Me at two years old, a queen!

A few days into the new school year, An'an didn't cling to Lu Junxing or struggle to adjust to school as everyone had feared. Instead, she happily became the kindergarten's three musketeers with Zhuangzhuang and Duoduo.

Every day, Lu Junxing would pick her up on time, and then they would go back to the company to work overtime together. On weekends, they would go back to the old house to keep the old man company and play with the gluttonous girl.

Qin Yanzhou also transferred to a school in Haicheng, and Junmin found a job at a jewelry design studio. Every day, Uncle Liu would pick him up from school and take him to the villa next door to train with his mentor, Zhao Jingtang, for two hours.

An'an watched her brother practicing the horse stance and eagerly wanted to learn too. However, she wanted to move after only two minutes and finally said, "It's too difficult for me, brother. Let him learn by himself."

Although Yu'an still couldn't speak, he became familiar with the Lu family and often visited them with Qin Yanzhou. Whenever Zhao Jingtang was too busy to take him, she would send him to the Lu family.

The old man also felt sorry for the boy and liked this quiet child. His own children, An'an and Qin Yanzhou, didn't like quiet; in fact, they were much more boisterous. Even their cat and dog were unruly.

The two children in the family preferred to play with the unserious, stern-faced Lu Jing, while the old man, who was good at educating children, enjoyed writing, drawing, and playing chess every day, and no one wanted to play with him.

Seeing that the boy was quiet, the old man was willing to teach him calligraphy and chess, and that's how he discovered the boy had a real talent for chess.

On a weekend evening, An'an and her brother returned from their neighbor Yu'an's house and found everyone sitting in the living room, looking lifeless. When An'an saw that even Lu Junxing, who should have been in the study, was sitting on the sofa, she shrank back.

"Brother~, I've been good these past two days, haven't I been a bad guy?"

"Shh~, little sister~, you never admit you're wrong after you get into trouble, right? So you'll never know you've become a bad guy!"

"Oh right~, brother, then why did Dad hit me even though I didn't do anything wrong?"

"Um... little sister, how about we hide secretly for now!"

Even though Qin Yanzhou has participated in several math Olympiads, he still often struggles to understand An'an's thought process. Her uncle says not to worry about her; her brain will improve as she grows up.

"What are you hiding? What trouble have you gotten yourself into now? Hahaha~, you're not some kind of troublemaker, are you?"

"You're the troublemaker! You bad guy! You four-eyed rascal, you're so annoying!" An'an saw the person who came in, seemingly unconcerned about the cold weather, wearing only a leather jacket over his clothes, and saw him mocking her.

An'an waved her little fists, angrily about to chase after him and hit him: "Even if you're my brother's dad, he still won't like you~"

"Qin Shuo? You still have the nerve to show your face here?"

Hearing the commotion at the door, Lu Jing and his group came out to see Qin Shuo, the reckless brat. Already seething with anger because of him, Lu Jing gave him a cold shoulder.

"What happened? We agreed on this before, what's going on now? It's been a month, and you're backing out at the last minute! What do you take the Lu family for?"

"Old Lu, control your emotions in front of the children!"

Lu Jing's anger subsided instantly. She stared blankly at Ms. Song Yuan, only to see her holding Qin Yanzhou and looking at her with displeasure. Feeling somewhat awkward, Lu Jing turned and went upstairs.

I'd only gone up two steps when I hesitated, feeling uneasy. So I turned back to the living room, sat down, poured myself a cup of tea, and tried to calm my racing heart.

Lu Junxing acted as if he hadn't seen anything at the time. While Ms. Song Yuan was pulling Qin Yanzhou along, he picked up An'an directly, his expression blank. However, An'an sensed that he wasn't in a good mood.

She didn't dare struggle, but obediently wrapped her arms around the man's neck, pouting and complaining.

"That four-eyed kid is so annoying! How could my brother have such a hateful dad? Dad, maybe we should get my brother a better dad?"

Lu Jing put down the cup, thinking it was a good idea, and shouted, "Change it! Change it tomorrow! Change it to a better one! My dear grandson is so clever!"

Upon hearing this, Jun Min subconsciously glanced at Qin Yanzhou, whose ears were being covered by Ms. Song Yuan, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he seemed not to have heard.

Feeling everyone around her staring, she nervously clutched the hem of her clothes, and finally spoke to the man leaning against the doorframe: "You should leave!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Shuo immediately stood up straight. He had originally intended to make a few teasing remarks, but seeing the woman's nervous and uneasy appearance, he simply patted Qin Yanzhou's head, said nothing, nodded, and turned to leave: "Okay!"

