Evening.

Ke Yu followed behind He Xing, heading to the third floor of the villa.

In the afternoon, he and Gian chatted too happy that he forgot to book a hotel, so Shen Mian invited him to stay. Ke Yu, at the kind invitation of the little dragon cub, planned to stay overnight at the centre and bring Qin Yi back to the capital tomorrow.

It's just...
Ke Yu looked at the back of His Royal Highness in front of him. His highness was in the childcare centre. His Majesty and Her Highness were also here, and they seemed to stay there for a long time.

More importantly, Qin Yi was very happy here. There were girls in the centre who could talk with Qin Yi. The Duke's estate only had various tutors, so how could they have an environment as relaxing and warm as the childcare centre?

He Xing pushed open the door of a guest room. "Mr Ke, this room is usually tidied up, the bedding was changed in the afternoon and it has its own bathroom."

Ke Yu quickly nodded. "Thank you, Your Highness, I've troubled you."

He Xing, "No problem. My dean said Mr Ke has worked hard all afternoon, so you should rest early today. If you are not busy, you can also stay here for a few more days. Qin Yi doesn't have to rush back either."

Ke Yu is very impressed.
If a professor was busy, they could spend all day in the lab, not even bothering to eat, but if the project at hand was finished, it was not difficult to take a break. Since Qin Yi came to the childcare centre on Water Star, Ke Yu had not been with his daughter for a long time, so he should give himself a break and do his duty as a father.

The family didn't lack the money for Ke Yu's project anyway.

Ke Yu was hesitant- he couldn't tell if the Crown Prince was just being polite or if the invitation was genuine.
Besides, his little dragon cub had been eating and drinking for free in the childcare centre for half a month. Would it be too much for him to stay here?

He Xing slightly smiled. "Our Xing Fei is also very reluctant to part with Qin Yi."

Ke Yu's inner scales snapped in Qin Yi's favour. "Then I will be troubling you and Dean Shen for the next few days."

He Xing, "Don't mention it, please get some rest."

Ke Yu waited until the figure of He Xing disappeared around the corner of the stairs before closing the door, secretly relieved: His Highness was easy to talk to and had an easygoing personality, but in front of this highly merited marshal, Ke Yu really didn't know what to do with his arms and legs.

Ke Yu took out his quantum computer. The screen saver was a group photo of his wife in a red shirt leaning on the bed, with Qin Yi in her arms, her white paws stretched out onto her mother's arm and her eyes dripping wet as she looks into the camera.

In the photo, Ke Yu was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at his sweetheart and daughter with a silly smile on his face.

Ke Yu touched the screen and made a decision.

......

He Xing went downstairs to his room, where Shen Mian had finished coaxing the little dragon cubs and was leaning over the bed to look up the reviews of "A Handful of Miscellaneous Things" on his quantum computer.

The book was highly praised on the StarNet and it was indeed weakly written, but when they thought about the author's age, every reader couldn't help but become soft.
This was a little dragon cub who already had the courage to share this work with other dragons. Anyone could understand the shortcomings of the article and would consider the tone if they wanted to give some advice. Under such circumstances, there were almost no quarrels in the comment section of various review websites and under the number of tweets.

He Xing leaned over and kissed the side of Shen Mian's face. "Ke Yu said he would stay here for a few days."

Without raising his head, Shen Mian reached out and lifted one side of the blanket.

He Xing, "!"
W-Why was he so proactive today?

His Royal Highness endured his excitement. "Then today we'll..."

Under the blanket, Qin Yi, who almost blended in with the white sheets, said, "...Uncle, I'm still here."

He Xing, "..."

Marshal He helplessly rubbed the little dragon cub's ears, "Why didn't you say anything even though you're stuck under the blanket?"

Qin Yi calmly shook his ears, "Because I wanted to scare Uncle He."

He Xing, "...Alright, you scared me."

Qin Yi stood up and flicked her tail. "Then I'll go back now."

He Xing reluctantly opened the door for the stinky drangon and the little white dragon cub flew away. He Xing closed the door and walked back to the bed, fell down on the bed and rested on Shen Mian's lap.

"Did Qin Yi come to scare me or come to ask if her father could stay here for a few days?"

Shen Mian put down the quantum computer. "What do you think?"

He Xing was very self-aware. "Well, my charm towards the little dragon cub's shouldn't be so great since Qin Yi came to scare me." Dean Shen, who had this charm, would never be the target of the dragon cub's pranks- the dragon cub's treasured their dean, it was almost as if they wanted to act coquettish and get hugs from him.

He Xing, as the owner of this villa, would let Ke Yu stay for a few more days, even out of courtesy. Qin Yi, being a smart and well-mannered little dragon cub, certainly knew this.

Shen Mian lowered his hand and ruffled He Xing's hair with his fingers. "She wants Mr Ke Yu to stay, but she thinks that asking herself will interfere with Mr Ke Yu's decision. So she waited for you to come back to ask you if Mr Ke Yu could stay here for a few days."

He Xing's hair was a little longer than it was when he was in the army. He had a good personality, the ends of his hair were soft and the contours of his facial features were deep. His appearance was extremely handsome.

Shen Mian's hand moved from his hair to his eyebrows. He Xing felt a little itchy by his touch, so he reached out and held Shen Mian's fingers, pulled them in front of his face and kissed his fingertips.
"Qin Yi really likes her father."

Shen Mian hmmed in agreement.
He had always been lazy to have an unchanged expression in front of He Xing, especially when it was only him and He Xing in the room. He was in his pajamas, letting He Xing hold his hand, with a lazy expression.

