The man frowned . “You would be complained of child abuse overseas . ”

“What?” She refuted sheepishly, “In what way did I abuse Youyou? D'you think I'm you?”

“What did I do?”

“Little Yichen is too young to undergo military training . How can you be so cruel as a father?”

“I was thrown into a boot camp for observational training when I was three,” he retorted languidly .

She was truly stunned . “What? At three years old? A three-year-old kid can't even string a proper sentence in the first place . ”

“That's you; I was able to recite a hundred Chinese poems when I was three . ”

“… What's so great about that?!” Feeling her intelligence being attacked, she retaliated at once . “That's slanderous . ”

“Stupid woman, I suspect you are the deterring factor in our household . ” He declared this solemnly in her face out of the blue .

She was. .h.i.t hard by that statement . “What do you mean?”

“You pull down our family's intelligence quotient . ”

“…” She acknowledged that inwardly .

“I admit that I'm not as intelligent as you are, but don't forget that I'm one of the top graduates in my faculty, all right?”

“We are talking about IQ here – not our learning ability . ”

She put up her hands, admitting defeat . “All right! I'm sorry to be the deterring factor here! Still, I have chipped in my beauty quotient to the entire family, haven't I?”

She blinked her almond eyes, sparkling pride, at him .

He stood up and walked toward her . Standing in front of her, he held out his hands and pulled her into his embrace .

Dipping his head, he lifted strands of her silky hair to reveal her earlobes with the starry night earrings he had gifted her .

She also had the necklace with the shooting star pendant on her neck .

He smiled satisfactorily and pecked her on the cheek .

She looked up with astounded face, and since he was too tall, she had to stand on tiptoes to return the kiss lightly .

Her kiss landed gently beside his lips .

“Master; young mistress, we have caught a large variety of fishes when we went to the sea this afternoon . What do you want us to do with them for dinner?”

c.o.c.king her brow, she replied, “Since we are at the beach, how about arranging a picnic by the sh.o.r.e this evening?”

The children were asleep when she entered the bedroom . Standing by the bed, she saw that they were at each other's personal s.p.a.ce in their slumber . The older twin's arm was draped lightly on the younger twin's shoulder, whereas the latter's little face was buried in the former's chest .

Youyou seemed to be more at ease in their sleep .

Both lay under the same quilt .

Their mother gently called out to them with a smile . “Youyou, Yichen, wake up . ”

The younger boy woke up all of a sudden after a few calls . “Mommy…”

“Wake up . The sky is turning dark; it's time for dinner!”

The little boy rubbed his sleepy eyes as his older brother awoke thereafter . Opening his bleary eyes and seeing their mother, he smiled . “Mommy!”

“Yichen, get ready with your brother and come downstairs for dinner . ”

He nodded, his eyes slanting into an open smile . “Eh!”

“Mommy will be waiting downstairs for you two . ”

She left the room once she said that .

The younger one flipped over from the bed at once and got into the bathroom for a shower .

His older brother sat up in bed and noticed the quilt on him . As he became more alert, he could not help wondering just who had put it on him .

He recalled clearly that he did not cover himself with it when he went to sleep .

Don't tell me…

He rushed to his brother as the latter appeared from the bathroom in a towel and asked awkwardly, “Brother, did you cover me with the quilt earlier?”