Chapter 258: Chapter 258

Actually, in the morning rush to leave, Anna Thornton herself didn’t have any breakfast.

She took Lola to a breakfast shop. Since the child didn’t have any special cravings, Anna Thornton ordered the most basic breakfast: a basket of soup dumplings and steamed dumplings, two eggs, and she got herself a bowl of porridge and bought Lola a pack of milk.

When ordering, Lola had no objections, but upon seeing the steaming soup dumplings placed in front of him, he frowned and refused to use his chopsticks.

"What’s wrong?" Anna Thornton asked him.

"I don’t like the dumpling filling."

Anna Thornton opened a soup dumpling and squeezed out the filling with the steam, placing it aside, then offered half of the dumpling skin to Lola’s mouth.

The little guy, after a sip of milk, finally opened his delicate mouth and reluctantly took a small bite.

Anna Thornton finally remembered who he resembled!

Lola’s picky eating was identical to Conrad Sterling!

If Conrad Sterling were picky in front of her, Anna Thornton would definitely diss him mercilessly.

But when faced with a handsome and adorable little cutie, her approach became different.

"Lola, if you don’t really like dumplings, how about trying to eat it like I do?" Anna Thornton loved to eat dumplings dipped in vinegar, so she tore off a piece of dumpling skin near the filling, which had flavor but lacked the disliked scallions and ginger.

She dipped the dumpling skin in a bit of vinegar and fed it to the little dumpling, and this time he took a bigger bite.

"Is it too sour?" Anna Thornton asked him.

Lola shook his head, savoring his meal.

It’s rare to find someone with such similar taste to Anna Thornton’s; she could feed Lola half of a dumpling skin after dipping it in vinegar, while she herself ate the filling and remaining half.

"Sweetie, do you want to try some porridge?"

Just yesterday, Lola had looked at the world with caution, but after eating half a dumpling skin, he reverted to being a dependent three-year-old in front of Anna Thornton.

It’s simply a lack of love; in truth, little dumplings all yearn for parental care and affection deep down.

Anna Thornton probably felt an exceptional bond with this child, which made her feel especially sympathetic toward him.

After finishing breakfast, Anna Thornton should send the little dumpling back.

Coincidentally, the commercial from yesterday was just missing a few shots, so she took Lola directly to the film set, avoiding any conflict with his parents.

However, Lola seemed to have guessed Anna Thornton’s plan, and after eating, he refused to get back into her car, tightly clutching his skateboard.

Implying a threat to Anna Thornton: if you want to send me back, I’ll just skate away myself.

Anna Thornton couldn’t rest assured letting him go alone, so she squatted on the roadside to reason with him.

"Sweetie, do you not want to go home?"

"Then could you tell me why you don’t want to go back? Is it because they hit you?"

"It’s not good for kids to lie!"

A breakfast’s duration was enough for Anna Thornton to realize, little Lola had intentionally called her to have her take him away.

This trick felt like déjà vu for Anna Thornton.

About half a year ago, before they returned to the country, Pop had once been abducted abroad.

Back then, little Pop relied on her cuteness to attract the attention of kind-hearted strangers, and then pretended to be pitiful, making people believe she was being mistreated. Wherever the traffickers took Pop, they were treated like a public menace.

In the end, unable to withstand the pressure and condemnation, they obediently returned Pop.

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Besides, yesterday at the commercial set, Anna Thornton had noticed Lola’s mother’s nervous demeanor over him.

If they saw the child as a money tree, they wouldn’t have stripped the tree bare.

Seeing Anna Thornton’s realization, Lola neither admitted nor denied.

After eating, the little dumpling wiped his milky hands with a napkin for five minutes.

It’s unclear how, at such a young age, he developed a cleanliness obsession?

"Didn’t you say you’d buy me candy and toys?"

Anna Thornton did mention it, but Lola seemed uninterested in things kids usually liked.

Anna Thornton figured he wanted to stall, but went along with it: "Alright, let’s go for a stroll."

Later in the child’s toy store, it really was just a stroll.

