Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Since he only had one day off in the past two days, Director Wang did not arrange a break on this day, but continued shooting.
At eleven o’clock in the evening, the assistant came to tell everyone to call it a day. One after another, everyone stopped what they were doing, said Happy New Year to each other, and then returned to the hotel.
Zu Qi, who had been busy all day, came out of the bathroom after taking a shower and saw Xue Jue holding Xue Wanwan and sitting on the sofa. The Spring Festival Gala was playing on the TV in front of him.
Hearing the sound of opening and closing of the door, Xue Jue looked up and said with a smile: “Are you hungry? I just called the waiter to bring some food.”
Zu Qi did feel a little hungry, so he scratched and blew his hair dry, he then sat down next to Xue Jue and asked with bright eyes: “What did you order?”
Seeing Zu Qi’s greedy look, Xue Jue couldn’t help laughing and stretched out his hand to rub Zu Qi’s fluffy and soft hair a few times, and his deep voice was filled with a smile that could not be concealed: “Snacks and glutinous rice balls.”
Zu Qi was stunned: “Didn’t you order barbecue and beer?”
Xue Jue raised his eyebrows: “If you’re not afraid that Duan Kai will repeat your words tomorrow when he finds out, you can call them and ask them to add these.”
“…” Zu Qi was like a deflated ball in an instant, and his whole body became dejected at a speed visible to the naked eye. He still muttered quietly, “If you don’t tell and I don’t tell, Brother Duan will definitely not know.”
Hearing this, Xue Jue told the truth straight to the point: “But your weight will not lie.”
Now Zu Qi was completely defeated.
It felt sad to say that before, when Zu Qi was still pregnant with Xue Wanwan, he ate and drank without restraint without gaining a few pounds. But recently, he ate with Qiao Yang and Zhou Hai for a while, and originally his weight was steady. But now the weight he gained increased rapidly… and then directly reached the maximum weight limit set by the company.
Duan Kai couldn’t stand it anymore and decisively rejected the afternoon tea and midnight snacks that the crew prepared for Zu Qi from time to time. Even when he went to Qiao Yang and Zhou Hai’s place to eat, he would strictly set the amount.
Under Duan Kai’s dark face, Zu Qi really lost a few pounds.
So when he heard what Xue Jue said at this moment, Zu Qi closed his mouth dejectedly and did not dare to refute anything.
Fortunately, Xue Wanwan was a cheerful pistachio. He grabbed the sleeves of Zu Qi’s nightgown with his two little hands, babbling something with his mouth open, with his eyes looking at Zu Qi constantly.
Zu Qi suddenly became interested and reached out to hold Xue Wanwan into his arms. It was rare for him to be so patient in teaching the little guy to call “Dad”.
It was a pity that Xue Wanwan only knew a few simple tones and couldn’t even understand the meaning of Zu Qi’s words. He kept babbling and babbling despite being taught. Seeing Zu Qi’s face full of frustration, the little guy smiled even more happily, and even used his little hands to scratch Zu Qi’s face.
Zu Qi, who was caught off guard, was patted several times by Xue Wanwan. The child’s strength was not strong, and it was like stroking his cheek.
Zu Qi snorted coldly, opened his mouth and bit Xue Wanwan’s little hand.
The next second, the excited laughter in Xue Wanwan’s mouth stopped abruptly. The little guy opened his watery eyes and stared at Zu Qi for a long time. Only then did he realize something, and a loud cry broke out.
Zu Qi, who had been arrogant just now, suddenly became confused when he saw this. He quickly spit out Xue Wanwan’s little hand, patted the little guy’s back, and coaxed him repeatedly: “Don’t cry, don’t cry, dad is wrong, dad will never bite your hand again.”
However, Xue Wanwan couldn’t understand Zu Qi’s words at all, and after a while, his face was covered with tears.
Xue Jue came in from the door with a dinner plate and saw Zu Qi holding Xue Wanwan standing in front of the sofa at a loss. He immediately felt both angry and funny. If Zu Qi was really allowed to take Xue Wanwan with him every day, he would be able to take Xue Wanwan with him and make the little guy cry more than ten times in one day.
“I can’t do it anymore, you can coax him.” Zu Qi quickly applied for foreign aid.
Xue Jue put the plate in his hand on the table and went to hug Xue Wanwan, who was crying non-stop. Unexpectedly, Xue Wanwan, who was crying and burping, wouldn’t let him hug him at all. When he saw Xue Jue reaching out to him, he twisted his body in anger and turned the back of his head towards Xue Jue, while holding Zu Qi’s neck more tightly with both hands.
Xue Jue raised his eyebrows, with a hint of gloating in his tone: “It seems he prefers you to hold him.”
“Then please stop crying, okay!” Zu Qi said helplessly to Xue Wanwan, and when he saw that the little boy’s face had turned red from crying, he wanted to cry too, “Ancestor, you are my little ancestor, I beg you not to cry…”
At the end of the sentence, Zu Qi’s face wrinkled up.
Unknowingly, the time had reached midnight.
The unique joyful songs of the New Year were playing on the TV, and the four hosts stood on the stage and wished everyone a happy New Year in their well-spoken broadcasting voices.
At the same time, bursts of fireworks suddenly rose outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, connecting into the night sky, and the bright light illuminated almost half of the sky.
The floor they lived on was not high, and you could see the fireworks blooming when you looked up, which was so beautiful.
