Ji Yueyao thought for a moment. She had always thought that Mu Yanxuan's mother was Xu Yazhi, but when she heard him say these things, she realized that he was not talking about Xu Yazhi's child. Xu Yazhi died during the riot in the military region, but Mu Yanxuan's mother died in childbirth.

"Was it Xu Yazhi who cooked for your father all along?" Ji Yueyao asked softly. "And your mother..."

“It’s Xu Yazhi.” Mu Yanxuan nodded, his tone tinged with sadness. “After my mother passed away, Xu Yazhi raised me. My father loved Xu Yazhi very much… but I know that my mother was just a tool for my father to use, simply because she was a pure nature-type ability user.”

Ji Yueyao blinked, not expecting everything to be so complicated. "Then you must hate your father a lot, right?"

“I don’t hate him.” Mu Yanxuan said this in a light tone, as if he no longer cared about these things. “I have never met my mother, so what is there to hate? My father, Mu Lianhui, had the ideal of unifying the country. That was his ideal, and as his child, I had to fulfill it. That is how my relationship with him is.”

Mu Yanxuan completely concealed his painful and desperate childhood, feeling that there was no need to tell Ji Yueyao about these things.

Ji Yueyao paused for a moment, then raised her hand to wrap around Mu Yanxuan's neck, and said softly, "Isn't unifying C country your ideal? What does it have to do with your father? I still remember how cool you were when you said your ideal."

Ji Yueyao's soft words touched his heart like sunshine. Mu Yanxuan's dark eyes brightened with tears as he looked at Ji Yueyao with eyes full of affection. "Yes, it is my ideal."

Ji Yueyao felt a little uncomfortable being stared at like that. She raised her hand and pushed Mu Yanxuan's head away, her face burning red. "Go away, don't look at me like that, it's weird."

“What’s strange…” Was he being rejected? Mu Yanxuan rubbed Ji Yueyao’s hand sadly, and as he wished, she quickly withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted.

"You rascal..." Ji Yueyao sighed helplessly, touched the sky in her arms and closed her eyes, "I'm so sleepy, I want to sleep."

Mu Yanxuan raised his hand to stroke Ji Yueyao's eyes and felt sorry for her when he saw her dark circles. Without saying a word, he got up, picked up Ji Yueyao, and carried her to her room.

"I can walk by myself." Ji Yueyao said plaintively, but Mu Yanxuan decisively ignored it. After rolling her eyes and exchanging a glance with the sky in her arms, Ji Yueyao resolutely shut up and stopped talking. There was no point in saying anything anyway.

Mu Yanxuan walked into Ji Yueyao's room and put her on the bed, as if he wanted to take off her clothes as well.

"Get out, get out, I want to sleep!" Ji Yueyao looked at the person standing by the bed who wouldn't leave and decisively gave them the order to leave.

"Okay..." Mu Yanxuan reluctantly bent down and gently kissed Ji Yueyao's forehead, then grabbed the sky and walked out.

The sky struggled, its large, azure eyes rolling wildly, "Hey, hey, hey, why are you grabbing me!"

"Where are you going to take it?" Ji Yueyao was also completely bewildered.

"Outside," Mu Yanxuan said calmly. He was joking; how could he possibly allow any other creature to sleep with Ji Yueyao, not even a skull... Of course, he himself was an exception.

The sky's struggles were futile. In fact, to Mu Yanxuan, no matter how much it struggled, it was just its eyeballs dangling around, which had no real meaning whatsoever.

Watching this childish man quietly close the door to her room, Ji Yueyao sighed helplessly. She shamelessly ignored the sky, took out her blanket, and prepared to sleep. Why is Mu Yanxuan acting like a child now?

After more than ten minutes, only Ji Yueyao's faint, even breathing could be heard in the room. She had slept comfortably, but far away in the training area, Zhu Mu was sitting on the training field with dark circles under his eyes, watching Wei Kang train hard and sweat profusely.

"Why aren't you sleeping at night..." Zhu Mu wailed. Ji Yueyao had asked him to come and take care of Wei Kang, and to quickly signal Ji Yueyao and the others in case of any problems. He originally thought it would be an easy job, but who knew that Wei Kang would go crazy on the training field as soon as he arrived.

He's been training all night! Has Wei Kang gone mad?

"Who exactly are you?" Wei Kang, half-kneeling on the ground, wiped the sweat from his brow and walked over. Standing before Zhu Mu, he looked down at him and asked, "Why did you come looking for me?"

"Didn't I tell you... it was Captain... Ji Yueyao who sent me!" Zhu Mu didn't like looking up at people, so he stood up and looked Wei Kang straight in the eye, his tone slightly coaxing like he was talking to a child, "Don't worry, I'm really not a bad person, I'm just here to protect you."

"Protect me?" Wei Kang sneered upon hearing this, took a step back to steady himself, and kicked out without saying a word.

Zhu Mu's years of training hadn't been for nothing; he quickly leaped backward, saying unhappily, "What are you doing!"

A blur flashed before his eyes, and Zhu Mu instinctively raised his hand to block, but unexpectedly, he felt a pain in his left arm and was kicked away.

The power of superhumans is truly formidable... That was the thought that crossed Zhu Mu's mind as he was kicked away.

"You think you can protect me like this?" Wei Kang sneered as he watched the flying bamboo and wood. "Ji Yueyao underestimates me too much... Hey, what's your name?"

Zhu Mu struggled to his feet, rubbing his aching left arm and sighing softly. Protecting someone was no easy task. "My name is Zhu Mu, Zhu as in bamboo and Mu as in wood."

"Bamboo and wood?" Wei Kang looked the bamboo and wood up and down before snorting and walking over. "I don't know why Ji Yueyao asked you to protect me, but I don't need your protection. Get out of here, you're just an eyesore."

"..." Takeki felt his fragile heart shatter. How could a 25-year-old adult man be looked down upon like this by a 16-year-old boy?!

“Even though you say that… I still can’t leave.” Zhu Mu was also quite helpless, but this was the first task Ji Yueyao had given him, and he didn’t want to mess it up. “This is the captain’s order. If you can get the captain to retract the order, I will leave immediately.”

Wei Kang, who was returning to the training ground, paused. He turned around, frowned, and asked, "You call Ji Yueyao the captain? What kind of captain is she now?"

"You didn't know?" Zhu Mu was taken aback. Had Ji Yueyao not told Wei Kang yet?

"What do you know?" Wei Kang sat in front of the bamboo and wood, looking very interested.

Zhu Mu finally felt noticed. He calmed his nerves and said softly, "Captain is now the second-in-command at the Nanxiao Base. I only called him Captain because I was with Kachi and the others. Logically, I should call him 'Sir'." (To be continued.)