Rebirth: I Became Mr.President's Beloved-Chapter 1005: Mr. Song’s Mischievous Schemes
This doll outfit looks like a giant oven.
At this moment, the nearest security personnel are also five meters away from her.
If she takes off the headgear and shouts, the security personnel will definitely hear, but then tomorrow’s Weibo trending topic could be—A certain female star trying to hang herself outside Tan Palace at midnight, motives unclear.
Sometimes, having thin skin really puts you at a disadvantage.
Because she has been standing for too long, her calves are already sore.
She crouched down holding onto the fence, while sticking her head out to look at the security personnel patrolling in front of the gate, calculating in her mind how likely she would succeed if she called for help with the headgear on.
Before she could mentally prepare, she hears a warm male voice she’s familiar with: "Late at night, crouching here to peek through the gate?"
Tang Li: "....."
Without even turning around, it’s already an Asura Field.
She immediately turns sideways, facing the fence.
This scene, oh how similar it looks to what she saw at the office window.
Song Baiyan slowly straightens up, looking at the doll bear pretending to be nonexistent in a funny way, a smile appears on his face: "Squatting on such a narrow base, don’t you feel tired?"
This inquiry receives no response.
"I heard Yuan Qin developed a rash and has gone to the hospital."
With those words, the doll bear’s back slightly moved.
Apparently, the dosage still isn’t enough.
Song Baiyan doesn’t mind the dust on the base, simply wipes it with his hand and sits down, "In this weather, wearing one shirt feels hot, with such thick cotton clothes, you might suffocate."
The bear paws that were clinging to the fence suddenly change to hugging the fence.
The bear head tilts, slumping on the fence without looking at him.
Clearly, it is the attitude of giving up.
"In the afternoon, Ji Ming mentioned that recently there have been more businesses near Tan Palace, either selling candied fruits or wearing doll costumes to sell balloons, and is planning to ask the security office to do some cleanup." Song Baiyan’s tone sounds as if he’s casually chatting with her, "No need to catch people, just have to file a report at the city management bureau."
The bear head quietly turns back.
Song Baiyan adds, "As for those who linger outside Tan Palace, often peeking around, they need to be brought to the security office for detailed questioning."
"..." Tang Li.
Song Baiyan showing up here is most likely because he knows what she’s up to.
Saying these words is just forcing her to give in.
If it’s not someone she groomed herself, they will ultimately side with outsiders.
Can’t help but silently lament against the fence.
Yuan Qin left her behind, if she wants to leave here, she has to find a way herself.
Song Baiyan looks at the doll bear beside him, seeing it so steadfast and starting to negotiate, "How about this, I let the security personnel come over and register your identity."
After speaking, he pretends to get up.
A bear paw reaches out, stopping him.
Then, it uses the bear paw to point at its right foot.
Only then does Song Baiyan notice the ’bear foot’ stuck between two bars of the fence, realizing why Tang Li is hanging on the fence and not leaving, the doll costume has a zipper at the back, making it hard to remove herself.
Afraid he didn’t understand the gesture, the doll bear stands up.
Its left foot steps off the base steadily on the ground, the right foot does an ’attempt to pull but can’t’ demonstration.
Then, it turns its head to look at Song Baiyan.
Song Baiyan observes the ’bear foot’, saying softly: "Judging by this injury, I’m afraid it needs amputation."
Tang Li: "..." I don’t believe you.
Song Baiyan remains seated on the base, looking up at her, his gaze still profound and gentle: "I’ll give you another suggestion, give up this outfit, take it off."
Tang Li knows well that removing the doll costume would free her foot.
If Yuan Qin were here, she wouldn’t even need him to mention it, she’d rush him to help take off the costume.
However, the person in front of her is Song Baiyan.
It’s already embarrassing enough.
If she further reveals her true self, she really loses everything.
Not taking off the doll costume in front of Song Baiyan is her last stubbornness tonight.
Because she doesn’t want her future descendants to remember their grandmother/great-grandmother only as someone who hung like a fool outside the President’s Mansion.
——She certainly wouldn’t actively bring up the stupid thing she did, and who knows if Song Baiyan would too.
No longer seeking help from Song Baiyan, she bends over to pull her right foot.
The chubby body exudes an awkward kind of strength.
After pulling for a while, there’s no success.
...Though it’s not ’completely unsuccessful’, at least she broke out in a sweat.
One bear paw holds onto the iron fence, one bear foot stuck in it, the doll bear leans back, slowly turns to look at the adjacent base.
Sometime later, Song Baiyan lights a cigarette.
The light of the street lamps outside Tan Palace is not as bright as that by the main gate.
A glimmer of red reflects against the mottled tree shadows, flickering, occasionally revealing the muscular outline of the man’s forearm, and that rolled-up white shirt sleeve, contrasting her distressed plight with an air of serene leisure.
So, this person is purely watching her make a fool of herself.
Tang Li, despite being slow, realizes this.
The more it is this way, the less she wants to ask him for help.
She turns back, just about to try pulling her foot again, Song Baiyan stands up, takes another look at the ’bear foot’ stuck, and suggests: "If you won’t take off the clothes, then try another way, let me hold the bear foot of this outfit, you exert strength to pull your foot out, how about that?"
The last five words are rhetorical.
Regardless of her inner complaints, her demeanor doesn’t reject the proposal.
When Song Baiyan extends the cigarette-holding right hand into the fence, gripping tightly onto the doll costume’s ’shoe’, Tang Li holds onto the fence with her right hand to steady her balance, simultaneously pulling her right leg free from the right pant leg of the doll costume, as she’s naturally thin, performing this action is not tough.
After freeing her real foot from the bind, she ensures the bear leg is also freed from the fence.
Once she correctly wears the costume again and is ready to leave, just as she turns around, a bear ear is grabbed cleanly.
Tang Li: "..."
Helpless, she has to turn back.
"Planning to leave without saying thanks?"
Being sensible, Tang Li immediately cooperates by lifting her left toe, placing her hands on her head, forming a ’heart’.
After finishing the ’heart’, she dashes off.
Song Baiyan sits at the base edge, holding a cigarette, smiling as he watches her with quick tiny steps, disappear in a flash across the grand avenue in front of Tan Palace, past the roadside trail, jumping forward, soon running away without a trace.
Tang Li retraces her route.
Originally wanting to first find someone to help take off the costume, as she nears Beihai Park, she discovers her nanny car still parked by the roadside.
So——
Song Baiyan tricked her, Yuan Qin never went to the hospital!
Unable to help but trot toward the car, when she clearly sees the person beside the car: "..."
Ji Ming has already opened the rear car door: "Sir instructed, let me take the lady home to the Lai Family."
Tang Li knows it’s pointless to keep denying, simply accepting Ji Ming’s title, taking off the costume to get in the car, when Ji Ming sits in the driver’s seat, she asks: "Since your sir knows already, why still send me back to the Lai Family?"
"Sir said, if you don’t want him to know, he can pretend not to know."
"..." A large-scale social death scene.
