Back to Three Years Old: Crushing Scumbags on a Parenting Reality Show 178

Chapter 178

Lü Zhìtián, no, it should be Lu Shíjīn…

Wei Maomao had only seen this person once in her previous life, on a photocopy of his ID card.

She was in seventh grade then, her mother had passed away six months earlier, and one day, after school, her drunken father told her they had to move.

Because her father had been tricked into co-signing a loan, his friend ran away, and he was burdened with the massive debt.

They reported it to the police, of course, and her father, with his remaining rationality, obtained a copy of the ID card with the name Lü Zhìtián from the loan sharks.

But after going to the police station, they found out that only the photo on the ID was real. And the person whose real name was Lu Shíjīn, no one could find him.

And so, in her previous life, because of a so-called friend she had only known for six months, whose name was even fake, Wei Chengli lost his savings, sold his house, and was burdened with a massive debt he couldn’t repay.

Of course, Wei Chengli never did repay it.

Later, Wei Maomao didn’t want to think about that day, how that man, reeking of alcohol, his eyes hollow, ate the scallion noodles she made, repeatedly saying he would work hard, then, just a few hours later, ended his own life.

In fact, later, working at least two jobs a day, sometimes even squeezing in a few part-time gigs, working over sixteen hours a day, year-round, her mind focused on working and repaying the debt, the person Wei Maomao thought about the most was Lu Shíjīn.

In her previous life, kneading dough all day until her hands were sore and numb, then having to go to another restaurant at night to chop vegetables, eating expired bread and leftovers, after paying the debt collectors, not even having enough money left to rent a basement room for another month, looking at the moldy walls, watching the water droplets condense and drip from the ceiling, delivering goods all day without time or money to eat, clutching her aching chest by the roadside, thinking she was about to collapse… Wei Maomao was always thinking about Lǔ Shíjīn, initially hoping he would come back and be caught by the loan sharks, then later, after repaying a large portion of the debt, hoping he was already dead, a miserable death.

In this life, Wei Maomao thought that as long as she worked hard enough, as long as she prevented her mother’s accident, that Lu Shíjīn, who lied about his sick wife and gained Wei Chengli’s trust by pretending to share his misery, wouldn’t appear. She even thought that Lǔ Shíjīn, who scammed Wei Chengli in her previous life, could scam other people in this life, and when she grew up, when their businesses expanded, when she had more money, she would find that damned scammer. What goes around comes around, she wanted to see what kind of life that damned scammer would have in this life, unable to escape!

But Wei Maomao didn’t expect…

To see Lu Shíjīn again in this life, when she wasn’t prepared, when she was just a four-year-old kindergarten baby, powerless and unable to articulate herself…

Lu Shíjīn appeared, ten years earlier, sitting in Wei Chengli’s car, smiling at her kindly, showering her with praises.

It was the disgusting hypocrisy she had imagined.

In this life, Lu Shíjīn still introduced himself as Lü Zhìtián, but not the one who loved his sick wife, who was willing to do anything to save her, but as a shrewd investor, preparing a professional animation website, looking for suitable children’s books to adapt into animations.

In her previous life, Wei Chengli lost Zhang Shilan, and Lu Shíjīn used his grief and pain, pretending to be a loving and devoted husband, to gain his sympathy and trust. In this life, Zhang Shilan was still alive, so Lu Shíjīn used Wei Chengli’s love and care for Zhang Shilan, pretending to be someone who could help her career.

Wei Maomao, silently enduring, sat in the car with them, listening to their conversation, she realized that this scammer didn’t seem to be randomly choosing his targets, he seemed to be targeting their family.

Suppressing her hatred, Wei Maomao wanted to see what this scammer, who appeared ten years earlier, wanted this time.

Zhang Shilan, who had been writing in her study for days, was dragged out by Wei Chengli, Wei Maomao squatted in the corner of the living room, watching as her parents chatted happily with the scammer, listening to his sweet talk, his praises making her parents beam.

Wei Maomao quietly sharpened her claws on the floor, her soul seemingly leaving her body, wanting to scratch the scammer’s face countless times, she didn’t even know what she was waiting for.