Xue Wanwan, who was still crying just now, was attracted by the fireworks. He stopped crying soon, opened his round eyes curiously, opened his small mouth slightly, and looked out the window intently.
“Happy New Year.” Xue Jue’s voice came from the side.
Zu Qi turned around and saw Xue Jue looking at him with a smile on her face, his beautiful eyes narrowed in a curved arc, and the light from the window was projected on half of his cheeks, making the outline of his face look particularly soft at the moment.
“Happy New Year.” Zu Qi said, leaning forward and kissing Xue Jue on the lips.
Two seconds ago, Xue Jue’s hand was empty, but now a small black box suddenly appeared like magic. He opened the box and found a ring embedded in it.
This ring was not as high-profile as a diamond ring with diamonds in the middle. It looked more like an ordinary ring. However, if you looked closely, you would find that the ring was surrounded by dense diamonds, which looked like a twinkling starry sky under the light and was particularly eye-catching.
It seemed low-key, but in fact it was very high-profile.
Waves of surprise welled up in Zu Qi’s eyes, and suddenly it seemed like he couldn’t even breathe.
He stared at Xue Jue with blank eyes, so nervous that his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
Fireworks continued to be set off outside the window, illuminating everything in Zu Qi’s peripheral vision extremely brightly, but he couldn’t see so much. The entire sight was occupied by Xue Jue in front of him.
Xue Jue smiled, and there was no trace of his usual indifference on his handsome face.
Zu Qi swallowed unconsciously. He had already guessed what Xue Jue was going to do later and was vaguely looking forward to what the other party was about to say.
The two of them stared at each other in the sky full of fireworks for a long time. It wasn’t until Zu Qi could no longer hold back that he saw Xue Jue handing him the small black box with some restraint.
“This is the wedding ring I ordered.”
Zu Qi: “…I can see it.”
“Then…” Xue Jue said hesitantly, “How about I help you put it on now?”
This paragraph directly cut to the point. The conversation made Zu Qi completely silent.
So Zu Qi began to think about whether it was too difficult for him to expect a touching declaration of love from Xue Jue, a novice in love.
Obviously Zu Qi’s unexpected silence made Xue Jue a little panicked, but he didn’t want to show off his brattish side in front of Zu Qi, so he frowned and said seriously: “I asked the designer to do it. The design drawings of eight rings were rejected before this. If you don’t like this one, we can change it to another one.”
Zu Qi sighed, thinking that such a romantic scene as giving a wedding ring was turned into a weekly company meeting by him. The atmosphere was also deserted.
“This is the one, I like it very much.” Zu Qi said.
Although he looked extremely calm on the surface, in fact his heart was beating loudly, as if his whole heart was overflowing with happiness and surprise.
He couldn’t wait to go downstairs and run around twice.
He and Xue Jue were getting married…
Although this idea had long existed in his mind, but now when he thought about it in such an environment, it felt a little incredible.
Obviously before time travel, he was still an older young man with no love object. He put all his energy into work, but in the blink of an eye he came to the world in the novel, and was now complete with a love object and child.
Xue Jue took the ring out of the small black box, bypassed Xue Wanwan’s little claws and put it on Zu Qi, then turned his hand to show the ring he had already worn on his ring finger.
Zu Qi said funnily: “When did you put it on?”
“Just now.”
“You moved so fast.”
“If I don’t hurry up, what if you run away suddenly?” Xue Jue’s voice was very light, mixed with the noisy sounds coming from the TV, but it reached Zu Qi’s ears especially clearly.
At this time, Zu Qi’s eyelids twitched. He seemed to understand the implication of Xue Jue’s words instantly, and a bit of surprise and vigilance immediately appeared in his eyes.
Before Zu Qi could speak, he heard Xue Jue’s soft voice coming from the side. It seemed a bit unreal amidst the loud TV and the crackling of fireworks outside the window.
“It’s like you suddenly appeared in my life…”
Zu Qi was confused for a moment. He was looking at the fireworks outside the window guiltily, but the next moment he suddenly turned his head to look at Xue Jue.
“What do you want to say?” Zu Qi said almost reflexively, and he regretted it after saying it.
Didn’t saying this indirectly admit that there was something wrong in his heart?
Xue Jue looked at Zu Qi for a while, just watching quietly, with no other meaning in his eyes. He then hugged Xue Wanwan and said casually: “Eat quickly, it’s already cold.”
Although Zu Qi performed well during the filming but at this time, he unpreparedly exposed all his true emotions. His expression was also slightly stiff, as if he was cold from head to toe.
Xue Jue turned around and saw Zu Qi still standing stunned on the spot, and couldn’t help but ask: “What’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing.” Zu Qi forced out a smile, and then sat at the table with Xue Jue and finished eating the glutinous rice balls brought by the waiter.
In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, when everyone was most busy sending messages, Zu Qi copied a good New Year greeting from Xiao Dengzi, modified it slightly and sent it to everyone on WeChat.
There were also Weibo and some social apps that he had cooperated with, to whom he also needed to send New Year greetings. Zu Qi edited the content, thought about it, and selected a few emoticons of Xue Wanwan from the photo album on his mobile phone.
Then he sent them out.
After interacting with fans for a while, it was already half an hour before everything was done. Zu Qi was about to exit the Weibo interface when a new WeChat content suddenly popped up on the screen.
Zu Qi did not set up a mask to display WeChat content. When he looked up, he saw the name “Zu Zhou”.
He frowned and thought about it for a long time before he remembered that Zu Zhou was the brother of the original owner whom he had never met before.
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