Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Ji Yan left, leaving only Tang Tang and the little one at home. Without that tall figure, not only was the little one a little unaccustomed, but Tang Tang was too. They had only spent a few days with him, but she seemed very reluctant to part with him.
Tang Tang felt that it must be because he was too good to her. From childhood to adulthood, apart from her nanny, no one had ever been so good to her. Touching her new phone, Tang Tang secretly curled up the corners of her mouth.
Tang Tang had seen this phone on TV; the male lead used the exact same one. Without asking, she knew it must be incredibly expensive, so expensive that Tang Tang always handled it with utmost care, afraid of breaking it.
Ji Xiaozhuo, seeing his silly mother secretly giggling at her phone, toddled over, tugged at her trouser leg, and looked up at her. “Mommy, what’s wrong?”
Tang Tang snapped out of her reverie, her face slightly flushed, and replied, “Nothing, Mommy’s just figuring out how to use this.”
Ji Xiaozhuo suddenly realized, “Mommy, do you not know how to use a phone?” His mother didn’t even know how to use a tablet, so she definitely wouldn’t know how to use a phone. Ji Xiaozhuo suddenly felt a little worried. His mother was so clumsy; what would happen to her without him? It was so worrying.
Tang Tang indeed didn’t know how to use a phone. This thing was too advanced for her; she simply didn’t know where to begin.
Seeing this, Ji Xiaozhuo once again adopted his bossy demeanor, putting his hands behind his back and waddling towards the sofa like a CEO. He waved to Tang Tang behind him and commanded, “Come here, I’ll teach you.”
Tang Tang immediately followed behind her little boss, responding to his call.
Ji Xiaozhuo imitated the tone of a kindergarten teacher, saying, “Now I’m going to explain, so you have to listen carefully, okay? If you don’t understand, ask.”
Tang Tang nodded obediently.
Teacher Ji was very satisfied, opened her phone, and began explaining to Tang Tang how to use it. “Here, this is for making calls. Just press it to talk.”
Tang Tang carefully noted it down.
“This is WeChat, just like on my tablet. You can talk to Daddy and even video chat.”
“Oh, I know that. I didn’t know phones could have that.”
After explaining these two, Teacher Ji’s lesson ended. Teacher Ji only knew how to make calls and use WeChat; these two were specifically taught to him by Ji Yan to make it easier for the little one to contact him. Ji Yan hadn’t taught him any other software, nor did he intend to.
The teaching mode ended, and it was time for practice. Since neither mother nor son had anything else to do, they snuggled up on the sofa and started making phone calls to each other.
Making a phone call was actually quite easy to learn; Tang Tang figured it out after a few tries. Next, she couldn’t wait to learn how to use WeChat video calls, because she had secretly watched Ji Xiaozhuo and Ji Yan’s videos and was incredibly interested in it.
The little guy dutifully acted as his mother’s guinea pig, teaching Tang Tang how to use it. Then, mother and son sat facing each other, one holding a phone, the other a tablet, and started chatting.
“Mommy, Mommy, it’s me, baby!”
“Baby, baby, it’s me, Mommy.”
After the meeting, Ji Xiaozhuo cleared his throat and asked seriously, “Mommy, is there anything you want to say to me? You can say it now~”
Tang Tang didn’t know what to say for a moment. Seeing the little guy’s chubby cheeks on the phone, she thought he was very cute, so she naturally started sweet talk mode, “Baby, you are the cutest baby, super handsome.”
Ji Xiaozhuo didn’t expect to receive a wave of sweetness right away. And his little face turned red. Based on the principle of reciprocity, he also praised Tang Tang, “Mommy, Mommy, you are also the most beautiful mommy, super beautiful.”
“Hehe…” Tang Tang felt shy because the praise was too untrue. She touched her face and said shyly, “Mommy is ugly, not pretty at all.”
Ji Xiaozhuo was not happy. “Who said that? My mommy is super beautiful!” Ji Xiaozhuo really thought his mother was beautiful. In a child’s world, there was no aesthetic sense, only that their mother was the best, and there was no room for argument.
Although she knew the little guy’s words were unreliable, Tang Tang still felt a sweet warmth in her heart. Being told she was beautiful by a man made her happy, even though he was only three and a half years old.
But no amount of sweet talk could change the fact that she was ugly. If only she could become super beautiful like the baby said, then she wouldn’t embarrass the baby and his father. Thinking about how she would soon be going to live with her husband in the army, Tang Tang became anxious. She would have to face her husband’s comrades looking like this, and her husband would definitely be embarrassed. Men all wanted their wives to be beautiful, right? It was a matter of pride to show them off. Someone like her would only be embarrassing.
“Sigh, so worrying—” Tang Tang thought, losing all interest in studying and feeling utterly depressed.
Ji Xiaozhuo, with his bottom sticking out, moved towards Tang Tang, sat in her lap, and cupped her face, asking, “Mommy, what’s wrong? Why do you look unhappy?”
Tang Tang rubbed his chubby little face and, in a rather reckless manner, asked the toddler, who wasn’t even four years old, “Baby, how do you think Mommy should become prettier?”
Ji Xiaozhuo, displaying a strong survival instinct, replied, “Mommy, you’re already very pretty.”
“……..” Tang Tang had to change her approach: “Then how do you think Mommy can become even prettier?”
Although this question was really beyond his level, Ji Xiaozhuo still tried his best for his mother, covering his head with his little hands and starting to rack his brains.
