Third Young Master Ye held Cheng Anya as she walked to the sofa and sat down. The temperature where they were was perfect and few people were present amidst a gentle sea breeze. Cheng Anya really liked the place. The young kid, sitting next to Cheng Anya’s tummy, read out loud from a collection of jokes.
Cheng Anya’s face was twitching and trembling whilst the young kid was laughing out loud as she had a high humor threshold. The young kid claimed that he had to start to educate his unborn sister about humor and prepare her for life lest she become inherently autistic due to her transformation into a cyborg.
Third Young Master Ye stared at him with a twisted face.
“This entire compilation for jokes is for children! Since it won’t be funny for you all, why don’t I tell you something more fun?” Third Young Master Ye utterly despised the young kid when he saw her scoot up against his wife’s stomach while reading out the book aloud. He pushed him far away.
He hadn’t hugged his wife enough.
The young kid looked at him with slanted eyes. “Daddy, you are petty as heck. I came out from Mommy’s tummy, so what’s wrong with Mommy hugging me? The same could be said for you, no?”
Cheng Anya’s lips twitched. Her eyes went wide at the thought of her delivering Third Young Master Ye.
Third Young Master Ye dismissed the idea and pinched the kid’s small ears. “If your daddy wasn’t ‘hardworking’ enough, would you even be able to come out from your mommy’s tummy? Could you? Could you?! You still don’t know what death is, huh?”
The young kid pouted his reddened lips in slight indignation and lied down next to Cheng Anya’s stomach and screamed, “Sister! Daddy is utterly petty! Daddy is utterly petty!”
Cheng Anya grunted and the one-and-half men quieted down nervously. Third Young Master Ye was especially nervous as he could not allow the slightest risk at such a critical juncture.
“What’s happened? Anya, what’s happened?” He frowned nervously.
Cheng Anya’s frown gradually eased. She said, “It’s okay. My darling baby just kicked me.”
“All’s good. At least, she’s healthy,” Third Young Master Ye, not as nervous as before, calmly said as he gently touched Cheng Anya’s tummy. He missed Ning Ning’s development and was extremely proud to be alongside her this time.
“Wrong!” The young kid shook his index finger and gently smiled. “Sis is telling me ‘Brother, I know! Daddy is utterly petty!’ That is the way I communicate with her. Very special, isn’t it?”
Cheng Anya was stunned into silence.
Third Young Master Ye broke into a gentle and twisted smile as he chased after the young kid, wanting to clobber him. Cheng Anya, who saw father and son chase each other on the beach, laughed happily. To her, she had the happiness of the world in her grasp whatever the future held.
They were her guardian angels, and she would have a little princess in time to come.
She looked forward to the child being able to grow up like any other person. Even if she was ugly-looking, what mattered was that she would be healthy.
Since the young kid was not as strong as Third Young Master Ye, Third Young Master Ye caught him and spanked his buttocks as he ran. Cheng Anya was laughing out loud.
“Okay, okay! Ah Chen, you are becoming Benjamin Button, no?” Cheng Anya could not help but speak up for her child’s pitiful buttocks. Third Young Master Ye then stopped, and the young kid held his dizzy head whilst petulantly falling into Cheng Anya’s embrace.
“Mommy, Daddy is extremely violent! Why don’t you consider divorcing him? I can introduce you to prospective partners! Bai Ye is pretty good, and so is Black J. Ross is a good man too… Ahh, Daddy, I know I’m wrong! Daddy is the best! Daddy is above all and even the ghosts bow to him! Amen!”
Third Young Master Ye raised his hand and then put it down amidst his loss for words. F***! This son of his sure knew how to suck up to him.
Cheng Anya laughed and kissed his cheek. “Okay, okay. Why are you so into triggering him?”
The young kid pouted and said, “Sis, quickly come out! Brother wants to see you! You must look pretty, okay! If you look like some skeleton, brother will be shocked.”
“Like some skeleton, uh…” Cheng Anya was stunned.
Third Young Master Ye coldly said, “Skeletons are terrifying. I’ve loads of money to transform her into the next angel that people will kowtow to.”
“…Daddy is wise!” the young kid said.
Cheng Anya was a bag of mixed emotions…
Plastic surgery…
Her darling daughter’s looks were already discussed way before she was born. It was utterly sad!
“Onto serious matters, let’s give her a name, shall we?” Cheng Anya laughed as she pushed Third Young Master Ye, who was horsing around. He paused and said, “I’ve thought of one. Shall we call her Ningjing?”
“Doesn’t sound nice!” The young kid immediately rejected the name and frowned. “It’s so pedestrian and does not stand out.”
