Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
Chapter 358: After Snatching Their Mother, Snatching Their Brother

Chapter 358: Chapter 358: After Snatching Their Mother, Snatching Their Brother

"Mommy, Big Brother is bad."

"Mommy, Little Sister is being unreasonable."

After questioning for a while, neither child would reveal the reason.

Ji Ze and Lu Nuonuo each clung to one of Lu Xining’s hands, unwilling to let go, both with faces full of dislike for the other holding Mommy’s hand, huffing and puffing.

"She’s my mommy!"

"Nuonuo’s!"

"Big Brother, you’re my big brother too, we look alike."

"Nuonuo’s!"

The two finished fighting over Mommy and started to fight over Big Brother.

"Little Brother, Little Sister, stop arguing," Ji Chao, caught in the middle and feeling troubled, could only continue to seek Lu Xining’s help.

One in each hand!

Lu Xining took the two children to the sofa to sit down, and sat across from them with a stern face, asking, "Speak properly, why are you fighting?"

The two children glanced at each other, huffed, and turned their faces away, each looking in a different direction.

In the end, it was Ji Chao who had to step forward helplessly and explain the entire situation.

"Mommy, we were drawing a family portrait just now. Little Sister drew four people, and Little Brother said he wanted to add Daddy, but Little Sister didn’t want to."

In Ji Ze’s view, even if Daddy and Mommy were not together anymore, they should still be a family of five. He had already given up hope of Daddy and Mommy getting back together, so why couldn’t Little Sister include Daddy in the drawing?

Yet Little Dumpling, for some reason, was completely unwilling this time, even though she was happily calling him "Uncle" the last time they met.

Ji Ze found it incomprehensible and felt sorry for Daddy.

Upon hearing Ji Chao’s explanation, he immediately took over the conversation, unhappily saying, "Nuonuo says that Daddy is Big Brother’s and my daddy, not hers. But Mommy, you said too, Daddy is the daddy of all three of us; we are full siblings."

"Nuonuo doesn’t acknowledge that, and I’m very unhappy."

He hung his head low, looking at his own hands, his voice filled with a sense of loss.

Compared to Ji Chao’s initial understanding and support, Ji Ze has always been the person, apart from Ji Muye, who most desired for the family of five to be together.

Lu Xining also noticed the drawings on the small table not far away. Ji Chao and Ji Ze’s drawings featured five people holding hands, but only Little Dumpling’s drawing had four people.

"Xiao Ze, this matter..."

Lu Nuonuo’s cheeks puffed up like a little blowfish, she turned her head towards Lu Xining and said, "Not adding, not adding, Nuonuo won’t add."

With that, she ran back to the bedroom.

She took off her shoes and quickly burrowed into the bed covers, buried her little head in the pillow, sticking out her bottom, and started wailing and crying.

"Little Sister!" Ji Chao hurried in after her.

Lu Xining consoled her youngest son outside, and with a long sigh, began chatting with him, recalling his previously sensitive emotional phases.

Inside the room, Lu Nuonuo was still wailing and crying.

Ji Chao closed the door to the room, patted the comforter, and asked in a lowered voice with concern, "Nuonuo, Mommy didn’t come in, please stop crying."

Lu Nuonuo carefully poked her small head out from the covers; her face had no tears, but was red from being buried in the comforter.

She sneaked a peek at the direction of the door, making sure that Lu Xining hadn’t come in, before sitting up and fixing her messy hair.

"Big Brother, did Nuonuo act convincingly?"

"You... weren’t crying?" Ji Chao, suddenly realizing what was happening, saw through his little brother and sister’s act.

Ji Chao asked, "Did you and Xiao Ze plan this on purpose?"

Little Dumpling shook her head, then nodded, grabbing Ji Chao’s hand and said, "Big Brother, I don’t like Stepdad anymore!"

Ji Chao puzzled, "Why not?"

Thinking about Stepdad being affectionate with other ladies, Lu Nuonuo pursed her lips tightly, muttering, "Just don’t like him anymore."

She raised her head to look at Ji Chao and asked, "Big Brother, haven’t you said yet, was Nuonuo’s crying convincing just now?"