Ms. Song sighed as she looked at her niece, who was sobbing with her head down. She pulled Qin Yanzhou inside, but as she passed her, she finally stopped and said with a look of exasperation, "You should still have a proper talk with him! Whether to break up or stay together, there needs to be a plan!"

No matter how good she was to her, she was still not her mother; there was a barrier between them. There were things she wanted to say but couldn't. Ultimately, a person's path is theirs to walk alone! Everyone else is just an outsider.

After dinner, Zhao Jingtang brought his nephew Zhao Yu'an over for a visit. Yu'an pulled his brother and Yu'an into the sunroom in the back, wanting to plant vegetables.

Even though the gardener told them it was better to plant during the day, no one discouraged them. Ms. Song even had some of the flowers moved to a temporary glasshouse just to make room for her.

"You glutton~, you can just dig a hole here~, you greedy devil, you don't want my seeds~"

"Brother Yu'an, please give me this to sow seeds!"

Zhao Yu'an reached out his hand to the little girl. An'an looked at his hand, hesitated, and took out a piece of candy: "Brother Yu'an~, next time you can eat your candy at home before you come to play with me, okay?"

"That person is so pitiful. Their dad can't earn many candies. My dad can only earn one candy a day. Here, take it!"

"??"

"Brother Yu'an~, please don't do this! I really don't have any more candy?"

An'an watched as he stood motionless with his outstretched hand, one small hand tightly clutching his pocket, the other shaking his head and waving at the boy.

"An'an! Yu'an wants to take the seeds from you! He doesn't like sweets! He doesn't want your sweets!"

Qin Yanzhou returned carrying a small bucket with some water. He saw two people, one standing still with his hand outstretched, and the other excitedly backing away and waving his hands, explaining the situation to Yu'an.

"Oh~, Brother Yu'an, don't you like candy? Can I have some of the candy that Uncle Zhao earns in the future?"

While looking at him, An'an secretly reached out to take back the candy she had given him: "You don't like it anyway, right?"

Qin Yanzhou pulled her back and stopped her restless hand: "Uncle Zhao's company doesn't give out candy. He and Uncle don't work at the same company!"

"Then what should we send?"

An'an scratched her head, feeling like she was about to grow a brain if she kept thinking about it. Didn't Dad say he only earned one candy a day from work, so she could only have one candy a day?

"How can a company not give out candy at work? That company is so mean! Uncle Zhao is so pitiful!"

"Hmm? Green peppers and carrots, those are the vegetables you dislike the most."

Qin Yanzhou thought about the dishes his younger sister usually didn't like and gave her a few examples. Sure enough, the girl's face scrunched up in resistance.

"Brother Yu'an, could you let Uncle Zhao work at my dad's company? Even though my dad can only earn one candy tomorrow, it's better than a green pepper!"

"Alright, little sister, Yu'an and Uncle Zhao love carrots, they're so happy!"

"Really?" An'an couldn't understand why any child would like to eat green peppers and carrots.

An'an turned to look at Yu'an, who was still waiting for her to find the seeds, and then ran to rummage through the seeds in the small cloth bag. She couldn't read, so she looked at the pictures...

I found a few nice ones and gave them to Yu'an. She ran off to dig a hole with the gluttonous girl, imitating a dog paddling, kicking her little feet back and forth. In no time, she had a hole.

Before long, the boy and the dog had dug a row of holes. An'an watched her two brothers busy at work, then turned and rummaged through two packets of seeds, wanting to plant them. Seeing how plump the seeds were, she couldn't resist eating one herself.

"Hmm... it's hard, not very tasty!"

"Little sister! What are you eating?"

"This? Brother, it's not that I don't want you to eat it, it's just that it doesn't taste good?"

An'an showed her brother the broad bean seeds in her hand and anxiously explained that she hadn't been eating them all by herself behind his back, since her brother always secretly shared his snacks with her.

"Seeds? These are baby vegetables to be planted, they haven't grown yet, so they can't be eaten!"

"Grow up?" An'an immediately imagined a baby growing inside her: "Waaah~, my tummy? It'll get rotten if it grows up, waaaah~"

"I'm pregnant? Waaah~, what should I do?"

Qin Yanzhou had taken a physiology class in kindergarten, so he knew that the baby in his belly was a human baby, but a baby from a vegetable? The teacher hadn't said whether it would grow. But seeds do grow, right?

Zhao Yu'an looked at his sister, who was crying loudly, and wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth several times without being able to say anything, so he just watched them quietly.

"Let's go find your uncle and the others! Let them get rid of the baby in your belly!"