Heaven.
He finally felt what it was like living in a heaven.
He could literally taste the heaven's sweetness.
For Zhan Chen, his heaven equivalent to ability to eat infinity amount of sweets.
There were so many type of desserts that Zhan Chen could choose from and he felt so, so happy.
He never knew that his grandfather could be this overbearing. Not even his mother could win over his grandfather.
He he he.
"Chen Er, do you know how to play xiangqi?"
Snapping from his thoughts, he smiled cutely at his grandfather. Since his grandfather was the boss in their family, Zhan Chen decided to be an apple in Li Huizhong's eyes. He looked at the board and knew at first sight it was a Chinese chess. Lucky! He knew how to play it and quite good at it. He nodded his head enthusiastically. "I knew but I'm not really good with the game."
"It's okay, grandfather just wants Chen Er to play with him," Li Huizhong said to his adorable grandchild.
Seeing Zhan Chen's eyes filled with joy, he couldn't help but to feel happy as well.
Because Li Huizhong was known for his expertise in xiangqi, he let his grandchild to have a first move. He knew that Zhan Chen was weak at the game, so, he didn't use everything that he known.
They played the xiangqi for several games before Zhan Chen finally gave up in front of the xiangqi god. He looked sullenly at the board and pouted, "I thought I could win against grandfather..."
Li Huizhong laughed loudly as he caressed his beard, "I was a number one in this game when I was young. And now, your grandfather is still number one in this empire."
Intrigued, Zhan Chen looked up with awe, "really? Not even the Emperor could win against grandfather? Eh, wait, have grandfather played with the Emperor?"
"En, not even Emperor Xian Long Wei could win against me. We've play 56 games and His Majesty only won half the number of the games," the old prime minister bragged proudly in front of his grandchild.
Zhan Chen nodded in awe. So, even the emperor himself lost to his grandfather's chess skill. They talked about a lot of things which involved a certain perverted wolf's name.
Emperor Xian: (Sneezed)
Head eunuch: "Your Majesty, this old servant would call the healer right this instant."
Emperor Xian: "There is no need. Zhèn doesn't have any illness." Maybe there was someone who was talking about him... It couldn't be his Chen Chen, right?
Meanwhile, Bai Xiu Ying and Bai Jian Yu sat in the living room, as they enjoyed the tea and teacakes.
Bai Xiu Ying sighed, "I'm really happy that Xiao Chen finally met with father after his memory lost but looking at how father indulged the boy, I just don't know..."
"You should know that your father really spoils Xiao Chen," Bai Jian Yu just laughed. He didn't think it was bad for Zhan Chen to eat what he wanted occasionally. But, his wife thought differently. Bai Xiu Ying was too worried about Zhan Chen's body.
Bai Xiu Ying, "I know but..."
"It will be fine," Bai Jian Yu's hand reached out for his wife's. He lightly tightened his hold on that smaller hand. "Xiao Chen is a strong ger, there won't be anything happened to our child."
Bai Xiu Ying finally let out a small smile and nodded his head, "then, I'll believe in your words. I also believe that our Xiao Chen is very strong. After all, Xiao Chen is our son."
Bai Jian Yu smiled gently.
"Ah! I remember something," Bai Xiu Ying suddenly said, "does Long Wei still asking about our Xiao Chen?"
Bai Jian Yu nodded his head. "Hm, it seems Long Wei is really caring about Xiao Chen."
Shaking his head, Bai Xiu Ying chuckled softly. Aiya, how could this general not knowing the inside of Emperor's heart ah?
"Why? What's wrong?" Bai Jian Yu asked, puzzled with his wife's sudden laugh.
"Oh dear, you're really the esteemed general. How could you not realise that Long Wei has feeling for our ger son?"
Bai Jian Yu's face immediately darkened. Long Wei was in love with his Xiao Chen? Since when? "Who tell you this?" There was no way he would give his adorable ger son to any man. No! He was Bai Jian Yu's ger son only.
Bai Xiu Ying saw the dark look on his husband's face, immediately scolded. He knew how over protective the man was towards their only child. But, Long Wei was such a good husband's candidate ba!
"Dear, listen to me."
"What?" Bai Jian Yu stubbornly pursed his lips. Thinking his ger son would someday leave him and live with a man other than him upsetting him.
"Dear, you know that Long Wei is a good man and we've known him since he is born. He will take care of Xiao Chen and I trust him to love Xiao Chen unconditionally."
"How do you know? He is the emperor. One day, he would take a concubine or many concubines."
"I just trust him," Bai Xiu Ying said softly. His mother's instinct told him that Long Wei was the best husband candidate for Zhan Chen.
"Hm, let's talk about this later," Bai Jian Yu said stubbornly and sipped his tea. He didn't want to continue talking about some man that might steal his ger son away from him.
Bai Xiu Ying knew that the matter needed to be treated carefully. So, he tactfully kept quiet and continued sipping his tea.
'Well, sooner or later, I trust Long Wei will be asking for Xiao Chen's hand in marriage.'
Back to the grandfather and grandchild, Zhan Chen laughed loudly as he heard the story from his grandfather when his father was trying to court his mother.
Oh, gosh! He never knew that his father was such a hopeless romantic and very awkward too.
He he he.
This was so fun! He loved hearing about his parents' romance.
"There was this one day when your father came to recite a poem for your mother," Li Huizhong laughed as he remembered it, "he copied it from his friend's letter to his sweetheart since he was hopeless in creating his own poem and forgot to change the ger's name. Your mother was so angry that he didn't want to meet your father for two weeks!"
At this point, Zhan Chen was laughing his lungs out. "So, what did father do that make mother forgive him?" He continued to he-he-he.
"Your father was kneeling in front of our house for two weeks until your mother forgave him. Ai, that man ah, even when I threatened to smack him, he wouldn't move from his position."
At the same time, the Bai's couple decided to enter the study room and heard the part about Bai Jian Yu kneeling on the ground. Bai Jian Yu instantly embarrassed and said loudly, "Father, you don't have to tell that old story to Xiao Chen ah!"
Bai Xiu Ying laughed at the embarrassed man.
"I never knew that father was very romantic and clumsy," Zhan Chen laughed which made his father embarrassed even more so.
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Small Theatre
Bai Jian Yu: (Poem: Song of Divination 《卜算子》by Li Zhiyi)
I live upstream and you downstream,
From night to night of you I dream.
Unlike the stream you are not in view,
Though both we drink from River Blue.
When will the river no more flow?
When will my grief no more grow?
I wish your heart will be like mine,
Then not in vain for Xiao Fei I pine.
Li Xiu Ying: "!!!" How dare Jian Yu uttered other ger's name?!
Bai Jian Yu: "......" Why did Xiu'er's face look so dark ah? "Xiu'er, why don't you say anything..."
Li Xiu Ying: "Hmph! Xiao Fei?! Who's Xiao Fei ah?! Do you want to marry this Xiao Fei?!"
Bai Jian Yu: "...Who's Xiao Fei?" Recalling back the poem he recited before, he pales. "T-That Xiu'er, listen to me first..."
BAM!!! (The door slammed close)
Bai Jian Yu: "Xiu'er!!!"
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