Proofreader: Zhu Yuan
Bo Yu, who takes himself to be the professional actor is accustomed to eating until 80 percent full, which is good to lose weight and keep in good health. Because of him, little Watermelon forms that habit after being weaned.
Little Watermelon has finished eating. More than half of hour later, he takes the drink from his gla.s.s and blinks his charming eyes with curiosity.
Because Song Shilin is always busy for a long time, he used to eating very fast. He puts down the dishes and chopsticks, wipes his mouth with some tissue and says, "I"ll take you to look for Bo Yu."
Little Watermelon cleverly reaches out his hands, then clasps Song Shilin"s neck and says, "But, Papa is at work now."
"Never mind. He won"t mind it." Song Shilin steps out of the private room.
Song Shilin has selfish motives, so he doesn"t call Bo Yu in advance on the way, but drives directly to the crew to look for him.
When Bo Yu receives the call from Song Shilin, he feels restless. Looking at the familiar phone number on the screen, he hesitates for a long time before pressing the "Answer" b.u.t.ton.
There is Song Shilin"s deep and magnetic voice coming. He says seriously, "Busy?"
"It"s OK." Bo Yu covers his mobile, smiles at Director Hou who is explaining the scenes, and walks to a corner.
Mo Anyu, who acts with the female protagonist looks up in the direction of Bo Yu as if they have mutual affinity. His black eyes are full of smile, as if looking at the stranger.
"I"m at the milk tea shop next to your crew." Song Shilin says lightly, "Your son sits next to me."
Bo Yu"s first response to what Song Shilin says is not that Song Shilin kidnaps his silly son, but something has happened to his son.
After more than a year"s relationship with Song Shilin, Bo Yu knows clearly about his ex-boyfriend"s personality. Song Shilin disdains to kidnap a child in order to threaten him.
However, Bo Yu, who has never done anything wrong, inexplicably is afraid of meeting Song Shilin.
"I"ll be there soon." Bo Yu says lonely. "Sorry for troubling you."
Song Shilin looks at little Watermelon sitting opposite, who is obedient and silent as long as he has a cup of milk tea, "No trouble at all."
After hanging up, Bo Yu remembers that there is still a scene he hasn"t filmed yet today. But he can"t ask Director Hou to shoot his part first, so he"d better try to ask for leave.
Director Hou is staring at the acting of Mo Anyu and the supporting actress. His eyebrows wrinkle like a hill, looking resentful.
The supporting actress who gives the financial support to the crew is bad at acting. She is easy to laugh when she acts and sometimes distracts with blush and stammer when looking at Mo Anyu. Director Hou has said "no good" for many times. She might consider the crew as her home and chase stars here!
"It"s all right. Bo Yu. We can shoot your parts tomorrow." Director Hou looks down at the time and thinks that it must be very late when her parts are filmed. So, it"s better to let Bo Yu go back first and then film his parts tomorrow.
Bo Yu hurries to the rest room to cleanse makeup, changes into his own clothes and leaves the crew in a hurry with his belongings.
Director Hou says "no good" to the supporting actress again and breaks out into curses. Mo Anyu takes over the towel handed by the a.s.sistant to wipe the sweat, looks around and says, "Where is Bo Yu?"
The a.s.sistant answers casually, "Brother Bo asked for leave just now. He may have something to do."
Mo Anyu lowers the eyes, looks at the supporting actress who is rebuked by Director Hou not far away, and suppresses the fidgets of the heart.
Bo Yu buys a packet of cigarettes at the convenience store outside the crew. He lights up a cigarette, takes a big puff and then comes to his sense. He throws the cigarette b.u.t.t on the ground and crushes it with the tips of his shoes.
Bo Yu takes back the feet until the cigarette is flat and broken, put on the sungla.s.ses and goes to meet Song Shilin by appointment with the poker face.
Little Watermelon lowers the head and bites the straw to drink milk tea. And he is lifted up the next second, then held by someone in the arms. He turns around happily, clasps Bo Yu"s head and cries out clearly, "Papa!"
Song Shilin narrows his deep eyes, looking at Bo Yu with exploration.
Bo Yu subconsciously avoids Song Shilin"s eyes, allows little Watermelon to rub his hair, politely smiles at Song Shilin and says, "Long time no see."
Song Shilin lowers the head and drink lemonade, seeming not to want to answer him.
Bo Yu doesn"t care. He has been used to the way of getting along with Song Shilin for a long time. He knows that Song Shilin is tired of him. If he doesn"t take the initiative, Song Shilin won"t talk anything to him.
"Why are you here with him?" Bo Yu chooses a good beginning.
"Just pa.s.sing by. I meet him, so I take him here." Song Shilin looks up at him with deep eyes, "Your son looks like you very much."
"Thank you." Bo Yu feels a little nervous. He picks up a gla.s.s of water and bites the straw to drink. After drinking it, he finds that little Watermelon is looking at himself and wishes to speak but stops on a second thought with the expression of blame.
Bo Yu laughs, feels calm down because of little Watermelon"s funny facial expression, and says, "I just drink a little."
Song Shilin says, "It was him that made you want to break up with me before?"
When hearing that, Bo Yu"s eyes become cold, "No."
"He"s almost two years old." Song Shilin doesn"t seem to notice the vigilance and indifference in Bo Yu"s eyes and just keep saying, "You broke up with me because you had been pregnant for five or six months, and would give birth to a child, right?"
Actually, what he says isn"t a question.
