Reborn as an Alpha and Still Wanting to Engage in Lesbian Relationships - Chapter 17

The early morning chirping of birds awakened the still-slumbering manor.

A line of servants in uniform attire passed through the corridors, taking their positions and attending to their respective duties.

Their movements were swift, efficient, and nearly silent.

Every corner of the manor exuded luxury, but the rooms were even more opulent and refined.

Every potentially hazardous spot dangerous corners, sharp table edges had been thoughtfully cushioned with protective measures.

Every inch of the estate proclaimed that there was a little master in this home, cherished and doted upon by the manor’s owners.

As sunlight pierced through the thin mist, the master of the manor awoke.

The small cradle was padded with a soft blanket, making it feel as cozy as nestling into a cloud.

The little one lying in the middle kicked her feet, intending to doze off just a little longer with her eyes closed, but she gradually drifted back to sleep.

With her chubby cheek pressed against the soft blanket, Jiang Man slept soundly.

She was roused again by her mother’s gentle call.

Surprisingly good-natured, she didn’t cry or fuss, merely cracking her eyes open a slit. Once she recognized who it was, she let out a tiny yawn, her mouth opening wide.

Cradled in her mother’s arms, sleepy tears squeezed from the corners of her eyes. She rubbed them with her short, chubby hands, revealing a pair of bright, sparkling eyes.

“Pfft!”

Full of energy, Jiang Man stretched in her mother’s embrace, then clung to her neck and sat up.

Only when settled in her mother’s arms did Jiang Man realize.

This was the home she had lived in for a full ten months!

But back then, for the sake of convenience during filming, they had moved to a single-story house opposite Wen Qing’s family. So why were they back here now? How had they returned?

The confusion in the little one’s eyes was unmistakable; her head seemed dotted with little question marks.

Seeing her dazed expression, Liu Ying couldn’t resist planting a kiss or rather, a billion kisses, on her daughter’s irresistibly soft cheek, teasing the good-tempered child until she shook her head to escape.

Her face flushed red, the little one covered her cheek with her hands, her eyes wide with shock and disbelief.

With one hand still pressed to her cheek, she shakily reached the other toward Liu Ying’s forehead.

Plop her short, chubby hand landed squarely on Liu Ying’s forehead.

Just then, Jiang Feng entered with advertisers and the filming crew, and happened to witness Jiang Man, that little rascal, testing her mother’s temperature as if checking for a fever.

With a light flick of his slender yet strong fingers on the toddler’s forehead, Jiang Feng chuckled and explained his mischievous daughter’s action to his wife: “Honey, this little troublemaker actually thinks you have a fever! How outrageous! Let’s toss her out!”

“Pfft!”

How could her bad mommy slander her like that!

Jiang Man gripped her mischievous mother’s hand firmly with her plump little fingers. Though mother and daughter didn’t speak the same language, they bickered back and forth with gusto.

But having lived over two decades longer, Jiang Feng’s experience wasn’t for nothing.

He spoke rapidly and logically, completely overwhelming the little one.

Jiang Man couldn’t get a word in edgewise, her face turning red with frustration.

Pushed to her limit, the toddler puffed out her cheeks and pursed her lips.

“Woof!”

A loud puppy-like bark drew everyone’s attention toward the little one.

But the toddler, having just emitted the puppy sound, was completely unaware, wholly focused on arguing with her mischievous mother.

After struggling for a moment, she bared her tiny teeth like a little pup, looking fierce but utterly harmless, and shouted at Jiang Feng: “Bad! Bad!!”

The little one was completely consumed by the argument with her “bad mother,” completely unaware that she had just conquered her tangled little tongue and spoken her first clear and articulate word!

Her cheeks were suddenly pinched by the bad mother’s hand, and Jiang Man snapped out of her anger belatedly, her entire little self feeling dazed.

“Wow, so amazing,” Jiang Man heard her mother say as she rubbed her face, her voice filled with laughter and pride. “Jiang Xiaoman, the first word you ever said was to call me bad.”

As if deliberately retaliating, the “furious” Jiang Feng rubbed the little one’s face until she saw swirling little mosquitoes before her eyes.

Only then did the little one in question realize that she seemed to have learned how to speak!

Learning to speak was like opening a floodgate, once the gate was open and the first word was spoken, the rest of the words could pop out of the little one’s mouth one by one, like bouncing beans.

