Chapter 556: Daddy Showbiz.
Leo disconnected the call as he had no idea what this show entailed nor did he want anything to bother with Lily’s daily life and hamper her growth. Thinking about it he said to Alpha, who was standing on the side, "Find me everything related to this so-called reality show."
Alpha nodded and said, "Sir, this show is focused on the daily life of a celebrity parent and their children all over the nation. It does not have a reward but the team that wins the people’s choice award at the end of seven episodes is given a good prize money. The show requires the parent-child team to perform some tasks. Usually, their tasks have been very standard like cooking food, helping the farmers plant crops and other similar things, however, the writers want to try something new."
Leo understood the meaning, he frowned and said, "Ask Percie to negotiate, we will only join it. The show is following the old setup. Work is important and we should not let them joke around with the idea like this, what would happen if the coming makes a loss? Would the people in the company not suffer from this?"
Alpha nodded and then he sent the message to Percie.
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In the office, Percie was waiting for the production team to pick up her call, when the urgent message flag rose up on her screen. She saw the content and smiled. Initially, she was also hesitant about the new format that the people had been trying to develop and it made her feel a little too risky about this investment but then she let the man in question make the decision only.
Now that Leo had given her the word, she would take care of it. On the other side, when the production team picked up the call, the lady got straight down to business.
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Leo went to pick up Lily from school, and he found the young lady surrounded by the caring little pixies as she walked to the school gate, she sighed, and seeing Leo, she dashed up to the man and embraced him.
Leo picked her up, and inspected her knee once before he said, "How does it feel now?"
Lily replied calmly, "Not very painful, but these kids were worrying too much, if they could, they would carry me around on their shoulders."
Leo smiled and poked her nose as he said, "You speak as if you are not a child."
Lily sighed and replied, "At least, I am not as gullible as this bunch."
Leo smiled and said, "Regardless of anything they are your friends and they come about you. So be kind to them and don’t act ungrateful."
Lily nodded and then waved goodbye to everyone before Leo carried her to the car, and drove home. On the way, he said, "There was an offer, a production team wants to invite the both of us as contestants in a reality-show. What do you think?"
Lily found her curiosity triggered and she asked, "Baba, what is this show about?"
Leo replied calmly, "They would invite us to live somewhere in a remote location and also carry out some tasks. What do you think? Shall we participate? They are giving ten million Yuan as prize money."
Lily thought for a bit and said, "If we win, how about we donate the prize money to those in need? An entire village can shift to clean energy generation and even cooperate with the government."
Leo had no problem in agreeing with this idea. On the contrary, he was happy with Lily haring such a thought. She was growing very smart and perceptive. Lily could tell that her father was not after the money nor the fame. He was only doing his best for the sake of the family. If they helped someone in need then, why not?"
The can arrived at home and Leo received a call from the people of the production team and they gave him some basic
instruction. Leo carefully noted it all.
After he finished taking the call Leo looked at Lily and said, "They would be sending someone over tomorrow to discuss the schedule. I think they might start shooting on Saturday morning and we might head out eight then. Would you be okay with that?"
Lily nodded and the day took its regular trajectory. The twins came back with Snow and they hugged Leo hard. The young man was surprised and asked , "What happened?"
Elena was the first to complain, "They pinched my cheeks out of shape. They all smelled so bad."
Julian followed, "Their kids kept trying to take my toys. That aunty spoke so loud that I was almost going to pass out."
Elena took over again," one of those aunties even had a prickly beard and she scratched my hand."
The little darling even raised the back of her reddened palm. Leo looked at Snow, who sighed and replied, "I had no idea those people would act like savages but I restricted them from touching Rids after that hand scratch. Mrs. Dourin even apologized and I couldn’t bear to embarrass her even more. So I didn’t say anything else."
Leo shook his head and said, "It’s alright, why are you so bothered? These two have been too contained inside the house that they have no tolerance for the world outside. From now on, take them with you when you go for meetings or overtime. Let them learn, after all, that’s how Lily learned when I was on the bed. Didn’t she?"
The twins were surprised to see that Leo had realized the crux of their condition despite the fact they used clear speech Leo didn’t praise them and even told Snow to them out even more. Then Leo looked at the twins and said, "The may spoke just now was very good but we need to understand that someday you would need to go out of the house and then you will find that the world is really uncomfortable. It doesn’t bend unless you are strong enough. So, from now on be strong and be kind. You can buy more toys but you buy friends and they don’t want to snatch your toys, they only want to play and share things with you."
He preached to the twins for a bit then he told Snow about the TV show project and after a few minutes, Snow looked at Lily, and asked, "Will this collide with her academics?"
Leo shook his head at her and assured her that he would take care of that. Snow nodded and then said, "Fine, do what you want."
Lily came up and hugged Snow as she asked, "Ma, how was your day?"
Snow smiled at her eldest and answered her questions. On the other hand, Leo found the secret behind the fluid complaints made by his twins. It turned out that they have been rehearsing it all over and over in their heads since the evening.
He realized that these two were similar to Lily in many regards, as she would also do what she wanted to do if she made a decision.
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The rest of the week went by in a flurry, well that was all the author, who decided to avoid fillers and focus on the main events.
It was Saturday morning and a team of three people arrived at the gates of the mansion. Kyle was the guard and as soon as he saw the camera crew, he greeted them with a firm expression and said, "As agreed earlier, you will focus on the back of the escorting guard and he will lead you to Mister Cardinal, you are free to film the inside of the house as you want but avoid pointing at the security methods and the guard placements."
The leader of the team was a presenter, she was a little intimidated but her assistant handled the situation calmly. The crew moved into the mansion under the lead of a guard. The presenter took the cue and said, "Welcome to the first episode of, Let’s go daddy! We are about to meet the last guest of this new season. I can assure you all that you would be shocked to see the guest. Hehe, don’t believe me? Fine, let’s ring the bell and meet the guests."
The viewers in the live stream had been waiting eagerly and comments were flying like bullets out of a machine gun. Most of them were just pointing at the host and teasing her.
However, the lady was also a veteran and ignored the non-sense. The camera panned and it showed the lady ringing the bell. Shortly after the door was pulled open from the inside. The people saw Alpha, who bowed and greeted the "Good morning to you, Miss Isedol."
Isedol smiled and replied in kind as Alpha said while stepping to the side, "Please come inside. Master and Young miss would be joining you in a bit."
The crew went inside the house and the viewers began to guess the identity of guests, however the camera person was locked-in and it didn’t show anything other than Isedol sitting on the couch and catching a lot of curses.
