Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
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The train continued moving. Different from the grey world in Ye Zun’s nightmare, the scenery outside the window was beautiful.
Quiet and distant.
There were endless green wheat fields, and time seemed to flow in a confusing manner. If it is kept under watchful eyes, the wheat fields can be seen creeping in the direction of the wind, transitioning from emerald green to light yellow, then to golden ears of wheat, and then to the stubbly plains of harvested wheat.
Sometimes you can see the sea of flowers in spring, sometimes you can see the shadows cast by the large white clouds in summer, sometimes you can see the low branches of the village bearing many fruits in autumn, and sometimes you can see the mirror-like blue lakes and snowy mountains.
The world outside the carriage window was different from Ye Zun’s world inside the car window.
It looked like another world that was beyond reach, but also as if there was only superficial beauty. If he jumped off the train and fled towards that world with no care for anything else, would he touch the false veil at the edge of the world? Or will it bring horror to the peaceful beauty*?
[T/N: literally, beautiful and good (everything good in life)]
Ye Zun didn’t do anything. He just sat in the carriage, looking out the window.
The sky was dark, and everything inside the carriage windows became quiet at some point.
Ye Zun came back to his senses and noticed that everyone was asleep, including the priest beside him.
With the man’s tall body leaning against his shoulders, his posture wronged him slightly.
Ye Zun made an utmost effort to sit up straight so that the man could lean on him more comfortably.
He looked at Lin’s sleeping face, the perfect outline of his nose and eyes. He watched over him quietly for a long, long time.
There was a light knocking sound from the next carriage. In the dead silence of the train, the rhythm seemed abrupt and eerie, as if urging.
Ye Zun gently supported Lin’s head with his hands, letting him slowly lean against the back of the chair.
It took some trouble going out while trying not to disturb the priest who sat near the aisle.
Ye Zun walked towards the carriage where the knocking sounds came from. The moment the connecting door opened, he was fully prepared for anything.
Maybe it will be like the nightmare, where he will forget something, or maybe he will become a scary person, unrecognisable to even himself.
There was no other way but to believe in oneself.
The knot on his throat rolled slightly. Ye Zun turned back to look at Lin, who was still asleep, then stepped into the next carriage.
……
Ye Zun did not lose his memory. He still remembered Lin, he remembered himself, he remembered the 404 train, he remembered the Demon God Amusement Park, and he remembered why he was here.
It’s just that he had turned into a baby around five or six months old, currently sleeping in a cradle.
The world appeared distorted, big and indistinct.
Vaguely, he remembered, it is said that the vision of babies are blurred and they could only see things very close to them.
The off-white translucent dialogue box was very close to him when it appeared in the air. Scrolling red letters floated above his head as if about to drip down.
【 You have five attempts to reload the file, but…try to survive ba. 】
There was a creaking sound, like a door opening, and a tall black shadow came over with distinct footsteps, like a giant.
It wasn’t until the black shadow looked down that Ye Zun could see clearly that it was a woman’s face.
The woman had an honest and docile face, holding a feeding bottle, skillfully tested the temperature on the back of her hand, and then placed it next to Ye Zun’s mouth.
Infant milk powder had a fishy smell, Ye Zun had used it by chance in the past, but maybe because his body was that of a baby now, he didn’t feel repelled.
The woman looked at him patiently, as if she would wait until he finished drinking before she left.
Ye Zun had no choice but to follow his instinct and finish drinking.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief, revealing a smile on her face. She gently rocked the cradle and hummed a song to put him to sleep.
Ye Zun closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep, but he was in fact trying his best to resist the baby’s body’s need for sleep.
Soon, the woman believed he was fast asleep and stood up, leaving the room with the baby bottle.
After the woman left, no one else appeared. Ye Zun slowly relaxed and fell asleep.
Things went like this for several days without any abnormalities. An old couple often came in to hug and play with him.
On one sudden day during the daytime, after Ye Zun woke up, no one showed up for a long time.
Ye Zun could still bear it, but under the ravages of the terrifying hunger, the body that belonged to a baby began to cry for help.
The baby’s voice was a little noisy, and it was a long time before someone came over.
Ye Zun tried his best to control this young and small body, telling it to stop crying. He instinctively felt that something was wrong.
The sound of footsteps walking in was familiar. It was the same woman who took care of him usually, but this time she directly stuffed the bottle into his mouth.
The boiling hot sensation instantly made Ye Zun try to push it away at all costs, and the baby’s body subconsciously let out shrill cries in the face of danger.
The woman looked down at Ye Zun with a docile face and stretched out her arms to pick him up.
Not in the normal way one should hold a baby, but using two hands to pinch the baby’s neck as she lifted it up, directly putting an end to all that noise.
Ye Zun already knew the situation was dangerous, but he couldn’t do anything.
The woman laughed giddily and happily, and treated the child’s body like she was playing with some toy. The torturous killing process lasted for a long time.
She seemed to be confused by Ye Zun’s tenacious vitality.
In the end, the woman muffled his entire face with a pillow.
With his mouth and nose covered firmly by the soft pillow, he finally died from the terrifying and long suffocation.
【 Ding dong, you died. 】
【 Automatically loading save file, you have four attempts left, please cherish it. 】
The darkness disappeared, and Ye Zun found himself still lying in the cradle. He tried his best to hold his breath in order to restrain the noise that his body made instinctively.
But the woman had already walked in.
Just like before, the scalding bottle was forced into his mouth.
This time Ye Zun didn’t push it away, enduring the horrifying heat. He didn’t dare to move.
The woman’s face was gloomy and frightening. If he observed carefully, he could see treachery with malicious intentions.
