Extras 1

When Shen Nuannuan was two and a half years old, Yu Yaoyao conspired with Shen Rui to send her to the nursery. Little Sweetheart could already communicate a little. Should there be anything, she can ask the teacher or talk to her classmates directly. Moreover, she could now go to the toilet by herself, and she knew how to pull up her skirt gracefully after going to the toilet. She even played well with her brother’s toys. Basically, she would have absolutely no problem going to the nursery.

“I don’t know if your father will agree,” Yaoyao sighed. she felt concern spring from inside her soul.

“Hmm, daddy most probably won’t agree,” Shen Rui also sighed. “However, if sister Nuannuan doesn’t leave the house, daddy will ruin her.”

The mother and son looked at each other and sighed at the same time.

But soon, Yu Yaoyao waved her fist. “Baby Rui, let’s go and submit the application to your father! Let’s convince him together!”

So, the mother and son held hands and went to the living room together.

Before going downstairs, Yu Yaoyao saw with her sharp eyes that Shen Yichong was holding their daughter, Shen Nuannuan, and refused to let go. He was holding the document in his left hand, while holding the daughter in his right arm.

“Daddy, fruit.”

Shen Yichong threw the document in his left hand and picked up a small banana with a toothpick in his right hand and stuffed it into his daughter’s mouth.

“Daddy, pretty.”

Shen Yichong threw the toothpick again and stuffed a Barbie doll into his daughter’s hand.

When Yu Yaoyao saw it, she massaged her temples. Shen Rui also made a sour face. Shen Yichong held on to his daughter when he was home, and no one could make him let go. He had been told many times that the child had to walk and crawl by herself to slowly become independent, but he never listened. Their baby girl was served so well, and she didn’t have to worry about anything.

Baby Nuannuan never even ate a whole banana herself. Yu Yaoyao simply suspected that Shen Nuannuan would never know bananas had skins before she started going to school. She might only know the sliced ones. Shen Yichong was so fond of his daughter that even Yu Yaoyao wanted to stop it.

“Darling, I’ve asked Chen Lin Lin to choose a few reliable nurseries. The teachers are all good, and there are plenty of entertainment programs for children,” she began. “I want Little Nuan to go.”

As soon as Yu Yaoyao came, she snatched Nuannuan from Shen Yichong’s arms. She shoved Little Sweetheart Shen Rui’s side. Shen Rui hurriedly took his little sister to play on the children’s small slide on the ground. While he took care of his sister, he looked at Shen Yichong with fear.

His daddy… he was really scary. Last time, he even saw that his father tried to go on the children’s slide and slide down with Nuannuan…

“Nursery?” he asked. Shen Yichong glanced at the little girl who was smiling happily on the indoor mini slide and frowned immediately. “I won’t have any important projects in the next six months, and I will be spending a lot of time at home.”

In simpler words, he meant that she didn’t have to go, since he can take care of the child.

“Darling,” Yu Yaoyao’s mouth twitched, “but all the other children in the nursery can be friends with Xiao Nuan, and she will know many friends of the same age,” she said. “Even if you and I are both at home, we can’t replace her friends. When she grows up, she will have to rely on her friends when she steps out the door, right?”

Shen Yichong raised his eyes. “A year or so wouldn’t make a difference. It won’t be too late for her to go to kindergarten at the age of three.”

Yu Yaoyao immediately looked at Little Bun with a look of defeat.

“Daddy, my sister prefers to play with her peers.” Shen Rui raised his head and firmly supported Yu Yaoyao. “Moreover, she has to get used to group circles from the age of two and a half. Otherwise, when she suddenly has to go to kindergarten at the age of three, she will not be able to adapt and cry. What should we do then?”

Shen Yichong frowned when he heard that Little Sweetheart would cry.

“If she doesn’t want to go at the age of three, then we can do it later,” he said. “She can get used to it slowly. If she doesn’t feel comfortable, she can take her time off at home.”

Little Bun, who was forced to go to kindergarten every day in the past, “…”

In the end, Yu Yaoyao used a new hairstyle – the little princess hairstyle on Shen Nuannuan. If she were to go to the nursery to see other children, she could wear beautiful clothes, and have this nice hairstyle every day. Shen Nuannuan was tempted by this bargaining chip and immediately abandoned her father.

“Go to nursery, have friends, beautiful!” Shen Nuannuan babbled, asking her father for approval that night.

Shen Yichong had the intention to stay home to accompany his daughter, but he couldn’t stand his little girl’s eager gaze. Her big, bright eyes were full of longing. They looked like they were filled with little stars, and he couldn’t even say the words of rejection when she blinked.

In the end, Shen Nuannuan’s decision to go to the nursery was settled. It took Shen Yichong a week to select a nursery. He got Chen Lin to make a detailed analysis report on all the nursery schools in the city and obtain the list of children from several classes. Finally, they selected one.

Yu Yaoyao and Shen Rui finally breathed a sigh of relief. For Yu Yaoyao, who grew up in the wild, she knew the importance of Little Sweetheart having the ability to take care of herself and survive independently. Originally, she was also very fond of Little Sweetheart, but seeing how she was always hiding in her father’s arms at the age of two or three made her deeply worried.

