After finishing his meal, Zhou Zhou casually scrolled through his phone at his seat and found that Duan Yun had sent him a lot of messages. Thinking it was something urgent, Zhou Zhou immediately sat up and clicked to check, only to find that they were all videos about Fu Xiaofan.
"..." Zhou Zhou watched indifferently as Fu Xiaofan strolled freely through the shopping mall in the video from yesterday, followed by a large family. Fu Hongjiang, who was closest to him, had large and small shopping bags hanging from his arm.
In the video, Fu Xiaofan is wearing a pair of children's sunglasses and excitedly makes a peace sign at the camera.
Zhou Zhou glanced at the tag on his sunglasses that he hadn't had time to remove, and the five-figure price tag made his forehead twitch.
"That's really good."
He had barely finished speaking when he forwarded the short video Duan Yun had sent him to Fu Hengzhi, leaving a comment: "Your son who loves luxury."
After sending the message and washing the dishes, Zhou Zhou suddenly found himself with some free time. Usually, he would be writing his fanfiction about idol worship at this time.
Zhou Zhou raised an eyebrow. The thought of Ye Qisheng reminded her of Wen Luo. Knowing that the two had broken up and Wen Luo was in a bad mood, Zhou Zhou's mood suddenly turned sour as well.
Forget it, I'm not writing anymore. I've gone from being a fan to a hater.
What a scumbag! He actually had the nerve to ask him to contact Wen Luo. Where was he before? Now Wen Luo is only focused on his career. You didn't appreciate him at all. Serves you right!
Zhou Zhou was marveling at Wen Luo's growth when the corners of his mouth suddenly froze.
Wait a minute, I was so focused on Wen Luo's awakening that I realized my reaction time had gone completely off track. I suddenly realized that the effect of my fluttering butterfly was a bit too much. In the original novel, Ye Qisheng only abandoned Wen Luo after Xia Sixi returned to China. After Wen Luo was devastated and moved on from the relationship, Ye Qisheng realized that he actually liked Wen Luo. That's when the second half of the novel's "chasing after his wife" saga officially began.
So now that Xia Sixi has just returned to China, Ye Qisheng has already realized that he likes Wen Luo?
That's why people say when they're idle, they have nothing to do.
Zhou Zhou became increasingly curious about this part of the plot. Fu Xiaofan had mentioned some plot holes in the novel before, so if this was one of them...
"Hey, Mom, where are you?" Zhou Zhou called Duan Yun.
"It's still in the mall—it looks great, Xiaofan looks good in everything~ Let's wrap all of these up."
"..." Zhou Zhou fell silent upon hearing Duan Yun's grand gesture. He suddenly understood why Fu Xiaofan insisted on becoming the Fu family's grandson.
Because it's genuine happiness.
"Hey, Xiao Zhou, what's wrong?" Duan Yun looked at Fu Xiaofan's happy appearance in Fu Hongjiang's arms and couldn't stop smiling.
"Mom, I miss the baby." Zhou Zhou smiled demurely, "Could I say a few words to Xiao Fan?"
"Sure, Xiaofan~ It's your dad's phone call."
As soon as Duan Yun finished speaking, Zhou Zhou heard that the person on the other end of the phone had changed.
"Dad~" Fu Xiaofan called out with a childlike coquettishness that naturally evoked a sense of elder's kindness.
"Having fun?" Zhou Zhou asked first, then covered the phone's earpiece like a thief and whispered, "I'll tell you about a bug in the book."
"..." Fu Xiaofan's smile froze for a second. Who could understand the pain of a working person who had just returned to work after a vacation? Hesitating for a moment as he looked at the red hang-up button on the call screen, he pouted and said to Fu Hongjiang, who was hugging him, in a childish voice, "Grandpa~ I suddenly miss Dad."
No matter how lively and cheerful a four-year-old child is, he can't escape the fact that he is still a child. After not seeing his father all night, he can't help but feel homesick when he hears his father's voice.
Duan Yun gently rubbed his little head. Seeing his scrunched-up face, she worried he would cry and coaxed him softly, "Okay, Grandpa will take you home to be with Daddy later, okay?"
"But I can't bear to leave Grandpa and Grandma either." Fu Xiaofan hugged Fu Hongjiang's neck and said sweetly, "Grandpa, what if Xiaofan misses Grandpa and Grandma again? Can you come and pick me up?"
"Absolutely." Fu Hongjiang dotes on his grandson to an extreme degree and said confidently, "As long as Xiao Fan misses Grandpa, just one phone call and Grandpa will drive his sports car to pick him up at three in the morning."
