Five Years

After marveling at Mark's appearance, someone suddenly brought up his background.

"I heard this child's biological father is Tony Stark?"

"Really? How did you find out?"

"San Fernando Valley Entertainment News reported it, but I heard they later issued an apology!"

"It has to be fake! How could Tony Stark's son come here to shoot commercials?"

"..."

Listening to the discussion around him, Caleb's face darkened as he shouted, "What are you all doing? Don't you have work to do?"

Mark heard their discussion too, and he was somewhat puzzled. How did these people find out about this?

San Fernando Valley Entertainment News did not have many readers to begin with, and so much time had passed that these people could not possibly still remember it.

"It must have been that woman Emily from yesterday!"

Mark's mind raced, and he quickly identified a suspect.

Emily and Rosalie were sworn rivals. Coupled with the fact that Rosalie had taken the commercial role this time, Emily must have spread the news out of spite.

Mark added another heavy mark against Emily.

Under Caleb's arrangements, Rosalie went to the changing room next door and changed into a more homey outfit.

She then went to the makeup room, changed her hairstyle, and put on light, gentle makeup.

At that moment, Rosalie was filled with maternal charm.

Caleb was very satisfied with Rosalie's image and immediately ordered filming to begin.

With Mark deliberately cooperating, the shoot went very smoothly.

It took less than half an hour to finish filming.

Even including the later pickup shots, the entire process took less than an hour.

"Wonderful! Little Mark is so smart!"

Caleb could not stop praising Mark's performance. He looked at Rosalie. "Please leave me your contact information. If there are suitable roles for Little Mark in the future, I'll contact you."

Rosalie naturally did not refuse and handed Caleb her business card.

She then said goodbye to everyone and left with Daphne, pushing the stroller.

According to regulations, Tenda GG Company would not pay Rosalie directly. The payment had to be issued through a third-party payroll company.

As a result, Rosalie did not receive the three-thousand-dollar payment until a week later.

By then, Lisa Formula Company had also released the formula commercial across the internet, subway stations, television channels, and several newspapers.

As expected, the soft, adorable Mark in the commercial quickly won over many people.

"Wow, this baby is so beautiful!"

"If I could have such a cute child someday, I'd thank God!"

"..."

Lisa Formula Company's formula sales that month even rose by around thirty percent because of that commercial.

Affected by this, businesses related to infant and toddler products began contacting Rosalie on their own initiative.

Diapers, baby bottles, baby body wash, skin cream, strollers, baby rockers...

Rosalie took Mark to major commercial companies to shoot advertisements for those products.

Compared to working as an extra on set, shooting commercials paid better and was much easier.

At the end of the month, Rosalie did the math and found that she had earned more than fifty thousand dollars that month!

That amount was nothing compared to Hollywood stars, but it was already far beyond Rosalie's former income.

"Baby, we can finally move out of here!"

Rosalie said excitedly to Mark.

After getting money, the first thing she did was move.

After all, this district was far too chaotic!

Whether for an infant like Mark or a single mother like Rosalie, it was not safe here.

Rosalie spent two days looking at houses everywhere before finally renting a house she liked in the Clem District, ten kilometers away.

After contacting a moving company, mother and son moved into their new home that very day.

Compared to their old district, the Clem District was much cleaner and more orderly.

It also had a neighborhood association that hired security guards to patrol and prevent homeless people, gang members, and other criminals from entering the district.

What pleased Mark most was the yard that came with the house.

The yard was covered in lawn and received plenty of sunlight. Mark could sit on the grass and bask in the sun throughout the day.

Early the next morning, Rosalie bought some fruit and took Mark door to door to visit the nearby neighbors.

To rent a house in this district, it was not enough to afford the rent; one also needed the approval of the surrounding neighbors.

If someone offended the neighbors, they could even jointly petition to have that person driven out.

Since Rosalie was new here, she naturally needed to maintain good relationships with the neighbors and leave a good impression on them.

"Wow, is this Little Mark? He's so adorable!"

"Rosalie, I'm really jealous of you for having such a cute child!"

"..."

As expected, Mark quickly won the affection of all the nearby neighbors.

The housewives in particular looked at Mark as if stars were about to spill from their eyes.

After settling into the new home, Rosalie continued taking Mark out to shoot commercials.

By now, all the nearby commercial companies knew of a young actor named Mark who was not only adorable but also extremely cooperative with directors during filming.

This kept Mark's offers coming. Even commercials unrelated to infant products would contact him as long as they needed a baby on camera.

Five years passed in the blink of an eye.

As Mark grew older, Rosalie had almost stopped limiting how long he spent in the sun.

This greatly increased Mark's efficiency in absorbing Sunlight Value. In five years, he rose five levels in a row and upgraded Super Brain to LV8.

Level 8 Super Brain had already placed Mark's intelligence at the pinnacle of humanity.

Even when facing Tony Stark, Iron Man, who could rival gods with a mortal body, Mark was confident that he was no weaker than him in terms of intelligence!

He could now remember anything after seeing it once, and he learned all kinds of knowledge at an astonishing speed.

He could even recite every word of books he had casually skimmed through before his transmigration.

Whenever Rosalie was not home, Mark turned on the computer and secretly studied interdisciplinary knowledge such as advanced mathematics, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, cell biology, computer languages, and network technology.

Knowledge that had once seemed like heavenly scripture now became incredibly easy for him to teach himself.

That afternoon, Rosalie returned home after auditioning for an important movie role. She looked dejected and dispirited, her entire body radiating gloom.

"What's wrong, Mom? Did the audition fail again?"

Mark poured a cup of warm water and set it in front of Rosalie as he asked with concern.

After living together day and night for the past five years, he had already come to regard Rosalie as his true mother.

Seeing her like this, Mark's heart ached for her.