The world is broken, the cubs mend it

"Daddy cannot be replaced. I don't want anyone better."

Yuanyuan looked down at her fingers, and her already depressed mood fell to the bottom.

When she first came into this world, she was like a newborn baby, so she was naturally more friendly to the first person she met and interacted with.

Although the other person is a little bad, he has already taken root in the child's mind.

"Why are you so stubborn?"

Pei Zhiyan gently touched her little face with his fingertips with thin calluses, and seeing her dejected expression, he couldn't bear to continue talking.

It would take General Liu half a month to get back to the capital, so it wouldn't be too late to discuss the matter of recognition of relatives with her later.

"What does stubborn mean?"

Yuanyuan felt that what the old man said was difficult for her to understand and was beyond the scope for a child.

"Stubbornness is like you who refuses to change."

Pei Zhiyan stood up, put his hand on her back, and slowly pushed her into the house.

Meow--

Xiaobai was squatting on a low table in the main hall. When she saw Yuanyuan jump down, she stretched out on the spot, then ran towards her happily with her tail erect.

This cat was not this fat when it was brought here, but now its belly is bloated due to the feeding from the children.

"You are skinny and emaciated, but the cat is well fed."

Pei Zhiyan lowered his eyes and looked at the child holding the kitten. The expression in his eyes gradually softened. The man and the cat were quite interesting together.

"Xiao Bai may have eaten it. He eats two pieces of boiled meat in one meal."

Yuanyuan walked to his side holding the kitten and started talking about something that interested her, her eyes sparkling again.

"The belly is small but the appetite is big."

Pei Zhiyan raised his finger and pressed Xiaobai's head. The little guy raised his two cat paws and held his fingers and wanted to bite them, but he flicked his mouth and meowed in dissatisfaction.

"Don't hit my kitten."

Seeing him like this, Yuanyuan immediately took a step back while holding Xiaobai, and glared at her with dissatisfaction on her little face.

"When did I hit it? You are very diligent in protecting it."

Pei Zhiyan didn't use any strength in his hands, but the little kitten would get angry with him just by teasing her, which made people feel cold.

She didn't even think about who found the cat for her.

When Xiao Fuzi came back from the imperial kitchen to serve food, she saw Caizhi in the corridor with a sullen face and started to complain.

"Those dogs and slaves outside dared to make up stories about our girl behind her back, saying that she was so scheming and wanted to climb up the social ladder at such a young age."

"Keep your voice down, the Master Seal and the young lady are inside." Caizhi quickly walked up to him and pulled his arm.

Ever since the day when the Master gave the girl the cold shoulder outside, rumors spread throughout the six palaces, saying that the girl was not liked by the Master at all and was just a toy kept by the Master.

"I just can't help but feel angry. As soon as the palm print came back, they started to care about the girl's health and find things to entertain her. Why do they need us girls to cling to them? I think they are just sour grapes."

Xiao Fuzi followed her and stood in the corner, unable to help but angrily refute a few more words.

Those people are not even worthy of carrying shoes for a girl, it is not their turn to make irresponsible remarks.

"You can just listen to these words, but don't take them to heart."

Caizhi advised him not to care too much, as everyone in the palace has a miserable life.

Looking up, I see the square palace wall. Life is precarious, and all I can do is talk nonsense behind people's backs to pass the time.

The Jinyiwei had spies in every corner, and the fact that the news could be spread so widely was tacitly approved by the leader.

The more others think that the child is disliked, the less she will be implicated if anything happens to the seal in the future.

People from the imperial kitchen came in carrying food boxes. Caizhi checked them one by one and then brought them in and placed them on the round table. She arranged the dishes and chopsticks and went out to stand guard outside.

"Come over for dinner."

Pei Zhiyan sat down and waved to the child holding the cat. He had not eaten much in the past few days due to his busy schedule, and he felt a little hungry when he smelled the aroma of the food.

"I do not want to eat."

Yuanyuan has had no appetite these past few days. She just had lunch and it’s not time for dinner yet.

"Eat as much as you can. There's fish meat that you like."

Pei Zhiyan gently placed the kitten in her arms on the ground, held her back on the stool, picked out the bones from a piece of fish and fed it to her.

"..."

Yuanyuan looked at the fish meat that was handed to her mouth, confusion written in her dark eyes.

The old man doesn't want her one moment, and treats her well the next, which really confuses the child.

"Eat? You look so skinny, why not change your name to Bian Bian?"

Pei Zhiyan fed the fish into her mouth, then took out a piece and picked out the bones.

She says she doesn't want to eat, but she swallows it immediately after it's brought to her mouth. You have to coax her into eating.

"I don't want to be called Bian Bian, you can be called Da Bai."

"Why is it called Dabai?"

"You are like Xiaobai, your hair is white and you look a little old."

Yuanyuan pointed at the cat squatting on the stool next to her. Naming cats after colors is her specialty.

"You think I'm too old? Then go find someone younger to serve you."

Pei Zhiyan sneered, she was really getting more and more outrageous.

"..."

Seeing that he was really angry, Yuanyuan silently shut up and stopped arguing with him, enjoying his fishbone picking service.

She ate one third of the fish and drank a bowl of lotus seed soup.

Pei Zhiyan only started eating after feeding her. The originally hot food had become a little cold.