Ji Chao hesitated and then said, "It was convincing, but Nuonuo, ’ao wu ao wu’ is the sound wolves make, that’s not how people cry."

"Huh?" That’s not how you cry?The perplexed Little Dumpling, rubbing his tousled hair, was so adorably clueless that Ji Chao couldn’t help but laugh.

Outside, Ji Ze, hearing the pretend howls and sobs coming from inside the room, nearly burst out laughing.

...Is sister pretending to be a little wolf cub crying?

He quickly looked down, feigning distress, thinking mom hasn’t noticed his emotional switch, and continued to act upset.

Little did he know, Lu Xining saw through it all.

Just now, she really thought the siblings were truly upset about something.

If she hadn’t seen Lu Nuonuo winking slyly at Ji Ze before running back into the room, she would have been completely fooled.

Since her sons arrived, Lu Xining no longer rested in the office nap room but moved to the researchers’ apartment.

In a similar two-bedroom, one room was set up with two children’s beds for Ji Chao and Ji Ze, and the other was hers and her daughter’s.

The door of the master bedroom was slowly opened by a little hand.

Lu Nuonuo cautiously opened the door to peep at her older brother’s performance, but saw Lu Xining turning around just in time, so she quickly slammed the door shut, frightening Ji Chao, who immediately checked her hand.

"Sister, did you hurt your hand?"

"No, no." Little Dumpling quickly waved her hands.

She paced back and forth with a troubled face, wondering if her second brother, the drama king, could successfully complete the mission.

"Brother, do you think older brother can get mom to agree to go to Beicheng?"

"So this act was all to go to Beicheng?"

Lu Nuonuo nodded, telling him there was a grandpa like the Big Bad Wolf in Beicheng, and she wanted to protect mom.

Ji Chao immediately remembered the black car he and his brother had seen near the kindergarten gate after school, with an elderly man inside looking at them – could it be that grandpa?

"Then I’ll protect mom too!"

Both pressed their ears to the door, trying to eavesdrop but couldn’t hear anything.

A long while passed.

Lu Xining came over and knocked on the door, saying, "Xiao Chao, Nuonuo, mom’s coming in."

Lu Nuonuo yelped and quickly dove back into bed, her fluffy slippers nearly flying off her feet.

"Mom, sister has fallen asleep."

Lu Xining saw the bulge in the bed that was her daughter, didn’t expose the children’s ploy, and nodded, "Okay, Xiao Chao go back to sleep too, your brother is already back in his room resting."

"Okay, goodnight mom."

Lu Xining kissed his forehead, "Goodnight."

Ji Chao carries himself with a gentlemanly, distinguished air; he is unhurried in both actions and speech.

He glanced at his sister in the bed, shook his head, and left, feeling that mom probably knew about sister and brother’s scheme.

Lu Xining pulled the blanket aside to see her daughter’s face red from holding her breath, smiling helplessly, and hurriedly pulled her out, gently patting her back, "If you’re going to dive under the covers, at least remember to breathe, okay?"

Little Dumpling took a deep breath immediately, but kept her eyes firmly shut, murmuring, "Mommy, Nuonuo is asleep, awooo."

Lu Xining: "..."

She began to worry that her daughter might be easily deceived by boys in the future.

In the silence of the deep night, Lu Nuonuo secretly opened her eyes, saw her mom asleep beside her, and carefully crawled from under the covers to the foot of the bed, her eyes brightened when she saw the neatly arranged slippers her brother had left on the carpet.

LIttle Dumpling, hugging her candy jar, sneaked off to the adjacent children’s room.

After she left, Lu Xining opened her eyes.

She slowly got up and followed next door, where she heard her daughter comforting Ji Ze, "Brother, did I hurt your hand just now? Nuonuo huffs and puffs, no hurt no hurt, here’s a jar of candy all for brother."

"Sister, mom agreed to take us to Beicheng."

"Wow, yay!"

After a brief celebration, Little Dumpling quietly crawled back into the master bedroom.

She kissed the sleeping Lu Xining and whispered, "Mommy, Nuonuo wuvs you."