009 coming to nitpick
Yan Wang thought he must have seen it wrong?
He stared at the screen for a full minute before confirming that the title was correct.
With trembling fingers, he clicked into it—it was an edited clip of his mother's live broadcast.
She seemed to have taken a fall, her body wrapped in some pathetic mud, yet even so, her gaze remained as tender as ever.
"I have a son who's a few months older than you, but he's been sick and couldn't leave the hospital. He also wants to climb trees and pick fruit, but unfortunately, he can't..."
A loud boom resonated in his head, like fireworks had exploded, shattering mind to the point of unconsciousness.
All that was left were thoughts of shock!
*
The next day.
At the foot of Yan Mountain, in a small village.
Today was the final stage of recording for the fourth episode of "National Parent".
As per tradition, the village chief would tally the teams' mission points and convert them into cash proportionately, allowing the cute babies to use the money to buy gifts.
Tang Tang and Yan Yueqing's group, unsurprisingly, had the least points and only exchanged for two hundred yuan, but it was more than enough to buy some ordinary gifts.
The driver took the six guest groups to a department store in T City.
To keep the gifts a surprise, live streaming was not done while shopping, and the guests were free to move around with the cute babies.
Yan Yueqing led Tang Tang, and looking at Qin Youran who was walking at the front, she suddenly thought—maybe not live streaming this stage wasn't just about preventing spoilers!
Qin Youran was the heroine of the story, not only sweet and adorable in appearance but also sharp-witted.
Every time she went to buy gifts with the cute babies, she would take advantage of the break in filming to buy some gifts at her own expense and give them to the staff.
They say one is soft-hearted when eating from others' hands, and one becomes indebted when accepting gifts; after receiving her gifts, the staff would help her perfect her image as much as possible during subsequent recordings.
Li Manman also discovered this clever trick later and followed suit.
Afterward, a strange custom arose within the crew—
The cute baby group would buy gifts for their little friends, and the guest group would spend their own money on gifts for the staff.
Each was rolling up their sleeves and getting down to business!
Not live streaming was probably because they feared that broadcasting the phenomenon live would lead to the internet users, who had previously praised Qin Youran as "attentive and kind, also considerate of the staff," backlashing against her, right?
"This teddy bear for Xiao Zhen, the dragonfly hairpin for Huan Huan, and the glasses frame for Brother Hao Hao..." Tang Tang was a very strategic person, quickly picking out gifts and diligently checking to ensure she didn't miss anything.
Yan Yueqing quietly stood to the side, not disturbing the Little Princess as she took inventory.
But some people feared she had too much peace, and with a sneer, spoke up, "Yueqing, bringing Tang Tang to this kind of budget store is kind of funny, isn't it?"
Li Manman walked in with Huan Huan, the little girl from her team.
She still had some sense, letting Huan Huan go play with Tang Tang before lowering her voice to speak, "If it weren't for you dragging down the score and losing points, would Tang Tang need to come to a place like this to pick out gifts?"
"What's wrong with this place? It's quite nice."
Li Manman scoffed, "Picking gifts for kids is indeed quite nice, but what about you? It's been four episodes since you joined the group, and not once have you prepared gifts for the crew? Makes sense! With someone as shameless as you, how could one expect you to understand the intricacies of human relationships?"
Her tone was incredibly aggressive!
Yan Yueqing's eyebrows lifted slightly—had she encountered someone looking for trouble?
"So you mean to say, knowing how to buy gifts equates to understanding human relationships?"
Li Manman glanced at her disdainfully, "What's the use of talking to someone like you? You take the money for role-playing from the production team yet can suddenly betray them for publicity! Yan Yueqing, do you even have the words 'professional ethics' in your dictionary?"
"Role-playing money?" Yan Yueqing spoke deliberately, "If they pay you, that's called role-playing money. If they don't pay, that's called pie in the sky!"