Wife, please behave yourself.

Chapter 108 Do you have time lately?
As filming progresses, the TV series "The Temptation to Go Home" is nearing its end.

As required by the station, Liu Changcun revised the original script, extending the time spent in the tug-of-war between the male and female leads in order to extend the number of episodes.

In the current script, the female lead, Liu Pinru, has already started dating the male lead. Judging from the progress, the filming scene of the male and female leads going on a date should be coming soon.

Once the filming application is approved, your store can be displayed on the big screen.

By placing an advertisement in a currently popular TV series, they have saved a considerable amount of money.

June 8.

There are only five days left until Liu Wanqiu's new semester begins.

Because Liu Changcun was busy with work during the summer vacation, he did not pay much attention to checking his daughter's learning progress, and the original summer tutoring plan was therefore shelved.

This saved 11-year-old Liu Wanqiu from disaster.

Inside the Mixue Bingcheng store.

After the morning rush hour, Liu Changcun was looking through his daughter's summer homework. Liu Wanqiu had done quite well in her final exams last semester.

Math 92, Chinese 96, English 90.

While this result doesn't place him among the top students in the class, it's still a significant improvement over his ranking in the first semester of fifth grade.

If we were just hovering in the middle before, now we can say that we've already made it to the top.

The store was quiet. Apart from Ning Mengyao sweeping the counter when she had nothing to do, there was only the sound of Liu Changcun flipping through the pages of his summer homework.

Liu Wanqiu, on the other hand, had his head tucked in, with a copy of the "Dragon Ball" comic on the table in front of him.

Her face was lowered, and her lips were pursed.

Her eyes drifted intentionally or unintentionally toward her father, watching him calmly flip through his homework.

She felt her heart pounding wildly; she was more nervous than she was during regular exams.

"Not bad, apart from the messy handwriting, the completion of the assignment is quite good."

"Whoo~"

Liu Wanqiu let out a long sigh of relief, and her whole body went limp.

Terrified, she kept raising her hand to her flat chest, as if she had been saved from a near-death experience.

"So Dad means I passed the test?"

"You passed the test."

With a smile, Liu Changcun first put his workbook on the table, then took out his wallet from his pocket, hesitated for a few seconds between the fifty and ten yuan bills, and finally took out ten yuan and handed it over.

"This is your reward."

"Yay! Ten dollars!"

Liu Wanqiu, who was lying on the table, seemed to have springs in her feet. In just a moment, she jumped up, took the banknotes from her father's hand, held them tightly in both hands, raised them high above her head, and walked around the store showing off.

She knew that hard work would definitely pay off!

Throughout the summer vacation, she not only received five-yuan bills from her brother Liu Songyan more than once, but also received a reward from her father just before the start of the new school term.

Liu Wanqiu didn't dare to think about how much money was hidden in her piggy bank in her room.

Hard work and accumulation will eventually pay off.

She's struck it rich!

"Oh oh oh~"

Strange noises were coming from her mouth, but Liu Changcun, as her father, did not stop his daughter from this indecent behavior.

Although she is a lively girl at home, she is quite quiet in front of outsiders.

Because of her young age, she hasn't yet developed a concept of appreciating beauty.

If I record this now, maybe in a few years, my daughter will be begging me to delete this embarrassing video.

With a smile on his face, Liu Changcun immediately took action.

I took out my phone and selected the video recording function.

Pointing the camera at the still-cheering figure, I successfully captured my daughter's funny behavior and then edited and saved it to a private file.

Before Liu Wanqiu could notice, he put away his phone and quietly observed with a smile.

Liu Changcun used to not understand why some parents would so enthusiastically share photos of their children on social media.

He may now understand that no matter how ordinary his child may seem to outsiders, it doesn't matter.

But in the eyes of parents, their children are the best gift the world has given them.

No matter how you look at it, you'll never get tired of it.

As she wiped the table, Ning Mengyao's movements slowed down, and she turned her gaze to the figure not far away.

Looking at Liu Changcun's arms, chair, and table, he observed his daughter with a smile on his face.

I was completely engrossed in watching it.

When she used to work at the flower shop, she thought the owner of the bookstore next door was good-looking, but that was all she thought about.

However, as their relationship deepened, coupled with the fact that they had both experienced failed marriages, things took a turn for the better.

The former bookstore owner had helped her a lot.

Under these circumstances, Ning Mengyao now observes Liu Changcun anew and has a completely different feeling.

