He pulled out a handful of lollipops from behind his back like a magician. Chen Xiaoqun's face instantly cleared up, and he darted over to Fang Zhiyi, snatching the candy.
"Grandpa is the best!"
This scene left Fang Yunyun and her husband somewhat stunned. Were they seeing things? That old man who advocated a healthy lifestyle bought candy for his grandson?
Fang Zhiyi seemed to know their question and waved a hand. "I didn't buy them. A friend of mine bought them and asked me to give them to Xiaoqun. I couldn't refuse his kindness."
That made sense.
Fang Yunyun nodded, but watching her son's happy expression, a pang of bitterness struck her heart. When she was a child, her father never let her eat candy and had even scolded her once. So it wasn't that he didn't know how to be affectionate with children...
Fang Zhiyi never expected that this simple act of his would make Fang Yunyun resent him from yet another bizarre angle.
The next day, Fang Zhiyi went out early again, this time without even waking Chen Xiaoqun.
It was Fang Yunyun who noticed her son hadn't gotten up and hurried to wake him. Chen Xiaoqun got up unhappily, his face dark. Fang Yunyun didn't pay it much mind, just kept complaining, "This grandfather of yours, at his age, still running around everywhere. Does he think he's still young? And he doesn't even take care of you!"
Previously, it was always Fang Zhiyi who picked up and dropped off the child. Suddenly having to do it herself, she was flustered and, naturally, was late.
"Hello, Teacher Deng..."
"Is Xiaoqun still not feeling well?"
Fang Yunyun glanced at Chen Xiaoqun, who was eating slowly, and answered without hesitation, "A little. He might be one class late."
The teacher didn't say anything.
Because she took her son, Fang Yunyun was also late for work. Fortunately, she was usually a bit casual, so no one at the company said anything, but she knew her monthly bonus was gone.
Immediately, she blamed this on Fang Zhiyi, completely forgetting about her husband who slept until noon.
Fang Zhiyi spent the day again visiting relatives and friends according to his list. He suddenly felt the original host was actually quite a decent person, which had allowed him to reap quite a few benefits. Wherever he went, he could get a meal.
It was dark again when Fang Zhiyi returned home. As soon as he entered, he saw his daughter's dark expression. His son-in-law and grandson beside her seemed completely indifferent to Fang Yunyun's bad mood, playing and roughhousing.
"Dad! Where have you been?" Fang Yunyun began interrogating Fang Zhiyi as soon as she saw him.
Fang Zhiyi raised an eyebrow. "Where have I been? Visiting people."
"Visiting people every single day? Do you know, because you didn't wake Xiaoqun this morning, you made me late!" Fang Yunyun was getting angry.
Fang Zhiyi looked puzzled. "I did call him. Xiaoqun wasn't awake yet, and I thought I'd let him sleep a bit more. You know, lack of sleep is bad for children."
Fang Yunyun was stumped. Her next words were all blocked. He was using my lines!
However, Fang Zhiyi's words found an echo.
"Exactly, what's the big deal about being late? Don't be so tense. Dad, I give you a thumbs up!" Chen Cai gave Fang Zhiyi a thumbs-up. He'd been living quite comfortably these past couple of days, with no one bothering him at home.
Fang Zhiyi returned a thumbs-up. "Chen Cai, if it feels awkward, just call me 'old bro.' We can each use our own terms."
Chen Cai practically jumped up. "Oh my god! Dad... no, old bro, you, you... did you meet some enlightened master these past couple of days? To have such an awakening!"
Fang Zhiyi smiled with narrowed eyes. "Yeah, I've heard a lot of wisdom lately. Listen to advice, and you'll eat well."
"Ah, that's more like it." Chen Cai nodded repeatedly.
Fang Yunyun couldn't get a word in. Seeing her beloved husband siding with her father, she felt aggrieved. "But today when I went to pick up Xiaoqun, his teacher held me back and talked for a long time. She said he didn't do his homework either. Dad, how are you supervising the child..."
Fang Zhiyi's eyebrows shot up. "That's not right. Good schools shouldn't assign homework. I've seen foreign news; they finish school at noon there, no homework, and they still produce talented people, don't they?"
"Good point!" Chen Cai applauded, immediately leaning to Fang Zhiyi's side. "Yunyun, look at you. What's the problem with that homework? Will he be shot for not doing it?"
Fang Yunyun lowered her head and took two deep breaths. Even so... it felt weird, okay?
Fang Zhiyi noticed they had eaten takeout again today. He just smiled and went back to his room.
Every day after that, Fang Zhiyi maintained his routine of leaving early and returning late. Fang Yunyun had no choice but to resign herself to picking up and dropping off the child. This undoubtedly placed a shackle on her free and sweet life, depressing her somewhat. But when she told her husband these thoughts, he advised, "Do you want to go back to how it was before, watching the old man scold our son?"
Fang Yunyun immediately thought of her own childhood and shook her head repeatedly.
"Exactly. He's changing now. After this period passes, I'll talk to him and ask him to help with the child's transportation." Chen Cai patted his chest, a blissful smile on his face.
Fang Yunyun could only nod.
Trouble came swiftly. Without Fang Zhiyi's supervision, Chen Xiaoqun deteriorated rapidly. Because his mother was working overtime, his father was sleeping, and his grandfather was out and hadn't returned, he went downstairs to play by himself during the holiday. Seeing other children playing with a new model toy car, he felt envious. But they weren't familiar with him and didn't want to lend it to him. Chen Xiaoqun got angry. During a shoving match, he grabbed the toy car and smashed it on the other child's head. Once wasn't enough to vent his anger, so he did it again, until the child ran away crying. Only then did Chen Xiaoqun, feeling guilty, throw down the toy car and run back home.
Sure enough, the doorbell soon rang. The other child's parents had come to their door.
"How do you discipline your child? Look at how he hit my son!" The child's mother was furious.
Chen Cai, who hadn't been awake long, frowned. "Kids roughhouse, and you, an adult, make such a big deal out of it? You really lack perspective."
"Perspective?" The woman nearly laughed in anger. "Right now, it's your child who hit mine. As a parent, not only do you not apologize, but you say I lack perspective?"
Chen Cai looked at his frightened son, reached out to pat his head, and stubbornly started arguing with the woman.
It also happened that the woman was civilized. She couldn't win against Chen Cai's twisted logic and was nearly reduced to tears.
"Go ahead and do what you want! Otherwise, check the surveillance or call the police!" Chen Cai knew there were no cameras in the public area downstairs.
The woman left in a huff. Going downstairs, she bumped into Fang Zhiyi, who was strolling home leisurely.
Fang Zhiyi asked knowingly. The woman, having been aggrieved for a while, poured out everything that had just happened. Fang Zhiyi frowned, looking apologetic, and pulled a few hundred yuan from his pocket, stuffing it into the woman's hand.
The woman was a bit stunned.
"Ah, it's all my fault. I'm old. I can't control my daughter and son-in-law, and I can't control that grandson either." Fang Zhiyi said with a bitter smile.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
