Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Jiang Mochen felt that he really couldn’t imagine Yan Qingchi’s innocent appearance. He felt very strange. According to Yan Qingchi’s intelligence and his personality of keeping everything in mind, how could Li Xinran deceive him into being like that? And how could he suffer such a loss from Li Xinran? Was it really because Li Xinran was Yan Qingchi’s first love, so Yan Qingchi saw him with a 1500-meter filter and was willing to be low-key. Jiang Mochen felt that if this was really the case, then why did he want to beat Li Xinran violently now? What was so good about that scumbag!
Yan Qingchi looked at his sudden expression of grimness and was a little confused, “What’s wrong with you?”
Jiang Mochen looked up at him, feeling a little distressed and a little angry at him, so in the end, he could only say: “Next time, I’ll beat up that scumbag for you. Just transfer the call to me and I’ll handle it.”
Yan Qingchi nodded, “But that probably won’t happen. He now thinks that I have offended some big shot, so others are using him to mess with me. He is afraid that he will become a victim, so he can’t wait to never have known me.”
“Oh, rubbish.” Jiang Mochen cursed.
Yan Qingchi completely agreed, “Yes, it’s still non-recyclable.”
After the two of them finished talking about Li Xinran and Yuan Mingxu, Yan Qingchi took a bath and prepared to go to bed, but when he left the bathroom, he discovered that Jiang Mochen was writing and drawing something.
“What are you doing?” He walked over and leaned over to look at Jiang Mochen.
When Jiang Mochen saw him coming out, he naturally handed the pen to him, “Qi Qi asked me to paint with him. You also know that I’m not very good at painting, so he said that when you come back, the three of us will paint together, and we will then draw a swallow.”
Jiang Mochen said as he took out a piece of drawing paper, “This is Qi Qi’s drawing. I was afraid that the drawing would not be good enough and will affect my image of his father in his heart, so I found an excuse to transfer it. I grabbed his attention and thought that when I see you, you can cheat for me, okay?”
Yan Qingchi smiled and sat down on the sofa. He looked at the swallow drawn by Qi Qi, and then looked at Jiang Mochen’s paintings again, then he said softly: “If you hadn’t told me, I should have thought that you were the one who drew what Qi Qi has drawn.”
Jiang Mochen himself was helpless, “What can I do? I’m also desperate.”
“Jiang, you need a teacher to teach you one-on-one in a small class.” Yan Qingchi looked at him.
Jiang Mochen was very willing, but, “Teacher, you don’t seem to have time.”
“Wait till next month. I will finish my shooting next month and teach you well.”
“Teacher, you have to finish it quickly.”
“It’s a pity, I can’t help it. The teacher doesn’t have the final say.”
Jiang Mochen sighed, “You draw first, and draw more movements and styles according to what you like. When I go back, I will say that I drew it and show it to Qi Qi.”
“I understand. Go take a shower.”
Jiang Mochen stood up and looked at him holding a pen and staring at the drawing paper in front of him, his eyebrows focused, and he bent over and kissed him on the face.
Yan Qingchi was a little surprised, and reflexively looked up at him, “What are you doing?”
Jiang Mochen pinched the place where he had just kissed, and said warmly, “Knowledgeable and reasonable.”
Yan Qingchi was almost amused by these four words, “Me? I’m knowledgeable and reasonable?”
“Aren’t you?”
Yan Qingchi shook his head with emotion, “I never thought that one day I would be said to be knowledgeable and reasonable. It was not easy.”
Jiang Mochen smiled and said, “Do your best.”
As he said this, he walked towards the bathroom.
The moment he closed the door, Jiang Mochen looked at Yan Qingchi, who was lowering his head to draw, and breathed a sigh of relief. He had been thinking about their rings since Yan Qingchi left on his birthday. Jiang Mochen had a preliminary idea, and after communicating with the designer, he got the designer’s approval. The only problem was that he didn’t know how to draw.
He didn’t want anyone else to come between him and Yan Qingchi, so he could only let Yan Qingchi help him complete it. However, Jiang Mochen gently closed the door. After all, it was a surprise that he was planning to propose, and there was no way he could let Yan Qingchi know about it now.
As for the practice of getting married first and then proposing, who said that you couldn’t propose after getting married?
He would make up for what he owed Yan Qingchi one by one. Confession, proposal, wedding, publicity, these links, one day, he would make up for it all. Their relationship was like a retreating train. It was different from others who ended at marriage – they had already reached the end, but they were not in a hurry to get off, so they would slowly retreat along the track, in different moods, to enjoy the scenery missed along the way.
By the time Jiang Mochen came out of the bath, Yan Qingchi had already drawn several swallows for him, some simple, some complex, some standing, some flying. “Is that okay?” he asked Jiang Mochen.
Jiang Mochen nodded, “Okay, it’s pretty good.”
“Then you learn to draw. If you can’t learn it, just give it to Qi Qi.” Yan Qingchi stood up and stretched, “Oh, I’m tired. Go to sleep.”
“Okay.” Jiang Mochen carefully put the painting away and put it back in his bag.
In the afternoon of the next day, Jiang Mochen returned to X city with Qi Qi, while Yan Qingchi continued to stay in the crew for filming.