His face was still the same, and he hadn't even shaved today.

But for some reason, she just couldn't get enough of Liu Changcun now.

She was like a block of iron, and the other person was like a magnet.

He drew all her attention to him.

"Miss Ning?"

"Ok?"

The shouts, from furtive observation to open staring, finally drew the man's attention with their unusual gazes.

Liu Changcun called out Ning Mengyao's name several times, and only received a response after the fourth time.

Ning Mengyao abruptly withdrew her gaze and continued to pretend to diligently wipe the table.

"Is there something dirty on my face? You've been staring at me since earlier."

"No……"

"Look all you want, but don't get any improper thoughts. It would be troublesome if you fell in love with me."

The joking remark came from Liu Changcun's mouth, which made Ning Mengyao, who was already looking down, lower her head even further.

"Women are roses with thorns, so I'm a cactus covered in thorns. If you don't want to get hurt, you should think less."

"hey-hey……"

Laughing awkwardly, Ning Mengyao didn't find Boss Liu's jokes particularly funny.

With her face downcast, she didn't notice the man's somewhat serious expression.

Liu Wanqiu's excitement finally subsided. Having already put the ten yuan back in her pocket, she shook her head back and forth, looking at the adults on both sides of the store.

Watching her father's fake smile fade and his nonchalant flipping through her notebook, she realized he was no longer smiling.

"Dad, did you actually like Aunt Ning's type? What about Aunt An then?"

Liu Wanqiu raised her voice slightly, expressing her fondness for An Zhaoran, who used to be able to casually pull out two hundred-yuan bills.

At that time, she didn't accept it because they had just met.

If the other party gave her another chance now, she would definitely pocket the money without hesitation.

"Stop talking nonsense and go back to reading your comics."

"Oh……"

Hearing her father's arrangement, Liu Wanqiu didn't dare to say anything more.

Nodding obediently, she returned to her seat and began to reread the comic book.

Ning Mengyao clenched the rag tighter in her hand; of course she knew who Aunt An, whom Liu Wanqiu was talking about, was.

The thought of the beautiful woman he had met at her house suddenly dampened his otherwise good mood.

I glanced up again and secretly looked ahead.

Looking at Liu Changcun sitting at the table...

Half an hour before the lunch break on the 16th, a taxi pulled up on the road in front of the store.

Wen Yunwei got out of the car, paid the bill, and then looked around at the surrounding shops.

With just one glance, her gaze was fixed on the bright red signboard.

Looking at the four big characters "Mixue Ice Cream" printed on it, it was indeed as easy to find as her daughter had said.

I tapped my footsteps on the concrete pavement, making a sound, and stepped onto the sidewalk toward the shop. I deliberately slowed my pace before entering, taking my time as I strolled inside.

Pretending to be a customer, they went to the counter to order.

As soon as Ning Mengyao saw a customer enter the store, she immediately got into work mode.

Welcome to Mixue Ice Cream! Please order here!

A few days after opening, her voice finally grew louder.

He raised his hand to gesture to the customer in front of him, guiding their attention to the order board in the direction he was pointing.

Wen Yunwei glanced at the order board in front of her, and the next second, she noticed the man sitting next to the little girl out of the corner of her eye.

A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth, and seeing that the other person didn't even look up, he simply raised his voice a little louder.

"Give me a cup of... Taro Boba Milk Tea that's so delicious it makes you want to spin around, right?"

"Okay, I'll have a taro boba milk tea that's so delicious it'll make you spin around. Would you like some ice?"

"unnecessary."

"It's four yuan and fifty cents in total."

"Give."

After receiving the change from the cashier and handing over the 50-cent coin, Ning Mengyao turned around and began making the cup.

Wen Yunwei watched the other person leave, and when she saw the female employee in the store making milk tea, she turned around leisurely and faced the figure who was holding a comic book and reading it.

One left and one right, one big and one small.

Liu Changcun crossed his legs and leaned lazily against the back of his chair.

Liu Wanqiu, barefoot, stood on a stool, hugging her legs, and watched intently.

This was the second time she had met the other party's daughter; they had a brief encounter when they set up a stall in the square.

At that time, Wen Yunwei felt that her behavior of setting up a stall was somewhat shameful, so she did not take a good look at this little girl named Liu Wanqiu.

Looking closely now, he looks exactly like his junior.