Things like toy cars, planes, excavators—whatever little boys usually liked, Lola wasn’t interested in at all.

As for candy, dolls, plush toys—what little girls liked, he flatly refused to look at them.

Although Anna Thornton took him there to buy toys, the roles between adult and child seemed reversed.

Upon entering the store, Lola climbed onto a leather bench meant for resting, sitting amidst the adults waiting for children to pick out toys and settle payments.

Anna Thornton, on the other hand, went straight to the toy experience area, eagerly consulting the staff on how to operate remote-controlled toy cars.

"Sweetie, come and see what fresh toy I’ve found!"

Anna Thornton presented a dog toy to Lola as if it were a treasure, but the little dumpling only glanced at it and lost interest, moving his gaze away: "Not interested!"

"Don’t be like that, it’s really fun. Let me teach you!" Anna Thornton said and demonstrated, "You have to sneakily steal bones from the bowl in front of the dog without alerting it. It might react at any time, so be careful not to startle it."

Anna Thornton personally demonstrated using a little clip to pick several plastic bones, then pushed the toy in front of Lola: "Come on, give it a try, let’s have a race."

The little dumpling, intrigued by her words, took the clip handed by Anna Thornton and began to pick bones from the bowl.

This toy was quite realistic, the dog even emitted a ’snoring’ sound, creating a sense of tension. Anna Thornton held her breath watching the little dumpling seriously transport the ’bones’.

Suddenly, the toy attack dog’s mouth opened wide and twisted, startling Lola into pulling his hand back.

"Ahahaha... isn’t it fun?" Anna Thornton found the little dumpling’s reaction to be even more amusing.

A three-year-old imitating maturity. Clearly attracted by these toys but insisting on feigning disinterest.

Though startled by the toy dog, he tightly held his innocent expression, maintaining his aloof demeanor.

"Stop laughing!" Lola realizing he was teased, glared angrily at Anna Thornton.

"Alright, alright, I won’t laugh... hahaha!"

Anna Thornton couldn’t help herself.

Especially seeing Lola pretending to be ’super fierce’, trying to act serious but accidentally pouting, all soft and adorable, he was just too cute.

Anna Thornton really wanted to hold his face, rub it, and then kiss it.

Due to Anna Thornton’s poor self-control, she acted on her thought, completely breaking the aloof little dumpling’s expression management.

Lola received a kiss on one cheek, turning his whole face a light shade of pink.

But the little dumpling’s response was quick. After a moment of embarrassment, he reverted to being serious: "You toy, I can buy it for you."

"You! Buy it for me?" Anna Thornton doubted if he misspoke.

But Lola wasn’t Pop; although he didn’t say much, he never mixed up subject and object. His thinking ability was strong.

Not only did he speak, but he directly took out a bank card from his clothes’ pocket and handed it to the clerk.

"Is this card yours?" Anna Thornton questioned doubtfully.

Seeing Lola nod, Anna Thornton doubted even more; now at three years old, can they have bank cards? And a gold card?!!

"Anyway, the money is earned by me; the card doesn’t have a password. Just pick whatever you like, I’ll gift it to you!"

This was probably Lola’s longest sentence yet, right?

Showing such domineering CEO style at such a young age!

Though Anna Thornton knew those child models earned quite a bit, she still couldn’t help but ask: "Why do you want to give me a gift?"

"Because of this!" The little dumpling pointed to the phone watch on his right wrist.

"Meaning, mutual exchange?"

Actually, no. The main reason was that Lola liked Anna Thornton.

Because he liked her, he was willing to accept the childish phone watch Anna Thornton gave him.

Because he liked her, he particularly enjoyed the breakfast Anna Thornton fed him.

If he didn’t like someone... even if they claimed to be his parents, the aloof little dumpling wouldn’t show them any credit.

"Let me tell you a secret."

"I’m not their biological child."

"Why do you say that? Because your parents are bad to you?"

Lola replied solemnly: "No, because they’re too stupid!"

Anna Thornton was speechless: "..."