Madam, Please Behave-Chapter 1: I’ll Go Buy You Some Oranges

“Stay here and don’t wander off. I’ll go buy some oranges.”

The voice that emerged from his mouth was steady but tinged with weariness. His stubbled face, carrying a hint of ruggedness, made him appear somewhat haggard.

A flicker of worry crossed the chubby boy’s face, but it was quickly concealed.

“Okay.”

He responded faintly, lowering his head again almost immediately.

Liu Changqing looked at his son’s expression, and a trace of melancholy crept into his heart. After a brief moment of distraction, he began walking toward a nearby fruit stall.

His sadness stemmed from a simple feeling of incomprehension.

He had transmigrated.

To be precise, he had crossed over into this parallel world.

The societal structure here wasn’t much different from his previous life. Apart from some minor changes in place names and cities, as well as a few historical figures being replaced, the world was largely the same.

Comparatively, this society seemed to correspond to the year 2005 in his previous life.

Liu Changqing

Gender: Male

Age: 35

Marital Status: Divorced

He had two children. The chubby boy from earlier was his son, who was 15 years old and in his second year of middle school.

He also had a 10-year-old daughter, currently in the fourth grade of elementary school. Because of their parents’ divorce and her misunderstanding of the situation, she had been in conflict with Liu Changqing recently.

It had been a week since he transmigrated. Previously, he was just over 20 years old, and now he found himself in the body of a 35-year-old in this world. The sudden change was disorienting.

In his previous life, he hadn’t even reached the stage of considering marriage, yet here he had skipped directly to raising two kids.

Looking at his son’s somewhat pudgy figure, Liu Changqing roughly understood. When it came to raising children, this body’s original owner had done his duty. There was no so-called negligence.

With the little money he had left, he carefully picked out some oranges, carried them in his hand, and returned to the chubby boy, who stood there with his head down, looking a bit timid.

He pulled out one of the oranges.

“Try it.”

“Dad…”

The boy didn’t take the orange. Instead, he kept his head down, his voice turning hoarse as if he was holding back tears.

“Did Mom… really fall in love with someone else?”

A trace of hatred surfaced in Liu Changqing’s heart, but he quickly suppressed it.

He had no fondness for this body’s ex-wife. In the hazy yet vivid memories he inherited, he understood the whole story.

To put it simply, the original Liu Changqing was a casualty of love.

In high school, his ex-wife and her so-called close girlfriend had both fallen for the same boy. The messy love triangle eventually fell apart because of differences in personality.

Disheartened and feeling hopeless about love, the ex-wife became a vulnerable target for Liu Changqing, who had secretly admired her for a long time.

During their first year of high school, she had once stood on stage as a representative, radiating confidence with her every gesture and calm demeanor. That moment deeply captivated the original Liu Changqing.

He pursued her relentlessly for three years, never giving up. Eventually, when the love triangle collapsed, he finally approached the disheartened girl.

Beneath the tree, with vacant eyes, she had spoken to Liu Changqing, who had pursued her tirelessly for three years.

“You like me, don’t you? Let’s get married after high school.”

After their marriage, they had a son and a daughter. Liu Changqing devoted himself wholeheartedly to his family, treating his wife with the utmost care, always worried about upsetting her.

Yet, deep down, he could sense it—over the years, that woman had never shown him any genuine affection.

As the submissive party in the relationship, Liu Changqing gave up continuing his education after high school to provide a better life for his wife. He plunged into the workforce, working tirelessly to earn money. This left him with a low educational background, a worn-out appearance from years of hard labor, and an undeniable disparity in temperament compared to his ex-wife.

She exuded the air of a rich socialite, while Liu Changqing looked like an ordinary man.

Her upbringing in a wealthy environment made her extravagant, spending money freely. She never held back when it came to herself, and with her well-maintained appearance, she looked more like a youthful woman in her early twenties rather than someone in her thirties.

The core reason for their divorce stemmed from his ex-mother-in-law’s disapproval. The reason for her disapproval was straightforward—she believed that an ordinary man like Liu Changqing was unworthy of her daughter.

His ex-mother-in-law was the epitome of a strong-willed woman.

She excelled in her career, her confidence making her domineering and uncompromising. When her husband was still alive, she restrained herself somewhat, but after he became bedridden and eventually passed away, her true nature was revealed.

During her husband's illness, she stopped visiting the hospital entirely.

Liu Changqing’s marriage to his ex-wife had never received her approval. To put it bluntly, she had never accepted Liu Changqing as a person.

No matter what he did, it was always seen as disgusting in her eyes. Even after they had two children, her opinion never changed.

After her husband's death, she completely let loose, pursuing “soulmates” with an eagerness that changed men as casually as swapping tissues. She destroyed the marriage her late husband had reluctantly approved of by orchestrating a reunion between Liu Changqing’s ex-wife and her high school crush at a social event.

When the original Liu Changqing divorced, he was still the humbler party. In exchange for custody of the children, he left his ex-wife unburdened, walking away with only 3,000 yuan in the bank. Everything else—the house, the car—went to her.

For a family with her kind of wealth, those assets were hardly significant.

After transmigrating and absorbing the original owner’s memories, Liu Changqing didn’t do anything drastic. He simply sat at the corner of the street, smoked half a pack of cigarettes, and slapped himself repeatedly.

As for his son, Liu Zhiyue, the boy’s current demeanor was triggered by the scene they had just witnessed: his mother, looking like an elegant lady, walking arm in arm with a mature, composed man as they laughed and chatted. Together, they got into a luxury car parked nearby.

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The mother he had spent over a decade with was now someone else’s wife. Liu Zhiyue held back the ache in his heart, refusing to cry.

Liu Changqing, after a brief daze, peeled an orange and lifted Liu Zhiyue’s face, stuffing a segment into his mouth.

“Isn’t it sweet?”

Tears rolled down Liu Zhiyue’s round cheeks. Looking at his father’s weathered face, which still wore a gentle smile, he couldn’t hold back any longer. His lips trembled, and he stubbornly said, “It’s sour, so sour!”

In another car, Li Wanran gazed out of the window, lost in thought.

The man beside her noticed and pulled her into his arms.

“What’s wrong? Feeling upset?”

“It’s nothing.”

She shook her head lightly, as if shedding her façade. Her hand reached out, touching the man’s face, her palm gently stroking it.

The man chuckled, feeling a tickle, and grabbed her hand.

Time seemed to pause as they both immersed themselves in the moment. Li Wanran’s half-closed eyes locked onto the man in front of her, the man she had yearned for in her youth.

Love surged in her heart, but her mind flashed back to another face—and two children.

She pushed the man away and slumped into her seat.

She wasn’t sure if she still loved Liu Changqing.

If not for reuniting with this man at a party hosted by her mother’s friend...

If not for seeing this man, who had once driven her mad with infatuation, years later...

But there were no “ifs.”

Their first child might have been an accident, but the second—her daughter—had been her own deliberate choice.

Yet the man in front of her, the one she had loved and hated, was just too captivating.

Thinking about her children, Li Wanran glanced at the man beside her.

Her gaze deepened, full of love, as she slowly got lost in his face.

“This time, I won’t let go,” she thought.

“Sorry, my children… perhaps I truly am a bad mother.”