Sheng Lanqiu has been in a bad mood recently.

Not only because of the broadcast of the program, which has further tarnished her reputation, but also because she heard that Yan Jing had returned to the country.

This episode of the program was supposed to be her turning point. She had already won over Shi Yue and the Shi family. As long as she could show meticulous care for Shi Yue during this period and mend her mother-son relationship with him, she would definitely be able to clear her online reputation.

If it weren’t for Shi Yulin’s appearance…

Seeing all the online mockery of their husband-and-wife image collapsing, comments like “Since you can’t raise a child well, why not give the child back to the biological mother,” Sheng Lanqiu’s face looked particularly ugly.

She really didn’t expect that the program team would invite the fathers, let alone that Shi Yulin, with his arrogant personality, would actually agree to participate.

After all, with his usual high and domineering attitude, he was simply not suitable for participating in the program, let alone appearing on live camera.

Even if he had discussed it with her in advance, it wouldn’t have led to the irreparable damage to their reputation now.

But Sheng Lanqiu couldn’t understand why, when netizens used to be so fond of their “fairy-tale love,” they would now mock them for being affectionate?

Just because they thought Shi Yue had been wronged?

And Sheng Xia and Feng Yan, who had also experienced “wronged child” experiences, were praised and joked about being true love?

Isn’t this a double standard?!

Even though she no longer took her past dreams seriously, she had always considered Sheng Xia as her benchmark. The sudden reversal, the drastic difference, and the jealousy and unwillingness made Sheng Lanqiu unable to help but angrily throw everything around her to the ground.

Especially when she thought about how Feng Yan had completely outshone her husband in the program, her sharp nails deeply embedded in her palms, the pain making her distort her face.

Although she didn’t know what had happened in the Shi family, she did know that Shi Yulin was constantly trying to cooperate with Feng Yan. Especially when he was leaving, it seemed that he had been rejected by Feng Yan. Therefore, he had been in a bad mood recently and had been ignoring everyone with a sullen face.

But—why should she?

But why?

Since childhood, she has never been surpassed by her step-sister, brainless and only good at pretending to be sick and throwing tantrums; Sheng Xia, why is she suddenly able to live better than her?

Not only was she once indifferent and didn’t come home; Feng Yan, even resisted and disliked Sheng Xia; Feng Jingxu and the twins, now when they look at her; their eyes are full of warmth.

It’s as if they have truly become a family;—where did it go wrong?

And she, just appeared on a show, not only obediently dependent on her; when she tries to resist and argue, even her relationship with Shi Yulin doesn’t seem to be right, Shi Yulin is getting more and more dissatisfied with her.

What’s even more alarming for Sheng Lanqiu is that, at this moment, Yan Jing has returned to the country.

It’s said to be for an art exhibition.

Sheng Lanqiu used to not care about Yan Jing; because Shi’s family obviously disapproved of this former wife, always comparing her with Yan Jing, using her perfection to belittle Yan Jing.

Shi Yulin also has many complaints when mentioning her, saying that he’s glad he met her later.

But now, Yan Jing’s return to the country; it was spoken by her mother-in-law.

She even looked straight at her, seemingly casually mentioning how Yan Jing had helped Shi’s family and even voluntarily gave up ownership of her paintings after the divorce.

“It’s not like someone who willingly fell into the entertainment industry to be an actress, not only can’t help with anything, but also drags down Shi’s family’s reputation.”

Mother-in-law sighed softly, “Ah, Jing Jing is now an internationally renowned artist, I heard she’s won many awards.”

——Who is really dragging down the reputation?

Sheng Lanqiu almost blurted out at the dining table.

She had relied on her dream foresight to make them calculate the Feng family early, but they sent Shi Cheng, that useless person, and messed everything up. The Shi family also fell from grace, and they still haven’t recovered to this day.

When she participated in the show, it was also with the approval of the Shi family, thinking it could solidify the Shi family’s position externally. But in front of the live broadcast, they couldn’t even pretend, and deliberately embarrassed her.

Shi Yulin behaved even worse, now he’s dissatisfied, why doesn’t he reflect on himself?

Why, now he thinks Yan Jing is good, not like before, openly belittling her with a disgusted look?

It’s ridiculous.

Sheng Lanqiu pinched her fingers tightly, feeling short of breath, a bit suffocated. But what made her panic and confused; was that when Shi Yulin heard his mother’s words, he didn’t say anything.

Does that mean he agrees?

Does he regret it now and want to get back with Yan Jing?

——No way!

And just when she was closely watching Shi Yulin recently, to prevent him from secretly meeting Yan Jing and rekindling their old flame, she was still caught off guard and lost her family.

Yan Jing actually took Shi Yue away directly.

And according to the agreement between Shi’s family and her, she naturally had the right to meet and get along with Shi Yue; Shi’s family had no right to stop her.

After learning about this, Sheng Lanqiu’s heart turned cold. If Shi Yue was lured away by his biological mother, what status could she still have in this family?!”

“Xia Xia, thanks to you. Yue Yue was indeed a bit resistant to me at first, but after meeting a few times, his attitude really softened.”

Sheng Xia and Feng Shaoyun were testing games outside when they suddenly receive Yan Jing’s call.

As soon as it connected, her happy voice came through, “I followed your advice and took him to the post-apocalyptic theme park this time. I didn’t say anything, just let him play all the various games and buy whatever he wanted when he saw something he liked.”

“I and Joel also put on zombie makeup with Yue Yue, bought him zombie balloons, and fed each other.” Yan Jing carefully recounted her day’s experience to her, “When we were playing in the simulation game, I took Yue Yue to play the role of a zombie. After knocking Joel down, he laughed so happily, completely different from before.”

“Then when we came out, Yue Yue actually called me ‘mom’!”

Yan Jing took a deep breath, her voice slightly choked up, “This is the first time he’s called me that. Xia Xia, I really don’t know how to thank you.”

“Really?” Sheng Xia lazily raised her lips, her tone sincere, “That’s great, congratulations.”

Shi Yue is already calm and sensible enough. Even in normal times, he has to pay attention to etiquette and behave properly, which is different from ordinary children.

Therefore, when interacting with him, one should not be too rigid and serious.

On the contrary, being restrained and disciplined, forced to be obedient and obedient, Shi Yue is more attracted to the carefree, casual, and free-spirited adults.

Just like every time Shi Yue sees her, although he doesn’t say it on the surface, his eyes are actually shining with admiration for “Aunt Xia Xia.”

And lying carefree on the lawn with his little friends, huddling together to pick seafood in the mud, squatting together to play in the sand… these things he had never experienced before allowed him to experience the true joy of being a child.

He likes these things; it’s just that due to the ideas instilled by the Shi family, he has to obediently stay by his mother’s side.

But at the same time, through the program, Shi Yue also observes how other adults and friends interact, gradually changes through his little friends, and develops his own thoughts.

He would feel puzzled, why are only his parents different? Sometimes adults make mistakes too, maybe their way of getting along is problematic…

This is also why Sheng Lanqiu would feel that he suddenly became “rebellious”.