyun said in a serious, proper tone, “Mm, it’s just that a parent-child travel variety show came to ask me.”

Qin Shiyue frowned. “They want you to take the child on it?”

Chu Siyun said, “No. The three of us together.”

Qin Shiyue rejected it directly. “Not going.”

Chu Siyun explained to her, “Going on a variety show is the fastest way to whitewash someone.”

Qin Shiyue retorted, “Time can whitewash too.”

Chu Siyun said, “That would take a very, very long time. You’re both so wronged.”

Qin Shiyue furrowed her brows. “Still no.”

Chu Siyun nodded. “All right. I’ll reject them tomorrow then. You still have a chance to change your mind, though. You can also ask Xiaoxiao.”

Qin Shiyue made a sound through her nose. “Mm.”

Estimating the time, Chu Siyun forced herself to ask, “Yesterday, when I video-called you, what did I… do?”

???

So she really did not remember. Qin Shiyue should have just hung up and let her sleep. She should not have wasted so much time talking nonsense with her.

Qin Shiyue was just about to speak when she heard Xiao Chen’s voice from the other end of the call. “Sister, they’re asking you to get ready.”

Then Chu Siyun hurriedly said, “That’s it, that’s it. Hanging up.”

It was as if that sentence burned her mouth. She spat it out quickly, and the moment she finished, she hung up immediately.

Chu Siyun hung up and muted her phone in one smooth motion.

Could anything be more embarrassing than this?

She asked but did not get an answer. If she had known, she would not have asked.

When Qin Shiyue came out of the bathroom, everyone had returned.

Chu Xiao had a lollipop in her mouth and was holding another one out to Qin Shiyue.

Qin Shiyue accepted the candy and put it into her pocket.

Chu Siyun’s father, Chu Dongnan, suggested, “Shiyue, take the child back. You’ve been busy half the day, and Xiaoxiao still has school tomorrow.”

Qin Shiyue did not refuse.

After driving out of the hospital, Qin Shiyue paid attention to the road while asking her daughter, who was sitting in the safety seat in the back, “Baby, do you want Mama to take you traveling?”

Chu Xiao’s voice was full of happiness. “Can she?”

Understood. The child was quite willing.

Qin Shiyue said, “She probably can, but it’s a little complicated. Let me think about how to explain it to you.”

If they went on this variety show, first of all, Qin Shiyue herself would be unhappy. It would be like being watched by cameras, and even playing would not be fun. Everything would have to follow the production team’s rules.

They would also have to “get along harmoniously” with other people. Even if they were not familiar, they might have to pretend they were. It would be too uncomfortable.

Most importantly, with her personality, going on a variety show might not necessarily whitewash her. She did not want to pretend.

But if they did not go on this variety show, she and the child would not know how long they would continue being cursed at. If Chu Siyun was willing to make time to accompany the child, she would definitely be photographed secretly in all kinds of ways, and public relations fees alone would be a huge sum.

If even the slightest thing went wrong, there would be another wave of the entire internet blackening her.

After going on a variety show, it would definitely allow Chu Siyun and the child to build a deeper bond, and let the child experience more complete love.

If they could successfully gain the affection of most viewers, then in the future, letting Chu Siyun accompany the child would probably come with far fewer worries.

If they did not go on the variety show, she and the child should be able to live peacefully and steadily.

At worst, just like before, they could stay farther away from Chu Siyun.

Qin Shiyue had rejected Chu Siyun very decisively earlier, but now after mentioning it to the child, she became somewhat hesitant.

She wanted the child to grow up in a complete and healthy family relationship.

What a struggle. Choices were difficult.

At the red light, Qin Shiyue turned back to look at the child.

Chu Xiao was looking out the window with sparkling eyes at an old lady selling helium balloons.

Qin Shiyue asked her, “Do you want one?”

Chu Xiao nodded excitedly.

Qin Shiyue found an opportunity to pull over, then took Chu Xiao to buy a balloon.

There were many different balloon designs. Chu Xiao circled the old lady twice before finally choosing a Doraemon one.

After Qin Shiyue paid, she took the child back into the car.

Once Chu Xiao was seated properly, she looked at the balloon with a face full of joy.

Qin Shiyue was very happy too.

She restarted the car and drove home, and Qin Shiyue’s heart suddenly cleared.

She had always lived carelessly and heartlessly. In more than twenty years, Chu Xiao was the only person she wanted to protect.

What was there to struggle over?

As long as the child was happy, that was enough. She would let her choose for herself.

Author’s Note:

I wish everyone a happy life!