Chapter 54 – Daily Routine (2)

After Chen Diayu finished the little homework she had, she immediately went to her granddad’s patio and watched the training sessions.

Lu Ji would come with a plate of fruit and sit with her, explaining all the movements with detail.

“How do you know all this uncle?”

“I had to go through the same training as a child,” Lu Ji looked slightly proud at this, “your grandfather is looking for someone to inherit the family.”

Chen Daiyu looked at him confused.

“The Shan family title is not actually passed by blood ties but by martial ability.” Lu Ji continued, “your uncle was fit to inherit it, but after … some complications he told the Old Man that he could not hold the family name.”

“Is that why grandfather is training all these children then? To find an inheritor?”

Lu Ji nodded.

“What about Yijun?”

Lu Ji started laughing at this, “Little Yujin could not even last one training session before running away, he barely comes by here anymore.”

Chen Daiyu nodded thoughtfully and looked at her grandfather. He was an upright and strict old man, the wrinkles in his face could not hide all the experiences he had gone through.

As if making up her mind, Chen Daiyu nodded decisively and left her chair. She approached her grandfather with viggor and tugged at his shirt.

Old Man Shan looked down to see his cute little granddaughter and picked her up. He vaguely told the children to continue training and turned to Chen Daiyu.

“What’s wrong little one?”“Grandfather, I want you to train me!” Chen Daiyu put on her most serious face as she said this.

Old Man Shan laughed heartily at this

“Little one, you are too young to start training.” Chen Daiyu furrowed her brows.

“I can do it!”Looking at the child’s stubborn gaze, Old Man Shan’s heart softened.

“Ok, but you have to be at least 7 to start training with everyone else. But I must warn you, while you are training we won’t be grandfather and granddaughter, you will be my pupil and it will be my job to guide you.” Old Man Shan looked stern, “you can ask little Yijun.”

“I will train with all my heart and soul!”

After that Chen Daiyu went back to her seat and attentively watched the children while listening to Lu Ji’s commentary.

Once it was dinner time, the three of them strutted off to the dining room.

When Chen Feng was able to be there, he would accompany Chen Daiyu after dinner. They played various chess games together while talking about their day.

Chen Daiyu bragged about her achievements while Chen Feng vaguely told her about what he was up to.

Every once in a while, Shan He would also come home for dinner. Those nights, Shan Yijun would stay in his room.

Most of the time though, it would be Old Man Shan, Shan Yijun, and Chen Daiyu at the dinner table.

The Old Man enjoyed the company of his energetic grandchildren and followed along with their games. If they wanted to watch tv he would watch with them until they fell asleep. If they wanted to play board games, he would play with them and lose.

Chen Daiyu enjoyed these simple times.

Once it was time for bedtime, Chen Daiyu slept for a few hours before waking up in the middle of the night.

She went to the Shan Abode every night.

She had been doing as much research as she could on the Du family and planned how to take them down.

On the side, she would get lessons ready for Shan Yijun. Although he was uninterested at the moment, he would eventually have to learn how to fight.

She planned to sneakily force him to train with her. She would teach him military strategies. Anything necessary so that he wouldn’t fall like he did in the novel.

Though she couldn’t stay there too long, so as to not make her eyebags to noticeable, she did the best she could every night.

Once she was done, she returned to her room and fell asleep, when the sun rose, she was ready to start her day again.