After Becoming a Cannon Fodder Side Character, I Became the Group’s Favorite (GL) - Chapter 15

Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu: Jealousy! The parents involved expressed extreme jealousy!

But Wen Mubai was the hero who found Xu Chacha, so they couldn’t show their crazy jealousy.

“Speaking of which, Mr. Wen, your eldest daughter is truly enviable. She is talented and virtuous, and her looks are so outstanding,” Mr. Xu took a step back while holding Xu Chacha. “I heard she recently won an award?”

“She won an award for a short story. A director happened to take an interest and wants to adapt it into a film,” Mr. Wen’s pride was unconcealed.

“That’s excellent, young and promising.” Mr. Xu raised his glass. “Which director? To be honest, I happen to have some spare cash. Why don’t I invest in one of our own family’s projects?”

Xu Chacha blinked her eyes, listening to the conversation, and extracted information related to Wen Mubai.

For instance, she had replicated the Wen family patriarch’s talent, writing excellent poetry, and despite being a science student, she had brought home countless writing competition trophies, making her the irreplaceable sole heir in Mr. Wen’s eyes.

Hearing it from the people involved and reading the description in the book were two completely different feelings.

There wasn’t much description of Wen Mubai in the book—only a few lines in the entire novel. Her scripts, written from a young age, were of extremely high quality but hard to come by. Later, the book mentioned her parting ways with her family to start her own business but didn’t dwell on it.

Mr. Wen spoke of her with immense pride, but Wen Mubai seemed uninterested in these topics.

“Daddy, I want to go play with Auntie,” Xu Chacha whispered in Mr. Xu’s ear. “You adults play together, and we kids play together. It’s perfect.”

Guessing that the child might not like these conversations, Mr. Xu put her down and straightened her wrinkled dress. “Don’t run off. Stay close to your Auntie Mubai, understood?”

“Understood.”

Mrs. Xu patted Xu Yanshu’s back. “You go too.”

“Okay.”

Xu Chacha walked up to Wen Mubai and held out her two short, white arms to her. “Auntie, carry me.”

“You little flirt.” Even as she said this, Wen Mubai knelt down and picked her up.

Xu Chacha was small and light. She could be held with one hand without much effort. Wen Mubai weighed her a little. “You’ve gained some weight.”

At this, Xu Chacha felt like crying, her voice sounding extremely aggrieved. “My stomach is so full every day that it feels like it’s going to burst. How can I not gain weight?”

“Gaining weight is good. Gaining weight is cute.” Wen Mubai carried her and walked away from the crowded area. Xu Yanshu silently followed behind them.

“But I think I’m hungry again now,” Xu Chacha giggled, feeling a little embarrassed.

She had eaten early in the morning, and with the running around and playing with the cat earlier, her stomach was empty again.

“Sister, are you hungry?” Xu Chacha put her hands on Wen Mubai’s shoulder, poking her head out from her neck to ask Xu Yanshu, who was following behind. “You always eat so little, less than Chacha.”

With the current situation at their dinner table, Mr. and Mrs. Xu were aggressively feeding Xu Chacha, and Xu Chacha was aggressively feeding Xu Yanshu. As a result, Xu Chacha gained weight, while Xu Yanshu’s weight either remained the same or dropped.

Xu Chacha: Traitor! My sister is a traitor!

“If you’re hungry, Sister will get you something to eat,” Xu Yanshu said.

“I’ll go too, I’ll go too,” Xu Chacha’s upper body jumped forward. “Auntie, you come too.”

“Don’t move around, or you’ll fall.” Wen Mubai steadied her body again and resignedly followed Xu Yanshu. “Let’s go.”

“Mubai, little one!” A familiar voice rang out. Jiang Panpan, wearing an orange knee-length skirt, led several people toward them, talking to her peers behind her in a boastful tone. “I’m telling you, that little one is super adorable! The kind you want to steal and raise at home! Hurry, hurry, let’s go steal her as a group.”

It seemed their recent conversation was about Xu Chacha. One by one, they surrounded Xu Chacha like they were looking at a monkey.

“Little cutie, what’s your name?”

“Her cheeks are so soft. Come on, everyone, pinch them.”

