The summer heat left everyone restless and irritable, and the cicadas' cries only piled annoyance upon annoyance.
Wenren Qingluo was still a little sprout, at the age when children loved nothing more than teasing cats and dogs.
On that scorching summer afternoon, he carried a net around the courtyard, searching for the cicadas hidden in the trees, singing away.
Even a head drenched in sweat could not dampen his enthusiasm.
He held a plump cicada between his fingers while the system, transformed into a palm-sized kitten, opened its mouth and waited to be fed.
The weather was too hot, but Wenren Luoshui insisted on running wild in the courtyard, so the Princess Consort had the servants watch from the shade.
The system had happened to sneak a bite of a cicada Wenren Qingluo had caught and immediately fallen in love with the taste.
After that, the two of them had gone all over the courtyard catching cicadas, heedless of the scorching heat.
One caught them, the other ate them. They made quite a harmonious pair.
Wenren Qingluo had just jumped down from a tree when the system perched on his shoulder hopped down with nimble ease.
It had only taken a few steps when a foot shot out and sent its tiny body flying.
"The prince's residence has grown more and more unruly. Don't you know my young lady is afraid of cats?"
The maid who had kicked the system away still did not feel satisfied. She had to disparage the Prince of Beiping's Residence as well.
The girl she called her young lady looked about twenty, with soft, understated features.
Hearing her maid say that, she made no attempt to stop her and simply continued toward the main hall of the Prince of Beiping's Residence.
Wenren Qingluo silently walked