In the novel "Joy of Life," the protagonist wakes up at Li Chengze's residence.

Li Chengze's words made Tao Jingyang somewhat displeased, so he lowered his hands from his waist.

She pointed to the sky, glanced at him, and said, "I don't care if it's true or not, that's the name we'll use."

"Moreover, I'm not only going to call it Tao Xiaowu, but I'm also going to give a human surname to the eagle you gave me before."

She walked up to Li Chengze, put her arm around his shoulder, thought for a moment, and said:

"That eagle is called... that's right, it's called 'Little Eagle Li'!"

"Oh, you actually shared one with me."

His tone at that moment was unreadable.

But thankfully he didn't have a long tail, otherwise it would definitely have been seen; one of his tails was already sticking up to the sky.

Tao Jingyang looked a little awkward, touched her nose, and said, "Of course, I'm not the kind of person who only thinks about myself."

The latter flicked her forehead with his hand, his tone containing a tenderness he himself didn't realize:

"They're quite generous."

Seeing her cover her forehead with both hands and cry out "Ouch!", he still couldn't resist teasing her:

"I wonder which idiot came up with such a name and then spent so much time thinking about it."

"Huh? What do you mean? Try saying it again, okay?"

Tao Jingyang clenched his fist and waved it in front of Li Chengze, indicating his threat.

"Um, what I mean is... this name is excellent." Li Chengze immediately "backed down," saying against his conscience.

After saying that, he gave a thumbs up:

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Tao Jingyang smiled at him with satisfaction, then sighed, "That's better."

After that, he started teasing Tao Xiaowu again.

Li Chengze watched as she held a walnut and taught the parrot to say, "Walnut, come on, say walnut with me~"

A little while later, I picked up a mung bean cake and taught it to say "mung~bean~cake~".

He watched the scene with great interest, standing there almost motionless.

Tao Jingyang taught it for a long time, but found that it seemed to be able to learn only two words at a time.

"Tsk tsk, it really is just a fledgling."

"It's still young, let's teach it slowly," Li Chengze casually remarked.

At this time, life was peaceful and the world was serene, until...

Fan Wujiu is here again.

He didn't want to come in the first place, but for some reason, what kind of awful day was it that so many things happened in one day?

To be honest, Fan Wujiu didn't want to get close to the two of them either.

For the first time ever, he missed Xie Bi'an a little. If Xie Bi'an were here, he certainly wouldn't have had to report this matter.

"Knock knock knock," Fan Wujiu gently knocked on the door.

"Your Highness, I have important news to report," Fan Wujiu's voice rang out again from outside.

Li Chengze lowered his head, looked up at Tao Jingyang, and said, "Let's go listen together."

"I'm not comfortable listening, am I? I won't go. It's fine to just stay here and play with Tao Xiaowu." Tao Jingyang didn't turn around.

Seeing that Tao Jingyang wouldn't agree verbally, he went over to her, pulled her up from the couch, and dragged her out of the room.

From the room the two had left, Tao Xiaowu's voice rang out:

"Fool."

"Fool."

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"What! You said Zhu Ge is dead?" Li Chengze's expression changed slightly.

“Yes, the messenger said that he was killed by Chen Pingping’s Black Riders.” Fan Wujiu stood aside, his heart sinking slightly.

Li Chengze paced back and forth, his shoes slipping on his wrist, his face full of thought: "Why did he die?"

He turned to Tao Jingyang and asked, "Jingyang, why do you think Chen Pingping wanted to kill Zhu Ge?"

Tao Jingyang ate some fruit and mumbled, "Maybe Chen Pingping is going to rebel."

Upon hearing this, Fan Wujiu was greatly surprised and blurted out:

"He wants to rebel? How could that be?" Everyone knows that the current emperor trusts Chen Pingping the most. No one would believe that he would rebel.

Tao Jingyang imitated Li Chengze, tossing a plum to Fan Wujiu, who caught it.

"So, if it's not Chen Pingping who's going to rebel, then it must be Zhu Ge who's going to rebel."

Tao Jingyang suddenly noticed that Li Chengze's expression was not good, so he handed him a plum as well.

Fan Wujiu nodded, seemingly understanding. But not entirely, so he mustered his courage and asked again:

"Then why did Zhuge rebel?"

Li Chengze was staring at the plum in his hand, thinking that Tao Jingyang had handed it to him.

Just as I was about to reluctantly open my mouth and take a bite, I was stunned by what she said.

He paused, glancing sideways at Fan Wujiu, and let out a deep sigh:

"Because Zhu Ge has most likely sided with the eldest princess."

Fan Wujiu was shocked. He turned to look at Tao Jingyang and uttered a sound like, "Huh?"

Li Chengze closed his eyes and turned away, unwilling to look anymore.

Tao Jingyang watched the show with amusement, but when he saw Li Chengze's speechless expression, he burst out laughing.

After the laughter subsided, no one responded.

Fan Wujiu took a bite of the plum, which had become slightly warm from being held in his palm, and looked thoughtful.

Li Chengze said in a sinister tone, "Fan Wujiu, is there anything else you want to report?"

Fan Wujiu immediately realized what was happening and hurriedly said, "It's gone, it's gone."

"It's gone, so hurry up and get off!"

"Your subordinate takes his leave." (bowing)

After he left, Tao Jingyang spoke, breaking the silence in the room.

"Fan Wujiu is... quite an interesting person."

After Li Chengze finished eating the plum, he threw the pit on the table:

"Those who follow me are just lonely souls like me, I'm sorry you had to see that."

Tao Jingyang frowned upon hearing this, thinking to himself: What is he imagining now?

"I wasn't implying anything, I genuinely think he's quite interesting. Stop overthinking..." Tao Jingyang said slowly.

After listening, Li Chengze simply shook his head and remained silent.

She keenly sensed the somewhat downcast mood of the person beside her and asked:

"What's wrong? You look so pale. What's wrong? Is Jug dead and you're sad?"

"Why should I be sad about his death... I just didn't expect that my aunt could even win over the Surveillance Bureau to become one of her own."

After Li Chengze finished speaking, he picked up his teacup and took a sip of warm tea.

But he forgot that he had just eaten plums, and for a moment he was careless and the taste was astringent.

He pursed his lips, smacked his lips, and swallowed the sour taste in his mouth.