"..."
Seeing himself, a small fry, suddenly become the focus of these major figures' gazes, Mu Chen would be lying if he said he was not panicking at all.
But things had come to this, and naturally, there was no room for him to shrink back now.
"Senior, you flatter me."
Mu Chen braced himself and answered.
Ling Qingzhu merely nodded. When traveling outside, forming a little goodwill with others was naturally a good thing.
Though they spoke sternly, what parents did not dote on their own children? Otherwise, she would never have let her throw a tantrum and run so far away.
"...Mu Chen, was it?"
Yao Wan looked at the young man, who was still only at the Sovereign realm, with a hint of curiosity. Even so, she had no intention of interfering.
Matters of the younger generation should be left for the younger generation to slowly muddle through themselves.
At that thought, Yao Wan glanced at Xiao Se. "Then I'll leave it to you?"
"Don't worry, Mother."
Xiao Se nodded. Though he had not spent much time traveling outside, he was not so useless that he could not even handle this bit of interpersonal business.
"...Then I'll trouble Xiao Se with this young brother. As for the rest, naturally..."
Ling Qingzhu turned back. Her rippleless black eyes instead made Lin Jing's heart tremble nonstop.
"Hey, Mom, before you take me back, can you hear me sophis... explain a few words?"
Seeing those two brats had instead been let off lightly, Lin Jing could not help but start thinking hard about how to deal with the miserable ending soon to befall her. The moment she met her mother's gaze, she spoke without even thinking.
"I don't think you need to argue anymore. Your father has already said that