Priceless Baby: 101 Bedside Stories

Ye Chu had a blast there. When Ye Tingyun called, she could not even control her own excitement and kept talking about the interesting parts of the film exhibition. The poor little Ye Chu had never seen a 3D movie or a horror movie before. In Ye Tingyun’s house, she only saw some musicals. After being ‘poisoned’ by little Tong Hua, all she watched was Chinese soap operas.

And she did not even understand most of it. She understood TV shows to be idol soap operas, but she never thought that there would be murders and mutilations on TV. She was frightened yet excited as well. She was intrinsically a violent person. Xiao Ju could not help but rant to Wei Ling that she was bringing a little kid around for the entire day. Afterward, she got mocked mercilessly by Wei Ling.

Ye Tingyun laughed lightly. “You are this happy? You described it so vividly that I’d think that you can see.”

Ye Chu paused for a moment. “I heard all of this from Xiao Ju. Then, I’ll just imagine. My imagination is quite good.”

“Yes, your imagination is good.” Ye Tingyun laughed lightly with a hint of teasing in it. Perhaps, only she thought that her acting skills were good. He had already known a long time ago that Ye Chu was pretending to be blind. He did not even need to look at the surveillance cameras.

“I’m not at home, so you have to be more obedient. Listen to Xiao Ju and don’t stir up trouble. Don’t eat too many unhealthy snacks and don’t drink cold drinks.” Ye Tingyun nagged at her patiently, regardless of how minor the thing was. “Xiao Ju likes you, and she has a good temper. Don’t bully her all the time. Next time, all her year-end bonus will have been fully deducted by me, and she won’t even be able to pay her mortgages.”

“What are mortgages?”

Ye Tingyun said, “She borrowed money from the bank to buy a house, and she’ll have to return the bank a sum of money every month. It’s a lot of money. If all her bonuses are deducted by me, she’ll have no more money to repay the bank. The bank will then confiscate her house, and she’ll have to sleep on the streets.”

Ye Chu was eating a burger. Suddenly, she could not seem to continue eating and stared at Xiao Ju in shock. Xiao Ju did not know what Ye Tingyun told her and was very puzzled. Why is Miss Ye Chu looking at me with such apologetic eyes? 

Ye Chu wrapped the burger silently and passed it to Xiao Ju with a look of pain. Xiao Ju became even more puzzled. Ye Chu said, “What about you? If you don’t have money to pay the mortgages, will you be chased out too?”

“Oh, no. I open a bank.”

Ye Chu said, “Damn. You are lying to me.”

“I’m not lying to you.” Ye Tingyun laughed loudly. He was in a good mood every time he talked to her. However, the meeting was too tight, and he did not have a lot of time to talk to her. He hung up.

Xiao Ju took the hamburger and asked, “Miss Ye Chu, do you want to eat it? You only took a bite.”

“I’m not eating.” Ye Chu looked at the hamburger longingly. If I continue eating, you won’t have a house to live in anymore. That’s so pitiful.

She would definitely be obedient and not act cute to Xiao Ju anymore.

A huge burden seemed to have been lifted from Xiao Ju, and she threw the burger into the rubbish bin hurriedly. Ye Chu had a look of immense regret on her face, and Xiao Ju could not help but laugh at her.

So cute. 

Ye Tingyun went on the business trip for three days, and Xiao Ju brought Ye Chu to play for three days. She even took a leave from the old professor. Instead of going to lessons, she ran out to play like a teenager in her rebellious phase.

When Ye Tingyun came back to check on her progress, Ye Chu presented him with an empty script. She was neither anxious nor guilty. “I’m not studying anymore. Nineteen years passed by happily just like that too. It’s no big deal.”

“Then why don’t we stop hiring the professor?” asked Ye Tingyun.

“No!” Ye Chu pouted. Ye Tingyun was not around recently, and she did not have to act as a blind person. She only wanted to be a little more unrestrained.. She did not want people to say that she was uneducated, especially by people who were around Ye Tingyun.