He Held Me All Night…Then His Son Gave Me a Little Red Flower

Ning Shixue had become immune to Xie Zhaozhou’s flirtatious words.

He could now even wait calmly, without blushing, for Xie Zhaozhou to dress him.
When Xie Zhaozhou held him by the waist and pulled him closer, he just pressed his lips together and didn’t react.
His expression was very stubborn.

Xie Zhaozhou couldn’t help chuckling softly.
He lowered his eyes to kiss Ning Shixue’s lips.
Only then did Ning Shixue turn his head away.

Ning Shixue’s eyelashes fluttered.
He dodged him, his face red.
Thinking about what Xie Zhaozhou had just done, he really didn’t want to kiss him.

But Xie Zhaozhou blocked him and wouldn’t let him leave.
He silently looked down at him.
Ning Shixue’s conscience twinged.
He felt like some kind of scumbag.

Ning Shixue had no choice but to look up and kiss him.
His lips were still wet.
The base of his tongue was numb from sucking.
His whole body trembling, he looked up and met Xie Zhaozhou’s eyes, deep as the sea.

He was forced to drift in the deep sea.
Xie Zhaozhou’s eyes held only his reflection.
The light kept flickering.
His feet felt a little weak.
But he couldn’t help moving closer to Xie Zhaozhou.

It was hard not to suspect that the great antagonist was deliberately seducing him.

But after the kiss, Xie Zhaozhou still hadn’t left.

Ning Shixue went to bed, wrapping himself tightly in the blanket.
Xie Zhaozhou also lay down beside him.
He reached out and hugged him over the blanket.

“…Second Brother, are you sleeping here tonight?”
Ning Shixue hesitated for a moment, then looked up and asked quietly.

Xie Zhaozhou held him tightly.
The tip of his nose was buried in the warmth of Ning Shixue’s neck.
His arm was firmly around Ning Shixue’s waist.
His voice was low and hoarse.
“Don’t you want me to?”

It wasn’t that he didn’t want him to.

Besides, it wasn’t like Xie Zhaozhou was really being kept by him.
Making him leave after that would be too much, right?

Ning Shixue struggled a bit in his arms.
He reached out, pulled the blanket open, and wrapped Xie Zhaozhou in it too.
He closed his eyes and burrowed into Xie Zhaozhou’s arms, hugging his waist.

Xie Zhaozhou was stunned for a moment.
His dark eyes couldn’t help curving slightly.
He lowered his head and kissed the tip of his pale, red ear.

Ning Shixue wasn’t asleep yet.
He asked quietly,
“You don’t have evidence. What are you going to do?”

Now, it at most proved that Jiang Zhan and Jiang Xin did know Li Yuan.
But that was it.
It proved nothing.

In these three years, they hadn’t exchanged any messages.
They must have arranged their meeting places and times in person.
Jiang Zhan and Jiang Xin had started a company.
Their assets were over a hundred million.
But Li Yuan had never taken a single cent from them.
He lived a very frugal life.

And to make himself inconspicuous enough, he wouldn’t stay at the same company for too long.
He often changed jobs.

Ning Shixue thought this was to completely distance Jiang Zhan and Jiang Xin.
Even if things went wrong, they wouldn’t be suspected.
Or at least, they wouldn’t be caught.

If Xie Sui and Old Master Xie hadn’t died in the car accident, Li Yuan wouldn’t have died for nothing.
Jiang Zhan and Jiang Xin could have continued their revenge.

They were unbreakable accomplices.
Jiang Zhan and Jiang Xin had already achieved success in their careers.
But they still hadn’t given up on their pact with Li Yuan.

When Xie Zhaozhou was only three or four, they had already decided to commit the crime.
The police hadn’t found any clues for so many years.
How was Xie Zhaozhou supposed to deal with them now?

Ning Shixue was worried.

If they were pushed too hard and couldn’t find a chance to get to Xie’s father, would they target Xie Zhaozhou instead?

“It’s fine,”
Xie Zhaozhou said, holding him.
His palm stroked his thin back.
His knuckles traced his spine, with a mischievous air.
But his narrow, deep eyes looked at him gently.
He lowered his head and kissed his ear.
“I’ve been in contact with the police. They’re investigating too.”

Ning Shixue’s face was red.
His whole body trembled uncontrollably.
He kicked Xie Zhaozhou hard under the blanket.

But he hadn’t expected Xie Zhaozhou to cooperate with the police.
In the original story, Xie Zhaozhou was a lawless maniac.
Many people, including the original host, had died by his hands.

