Chapter 956 Extra 29: Parenting Variety Show 7

After filming the two-day show, before ten in the evening, Cheng Zhirang hurried back home with Xixi.

Mu Qiu was curled up on the sofa watching TV, and upon hearing the door open, she immediately put on slippers to greet them at the door.

Xixi ran towards her with little steps, she struggled to lift the child up, and then lunged towards Cheng Zhirang.

Cheng Zhirang hugged both mother and daughter, took Xixi into his arms, and led her towards the living room.

“Did you have dinner?”

“Yes, we did. Xixi, are you hungry? Did you have dinner tonight?”

Xixi replied in her sweet, childish voice: “I had dinner! Mommy, did you miss me?”

“Of course Mommy missed you.”

As she spoke, she turned her head to give her a big kiss on her soft cheek.

Cheng Zhirang smiled and turned his head: “I want one too. Didn’t you miss me as well?”

Mu Qiu gave him a playful glance and tiptoed to give him a kiss on the cheek too.

Xixi immediately grinned, covering her eyes with her small hands, giggling delightfully.

The family of three walked upstairs with laughter, Mu Qiu wanted to ask more about the filming, but Cheng Zhirang didn’t say much, only telling her to watch the show when it airs.

Then patiently tidied up the luggage, helped the child with her bedtime routine, put her in the children’s room, and finally coaxed her into the master bedroom.

The bedroom door closed, hiding the subsequent movement of his arm around Mu Qiu’s waist completely.

The fourth episode of the parenting variety show “What to Do When Both Parents Are Away” sparked a huge online sensation as it began airing.

Cheng Zhirang, who declared he wouldn’t participate in variety shows anymore, appeared with his child on Li Yang and Guan Yu’s show, and promotional materials claimed the “Different Six” would be reuniting uniquely on the show.

This stirred the netizens into excitement, buzzing online even before the show aired. When it hit 8 pm, everyone rushed to the streaming platform.

Cheng Zhirang holding cute, lively little Xixi stepping out of the car, appearing on camera, instantly sent the comment sections into a frenzy.

[Brother Cheng!!! I feel like crying]

[How many years has it been, last time we saw him on a variety show, he was still a quality bachelor, now he has a kid old enough to buy soy sauce]

[Is this Xixi?! So adorable!!]

[Overall, she looks quite like Mu Qiu, but looking closely, the eyebrows, ears, and mouth resemble Brother Cheng]

[Brother Cheng, will you never age? Still looks the same, feels like it was just yesterday the Six closed the chapter]

[Aww, seeing him with Yangyang and Guan Yu standing together just stirred up all the nostalgia!]

[Yangyang is even babysitting now, time indeed has flown by]

[But Yang is still as funny as before when being teased, hahaha]

Mu Qiu was also watching the show.

Cheng Zhirang didn’t discuss many little details afterward, and Xixi couldn’t explain them clearly, so she waited eagerly to see the edited program.

She sat in the living room, snacking on an egg cake, holding a tablet watching the show, while Xixi sat beside her playing with dolls, and Cheng Zhirang sat on the other side reading a script—he can never seem to finish them.

When she saw Xixi set the bed and run out only to bump into three other kids and start bawling, she chuckled gleefully.

“Xixi’s the only one truly crying, the other three are just pretending.”

Xixi felt embarrassed, trying to use her doll to block the video from view.

Mu Qiu smiled and gently nudged it aside: “Nothing to be embarrassed about, Mommy has seen you cry before. Look, your dad rushed out in a panic and nearly tripped at the doorway.”

Cheng Zhirang glanced at the video upon hearing this, unable to recall if he actually tripped, thinking something happened to Xixi, and rushed out just to hold her.

When the part where the kids went out to buy groceries played, Mu Qiu’s laughter gradually faded away.

In the video, Xixi pointed at a big orange on a tree insistently claiming it belonged to her dad, insisting on buying it.

The childish talk was somewhat embarrassing.

Cheng Zhirang glanced at him with a smile, setting aside the script and said: “Didn’t you teach her that? Why are you embarrassed now?”

Mu Qiu: “…How was I to know that kind of talk would end up on the show? Xixi, remember not to talk about Mommy and Daddy’s matters with others, okay?”

Xixi nodded innocently: “Okay, Mommy.”

She breathed a sigh of relief and continued watching.

Reaching the most compelling part, Xixi got slapped by a fish’s tail, she couldn’t help but laugh again.

“Just hearing about it wasn’t enough, watching the video makes it seem really… Xixi sorry, Mommy won’t make fun of you again.”

After speaking, she couldn’t suppress the upward curve of her lips, falling into Cheng Zhirang’s embrace, laughing till her shoulders shook.

Cheng Zhirang held her, laughing along: “Be careful, Xixi might ignore you.”

Xixi already turned her head furiously, squeezing her toy pig.

Meanwhile, the top of the video screen was filled with comments like [Poor Xixi], and others reminiscing about the last episode’s twenty yuan fish [When’s the next link] and so on.

Finally, after crying for a while in the video, Xixi got the chance for the six person reunion, and when Cheng Zhirang, Li Yang, and Guan Yu stood in front of the camera, greeting Mu Qiu, Shi Yuhuai, and Shu Ran in the video, the comments exploded across the screen.

[Finally, wish fulfilled]

[My Brother Huai! Are you guys going on a group trip?! Will there be a vlog?]

[Tearing up, I’ve waited since I was in college until I got married]

[Mu Qiu, you’re already a mom and still blurt things out like that/ dog head]

[After all this time, them talking together still feels the same as before]

[Little Princess getting mad, hahaha, Brother Cheng’s helplessness is almost palpable off the screen]

[Brother Huai is such a straight guy, the only way to console a child is by buying dolls]

[In Brother Cheng’s education, never strays far from Mu Qiu]

[Ranking of the family status nailed]

[Is what Guan Yu said true? Was Brother Cheng depressed before birth???/ Black guy question mark.jpg]

[Remember that trending topic back then? #Cheng Zhirang’s Parenting Class#]

[Can you do another interview and talk about this period, please?]

[Xixi don’t cry, big sister will comfort you]

The barrage of comments reminiscing about past shows gradually turned Mu Qiu’s amusement into quiet reflection.

Listening to Cheng Zhirang’s voice in the video saying “Mom will be in pain” “Dad loves Mom and Xixi,” she felt a softening in her heart. Seeing Cheng Zhirang brush Xixi’s hair the next morning, with the guests and comments noting how he’s both mother and father, she glanced at him and laughed:

“They don’t know it was practicing on my hair that made you learn, a ten-star dad.”

Cheng Zhirang leaned down to kiss her forehead: “Should I thank you then?”

“…Not really necessary.”

Watching the leisurely-paced variety show put one in a relaxed mood, Mu Qiu leaned against Cheng Zhirang, looking at Xixi playing by her legs, she softly said: “So many people still remember ‘Different Variety Show’, will nostalgia really last that long?”

Cheng Zhirang gently stroked her hair, saying: “Some affections last a long time, combined with a bit of unfulfilled regret, it’s enough to sustain for a while. It might not seem that way initially, but once the same type of thing or person is mentioned, it brings back memories, and all they see is the shadow of that show. I think you wrote something similar in your book, wasn’t it called, Bai Yueguang?”

“Ah right, Bai Yueguang. But will we really be the Bai Yueguang for such shows in the future?”

Cheng Zhirang said slowly: “Perhaps.”