Jiang Man widened her eyes, turned to look at her mother, who enveloped her in a gentle and sweet peach pheromone scent, and happily snuggled closer, hugging her mother’s neck as she exclaimed, “Mom! Good!”

Then, like a master of face-changing tricks, Jiang Man turned to face Liu Ying, her previously smiling face instantly filled with disdain. Hugging her little arms, she snorted heavily and said, “Mom, bad!”

How could Chairman Jiang, who had been followed and admired by countless people her entire life, tolerate such a challenge from a little one vying for her wife’s affection? She rolled up her sleeves, ready to teach the little one, who was pretending to be scared while hiding in her wife’s arms, a lesson.

Jiang Feng couldn’t help but wonder if it was just her imagination, but ever since her little one had spent time with her wife’s former best friend and current rival’s child, the little one’s deliberately pitiful act seemed to resemble that person more and more.

“Alright, the staff are all waiting,” Liu Ying said with a laugh, interrupting the childish fight between mother and daughter. She looked down at the little one in her arms, who was smugly grinning and provoking her wife, her eyes crinkling as she reached out to pinch the little one’s cheek. “Manzai is going to be a big star. Are you happy?”

A big star?

Jiang Man crawled out of her mother’s embrace, tilting her head in confusion. “Huh?”

Her kind mother considerately held her up to look at the staff setting up the venue and said with a smile, “Auntie Sun Miao took a photo of Manzai ‘reading’ the script and posted it on Mom’s social media. A milk powder advertiser took one look and immediately wanted Manzai to be their little model.”

Shooting an ad!

Jiang Man turned to look at the large living room being rearranged and couldn’t help but cup her cheeks with a silly grin:

Just one photo, and she already landed an ad? What about acting? She still had an unreleased drama where she acted alongside the beautiful Wen Qing!

Wait!

Jiang Man suddenly remembered if she wasn’t mistaken, the filming for the female lead Omega’s childhood scenes wasn’t entirely finished yet.

She and Wen Qing hadn’t received the “wrap-up” red envelope that the actress playing the female lead Omega, Sister Xiao Zheng, had mentioned, the one with the generous reward!

The little one suddenly sat up straight and began looking left and right behind Liu Ying, as if searching for someone.

At the thought of who the little one might be looking for, Liu Ying couldn’t help but feel a mix of irritation and frustration.

She swore that if she ever helped Xu Nuo, that hopeless romantic, again, she’d change her last name to Xu!

She had only secured this opportunity for her little one to help Xu Nuo, but who would’ve thought!

This fool, so obsessed with romance and women, actually turned off the privacy settings on her optical brain screen right in the living room, where cameras were everywhere just so her obsessive, controlling wife could see it!

The producer might be a bit slow, but she’s no idiot!

Putting the two pieces of information together and considering what happened next, even thinking with her pinky toe would make it obvious that they had secretly contacted each other behind the producer’s back!

Watching the sudden surge of fiery anger around her mother, Jiang Man felt as if she had accidentally pressed her mother’s rage button. She and her mother instinctively shrank their necks in unison.

Fortunately, the staff cleaned up quickly, interrupting Liu Ying before her anger could escalate further.

“Ms. Liu, the set is ready. You can bring Manzai over now!”

“Coming!”

Responding cheerfully, the fiery aura around Liu Ying instantly dissipated, and she transformed back into the gentle, elegant actress she was known to be.

Communicating and working with a fake toddler really made things twice as efficient!

Though she’d never tasted pork, she’d seen pigs run.

In her previous life, Jiang Man rarely had access to electronic devices like TVs or phones, but occasionally, when she needed to look up study materials, she would knock on the headmistress’s office door and borrow her computer.

Inevitably, there were times when the headmistress would pull her aside to watch an episode of some nonsensical romance drama, where a single word like “love” could make two adults lose their minds.

Back then, Jiang Man’s body might have been sitting there, “focused” on the TV, but her mind had already drifted far away into the ocean of knowledge.

During commercial breaks, when faced with a whopping 360-second ad, the headmistress would grumble and curse the streaming platform’s entire family.

Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Man would say her goodbyes and return to her studies.

For the Jiang Man of the past, studying, earning money, and improving the living conditions of the children in her care were her life’s pursuits.

But who knew life could be so fragile?

Everything ended before it even began, vanishing like a wisp of smoke.

