Hired! A Mother for Shapeshifters - Ch 031

Title: The Jilted Male Lead Hires a Mother for the Cute Shapeshifters
Translator: Fringe Manatee
Chapter 31 - Happily Playing Games (4)

Chen Mian blinked and remembered what her father had told her. She shook her head, her blue eyes full of innocent, and said, “No, we don’t have a cat.”

“Then what are all these?” Ye Qing pointed at the toys on the floor and raised her brows.

A little embarrassed, Kiddo Chen Mian scratched her head. She said, “These are my toys, mommy. I like the same things as cats. Daddy said I might be a cat in my past life.”

A cat-like little girl.

Ye Qing smiled and rubbed the little girl on her head, “I guess that is possible.”

Chen Mian stuck her tongue out, bounced away, and returned with a ball, “Mommy, will you play ball with Mianmian?”

Ye Qing said softly, “Sure, how do we play?”

Chen Mian pulled Ye Qing over to a spot and said, “Mommy, you stay here and don’t move.”

She then ran over to a farther spot and said loudly, “Mommy, I’m ready. Toss me the ball!”

Ye Qing tossed the ball up in her hands, and then, with her eyes squinted, she tossed it over at Chen Mian.

The little girl had the most serious look. Her deep blue eyes never left  the ball, and her baby-fat face tightened.

Right before the ball fell, she leapt into the air, hugged the ball with both arms and landed back onto the ground.

She exclaimed in excitement, “Mommy, look! I got it! I got it!”

Children were also so energetic.

Ye Qing, feeling relaxed, gave her a thumbs up and generous dolled out praises, “Mianmian is awesome!”

Chen Mian felt a little embarrassed after being praised by her mother. She raises her arms and gave her a heads up, “Mommy, I am going to throw it back at you now!”

She tossed the ball right after she was done talking.

But, she was just a little girl and couldn’t toss the ball far enough. By Ye Qing’s estimation, it’d probably fell a little father away.

Normally speaking, someone as lazy as Ye Qing wouldn’t  bother jogging forward for the ball. At most, she’d wait till it landed on the floor before she’d pick it up and toss it.

But, for some odd reason, when the ball was at its highest point, as though her body had recovered some of its own memory, she ran up a few steps, leapt, and caught the ball with both arms as well.

When she landed back on her feet, she felt washed over by a satisfying sensation.

As though she had just had a wonderful meal.

Oh! She got the ball!

Chen Mian was quite happy too. She bounded up and clapped her hands, “Mommy is so wonderful! You got the ball too! When I played with daddy, he was never able to catch my balls!

Ye Qing looked at the ball in her chest and smiled.

She thought to herself; Pretty Face was, after all, just a pretty face. He couldn’t even catch a ball.

She looked at the little girl standing some distance from her. Much more engaged now than she was before, she said, “Kiddo Cotton Candy, the ball’s coming again. Are you ready?”

Kiddo Cotton Candy picked up her seriousness all of a sudden. Her entire body went into an alert state,  and she stared intently at the ball in her mother’s hands, “Ready!”

After they have done that dozens of time, both the mother and daughter were tired. The two of them sat down side by side surrounded by all the cat teasing toys, tired but happy.

That  was amazing. Ye Qing would never imagine she’d be so engaged in a simple game like tossing the ball.

But once she saw the ball in the air, she couldn’t resist the urge to catch it.

And every time she caught the ball, she experienced a very satisfying feeling.

Oh, how was it possible to have such fun games in this world?

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