Cheng Anya was pretty satisfied with the name. Ye Ningyuan, Ye Ningjing… Serenity and tranquility both checked, and it had a nice ring to it on top of how meaningful the names were. She hoped that her daughter would have that name.
Ningjing…
Ye Ningjing…
“Darling, what do you say should be her name?” Cheng Anya smiled as she looked at the young kid.
The young kid pondered for a moment and said, “Let’s call her Liancheng. Ye Liancheng!”
Cheng Anya pondered for a moment. Said name was not too bad, but Third Young Master Ye felt that the name he gave was better. The other name was more complicated to write and remember, and would hence be hard for their darling daughter to remember.
“Mommy, the name I gave has a nicer ring to it, right?”
“Anya, the name your husband gave is nicer.”
Cheng Anya was stunned into silence.
She looked to her left and right as the one-and-half men awaited her decision. It seemed… a little tackier than usual. She actually felt that the name Ning Ning gave had a nicer ring to it and was more meaningful.
How should she go about it?
The young kid looked at Third Young Master Ye smugly, and Third Young Master Ye dope-slapped the young kid’s head. “It’s axiomatic that I name my own daughter. Save that name for your own daughter.”
The young kid was stunned into silence.
‘Eh, my dearest daddy, that will be many years down the road…’
“How can I even have a daughter when I do not have a wife?” The young kid pouted his mouth extremely cutely. “Do you want to be a grandfather this badly? Do you really want to?”
Third Young Master Ye and Cheng Anya fell silent. Third Young Master Ye then calmly answered, “If you are able to cough out a child now, I do not mind being the youngest grandfather in history.”
It was the young kid’s turn to be utterly speechless.
‘Daddy is too shameless!’
That would have to wait until four to five years later!
“Since that’s the case, we’ll let our darling daughter decide after she’s born.”
“Mommy’s the wisest!”
The family sat by the beach for a moment before Third Young Master Ye drove back to Su Man’s mansion with the family happily in tow. Once they were back, the young kid went to look for Bai Ye and Su Man. He first went to the laboratory and could not find anybody there. The young kid asked Dana, and Dana smiled before pointing toward Su Man’s courtyard. The young kid went to the courtyard to look for them as Dana smiled.
“Beauty Su, Bai Ye…” The young kid shouted cheerfully once he stepped in. He then paused and sweated. Did he arrive at the right time? That would explain why Sister Dana sounded a little…
The young kid, seeing how Bai Ye pinned Su Man against the Tung tree, was aghast. He could not see their emotions but only the flowers of the tree and Bai Ye’s silhouette…
But…
Their posture was a little prone to flights of fantasy. The young kid somehow recalled how Bai Ye was off-whack and Su Man avoiding him. He looked up… Could it be… unless…
They had taken a fancy to each other?
Many huge question marks appeared over the young kid’s head.
He remembered how Bai Ye once hurried out of the laboratory as though someone was chasing him whilst Beauty Su had a relaxed and perhaps happy look on his face. While Beauty Su’s smile was extremely subtle, one would be hard-pressed to see an obvious smile on Beauty Su’s face.
As they were eating, the typically chatty Bai Ye was unusually silent and stifled. Third Young Master Ye’s random question sent Bai Ye’s ears slightly flushing.
There was also once when Bai Ye grabbed his daddy and told him something, with his daddy calmly imparting him ways to pursue someone. He could somehow make out his daddy telling Bai Ye that he had no prejudice of sorts to these things.
The young kid was stunned to the point he was jellied. Could Bai Ye have really taken a liking to Su Man and then asked his daddy how he could win Su Man over? His daddy, in good faith, calmly showed Bai Ye the ropes in return?
It was hence little wonder that things seemed a little unusual in the past few days. Bai Ye had become his usual self whilst Su Man became scheming and vicious. Was Su Man infuriated by Bai Ye pursuing him?
So Bai Ye was now… forcing himself onto somebody?
Uh…
He sure had guts given the tens of toxins in Su Man’s body. Bai Ye was truly fearless. Su Man could have knocked Bai Ye over with a wave of his hands, but he had not seen Bai Ye drop dead yet.
The young kid seriously pondered. Did Beauty Su acquiesce to Bai Ye’s… teasing?
‘Daddy, you are not the fairest person here! How could you keep such saucy things from your darling child? How naughty! You ought to be taught a lesson…’
The young kid’s voice interrupted the tryst. Bai Ye quickly and calmly stood up without looking amiss while Su Man looked as calm as though nothing happened.
The young kid gave a thumbs-up despite catching them in the middle of their affair. This was undoubtedly over the top!
And worthy of emulation!
While it could have been an illusion, why did he feel that their calm gazes had a mildly murderous intent to them?
Could he really have interrupted their tryst?
This means…
If he left, would they carry on? The young kid felt conflicted.