"Why did you provoke Father? You're so smart, you should know that besides being our father, he's also an emperor who holds the power of life and death over all of us. Aren't you afraid he'll kill you if you deliberately anger him?"

The most difficult thing about raising cubs is that they are fearless and their thoughts and behaviors cannot be judged by common sense.

Ye Jing and his companion showed no fear of imperial power and were quite audacious, which was not a good thing in this era.

"He wouldn't kill me over something so trivial!" Ye Jinghe said dismissively.

“But he will dislike you because of that,” Ye Jingchen said.

"He never liked me in the first place."

As he said this, Ye Jinghe remained calm.

Ye Jingchen was speechless.

Children are actually very perceptive; he couldn't possibly lie to Ye Jinghe, nor could he possibly fool him.

Only a simple child like Ye Jingyu would be happy for a long time because of a simple sentence like "Father Emperor likes you very much".

“But if you tease him, he might get angry and implicate innocent people,” Ye Jingchen said.

“They have nothing to do with me.” Ye Jinghe said, throwing herself into Ye Jingchen’s arms and hugging him, saying coquettishly, “I only care about my brother.”

"Do you know how many emperors and crown princes in history ultimately died at the hands of their own maids and eunuchs?" Ye Jingchen gently patted his back and asked softly.

Ye Jinghe's body stiffened for a moment, then slumped into Ye Jingchen's arms.

“Then we’ll keep the palace servants away. Didn’t you say that you can do what you can yourself? Let’s keep them far away.”

“We can’t guarantee that we can stay away from everyone, and we don’t have much time to deal with the trivial matters of daily life. There are always some things that require help from others,” Ye Jingchen said unhurriedly.

"Moreover, among the people we come into contact with, there might be those who harbor resentment towards us and want to kill us."

"People are so complicated. Why can't we just make all the people we don't like disappear?" Ye Jinghe sighed.

The signs of antisocial personality disorder are already beginning to emerge.

"Can you make everyone disappear?" Ye Jingchen asked, pinching his little face.

Ye Jing and Guai Guai were being pinched, and they looked particularly well-behaved, but what they said was not the case at all.

"Why not?" he asked matter-of-factly.

"Do you want to live?" Ye Jingchen asked him.

"Of course I want to, death is too painful," Ye Jinghe said.

He had suffered so much and still hadn't died, so he couldn't imagine how painful death would be.

"Others also want to live, and others are also trying their best to live," Ye Jingchen said.

"You should be the one who understands best what it feels like to be bullied and powerless to fight back, so don't become the kind of person you hate the most, okay?" Ye Jingchen asked.

Ye Jinghe buried his head in Ye Jingchen's arms and remained silent for a long time.

Ye Jingchen knew he needed to give him time to figure things out on his own, so he didn't say anything more, just patted his back intermittently to comfort him.

"Brother, my head hurts so much!" Ye Jinghe suddenly murmured.

Why do they all bully me?

"They can bully me, so why can't I bully others?"

"Brother, why didn't you find me sooner!"

Hearing Ye Jinghe's soft murmurs, Ye Jingchen felt extremely distressed.

The words mentioned only briefly in the novel are actually the real hardships that Ye Jinghe experienced.

such a small child—

Ye Jinghe in the novel has no redemption. He is tormented as he grows up, so in the end he also goes mad and takes revenge on everyone.

But the child in his arms is different. He came, though a little late, but he will protect the child and will not let him suffer any more bullying or unfair treatment!

"You've already seen how despicable and ugly those who wantonly bully the weak are, so you definitely won't become that kind of person, right?"

“Although you can’t redeem your past self, you can be someone else’s salvation, someone else’s light. Isn’t that a particularly meaningful way to live?” Ye Jingchen comforted him while speaking softly.

“Brother is my salvation, my light, so does brother hope that I can become like you? Can I?” Ye Jinghe murmured.

He was fully aware of how dark and twisted his own heart was.

"Of course you can! As long as you have a chivalrous heart, dare to step forward when you encounter injustice, help those in need, and then pass on this spirit to those you help, the world will get better and better!" Ye Jingchen encouraged.

"Of course, these things are too far away from you right now. You're still too young. The most important thing is to eat well, sleep well, study well, and grow up happily," Ye Jingchen added.

Ye Jinghe remained silent for a long time before asking, "Can I help only my brother and not others?"

"No one else helped me, only my brother did, and I only want to help my brother," he said stubbornly.

Ye Jingchen said helplessly, "Fine, then if you listen to me from now on, that's helping me."

"I've always listened to my brother!" Ye Jinghe said innocently.

Ye Jingchen reached out and poked his forehead, saying irritably, "You're only obedient on the surface, don't think I don't know that?"

"As expected, nothing can be hidden from you, brother! You're like a worm in my stomach!" Ye Jinghe said with great joy.

What a disgusting analogy!

Ye Jingchen shook his head and said seriously, "You're not allowed to deliberately tease anyone anymore, no matter who it is, understand?"

"Okay," Ye Jinghe said, pursing his lips in agreement.

As long as he doesn't do it in front of his brother, his brother probably won't know.

"You can't do it in front of me, and you can't do it behind my back!" Ye Jingchen warned, as if he knew what he was thinking.

Ye Jinghe subconsciously covered his mouth. He probably hadn't said what was on his mind.

Seeing this, Ye Jingchen chuckled and pinched his cheek, deliberately trying to scare him: "You yourself said that I can read your mind. I can tell what you're thinking just by looking at you, so don't even think about being two-faced!"

"Then brother, don't look at me!" Ye Jinghe stopped covering his mouth and started covering Ye Jingchen's eyes.

What if his brother sees that he's a black-hearted brat? Will he stop liking him altogether?

Faced with Ye Jing's blatant attempt to cover up his misunderstanding, Ye Jingchen laughed without any restraint.

"I suddenly have a craving for glutinous rice balls. How about we have them for supper tonight? Green tea flavored, small glutinous rice balls with black sesame filling," Ye Jingchen said to Ye Jinghe with a smile.

What are tangyuan?

What is a late-night snack?

What does green tea flavor taste like?

Why is my brother always saying things I don't understand?

Ye Jinghe looked completely bewildered.