Everyone was staring intently at the chubby little birds, hoping one of them would accidentally bump into their arms, but with a wave of his hand, the Azure Dragon turned the cubs back to normal.
The cub returned to the Azure Dragon's embrace. The Azure Dragon's gaze was deep. He lifted the cub's furry bottom with one hand, revealing two tiny paws hidden beneath its furry belly. The anklets belonging to Emperor Chong Le were quite eye-catching.
Originally, he had no particular feelings about the cub's father from his previous life, but now, he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.
It wasn't that he couldn't understand Emperor Chongle, but as a divine beast, the Azure Dragon would naturally be a bit arrogant in front of humans. They were gods worshipped by all living beings, so how could any mortal dare to imprison a divine beast!
"Your obsession is going too far."
Azure Dragon frowned as he looked at Emperor Chongle. He easily untied the ring on the cub's foot: "There is a difference between you and him. You are just a mortal now, while he is a divine beast. No matter how hard you try, you cannot force him to stay."
Emperor Chongle was already tired of these clichés; he paid no attention to Qinglong's words, only gazing intently at the cub with a deep, unfathomable look:
"Is that so? But I think that if I need to, my child will choose me, not you."
"It's none of your business to question the bond between two orphans and their children."
Emperor Chongle and Qinglong are like the child's biological father and stepfather. The stepfather questions the biological father's past abuse of the child, while the biological father laughs at the stepfather for not understanding how deep their relationship is.
Just one sentence short:
"Son, are you with him or with me?"
When the question was actually asked, the cub couldn't choose and didn't want to choose. He covered his head with his wings, shook his head, and then used a teleportation talisman to hide in Zhou Zeyuan's house.
It's just like a child who has to run away from home because of a dispute between their guardians.
After the cub left, Emperor Chongle gave the Azure Dragon an even more mocking look: "I've never driven him away before, is this how you forced him?"
Qinglong clearly didn't have much experience raising children. Seeing this, he calmly said, "But what good does spoiling and controlling him do? You haven't even taught him to love himself. He has learned to love, but perhaps in his eyes, you need him too much, so the cub feels that he must love those who are good to him, especially his father, more than he loves himself."
“When he sees you in pain and distress, he will not hesitate to choose to protect you by hurting himself. How can this not be an extreme method?”
"He is the Vermilion Bird, not the Phoenix. He cannot be reborn. Perhaps one day, he will no longer be able to reincarnate..."
Emperor Chongle crushed a teacup in his hand: "That's enough."
"You have no idea what suffering he has endured before? What kind of trials he is still going through. Just because you are a saint or an immortal, you think you can save everything, let alone a cub?"
Emperor Chongle couldn't help but recall the events of the past: "My bond with him is not just that of family. He is my only salvation, and I am his only family."
Qinglong opened his mouth, intending to say that the cub was also his only child, but then he thought of his many disciples and fell silent.
Perhaps he's used to being a celestial being, but he doesn't yet understand how to be a father.
Especially for a child with such a pure and sensitive mind.
They fell silent for a moment.
On Zhou Zeyuan's side, there were also things the cubs didn't know.
Although Zhou Zeyuan was indeed very well-known within the sect, and everyone knew that he was the disciple favored by the divine beast, they stopped paying much attention to him after they had initially gathered around with great enthusiasm and later confirmed that he had a useless spiritual root and always lagged behind in cultivation.
However, with Zhou Zeyuan's help, Ruo Piaoxue and Ruo Liufeng's cultivation speed has increased like a rocket. At a young age, they have already formed their core, surpassing many senior brothers and sisters, and have become prominent figures in the sect.
Moreover, Zai has been coming very rarely lately, almost every day is just a routine check-in to see Zhou Zeyuan. Zhou Zeyuan's expression is getting colder day by day, wondering if Qianyuan has begun to get tired of him.
But when he got home today, he saw Qianyuan had turned into human form and was curled up in his blanket, sighing and sleeping.
Seeing his troubled expression, Zhou Zeyuan assumed he had done something naughty and been punished by the Azure Dragon. But the little guy turned around, put on a serious face, and slowly said:
"Stories involving more than two people rarely end well."
Zhou Zeyuan: ?
"What did you pick up this time?"
Zhou Zeyuan instantly suspected that Qian Yuan was two-faced and fickle...
Qianyuan sighed: "I didn't pick them up, I just recognized them as family. Having two fathers is too much trouble. How about I give you one?"
Zhou Zeyuan said speechlessly, "I don't need it. I'll be an adult soon. I don't need a father to come to me."
Upon hearing this, Qian Yuan felt that Zhou Zeyuan couldn't share his troubles either, so he turned over and sighed softly.
Zhou Zeyuan didn't know what to say. He could see that Qianyuan was under a lot of pressure and he couldn't empathize with her. If God had given him two chubby little birds, maybe he could experience this kind of happy trouble.
All he could do now was comfort Qianyuan, picking up a comb and asking, "Do you want me to groom you?"
Birds are the species that care most about their appearance. Zhou Zeyuan always grooms them quickly and well. The Azure Dragon is covered in scales and doesn't need grooming at all, so his technique is not as good as Zhou Zeyuan's.
However, since Qianyuan is now in human form, he has a way to get Zhou Zeyuan to groom him. He asks Zhou Zeyuan to comb his hair and braid it.
After grooming, the little guy felt that most of the fur on Zhou Zeyuan's body had fallen out, so he dutifully transformed back into a chubby bird and climbed into Zhou Zeyuan's wardrobe, burrowing into each piece one by one, determined to leave his mark everywhere.
After that, Qianyuan would even play with the inkstone on Zhou Zeyuan's desk for a long time.
Zhou Zeyuan realized that Qianyuan was stalling for time. Qianyuan was afraid of not being fair to both fathers and afraid of seeing the disappointed look in either father's eyes, so she simply stopped and ran to her classmate's (?) house to play wildly.
Zhou Zeyuan doted on him a lot, supporting Qianyuan unconditionally no matter what he did. Knowing that Qianyuan would be here that night, he even brought out an extra blanket.
Qianyuan seemed to have seen through the ways of the world. With his chubby, round body and the appearance of a glutinous rice ball, he chirped:
“I’m charming, I know that. In that case, I won’t let anyone else get close to my chest.”
With a blank expression, Zhou Zeyuan picked up the babbling furball and placed it next to his pillow, where there was a nest he had specially built for the little one.
"Go to sleep, chirp, go to sleep."
The little guy finally closed his eyes, his beady eyes squinting, looking like a flawless, perfect white jade dumpling. After he fell asleep, he sank completely into the thick blankets, and it took Zhou Zeyuan several tries to pull him out.
Sure enough, Qinglong came to ask for his cub as soon as he returned.
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