Even though Xie Zhaozhou hadn’t done anything in this life, hearing him mention the police made Ning Shixue inexplicably nervous.

He always felt like he was walking into a trap.

Ning Shixue sometimes found it all very absurd.

He had a weak moral sense himself.
He never expected to be worried about the great antagonist getting caught in this life.

Xie Zhaozhou seemed to know what he was thinking.
His eyes widened in surprise.
He chuckled.
“What else did you think I would do?”

Ning Shixue couldn’t answer.
He started pretending to be asleep.

He still felt something was off.
The plot he had interfered with had all been changed.
Like the main couple’s relationship.
Ji Qing’s first trial verdict had already been handed down.
Xie Hanzhou definitely wouldn’t wait for him to get out of prison and rekindle their old flame.

But the things he hadn’t interfered with, whether key plot points or minor details, had all remained unchanged.

Ning Shixue now hypothesized that the original plot could be changed.
But only if someone took the initiative to change it.

Otherwise, it would proceed according to the predetermined storyline.

In the original story, Xie Zhaozhou died without ever finding the murderer.
But now, there was suddenly a lead.

Could Xie Zhaozhou know something?

He had originally wanted to slack off.
He didn’t want to work hard in this life either.
So he hadn’t hidden anything.

But could he still guess the original plot?

Ning Shixue wanted to tell him, but he couldn’t help hesitating.
After all, he only knew a little bit.
He couldn’t help much.
Besides, not everyone could accept that their life was just a novel.

“If you’re not asleep yet,”
Xie Zhaozhou said, his gaze deep as he looked at him.
“What are you thinking?”

Ning Shixue’s beautiful peach blossom eyes looked up.
The tip of his nose and everything below was still buried in the blanket.
His voice was muffled as he muttered,
“Do you have any secrets from me?”

They looked at each other.
With just one glance, they almost knew what the other was thinking.
Ning Shixue’s heart was in turmoil.

“Not as many as you,”
Xie Zhaozhou said, seeming to smile.
His voice was very low.
He completely pulled him into his arms.

Late at night, all was silent.

Ning Shixue didn’t speak again.
He slept soundly.

* * * *

The next day, Xie Zhaozhou first drove him to the set, then left.

Ning Shixue went to act.
He Miao had to go to kindergarten during the day.
And after Wen Yu took Xiaoyan’er and the others away, he worked odd jobs everywhere.
He could only see the children at night.

So He Lin temporarily scheduled the scenes with He Miao and the other children for the night.
During the day, Ning Shixue filmed Wen Yu doing various jobs.

This movie had many night scenes.
He Lin wanted to make it delicate.
He tried to film all the really important scenes at night.

Anyway, the stars in Yan City were also very beautiful.

“Teacher Ning,”
a crew member said, lifting a box to show him.
“See if this is heavy?”

Wen Yu, afraid of being found by his uncle and the others, initially worked at a small supermarket moving goods, paid per trip.
The production team wouldn’t make Ning Shixue actually move boxes that heavy.
But they still had some weight.

Ning Shixue went to try.
Actually, if he really tried to lift them, nothing was too heavy.
He was very strong.

His endurance just wasn’t good right now.

By evening, Ning Shixue’s face was pale again.
He held his stomach and ate slowly, swallowing slowly.
His stomach burned.
Opening his mouth would make him feel like vomiting.

But even if he wasn’t acting, and did nothing, it was still like this.

And being stuck on set every day, unable to lie down and slack off, Ning Shixue felt his physical condition had actually improved a bit.

At least he didn’t get palpitations from the slightest movement.

Ning Shixue stayed on set for a few days.
He came home very late every night.
Sometimes, if he couldn’t make it, he stayed at the production’s hotel.

The parenting show hadn’t completely stopped filming.
It was originally a slow-paced show about parenting.
After filming three stops in a row as vacations, the director now mainly filmed the guests’ daily lives.

The program team even went to Yan City University to film Yan Ting giving a lecture.

Tang Haohao sat in the audience, holding his younger sister.

Tonight, it was Ning Shixue’s turn.

He Lin agreed to let the director film on set.
But he couldn’t show the sets or anything that might leak the movie’s content.
As for Ning Shixue and He Miao’s makeup, he had already posted about it on his own Weibo, so it wasn’t a secret.

This movie would wrap up in at most two months and would be released soon.
He Lin hadn’t revealed what movie he was filming yet.
Posting the promotional photos could also be considered warming things up in advance.

