Outside the dressing room, there was a knock on the door.

“Come in.”

“Excuse me.” The staff member responsible for coordinating with Lin Cheng’s group pushed the door open and walked into the lounge.

“I’m really sorry, because of the last-minute adjustments made by the station, the guests and the theme of this episode have changed slightly. Thank you for your understanding. Our staff should have already sent you the show’s flow after the adjustment has been made. The main process is still similar to the previous one, but some minor adjustments have been made to the game content.

“Here is the new script and today’s schedule,” the staff said, handing a sheaf of papers to Lin Cheng, and then looked at the time and said, “The official recording time of the program is 7:30 in the evening. The rehearsal time has been slightly adjusted and is now scheduled at 3 pm. It is expected to go on until around 5 pm. The guests can prepare and put on makeup in the meantiime. If you have any questions, please contact our staff at any time.”

After the staff member finished speaking, they left the dressing room.

At this time, Chen Yu and the others contacted the program team to coordinate the program arrangements, stage time, props and costumes and other details.

Lin Cheng and Lin Momo stayed in the dressing room to look through the script.

The arrangement of the new script was roughly the same as the previous version, and the questions the host would ask Lin Cheng were also similar to the previous ones, except that the games originally intended for adult guests have been replaced with parent-child interactive games with much lower difficulty.

“For the first game, will one person draw and the other will guess the word?” Lin Momo asked Lin Cheng, holding the script. This game also appeared in the previous version.

“Yes,” Lin Cheng nodded, glanced at the instructions at the back and said, “But this time, it’s not a combination of middle-aged stars and young trainees. It will be a combination of parents and children. The children will draw and the parents will guess.”

After listening to the explanation, Lin Momo nodded, but then she frowned again in the next second. She asked worriedly, “What if there are words or names that I don’t know?”

In order to be on the show, Lin Momo made a lot of preparations and watched many previous episodes of [Entertainment Forum]. The ‘I Draw, You Guess’ segment was a common game in [Entertainment Forum]. There were often some uncommon words or names of people and places in it, which Lin Momo may not be able to recognize with her current knowledge level.

“Don’t worry, since today is a parent-child participation, the program team should reduce the difficulty of the words.”

“And anyway,” Lin Cheng changed the subject, “even if you don’t know the word or interpret it wrong, it doesn’t matter.”

After all, it was just a children’s game.

Lin Cheng’s words did not comfort Lin Momo at all but made her frown even more.

“No, it will be embarrassing if you can’t guess it.”

Lin Momo’s serious look made Lin Cheng laugh.

Rubbing Lin Momo’s head, Lin Cheng thought for a while. “How about, if you encounter a word you don’t know or can’t understand, just draw each of its radicals in order, and I can guess it that way.”

“Okay!”

“What about this game? How do you play this?”

… …

Lin Momo tugged at Lin Cheng until she understood all the games on the script, and then she finally felt relieved.

In the lounge, Lin Momo picked up another booklet that Chen Yu had prepared for her in advance and started practicing.

“Hello everyone, my name is Lin Momo, I’m seven years old…”

“I like singing, drawing, dancing…”

The contents were exactly the same as the information that Chen Yu and his team prepared for Lin Momo when she was going to be interviewed for the pilot episode of [Living with Dad], but they were supplemented with additional information according to how Lin Momo actually performed in the program.

It could not be said that these contents had nothing to do with Lin Momo; most of them were also in line with Lin Momo’s actual situation.

Because she was afraid that she would make mistakes due to nervousness after going on stage, faced with this much information, Lin Momo had to practice again and again to make herself remember it.

However, before Lin Momo could finish reading the contents on the first page of notebook, she was interrupted by Lin Cheng who was standing beside her.

“You are not 7 years old, are you?” Lin Cheng asked.

“Ah?” Lin Momo looked at Lin Cheng in confusion.

Lin Cheng said again, “If you are 9 years old this year, then just answer that you are 9 years old.”

“But… “

“No need to lie.”

Lin Cheng knew that Lin Momo didn’t like lying. The reason why she practiced these untrue information over and over again was only because she was worried that she would negatively affect his work in the entertainment industry.

“This…” Lin Momo pointed to the booklet in front of her in embarrassment.

“It doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about it. When recording the program, you can just tell the truth when the host asks you something. Don’t be nervous or worry about saying the wrong thing. You can say whatever you want.”

Lin Cheng’s tone was positive and full of affirmation, and to Lin Momo’s ears, it seemed to have a magical, soothing effect.

So, Lin Momo nodded.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

In the afternoon, the guests went up on stage and started the first rehearsal.

Because of the limited time, the whole rehearsal process was very simple: the host and staff first led the celebrity guests around the stage so they would know their positions and blocking in front of the camera and then they went through the program segments. They demonstrated how the games would go, and then it was done.

After going through the show’s process, a rehearsal for the guests’ performances followed.

This episode arranged a total of three song performances: a solo by Lin Cheng; a duo performed by the other two dads; and a chorus song by the five celebrity guests and their children.

The rehearsal of Lin Cheng’s solo was arranged to be shown at the end of the show.

When Lin Cheng’s singing voice sounded, there was a burst of small exclamations around.

“He sounds so good!” a staff member of the program group whispered in the audience.

“Really, he sounds really good!” several other girls next to her also echoed.

They all watched the livestream of [Living with Dad] and were fans of Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. They specifically volunteered to help out at the front desk just so they could come and see their idols.

Several young girls of similar age stared at the stage, covering their mouths with their hands in awe and whispering:

“I almost forgot that Lin Cheng is a singer.”

“Me too.”

“It’s really unbelievable that Lin Cheng is not popular even though he sings so well.”

“Now that Lin Cheng is popular, I wonder if he will release new songs after the recording of [Living with Dad] is finished.”

“Oh my God, it would be great if there is, I’m so looking forward to it!”

“It doesn’t matter whether there are new songs or not. Anyway, even if Lin Cheng doesn’t live up to expectations, can’t he go back to inherit the family property after the recording is finished, hahaha,” a girl said jokingly.

This was just a joke to the other girls, and no one took it seriously.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Chinese characters are pictograms in a lot of ways. Back when Lin Momo was reading the script for [Where Are You?] Lin Cheng explained to her that the character for ‘high’ 垚 has the radical for ‘soil/earth’ 土 stacked one on top of the other.

So this is how he taught Momo to draw if she didn’t know the character — just break it down according to radical. 

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Chapter 98.1 — Recording the Show
Chapter 98.2 — Recording the Show
Chapter 98.3 — Recording the Show