The Useless Stepmom Brings Her Kids to Reality TV Shows to Photograph Them - Chapter 124

124 Planning to Leave

As a public figure, every word and action of his family would have an impact on him. In the afternoon, Li Zexuan’s name had been mentioned in the hot search, too. Some were of the opinion that Li Zexuan had a good father figure while others said that his father focused too much on Lin Wan jeopardized the children’s future.

Although Li Zexuan had lacked the love and care of his parents, he had always been the center of attention in school. He didn’t know what it meant to be isolated and bullied. When he saw Lin Wan’s photos from school, cowering in a corner, he felt very sad. He couldn’t imagine how scared she must have felt. In some photos, her head was lowered. In others, her hands were raised trying to cover her face.

Lin Wan patted her stepson’s head. “This is a surprise. The aloof kid does know how to care for others.”

Li Zexuan looked at Lin Wan. “I am not a kid. It’s not only Mr. Li who can protect you. I can, too.”

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Lin Wan’s eyes hadn’t turned red when she attended the reunion that day. However, when she heard Li Zexuan’s words, she felt a lump in her throat.

Lin Wan turned away. “Are there roasted mushrooms today? I can smell them. I hope Li Yanchen does not burn them.”

Li Zexuan was perplexed. Xia Mo patted his shoulder. “She doesn’t say it but she knows and she is grateful.”

Lin Wan pretended to be nonchalant. She picked up a few broccolis and started roasting it herself. However, she did not move from there for a long time until she saw the smoke rising from the vegetable.

“Wanwan, the vegetables are burnt.” Li Yanchen reminded her softly.

Lin Wan snapped out of her daze and quickly turned around.

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Xu Xiaoxiao, who had been chased out of Jinlin Garden, moved back to her rented apartment.

When she saw Lin Wan’s news, her heart was even more twisted. ‘Why was Lin Wan able to clear her name and I have fallen into the abyss?’

The woman didn’t want to give up yet. She called Su Wei. He was afraid his mother would know that he hadn’t blocked Xu Xiaoxiao. He went into the bathroom to answer the phone.

Xu Xiaoxiao was out of breath from crying. Su Wei’s eyebrows furrowed, but there was nothing he could do.

Xu Xiaoxiao poured out the whole bottle of sleeping pills in despair and sent a picture to Su Wei. “I made a terrible mistake, and I’ll end myself in the same way.”

Su Wei worked in the media. Sometimes, when the click rate of an article was too low, the company would come up with all kinds of melodramatic scripts to hype up the views. He knew the trick, so he didn’t even bother to respond.

Xu Xiaoxiao held the sleeping pills in her hand and waited for Su Wei’s call for a long time. She sent the photo to her friend, Guan Xiaoli. Guan Xiaoli was so scared that she took a taxi to Xu Xiaoxiao’s apartment without even changing her clothes. After unlocking the door, she saw the woman sitting on the sofa holding the pills. Guan Xiaoli stopped Xu Xiaoxiao and the pills scattered all over the floor.

“Xu Xiaoxiao, are you crazy?” Guan Xiaoli had been ignoring Xu Xiaoxiao because of the incident of the sleeping pills. However, seeing that Xu Xiaoxiao had taken things too hard, Guan Xiaoli’s heart softened.

Xu Xiaoxiao hugged Guan Xiaoli and cried loudly. The woman only stopped when her voice was hoarse from crying. After that, Xu Xiaoxiao left Yun City.

The heat from the class reunion gradually dissipated. However, because this matter had been exposed, all the schools in Yun City launched a “school cleansing” campaign. Lin Wan realized that the original owner’s experience was not a lone phenomenon. This large-scale event caused the dark clouds in the sky to gradually disperse.

At the end of July, with the release of the Lan Shan Shui endorsement, Lin Wan’s popularity was almost on par with Li Zexuan’s. Many businesses even looked for the mother and son to endorse their products together, but Lin Wan rejected all of them.

To let those who had nowhere to settle their worries find a place to open their hearts, she started a “Night Talk” live broadcast. She would go online at eight every night and answer three people’s calls. They did not reveal their name and their location. They only told her their stories. Lin Wan would then comfort them. She also invited psychologists on the panel to console and comfort them. She became even more busy with everything.

The second episode of “We Are Also Very Ordinary” was about to start broadcasting. Ji Hanzhi, who had been very confident in snatching back Li Yanchen, realized that there was more and more positive news about Lin Wan.

His two daughters were playing in the living room.

Ji Hanzhi’s eyes were fixed on Li Yanchen in the photo album.”Yanchen, I will be there this time!” The woman muttered to herself.

She and Li Yanchen would have a lot of opportunities to interact with each other during the seven days of live streaming, and Ji Hanzhi was looking forward to it.

When he had signed the contract, Li Yanchen only knew of a few permanent families attending the show. He was still unaware that Ji Hanzhi would be attending.

On the last day of July, her stepsons came back from the summer camp. They were all covered in dirt and tanned from the sun. When Assistant Qin dropped off the three children, she almost didn’t recognize them.

Auntie Huang had prepared some old-fashioned green bean soup for them. Li Yanchen had gone to Country H for a business trip. When he called Lin Wan, he was in the departure hall, and he sounded very tired. He told her that he would be back by eleven at night. Lin Wan could hear the fatigue in his voice. “Is there an emergency? If not, just stay the night there and come back tomorrow.”

In the past, Li Yanchen could stay away from home for an entire month. But this summer, he had become especially homesick.

“We’ll board the plane in a while. If you’re tired, sleep first. Don’t wait for me.” Li Yanchen hoped that he could see her, but he didn’t want her to stay up all night.

“That’s alright. I’ll wait for you.”

When Li Zexin got out of the car. He held the medal in his hand and ran to the courtyard, shouting, “Ms. Lin! I am back!”

Li Zekai had also received a medal, but his legs were short, and he couldn’t outrun his brother. When he reached the living room, Lin Wan was already holding Li Zexin’s medal in her hands. “Well, this is surprising. Did you really do a good deed and received the medal?”

“Yes, I helped the instructor pack up every day.” Li Zexin raised his chin proudly.

“Auntie, I have one too.” Li Zekai raised the small blue medal in front of him.

“Self-improvement?”

“Yes, the instructor said I could only run 100 meters on the first day. On the last day, I could run 800 meters! And I was very fast!” Li Zekai was very proud of himself.

The last to arrive was Li Zexuan. He looked nonchalant, but he was also holding a medal in his hand.

“Everyone has one, what’s there to show off?” Li Zexuan said nonchalantly, but he moved the medal towards Lin Wan to show her. A blue medal with the words “Variety of Talents ” engraved on it was firmly placed in her palm.

“Wow. Very impressive, all of you.” Lin Wan took a photo of the three medals together.

After dinner, the three stepsons surrounded Lin Wan and talked non-stop about the summer camp. Lin Wan’s “Night Talk” still had to go online. At around Half past seven at night, she went to the broadcasting room she had set up. Her stepsons said that they would wait for her till she finished her broadcast.

Lin Wan logged off at tenant night. Every night, after her “Night Talk” she took a long while to collect herself. Of the three people, two had been students. They talked about the pressure from school and from their parents. One of the students told her that her father fulfilled no responsibility, and he was just there for decoration. Lin Wan thought of Li Yanchen.

For the first time, Lin Wan felt that she was a mother to her stepsons.