Thankfully, heaven took pity on her, granting her a shortcut and a direct ticket to reincarnation.

Not only did she find a mother who adored her and another mother who was ten, fifty, even a hundred times more childish, but she also discovered interests and passions she had never even dreamed of in her previous life.

Dressed in a soft, cozy onesie, the toddler leaned against a can of milk powder and, under the staff’s direction, eagerly drank from her bottle.

“Burp!”

Before she knew it, Jiang Man had finished an entire bottle of milk! Even her loose onesie couldn’t hide her round, full belly.

Jiang Feng, with a mischievous glint in her eye, deliberately patted the toddler’s bulging belly while Liu Ying was talking to the staff.

Thump, thump it sounded like a ripe, juicy watermelon.

Jiang Feng laughed heartily, unapologetically, which made the toddler so angry that she bit the back of Jiang Feng’s hand, calling her “bad.”

They had expected the shoot to take a long time, but surprisingly, the entire project was completed in just one morning.

In the end, setting up the scenes and cleaning up took longer than the actual filming.

The staff couldn’t help but praise, “We’d gladly film a hundred toddlers like this one!”

The representative from the advertising company showed Liu Ying the footage while gushing, “Manzai is the most well-behaved, easy-to-work-with, and spirited toddler I’ve ever seen. Look at her footage there’s hardly any wasted shots, and her expressiveness is incredible!”

Watching the videos of Manzai drinking milk on the screen, the adults who had been weaned for decades felt an urge to try powdered milk themselves.

Liu Ying scrolled through the clips one by one, unable to hold back a smile as she saw the obvious joy and happiness of the little one on camera.

She, too, believed that her Manzai was the most spirited baby in the world!

Liu Ying was exactly the type of parent who would post photos of her child online and ask netizens, “#Is my child suitable to be a child model?#”

If Sun Miao hadn’t taken away her social media account early on, Liu Ying’s profile would have turned into a personal photo album for Manzai.

After all, she was Manzai’s number one fan-mom!

After carrying Manzai and bidding farewell to the staff, Sun Miao parked the car at the estate gate.

Unaware that Liu Ying hadn’t yet told Manzai about Wen Qing being forcibly separated from her by the producer and coincidentally replaced by another child actor, Sun Miao blurted it out the moment she stepped out of the car.

Huh?

The little one, nestled in her mother’s arms, thought there was something wrong with her ears. She tugged at them several times before confirming she hadn’t misheard.

Wen Qing had already acted in so many scenes, how could she be sent back?

Unaware of the filter Jiang Man had placed on Wen Qing, she didn’t think Wen Qing’s acting was as stiff as the director’s evaluation relayed by Sun Miao suggested.

In Jiang Man’s eyes, Wen Qing acted amazingly well!

She cried when she was supposed to cry, laughed when she was supposed to laugh. When the script called for her to be rejected by Jiang Man, the pitiful look on her face as tears fell like pearls melted Jiang Man’s heart!

What was wrong with that?

Jiang Man felt she had to stand up for Wen Qing!

But the only way the little one knew how to speak up for her friend was by indignantly shouting, “Good!”

Hearing Manzai speak so suddenly gave Sun Miao a fright.

But the shock quickly turned to delight. Seeing Manzai, who had only been babbling until now, utter actual words, Sun Miao was overjoyed.

She leaned in, pinching and touching the little one’s face, her eyes filled with surprise and curiosity: “When did Manzai learn to talk? Weren’t you still just babbling ‘puh-ya puh-ya’ yesterday?”

Liu Ying looked at the child in her arms and smiled without saying a word.

Later, when the web version of the show aired, Sun Miao saw the precious footage of Jiang Man learning to speak on the star network and couldn’t help but laugh so hard she rolled off the bed.

Everyone except Jiang Man knew that the first word she learned to say was “woof-woof,” like a puppy.

But at that moment, the mischievous adults all tacitly chose to keep the innocent little one in the dark.

In the midst of her comeback period, Liu Ying’s schedule was quite tight.

After the producer leveraged years of camaraderie to pressure her and Xu Nuo into signing an agreement that “Manzai and Qingzai would not meet for a week,” Liu Ying, wanting to prevent Xu Nuo from pulling any tricks, decided to have Manzai accompany Jiang Feng to work for a day.

As it was his wife’s request, the ever-busy Chairman Jiang agreed without a second thought.

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