Chapter 37: Just Being Contradictory

Wen Chi took on all the household chores, cooking, washing dishes, wiping the table, sweeping the floor and so on. He was a bit of a clean freak. Usually, it was okay if he didn't clean, but once he started, he had to make every nook and cranny spotless.

When he was busy sweating buckets, Wen Chi spotted a pile of dirty rags in the corner of the room. He frowned in disgust, wondering how this thing could be here. Pinching it with two fingers, he was about to throw it away. But when he shook it open, he realized that this was not a rag at all. It was the clothes that Suisui wore on the day she first came!

After a brief hesitation, Wen Chi decided to let Suisui know: "Suisui, can I throw away your dirty clothes?"

"No way!" Suisui rushed in from outside like she was on fire wheels, reaching out to get her clothes back. But she had just changed into a dress after coming in, and Wen Chi wouldn't let her touch the dirty clothes. He quickly lifted the clothes higher.

"It's too dirty," said Wen Chi.

"Not dirty!" Suisui retorted angrily. The little one was jumping up and down, trying hard to snatch her clothes back. Wen Chi was puzzled. The clothes were not only dirty but also old, with frayed edges in many places. Suisui seemed to like the new clothes bought by the program team, so why was she suddenly so persistent about this old one?

Suisui explained, "This was given to me by my good friend!"

Hey, now he got the key point. Wen Chi asked, "Good friend?"

"It's the good friend I met in the mountains. She gave me this clothes as a gift!" Suisui rarely said a few more words to Wen Chi, unlike before when she kept her mouth shut tightly. Wen Chi immediately sensed that her attitude had softened, so he tentatively asked, "Where are your own clothes?"

"Of course they were put away by... " Xiaoshan! At the critical moment, Suisui stopped herself in time. Her cheeks puffed up like a little pufferfish. Because she was small, even when she was angry, she didn't look intimidating at all, just cute.

"I'm not talking to you anymore!" Suisui announced loudly, full of anger, and turned to leave. But before leaving, she didn't forget her clothes. She stopped her small steps and stomped back heavily, shouting in a milky voice, "Give it back to me!" Wen Chi couldn't help but smile when he heard it.

Wen Chi didn't ask any more questions. As if to make up for it, he offered, "Then I'll wash it clean for you."

"No!"

"Isn't this a gift from your friend? You don't want it to be dirty either." Wen Chi's words made Suisui hesitate. After a long while, she reluctantly nodded, "Okay then."

That wasn't enough. Suisui became a little supervisor and insisted on watching Wen Chi wash it. Wen Chi didn't dare to slack off. After entering the mountain, he just casually rinsed his own clothes in clean water. But now, when washing Suisui's clothes, he was so careful. He fetched a basin of water and gently scrubbed it with soap, as if it were some precious fabric.

The audience saw this scene and there was a chorus of exclamations:

[Any buddies who have been following all the way? Do you understand how I feel seeing Wen Chi now?]

[I do! I even cursed him as a good-for-nothing slacker in the bullet comments before. I didn't expect him to be getting more and more diligent now.]

[Xiao Chi has grown up! / smoking emoji /]

[Haha, he used to resist Suisui and said he didn't want to partner with her for filming. But now he does whatever Suisui asks him to do. It's so typical of being contradictory!]

[Really. I remember in the behind-the-scenes footage, he told the director that he didn't know how to take care of kids and would never do many things. Look at him now, slapping himself in the face!]

The audience was just joking around, but their liking for Wen Chi was skyrocketing. As the audience said, Wen Chi himself didn't even notice that he had changed — from being bored and lifeless at the beginning of the recording to being interesting and full of vitality now. He and Suisui went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, pick fruits, catch chickens, and fish together, and tidied up the small yard neatly. Occasionally, when he was in the mood, he would pick a bunch of wild flowers by the roadside and put them in a coarse earthenware pot filled with clean water. Well, it was really kind of rustic and romantic.

The audience commented: [It seems that he has forgotten that he is filming. He is really living with Suisui in the mountains. It's so real and full of the flavor of life.]

This was exactly what the audience loved to see, so the data of Wen Chi's live stream soared, from the bottom at the beginning to the second place now.

It was the seventh day of filming, and also the last day of the first round of filming. They only needed to film for half a day today, and after that, the guests had to set off to leave Chunshan. After all, among the four guests, there were actors and singers, and they all had their own careers. It was impossible for them to stay in the mountains for months. They needed time to handle other work and take a break.

Usually, they would film for a week and then rest for a week to give the guests enough time to recharge. However, now that the program was about to be broadcast, considering the issue of material reserves, the guests' first vacation was only four days. Chunshan was a remote place, far from the nearest airport. It would take two days just to travel back and forth, so this four-day vacation was really not long.

But when these words reached Suisui's ears, it was like a bolt from the blue. Wen Chi was packing up his things when Suisui suddenly ran over.

"You're leaving?" She opened her beautiful eyes that were like gems, looking at Wen Chi expectantly and fearfully, looking rather pitiful. Wen Chi's heart sank a little. He squatted down in front of Suisui, pursed his lips, and then said, "I'm leaving temporarily. I'll be back in a few days."

Suisui's mouth slowly puckered up, and her eyes had already turned a little red. "Can't you just not leave?" She asked in a very small voice, soft and weak, as if she didn't have much confidence. She was completely different from her usual domineering look, when she seemed to want to claim the whole Chunshan as her territory.

Wen Chi's heart softened completely, and he almost wavered and promised Suisui to stay. But remembering that he had some urgent matters to deal with, he had to be cruel: "I will definitely come back! Just wait for me for four days!"

Sparkling tears were already swirling in Suisui's eyes, but she didn't cry. She knew crying wouldn't solve any problems. Suisui hung her head dejectedly. Just when Wen Chi thought she had accepted the fact, Suisui suddenly said firmly, "Then I'll go with you!" The fated person she recognized, she had to follow personally.

Wen Chi widened his eyes in surprise and coughed lightly: "Actually... I asked."

Thinking about it now, Wen Chi thought he was really out of his mind at that time. He actually went to ask the program team if he could take Suisui with him when he left. Needless to say, the answer was definitely no. Who would allow a young single man to take away a little girl he had only known for a few days and had no relationship with? The program team was entrusted by the police to take care of Suisui for the time being, and thanks to Suisui, the variety show had gained a lot of popularity. For both emotional and reasonable reasons, they had to be responsible for Suisui!

Wen Chi understood all this, so he didn't say anything more. He told Suisui these reasons. Suisui seemed to be thinking: "So you can't take me away, right?" As soon as Wen Chi nodded, he heard Xia Kai calling his name outside. He bent down and took Suisui's hand: "Let's go, let's go to the village first."