Huayu: Starting by piggybacking on the fame of "Fairy Mom"

Chapter 26 The Celestial Acting Skills

Zhou Xiaobai's acting skills instantly came online.

He leaned close to Liu Xiaoli's ear, his voice tinged with a mixture of grievance and dependence, and whispered, "Big cousin... Qianqian always bullies me."

Upon hearing this soft, whiny complaint, Liu Xiaoli felt an urge to pluck the stars from the sky and give them to him.

To make the performance convincing, Zhou Xiaobai forced out a few tears, looking so pitiful that anyone who saw him would feel sorry for him.

An Qianqian watched coldly as Zhou Xiaobai nestled in his mother's arms, pretending to be affectionate. Seeing her mother coaxing and hugging him while completely ignoring her own daughter, the little bit of grievance that had just been soothed by her aunt instantly burned even brighter, like charcoal doused with gasoline.

acting?

Anxi scoffed inwardly: Who can't do that?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the angrier she became, the more she felt that Zhou Xiaobai was a bad kid.

"Waaah—"

Anxi's tears came without warning, like a tap that had been turned on, and she cried loudly.

This tactic of wailing and crying really works.

Zhou Xiaobai was initially pleased with his performance, but upon hearing An Qianqian cry so miserably, his little scheme vanished instantly, replaced by an indescribable heartache.

The thought that she was the one who would accompany him through eternity, and that he was still arguing with such a young girl, made him feel utterly ashamed.

Zhou Xiaobai couldn't keep up the act any longer. He looked at Liu Xiaoli and Zhou Wenqiong and said, "You...you go out first, let me talk to Qianqian."

Zhou Wenqiong and Liu Xiaoli exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with doubt that Zhou Xiaobai could handle things without them. But seeing Zhou Xiaobai's pleading eyes and remembering that the family reunion banquet wasn't over yet, they temporarily suppressed their desire to watch the excitement. The two smiled secretly and left the bedroom, glancing back every few steps.

As soon as the door closed, An Qianqian, who had been crying her heart out as if it were the end of the world, stopped crying instantly.

She suddenly looked up, and there wasn't a trace of tears left on her little face.

Immediately afterwards, she jumped off the bed, put her hands on her hips, and stared straight at Zhou Xiaobai, who was already stunned.

This turn of events was even more dramatic than a bungee jumping rope suddenly taut!

Zhou Xiaobai was completely dumbfounded, his mouth slightly agape, only one thought remaining in his mind: The speed at which that acting changed! The ability to control his emotions! I'm impressed, truly impressed.

An Qianqian took a deep breath, and with an overwhelming sense of coercion, launched a soul-piercing attack at Zhou Xiaobai:

"Tell me! What exactly happened?"

Zhou Xiaobai shuddered, snapping out of his daze, his mind racing.

We need to find someone to take the blame! We absolutely must find someone to take the blame!

He disguised himself as an innocent child being led by the nose by adults, and hurriedly quickened his speech:

"It's not my fault. Your great-aunt said she wanted to adopt me as her grandson."

"Your aunt changed her mind at the last minute. She said it's not appropriate to adopt a grandson; she wants to adopt a son instead."

"And your mother wanted to hit me, I... I was forced into it!"

An Qianqian let out two cold laughs. Having played hide-and-seek with her mother since childhood, she could tell the difference between truth and falsehood at a glance. She went straight to the point: "How did you get to know my aunt's family? And how did you get to know my mother? I'm the last one to know."

This is the core issue. She felt like a complete outsider, kept in the dark, which infuriated her even more than the issue of seniority.

Moreover, only by explaining everything clearly can one distinguish between truth and falsehood.

This question left Zhou Xiaobai with nowhere to fabricate a lie.

However, the blame can be shifted to Liu Xiaoli, since that's one of the reasons anyway.

He recounted in detail how he bumped into Liu Xiaoli, tried to extort money from her, got spanked, and was eventually called a little dog.

