Chapter 16.2

“Chu Xiaoxiao, I really want to beat you up!”

Chu Xiaoxiao didn’t bother to pay attention to him. She saw that her brother didn’t mess up the kitchen for the time being, so she simply slipped out to watch a video on her tablet for a while.

Chu Xiaoyi saw her treat himself as air and began a new round of scolding: “You tell me clearly, what do you mean by that?”

In the living room, Chu Xiaoxiao turned a deaf ear to her older brother’s ranting and opened her iPad to start her day of happy learning.

There were many foreign language lesson videos on the IPAD, and every day she watched them and imitated them, occasionally dancing and reading along. She had fun even when she was alone.

That’s why, initially, Chu and Xiao Bi did not notice the talent of their little daughter. She did speak early, but she did not stand out among children. No one would purposely test a child’s IQ, and no family would force a child to memorize Tang and Song poetry*.

T/N: Poems written during the Tang and Song Dynasties

Chu Xiaoxiao learned her first foreign language through imitation. The family always repeatedly played foreign language cartoons, and Chu Xiadong’s original intention was to show his daughter the cartoons, but she gradually learned the phrases in those videos.

As Chu Xiaoxiao grew up, she began to play the roles in the cartoons, imitating the tone of the cartoon characters’ speech and even slowly memorizing each cartoon episode.

At that time, Chu Xiadong only thought his daughter was intelligent, but he did not take it too seriously, so he downloaded many foreign language enlightenment videos for her.

Then it became unstoppable.

Chu Xiaoxiao leisurely watched those videos, then cheerfully imitated them. At some times, she also forced the family to listen to her lectures, thus learning her second, third, fourth, etc.

At this point, Xiao Bi and Chu Xiadong began to panic a bit. They finally perceived the talent of Little Xiaoxiao, but they were at a loss as to what to do.

Only adults can see prodigies. Prodigies themselves do not know they are one. They only see learning as play and consider the matter unburdensome.

The school said that Chu Xiaoxiao was currently at a stage where she had not yet clearly recognized that she was an overachieving child. They suggested that since this period of time was still early, her parents should try their best not to easily point it out.

That’s because once this kind of thing is done too early, it tends to affect her growth. If not handled well, the child risks developing a pretentious and arrogant personality, and eventually her talent will be regrettably extinguished.

Therefore, Chu Xiaoxiao was still not aware of her own specialty. She only thought that she was good at learning foreign languages, just like her father was good at making money and her mother was good at teaching. They just had different specialties.

Chu Xiaoxiao jumped around on the sofa to imitate the lesson video and then turned off the iPad after she was done.

She took out her speech for the next day and recited it, performing a one-woman solo show in the living room, showing her theatrical nature.

Inside the room, the writers and directors watched the little girl dance around on the screen with joy.

“Not bad for an actor’s sister! She can play by herself so happily!”

While the cameras were all over the house, the choreographers borrowed a nearby empty room and set up a recording team inside.

That way, they could remotely control the cameras and sound-receiving equipment and observe the situation in Chu Xiaoyi’s house.

When Chu Xiaoyi and the others went out, the cameras would follow them with their machines.

After some time, the choreographers wanted to push the camera up to take a close-up of Chu Xiaoyi. The camera gradually focused with a slight clicking sound.

Chu Xiaoxiao was startled to hear the sound of the camera turning, so she immediately put down the speech in her hand and turned around in surprise.

She looked at the black machine in the corner. Feeling that it had changed a little, she cautiously came over, reached out, and knocked on it.

“Hello?”

Chu Xiaoxiao knew that these black machines seemed to be related to the program team, but she remembered that they were not moving. So, they should not have made any sound.

She tried again.

“Hello?”

The camera didn’t move.

Chu Xiaoxiao waited for a few seconds. She was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw the black machine buzzing again. It twisted its head from side to side, just like a little robot!

Chu Xiaoxiao stared in amazement; her dumbfounded expression made the backstage cameraman laugh happily.

Chu Xiaoxiao, who knew there were uncles and aunts behind the camera, tilted her head incredulously to check, then said carefully, “Can you hear me?”

The camera nodded.

“Why can’t you hear me and move? You all won’t move around here, won’t you?”

In fact, Chu Xiaoxiao didn’t know that the camera could be controlled remotely. After all, the choreographers can’t manually adjust the camera all day long.

The camera twisted its head and seemed not to know either.

Chu Xiaoxiao marveled, “Are you sprouting self-awareness? Just like Bumblebee?”

The camera didn’t move.

“I mean……”

Chu Xiaoxiao thought that she didn’t understand English, so she simply switched back to her native language: “I mean, Bumblebee, have you seen Transformers?”

The camera nodded.

Chu Xiaoxiao asked, “Then can you talk? Or are you unable to speak like Bumblebee?”

The camera shook its head, then nodded again.

Chu Xiaoxiao showed a regretful look and lamented, “I thought I could chat with you.”

“Chu Xiaoxiao, what are you muttering again?”

Chu Xiaoyi heard his sister’s muttering and couldn’t help but probe out to check.

Earlier, he just couldn’t understand her bird language. But the little bun seemed to be speaking Chinese now.

Chu Xiaoxiao blocked the camera out and calmly said, “Nothing.”

Seeing her cheap brother go back She continued to fool around with the camera. She cautioned, “Little Black*, you better not get caught by my brother. Or else he’ll be yelling and making a scene again.”

T/N: Little Xiaoxiao’s nickname for the camera

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