Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 253: Other Parents Buy Little Cakes~
Yu Xia made a sound of extreme confusion when she saw the line of text.
"Huh??? Transport what item?"
Xie Qingci was silent for a moment, then said with difficulty, "A dog."
It seems that the previous two rounds were just trivial tasks designed to help them get used to the show’s rules. The real game officially begins now.
"...Transporting a dog on a bike for one kilometer? The showrunners can really come up with such tasks! How are we supposed to transport a dog? Won’t it just jump off? Even if it doesn’t jump, can we really manage to transport it for a full kilometer?"
Yu Xia stared in defiance and tried to switch to another task.
"We don’t need such high points, let’s pick a task that both humans and dogs can endure!"
However, the machine showed no reaction, and the staff couldn’t help but laugh, saying, "Once you’ve confirmed your choice, it can’t be changed. Just accept it."
Yu Xia nearly exposed her teeth ready to bite that damn machine and vent her frustration by pulling her hair.
"This task tests the shaky relationship between humans and dogs to the limit! Tell the task to the dog, and even it wouldn’t agree!"
Xie Qingci turned to look at her.
Yu Xia immediately understood what he was thinking and felt choked by her own words. She glared at him fiercely, "Why are you looking at me like that? What do you mean? I’m not a dog!"
Xie Qingci couldn’t help but laugh, "I understand perfectly, you don’t need to emphasize."
Yu Xia was speechless and turned to look at the staff member, softening her tone and acting pitiful, "Can’t we really switch? We were the first group to arrive, missing out on the fast-track task benefit. Surely we deserve some compensation, right?"
The staff was helpless, "There’s really no way. You two better start thinking of a solution. We can’t provide any help, and you still need to borrow a dog."
"...What?!"
So the difficulty of this task isn’t in completing it but in borrowing a dog and a bicycle?
Who would willingly lend their dog to suffer with them?
She looked at Xie Qingci, her tone full of difficulty, "How can we manage this?"
Xie Qingci: "Let’s leave here first, we have three days left after all, there will definitely be a way."
"Where to?"
"To eat something, are you hungry?" he seemed relaxed and unconcerned, as if this task couldn’t faze him, unaffected by his eating habits.
Yu Xia paused, looked at him speechless, then sighed and followed him away from the station, resembling a village woman who had just suffered a major setback, holding back emotions to feed her nearly-starving son, counting the money while muttering complaints.
"Boys eat their parents poor, you’re more than a boy, how can you eat so much? At noon you ate several large meat buns, didn’t you also have some bread two hours ago? What do you want to eat? We only have three hundred and twenty-six left, we can’t go into any place where the average price exceeds twenty-six."
Xie Qingci listened to her muttering, not slowing his pace, finally stopping outside a cake shop on the street corner.
This shop doesn’t have dine-in, everything is bought while standing outside the shop, and taken away immediately. A price list was pasted outside, ridiculously lower than the brand confectionery shop Yu Xia had been to before.
The exceptional aspect of the cake shop is the sweet aroma that travels far and lures passing children to squat and refuse to leave.
When they arrived at the shopfront, there was a child on the verge of tears, clinging to the corner of the wall stubbornly.
Xie Qingci was seriously selecting, she glanced at that child and asked Xie Qingci, "You like sweet things, just like kids?"
Xie Qingci glanced at the sobbing child beside her and said nonchalantly, "It’s not that I like it. We’re going to see Wei Yaoyao, we should bring him some gifts."
After speaking, he seamlessly asked, "What do you like? Pick something."
Yu Xia intended to praise his thoughtful gesture, but upon hearing she could choose, she immediately leaned closer to examine.
"Does Wei Yaoyao like more or less cream? What flavor?"
Xie Qingci: "Just pick what you want, you can choose what you like too."
"So I can choose? This cream puff seems good, Tiger Skin cake is nice too, the Matcha roll is a bit expensive..."
The parent beside who couldn’t handle the girl insisting on buying the cake got angry and threatened:
"I’ve told you many times, if you eat too many sweets, your teeth will rot! Other kids don’t eat these cream cakes!"
The little girl didn’t believe it, tearfully pointed at Yu Xia and said, "Then why can this sister eat? That brother lets her eat, other parents buy cake!"
Yu Xia: "..."
The parent apologized, quietly scolded the child, "They didn’t eat when they were little, their teeth are not bad, when they grew up they eat whatever they want!"
The little girl didn’t believe, leading to a mother-daughter emotional conflict.
"You just don’t love me! That brother loves that sister! So buys cake for her to eat!"
Yu Xia paused with the cream puff in her hand intended for tasting.
Faced with Xie Qingci’s seemingly amused glance, she crouched down with the cream puff for the little girl to eat.
"Here, you can have it. You didn’t see properly, the cake was bought by the sister for the brother, I’m paying."
The little girl blinked with tears on her lashes, timidly took the puff, and her parent was quite embarrassed, repeatedly saying thank you.
She poked the girl’s cheek and said: "Besides, the brother can’t even eat this cake, only I can. Do you know why?"
The little girl softly asked, "Why?"
"Because he used to eat sweets every day, became a hundred-pound fatty, all his teeth fell off, now he has false teeth, the doctor said not only can he not eat cake, he can’t eat meat either."
Xie Qingci: "..."
The little girl was coaxed into a daze, turned to look at Xie Qingci and said, "Is that why the brother is so thin?"
She seemed to look at him with sympathy.
"Meat is very delicious."
Yu Xia almost burst into laughter, "Yes, but he can’t eat at all now, he ate too many sweets and his teeth fell out. You eat the puff, go home and eat meat."
The girl nodded and was picked up by her mom and left.
Yu Xia turned to face Xie Qingci’s helpless expression.
"Sister."
She smiled at him, reached for another cream puff the server handed over for tasting, took a bite, enjoying the fragrant creamy filling melting on her tongue.
"Delicious, let’s get this."
The server girl weighed ten dollars worth for her, then shyly asked, "Xiaxia, could you sign your name? I’ll give you a special strawberry mochi I made."
She nodded cheerfully, "Sure, have my brother sign too, could you give him one too?"
The girl nodded enthusiastically, "Of course, sure."
In the end, they bought a small tub of cream puffs, three Tiger Skin cakes, and a durian jam pocket bread before leaving.
Xie Qingci carried the items while Yu Xia held the small strawberry mochi and tasted a bite.
"Tasty, here, let me carry it, you try some too."
Xie Qingci dodged her hand, "No need, I’ll... you eat first."
He wanted her to feed him, but unfortunately there were cameras.
