The world is broken, the cubs mend it

"I'm thinking about your future. People can't just look at the road at hand, they have to look at the long term."

Pei Zhiyan raised his head and didn't look at her, for fear that he would see her eyes and feel reluctant to leave.

Yuanyuan looked up at her bad father's heartless and indifferent expression, sadly let go of his clothes, turned around, and ran away crying.

"Girl, slow down!"

Caizhi, who was guarding in the yard, saw her run out and hurriedly followed to look after her.

"If you don't want to let go, just keep it by your side."

General Liu saw that he had a deep affection for the child and thought that life was short so there was no need to make things difficult for himself.

"This little reluctance is nothing compared to the life of the child. She just can't accept it for the time being. After spending some time with you, she won't reject it anymore."

Pei Zhiyan suppressed the sadness in his heart and told him to take good care of the child.

"You don't have to do this. There may be other ways."

General Liu sighed. When the Pei family was wiped out, he found the dying Pei Zhiyan.

Originally, he just wanted to keep the last bloodline of the Pei family and let him live the rest of his life in anonymity and peace.

But the hatred of genocide must be avenged, so Pei Zhiyan decided to return to the capital and lie in wait in the palace, changing his name and hiding for several years under a false facade.

From the lowest eunuch at the end of his rank to the eunuch who helped the new emperor poison the previous emperor to ascend the throne, he suffered a lot along the way.

Until he was promoted from a small soldier to a general in charge of the military power, everything seemed to become smooth, and the grievances of the Pei and Yan families were finally redressed.

"We'll discuss future matters later."

Pei Zhiyan had thought about retreating, but he had to take things one step at a time and not put the child in danger.

In the yard——

Caizhi held the child and coaxed him for a long time before he finally calmed him down. The two waited in the yard for a long time, but the seal holder did not come out.

"Where's my dad?"

Yuanyuan saw General Liu walking out alone and asked with tears in her eyes.

"He's gone. What would you like for dinner? I'll ask the kitchen to make it for you."

General Liu looked at her red eyes from crying and couldn't help but feel distressed.

"I want to eat so I can see Bad Dad's meal."

When Yuanyuan heard that her bad father had left her alone and ran away, the tears that she had finally stopped burst into tears again.

"..."

General Liu felt a lump in his throat. He couldn't make such a dish. No one could change what Pei Zhiyan had decided.

"Yuanyuan, don't cry. You will understand in the future that doing this is good for you."

He raised his hand to wipe the child's tears, but the little guy threw himself into Caizhi's arms and cried even more sadly.

"General Liu, I will just coax you."

Caizhi felt as if she was pricked by a needle in the heart. Not to mention that the child was feeling unwell, she had been traveling with the Master of the Seal for a month, and now she suddenly couldn't see him anymore. She felt like something was missing.

"..."

General Liu's raised hand froze in mid-air, and in the end he could only nod and leave.

It took a full quarter of an hour for the child to stop crying. Caizhi applied some pressure on her eyes and carried her back to the bedroom to rest.

The little fellow leaned tightly in her arms, holding on to her clothes and refusing to let go, fearing that she would disappear with him soon.

"It would be nice if the Master Seal was just an ordinary person..."

Caizhi lowered her eyes, looked at her child's sleeping face and sighed softly. In this way, the father and daughter would not have to suffer the pain of separation.

Dinner was served after dark. Yuanyuan sat on a stool, looking at the table full of delicacies without any appetite. She kept her mouth tight and refused to open.

"Girl, take a bite at least. Don't risk your body."

Caizhi tried to persuade her earnestly, holding a bowl of almost cold rice porridge in her hand, worried that she would really go on a hunger strike and starve herself.

"..."

Yuanyuan shook her head and refused to open her mouth. She couldn't eat a single bite of food.

Seeing her like this, Caizhi had no choice but to put down the bowl and said gently, "If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. I'll go back to the palace tomorrow to see if I can persuade the Master Seal to come and see you."

"real……"

As soon as Yuanyuan opened her mouth, Caizhi scooped a small spoonful of porridge and fed it to her.

She didn't have the courage to persuade the Lord Seal Holder, it was just a petty trick to trick her into eating.

"Bah bah bah!"

The little guy spat out all the porridge in his mouth, looked at her disappointedly, turned around, kicked off his shoes, climbed onto the couch, and pulled the quilt over his head.

At this moment, Pei Zhiyan on the roof rubbed her eyebrows irritably. She was so angry that she even refused to eat.

General Liu, standing in the corridor, looked at the figure on the roof and sighed helplessly. He looked more and more like a monkey.

Caizhi slept on the floor at night and kept watch. She dimly saw a figure sitting beside the bed.

He was so scared that he immediately got up and was about to call for help, but was frightened by Pei Zhiyan's eyes. After seeing his face clearly, he quickly retreated.

When the little guy sleeps alone, he curls up into a small ball, like a cooked shrimp.

As soon as he lay down, the child came over and put his head tightly against his chest.

Pei Zhiyan tucked her in before leaving after she slept soundly.

The next day, when Yuanyuan woke up, she always felt that her bad father seemed to have come yesterday, but Caizhi said that she did not see him.

"..."

Yuanyuan lay in bed with a pout and didn't want to get up. Her stomach was growling with hunger but she refused to eat breakfast.

When General Liu heard that the child was on a hunger strike, he came to visit her and sat beside her bed and solemnly assured her: "If you follow me, I will treat you as my own child and will not let you suffer."

"I don't want to be your child. I have my own father."

Yuanyuan had her back to him and her voice was as weak as a cat's. She was really starving to death.

"He is still your daddy. It's okay if you don't want to call me daddy."

"You're not my father in the first place. Don't you have children of your own?"

"No, so if you follow me you will be my only child."

General Liu had admired Pei Zhihe, the eldest daughter of the Pei family, since childhood, and the two were childhood sweethearts.

But before he could express his feelings, the Liu family was demoted one after another and forced to leave the capital and live thousands of miles away.

They met when she volunteered to go to the border.

That day, Pei Zhihe sat on his horse wearing armor, lowered his eyes and said to him: "If I return victorious, I will personally ask His Majesty to issue an order to allow you to marry into my Pei family and become my husband. If I don't come back, you can forget me."

Unfortunately, all he got was the news of Pei Zhihe's death. He had all the strength to fight, but he couldn't avenge his beloved.

Even when she was wronged, no one could stand up and say a word for her.

Later, he secretly cooperated with Pei Zhiyan to collect evidence of the frame-up of Pei and Yan's two families, and only cleared her name many years later.

Now he was ordered to garrison the border to resist foreign enemies, secretly monitor the movements of court officials for Pei Zhiyan, and help him kill his enemies.

He has been alone for so many years, and after seeing such bright and vivid colors, there is no room for anyone else in his heart.

"I don't want to be your child. If you want a child, can't you give birth to one yourself?"

"How can I have a child if I am a man?"

"This is your own business. You have to figure it out yourself and don't ask me."

Yuanyuan buried her head in the quilt and didn't want to continue communicating with him.