Teaching Li Wushuang a Lesson (Thanks to "Rendering, Light Rain" for the Alliance Leader Reward)

Seeing Fifth Madam turn the conversation toward him, Li Hao smiled and took no offense.

"Xue'er should be back in a little over half a year."

The other ladies did not keep embarrassing Li Yun either, smoothly steering the conversation onto the new topic.

"Xue'er has a ninth grade battle body too, doesn't she?"

"She was such a clever child. That year..."

With everyone chiming in, the little quarrel from earlier was soon brushed aside.

Li Hao remained composed, chatting and laughing with the ladies about old times. Li Yun, meanwhile, sat with flushed cheeks, occasionally stealing a glance at his father. Seeing that his father's anger had faded, replaced by a pleased smile as he chatted with Li Hao, he felt relieved, yet also strangely disappointed.

Just then, he felt someone pat his awkwardly placed hand beneath the table. He looked down and found it was his younger sister beside him.

Li Zhining smiled at Li Yun, then picked up some food for him. The gesture sent waves of warmth through his heart...

Gao Qingqing glanced at the calm, poised Li Hao, then at her own son, and could not help sighing inwardly.

Apart from cultivation, her son truly fell short of Li Hao in every respect. Li Hao's precocious intelligence and good sense had long been known throughout the estate. His only shortcoming was that his cultivation had been delayed in his early years.

"Shuang'er, now that you've made the Qian Rankings and returned home, what plans do you have?"

Halfway through the meal, Liu Yuerong asked the question with seemingly casual interest.

Li Wushuang glanced at the boy opposite her, who was two years younger yet chatted and laughed with such ease. She extended her chopsticks, instinctively reaching toward the dragon liver, but her years of wrist