Chapter 169: #College Entrance Examination#

What? Selling vegetables!

They actually want these five adorable cubs to personally go sell vegetables? With no parents accompanying them?

Almost all the viewers who saw the preview were fiercely taken aback. Although the first episode wasn’t long, it was still obvious that these five little friends with varying personalities were basically all the golden nuggets of their families.

Sending them to sell vegetables, they probably couldn’t even name the vegetables accurately!

【To tell the truth, I can’t imagine the scene of little princess Emma carrying a vegetable basket to sell vegetables. Will Best Actor Fu really agree?】

【Laughing, then this little boiling kettle Lin Yujia will probably get hungry and eat the vegetables himself halfway through.】

【The most crucial thing is, with Lu Li’s state of holding and carrying all the way without letting go, would he agree to let Little Pear go sell vegetables exposed to the sun!?】

As soon as this comment came out, it also instantly gained countless likes.

Just after the first episode finished broadcasting, Lu Li’s previous aloof image could be said to be completely shattered.

Where exactly is this aloof?

This is clearly an out-and-out Little Pear fanatic!

Even if Little Pear wanted to ride on Lu Li’s head, Lu Li would probably worry that Little Pear wasn’t riding comfortably enough.

If Qu Siyue were to analyze it, a parent indulging a cub to this extent is actually a very dangerous move in a cub reality show.

If the cub cried or screamed even a little shrilly in the program, there’s a 98.1% chance that the parent would be grouped together by netizens and viewers as a “bear child’s parent”, spawning countless hate posts.

It just so happens that the little guy is Xueyan.

A soft “Brother” in the program made countless viewers outside the screen wish they could answer “Hey!” on Lu Li’s behalf.

A red-eyed “Brother, can we pick up Pei Shuo and Little Aunt Lan to take them back and raise them? Don’t let them be little wild people…”, and edited clips exploded in popularity within minutes.

The long continuous shot filmed by the program team at the end of Lu Li carrying Little Pear home on his back was an even more heart-touching stroke of genius, and also a point that Qu Siyue completely failed to calculate from the beginning.

There wasn’t a single line of dialogue throughout, only the uneven footsteps of the parent carrying the cub and the melodious background music, but it inexplicably made people feel their eyes getting a bit sour as they watched.

Countless viewers left comments in the bullet screen recalling their own childhood being carried by their parents. Some netizens even expressed that as soon as Director Guo’s new program broadcast, they would go back to their hometown this weekend to visit their mom and dad more.

Watching this scene, Qu Siyue also couldn’t help clenching his fists.

Perhaps his choice of Lu Li back then was exactly because Lu Li would always bring an unexpected surprise beyond the 100% accuracy of his data calculations.

Combining various factors, after the first episode finished broadcasting, the Lu Li and Little Pear combination was almost neck and neck in popularity with the Best Actor Fu Shuilan and daughter combination.

And this data completely exceeded the program team’s expectations.

The program team had originally placed their heavy bets on the Fu Shuilan father-daughter combination. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] As a Best Actor, Fu Shuilan’s rare appearance on a variety show, bringing along his extremely high-value little daughter Emma, looked like it would max out the topic of conversation.

Who would have thought that Lu Li’s storm-inducing traffic constitution was this unbelievable? As soon as the program aired, he even forcefully snatched away half the limelight of the Best Actor! Truly snatching food from the tiger’s mouth.

Everyone, including Zhou Ziyan’s company, could only look at this result and sigh in despair.

Originally, as soon as the guests appeared, the company could tell at a glance that Zhou Ziyan and Lu Li, two young new-generation actors and singers, clearly clashed somewhat in parent type. If Zhou Ziyan didn’t perform well, his screen time would probably be completely snatched away and eaten up by Lu Li.

After all, the on-screen godly face that Zhou Ziyan’s fans had always been proud of, when clashing with Lu Li like this, didn’t seem so godly anymore.

Lu Li had countless active anti-fans all over the internet, and there had never been a few anti-fans who criticized Lu Li’s face as being ordinary.

As a result, unexpectedly after the program aired, what Lu Li snatched wasn’t Zhou Ziyan’s screen time, but the screen time of all the guests!

If the gap between the two wasn’t large, it might still trigger jealousy; but with the gap this large, there’s only the feeling of looking up and sighing in despair left.

“This guy Lu Li, his future is really so bright it keeps people awake at night!”

Director Guo looked at a pile of post-broadcast data analysis, his mouth almost unable to close from smiling.

“But Director Guo, it seems the anti-fans are also truly quite numerous. Should we help control it a bit? Especially this ID, almost leading the rhythm in criticizing Lu Li the entire time.”

An assistant also flipped through the bullet comments, feeling Lu Li had it quite hard too.

“What ID? Eye-catching to this extent among hundreds of thousands of comments and bullet screens?”

Director Guo was stunned for a moment.

