Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 390 - 403: No Need to Compete with the Older Sisters

"Why don’t you say that in front of Lu Shifeng if you dare?" Su Xingyu remained unmoved, feeling disdainful—what else could this woman do except act weak to gain sympathy? Clearly, she couldn’t even take care of her own child properly. If she really could take care of Jue well enough for him to be inseparable from her, Lu Shifeng wouldn’t have the heart to let someone else raise the child!

"And you guys," she warned as she looked at the photography assistants who kept snapping away relentlessly, "if you dare to spread any rumors outside, I don’t know if Zhuang Heng will give you benefits, but I do know this — Lu Shifeng definitely won’t let you off!" She wasn’t purposely trying to threaten them; in fact, she couldn’t care less about whatever they photographed of her, but when it involved Jue, she couldn’t let it go!

The child Jue was already pitiful enough; she wouldn’t allow anyone to use Jue as a weapon or as gossip for idle talks!

Several photography assistants were disgruntled and wanted to argue, but fearing she’d really tell Lu Shifeng about them, they reluctantly lowered their heads.

Over there, Zhuang Heng was frustrated with the useless photography assistants, so she stepped up to confront Su Xingyu herself: "What makes you think you can take care of Jue better than I can? Just because of your attitude towards left-behind children?"

She shifted the topic straight to the left-behind children, pointing at those few weak and dark-skinned kids, "You even snatched their location. Do you have no humanity left?"

"Yeah, do you have any humanity left? How can such a malicious woman like you raise a good child?" This time, the photography assistants dared to chime in.

Zhuang Heng was secretly pleased, ever since she was kicked out of the Rose Villa, she had been secretly monitoring Su Xingyu’s actions, trying to seize any chance to smear Su Xingyu. As long as Su Xingyu was smeared enough, public opinion would shift towards Zhuang Heng, forcing Lu Shifeng to consider external pressure, sacrificing Su Xingyu to be with her for the Lu Family’s reputation!

She had calculated well, and upon discovering Su Xingyu had a photography project here, she specifically applied for a public service advertisement shoot for left-behind children from the Fengren Photography Center, setting it in the grounds ahead of Su Xingyu. She had long planned to use the left-behind children to overpower Su Xingyu! If Su Xingyu drove them away, it would be bullying a vulnerable group!

But unexpectedly, Su Xingyu was completely unfazed by her tactics.

Su Xingyu gave Zhuang Heng a sarcastic glance, as if looking at an idiot: "I can’t believe you’re someone who has had a child. Have you really been a good mom all these years?"

Everyone around was stunned, not knowing what she meant.

Then, Su Xingyu walked a few steps forward to the left-behind children and crouched down.

"Hi kids, what are your names?" she asked them gently, completely different from her earlier sarcastic demeanor with Zhuang Heng.

These left-behind children were rarely exposed to the outside world; brought here by Zhuang Heng, they were fussed over with makeup and flashbulbs, feeling bewildered and timid. Just now, they huddled together, trembling from the adults arguing around them, but now, seeing a masked lady gently talking to them, they were too timid to reply.

Zhuang Heng mocked from the side, "Stop being so fake with the kids! They only listen to me and won’t pay you any mind!"

Zhuang Heng was confident; she had bribed the kids with plenty of candies before everything started.

But what could Su Xingyu possibly use to win the kids’ favor? Ha, what a joke!

But Su Xingyu simply ignored her.

Not discouraged by the kids’ reluctance, she continued asking gently, "It’s alright, tell Auntie your names, Auntie really wants to know."

The kids exchanged glances, perhaps moved by the kindness in her tone or the sincerity in her eyes, and finally, one mustered the courage, stammering: "I-I’m called Dou."

"Dou, what a cute name." Su Xingyu smiled, hand gently brushing the boy’s head, then turned to ask the other children.

Seeing someone take the lead and receiving praise from the seemingly kind sister, the other kids gradually spoke up: "I’m called Zhuzhu, as in Pearl."

"I’m called Feng."

"I’m called Shitou."

One by one, they reported their names.

Su Xingyu treated each equally, softly praising each of them, then she said, "I heard you’ve been shooting here for quite a while, haven’t you?"

The children nodded, the boy named Dou said: "We came early in the morning to shoot today. Just now that aunt—" he said, pointing at Zhuang Heng, "gave us milk and candy, told us to take good pictures. It’s all our fault for being too dumb, whatever we try doesn’t seem good enough."

Saying this, they appeared disappointed.

The other kids also seemed a bit disheartened.

Zhuang Heng approached gently, saying, "It’s fine, if not perfect, just keep practicing, as long as you put in the effort, you’ll meet the photo requirements."

The kids nodded, not quite understanding, still wearing troubled expressions. After all, they were given milk, bread, and the chance to take photos; back in their hometown, getting a set of photos was very costly, they hardly had chances to take them. But this time, they still couldn’t meet the photographer lady’s standards.

"We’ll work hard." Little Shitou promised with lowered head, yet he also didn’t know what to do. Despite their efforts, they still couldn’t achieve the photographer aunt’s expectations.

However, Su Xingyu said: "You’ve already done really well."

The kids turned their heads in surprise to look at her.

The girl named Zhuzhu said timidly: "But, but, Aunt Zhuang said we haven’t taken them well enough, we must be as good as those big sisters on TV."

As good as the big sisters on TV?

Su Xingyu chuckled, then felt a surge of anger, telling the kids: "Aunt Zhuang is just joking with you."

But Zhuang Heng said, "I’m not joking, Miss Axing, don’t mislead the kids, they’re still young, with poor family conditions, they must know to work hard!"

Su Xingyu looked at her like she was an idiot, sarcastically asked: "Work hard?"

Then turned back to the children, resumed her gentle tone: "Zhuzhu, do you know how long those big sisters on TV worked hard to look that good in photos?"

Zhuzhu shook her head confusedly.

Su Xingyu then counted on her fingers for her: "Those big sisters probably started working hard from your age, going to specialized schools, with dedicated teachers guiding them, after many, many years, when they’re in their teens or twenties, only then can they take such great photos. Zhuzhu, you’re here only for today; there’s no way you can compete with those sisters who’ve been working hard for many, many years. You don’t need to compare to them, you just need to do your best."