She then mentioned that she only discovered Liu Xiaoli was An Qianqian's mother when she was in the song and dance troupe.

He secretly shifted the blame, going along with what An Qianqian had said before about Liu Xiaoli being very fierce, making Liu Xiaoli's ferocity visible and writing about it in detail.

Then, using his real skills as a starting point, he said he could sense that Liu Xiaoli wanted to teach him a lesson.

Then she recounted how she accidentally saved the old lady, how Grandma Wang took her to the hospital to pick up the old lady from discharge, and how she met Zhou Wenqiong, which led to the family reunion.

As for plotting to have Zhou Wenqiong and the old lady help him deal with her and Liu Xiaoli, that was a sensitive topic, something he hadn't explicitly mentioned, and something he absolutely couldn't admit to even if it meant death.

He deliberately concealed the reason why he wanted to be her "cousin" so that he could legitimately spank her.

In conclusion, it boils down to one sentence: If you become Liu Xiaoli's little cousin, she won't know how to take care of herself.

Anxi was both annoyed and amused after hearing this. She thought her younger brother was incredibly audacious to dare to extort money from their mother, which was commendable.

However, she could tell that Zhou Xiaobai's words were half true and half false.

The anger had subsided considerably, but there was no way he would call him "Uncle." Although the kinship was now a fait accompli, he couldn't go against the powerful figures outside, so they would each address each other as they wished.

Zhou Xiaobai had to call her "sister".

Her eyes darted around, and with a quick opening of her mouth, she let out a "woof" and lunged to bite again.

Zhou Xiaobai was so frightened that he raised his hands in surrender—he couldn't bear to hit him, nor could he scold him, and he couldn't shake off the rising star.

Since things had come to this, he had no choice but to admit defeat. He said with utmost sincerity, "Sister Xixi, I surrender."

The call of "Sister Xixi" made An Xixi slam on the brakes. She beamed, "Really? Say it again!"

"Akane...Sister Akane!"

"You've kept this from me for so long, we have to get to the bottom of this."

"Then... what do you want?"

Zhou Xiaobai hated himself for being so useless—in his past life, he was a mountain bandit king, incredibly powerful. In this life, however, he had become a doormat, completely dominated by even a little girl.

It's in her nature to be a teacher, and only a written guarantee can ensure what she wants. An Qianqian immediately transformed into a little teacher: "Write a guarantee, clearly stating what mistake you made, and promise to call me 'sister' from now on."

At this moment, the system, which had been watching the drama unfold, added fuel to the fire: "Hurry up and write it, hurry up and write it for Qianqian, or the people outside will get anxious, and the family reunion banquet will never happen!"

"You bastard, are you happy to see me make a fool of myself?" Zhou Xiaobai was furious. He didn't dare to get angry at An Qianqian, but he wasn't afraid to get angry at the system at all.

"Go ahead and yell at me, try yelling at Xixi once and see what happens!" the system retorted directly. They coexisted; your embarrassment was my embarrassment. I didn't blame you, and you're acting all high and mighty?

"Pfft," An Qianqian chuckled. Following the system's suggestion, she launched a surprise attack, twisting Zhou Xiaobai's ear and asking, "Write—or—write?"

The pain in his ears, the insults from the system, and An Qianqian's glare that threatened to hurl insults if he didn't write, made Zhou Xiaobai completely resign himself to his fate.

As for this messy family relationship, An Qianqian said that as long as Zhou Xiaobai calls her "sister," the matter will be over.

Just as Zhou Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the matter was finally over, An Qianqian gave him a big treat: "Also, you told my mom that we're going to live together from now on, understand?"

"Why didn't you say so?" Zhou Xiaobai asked, puzzled. The suggestion was good; it would make it easier for the two of them to go to the space in the future. But why should he be the one to say it?

"Hehe! Why so many whys?" Anxixi exercised her older sister authority for the first time, "I'm your older sister, you do what I say."

Zhou Xiaobai stumbled and almost fell.