Chapter 97- Best Little Child in the World (3)
The silence in the hall did not last long.
Soon, in a sea of laughter, Qin Ke was invited into the reception room located on the left side of the hall.
He lowered his head, his eyes wandered on the carpet pattern for a long time, and finally landed on the face of the child who still hugged him tightly and wouldn’t let go.
Song Yunran: “Hey.”
……Hey your ghost.
Qin Ke couldn’t figure out which part of the process had gone wrong, causing Song Yunran to misunderstand that he was a kidnapper.
Or maybe it was wrong from the beginning.
He should have strongly supported President Xiao Song to purchase the forgiveness green sports car.
As long as I resolutely avoid that car after buying it, then I won’t be the one who gets embarrassed by getting in it.
Some thoughts of self-destruction made Qin Ke’s thinking on the verge of collapse even more fragmented.
The heating in the reception room was on full blast.
Song Yunran did not take long to get hot, he had to let go of Qin Ke temporarily, clumsily take off the down jacket, and then quickly stick again, as if the two were a pair of Siamese twins from birth.
After revealing the thin white sweater inside, the five-year-old version of Song Yunran looks more like a soft bun, he pressed his face against Qin Ke’s arm, asked: “My mom must have gone to get money, you will soon be able to eat a big bone, happy?”
Qin Ke’s heart is numb: “Happy enough I want to die.”
“…… don’t die.”
Song Yunran patted his hand, imitating the tone of adults to comfort, ” Living is better than anything else.”
I don’t think so.
Qin Ke answered him in his mind.
Song Yunran continued, “I don’t know how much mom will give you. You should not spend the money you get, buy a big bone and save it …… right, and then change to a smaller car, now the car is very big, but it is too crowded.”
Qin Ke looked at his hairy head, did not hold back, and pulled a hand.
“What are you doing?” Song Yunran stared wide-eyed, “Are you not convinced?”
Qin Ke inclined his face, “What if I say yes?”
“???”
Song Yunran sighed and said in a childish voice, “Brother, be a good person in the future.”
The secretary who just came in to deliver the drinks was already laughing.
Qin Ke looked at her and said, “I don’t even want to be a human being now.”
“You want to be a dog?!” Song Yunran suddenly excited.
Qin Ke: “……”
He took a deep breath, and with muscle memory, he naturally brought over a glass of milk and handed it to Song Yunran then asked, “You think I’m a bad guy, so why are you still helping me ask for money?”
Song Yunran said, “Because I like you.”
He took two sips of milk to hide his shyness and said slowly, “You don’t have to be a bad person when you have money. Let’s try to be good kids together.”
……
There is a hint of being touched after the absurdity.
Qin Ke nodded his head and wanted to say something else, but then he saw Bai Wanning breezing in again, followed by a flustered Song Jidong.
“Baby!”
Song Jidong rushed over, his voice choked as if Song Yunran had disappeared for a whole day.
Bai Wanning was still young at this moment, her powers were far less impressive than Bai Dong twenty years later, she looked at her speechless husband and inexplicable son, and directly rolled her eyes.
“You take the child out first.” She said, “Leave the rest to me.”
Song Yunran took one step and turned back three times, but was eventually taken away by his father.
Bai Wanning ordered her secretary to leave again, and only sat down and smiled when only the two of them were left in the reception room, “You just said that your name is Qin Ke, right?”
“Uh-huh.”
Bai Wanning was rarely a little stuck, rubbing her eyebrows and said, “…… I’m really sorry about today. Ran Ran he has no malice, he is just a little …… bit different from the normal.”
Qin Ke suspected that what Bai Wanning really wanted to say was “a little stupid”, but he still did not move and nodded: “It’s okay, auntie.”
Bai Wanning was originally worried that the helpful Qin Ke would start bawling because he had been wronged in public.
But it seems that the child’s psychological quality is good.
Don’t know how the parents raised him, but he’s not much older than Song Yunran.
Bai Wanning pondered for a moment and said, “Auntie and Uncle still have things to do today, can I invite you and your mom and dad to dinner some other day?”
In the meantime, she wanted to ask for some parenting tips, she thought in her mind.
Qin Ke shook his head, “I’m afraid I won’t have time as my mom and I will be leaving Yan city the day after tomorrow.”
Bai Wanning felt an unprecedented loss.
She looked at Qin Ke regretfully, as if what she was about to let go was not a small child, but a good opportunity to raise Song Yunran’s IQ.
At the end of the day, she could only stifle her tears and say, “Then take my car and go back.”