Actually, along with the explosive popularity of the program’s first episode, there was also a famous anti-fan in the bullet comments.

The key was this anti-fan was completely different from other antis. Other antis might chase shadows and fabricate stories, but this little anti-fan’s every sentence had a basis, yet every point was nitpicking!

Lu Li holding Little Pear and kissing him a few extra times, there was the existence of this person:

【Kissing so many times, I see you kid also need a beating. Don’t you know children easily drool if kissed too much? Try kissing a few more times soon and see!】

Lu Li leading Little Pear to tidy up the yard, this person also jumped out first to comment:

【Moved a few pieces of broken wood and rotten tiles in the yard and have to complain about being tired and kiss him? Do you kid still have the appearance of an Alpha taking responsibility? Even your dad can’t bear to watch!】

Lu Li and Little Pear went to visit and socialize at night, this person’s pointing fingers were also absolutely not late:

【Not taking him to sleep early late at night, having nothing better to do than running east and west. If he gets a fever at night, you kid will be in for it, hehe】

Even this anti-fan ID claiming to be “Your Dad” was very unpleasant to the ear, actually just being called 【Your Dad】!

Because the combat power was too strong, the limelight of other anti-fans was snatched away by this “Your Dad”, becoming unnoticed.

After all, Lu Li’s fans actually already had very strong anti-hate experience. Facing ordinary anti-fan trolls, Pear fans had long exercised the skill of ignoring and directly hurdling over them.

Not giving a response and heat is the best way to handle it.

However, this person was truly infuriating, making countless passersby who saw it couldn’t help but respond on Lu Li’s behalf:

【Are you jealous? What does Lu Li kissing a few extra times have to do with you! Can’t we viewers love watching Lu Li kiss Little Pear? Are you breaking defense here because you don’t have one to kiss!?】

【Exactly, Lu Li did so many things tidying up the house, how does kissing once not look like an Alpha? What, only you have an Alpha appearance?】

【And Zhou Ziyan visited the senior guests one by one at night. If Lu Li didn’t go visiting and just lay in bed sleeping heavily, how many hate posts scolding our Pear for playing the big shot and not understanding worldly wisdom would come out the second day, don’t you know!?[Fury soaring to the sky]】

What made countless Pear fans furious to the point their livers hurt the most was that this “Your Dad” seemed to not really know how to play bullet comment interactions. After finishing speaking and commenting, he never looked back for a second glance.

As if he didn’t know how much waves this pile of his pointing and criticizing bullet comments had stirred up everywhere.

It wasn’t until the end when Lu Li carried Little Pear home on his back that this “Your Dad” seemed to be slightly less full of gunpowder.

Finally willing to open his golden mouth, faintly affirming a sentence:

【Performance in this episode was still not bad, can’t be considered too terrible.】

But this high-and-mighty attitude instead made countless Pear fans even angrier.

No, does our Lu Li really lack this one sentence of “not bad” from you?!

Lu Li’s passerby goodwill in the first episode being so good to this extent, triggering the pity of countless viewers and passersby, the credit of this “Your Dad” definitely took up a large half.

And Director Guo, after looking at this pile of speeches from “Your Dad” for a long time, suddenly wiped the sweat from his forehead and signaled the assistant beside him to stop speaking.

“No, this Your Dad, might be a real dad, the person truly has the qualifications to point fingers…”

“Ah?”

The assistant’s brain was dizzy.

“I mean quickly contact Chairman Lu Ting, tell him our bullet comment system can be interacted with, instead of just scrolling in real-time!”

Director Guo slammed the table and went directly to find his phone.

Although from an ordinary viewer’s perspective, this guy “Your Dad”‘s speeches are very baffling, gesturing everywhere and unsatisfied with everything, like an old feudal big dad.

But, you can’t resist that the person is a real dad!

And even one of the sugar daddies of our program team!

This big shot hitting two dads with one arrow, cannot afford to offend, cannot afford to offend at all.

“What? I also got popular?”

These few days while the sweet cub wasn’t home, missing him so much he couldn’t sleep well at night, always taking out his phone in the middle of the night to rewatch the program a few times, especially focusing on rewatching the segment of Old Third leading him to sleep, imagining the sweet cub also lying softly by his side like this, Lu Ting received this baffling phone call from Director Guo early the next morning.

At my age, what is there to get popular about.

Lu Ting considered that when he was in his twenties, he was not a bit worse than this kid Old Third, okay?

Lu Jing and the others, after understanding the ins and outs, laughed to no end.

“Dad, you indeed look more like an anti-fan than those anti-fans of Old Third.”

Successfully expanding Old Third’s passerby base by several times.

Lu Jing, after reading this pile of messages, rarely curled up the corners of her mouth and gave Dad a “very awesome” hand gesture.