He Xing looked at Shen Mian's drooping eyebrows.
This was the man who gives the cubs a reliable gentleness and himself a silent softness that had nothing to do with them being coquettish or sweet, but he never expressed it to anyone else or any dragon.

He belongs to him alone.

He Xing gently nibbled on the tip of Shen Mian's finger and suggestively touched it with the tip of his tongue.

Shen Mian, "..."
Shen Mian was a bit speechless. He was felt this kind of thing was always optional, but He Xing was rather abrasive and sticky. The good thing was that he was considerate, or else he would've be thrown out by Dean Shen the next day.

Shen Mian, "Go lock the door."

He Xing pressed on the light with one hand, "I already did."

......

Shen Mian woke up a little late the next day. The sunlight coming through the gap in the curtain showed that it was already the past time to make breakfast.

He Xing gently opened the door, went in and opened the curtain a little to let in the sunlight.

Shen Mian stretched out his hand to shield his eyes. "Has His Majesty and Her Highness risen?"

He Xing, "It's still early, only 7:30. My father and mother have taken the dragon cubs to to hike in the back and I don't think they will be back by noon."

Shen Mian put down his arm. "The mountain in the back is near the wastelands."

He Xing smiled and went into the bathroom to squeeze the toothpaste onto the toothbrush and fill the cup with warm water for Shen Mian. "It's okay, father and mother will be watching and Baron Crito is also going with them. Oh, Baron Crito is Rhein's father's boss."

Shen Mian didn't doubt the strength of His Majesty and Her Highness, but there were too many energetic little dragon cubs and they may not be able to take care of them, but since there were three adult dragons and the dragon cubs in their family were sensible, there shouldn't be any problems.

Shen Mian was quiet for a while and got up to wash up.

He Xing kissed him on the back of his neck. "I tried steaming prawn dumplings and a bowl of egg custard. The shrimp dumplings are a little broken, but they taste good. Let's make soup at noon, since I saw a fish in the kitchen. How about you teach me how to stew fish soup."

While the Crown Prince was living in the childcare centre, the human civilization and the Dragon Empire had established a commercial channel, and some human foods were gradually appearing on the tables of dragon families. The shrimp dumplings steamed by He Xing were the take-away food from human restaurants, delivered raw and steamed in a pot to be eaten.

Shen Mian finished washing up and asked, "Where is Mr Yu Ke?"

He Xing, "He and Gian are dismantling the robots in the ecological field and have already dismantled three and installed them all over again."

Dean Shen's expression cracked slightly. "...Am I'm the last one up?"

He Xing stifled a laugh.

Shen Mian looked back at him. "Tonight you will be rewarded with a spacious living room floor to sleep on."

He Xing immediately admitted his mistake. "I was wrong."

Marshal He's "I'm sorry" and "I was wrong" were wholesale, bad quality, disposable and not to be taken seriously at all.

Shen Mian was used to it. He was physically fit and although He Xing was extremely sticky, he always had a limit. Shen Mian also just said that to scare him a bit and wasn't actually angry.

The breakfast at the table was warm, just the right temperature for the mouth.
When Shen Mian was almost done eating, Gian and Ke Yu came back. One big and one small were covered of lubricating oil and black dust, Gian's fleshy little face was covered with a few specks of dust.

Jayne came running over with a box. "Dean!"

Shen Mian took a wet wipe to wipe Gian's face. "Hm?"

In spite of his sweat, Gian opened the rather clean box. There was an assembled motor inside- Gian had assembled a motor.

Gian was anxious to share his hours of work with his beloved elder. He crouched on the ground and opened the motor's shell. "Dean, look. This motor is different from the previous one. Uncle Ke Yu and I assembled it together, Uncle Ke Yu taught me a lot..."

Shen Mian and He Xing didn't understand, but when Gian talked about the motor, the brilliance in his eyes simply flew out.

Shen Mian listened quietly, but while the little dragon cub was talking, Shen Mian clearly heard the sound of fabric tearing. The excited little Gian did not notice.

In the time it took him to react, a pair of big ears appeared on top of Gian's head and in a few seconds, the little Gian in human form was so excited that he transformed back into his dragon form.

Gian, "..."

The green and gold dragon cub slowly stiffened in the face of the torn fabric, then lifted his oily paws and slammed them down on his face.

That was so, so embarrassing.

A smile gradually appeared in Shen Mian's eyes. The good thing was that he had a paralysed face that made a lot of small expressions, but he rarely laughed out loud.

However, He Xing and Ke Yu were different. He Xing was born with a naturally bad attitude, while Ke Yu was purely easily humoured. Gian listened to the two uncle's smothering laughter in their chest.

Ke Yu's family had a very precocious Qin Yi, so he took extra care of the face of the little dragon cub, but this scene was too cute. Ke Yu was so easily humoured that he couldn't hold it in whether his face was flushed or not.

If a gem dragon could blush, the current Gian would change from a green and gold dragon to a ruby dragon.

Gian threw his head into the arms of Shen Mian and was embraced by the dean and gently patted on the back.

Gian is smothered in the arms of Shen Mian: The dean was really the best.

Although he was smiling, Dean Shen, who did not make a sound, lowered his head and kissed the little dragon cub's ear.

It was a shame that Xing Fei wasn't here, or there would be another story in "A Handful of Miscellaneous Things"... En, there could be an internal collector's edition that would only circulate within the childcare centre.Internal Collector's Edition of "A Handful of Miscellaneous Things" ×
"A Collection of Embarrassing Stories about dragon cubs in the Childcare Centre" √

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