"Haha, I’m not the bad guy, your daddy is the bad guy."

Cu Haoyan laughed heartily.

Ansel was clever and understood immediately when he heard this.

"Uncle Cu, did Daddy make you do this to us on purpose?"

"Yes, smart boy."

Ansel shook Jian Yufei’s arm: "Mommy, Daddy is bullying us."

Jian Yufei chuckled: "I’ll deal with him later."

"Mommy, you’re the best." Ansel grinned so widely his eyes turned into slits.

Cu Haoyan spoke up for Ruan Tianling: "Your daddy is doing it for your own good. Your status is different, so the bad people you encounter are naturally not ordinary bad people. He wants you to know that you still don’t have the full ability to protect yourselves."

Ansel nodded earnestly: "Uncle Cu, I understand."

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Back at the villa.

Jian Yufei asked them to call their grandparents to let them know they were safe, and then took them to eat.

The servants served the freshly prepared dishes on the table—

The food was kept warm the whole time.

As soon as it was served, Junqi grabbed a fork and spoon, eating with both hands.

Ansel couldn’t be bothered with manners and ate in big mouthfuls too.

"Eat slowly, be careful not to choke." Jian Yufei poured each of them a glass of water.

"Mommy... I’m starving..." Ansel mumbled with his mouth full of food.

"Didn’t you eat anything during the day?"

"I did... only snacks."

Ansel gave her a pitiful look: "And it was just two bags of bread."

Jian Yufei pretended to put on a stern face: "See if you dare to go out alone next time!"

"Mommy, I won’t dare anymore."

"It’s not that Mommy won’t let you go out alone, it’s just that you’re too young to go such a long way. Thankfully nothing happened this time. Next time, if you need to go out, you should at least tell an adult."

"Uh-huh, I know..."

"Hurry up and eat, then go to sleep."

Ansel finished a bowl of rice and wasn’t as hungry anymore.

"Mommy, where are Grandpa and Grandma?"

"I haven’t told them about you yet, Grandma is already resting. Let’s go see her tomorrow."

"Okay!"

The two brothers were both hungry and tired.

Once they were full, they started to feel sleepy.

Their eyelids drooped, and they couldn’t keep their eyes open.

Jian Yufei called a servant to carry them upstairs one by one.

They were all sweaty, so they needed to take a bath.

Entering the bathroom, they were placed on a stool.

"Can you help him take off his clothes?" Jian Yufei asked the servant to help Ansel bathe.

The little guy immediately perked up: "I’ll do it myself!"

"Young Master, let me help you," the servant smiled.

"No, I’ll do it myself, you go out!"

He didn’t want anyone else to see him undressed.

Knowing he cared about his dignity, Jian Yufei asked the servant to leave.

Only the three of them were left in the bathroom—

"Then do it yourself, and take a bath after you’ve undressed," Jian Yufei told Ansel.

"Okay."

Junqi had no such concerns and sat obediently while Mommy took off his clothes.

When Jian Yufei turned with Junqi in her arms, Ansel was already sitting in the bathtub, bare-bottomed.

He covered himself with his hands, his eyelids still drooping—

Jian Yufei placed Junqi in the tub too and quickly soaped them up and rinsed them off.

After a lot of fuss, they were finally clean.

The two little ones climbed into bed and soon fell asleep with their bottoms in the air.