You're All Aunties to Them, Except Me?!

The ship hoisted its sails and set a course for the main city of the Hualan Empire. "So how on earth did you end up taking on two more apprentices?" Watching Xu Shi with the Pan sisters, Xie Qingyan rested her chin in one hand, examining her good fiancé with a mocking gaze. "Correction, please: just one." Xu Shi hastily waved a hand. "I only have Little Ling as an apprentice; Little Feng belongs to Wuyou. At best, I'm just their master's husband." "What's the difference?" The wicked woman looked thoroughly dismissive. "Isn't you taking them on the same as Xia Wuyou doing it? As the saying goes, if you want to learn it well, just go with—" She was not the only one wearing that expression. Jiang Chengcheng looked little better, though she was slightly more restrained than Xie Qingyan, and Yu Xingchuan and Ye Shanshan, who had stayed behind on Silver Pine Island before departure, felt much the same. There was no helping it, not when everyone knew all too well just what kind of human Xu Shi really was. Even Xia Ke'an could not help herself, gazing at her bad dad with a bizarre expression, her mouth twitching as if she were about to blurt out an "Oh~~~". Only when she realized she was supposed to be an innocent and well-behaved little darling did she hurriedly force a sweet smile back onto her face. "Full of catchy rhymes, what are you trying out for?" Xu Shi rubbed his brow in resignation. Just how worthless was his moral baseline in their eyes? "You're even getting jealous of two little girls? Are you guys for real?" He was hardly some lewd old man with bizarre fetishes like Yue Chizheng; they needed to draw the line somewhere. "Ha." Xie Qingyan