Soon, Christmas Eve arrived, and the crew prepared an apple for everyone, and even asked everyone to finish work early and go back to rest. Qi Qi’s performance happened to be today. After the shoot, Yan Qingchi returned to his room to prepare to connect with Jiang Mochen and let him broadcast live.
Wei Lan and Wei Xun had agreed to spend the holiday together today, and Wei Lan had been looking forward to it for a while, but Wei Xun hadn’t come yet. Thus, since he had nothing to do and was curious about Qi Qi, so he followed Yan Qingchi into his room.
Yan Qingchi was helpless, “You are really free.”
“Yes,” Wei Lan admitted directly, “Oh, I don’t know if my brother has arrived?”
“He will contact you when he arrives, don’t worry.”
“I know, let’s look at your son.” Wei Lan urged him.
Yan Qingchi sat down on the sofa, looked at his watch, and found that it was almost time for Qi Qi’s performance, so he sent a video call to Jiang Mochen without any further delay.
Jiang Mochen picked up after a while, and Wei Lan didn’t even recognize him. He had put on makeup, reshaped his eyebrows, and put on a pair of glasses. He looked a little deserted, and he also wore a mask.
“Wearing a mask indoors, are you not afraid of drawing attention to yourself.” Wei Lan reminded him.
Jiang Mochen frowned, “Why are you here?”
“I came to see Xiao Qi Qi.”
Yan Qingchi finally realized that he did not tell Jiang Mochen that Wei Lan knew about Qi Qi’s existence, so he immediately raised his hand and said frankly, “I was wrong, I forgot to tell you. I told Wei Lan about Qi Qi, but he promised me not to tell anyone else.”
Jiang Mochen was a little helpless, “When did you have such a good relationship with him? When did you tell him?”
Wei Lan looked proud, “A person as good as me, everyone will naturally like me if they have a little contact with me. This is normal.”
Jiang Mochen was very doubtful about this sentence, and he looked at Yan Qingchi, seeming to ask again, do you agree?
But what could Yan Qingchi say? He looked at Wei Lan just as he looked at his former brother, so he could only smile and say, “Let’s watch Qi Qi.”
Jiang Mochen adjusted his cell phone and pointed it at the stage. After a while, the performance began. Yan Qingchi watched as the stage slowly lit up, and the children in Christmas tree clothes swayed left and right to the music. Immediately afterwards, children wearing reindeer costumes and antlers came on stage one by one. They held a rope in their hands, which was tied to a wooden prop sleigh. In the sleigh sat a little fat boy wearing Santa Claus clothes with piles of gift boxes behind him.
They stood in two rows in the center of the stage, singing Christmas carols hand in hand. Santa Claus was sitting in the sleigh, singing, taking out the gift boxes from the sleigh and throwing them to the audience. The gift boxes were very light, and the gifts inside were not likely to be very heavy, so even if they hit someone, it won’t hurt. Parents at the scene received the gifts and exclaimed “Wow!” in cooperation.
Santa Claus on the stage also came out of the sleigh and stood in the middle of the stage, with reindeer circling around him and the Christmas trees dancing beside him.
After the song ended, the children stood neatly in a row and bowed and shouted Merry Christmas to everyone. The parents clapped hard and shouted “Okay”.
Then the stage went dark, and Yan Qingchi heard Jiang Mochen say, “Wait a moment.”
The camera on the phone began to shake.
“What did he do?” Wei Lan asked Yan Qingchi.
After all, Yan Qingchi had lived with Jiang Mochen for such a long time, so he knew something about him. “I think he went backstage to watch Qi Qi.”
Wei Lan nodded quickly with “oh oh oh”.
After a while, the phone screen emitted white light again, followed by a few sporadic children’s words.
“What is this?”
“I’ll give this to you, can you swap it with me?”
“Oh, stop pulling on my tail, you have it yourself.”
Then Yan Qingchi heard a voice familiar to him say, “Dad.”
The voice was small and soft, but it could not conceal its excitement. A little head poked into the camera, it was Qi Qi.
Jiang Mochen quickly positioned the phone so that Qi Qi’s entire upper body appeared on the screen. They seemed to have chosen a quiet place as they could no longer hear the voices of other children.
Yan Qingchi saw that Qi Qi was still wearing the little reindeer’s clothes and antlers, looking cute and soft. Yan Qingchi knew that he was afraid of others, so he pushed Wei Lan out of the camera. Wei Lan was a little dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do.
Yan Qingchi looked at the little reindeer in the video and smiled, “Dad just saw it, and Qi Qi’s performance was great.”
“Really? Did you really see it?”
“Well, I heard Qi Qi sing, and Qi Qi sang very well.”
Qi Qi blushed, not sure if it was because of the heat or shyness, “Dad, look,” he held up a furry Christmas stocking-like bag, “The teacher gave us a Christmas gift.”
“Wow,” Yan Qingchi expressed his surprise cooperatively, “it looks great.”
Qi Qi nodded, then lowered his head and opened the bag in front of him to take out the contents.
“It’s a little deer.” He shook the little deer in his hand towards Yan Qingchi.
“Well, it’s very cute.”
Qi Qi put the deer in again and continued to dig out, “What is this?”
He took out a square small box tied with a ribbon, shook it, and then he put it to his ear and listened, then handed it to Jiang Mochen and asked for help, “What is this?”
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