Chapter 36: Chapter 36: Woman, You’ve Provoked Me! I’m Going to Have My Dad Blacklist You
Outside the log cabin.
The woman looked uneasily at the little boy in a suit beside her. "Zimo, it’s getting dark. Why don’t we check out the other log cabin first?"
Yu Zimo crossed his arms, his expression cold. "I said I want this one. Don’t you get it? Did growing up in the countryside make you an idiot?"
Yu Xiaowei’s expression froze for a moment before she looked at him with that same troubled expression, but a flash of unconcealable disgust crossed her eyes.
"Zimo, this show has rules... We can’t just do this..."
"I *am* the rules!" Yu Zimo pointed toward the log cabin, ordering Yu Xiaowei, "Right now! Immediately! Make the people inside get out!"
"Or else I’ll tell Dad you’re bullying me! I’ll get him to kick you out of our house!"
Yu Xiaowei’s face fell completely. Her nails dug deep into her palms, the only thing stopping her from blurting out, ’Your house? This was supposed to be my house too.’
’I can’t. I can’t afford to offend them. At least, not right now.’
Yu Xiaowei fought to suppress her dissatisfaction and anger.
She had begged her father to let her work in the entertainment industry and had fought so hard to get on this show. She couldn’t let all that effort go to waste.
Thinking of her so-called "biological parents" made her heart go cold. They had sought her out, only to constantly show their disdain for her. Meanwhile, they kept the "fake daughter" around, and the entire family doted on her endlessly.
Even this selfish little brother of hers was willing to be the fake daughter’s lapdog, acting completely obedient around her.
They were the ones who insisted on finding her, yet they refused to treat her well after she came back.
’I’m starting to feel like I’m living in a novel, and I’m the tragic, ’real daughter’ cannon fodder.’
"Alright, I’ll go try... see if I can talk to them." Yu Xiaowei sighed, looking exhausted.
[Oh my god! What is wrong with this kid?! My heart aches for my Weiwei. A month ago she said she’d found her birth parents and I was so happy for her... how did she end up with trash like this?!]
[You can see the exhaustion in Weiwei’s eyes... Finding her birth parents only made her life harder. This is just tragic.]
[Let me introduce you all to our Weiwei! She’s a wonderful girl. Her adoptive parents passed away when she was seventeen, so she dropped out of school at eighteen. She worked her way up from a waitress to a moderately well-known actress. Since she doesn’t have formal training, she always has to squeeze in time to study acting. She never phones in a performance for any role. Please come and support her!]
[You’ve got to be kidding me. Of all the rooms to try and steal, he had to pick Gu Zhao’s? Is this little brat trying to pick a fight with the toughest person here?]
[To all the Yu Xiaowei fans, don’t worry. Our Monkey King will teach this kid a lesson.]
With heavy steps, Yu Xiaowei walked to the door. Just as she raised her hand to knock, it swung open.
"Ah!" The door opened to reveal a gorilla’s face, and Yu Xiaowei couldn’t help but cry out in shock.
"What are you screaming about! You can’t even do this one simple thing right! You’re so much worse than my Sister Qiqi." Yu Zimo’s voice dripped with disdain as he stepped forward.
Then he saw the gorilla, which was looking at him with a puzzled expression.
The gorilla found these screaming humans truly baffling.
’They’re going to wake the little one.’
"Hoo, hoo," the gorilla grunted gently at them.
’You’re disturbing my little one.’
"So filthy! How can they keep a gorilla in the house?" Yu Zimo’s face twisted in disgust. "So tasteless."
"Hurry up and kick them all out. Then disinfect the place."
Yu Xiaowei stood rooted to the spot, her face a mask of embarrassment.
The gorilla understood. Its expression darkened.
It reached out and shoved him.
’Just because I’m not roaring doesn’t mean you can treat me like trash!’
"AHH!" Yu Zimo tumbled to the ground and immediately burst into tears. He screamed at Yu Xiaowei while crying, "Yu Xiaowei! Are you dead?! You just stood there and watched me get pushed by a beast! I’m telling Dad! I’ll have him kick you out! This is all your fault! If you hadn’t insisted on coming to this godforsaken place, I wouldn’t be suffering like this!"
