Raising You This Small Stuff

Chapter 26.1 Du Du don’t cry o(╥﹏╥)o

The next day.

The sky was getting darker.

Chen Jiao stopped the car.

“Mo Ge, we’re here.” Mo Yi Cheng gave the information he had received from Mother Mo last night to Chen Jiao. Chen Jiao looked through the time line scheduled in the itinerary and brought him to the designated place five minutes ahead of time.

Mo Yi Cheng nodded, “You’re also tired so take a break today, just ask Xiao Liu to pick me up.”

Chen Jiao, “Ok, thank you Mo Ge.”

Lin Meng Xue was already waiting in the restaurant. The two of them were positioned in a relatively secluded corner, just against the window.

Actually, putting aside the rejection of this disguised ‘blind date’, Mo Yi Cheng’s impression of this Miss Lin who had just returned home wasn’t bad. Their conversations were decent and generous, but the string in his heart wasn’t touched. In other words, it was okay to be friends, but not lovers.

Lin Meng Xue’s dress today made her look sweet and generous. Her coffee-colored long hair had been styled carefully and hanged behind her like seaweed, her knee-length one-shoulder half-body dress showed the curves on her body to the fullest without being too revealing. Her slender calves were exposed, wearing a pair of handmade customized high heels.

She had obviously done her homework, as most of the topics of their chat this time focused on the entertainment industry, including some film and television investments, current market trends, IP craze and so on. Mo Yi Cheng also expressed some of his views frankly out of politeness.

After the meal, both of them were fairly satisfied.

Mo Yi Cheng glanced at the time. School was over by now for Yuan Suo. Although there was no need to pick him up, it was better to make dinner first, as although Yuan Suo was now learning how to cook on his own, the few desserts that he had been taught at school were ones he had never heard of, moreover some of the ingredients were temporarily unavailable in the store, so Yuan Suo’s ability to feed himself was still stuck in the snacking state.

Leaving the restaurant, the driver drove Lin Meng Xue back home first, then sent Mo Yi Cheng back.

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Yuan Suo burped contentedly. Rubbing his stomach, he wished he could lie on the sofa forever and never get up.

“Mo Yi Cheng, the sushi you made is so delicious! It’s a hundred times better than the one in the school cafeteria!” He followed Mo Yi Cheng’s principle of cleaning up after dinner and began to diligently tidy up the mess on his table.

Mo Yi Cheng nodded as he flipped through the script.

“Uh, Mo Yi Cheng, why is there discarded sushi inside the trash can at home…”

Mo Yi Cheng’s hand that was flipping through the script paused, then he said without the expression on his face changing: “The raw materials for that sushi wasn’t qualified, so it was eliminated.”

“Oh, so it’s like this.” Yuan Suo didn’t doubt Mo Yi Cheng’s words in the slightest.

Mo Yi Cheng cleared his throat, secretly saying to himself that he had been really careless. It turns out that on the way back today, he suddenly saw a famous sushi restaurant and thinking that he had never made sushi for Yuan Suo, he thought to give it a little try. The result was that the ingredients hadn’t been mastered well, as he almost threw up on the spot when he took it out to taste. In the end, he could only ask his driver Xiao Liu, to drive them back to the Japanese restaurant and ordered their signature sushi, which he brought back home with him and took pictures of, sending it into the game. The sushi made by movie emperor Mo, naturally went into the trash can, but he had forgotten to click the clean up button, which led to him being nearly exposed in front of Yuan Suo.

A few days later, an exclusive revelation that stated ‘national husband Mo Yi Cheng’s love affair confirmed’ caused a huge sensation on the internet.

The source claimed that he had taken pictures of Mo Yi Cheng’s secret meeting with a girl who wasn’t a part of the entertainment circle. The two acted intimately, leaving together in the same car to a luxurious villa area after their dinner, and that he suspected them of living together.

The picture below the news was slightly blurred due to distance and light, but one could still recognize that the man in the picture was Mo Yi Cheng and the girl on the other side of the table was Lin Meng Xue, the person he had had dinner with that day.

All kinds of rumors spread all over online for a while, with various detectives, punsters, and fans gathering to lay out facts and reasonings, eventually digging out the identity of the woman.

Soon, they dug up the identity of Mo Yi Cheng’s mysterious ‘girlfriend’ as a daughter of a family worth hundreds of millions in fortune who had just returned from studying abroad and it was unknown where a certain group of people found some real life photos, naming her as someone who had descended from the sky and that if she made a debut, the little flowers in the circle would have to give way.

“Mo Ge, the company has already made a move, I believe it will be handled properly.” Chen Jiao was afraid that this incident would affect Mo Yi Cheng’s magazine shoot today.

