And then a notification popped up on my phone, and I immediately looked at it. There was a reminder on my calendar, and then I looked at Yuan with a bit of a serious facial expression.
Yuan looked at me and said, "What happened? Don't tell me you have forgotten something important," he said.
I looked at him and said, "Yuan, actually I did," I said.
"What did you forget?" he asked me.
And then, in a low voice, I said to him, "Yuan, actually I just got a reminder from my phone that today is the date of her interview at the school," I said.
Then Yuan looked at me, and then he looked at her, and without wasting a second, he immediately took Chen Shiyuan into his arms and said, "Switch off the TV," with one hand, and then said to me, "You go and get ready, and I'll take her and get her ready, and I'll get ready too."
Then we both worked as fast as we could, and we got ready within fifteen minutes, something we had never been able to do in our whole lives. But today was just a miracle that we both got ready within fifteen minutes because in cases like this, Yuan and I usually take a much longer time to get ready. But for her, we do strange things.
And yes, she also appeared very strangely in our lives, just like an angel that Xu Yuan and Xu Zhao Shiza got. I thought this to myself while going out of the house.
Then Chen Shiyuan asked us in her sweet voice, "Pa, Ma, are we going to visit Nenne (grandmother in Chinese)? Are we going to take a train to Shenzhen? Then I'll ask Nenne to make red bean cake for me. She really makes it very tasty," she said.
Then I looked at her and said, "Chen Shiyuan, we are not going to visit your Nenne. We are going to visit your school to get you interviewed by them, so remember whatever your Pa taught you during all these recent days," I said to her while heading towards the car.
Then she said while hugging Yuan in her innocent voice, which was enough to make Yuan Yuan melt, "Pa, I don't want to go to school. I want to stay home and eat ice cream and watch Shinchan all the time," she said.
Then Yuan stopped moving and looked at her and said, "Listen, Xiao Shiyuan, even after you get admitted to school, you can still watch Shinchan and eat ice cream all the time," he said to her.
"No, Pa. School gives lots of homework. Then I won't get enough time to watch Shinchan and eat ice cream," she said.
"Pa will do all your homework, and Pa will feed you ice cream with my own hands," he said to her.
But she was really not ready for any of this because, just like the nickname we had given her—our little stubborn troublemaker—she was exactly like that.
And she said to Yuan, "Pa, I don't want to leave both of you. I really don't. I want to stay with both of you only," while looking at him with her puppy eyes, which were really enough to make him melt.
And there she went again.
I knew where she had learned those puppy eyes from. It was just from him. I knew it. He made those puppy eyes whenever he wanted me to agree to something.
Then, without wasting another second, I took Chen Shiyuan into my arms from him and said to him, "Yuan, you go and start the car. We are really getting late. I'll handle her on the way. Don't worry about her," I said to him.
Then we both got inside the car. He sat in the driver's seat, and I sat beside him while Chen Shiyuan sat on my lap.
Then, while we were on our way to the school, Chen Shiyuan suddenly started saying continuously, "Pa, make me sit in the front."
Then I looked at her and tried to make her understand by speaking in my very sweet voice, the one I only use in front of her when I want her to agree to something.
Then I said to her, "Chen Shiyuan, I'll let you eat another tub of your ice cream. You just have to give your best in the test and remember all the things your Pa taught you during the past few days," I said.
She really fell into my trap and immediately sat back on my lap very calmly.
Then we finally reached the school.
Then we both got out of the car with her and stepped inside the school.
And the moment we stepped inside the school, we saw that every teacher and staff member there started whispering to each other.
And I really knew what they were whispering about.
It was him.
That Xu Yuan had come to their school to get his daughter enrolled there.
Then we reached the principal's office, and the moment we opened the door and entered inside, the principal said that...