But since live streaming had risks, He Lin only agreed to let the director record.
If they accidentally caught something, they could edit it out.

The parenting show director eagerly agreed.
Filming on set was the best option, of course.
What did he have to complain about?

That night, the old butler also brought Xie Yaoyao to find Ning Shixue.
When Ning Shixue saw the chubby kid, he couldn’t help being stunned.

Xie Yaoyao let go of the butler grandpa’s hand and pattered over.
He hugged Ning Shixue’s leg, pressing his chubby face against it.
He was so aggrieved he could melt.

He felt like he hadn’t seen the baby in years,
even though he and Ning Shixue often video-called.

“Huh?”
He Lin was also surprised.
He pinched Xie Yaoyao’s cheek.
“He looks thinner.”

The old butler couldn’t help sighing.

Xie Yaoyao and Ning Shixue had spent over a month on the show together.
He had gotten used to eating with Ning Shixue every day.
With Ning Shixue gone, no one was competing with him for little fried meatballs.
Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King had suddenly lost his appetite.

He didn’t really want to eat at kindergarten either.
And he was picky to begin with.
In just a few days, he had lost weight.

But the soft flesh on his cheeks was still there.
The soft dimples on his chubby little hands were also there.
Overall, he just looked a size smaller.

Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King was so aggrieved.
Tears uncontrollably streamed down his face.
He didn’t want to lose weight now, but he had suddenly gotten thinner.
His soft, chubby cheeks didn’t seem as pinchable as before.
Without his soft cheeks, how could the baby kiss him?

It was all the little fat bear’s fault.
Their kindergarten had new little fat bear bowls, and then the food didn’t taste good anymore.

“Why aren’t you eating?”
Ning Shixue asked, picking up the chubby kid.

Xie Yaoyao’s soft, white cheeks puffed up like a little bun.
He lay on Ning Shixue’s chest.
His whole little being was listless.
The soft hair on his head was flat.

He aggrievedly tattled to the baby, even raising his little hand to gesture.
“Baby, there’s bad little bear!”

The little fat bear must have sucked all the flavor out of the food, making Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King lose his appetite.

Ning Shixue had no idea what little bear he was talking about.
He carried Xie Yaoyao over and sat down on his little stool.

He Lin was very generous with the production.
The treatment for the crew was very good.

The food for the whole crew was also very good.

Ning Shixue hadn’t finished his dinner yet.
He gave Xie Yaoyao a little chicken drumstick.
Xie Yaoyao stood next to Ning Shixue’s leg and gnawed on it.
His flat little hair perked up again.
His eyes sparkled.

Wuwuwu.

Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King almost cried from happiness.
He hadn’t eaten such a delicious little drumstick in a long time.

He was even reluctant to let anyone see it.
He turned around and ate it secretly.
This little drumstick was given to him by the baby.
It was completely different from other little drumsticks.

The old butler was finally relieved.

Ning Shixue wasn’t in good health, and acting was this tiring.
He hadn’t wanted to tell him at first.
But if Xie Yaoyao kept not eating, he would have to tell Ning Shixue in the end.

After Xie Yaoyao finished the drumstick, he fluttered over to Ning Shixue like a little butterfly.

Baby checking in!

Did the baby eat well?

Ning Shixue had a good appetite.
Even though his stomach was bad and he often threw up after eating, his bowl was always clean.

Xie Yaoyao the Great Demon King nodded satisfactorily.
He grabbed Ning Shixue and made him bend down.

Ning Shixue didn’t know why, but he still bent down.

Xie Yaoyao trotted on his short legs, huffing as he took his little backpack from the old butler.
Then he crouched next to Ning Shixue and unzipped it.
The backpack was stuffed full.

Ning Shixue had thought it was heavy earlier.

Xie Yaoyao used so much effort his cheeks puffed out.
When he brought out his chubby little hand, it was full of little red flower stickers.

In their kindergarten, if you ate well, slept well, or did well on tests, the teacher would give you little red flower stickers.
Then they would put them on the classroom wall next to your name.

The baby had also been acting obediently.
He couldn’t even come home.
But no one gave the baby little red flower stickers.

He decided to give all his little red flowers to the baby.
He hadn’t let the teacher put a single one on the wall.

Ning Shixue had already crouched down.

Xie Yaoyao raised his soft little hand and stuck a little red flower on his face.
His eyes sparkled as he said,
“This little red flower, only the most obedient baby can have.”