Ruìruì hadn't been seen since they arrived, and now he ran over from Xǔ Yánchuān's side.
Zhàn Běijué couldn't help but feel a surge of jealousy.
What was wrong with these two children today? Was Xǔ Yánchuān really that charming?
The moment they saw him, they abandoned their own father and ran to act cute in front of him?
He walked over to Ruìruì with a stern face.
"Didn't you want to see the art exhibition? You came, but I didn't see you. Where did you go?"
"I had a bit of a stomachache just now, so I went to the restroom. I didn't run around, Daddy."
The little fellow's attitude was good. He apologized immediately, so Zhàn Běijué naturally didn't press the issue.
"There's a power outage, don't run around. If you feel unwell, tell me, and I'll take you."
Ruìruì quickly took his sister's hand. "Okay, Daddy, what are we doing now?"
"I'm going to help Aunt Gōng see what's wrong, you two follow."
Mom was out in the scorching sun signing autographs to earn money, and he was thinking of helping this woman here?
Ruìruì was very displeased.
"The art exhibition is so boring, I don't want to see it anymore. Daddy, why don't you take me and my sister back?"
It was indeed quite boring.
Moreover, there had been an incident, and he was worried about the two little ones being unsafe here.
Zhàn Běijué thought for a moment. "Alright, I'll take you back first."
The three of them walked out hand in hand.
At the entrance, Gōng Bèibèi was rushing in flusteredly, followed by a woman wearing a mask.
The woman had delicate eyebrows and eyes. Although she was wearing a mask, Zhàn Běijué recognized her at a glance. Wasn't this Jiāng Nánfāng?
Why did she come all the way here?
And she knew Gōng Bèibèi?
"Ā Jué, where are you going?"
Seeing Zhàn Běijué leading the children out, Gōng Bèibèi stopped.
Jiāng Nánfāng hadn't expected to run into them here.
Hearing Gōng Bèibèi say the exhibition hall had a power outage, she rushed over to help, but unexpectedly...
Zhàn Běijué had no intention of dealing with Jiāng Nánfāng and pretended not to know her.
His expression was indifferent. "I'm taking the children home first, and I'll be back later."
Gōng Bèibèi felt a little embarrassed.
"I didn't expect something like this to happen today. The staff is too unreliable. I'm sorry to have made you see this."
"But it's okay, this lady said she knows how to fix it. I asked her to help me fix it. Do you want to wait before leaving?"
Jiāng Nánfāng was here to fix the electricity?
How could it be such a coincidence? Did she have business here too?
The two little ones instantly didn't want to leave.
"Daddy, since we're already here, why don't we wait before we go?"
"..."
"I've never seen how people fix electricity before, so let's watch. Auntie, can I go and see too?"
Ruìruì winked slyly at Jiāng Nánfāng. Just as Gōng Bèibèi was about to stop him, Jiāng Nánfāng smiled at him.
"Sure. As long as you're not afraid of danger, come along."
The two children ran to take her hand, and the three of them turned back.
As Ruìruì walked, he told Jiāng Nánfāng, "Mommy, I was the one who cut the power. It's broken in the bathroom, why are you being so nice to fix it for her?"
Jiāng Nánfāng was surprised. "You broke it? Why? Did she offend you?"
"Hmph. She wants to be Daddy's girlfriend, and she's lived in our house for so long without leaving. I get annoyed whenever I see her."
So it turned out that the rich and beautiful woman living in Zhàn's house, whom the children had mentioned before, was her.
Jiāng Nánfāng regretted her helpfulness.
Zhàn Běijué's girlfriend, and he himself wasn't in a hurry to help, yet she, his ex-wife, was rushing to do it!
But then she thought again.
Never mind.
Since she was already here, and they had no enmity, she would just consider it an act of kindness.
Xǔ Yánchuān came to Gōng Bèibèi's side and asked if she had found anyone to fix the electricity.
Gōng Bèibèi complained to him, "What a terrible place you found. It made such a basic mistake right at the start, causing me to lose face."