Perhaps… she was waiting for him to say something revealing, then she could pounce and kill him!

Of course, he didn’t.

The scammer’s words were beautiful and flowery, all empty talk, without any substance, he didn’t even mention “money.”

The only thing that made Wei Maomao feel a bit strange was that when the man went to the bathroom after drinking too much tea, he went to the guest bathroom, but came out shortly after, saying awkwardly that the toilet was clogged, asking if he could use the one in the master bedroom.

Of course…

He couldn’t!

Wei Maomao thought about the jewelry Zhang Shilan always left on the table in the master bedroom, the small golden paperweights Wei Chengli casually placed on his desk in the study, and her own room…

Although he was capable of scamming on a large scale in her previous life, he probably wasn’t just looking for small profits in this life.

But letting him use the guest bathroom, which wasn’t used by the family, was already her limit, she would have to disinfect the entire bathroom with ten bottles of alcohol after he left.

If she let him go to the master bedroom, it would be like contaminating the entire house!

Would this house even be livable?

Time for a renovation!

Earlier, to figure out this scammer who appeared ten years earlier, Wei Maomao had already endured the car ride, then endured for half a day at home, she was so angry that she wanted to kill him, she couldn’t endure it anymore.

Four years old, still a little baby.

Did a little baby need a reason to dislike someone? Did a little baby understand what being impolite was? What was wrong with a little baby using a small stool to block the corridor and force a disgusting scammer to use the public restroom?

What were her parents’ feelings? Not killing him was already her being polite!

Initially, Wei Maomao just disliked Lu Shíjīn, she didn’t want him wandering around their house like a contaminant. But later, she realized that the man, who claimed to be in a hurry to use the bathroom, didn’t go to the public restroom in the complex downstairs, which was just a building away, he just stayed there, fanning the flames, waiting for her parents to persuade her.

Wei Maomao didn’t know why, but she knew that whatever the scammer wanted to do, preventing him from doing it was right. Even if it was just using the bathroom.

So Wei Maomao directly exposed his not-so-urgent need, forcing him to become “urgent.”

Wei Chengli finally took the man away, leaving Wei Maomao to receive Zhang Shilan’s lecture.

Wei Maomao, busy locking the door and disinfecting, didn’t pay attention to Zhang Shilan’s nagging. It was probably just the usual “be polite to elders, don’t be so willful.”

After Wei Chengli returned, the solo lecture became a duo, Wei Maomao tuned them out.

Seriously, it was fine for her mom to lecture her, but what right did this idiot, who had just brought a wolf into their house, have to speak!

After confirming that the scammer had left and wouldn’t be coming back today, Wei Maomao rolled her eyes at Wei Chengli, who was patiently lecturing her, and jumped down the hole in her bedroom.

She could drive away the people she disliked. But she couldn’t do it every day.

She could walk away from the words she didn’t want to hear. But she couldn’t do it every day.

Wei Maomao knew this…

So the question was, how could she get rid of that scammer completely?

Her dislike, her unwelcoming attitude today, in her parents’ eyes, it probably just seemed like a child’s tantrum. As long as Wei Chengli and Zhang Shilan still trusted that man, they would still meet, if not at home, then outside, when she wasn’t around, in places she couldn’t reach.

At this moment, Wei Maomao once again hated being just four years old. No matter what she said, it wouldn’t be taken seriously, it would just be dismissed as childish babble.

Wei Maomao plopped down into the beanbag chair in the corner of Cheng Tingyan’s room, dejected.

She couldn’t just confront them and tell them that this Lü Zhìtián was a scammer, a bastard who would bring trouble to their family, right?

Mmm… Not entirely impossible.

But such a specific accusation couldn’t be explained away as a dream.

Unless…

Wei Maomao grabbed a cloud-shaped pillow and buried her face in it, frustrated.

She knew, she knew what to say to make Zhang Shilan and Wei Chengli believe her immediately, to stay away from that scammer, they would even use their resources and connections to investigate why this Lǔ Shíjīn, who appeared ten years earlier, had targeted their family, lifetime after lifetime.

But then she wouldn’t be their little baby anymore.