Bo Yu sneers and thinks about what Song Shilin says. Of course. It had been five or six months when Bo Yu found that he was pregnant. He has thought that he might be fat or flatulent and ignored that. When he took it seriously, he found that he was pregnant.
At that time, Qi Yan who was the pure boy in Song Shilin"s heart came back from abroad, and Bo Yu broke up with Song Shilin.
Bo Yu, who tried to preserve his fall at all costs decided to give birth to the child by himself.
To be honest, if Bo Yu was more ruthless, it was estimated that little Watermelon wouldn"t be born now.
When he thinks that, Bo Yu touches the hair of his silly son sitting in his arms and feels that the paternal love is as great as the maternal love.
Little Watermelon satisfactorily rubs Bo Yu"s chest and continues to have a drink.
When Song Shilin sees that scene of the kindness of the father and the filial piety of the son in front of him, his eyes become colder and colder.
Bo Yu doesn"t speak Mandarin. Instead, he speaks in English to prevent little Watermelon from hearing what he says. He says, "We have already broken up. So, I don"t want to care about something between you and Qi Yan. And I hope you won"t get involved with my life."
"I don"t have affairs with Qi Yan." Song Shilin also responds to him in English
"We"re done. It doesn"t matter." Bo Yu is silent for a while, then looks at Song Shilin and says word by word, "I don"t care."
Song Shilin doesn"t say anything with the gloomy facial expression.
Bo Yu also thinks that he is a little pretentious because he still loves Song Shilin, but doesn"t want to admit and express his love.
However, if they are together again, Bo Yu doesn"t know whether he and his silly son will be disturbed by others in the future or not.
It is absurd that a man gives birth to a child.
It is natural that a woman gives birth to a child.
The rich and powerful family like Song"s family can"t allow that the heir is born by a man even if they agree that Song Shilin chooses a man as his wife.
And Bo Yu doesn"t want to tell anyone the secret that he can give birth to a child.
He can"t make it public.
Song Shilin leaves.
Bo Yu holds little Watermelon in the arms and expressionlessly gazes at Song Shilin"s receding figure.
After sitting for a while, Bo Yu gets up and leaves with little Watermelon in the arms. After being away from entertainment for a long time, he forgets his occupational habits, so he doesn"t notice that there are white lights shining in a corner around him.
"Why did you leave school?" Bo Yu puts little Watermelon in the child"s seat, then sits in the driver"s seat and drives away.
Little Watermelon recalls that the b.u.t.terball seizes his ponytail, and changes the facial expression out of a sudden. He groans and moans without saying a word.
Bo Yu is in a bad mood. He wants to smoke, but has some scruples in influencing little Watermelon. He can only open and close his lips. "Tell me!"
Maybe little Watermelon is frightened by Bo Yu"s att.i.tude or anything else, little Watermelon"s eyes are red-rimmed. For a while, he sobs and tells that he is torn off the shorts by three children before.
Bo Yu who defends little Watermelon and bears grudges turns the steering wheel to drive to the preschool cla.s.s.
Bo Yu has strong fighting power in a rage and arrives at the destination before the preschool cla.s.s is over.
Bo Yu holds little Watermelon in the arms and says, "Which cla.s.s are they in?"
Little Watermelon shows him the way in a hurry, takes Bo Yu to the cla.s.s of the b.u.t.terball, points at the b.u.t.terball sitting in the front row and says, "Papa, it"s him!"
Bo Yu, with an aura of authority, comes up to the b.u.t.terball with frightened eyes and grins, "Come with me, little b.u.t.terball."
The b.u.t.terball shivers all over, stares at Bo Yu with the small eyes and then cries suddenly. There is a running nose of him, looking ugly and cute.
The dean of the preschool cla.s.s looks at Bo Yu who is leisurely, and the b.u.t.terball who keeps wiping the tears, feeling painful, but says as gently as possible, "Mr. Bo..."
"I send my son to your school at a high price, but not for being bullied." Bo Yu, wearing the sungla.s.ses, plays with the mobile and answers without looking up, "I want to meet the parents of the b.u.t.terball."
The b.u.t.terball stops crying for a moment and then cries louder and louder.
Little Watermelon squats on the ground and counts his fingers, feeling undisturbed at all.
The dean feels painful. Because the preschool cla.s.s is private with the high price, they can"t afford to offend those children who have the good family background.
Besides, what Bo Yu says makes sense. His child is bullied at school, so it"s reasonable for him to search for justice for his child. However, …
Teacher Chen wearing high heels anxiously runs in and says to Bo Yu with embarra.s.sment, "Mr. Bo, I..."
"I don"t want to know anything except your handling methods." Bo Yu indifferently refuses the young girl"s apology.
Previously, he has thought that the girl in her twenties takes good care of little Watermelon, so he likes her so much.
But all children are very sensitive. Little Watermelon doesn"t ask for the help of Teacher Chen for the first time when he is wronged, implying that Teacher Chen isn"t very concerned for little Watermelon.
Bo Yu isn"t silly and kind.
Mr. Chen looks at the dean for help, but the dean shakes the head with the serious expression.
When Teacher Chen sees little Watermelon crouching on the ground and counting fingers, her eyes light up. She quickly squats down, picks up little Watermelon and gently says, "Little Watermelon, Teacher Chen apologizes to you for the little brother, okay? Please stop being angry."
Bo Yu looks up, "Put him down."
Teacher Chen is embarra.s.sed with little Watermelon in the arms, just like a duck in a thunderstorm. She has no idea what to do next.
The Dean trembles with anger because of such an idiot.