The small Song Yunran still does not know, he and the elementary school student brother’s separation has been close at hand.
After getting into the car, he sat next to Qin Ke and asked softly, “Brother, will you still come play with me tomorrow?”
Qin Ke opened his mouth with some hesitation, but still said, “I have something to do tomorrow, I can’t come.”
“What about the day after tomorrow?”
“…… The day after tomorrow I’m leaving to go somewhere far away.”
Song Yunran “Oh” a sound, did not take it seriously: “You’re going to travel, when will you come back?”
“A long time from now.”
Qin Ke touched his head, “When you grow up, I’ll be back.”
?
When he opened his eyes again, Qin Ke saw the familiar ceiling.
Daylight passed through the blinds, casting a soft light that gradually shone into his pupils, causing him to produce a moment of daze.
It was a cold snort from beside him that brought his consciousness back.
Qin Ke turned his head and met Song Yunran’s angry face.
It was no longer the soft little face of the five-year-old, but a more clearly defined face of the domineering President.
He couldn’t tell if this was reality or a dream, and instinctively reached out to pinch it, only to be hit on the back of his hand by the other party with a “slap” in the next second.
“Don’t touch me!” Song Yunran was furious, “Take your dirty hands away!”
Qin Ke: “……”
It was quite real, so he was dreaming before?
Song Yunran didn’t know what he was angry about. He sat up and said with his black hair in a bird’s nest: “Dad is going out to find a new son to inherit the family property.”
“???”
Qin Ke sat up slowly, leaned on the bed and thought about it, and said, “Actually, the color of that car, it wasn’t bad.”
“It would have been good looking! …… No, that’s not the point!”
Song Yunran glared at him, “I kind of found out, you’ve never been cute since you were a kid, and all you know how to do is make dad angry all day long.”
Qin Ke keenly captured a certain keyword, “Since childhood?”
He just woke up, his voice still has a low, lazy strength, sounding extraordinarily deep and meaningful, “Did you dream about me last night too?”
“I don’t want to talk to you right now.”
Song Yunran was in anger mode, and did not realize the meaning of the word “also”, but directly rolled out of bed and ran to the bathroom to wash up.
As a result, within a few minutes, he could not hold back and ran out to tell the story of the dream with a strong sense of immersion.
Like Qin Ke who was “reborn” into his childhood, Song Yunran also returned to the five-year-old child.
He first took care of the perverted nanny who loved to tell ghost stories, and then urged the driver to drive to the home where Qin Ke lived as a child, and found Qin Ke, who was packing up his luggage and preparing to move.
At that time, there was only one last day left before Qin Ke left Yan City.
In Song Yunran’s plan, he could seize the time and utilize the money to make poor little Qin Ke experience fatherly love from his peers in 24 hours.
Who knows that when he relied on the small short legs of a five-year-old toddler, he struggled to climb up to the top floor without an elevator and knocked on the door of Qin Ke’s house ……
“I don’t recognize you.”
Qin Ke threw out an emotionless reply from the doorway and then indifferently closed the door.
Didn’t even show his straight face.
At first glance, he was the little kid who had taken child safety knowledge to heart.
“Pissed me off! Do you know how hard it is to climb that building of yours?”
The adult version of Xiao Song complained seriously, “You didn’t even open the door without safety and left a security chain in the middle. What’s the matter, is it my magnificent five-year-old stature that scares you?”
Qin Ke was silent for a moment.
\It did seem like something he would have done as a child.
“And that’s not all.” Song Yunran continued, “I managed to wait for Aunt Qin to come back and told her that I was your good friend and wanted to take you to the playground to play”
Qin Ke raised his eyebrows, “My mom believed it?”
Song Yunran raised the corners of his mouth triumphantly, “You don’t know, do you, I was particularly cute when I was a kid, and I could get around anywhere unhindered just with my face.”
Immediately after, his smile stagnated, “Originally, I was all set to enter the living room, but I couldn’t imagine you telling Auntie Qin, ‘This kid is weird, maybe there’s some kind of conspiracy, it’s better to kick him out’.”
“……”
Qin Ke stifled his laughter and began to sympathize with his boyfriend.
In comparison, his social death in the halls of Ningdong Group didn’t seem so tragic.
Song Yunran looked at him, “Are you secretly laughing?”
“Uh-huh.”
“I’m warning you not to be too arrogant, beware that dad will clean house today.” Song Yunran frowned.