"..." At three in the morning, still in a sports car, the phone call hadn't ended, and Zhou Zhou heard the conversation on the other end clearly. The veins on his forehead throbbed, and he finally couldn't help but say, "Dad, don't spoil him too much. It's easy to spoil him. Children need to be educated and loved in moderation."
Having said that, Fu Hongjiang's old face fell, and he said seriously, "What can you do if you don't spoil the child? Why educate him so early? Xiao Fan's lack of love is all the result of you and Xiao Heng's forbidden fruit!"
"What do you mean by 'stealing forbidden fruit'?" Zhou Zhou sighed helplessly. Well, he got a lecture too. Luckily, Fu Xiaofan is a system, and apart from being a bit extravagant, he has no other problems. Otherwise, if the Fu family elders really spoiled him like this, he would be completely lawless.
“Dad, you’re right. Hengzhi and I will reflect on our actions.” Zhou Zhou said helplessly, “Dad, are you still at that mall? I’ll drive over to pick up the kids. Yes, I’m leaving now.”
As Zhou Zhou spoke, he walked towards the entrance. He originally planned to drive the Rolls-Royce that Fu Xiaofan liked, but the moment his hand touched the key, he saw the key of the black Maybach next to him. Fu Hengzhi had driven this car last night. Fu Hengzhi was quite particular about his cars and would only choose one type for a long time.
Zhou Zhou thought for a moment, picked up the Maybach keys and went out, deciding to let him test the feel of the car and get it cleaned while he was at it.
Zhou Zhou had planned it all out. He picked up Fu Xiaofan at the mall, and while the car was being washed and serviced, they went out for lunch and talked about what he considered to be the book's plot holes.
With the plan set out, Zhou Zhou followed through. When he drove the car to the car wash, several employees, all knowledgeable about cars, surrounded him, determined to provide the best service to this wealthy man.
"Please clean the car inside and out. I'll pick it up around 3 p.m., is that okay?" Zhou Zhou signed his name on the service form.
"Of course." Seeing that the other party had brought a child, the other party specially asked an employee to go to the VIP waiting room to get a small cake and a cup of coffee.
Cake for the kids, coffee for the adults.
"Thank you, Uncle~" Fu Xiaofan said happily.
The coffee was fragrant and delicious. After taking a few sips, Zhou Zhou accepted a storage box from a car dealership employee.
"Guest, to ensure the safety of your belongings, we suggest you put everything stored in your car into this box. There are combination lockers over there specifically for storing these boxes," the female employee pointed in a direction.
Zhou Zhou smiled and nodded, indicating that he understood.
The storage compartments inside the car were quite clean. Zhou Zhou started tidying up from the passenger seat and only found a few unfamiliar business cards. It was clear that Fu Hengzhi didn't usually store things in these places, so Zhou Zhou felt there was no need to search any further.
Wow!
Zhou Zhou was startled by Fu Xiaofan's sudden shout. He frowned and was about to say something to him when Fu Xiaofan waved his hand to stop him.
To be precise, my speech was interrupted by the object in the other person's waving right hand.
"Dad! This! This is so expensive!" With platinum and diamonds, it's obviously very valuable. Fu Xiaofan's eyes lit up. "Show-it-all! Let's split it in half!"
[Author's Note: Fu Xiaofan: Hehehe, so expensive!]
Fu Hengzhi: ? ? ?
Chapter 102 Screw your trust
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Zhou Zhou glanced at the ring worth nearly ten million, then at the black Maybach, then back at the ring, then back at the Maybach.
Beautiful, very good, really great.
As Fu Xiaofan watched the person in front of her gradually become distorted with a smile, she involuntarily shivered. She carefully closed the brocade box and then presented it with both hands as if offering a precious treasure.
"Dad, it's all yours, I won't fight you for it." He was just joking, he only said it was half for each of them, and the other person showed such a terrifying smile. Fu Xiaofan pouted, thinking it was a pity. He shouldn't have bought such an expensive ring for Ye Qisheng according to the plot.
I didn't get a single one.
"Be good, listen to me." Zhou Zhou picked up the brocade box, squinted at it, and sneered.
'Achoo'
In a small conference room, a sneeze caused the department manager, who was presenting a presentation on the department's work, to suddenly freeze. At the same time, all the dozen or so people in the conference room turned their attention to the president, who was sitting in the center of the room.
Fu Hengzhi frowned slightly, wiped his nose with a handkerchief, and gestured for the other person to continue.
"President, do you need me to make an appointment with a doctor?" He Qingqing handed over the meeting minutes and asked considerately, then added, "Dr. Bai also called during the meeting, but didn't say what it was about." He Qingqing told the truth.
Fu Hengzhi casually flipped through the printed meeting minutes and gave a soft "hmm".
