The party came to a sudden stop.

Even though they knew that Jing Huan would not be irritated by a kid, but her temperament makes others dare not assume and dare not approach.

They are all momentarily shocked by how easily the kid jumped on her lap.

Dark Void and Mystic Void were also horrified.

In their understanding, they have never seen the empress playing with kids so they were at a loss of what to do.

Let alone sitting on the lap or touching her, just coming near her is impossible for anyone without her consent.

The fact that Zi Ming could meant either of the two things.

One, the empress did not care for it. That is, she tacitly allowed it. This would mean that she does not have aversion to Zi Yang’s brother and possibly his immediate family members.

Second, the empress let her guard down against the Zi brothers – which would be even more incredible!

Zi Yang was also dumbfounded.

He did not expect this kid to play so big now.

He brain overclocked for a second and he was going to snatch him down in a second.

To his surprise and to everyone’s surprise, they heard an authoritative and somewhat doting voice, “Get it.”

Oh shoot.

Jing Huan classified Zi Ming as ‘it’.

They thought she was annoyed by the kid’s antics, but then what was the doting in the voice for?

Before they figured it out, she said again, “Didn’t you hear? The young master said he wants his cake now. Get it.”

It was only after her second iteration, everyone understood.

Where is this annoyance?

This is very clearly doting on her little baby.

Zi Ming was somehow emboldened by this and let out a villain laugh, as he had seen and heard in plays and movies.

He quickly climbed down, folded his hands and held his chin up and shouted, “Yi Hai, go and help them”.

As if ordering a subordinate.

Zi Yang finally couldn’t help it and took him in his arms and shut his mouth.

That did not get him to stop and he kept flailing his arms and shouting, “Mama Mei save me, Elder Master save me. God pa, ah you’re okay”

Everyone looked weirdly at Lord Baize, as if to say, why does he not ask you for help?

Baize was embarrassed. He couldn’t tell that he tricked his own grandson for training a couple times, could he?

This drama did not have much impact on anyone.

Anyway, today was not the first day for them to see Zi Ming’s antics.

Yi Hai and Zi Ming have been frenemies since their first fight – both looking to ride on each other’s head every turn they get while also having their back.

As everyone moved into the lawn, no one notice a barely perceptible smile on Void empress’ face.

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As Baize thought, how could she not know when Zi Ming jumped on her?

She knew, but she didn’t do anything.

She wanted to see what this little kid was going to do.

As a result, she was almost melted by the kid’s “elder master”.

The fact is as she thought. Even Zi Ming – the little boy – understood that she was family. So, he did not hesitate and treat her with the same caution as he did before when he came here.

People say children’s souls are the purest and their actions most clear.

Zi Ming’s action might have been driven by impatience, but his subconscious would not have allowed him to pounce on her had he not considered her his family.

Despite some antics from time-to-time, Jing Huan knew within herself that the kid was actually very thoughtful under Zi Yang’s upbringing and never troubled his non-family members.

And the kid is smart too, he so quickly formed an identity for her – Elder brother’s master = Elder master.

Had a nice ring to it.

In the lawn, today’s birthday cake was placed.

It was double decked and was beautifully decorated.

Zi Ming waited her brother’s side like a good boy until everyone came and then cut the cake.

With sounds of Happy Birthday and a Happy New Year, the cake cutting came to a halt.

“Here, Zi Yang – take this. Young master gives a big piece – with added cherry.”

Zi Ming handed a messy cake piece with his tiny hands and raised it above his head, waiting for Zi Yang to eat.

“Thank you, Zi Ming”, Zi Yang also did not bother his immersion now. The kid is sweet to him.

With that everyone started their New Year greetings and the evening fully began.

Everyone hoarded around Zi Yang and asked him about his clothes. Especially Mei Li’s clothes made almost all aunties have ideas.

Aunt Lan looked puffed. She knew that Zi Yang designed it himself.

Why didn’t she get it?

Zi Yang saw this and explained to all the aunties, “Auntie, don’t worry. I’ll give you some design sketches. But my idea is limited ah… so these designs are incomplete only some rough ideas and references from Mama Mei’s drawings and some pieces here and there…

You design them and we sell them together. Like we did with daycare. What do you think?”

Everyone agreed in a second.

What’s there to disagree? Could they not want beautiful clothes or another income?

Zi Yang then proposed, “I will soon start my career as a beast master and will not have time to manage, why not let Aunt Lan do it?”

Everyone agreed to this well. Lan Yun was well deservedly closer to Zi Yang and she was responsible too.

Then as if they heard something incredible, they looked at him for confirmation. Aunt excitedly held his face and hugged him.

She couldn’t imagine how happy Yi Nuo would be today if she were here.

She was happy for her sake too.

Mei Li came to their circle and she shared everyone’s joy too before they started circling around her and checking her dress.

The guys had swarmed over to Master Meng and kept asking about his work at the Void Empress’.

If it were before, Master Meng would definitely boast a little in his hometown.

But now, come on, he is standing in Void Empress’ home and is her new subordinate.

How could he have the nerve to reveal some gossips?

He could only tell how studious and hard working the guys at work are; and how everything is well managed…

Dark Void who was guiding the waiters to served food and drinks, was quite pleased with Master Meng’s review.

She did manage everything well – even though she was far away.

Her contentment did not last long though, as she heard someone whisper, “Isn’t the manager there a little too tight in management then? Look at Master Meng’s eyebags, he must have forced to work to the bone.”

No matter how Master Meng signaled with his eyes, the guys did not seem to get it. They criticized heartily, “I am telling you these big places do not have the human touch, you know.”

“They are great for career progression, but they are hard bone to chew…”

“Why are your eyes twitching? Oh god, did you suffer so much that you got a disease there?”

Dark Void was so pissed.

How are these town people so creative that they can invent new stories every day?

She was sure that by tomorrow, inhuman treatment of employees would be all the rage in the town.

Need to ask how she knew, she was the live example.

To this day, a few people still look at her with a mix of caution, pity and encouragement.

She knew they think of her as a mad scientist who is rehabilitating.

Even the void empress’ word, which she thought was all powerful, did not seem to overturn this matter.

Perhaps she could only wait for the study to become live and maybe then, she could wash off this stain.

She would like to see how this group of people would treat Zi Yang.

When her future-self thought back to this moment, she couldn’t help but categorize herself as naïve. She already knew of these people’s double standards. Oh, how they jumped with joy when they heard that “their boy” did such “incredible” research.

While everyone was eating and having fun, some one noticed that Jing Huan was absent.

So, they asked Miss Ling Yi and understood that she went to try Zi Yang’s disciple greeting dress.

The ladies were enthusiastic and hoped to see more of this style of clothing for their reference.

Coupled with Jing Huan’s own ethereal and regal aura, they could not imagine how wonderful the dress would look.

In their wait, Jing Huan finally arrived.

When everyone saw her, they had the same word involuntarily come to mind – fairy.