And Lu Xun, watching some netizens specially open posts, screenshotting all of Lu Ting’s speeches one by one, and refuting the content of his words one by one on Old Third’s behalf, his expression also became exceptionally subtle.

After all, at home and in the company, no one ever dared to point fingers at Lu Ting like this, or even have the guts to refute him to his face.

But the netizens’ mouths were quite unceremonious, inside and out, almost praising Old Third to the skies.

Out of protection for Old Third, Lu Xun felt it was better not to let Lu Ting see these speeches.

Otherwise, once Lu Ting’s defense was truly broken by what netizens said, the one to suffer and take a beating in the end could only be Old Third, the main person involved.

However, the heat of the first episode was indeed snatched away quite a bit by another major social hot event during the interval before the official broadcast of the second episode.

That was #College Entrance Examination#.

The annual college entrance examination, as a social hot event, naturally still firmly gripped the heartstrings of countless netizens.

“You say with Old Fourth finishing his exams, shouldn’t our family also get some flowers to bring?”

Even Lu Ting, who had recently become keen on surfing the internet, looking at this pile of posts from parents showing off their post-exam preparations, realized with hindsight that he seemed to have paid too little attention to Lu Xun and the others when they finished their exams back then.

Completely treating it like it wasn’t a big deal.

Although Lu Xun and Lu Jing also finished their exams plainly, and he only knew the college entrance examination had ended several days later.

Thinking of this, Lu Ting even felt a rare twinge of guilt and unease.

Hearing this, Lu Xun raised his head from the documents and looked at Lu Ting, his gaze also a bit astonished.

After a long while, he chuckled softly:

“It’s not that we can’t.”

After all, Old Fourth honestly sprinting and studying for this long had already exceeded the whole family’s expectations.

Recently, with Xueyan and Old Third going out to record a program, and Old Fourth also boarding at school to sprint, the house had indeed become much colder and quieter.

Although Auntie Cheng and the others, under Lu Ting’s instructions, had kept the TV in the living room replaying the program non-stop. Who would refuse to watch a segment of 《Baby? Baby!》 while eating a meal?

This also caused Lu Huai, who had finished his last subject exam, originally carrying his schoolbag with an indifferent face and one hand in his pocket walking out of the exam center, to almost be startled into doubting he was hallucinating.

Dad actually brought Eldest Brother, Second Sister, and the others, collectively holding flowers and standing at the gate of the test center waiting for him!? Uncle Zhang and the others also carrying a pile of gifts in their hands?

No, when did his family’s atmosphere become so harmonious and loving, are they really going to become a family that loves each other?

This is truly seeing a ghost!

Even because this family’s face value was simply too high and their aura astonishing, standing among a group of parents looking like models, handsome men and pretty women, there were even reporters interviewing them.

“Then please may I ask Parent, what kind of expectations do you have for your child’s college entrance examination this time? Do you have any target institutions to share with our audience friends?”

The reporter looked up closely at the handsome faces of parents like Lu Ting, and couldn’t help being curious about how high this examinee’s face value must be.

Actually, this interview question is super conventional. Unfortunately, the question is conventional, but the answer is not quite conventional.

Lu Ting seemingly pondered for a long time, but in reality couldn’t think of any school he expected Old Fourth to get into. In the end, he simply calmly told the truth:

“Having a school to go to is fine.”

“Having a school to go to is fine? Not blessing the child to get into a prestigious university in front of the camera?”

The reporter was stunned. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] In this day and age, such open-minded parents are also rare.

“If he tests well, he can come work in the family company; if he bombs the test, at worst he can also come work in the family company. So fundamentally there’s no big difference.”

Lu Ting stated with a serious tone.

It was just that the content of this answer was so domineeringly leaked that a circle of parents around all turned their heads to look over.

“Uh, that Parent, we are broadcasting live…”

The reporter tremblingly reminded a sentence.

Lu Jing only then pushed Dad aside, took the microphone, and faintly explained a sentence:

“My dad means, in today’s society, being overly demanding of a child to get high scores is worse than being overly demanding of oneself to succeed in entrepreneurship.”

The reporter was stunned again.

The meaning of these words is that parents pushing their kids is worse than pushing themselves, right!?

As soon as these words came out, let alone the parents casting sidelong glances at them, even many examinees who just came out looked over with blazing eyes.

“Dad—don’t spout nonsense! [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Who wants to go under you and Eldest Brother to continue doing illegal labor! After I graduate from college I’m not going!”

Instead, it was Lu Huai, who was originally eavesdropping on Lu Ting and the others’ interview from afar, who couldn’t help his face heating up until his scalp tingled, completely unable to stand this kind of tender moment.

“And where is my younger brother! How come Xueyan didn’t come??”

The key was that Lu Huai, in a red-warm irritable state, looked a big circle around and actually didn’t see Xueyan come to pick him up!

The one who should have come didn’t come, and a whole bunch of those who shouldn’t have come to stir up emotions came instead—!