There was no further communication between the two. Having been a secretary for so long, He Qingqing knew what this meant. She said she had work to do and left the president's office.
The moment the door closed, Fu Hengzhi picked up his phone, found Dr. Bai's number in his contacts, and dialed it back.
The other person seemed to always have their phone with them; after a beep, a gentle male voice came from the other end.
"Mr. Fu, the DNA test results from the hair sample you sent earlier are in. Hmm..." After a moment of silence, the person on the other end said, "Do you have time to come to the hospital to pick up the results?"
"So you think the plot transitions here are too fast because there's a bug somewhere?"
Inside the restaurant's private room, Fu Xiaofan sat in a raised children's chair, clumsily struggling with the steak in front of him, knife and fork in hand.
"I only have some doubts." Zhou Zhou swapped the steak his subordinate had cut with the other person's. "After all, according to the original work, the plot here jumps too much. At first, I thought it was a chain reaction caused by me, but after thinking about it, it really doesn't make sense."
“Indeed.” Fu Xiaofan chewed his steak, his brows furrowing deeply.
Seeing his reaction, Zhou Zhou tentatively asked, "Is there really a problem?"
"Hmm." Fu Xiaofan put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with the napkin around his neck, and said lightly, "This is a big problem. You actually invited your lovely son to eat assorted meat."
“…Huh?” Zhou Zhou had just picked up a piece of steak with his fork and hadn’t even put it in his mouth when he squinted at the four-year-old in front of him, who was acting like a gourmet. “What’s wrong with reconstituted meat? The restaurant guarantees it’s 100% pure beef.”
"You're carrying a diamond ring worth millions, yet you're treating your adorable son to lunch that costs less than two hundred yuan per person." Seeing the other person calmly eating the patchwork steak in front of him, showing no intention of changing restaurants, Fu Xiaofan could only pout and pick up her fork again.
"You stingy person."
“I’m not your daddy.” Zhou Zhou assumed he was going through a rebellious phase and said kindly, “You spent a lot of money yesterday, so it’s already pretty good that I can treat you to this restaurant with my current financial situation.”
"Who told you to buy such an expensive tie?" Fu Xiaofan muttered under his breath, his mouth full of beef, his words muffled. "The plot is in a mess right now. Xia Sixi returning to China early and Ye Qisheng falling for Wen Luo now are not important. As long as their final ending in the book remains unchanged, that's fine."
"What if it's the same situation as mine?"
“Impossible.” Fu Xiaofan looked up, and through the reflection of sunlight outside the window, Zhou Zhou saw a string of scrolling green codes in his eyes.
Fu Xiaofan slowly raised his head, a movement that carried a mechanical quality, and his voice became like that of a puppet, "Do you think my system is just for decoration? Can characters come and go as they please without my help?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the other person's voice became childish again. He forked a piece of steak into his mouth and said indistinctly, "I just checked it again, and there is no bug like yours that carries foreign information. Don't worry, Dad."
"Hmm." Since the system in this book had said so, Zhou Zhou had no doubts and decided to just assume that it was all caused by the butterfly effect.
"belch--"
After the meal, Fu Xiaofan let out an incredibly long burp. Luckily, the two were in the car and no one saw it, otherwise they would definitely say that the child's upbringing was problematic.
Zhou Zhou rolled her eyes at him, saying she was disgusted, but she ended up eating quite a lot.
"Dad, are you taking me to Grandpa and Grandma's house?" Fu Xiaofan asked with a yawn, feeling sleepy after eating.
"Let's go home and deal with this ring first."
"!" Fu Xiaofan perked up at the mention of this, nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice. "Okay, okay, then Dad, can you have nine of us and I have one?"
As the car started moving on the road, Zhou Zhou looked at him with surprise upon hearing this, and blurted out what she was thinking: "What do you need so much money for at your age? What do you want to buy now that your grandparents won't give you?"
"Hey, you don't understand." Fu Xiaofan pouted. "It's still more comfortable to have some money in your pocket. Little by little, it adds up. You don't know how you felt when I was filling in for you. Every time I asked your husband for money, he had that knowing look on his face."
"That's because you're asking for too much," Zhou Zhou said irritably. "I've told you before that it's not easy to be at the mercy of others."
When Zhou Zhou parked his car, he noticed an extra car in the garage and knew that Fu Hengzhi had returned.
This time period?
I was planning to confront them with the ring this afternoon, but now it's all good that they went home early.
Zhou Zhou held the child in one arm and opened the door with the other, then reached into her pocket to touch the square brocade box.
"You're back." Fu Hengzhi looked tired as he leaned back on the sofa. Hearing the door open, he immediately sat up and was slightly taken aback when he saw that the other person was holding a child. "You went to Mom's to pick up the child?"