In front of the children, Ningning, who had lost face, tried to salvage his pride: “Aunt is sometimes unrestrained. He, he even gives Ningning—”
Ningning wanted to show off what his aunt had bought for him. After thinking for a while, he still couldn’t figure out what expensive gift his aunt had given him.
He got stuck, and the children sighed in unison.
After the sighs, the children moved on from this topic and handed him a new mask: “Ningning, this rabbit mask is for you. Let’s play the catching game with masks on!”
Ningning liked playing the catching game, but at the moment, he wasn’t in the mood to play.
“You guys go ahead. I’ll catch up later.”
The somewhat downcast child spoke to the children with his head down.
The children cheered, and each ran out.
Time passed, and as the banquet was about to end, the little child hadn’t packed any cake or snacks. He walked out to find his father.
“Dad?”
The little child didn’t know where his father was. He opened his mouth and called a few times with a slight confusion.
Just as he called, a man in bodyguard attire came out: “Aren’t you going to continue playing with those kids?”
Although the bodyguard’s imperial language was standard, the little child felt that something was odd about it.
The little child’s imperial language was first taught by the Imperial Crown Prince. Although he sometimes spoke in a sticky manner, the imperial tone was ingrained in him since childhood.
“I don’t want to play anymore.”
The little child stood on the steps and told the bodyguard, “I want to go find my dad.”
“I’ll take you.”
The bodyguard said, taking a few steps forward. He had black eyes, but to the little child, they seemed like they were about to change color.
“No, I don’t want you to take me.”
The little child refused the bodyguard, took two steps back, looked around, and then lifted his little legs, running in a certain direction: “I want to find my dad by myself.”
The bodyguard watched the little child ran away in a hurry, raised his hand to touch his eyes, and furrowed his brow slightly.
His pair of black eyes gradually turned back to green, and he felt that the child had just noticed the color of his eyes.
“Dad, Dad!”
The little child ran, shouting loudly. After calling for a while, someone finally guided him to his dad.
Seeing his dad sitting on the sofa, the little child’s nervous heart finally relaxed.
Like a small cannonball, he rushed into his dad’s arms, hugging his dad’s neck and started kissing, “Dad, Ningning missed you so much.”
Zhan Xi: “...”
Zhan Xi rubbed his child’s head, a smile in his eyes. “Dad missed you, too. Do you want to go home? I’ll take you back.”
“Yeah! Ningning wants to go home.”
He didn’t want to stay in this place that made him lose face.
Zhan Xi, carrying the chubby child in his arms, bid farewell to the others on the sofa. “Everyone, I’ll leave first.”
Others just nodded, not even bothering to stand up to see him off.
Zhan Xi didn’t mind.
He held the little child and only asked after leaving the door, “Ningning, are you not happy playing with the other kids?”
Zhan Xi understood his child the best. If it weren’t for being unhappy, the child wouldn’t want to leave.
The child leaned his head against his dad, sounding upset. “Ningning lost face again.”
Zhan Xi: “?”
Zhan Xi was puzzled. “What face did you lose again? Didn’t you take your Aunt’s golden mask yesterday?”
The pure golden mask looked cool, and the child was quite arrogant when wearing it, obviously wanting to show off.
“Aunt deceived Ningning.”
Talking about this, the child burst into tears, “His mask is not made of gold, Ningning lost face.”
Zhan Xi: “...”
Zhan Xi instantly guessed the true reason why the child wanted to come home so early this time.
He was somewhat speechless.
Raphael was at least the emperor of a technological powerhouse, and he had been an emperor for so many years. How could he be so stingy that he had to even wear a fake gold mask?
He thought about the daily necessities and clothes that An Nuo brought. All these things were top-notch, and An Nuo couldn’t even use them up.
Raphael made a set of clothes for An Nuo, saving enough money for himself to buy a decent outfit.
“Good, don’t cry.”
Zhan Xi patted his child’s back soothingly and comforted him, “Next time you want something, go to your uncle instead of your aunt.”
Zhan Xi used to think he was frugal, but seeing Raphael, he realized his life was still too luxurious.
The little child was excited before coming to the banquet, but after arriving, his enthusiasm turned into shyness. He buried his face in his father’s neck and didn’t want to speak.
And at this moment.
Raphael at home was coaxing the sleeping An Nuo, “Children love to play; you don’t have to wait for Ningning to come back. Sleep first, and you can see him when you wake up.”
An Nuo looked at Raphael, “Aren’t you sleeping?”
Raphael was still waiting for the little child to come back, either to have him serve as a back scrubber or to praise his good aunt after coming back.
He lowered his head and kissed An Nuo’s cheek, “I’ll sleep when I see you asleep.”
The intimacy between the two was warm and natural. Raphael wasn’t very sleepy; he hugged An Nuo, smelling his scent, feeling a sense of tranquility in his heart.
“Baby, you must be healthy.”
Raphael pressed his forehead against An Nuo’s and softly said, “Then we can be together for a long, long time.”
An Nuo responded, “Okay.”
After responding, An Nuo suddenly asked, “Raphael, if I die, can you take care of—”
“No.”
Raphael interrupted him, “An Nuo, I remember we talked about this before.”
An Nuo’s health was not good, and in some moments that seemed hard to overcome in the past, he had discussed life and death with Raphael.
He wanted Raphael to live well even without him.
But Raphael had made up his mind.
“The words we said before, I think we don’t need to say them again.”
Raphael held him in his arms and whispered, “An Nuo, you have to live well.”
Otherwise, the 12th planet would have to change its emperor.
An Nuo looked up at the man holding him and sighed inwardly.
Time passed little by little.
By the time Raphael heard sounds in the yard, An Nuo had already fallen asleep in his arms. An Nuo slept lightly, and when held by him, he would occasionally sleep deeply.
After carefully placing the sleeping An Nuo, Raphael got out of bed quietly.
He straightened his nightclothes and opened the door.
The door opened.
A little child with reddened eyes was standing at the doorway. Raphael looked at the child with red eyes, who obviously looked like he was angry.
His danger perception radar immediately lit up red, and the survival instinct made Raphael want to close the door right away: “Ningning, I’m going to sleep with your uncle. Let’s talk about whatever is bothering you tomorrow.”
Before the door could be closed, the little child had already bumped into it.
“Ningning is challenging you!”
The child who had lost his face in front of his classmates had now turned into a vengeful child, determined to crash into his aunt.
If it weren’t for dad not allowing the child to use his mecha, the little child would have come for revenge wearing one.
Raphael’s legs were sturdy, and the child, at this height, could at most hit Raphael’s legs.
After being unexpectedly bumped into and almost stumbling, Raphael steadied himself and lifted the blackened little child.
“Little chubby kid, calm down.”
Raphael shook the little child and whispered, “You’re so small; you can’t beat your aunt. I think you should calm down, and we can sit down and talk.”
The blackened little child who came for revenge was captured after a brief struggle. He angrily paddled his short legs, “Bad aunt, Ningning will never trust bad aunt again! Ningning wants to duel with you!”
Raphael made a thoughtful sound at the last sentence from the little child.
“If it’s really a duel, you can’t beat your aunt.”
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no hope behind the little child, and An Nuo in the room was already asleep, Raphael began to playfully tease the child.
“Alright, alright, don’t be sad. Look at this chubby face; it’s all puffed up from anger.”
Raphael held the child with one hand, and the other went to pinch the child’s chubby face, “Auntie will hug you nicely, and someday auntie will buy you toys.”
“Cheating again! You’re just unwilling to buy toys for Ningning.”
