One particular day, all the servants in the residence were called by the head female servant for a lecture. Therefore, in the courtyard, only Ye Mu and the two boys were left.
Because the Ye Xiaolang and Mo Linyuan were currently slaves, they were still not entitled to see the head servant. With no one else present this afternoon, Ye Mu had gave them a half-day holiday!
Ye Xiaolang was ecstatic! He used live in the jungle, wild and free. But fate cruel: he had been caught and brought to this place, where he had to be careful of every step he took and word he uttered. Tightly restricted, he feels he’s already close to suffocating!
“Young lady! What are we going to play?” He asked excitedly.
Mo Linyuan merely glanced at the other party. He continued to read, feeling he didn’t need a holiday. He would only study and train himself! Cultivate every moment to become stronger!
However, Ye Mu was caught in a difficult dilemma. What could be interesting in this ancient era where you can’t play computer games?
She looked up to the bright sky overhead and decided.
“It’s a fine day today. Let’s fly a kite!”
“Okay! Okay!” Ye Xiaolang nodded, enthusiastic to comply.
Ye Mu turned around and rummaged a kite out of her cabinet. She brought out a very large peacock kite, a toy collected by the original Ye Mu before but was never used. Today, it will finally see the sky!
Because the kite was too big for Ye Mu’s small stature, most of the tails dragged across the ground as she ran to raise the kite up. It was a futile effort. Thinking there was no other option left, Ye Mu turned her line of sight towards Mo Linyuan hidden on one corner.
“Heavens! You are still reading until now!?”
Ye Mu was astonished. Did Mo Linyuan have no childishness in him at all? He had three times as many academic assignments than Ye Xiaolang and now that she had given them time to entertain themselves and relax, he was still unmoved!
Mo Linyuan placed down the book he was reading, with some helplessness he replied, “I still have a political essay to memorize. Master will quiz me on it tomorrow.”
Nowadays, Mo Linyuan was a bit more talkative than before. After all, in spite of everything, humans have fleeting emotions and changeable minds. He had felt Ye Mu’s sincerity through her actions lately, making him feel conflicted and his heart topsy-turvy.
Hearing these words, Ye Mu moved towards him and grabbed his book, forcefully throwing it aside!
“Whatever. Hold the string—Xiaolang will run ahead with the kite, and I will be behind. That’s the final word!”
What else could Mo Linyuan do if she’s being a domineering small bean? He could only accept the coil with a deadpan face.
However, he remembered he had only played this kind of toy once, so he wasn’t very skilled in flying kites. And over there, Ye Mu has already yelled to commence flying the kite! Immediately, Xiaolang ran ahead with Ye Mu in tow behind him, chasing after the long kite tail!
Ye Xiaolang runs very fast; Ye Mu was a special soldier in her original world, but her current body was just a Lolita. Plus, Mo Linyuan was just standing like wooden stick at the back and refused to move. Therefore, they ran for a long time without getting the kite up.
Watching disappointment flit across Ye Mu’s face as she looked at the kite, Mo Linyuan finally laid down his guard and ran with them. Just then, a strong spring wind blew, and the kite slowly descends to the sky!
“It’s going to fly! Young lady, I’ll let go now!”
With that, Ye Xiaoliang released the kite from his hands. As soon as his hands let go, he went to grab the coil from Mo Linyuan’s hand. Meanwhile, Ye Mu also loosened her hold on the kite’s tail, but she wasn’t able to see where her feet was running and tripped.
“Be careful!”
Mo Linyuan instinctively threw the kite coil to the approaching Ye Xiaolang and dashed towards Ye Mu, catching her, almost in a blink of an eye.
But Ye Mu only gave him a quick glance, rather, her eyes were glued to the sky, watching the huge peacock kite slowly rise. Her mouth involuntarily opened in awe and she felt a great sense of achievement in her heart!
“Did you see it? It’s flying!!!”
Ye Mu eagerly shook Mo Linyuan by the shoulder. Her body was still in Mo Linyuan half-embrace, but it still didn’t stop her from jumping up and down in a frenzy.
