Chapter One Hundred and Six: Jealousy

At the crew’s command, the game officially began, and Mingming, holding the needle first, carved away with full confidence.

Beside him, Niannian used the needle to slowly deepen the lines, working bit by bit with remarkable patience. By contrast, Sui Sui kept things much simpler, and with a few easy strokes, he finished carving the triangular pattern in one piece.

“Right now, Sui Sui is in first place, so he gets an extra reward tonight!”

The moment Mingming heard there would be something tasty to eat, he grew anxious. He grabbed the candy with his hand and bit down on it at once.

Yanyang and Xiaotian nearby were also carving their patterns with utmost seriousness, racing against the clock, while the live comments had already burst into laughter.

“Mingming is too cute. Is he part hamster?”

“I’m going to gnaw my way through the whole earth.”

“Sui Sui really is so clever, even knowing to pick the easiest pattern.”

With a sharp crack, a piece of candy splintered from Mingming’s mouth, and one point of the five-pointed star was bitten off as well.

“I failed...”

Mingming first made a bitter face and muttered the words, then without the slightest hesitation, he picked up the candy piece and ate it with great relish.

That night, everyone camped at the RV park. Some set up tents, while others chose to sleep inside the motorhomes.

The Yin family and the Fang family chose to sleep in the RVs, while Sui Sui, having won the candy game just now, received the most luxurious tent.

When it came time to pitch the tents, several families ran into trouble.

The parts taken out of the tent bags were scattered all over the ground in different sizes, and the instructions were long and complicated. Hardly anyone could make sense of them.

At that moment, Tian Boyu stepped forward.

“First, secure this stake into the ground.”

He looked as though he understood the task very well, and Feng Rui and Yu Xin nearby immediately followed his instructions.

After demonstrating once, Tian Boyu turned his gaze toward Su Wanning and took the initiative to walk over, picking up her stake and preparing to help.

What he had not expected was that Su Wanning actually refused.

“You go help them. I can do this.”

Su Wanning did not look as though she were forcing herself, so Tian Boyu could only turn and leave.

In no time at all, Su Wanning had sorted out the tent’s frame. Her movements were so nimble that she did not even glance at the instructions, as if every step were already second nature to her.

Pitching a tent was indeed easy for her. Back when she was a streamer, Su Wanning’s greatest hobby was to go camping in the mountains every weekend and gather medicinal herbs while she was at it.

By the time Tian Boyu had only just helped Yu Xin with half her tent, Su Wanning had already set up the most luxurious one on the entire site.

“Wow, Mom, I love the tent so much!”

Niannian bounced inside and rolled around all over the tent.

“Then you should thank your brother for helping us win such a luxurious tent.”

The tent was very spacious. Even with Su Wanning and her two children inside, it did not feel cramped at all; in fact, even with the three of them lying side by side, there was still empty space beside them.

Feng Rui’s tent was the last to be set up, right next to Yu Xin’s.

Looking at the tent in the distance from which laughter kept drifting out from time to time, Feng Rui’s face twisted with jealousy.

“Why does she get to live in such a luxurious tent? Yu Xin, don’t you think that ever since Su Wanning came back this time, the director seems to be treating her better?”

Yu Xin did not join Feng Rui in the usual round of complaints.

The livestream had already ended, and everyone was preparing to rest. Yet Yu Xin kept looking in Su Wanning’s direction, her expression unreadable.

Inside the tent, Mingming had heard the complaint and immediately shouted back, “Sui Sui’s brother won the competition, of course he gets a good tent! If you’re so capable, go carve a candy piece yourself!”

Feng Rui turned around and looked at the willful little brat, her head already aching. She lowered her voice in warning, “Go to sleep now and stop talking. If you keep this up, I’ll tell your father when we get home!”

Who would have thought that Mingming would not be afraid at all? He got up and gave her a hard shove.

“I’m not scared of you. With Grandma here, even Dad wouldn’t dare scold me!”

After saying that, he made a face and marched out of the tent.

Yu Xin watched the scene as though enjoying a show and said, “Aren’t you going after him? It’s so late. What if something happens to the child?”

Feng Rui simply crawled into her sleeping bag.

“There are people all around. What is there to be afraid of? When he gets sleepy, he’ll come back on his own.”

After leaving the tent, Mingming went straight to Su Wanning.

“Mingming? It’s so late. Why are you here?”

Mingming climbed in and plopped down beside Sui Sui as if it were perfectly natural, then embellished everything and repeated Feng Rui’s words from earlier.

“Miss Su, that woman is awful. I don’t want to stay with her. I’m coming to sleep here with you.”

Seeing the little fellow standing up for her, his tiny face puffed up with indignation, Su Wanning had no choice but to agree with a smile.

“All right, all right. If you want to sleep here, then sleep here.”

“Yes!”

Mingming cheered loudly, then wriggled like a caterpillar into Sui Sui’s sleeping bag.

Sui Sui immediately came out of the sleeping bag, his little brows slightly furrowed, looking very displeased.

Su Wanning looked at him and froze.

How had she only just realized now that this child was practically a miniature version of Qin Jingchen?

“Sui Sui, come sleep with me instead.”

Su Wanning beckoned him over. Fortunately, her son did not seem to dislike her at present. After only a few seconds of hesitation, he lay down beside her.

The RV park fell quiet, and at that very moment inside one of the RVs, Yin Shanshan and Fang Wei were huddled together in front of a computer, watching a video.

Yin Shanshan wore the confident smile of someone who had already secured victory. After watching the video, she curled her lips in satisfaction.

“How is it? Once this video goes up tomorrow, your fans are bound to be furious.”

Yin Shanshan folded her arms across her chest and closed the clip, while Fang Wei frowned slightly, her expression tinged with concern.

“Do we really have to do this? Won’t it be a little too much?”

Hearing that, Yin Shanshan immediately frowned and gave her a look of disdain from head to toe. Her tone turned sharp and cutting, entirely unlike the friendliness she showed in front of the camera.

“Too much? When she was trampling over the two of us, you can cry about it later. Now you think it’s too much?”

So Fang Wei could only shut her mouth and say nothing more.

Early the next morning, before Su Wanning had even woken up, someone was already pounding urgently on the tent from outside.

“Who is it?” she asked irritably, still with her eyes closed.

“My dear ancestor, stop sleeping. Something’s happened!”

Vincent’s voice came through, and Su Wanning’s eyes snapped open at once.

“What happened?”

She stepped out of the tent. It was still early, and a thick mist filled the mountains. Visibility was poor, and the livestream had not yet started.

With a grave expression, Vincent handed over his phone.

“Take a look yourself.”

Su Wanning accepted it, and on the screen was a video link at the very top of the trending list.

It already had hundreds of thousands of likes, and the comments were still climbing.

The bold, glaring headline stood out at a glance: Su Wanning openly throwing her weight around on set, while Fang Wei, fresh from her comeback, is bullied by a newcomer!

Su Wanning frowned deeply and opened the video.

The first thing that appeared was the welcome banquet from when she had just returned.