Thinking and thinking, the little one suddenly had a bright idea and said, “Mom, I’ve got it! Mom, go buy some lipstick! Red lips look pretty. All my kindergarten classmates’ moms have red lips, and even the teacher’s lips are red. They say it’s makeup, and women love makeup.”
Tang Tang certainly knew about makeup, but the key was that with her current appearance, lipstick wouldn’t solve the fundamental problem. Her biggest problem right now was that she needed to gain some weight to get rid of her skeletal, terrifying image before she could think about anything else.
But she ate her fill at every meal, and the food wasn’t bad at all, so why wasn’t she gaining weight? There used to be a scale in her room, where she could see her weight as soon as she stepped on it. After learning how to read the numbers, she fell in love with the scale and weighed herself every day. But tragically, after all this time, she hadn’t gained a single pound!
She was desperate.
Tang Tang enviously touched Ji Xiaozhuo’s chubby little body, humbly asking, “Baby, how can Mommy become chubby like you?”
Ji Xiaozhuo looked down and pinched his own belly, then glanced at Tang Tang’s flat stomach, which had sunk in even when she was sitting, and asked in surprise, “Mommy, so you want to be chubby like me?”
“Uh…” Tang Tang held up a finger, “Mommy wants to be a little chubby.” She didn’t want to be too chubby also.
Ji Xiaozhuo suddenly understood, finally comprehending his mother’s inner desire. He immediately felt the question was too simple; he didn’t know how to lose weight, but he was very good at how to gain weight.
Ji Xiaozhuo excitedly raised his hand, “Mom, I know how to gain weight!”
“Hmm? Tell me.”
“Mom, you can gain weight as long as you eat lots of delicious food!”
“Of course I know that, but I eat my fill at every meal, yet I haven’t gained weight.”
Ji Xiaozhuo slapped his thigh, looking at Tang Tang with a disappointed expression, “Mom, you’re so silly, how can eating make you gain weight? Besides, you never eat as much as I do. You need to eat things that make you gain weight quickly.”
“Gain weight quickly?” Tang Tang immediately asked Teacher Ji humbly, “Then what should I eat to gain weight quickly? Tell Mom.”
Ji Xiaozhuo immediately said confidently, “Mom, you should eat the things Dad doesn’t let me eat, because those are things that make you gain weight!”
Tang Tang: “…” Seems to make sense.
Ji Xiaozhuo began listing the things he couldn’t eat, “Mommy, Daddy won’t let me eat ice cream, won’t let me eat KFC, won’t let me eat chocolate, won’t let me eat cake, won’t let me eat potato chips, won’t let me eat…”
“Stop, stop, stop!” Tang Tang, seeing his seemingly endless list, quickly stopped him, “Mommy knows, knows, stop talking.”
Ji Xiaozhuo blinked obediently and tugged at Tang Tang’s hand, “Mommy, let’s go to the supermarket to buy them, so you can grow as fat as me.”
Tang Tang felt that Ji Xiaozhuo’s enthusiasm wasn’t for her sake, but rather because he wanted to eat them himself.
It had to be said, Tang Tang was right.
Although Ji Xiaozhuo had his own selfish motives, Tang Tang thought he made sense, because she had seen on TV that the female lead was on a diet and therefore didn’t dare eat chocolate, talking about high calories and such. Tang Tang didn’t understand calories, but she guessed that these things could make you gain weight quickly, which was why Ji Yan wouldn’t let the little guy eat them.
So, she decided to buy some of these things to eat; maybe she could really gain some weight.
The temptation to become beautiful was just too great, and Tang Tang finally took Ji Xiaozhuo to the supermarket.
Ji Xiaozhuo felt like he was in heaven, happily picking out snacks and recommending them to Tang Tang, making Tang Tang almost dizzy.
However, Tang Tang looked at the prices and found that these weight-gain snacks were so expensive, especially that box of chocolates, which was equivalent to several meals of meat.
Tang Tang was a little reluctant; she was spending her husband’s hard-earned money, and she was already financially insecure. Wasting money on these snacks seemed wrong.
Seeing Tang Tang hesitate, Ji Xiaozhuo looked at the delicious food with drool, swallowed, and tugged at Tang Tang’s trouser leg, saying, “Mommy, don’t you want to gain weight? Don’t you want to become beautiful? Eating these will make you super beautiful!”
Ji Xiaozhuo probably didn’t realize that his tone sounded like a child trafficker trying to trick a child.
A young mother, also shopping for snacks with her child nearby, overheard the conversation between the mother and son and couldn’t help but chuckle. She’d seen mothers trick their children many times, but this was the first time she’d seen a child trick their mother— it was truly amusing.
Tang Tang and Ji Xiaozhuo were oblivious to the laughter around them. Ji Xiaozhuo was absorbed in figuring out how to convince his mother to buy the treats, while Tang Tang wavered between wanting to be beautiful and saving money.
Seeing his food about to slip away, Ji Xiaozhuo grabbed Tang Tang’s leg and continued his innocent and earnest coaxing: “Mommy, if you become even more beautiful, I’ll love you even more, and… and Daddy will love you even more too!” The shameless son had betrayed his father for food.
It had to be said, the little guy’s tactic of betraying his father was quite effective. Tang Tang gritted her teeth and said resolutely, “Okay, Mommy will buy it.”
Ji Xiaozhuo’s lips curled into a smile, but he quickly suppressed it, reverting to his serious expression.
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