Forcing down her anger, Yu Xiaowei rushed to help him up, her face a picture of concern. "Zimo, are you okay? Does it hurt? Quick, let me see if you’re scraped anywhere..."
She silently cursed. ’If this wasn’t being live-streamed for Mom and Dad to see, I wouldn’t bother coddling him.’
"Go kill it for me!" Yu Zimo was livid. He had never been so humiliated in his life.
Yu Xiaowei’s worried expression was about to crumble. ’This fucking brat!’
Just when she thought she couldn’t take it anymore, a voice like the music of the heavens came to her rescue.
"If your mouth is that bored, go lick a toilet. Stop running that shit-eating mouth of yours. Anyone who didn’t know better would think my toilet broke and is leaking. The stink is unbearable." Gu Zhao got out of bed in a foul mood.
When she got up, she didn’t see Gu Xu in the room. He must have left at some point.
She walked to the door and looked at the babbling brat. She felt an urge to hand him over to a dung beetle to be rolled into a ball of crap.
"You! Do you have any idea who I am?!" Yu Zimo’s little face was flushed red with rage.
Gu Zhao let out a leisurely yawn. "Nope. But when I get my phone back, I’ll try downloading a ’Turd Finder’ app. I wonder if something like that exists, and if it could identify what specific breed of crap you are."
Yu Xiaowei’s eyes lit up.
"You! What the hell are you?! How dare you talk to me like that! Are you just playing hard to get?!" He gritted his teeth so hard it seemed his molars would crack, his chest heaving. "Woman! You’ve messed with the wrong person! I’m going to have my dad blacklist you! And this damn gorilla, I’m going to make it pay!"
"And you!" Yu Zimo glared resentfully at Yu Xiaowei. "Were you just going to stand there like a corpse while she insulted me?!"
Yu Xiaowei shot Gu Zhao an apologetic look before she started trying to placate the little brat.
"Zimo, we’re live-streaming. Behaving like this will reflect badly on Dad. He’ll be angry." Yu Xiaowei’s expression was full of concern, looking every bit the part of a good daughter worried for her father.
"My dad would never get angry at me! He’ll only get angry at you! What’s the point of you if you can’t even take care of me?!"
After saying his piece, Yu Zimo shot a vicious glare at Gu Zhao.
"You just wait!"
Gu Zhao said, "Alas and alack, this little lady is laughing so hard my horse’s hooves are going ’clippity-clop’."
Yu Zimo’s expression faltered for a second. Then he spun around to leave. "Well? Lead the way!" he snapped at Yu Xiaowei.
Yu Xiaowei immediately led Yu Zimo to their log cabin.
Along the way, Yu Zimo frowned and asked irritably, "What was that ’alas and alack, clippity-clop’ thing she said? What did it mean?"
Yu Xiaowei struggled to stifle a laugh. "She probably meant that she was happy."
Yu Zimo snorted. "I’ll wipe that smile off her face sooner or later!"
Gu Zhao watched them leave, her expression perfectly calm.
"Little one, are you angry?" The gorilla sensed something was off with Gu Zhao’s mood.
"No. Go watch over Tuanzi while he sleeps. I’m stepping out for a bit." Gu Zhao patted the gorilla’s hand.
The gorilla returned to the room to watch over the giant panda, who was sleeping like a log.
Gu Zhao was, in fact, angry. ’It’s one thing to insult me,’ she thought, ’but he actually threatened the gorilla!’
Gu Zhao toddled over to a patch of flowers on her short little legs.
A few bees were buzzing among them.
Gu Zhao chatted with them for a moment before leaving with a satisfied smile.
The bees in the flower patch huddled together for a moment, then scattered.
Soon, each of them returned, leading a different swarm of flying insects.
Flies, mosquitoes, tiny moths, and even stink bugs.
「Meanwhile.」
Yu Zimo looked at the log cabin that had belonged to Tong Jianfeng with utter disdain.
"Why is there a bird here too?! What kind of bird is this? It looks cheap!"
The parrot tilted its head. "Moron’s here! Moron’s here!"