Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 288 It’s Her Overthinking!

Chapter 288: Chapter 288 It’s Her Overthinking!

Su Xi slid down, followed closely by Cheng Zheng.

Seeing the two little ones seated on the skateboard, Su Xi removed her goggles and squatted down before them, her smile tender and doting, "You two little guys, are you tired from playing yet?"

"No!" both little guys shook their heads in unison.

They didn’t feel tired at all; instead, they found it great fun.

Cheng Zheng frowned when he saw the stone in Song Yuchen’s hand and, speaking from a height, started to scold Cheng Jiaming, "Cheng Jiaming, why did you bring out another worthless rock?"

Then, Cheng Zheng squatted down in front of Song Yuchen and said with a smile, "Xiao Chen, don’t listen to Cheng Jiaming’s nonsense, this stone is useless."

He didn’t even have to think to know what Cheng Jiaming would have told Xiao Chen when giving him the stone.

This little rascal was just like Cheng Shaoqing when he was young, always liking to pick up worthless rocks.

Cheng Jiaming looked dissatisfied, wondering how could his dad say such things about him in front of Song Yuchen. Didn’t he care about his face at all!

Yuchen picked up the stone and looked at it against the sky, his baby voice seriously rebuking Cheng Zheng, "Uncle, Cheng Jiaming said there is jade inside this, it’s not a useless stone, and this jade can be sold for money, a lot and lots of money."

Cheng Jiaming was his good friend, and he believed Cheng Jiaming.

Cheng Zheng: ...

This little rascal, looking so adorable, yet when he speaks, he sounds just like his dad!

"Exactly, dad, you don’t understand. This is jade. I will definitely get rich by selling stones in the future, and I will be richer than you!" Cheng Jiaming, seeing that Song Yuchen really believed him, spoke with much more confidence now, his face full of pride and arrogance.

Su Xi glanced at Cheng Zheng, "Let the boy play with it, it’s not bothering you. Why do you have to say so much?"

Cheng Jiaming: Hehe, mom is speaking up for me too!

Cheng Zheng was nonchalant, "Dreaming of getting rich by fiddling with a worthless stone every day, does the Cheng family lack that little money? And..."

Cheng Jiaming, the little clever ghost, seeing his dad still going on, immediately pouts and throws himself into Su Xi’s arms to act spoiled, "Mommy~ I just fell down!"

His demeanor changed from the previous little money-grubber to a look of grievance on his tender little face.

He didn’t want to listen to his dad keep going on and on. This stone would definitely sell for money!

Song Yuchen: ...

How can a boy be so whiny?

Su Xi asked, "Where did you fall? Let mommy have a look?"

"Right here, and also my butt," Cheng Jiaming pointed at his elbow and then rubbed his little behind.

Cheng Zheng said disdainfully, "A true man, falling down while skiing is nothing serious!"

"Mommy! Daddy’s making fun of me again~" Cheng Jiaming’s little head buried itself into Su Xi’s embrace, ignoring Cheng Zheng completely.

Accustomed to this father and son bickering, Su Xi gently touched Cheng Jiaming’s cheek, "Alright, mommy knows my son got hurt from the fall, it will be alright soon. But you know, it is not good for a man to always tattletale!"

Hiding in Su Xi’s embrace, Cheng Jiaming stole a glance at Cheng Zheng, then snuggled up to Su Xi’s ear to whisper with grievance, "But I learned this from dad. Dad always comes to you with complaints; you should scold him too."

Su Xi laughed, "Cheng Jiaming, your dad is an elder, so when he talks to mom about you, he’s not tattling, but rather discussing issues about you together. If you behave better, naturally nobody will speak poorly of you!"

"Oh." Young Cheng Jiaming replied unwillingly.

"You little rascal!" After finishing with Cheng Jiaming, Cheng Zheng picked up Xiao Chen from the snowboard, "Xiao Chen, are you hungry? How about Uncle takes you to have some yummy food?"

Xiao Chen turned his head to glance at his dad and Ye Zhenzhen, who were sliding down the ski slope in the distance, and shook his head, "I’m not hungry, I want to wait for mom and dad and eat together."

Following Xiao Chen’s gaze, Cheng Zheng looked over to see Ye Zhenzhen sliding in front, with Song Jinze following behind her. Moreover, Ye Zhenzhen was sliding really fast, yet Song Jinze was able to keep up with her.

Even during continuous edge changes and turns, Song Jinze’s movements were exactly like Ye Zhenzhen’s. This...

Cheng Zheng suddenly felt puzzled!

On the ski slope, because Song Jinze had just let his true abilities show, when they started sliding again, Ye Zhenzhen directly said, "For a naturally talented skier like President Song, I suppose you don’t need my hands-on teaching anymore. The way you did that move just now was pretty cool. How about I teach you a few more moves and you follow me..."

With that, Ye Zhenzhen swiftly slid away.

Since she had started to doubt, Ye Zhenzhen naturally wanted to test the other person to see if he really was a naturally talented skier or if he was just pretending to be inept to mess with her.

Song Jinze stood behind Ye Zhenzhen, unable to suppress a chuckle, his deep eyes filled with laughter. Watching the woman’s agile figure skiing, he unconsciously followed, "Ye Zhenzhen, could you slow down a bit? I’m still a newbie. Even with talent, I’m afraid of falling."

His voice carried a cheerful lilt at the end, a touch carefree, yet his snowboard perfectly mimicked the woman’s moves ahead as if duplicated.

Ye Zhenzhen also looked back at the man behind her. She had changed edges and turned from easy to difficult gradually, and he had managed to keep up with all of it.

If she hadn’t just watched the man learn over two hours, teaching him bit by bit as he nearly fell multiple times, she would definitely have believed that Song Jinze was deliberately pretending to be bad.

After all, the way he followed her from behind was just too good!

Ye Zhenzhen reached the endpoint smoothly and skied over to where Su Xi and the others were, asking, "Does everyone still want to play?"

If not, they could head back to the hotel—as she remembered, they still had to shoot a scene of them eating dinner in the evening.

Following behind Ye Zhenzhen, Song Jinze approached the group quickly without braking.

"How do you brake?" he asked aloud.

Ye Zhenzhen raised an eyebrow. Weren’t you the naturally talented skier? She thought she’d use the brake to test him, to see if he really didn’t know how or if he was just pretending to be unable to mess with her.

She sidestepped a bit, showing no intention of helping Song Jinze.

But it seemed the man really didn’t know how to brake very well and came stumbling toward her, Ye Zhenzhen moved her snowboard slightly, letting Song Jinze collide with her two boards...

Then, it was uncertain whether she was holding him, or he was holding her, as they returned to the hand-in-hand stance they had adopted at the beginning of the skiing session.

"Good thing I had you." Once steady, Song Jinze took off his goggles, the hint of a smile that had been in his eyes instantly hidden, his expression now serious and earnest.

As if he really couldn’t ski and needed help, and Ye Zhenzhen’s backing off had conveniently helped him to brake.

Ye Zhenzhen: ...

What a thing to say!

Could it be that she was overthinking, and this man really couldn’t ski?