The Useless Stepmom Brings Her Kids to Reality TV Shows to Photograph Them

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Lin Wan shared her ideas with the staff when she got home. Four hours was more than enough time to decorate the venue.

When they were buying balloons and ribbons, Xia Mo had tried to stop them, because last year, she had used all kinds of balloons and ribbons to decorate her son’s birthday party and her son had despised them for an entire year.

Lin Wan did not listen to her at all. She felt that Xia Mo’s accident had happened because of the pink balloons. Xiao Yi was a boy, so of course he would dislike pink.

The typical decorations for birthday parties were balloons and ribbons. Lin Wan had bought many blue balloons of different shapes and sizes for 200 yuan. There were sailboat balloons, love balloons, and animal balloons.

Lin Wan couldn’t help but congratulate herself on her intelligence as she gazed at the bag filled with spoils of war.

Tao Jingyuan knew that her son liked clay, so she bought another large box of clay and selected a few toys from the toy store. To decorate the table, she also purchased a few candles. She simply needed to slightly embellish her son’s modest room because it was already filled with toys.

Nannan could only think of balloons. However, unlike Lin Wan’s balloons, which had different shapes, she chose pink and purple round balloons. She wanted to make them into an arch-shaped balloon door and hang some colorful lights on it as decoration.

To be different from Nannan, Ji Hanzhi used the star and moon-shaped colored lights as the main color. She directly hung a few strings of colored lights in her daughters’ room. The main point was that she had nice gifts for her daughters. She got them two dancing dolls.

The fathers also joined the staff to help set up the venue.

At the Festival Group office, Li Zexuan secretly wrote a post that only he could see:

[Today, Ms. Lin is going to set up the birthday party for us in advance and prepare gifts for us. Although it’s just a task assigned by the Festival Group, I’m looking forward to it.]

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan sat together, hand in hand.

“Yuan Yuan, didn’t we just celebrate our birthday? Why are we doing it again?” Tuan Tuan didn’t know what a mission was.

Yuan Yuan raised her little face and thought for a moment. “I don’t know either. Didn’t mama say that everyone only has one birthday? ”

“Uncle, we just celebrated our birthday and even ate a big cake. Why are we having another birthday?” The little girl couldn’t understand so she asked the staff.

“This is a mission. Treat it as just another birthday. It’s to see if your mummy can perform well and give you a surprise. Whoever’s gift is most popular will win a big prize,” the staff member explained.

“Does that mean that if we like it, Mama will win? No matter what Mamabuys, we always like her gifts.” Ji Hanzhi would carefully prepare for Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan’s birthdays every year, so the two little girls didn’t have much anticipation for the Festival Group’s sudden mission. However, when they heard that their mother might win a big prize, the two little girls instantly perked up.

Feifei only cared about eating and did not ask anything about the mission.

Finally, it was half past four in the evening. The children were about to go home. The live broadcast started at five sharp, and the camera was pointed at the rooms decorated by the mothers.

Lin Wan was very satisfied with her decorations. She thought that the balloon she chose had all the elements of a nice birthday party. It didn’t matter if her stepsons liked Ultraman, cars, or small animals. In any case, the decoration was complete. She had tried her best. Besides, she chose a blue color scheme.

Li Yanchen was in charge of blowing the balloons. He helped in any way he could. Furthermore, this was the first time he had taken an initiative to help out with his sons’ birthdays. Even if this was just a mission, he felt a sense of accomplishment. The three staff members walked out of the Li family’s courtyard after finishing setting up the venue. They whispered among themselves.

“Li family is in trouble this time. Li Zekai might like balloons, but I feel like Li Zexin and Li Zexuan will be disappointed.”

“I think so too. It’s better to buy some plastic car models or something like that as decoration instead of balloons and ribbons all over the house.”

“Young children like Feifei and Li Zekai might like balloons but… Li Zexuan is almost an adult. Would he like something so childish?”

“I wonder how the other families are doing.”

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Ten minutes before five, the children arrived at their respective courtyards. The live stream started from the courtyards. The fans had been waiting the entire afternoon and were looking forward to the surprise that the mothers of the families had prepared. Everyone looked forward to Lin Wan’s preparations the most.

[I’m here again.]

[I just got off work.]

[Are Xuanxuan and the others nervous? Don’t tell me Lin Wan didn’t prepare anything?]

[That’s impossible! I heard Lin Wan Xia Mo discussing the decorations and gifts.]

[Lin Wan is very simple. She must have bought whatever she saw.]

[Did she buy only one gift? There are three children in the Li family. They must be afraid that some of them might not receive a gift.]

[Did you forget that children had to pick out gifts for their parents in the first episode? Lin Wan didn’t receive anything.]

[I’m nervous.]

The children waited outside the door of the decorated room waiting for the announcement to open the door and see the surprise for themselves.

Li Zexin’s heart was in his throat. Li Zexuan also held his breath.

Although assistant Qin had booked a private room in the hotel and had prepared all kinds of programs for their birthdays every year, there was nothing new about it. It was the same every year. It all felt obligatory. Their father’s presence also felt perfunctory.

The doors of the five rooms opened at the same time.

[M god! Is this the underwater world? It’s all blue!]

[There is also a very chubby Ultraman. Isn’t the Ultraman’s logo Red?]

[So, these are all balloons?]

[Sailboats, cars, all kinds of animals and marine creatures…]

[Did you notice the words: I wish you all a very happy early birthday, my babies!]

[That line alone feels so affectionate. Can’t hold back my tears!]

[Although I do find it childish, why do I feel so touched?]

[There is another string of words on the Blue Ribbon: I don’t know what you like the most, but when I was a child, I wanted my rooms to be filled with balloons on my birthday, so I wanted to recreate the feeling of childhood. I hope you remember your childhood fondly.]

[Even the seventeen-year-old Xuanxuan is a child in Lin Wan’s eyes?]

[F*ck, I can’t take it anymore. Did Lin Wan write these lines herself? It’s just a room full of balloons and nothing else but why am I tearing up?]

[Xuanxuan once said that his father had his assistant prepare everything for his birthday. He would book expensive hotels with expensive gifts, but his father would always be absent. If he could spend his birthday with his father, he would even be happy with just a balloon and nothing else.]

Li Zexin’s nose twitched. He saw the words on the ribbons.

Lin Wan pointed at the balloons in the room and spread her arms wide. “Do you like it?” she asked happily. “Mr. Li is out of breath from blowing all the balloons.”

“It’s really ugly.” Li Zexin walked into the room. “Ms. Lin, you’re too stingy. I like car models. You should have at least bought one. These are all balloons.”

“Brother, help me take a picture so I can send it to my friends, Big Mouth and Preserved Egg,” said Li Zexin to his elder brother. “Here, take my picture with Ms. Lin.”

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After clicking some pictures, it was Li Zexuan’s turn to take the photos. “Ms. Lin, did you hide the funds for yourself? The balloons might have cost 200 yuan at most.”

Lin Wan was stunned.

“I’m going to post on Weibo,” said Li Zexuan. “I am going to say Ms. Lin is so stingy that she tried to arrange the birthday party with just a few balloons.”

Li Zekai was different. He carried the chubby Ultraman toy and said happily, “I like it, Auntie Lin! As long as it’s Ultraman, I am happy.”