“I’m so jealous of those eyelashes. I could pour ten bottles of eyelash growth serum on my own, and they wouldn’t be half as thick.”

“Be polite. Say ‘Kiss Sister’ so we can hear it.”

“Auntie,” Xu Chacha whimpered softly, burying her head in Wen Mubai’s embrace, playing the ostrich.

Being led around by Mr. Xu earlier was at least a one-on-one service. Now, she was surrounded by a group of people teasing her. How could she handle it?

“Don’t tease the child. She gets shy easily.” Wen Mubai placed her palm over the back of her head, shielding her. Her gaze swept over the noisy young men and women, and they instantly fell silent.

“Sorry, sorry.” Jiang Panpan moved closer to Xu Chacha and apologized. “Those brothers and sisters are too much. Sister Panpan will beat them up for you.”

Xu Chacha looked up. “Chacha isn’t angry. Sister Panpan, don’t hit anyone.”

“Hahahaha, Jiang Panpan, hit me once!” A short-haired girl nearby moved closer. “Then I’ll go cry to the little one so she’ll give me a kiss.”

Xu Chacha: What on earth are you high schoolers thinking about?

“Have something to eat.” Xu Yanshu had returned with food by this time. She handed the plate to Xu Chacha. “Tide yourself over first. Sister will get some dessert later.”

“Thank you, Sister.”

“Awoo!” Xu Chacha swallowed the entire piece of sushi in one bite without looking, chewing with her cheeks bulging.

Hmm?

Xu Chacha, who was eating fine, frowned. The sushi roll contained raw fish.

She disliked fish to begin with. The cooked fish served at home usually had some seasoning to mask the flavor, but Xu Chacha really couldn’t stand raw fish. GZH: lesbian2088, has all lily resources.

In the past, her aunt’s family ran a seafood business, and any dead fish that couldn’t be sold would be taken home and cooked for themselves.

Her aunt’s son didn’t like to eat dead fish and could always accurately pick out the bad ones from a pile of yellow croaker and push them onto her. Perhaps because of this, ever since then, Xu Chacha would taste a fishy smell in her mouth whenever she saw fish. Even the most expensive fish tasted the same to her.

As the saying goes, a quiet naughty child is definitely up to no good.

Wen Mubai, who was talking to Jiang Panpan, tilted her head and glanced at the now-silent Xu Chacha, just in time to catch her making a gagging face while desperately trying to swallow the food.

Honestly, the look could only be described as both pitiful and amusing.

Wen Mubai turned sideways to shield half of Xu Chacha’s body and held out her handkerchief to her.

Xu Chacha stared at the white handkerchief in front of her, quickly understood Wen Mubai’s meaning, shrunk her head, spat out the sushi behind Wen Mubai’s back, wrapped it up, and went to dispose of it.

When she trotted back with her short legs, Xu Yanshu was waiting for her with dessert.

Xu Yanshu was usually quite observant; she had brought all the desserts Xu Chacha loved. But now, Xu Chacha’s mouth was full of the taste of fish, and she had no appetite whatsoever.

“If you can’t eat it, don’t force it,” Wen Mubai said.

A hint of jealousy had been planted in Xu Yanshu’s heart when Xu Chacha was sticking to Wen Mubai earlier. Now, she was prevented from feeding her own sister some food and finally couldn’t help but speak out.

“She only had two bites. How can she be full?”

“It’s not good for children to eat too much sweet food.”

“If she likes it, let her eat it.” Xu Yanshu quickly retorted, adding a highly provocative line. “I am her sister.”

Wen Mubai didn’t reply to her, lowering her eyes to look at Xu Chacha, a half-smile on her face. “Little one, say something?”

Xu Chacha: Is this the legendary love triangle scene?

She hugged her head with both hands, wanting only to find a hole to crawl into quickly.

“I’ll listen to both Auntie and Sister. Please don’t argue.”

“Are you playing some kind of favoritism game?” Jiang Panpan chuckled, heartlessly stoking the fire by directing her question at Xu Chacha. “Little cutie, Sister asks you: do you like Auntie Mubai more, or Sister Yanshu?”

“I like both of you.” Full marks for the answer!

“Is that so?” Wen Mubai’s interest suddenly piqued. “It seems that some children saying, ‘I like Auntie the most,’ was a lie?”