Chongxuan Zun headed out. Chongxuan Mingguang cheerfully hurried over. "You did well today. You didn't disgrace your father!"
Chongxuan Zun pressed a finger to his forehead, looking a little helpless. "As long as you're satisfied."
"Very satisfied." Great Uncle Chongxuan beamed. "By the way, what did your younger cousin say to you?"
It had to be said: when the father and son walked together, the elder was handsome and the younger dashing. They made a pleasing sight.
"He just greeted me," Chongxuan Zun replied casually.
"You'd better be careful. That little fatty has a lot of tricks up his sleeve." Chongxuan Mingguang eagerly tattled. "If I hadn't kept an eye on things for you, he'd have emptied your entire estate."
Jixia Academy was no ordinary place, and the area where prodigies like him secluded themselves to cultivate was even more exceptional. It had absolutely no connection to the outside world, and he couldn't come into contact with the ordinary instructors who took shifts there.
The six months he'd spent at Jixia Academy had truly been six months cut off from the world. So he was a little surprised to hear this.
"Didn't I arrange for someone to manage things?"
Chongxuan Mingguang rolled his eyes. "Don't even mention it. He's useless in every way—a brute and nothing more!"
Chongxuan Zun: ...
It was his biological father complaining, so he really couldn't say anything about it.
"Ah, it's all small stuff." Chongxuan Mingguang waved a hand. "Now that you're out of seclusion, it'll be easy to handle. I've got a proper errand for you. I'm expanding my private residence in the north of the city, but my neighbors refuse to move no matter what. Go talk to them for me. It's not that your father lacks face. It's just that young people