Wei Maomao couldn’t imagine how Zhang Shilan and Wei Chengli would react if she told them about her rebirth… They would probably still be a family? But… something would definitely change.

Especially her mom…

Wei Maomao knew that her mom, having grown up in an orphanage without parents, longed for a complete family and always wanted a child. How should she put it, she wanted to give her child the happy childhood she never had. In her previous life, that chubby baby fairy tale series, one book per year, the chubby baby growing older each year, she wrote it until Wei Maomao graduated from elementary school, the year she could no longer be considered a little baby.

And in this life, Wei Maomao felt that maybe because she was reborn, and acted more mature… Zhang Shilan lost her inspiration for the chubby baby series this year and started writing the book she originally wrote when Wei Maomao was in middle school.

Writers were sensitive, Wei Maomao felt that Zhang Shilan wouldn’t be able to accept that her little baby, whom she had only raised for four years, was actually a twenty-something-year-old…

And she…

Wei Maomao pressed the cloud pillow against her face, dejected.

Ahhh!

She truly, truly loved being a little baby again!

In her previous life, she dropped out of school at fourteen to work and support her family, her life was all about work, work, work, what childhood, what happiness, what acting cute, she couldn’t even remember those good old days!

Reborn, couldn’t she just be a carefree little baby, pampered by her parents, for a few more years?

If she revealed everything, she would have to be a self-reliant adult again…

Wei Maomao didn’t even dare to imagine their expressions after she told them.

But as a four-year-old, she couldn’t interfere with their adult relationships, collaborations, or even financial decisions…

But she would try an anonymous warning first, maybe they would become suspicious and investigate on their own?

If it didn’t work, for her family’s safety, to avoid repeating her previous life’s mistakes, to get rid of that scammer, she would have to tell them everything.

Then another question arose, how should she send an anonymous warning?

Wei Maomao sat up from the beanbag chair, thought for a long time, then lifted her wrist.

In the hotel, after awkwardly parting ways with He Rongzheng and returning to the suite they had been staying in for almost ten days, Shen Zilin was looking at the floor, listening to Shen Jianghe’s subtle lecture.

Impulsiveness was the devil, eagerness would cloud one’s judgment, expose one’s true intentions and weaknesses…

Shen Zilin knew what Shen Jianghe was talking about, but since he didn’t say it explicitly, he pretended not to know. And even if he did say it explicitly, he would still pretend not to know.

He had been reflecting on his two mistakes tonight. But… honesty was the foundation of everything, he would always remember this.

Shen Jianghe didn’t say much, he just hinted at it, then asked the final question, “You’ve met Mr. He, can we go back tomorrow?”

On their way back, Shen Zilin had already received Cheng Tingyan’s thanks, knowing his part in this matter was over, he nodded upon hearing Shen Jianghe’s question.

But just as Shen Zilin nodded, his smartwatch lit up.

[Wei Maomao: Friend, can you get me an anonymous SIM card?]

Shen Zilin’s eyes widened slowly: “…”

Thankfully, he had developed the habit of putting on his earphones before checking messages these past few days, otherwise, he would have made his third mistake today! So! What kind of city was this?! So many shady deals lining up to be completed!

Shen Jianghe, scrolling through his phone, glanced at his son, who was tapping on his smartwatch with a serious expression, he was truly a busy little bee…

Wei Maomao, after sending the message, slumped back into the beanbag chair, she soon received a reply.

[Shen Zilin: I’ll get you two, pre-paid for two years, with two phones, do you need voice changers? Forget it, I’ll include two. Shipping today, delivery tomorrow noon by the fence between your kindergarten and the elementary school, I’ll let you know the specific time, find a chance to pick them up. If you need them delivered to the kindergarten, I’ll have to make arrangements, it might be a day later.]

[Shen Zilin: If you need assistance during use, weekends or holidays are preferred. Weekdays are also possible if it’s urgent.]

Wei Maomao: ???

She just casually asked for an anonymous SIM card… What was with this full-service package?

Had Shen Zilin started some strange business without her knowing?

Why was his reply so quick, so professional, and so comprehensive…