Maybe the sunshine was too good; maybe the wind was too much. But when Mo Linyuan looked at Ye Mu’s delicately powdered small face, framed by her round, bright eyes, his heart couldn’t help but tremble at this adorable sight… He finally admitted that his doubts were slowly disappearing.
For, this kind of a lovely little girl makes the people who see her unconsciously accept her.
This acknowledgment made Mo Linyuan sigh weakly. He held her up with a complex look, bending over to pat the non-existent dust on her skirt, whispering.
“Did you know that you almost fell?”
Eventually, Ye Mu removed her sight from the kite to look at him. She asked curiously, “Weren’t you able to catch me? I didn’t fall, so it’s okay!”
Mo Linyuan lowered his eyes and whispered, “But I won’t catch you every time. You have to be careful yourself.”
When Ye Mu heard his words, she determinedly looked at him. Giving him her full attention, she placed both hands on the sides of her waist, “Why won’t you catch me every time?”
She had asked him in such a righteous way. As if she was saying that he had to be good to her, even if she had been bad to him before. It was such a childish question, even more coming from a dumpling.
But this didn’t make him feel hatred for her at all. On the contrary, he felt that at this moment, she was so cute. Enough for him to have the impulsive desire to hold her in his arms and pinch her chubby cheeks.
‘Why won’t you catch me every time?’
Mo Linyuan was at a loss, and his thoughts were disoriented. Meanwhile, Xiaolang shouted for Ye Mu, “Young lady! Come and fly the kite!”
“Coming!” Ye Mu heard Xiaolang calling for her and immediately broke free from Mo Linyuan, who was still mulling about the words to say, and ran towards Ye Xiaolang.
Mo Linyuan couldn’t help but feel a little annoyed. He looked at Ye Xiaolang, who was currently around Ye Mu, pulling the coil for her. And for the first time, he felt that he was quite an irksome presence in his eyes.
For Ye Mu, she thought her actions weren’t earth-shattering enough to garner other people’s attention, but the people in the general’s residence were extremely flabbergasted! The bloodthirsty and cruel Ye missy has completely changed demeanour. Now, she was not fond of killing anymore, and instead liked to play as a despot! What fantastic news!
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Despite what other people might think if they knew she was raising the future emperor, when Ye Mu closes the door to start his training, she had always placed emphasis on the proper way to raise an emperor.
It goes without saying that Mo Linyuan should have an all-round development of three important things: ethics, intelligence and physique. That’s exactly right! After all, a person who becomes emperor for many years to come, shouldn’t mature as a tyrant under her care.
And for Ye Xiaolang, she thought it was best to make him learn martial arts. After all, in this chaotic world, no matter how strong the mouth is, it is not as big as the fist.
But that’s the million-dollar question. How will they be able to practice martial arts?
Her techniques weren’t bad if she trained her body once again. But in this world, it’s not considered as the best option when there was a huge difference in might when one uses internal martial arts. Moreover, the bodies of the people in this place might have different core structures from the people in her world.
The humans in this world are born with a natural disposition for internal energy.
As long as one cultivates his Qi and opens the meridians, one can practice internal martial arts. However, many good ancient skills have already been lost…
Perhaps, the male lead doesn’t have the secret book of martial arts yet?
With this thought in mind, Ye Mu secretly called out to Mo Linyuan at night.
“Young lady?”
Mo Linyuan didn’t know what pressing matter Ye Mu was going to tell him that she would call him so late. But he knew one thing, and that she would not harm him in the slightest.
“Shh!” Ye Mu told him to keep his voice down and said, “Just follow me closely!”
Then two people moved stealthily, trekking towards the most remote place of general’s residence.
Mo Linyuan was behind Ye Mu, and he could clearly see when she would curl up and walk alongside the corners of the wall. Doesn’t she know that this was her own home? But like a little mouse, she would shrink her presence. For the second time, Ye Mu’s adorable appearance made him smile.
When Ye Mu turned to look at her back, she saw Mo Linyuan’s smile; in the bright moonlight framed by rockery, he was standing dressed in linen and grey, his delicate and handsome face amused.
Looking more like an ethereal fairy than the brilliant but serious emperor described in the book.