Next morning

The warm sun rays slipped through the creamy white curtains and fell on two peacefully asleep figures. The small one squirmed and raised it's hips in the air. After some moments of snoring it opened its glossy azure eyes and blinked a couple of times.

"Mmm... bed.... Mommy's.... Tehe", Yeye giggled and crawled onto the figure beside him.

"Mommy.... Wakey... wakey"

With his small arms he climbed onto Bai Yuan's chest and nuzzled his face. Yeye tried to hug him but his arms were a little short to cover the whole area.

On the other hand, Bai Yuan was still deeply in slumber. But from his frowns it looked like he was deeply dreaming about something. More likely, a nightmare.

In his dream, Bai Yuan vaguely saw a man hovering over him. It didn't take long to realize what that man was doing. He screamed and clutched the bedsheets in pain. He cried and begged to stop. But that man didn't stop, his light brown eyes shone like that of a beast. Suddenly all of those disappeared and he woke up with a jolt. Panting for a while, he realized the main reason for suffocation, which was smiling brightly at him.

He found Yeye quite comfortably seated on his chest and flashing his small teeth at him.

"Mommy!"

"Call me daddy, Yeye." Bai Yuan replied with a hoarse voice and tried to sit up.

"Did you sleep well?"

"Hm"

Like this an early peaceful morning began at the Blue Sky Manor.

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Yeye was extremely reluctant to part with his mother but somehow everyone managed to take him back to his manor.

At first Bai Yuan was greatly shocked to know that this small child had a manor of his own. "Perks of being born as a Prince I guess! Why am I getting envious of a small kid? I have my manor too!"

Ah-Yuan oh Ah-Yuan

Bai Yuan, the explorer, explored the whole manor within 3 hours and soon became bored.

"Tch. No phone. No computer. No WiFi. What a life! Ugh!" he ranted as he sat down on a chair in his Pavilion. His maid was running after him for all this time, finally she stopped to catch some breath.

"Your Highness, what's the matter with you? Why are you running from here to there?" she asked while panting.

"Who are you?" asked Bai Yuan.

The maid was stunned for a while, then she replied in a low voice, "Your Highness, I am Jing-er"

"Pardon?"

The maid trembled and this time replied in a louder voice, "I am Jing-er!"

The next thing shocked her even more.

"Guards!"

Every guard present at the pavilion assembled in a line at Bai Yuan's summoning. Even the guards were shocked. Was their master's voice this strict and stern in the past?

Bai Yuan looked at the maid. The cold, emotionless azure eyes seemed to pierce through her senses. Her knees went numb and she collapsed immediately on the ground.

Bai Yuan spoke without looking, "Take her away."

The maid wailed and spoke between her gasps, "But Master! What did I do wrong?"

"Don't you hear me? Or you guys are also waiting for your turns! Take. Her. Away."

"Yes, your Highness!"

All of the guards replied in unison and took that maid away.

A few moments after they took that maid away, Yeye's nanny and Yeye entered the pavilion. Yeye was the first one to call out and went running to his most beloved person.

" MOMMY! "

" Haha, Yeye. Slow down. Even stars can hear you!" Bai Yuan's demeanor changed as if nothing had happened. He walked to Yeye and lifted him up in the air by his hips. Yeye giggled and swayed in joy.

After they quietly sat down, Bai Yuan noticed some facial changes on Yeye's nanny's face and so he asked with a worried expression, "Aunt Meng, is something wrong? Do you want to ask something?"

Yeye's nanny, Aunt Meng, stuttered but at last replied, "Your Highness, this humble servant is wrong. Please forgive me."

Bai Yuan was startled, "What's the matter? Did something happen?"

Aunt Meng, "Forgiveness, my lord, earlier this servant saw that lowly maid being taken away. I-"

"That has nothing to do with anyone. Your lord just taught someone their place. She should have understood that she has no right to ask me questions."

From his stern reply the gentle, motherly woman felt a chill crawling down her bones.

Bai Yuan was already back to play with baby Yeye. On his face, coldness was nowhere to be found, only loving-kindness for the small child in his arms.

I've learnt something. If you want to live, don't ever let anyone trample your dignity. To do that you must become strong and influential enough so that none dares to disobey you. What I'm doing now doesn't assure whether things will turn out as I've planned but I won't step back.

I was given this second chance and I won't let the same mistakes happen.

《A.N.: I'll come back on Thursday with some new chapters . Till then Take care and stay healthy.

Random scribble: I recently started playing bot games in Discord , it works like a marriage sim. With every rolls reset you can get married to one character out of ten. Yesterday I got married to Shen Qiu (SVSSS) and today I got married to this man named Cale Henituse ( Trash of the count's Family)

(⸝⸝⸝'꒳'⸝⸝⸝)(⸝⸝⸝'꒳'⸝⸝⸝)(⸝⸝⸝'꒳'⸝⸝⸝)

It's fun tehe》