Qin Ke laughed softly, opened the door and went to the bar on the second floor to bring a glass of water in, coaxing the child, “Don’t be angry first, drink a glass of water and then talk slowly.”
Song Yunran drank most of the glass of water, quenching his long-standing thirst.
When he put down the glass, his tone calmed down a bit, “Anyway, after my tireless efforts, in the end you still didn’t kick me out.”
“It must be because you’re too cute,” Qin Ke said, “I couldn’t bear it.”
Song Yunran sneered: “So you have the heart to command me and help you pack your luggage?”
“……”
However the most irritating thing was not that.
Song Yunran, who was only five years old, held the idea of “forget it, don’t bother with children”, and after enduring the humiliation of helping out, he considered that Qin Ke’s next few years would be very difficult, in order to avoid his son’s growth in the process of deviation, he decided to pre-dramatize the relevant information about the future, so that Qin Ke could build up the courage to overcome the difficulties.
He quietly instructed Qin Ke, “To tell you the truth, I have seen your future.”
Little Qin Ke raised a cold brow, “Really?”
“Uh-huh, you’ll become a big star in the future!”
Song Yunran clenched his fists and said in a childish tone of encouragement, “Isn’t that great? So don’t be sad, you must be strong, when you grow up, everything will be fine!”
The pretentious tone made Song Yunran himself a bit unable to continue.
But Qin Ke did not have a fluctuation on his face, but stared at him for a while, and found a book from the packed carton: “For you.”
Song Yunran took it and looked at it, the colorful cover was clearly printed with a line of the book’s title – My Wonderful Fantasy.
“???” He looked up, “What does this mean?”
Six-year-old Qin Ke’s tone was sincere, “This is a popular science book to help children distinguish between reality and delusion. Take it home and look at it more, it’s worrisome when you’re like this.”
Not very helpful, extremely insulting.
At this moment, Xiao Song, whose fists had hardened at the mention of this matter, sadly stated, “You must apologize to me.”
Qin Ke leaned against the wall and whispered, “Apologize?”
“There is no sincerity at all.” Song Yunran was very dissatisfied, “You have no idea what a cute little kid you’ve hurt.”
Qin Ke said, “Of course I know.”
Song Yunran didn’t take it seriously, “Don’t lie to dad there, you can’t imagine how cute I am.”
“That’s right.”
Qin Ke lowered his eyes and kissed his cheek, “I indeed can’t imagine how someone could grow up wanting to be a dog.”
The airy tone of voice contrasted sharply with the weighty statement, directly causing Song Yunran to freeze on the spot.
He froze and turned his face sideways, not knowing for a moment whether he should be ashamed of his ridiculous childhood wish or be surprised by the way the secret leaked out.
After half a minute of silence, he came to a realization, “Could it be that you had a dream as well?”
Qin Ke smiled and nodded his head.
They had extremely similar dreams on the same day.
In the dream, they saw each other as children.
But the difference was ……
Compared to the ending where Song Yunran breathlessly brought a children’s book home, the ending on Qin Ke’s side was much more cozy.
When the vehicle stopped under Qin Ke’s house, five-year-old Song Yunran finally understood that his brother, whom he had just known for a few hours, would soon be parted from him and would not be able to see him until a long, long time later.
“You don’t go, okay?”
He pulled Qin Ke and said with tears in his eyes, “I’ll become a dog when I grow up, and you definitely won’t recognize me.”
“No.” Qin Ke comforted him, “You are different from others, I can recognize you at a glance.”
Song Yunran was half-convinced, “What’s different?”
The dusky streetlight shone down obliquely, gently caging the two small figures.
Qin Ke gazed into his clear eyes and said the words he had been wanting to say for a long time.
“Because you are the best little child in the world.”
Author’s Note: Say goodbye to President Xiao Song!
T/N: Hey, I’m sorry for delaying this chapter for so long but my poor memory made me think that I already finished uploading this novel😅. But yeah the novel comes to an end with this chapter🥲🥲. I know there are a few more extras on jjwxc but unfortunately I wasn’t able to find the raws for those chapters, so if possible I’ll upload them later. Translating this novel had been one of the most hilarious experience to me and President Xiao Song had been a great company😂❤️.
Bye bye for now and do check out my other translation “Dramatic Fake Young Master Holds the Group’s Favorite Script“. It’s equally funny and cute as this one.
Thank you for reading!!
My first language isn’t English, and there may be some grammatical errors. But I try not to deviate from the author’s narrative. If there are any errors or nonsensical sentences, feel free to comment.