Little Bun even took out the photo album in his tablet to recall his childhood. When he was two and a half years old, he was already doodling on the tablet by himself. At that time, his mother did not care about him, his father had to go to work, and the nannies at home only took care of his meals and other necessities. So, he had to play by himself. His highest hope was to have a friend to play with.

‘Little Nuan, brother can only help you here.’

In order to encourage his sister to go to the nursery, Shen Rui prepared a bunch of paintbrushes and picture albums for Little Nuan and asked her to play them with her friends.

Both mother and son were very involved. They prepared the necessary items for the nursery three days in advance. Shen Nuannuan’s plush little snake was also brought along with an extra skirt and trousers, for fear that she would pee on herself when she was excited to take a nap. Shen Rui also got his little sister to bring a small handkerchief, which was a must for the little cry baby.

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On the first day that Shen Nuannuan entered the nursery, Yu Yaoyao and Shen Yichong had to act separately. Since Shen Rui’s school organized parent-child activities, Yu Yaoyao had no choice but to go to Little Bun’s school. Shen Yichong, on the other hand, took on the task of sending Little Nuan to the nursery without hesitation.

“Mommy, do you think the first day will go well?” Shen Rui was obviously a little worried. “If the school hadn’t held activities today, I would have been able to send Little Nuan. Would she be afraid on the first day?”

“Afraid?”

Yu Yaoyao closed the script in her hand. Although Shen Nuannuan was still young, she could see that this child…. followed after her. She wouldn’t be afraid. She had been very clever since she was younger. After learning that crying was useful, she became a little cry baby. After learning that acting cute will make her father spoil her, she started having requirements for the skirts she wore every day. All of them must have three layers of lace…

“I think it must be the teacher who should be afraid,” she nodded.

She wondered if Shen Yichong would make strange demands to the teacher, since he was the one sending the kid there. Yu Yaoyao felt a little worried when she thought about it. Before they got to Shen Rui’s school, she turned her head.

“Baby Rui, can you call uncle Chen Lin and ask if your father is back at the company?” she asked.

Shen Rui immediately nodded. But just one minute after the phone call, Little Bun looked up at Yu Yaoyao in astonishment. “Mummy, Daddy is still in the nursery.”

“Huh?” Yu Yaoyao glanced at her watch. “He should have been there for almost half an hour? He hasn’t left yet? What is he doing?”

Shen Rui was also curious. “Uncle Shen Lin, what is our Nuannuan doing with my father? Is my father chatting with the teacher?” he asked, then, “Huh? They’re not in the nursery yet? You guys are circling around the school?”

Yu Yaoyao eyes’ widened. “What!? Baby Rui, pass the phone to Mommy. Chen Lin, what’s the matter? Did you just arrive at the nursery?”

After hearing Shen Lin’s answer, Yu Yaoyao didn’t know whether she should laugh or cry. It turned out that after Shen Nuannuan arrived at the nursery, she found that it was different from what she imagined. Daddy wanted to pass her to an aunt she didn’t know. The little boys who were running around the room were someone she knew. They even had dirty ashes on their faces. And the girls who were sitting together to chat were a little noisy.

Shen Nuannuan suddenly didn’t want to go in. With a roar, she cried out to the nursery teacher who reached out her hand! Tears were suddenly gushing out. She turned around and threw herself on Shen Yichong’s thigh!

“Daddy, let’s go home~” she said. “I don’t want to go…”

She even didn’t want the princess hairstyle that Yu Yaoyao promised her anymore!

Shen Yichong personally selected the nursery school, teachers, and even his daughter’s classmates. After the selection process, he naturally understood Yu Yaoyao’s painstaking efforts and her original intention of looking ahead for the child. But his reason instantly collapsed when it came to his little girl’s tears. Shen Yichong felt his heart ache as he listened to her daughter crying while hugging his thigh.

“Then daddy will accompany you home,” he said.

Fortunately, this impulsive behavior was discouraged by Chen Lin and the teacher.

“Hey, children are all like this. Nuannuan’s daddy, don’t be soft-hearted! After a day or two, Little Nuan will be happy when she plays with other children,” the teacher scolded. “This day will come sooner or later!”

The teacher was very experienced. Nuannuan’s father, Shen Yichong had no choice but to hold back his heartache, since he thought what the teacher said was reasonable. “In that case….”

“Daddy,  don’t go!”

Shen Nuannuan got more anxious. Shen Yichong felt it more unbearable to leave her behind.

“Then… Daddy will take you for a walk outside and stay with you for another ten minute before we go in again, okay?”

Little Sweetheart immediately stopped crying and started nodding her head wildly as her tears and snot flowed together. In the end… circle after circle… They walked around endlessly.

“Daddy, one more lap, just one more lap. Nuannuan will stop crying.”

Little Sweetheart didn’t even think of complaining that her legs were sore after walking. Every time they got to the door of the nursery school, she would hold onto Shen Yichong’s trouser legs tightly with a pair of teary eyes. Shen Yichong, who always had a decisive character, also couldn’t decide what he should do this time.  Therefore, even until Yu Yaoyao called, the father and daughter still hadn’t entered the nursery.

After Yu Yaoyao heard the whole story, she couldn’t help but stretch out her hand to support her forehead.

“Oh God! Where’s the teacher? Let the teacher help and persuade?” she said, exasperated.

“The teacher went into the class, and it’s time for the first class,” Chen Lin answered from the phone.