Chapter 26.2 Du Du don’t cry o(╥﹏╥)o

Since Mo Yi Cheng’s debut, the entertainment circle had seen a lot of such things, but this was the first time that he had been really calculated completely. Whether it was in strength or in courage, this Lin Meng Xue had both.

Yuan Suo was sitting on the bus after school. Long Bow seemed very tired today, dozing off as he leaned against the window.

He looked left, then looked again and seeing that everyone was doing their own thing, took his tablet out of his small school bag, turned it on and clicked on Weibo.

Normally, he wouldn’t take his electronic products out of the apartment, but ever since he posted the #BestYou comic on Weibo, he couldn’t stop himself from checking to see if anybody had left any comments. This kind of excitement and anticipation made him keep refreshing frequently after school to follow up the news.

So far, Yuan Suo had published three comics on Weibo, respectively talking about meeting Mo Yi Cheng for the first time, Mo Yi Cheng throwing a lot of money, and Mo Yi Cheng’s outstanding cooking skills! The number of likes had gradually risen from single digits to double digits and occasionally, one or two passerby’s would leave comments like ‘so cute’ and ‘you can do it’.

Seeing a new message this afternoon, Yuan Suo’s eyes lit up. Although it was just a sentence of “spreading flowers”, he clicked to reply, fingers tapping on the screen seriously, even the expression in the reply was chosen with extra concentration. After replying to the comment, he took a deep breath in satisfaction.

Just as he was about to turn the tablet off, one of the popular searches recommended in the search bar above suddenly jumped before his eyes.

‘Mo Yi Cheng’s Girlfriend’

Yuan Suo froze for a moment, then rubbed his eyes, he hadn’t seen it wrong…

Mo Yi Cheng had… a girlfriend? Yuan Suo asked this question in his heart before he realized that he actually knew almost nothing about Mo Yi Cheng’s life. Apart from knowing that he was an actor, whether he had a girlfriend, what his parents looked like, and even how old he was this year, he didn’t know.

His hand trembling a bit uncontrollably, he clicked on search despite the fierce struggle inside.

Immediately, pieces of information rushed out, with all kinds of pictures and photos attached to it.

Yuan Suo was stunned. The information about her relationship with the family, pictures of her circle of friends, pictures with Mother Mo, etc., were too complicated for Yuan Suo, but the words Mo Yi Cheng’s girlfriend, he could still understand and this deep understanding made it a little difficult for him to breathe. It was as if somebody had grabbed him by the heart. His eyes turning astringent, he tried to hold back his tears, but they still fell indefensibly. Why was he crying? Mo Yi Cheng wasn’t even his to begin with, he was just a character in a game. Mo Yi Cheng’s life had nothing to do with him, so what right did he have to interfere in his private life?

Afraid of being seen by the others, Yuan Suo quickly wiped away the tears on his face with his small hands, turned the tablet off and then put it back inside his school bag.

Long Bow looked very tired these past few days, so he who was half asleep and half awake didn’t notice Yuan Suo at all, the same with the others on the bus. Only a pair of slightly melancholic eyes in the last corner of the school bus stared at Yuan Suo’s slightly shaking shoulders.

“We have arrived at No. 129 Qingxia Street. The broadcast system announced the stop automatically and the school bus stopped.

Yuan Suo was sitting in the front row so he lowered his head quickly, afraid that someone would see his red eyes. A girl said goodbye to her classmates then got off the bus.

The bus moved for a while then stopped at the next stop.

“We have arrived at No. 9 Yuanping Street.”

It was Po Fei who got off this time. He originally lived on Qingxia street, but his level had been declining in the past three years, limiting his range of activities, with his living residence constantly unchanging. Most of the people who lived on Yuanping Street were junior elves.

Po Fei, carrying a somewhat worn out school bag on one shoulder, walked out from behind, pausing a little when he reached Yuan Suo’s seat. Yuan Suo had lowered his head so he could only see Po Fei’s sneakers, but seeing them stop, his neck shrank back in fear.

Suddenly something was thrown into his arms and Yuan Suo instinctively raised his hand to catch it. Taking a closely look at it, he saw that it was half a pack of unused Kleenex.

Yuan Suo was stunned. When he raised his head to say thank you, he found that Po Fei had already gotten off. The school bus started again, moving forward at an even speed.

The next stop was the apartment complex where Yuan Suo was located. Yuan Suo used the tissue Po Fei had given him to wipe his tears away, breathed in and out slowly to calm himself and then smiled, it was better to see Mo Yi Cheng with a smile!

Hearing the system broadcast Yuan Suo’s block, Long Bow’s eyes opened as if he had heard an alarm. Then, without thinking, he got up and helped move Yuan Suo’s short legs from the steps to the ground, then turned back to his seat to sleep, continuing the whole process of eyelids half-open and half-closed.

Yuan Suo glanced at the door of his house, hesitating a little for the first time…