"No good deed goes unpunished. I didn't know something like this would happen..."
"But it's okay, a cartoonist outside is having a signing event, and she knows how to fix it. Let's give it a shot."
A cartoonist? A signing event?
Zhàn Běijué and Xǔ Yánchuān both turned their curious gazes towards her.
Gōng Bèibèi went to the entrance and pointed at the queue for them.
"There, that signing event. Miss Ugly Rabbit and Mr. Tiger. With names like that, you can tell they have no literary talent, but the person is quite enthusiastic."
"..."
The two men simultaneously turned their scrutinizing gazes towards her again.
After all, she was helping you, and it wasn't very appropriate to disparage someone's work like that.
Gōng Bèibèi didn't think she had gone too far. After speaking, she sighed.
"Alright, I'll go see how she's handling it. You two chat. Hold off the other guests for me."
With his height advantage, Zhàn Běijué could clearly see the banner in the open space a few meters away.
Popular cartoonist Miss Ugly Rabbit and Mr. Tiger's first offline signing event— this woman, besides designing circuit breakers, was also involved in the cultural industry?
How many days had she been back in Nancheng?
And she chose the event location right next to Gōng Bèibèi's, coinciding with her art exhibition's start date.
A schemer.
They had agreed not to see each other again, but to gain his attention, she would do anything.
Xǔ Yánchuān saw him staring there for a long time and casually asked.
"Do you know that author?"
Know her?
Tch.
He wouldn't associate with someone who invested in such culturally lacking products.
"No."
Zhàn Běijué replied coldly and turned to go inside.
Just as his foot stepped into the exhibition hall, the bright lights were restored.
A small cheer erupted from the exhibition hall. Soon, Jiāng Nánfāng came out from the restroom with the two children.
With the lights shining on her beautiful dress, Gōng Bèibèi regained her confidence and hurried into the crowd to apologize to everyone.
Seeing that she couldn't even spare a polite word for his mother, Ruìruì became even more indignant.
"I shouldn't have helped her. Selfish woman, as long as I'm here, she can forget about being Daddy's girlfriend."
"Exactly." Gē'er actually saw Gōng Bèibèi silently looking down on Mommy's cartoons as lacking substance.
She was so angry she wanted to curse. "Mommy, don't be a good person anymore. This woman is hypocritical and not worth it at all."
"Got it. I won't anymore," Jiāng Nánfāng also felt she had been impulsive today to come and embarrass herself.
"Alright. Things were delayed there for so long, the fans are getting anxious. I'll head back first, and we'll talk later tonight."
Xǔ Yánchuān watched as Jiāng Nánfāng walked step by step towards him and Zhàn Běijué.
Those delicate and gentle eyebrows, her graceful figure, her clear skin...
Strange. He seemed to know this woman.
However, Jiāng Nánfāng didn't even give them an extra glance, bypassing the two men and exiting the exhibition hall.
Playing hard to get?
Zhàn Běijué watched her walk past him without looking, thinking: If you have the guts, keep your word and never appear before me again!
Just showing up and not saying anything, what kind of ability is that!
"Ruìruì, Gē'er, let's go, this place is not suitable for you. Let's go home."
Before Gōng Bèibèi could react, Zhàn Běijué took the children and left again.
Xǔ Yánchuān, having nothing to do and driven by curiosity, took out his phone to search for the comic's name.
Soon, he was greatly surprised.
He hadn't expected the comic's name to look so unremarkable, yet it was so popular online.
The author, Miss Rabbit, had over 2 million Weibo followers.
Each installment serialized on Weibo had tens of millions of views, and the comments and likes ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
This traffic was comparable to top-tier celebrities!
It seemed the content was quite interesting.
Since he was idle, he started reading on Weibo.
The more he read, the more he was completely captivated.
The comic's concept was very clever.
It used the images of two animals to interpret the love, hate, and grudges between a man and a woman.
The story was full of twists and turns, truly novel and engaging.
Xǔ Yánchuān was worrying about the theme and content of his first work after returning to China. As he read, he suddenly had an idea.