She inherited her father's looks, but her features and facial lines are softer.

It's often said that daughters resemble their fathers, and this direct comparison only reinforces her acceptance of this stereotype.

I took slow steps, my soft footsteps leaving a crisp, tinkling sound on the floor.

Quietly approaching the other person, as if harboring a mischievous thought, Wen Yunwei finally stopped in front of her junior.

Seeing that the other person hadn't noticed his arrival, he looked down at them for a few seconds.

Then he muttered to himself in a low voice.

"You also like reading comics?"

"..."

Liu Changcun looked up at the voice in front of him as he gazed at the comic book. He then looked at Wen Yunwei, who was leaning slightly forward.

Slightly stunned.

After a moment, he greeted her with a smile.

"Senior, long time no see."

"It's been a long time indeed."

Wen Yunwei smiled as well, straightening up her bent-over body.

"I had been thinking of coming here for a while, but I was too busy with work and hadn't been able to find the time."

"It's good to be busy, because you can only make money when you're busy."

"makes sense."

Reaching out to take the chair that Liu Changcun had pulled over, Wen Yunwei sat down with her arm around Qun's shoulder.

Legs together, tilted to one side.

“Your daughter probably takes after you; not only does she look like you, but she also loves reading just like you.”

"It's a pity that the books I used to read are different from the books she's reading now."

He raised his hand to fiddle with his child's head, but Liu Wanqiu didn't react at all to his touch.

Liu Changcun, the father, continued.

"She reads comics all day long. Since the bookstore was closed, I packed up all the remaining comics and brought them home. She had a great time reading them. She spent the whole summer doing nothing but homework and reading comic books."

"You can learn something from reading comics."

What knowledge did you learn?

He glanced at Liu Wanqiu, who was engrossed in reading "Dragon Ball."

"Learn to transform into a Super Saiyan?"

"I want to be Sun Wukong!"

Her father's words triggered a key phrase in Liu Wanqiu's mind. She leaned on her father's large hand, looking up at him with a serious expression.

Wen Yunwei couldn't understand what her junior was saying.

Why is it getting food stuck in my teeth all of a sudden?

She did know about Sun Wukong, though.

The Four Great Classical Novels... she had read the original works when she was in school.

"I don't know why a girl likes fighting comics so much."

Liu Changcun withdrew his hand from his daughter's head, complaining. Seeing that Liu Wanqiu was engrossed in the conversation again, he simply turned his gaze to the senior student beside him.

"Have you had any troubles at work lately? How are you adapting?"

"It's great, my colleagues are all easy to get along with."

"That person didn't cause you any trouble, did they?"

"..."

Although no names were mentioned, the two adults present knew who it referred to.

Wen Yunwei smiled slightly awkwardly before answering in a softer tone.

"Except her."

"Just ignore her. The more attention you give her, the more arrogant she'll become."

"Yeah, I've hardly spoken to her at the company."

"Making money is the most important thing. Think about the kids, and just get to work."

After a moment of stunned silence, Wen Yunwei covered her mouth and laughed.

She genuinely found chatting with Liu Changcun now quite interesting.

The junior students used to be quiet and didn't talk much. They would only respond with "uh-huh" or "oh".

After many years, he has changed dramatically.

Not only is he more eloquent, but he can also occasionally utter witty and insightful remarks that have never been heard before.

Seeing his senior sister cover her mouth and giggle, Liu Changcun continued.

"Would you like to try the milk tea?"

"I just ordered a drink, I think it's... Taro Boba Milk Tea, so delicious it makes you want to spin around."

After a pause, Wen Yunwei hesitated before asking again.

Who came up with the name of this milk tea?

"I named it, isn't it unique?"

"Indeed... I remember it vividly after ordering it just once."

"It's just one or two unconventional names. You know there are a lot of students here, so we still need to make sure they're attractive to kids."

Liu Changcun pointed, and following his junior's direction, Wen Yunwei saw Ning Mengyao leaving the preparation table and walking towards them with a milk tea in her hand.

The cup was placed in front of Wen Yunwei with its bottom touching the table.

"Try it, and it would be great if you could give some suggestions."

Hearing the words coming from Liu Changcun, Wen Yunwei tore open the straw packaging and slowly picked up the milk tea in front of her.

I looked down at the room-temperature milk tea in my hand.

The hand that was about to insert it finally stopped.

Do you... have some time lately?

(End of this chapter)