Transmigrated as a vicious stepmother, I raised a child who became a heartthrob.

After leaving the company, Jiang Zhuhua went to the daycare center and brought the person home.

Jiang Ji has the potential to be a chatterbox. He has become a king among the children at the daycare, chatting with many people in a lively and engaging way.

She even gets along very well with the teachers at the daycare, calling them "pretty sister" all the time. She's completely smitten with those little girls.

"Happy New Year, beautiful sister! I'll come visit you again after the New Year!"

As Jiang Ji left, she was still greeting the teacher, her dimples almost mesmerizing.

"Pretty sister? Is Mommy pretty?"

Jiang Zhuhua picked him up and spun him around. He then pinched his cheek lightly.

"My mother is an angel; 'beautiful' is an understatement."

Jiang Ji said sweetly, then leaned in and gave him a kiss.

"Put me down quickly, I'm going to faint! Mom!"

Jiang Ji spoke in a soft, weak voice.

Jiang Zhuhua obediently put the person down and watched as Jiang Ji played the role of Lin Daiyu, making a delicate gesture with her fingers, gently touching her forehead, and sighing with emotion.

"Oh dear~ I'm so captivated by this angelic beauty that I'm completely out of my mind~ What should I do?"

She looks particularly delicate and affected, but because of her young age, she has a certain cuteness.

Jiang Zhuhua laughed uncontrollably.

"Of course, I'd rather be in Mommy's arms!"

Jiang Zhuhua mimicked the other person's tone and called out in a soft voice. Jiang Ji immediately stumbled over, a silly smile on his face.

"This is An'an's first New Year with her mother, and I haven't bought you any new clothes yet."

After finishing up at the company, it was almost the end of the year, but thankfully the mall was still open. Jiang Zhuhua led Jiang Ji slowly away.

Because the roads are slippery, there are always places where the snow hasn't been cleared.

Do I need to buy new clothes for the Chinese New Year? What else do I need to prepare?

Jiang Ji asked curiously.

"I can't remember. Putting up Spring Festival couplets? Making dumplings? I've never really celebrated the Spring Festival properly, so there are a lot of things I don't know."

Jiang Zhuhua tried to dredge up relevant information from his memory, but he couldn't find any no matter how hard he tried. He mostly just watched other people celebrate the New Year.

She used to be incredibly poor, then incredibly busy, and finally died of illness. Looking back, she never had a proper Spring Festival.

"Then let's spend the Spring Festival together! An'an will stay with Mom."

Jiang Ji grasped Jiang Zhuhua's fingers and solemnly made a promise.

The two got into the car and went to buy new clothes and other things they would need for the next few days of the Lunar New Year. They discussed what they had bought together.

Should we buy some candy?

Jiang Ji stood in the bulk section looking at the candies inside, listening to his classmates say that they would buy a lot of candies and melon seeds during the Chinese New Year.

"It's just the two of us, we probably won't need it, right?"

Jiang Ji muttered softly. "Mom doesn't like the Jiang family, and I don't like Dad's side of the family. Isn't this it? We're all together now."

There were only the two of them.

"It's nice to buy some; it adds a touch of ritual. Eat it slowly."

Jiang Zhuhua hesitated for a moment, then carefully packed a little bit, since there were only two of them and they couldn't possibly eat that much.

Then there were tangerines, sugarcane, and all sorts of other things. The two of them didn't realize how much they had bought until they finished shopping.

Then they stared blankly at the contents of the trunk, finally looked at each other, and laughed.

"Mom, we can eat until the end of time."

Jiang Ji kept laughing, and for some reason, the two of them sat under the setting sun, munching on sunflower seeds.

Then, as they kept eating the sunflower seed shells, they ended up burying them.

"It's just a little bit too much! I'll have to trouble An'an to help with that later."

Jiang Zhuhua does not practice education based on hardship, but he also does not allow his children to be lazy. He believes that the affairs of a family should be undertaken by the family members.

An'an should naturally start taking on some family responsibilities from a young age.

"Of course! Mother Fairy, you should go and rest. Let me, your knight, protect you!"

The children chattered excitedly, sharing what they had seen and heard at kindergarten and the friends they had met at daycare.

As if they had endless things to say, Jiang Zhuhua listened and occasionally offered a response.

After finally managing to handle everything, the two returned home and began to busy themselves with other things.

The two of them were preparing for the New Year very late, so they had to work overtime to make sure everything was done properly, just for the sake of creating a sense of ritual.

After buying groceries at noon, we prepared the dough, and in the afternoon, the two of us sat together to make dumplings.

Jiang Ji had absolutely no idea how to make dumplings, but the dumpling wrappers seemed to have a different meaning in his hands. Jiang Ji tried several times to get the dough right, but in the end, he twisted it into the shape of a bun, except that the bun had a big bulge on top.

"Mom, should we just throw them all in the pot to boil? They should be edible as boiled buns, right?"

Jiang Ji looked at the ugly bun. The ugly bun was too conspicuous among a group of beautiful crescent moons, so Jiang Ji quietly put it in a corner.

"I'll cook it for you."

Jiang Zhuhua glanced casually at the strange object and handed it to him.

This time it wasn't an ugly steamed bun, but rather looked like a caterpillar.

Jiang Ji made a bunch of oddly shaped dumplings. Jiang Zhuhua washed a coin clean, disinfected it, washed it again, and wrapped it in a dumpling when Jiang Zhuhua wasn't looking.

Since it was just the two of them, they didn't make many dumplings. Just enough for the two of them.

When the dumplings were ready, Jiang Zhuhua told him, "I put a coin inside one of the dumplings. Whoever finds it will have good luck for the whole year."

Jiang Ji's eyes lit up immediately. He scooped the ugly dumplings into his bowl, and didn't miss the other dumplings either.

I ate more at this meal than before, constantly hoping that I would find the coin in my food.

It's a real pity he didn't get to eat any. Jiang Zhuhua, on the other hand, was surprised and spat out a coin.

It was her first time participating in such an event, and she felt as if the heavens were taking pity on her.

"Mom will be super, super lucky next year."

Jiang Ji was a little disappointed, but still very happy.

The Spring Festival Gala wasn't very good, so the two of them sat together and chatted.

"When you wake up tomorrow morning, say something auspicious, okay? An'an. I'll give you an orange; you have to eat it."

Jiang Zhuhua really had no experience in this area; he had only learned about it from a book, and had even forgotten which book it was from.

"Ok."

Jiang Ji lay on Jiang Zhuhua's lap watching TV; television always has a mysterious attraction for children.

He watched TV and made some complaints, then his eyes slowly closed, his eyelids drooping with sleepiness.

Jiang Zhuhua also stared at the TV until he felt the person on his lap was completely asleep, then he turned off the TV.