She looked down for a while as if watching a good show. Holding the milk bottle in her hand, she poured the contents into Ye Zun’s mouth. The woman saw that even though Ye Zun’s premature lips were burned red and his eyes were pooling with physiological tears, he still held back his urge to cry out. When the bottle was emptied all the way to the bottom, she was finally satisfied and left the room.
Ye Zun remained silent the entire time.
All the way until a long time afterwards, when the old couple came to see him and picked him up, coaxing him with loving eyes.
“Baobao* is also very, very good today, you have to grow up quickly ah.”
[T/N: baby]
That woman was also standing at the door, appearing as gentle and honest as in the past. “Baobao has always been very obedient…”
Ye Zun began to cry, but he couldn’t make a sound. Giant teardrops just kept falling, and he looked at the woman with all his strength.
The colour in the woman’s face began to worsen a little bit.
“How strange, what’s wrong? Did something bad happen?”
“The way you’re holding him is probably making him uncomfortable ba.” The woman immediately came to take over.
Ye Zun cried even harder, trembling slightly, tightly clutching the elderly’s sleeve, waving his hands to refuse the woman’s approach.
“Why does it seem like Baobao is unable to make a sound?”
“Did something happen during the day? Did someone come in here?”
Under Ye Zun’s anxious warning, the old couple who were slow on the uptake finally realised that something was wrong.
They first sent the woman away with gentle voices, then quickly checked the surveillance footage, and finally discovered the unusual bottle feeding event.
Then they called the police and took Ye Zun to the hospital for examination.
“The vocal cords were exposed to high temperatures, we can’t rule out the possibility of permanent damage.”
……
“Wu wu wu, how could that person do such a thing? We have always had a good relationship. We even raised her salary and lent her money for emergencies.”
……
“People say that she was under too much pressure, her parents often asked her for money, her boyfriend kept pushing back on getting married, spending her money and finding a mistress, then coming back home to beat her. She’s also quite pitiful.”
“No matter how pitiful, you can’t just abuse your employer’s child ba.”
“Don’t you guys know, some children are also very annoying ah, crying and crying all the time, throwing their limbs everywhere. They torture and oppress others at such a young age, and they grow up to be nothing good…”
“If he was obedient and didn’t bother people, would the nanny treat him like this? He must’ve been too noisy.”
“Bear child*…future capitalist…deserved it…”
[T/N: always up to mischief]
“Is this seriously something a human is saying? A six month old baby is a bear child? A baby should die?”
“We’re not talking to people, of course we’re not speaking with human words. We’re talking to you, you dog spirit capitalist ah.”
There was a long page of swear words and mutual insults on the news articles online.
……
On the day they were discharged, a young man and woman came to the hospital.
An angry accusation was directed at the old couple, holding them responsible for failing to take good care of their child.
In the end, Ye Zun was forcibly taken away by the two people.
The man drove, and the woman held him and sat in the back seat of the car. The two ignored the old couple and drove away with no delay.
The young man and woman seemed to be the parents of this body, and the old couple, as the grandparents, had no rights to stop them. They could only let Ye Zun be carried away.
Ye Zun was carried into a new place, a big house that was more spacious and newer than the previous house.
There was no baby room in this room, he was placed directly on the sofa. If he moved a little bit, he might slip and fall on the marble floor.
Ye Zun lay there quietly, motionlessly.
The man and woman sat together, both of them playing on their phones.
“Hee hee hee, those old people won’t be able to do it anymore ba, how much are they going to pay this time?”
“Who made them useless to the point of being unable to take care of a single child. This time if they can’t cough up a hundred and eighty thousand, see if Laozi won’t take them to court to sue.”
“How is a hundred and eighty thousand enough, have them transfer the house to our name, otherwise they won’t be allowed to see their grandson.”
Not long after, a call came.
The two didn’t answer at first and hung up several times with giddy laughter, delighted at how anxious the old people on the other end of the phone might be.
In the end, the man finally picked it up impatiently and spoke with a gruff and rude tone. He did not have the slightest resemblance of someone talking to their parents, calling them old things.
“How can we have that much money, we only have 30,000 on hand, that is why we are calling you right now. You two need to take good care of the child ah…”
“I know, I know, cut the bullshit, transfer the money first and then we’ll see.”
The woman beside him chimed in, “How your grandson lives depends on your sincerity and attitude.”
“This is your son too ah, how can you say that? You are like a kidnapper…”
The woman suddenly became angry. “What’s wrong with me saying that? What’s wrong with it? Do you know how hard it is for me to carry on the family line, do you know how harmful it is to a woman’s body to have a child!”
“Heaven’s, listen to yourself. Us old people never said anything that forced you to have a baby ya…you were pregnant before you two got married…what ever in the world did we do…”
The woman’s complexion suddenly turned bad, and the man also looked pissed off. “Whatever, since you say that, then don’t even think about seeing your grandson!”
They hung up the phone, cursing up a storm.
The man and woman also criticised each other for a good while. The woman scolded the man for not being able to make money, the man scolded women for only knowing how to buy, buy, buy.
In the end, the two got into a fight. The woman scratched the man’s neck, and the man slapped the woman twice.
It wasn’t until the neighbour knocked on the door to ask about it that the two finally united against an outsider. They shooed the neighbour away, swearing all the while.
And then it was considered a reconciliation for the two.
One ordered takeaway, the other finished putting on makeup. After the two people finished eating, one started a live broadcast and the other played games.
In the middle of the night, the two livened up and decided to go to a nightclub.
Ye Zun had been trying his best not to make a sound this entire time, but if things continue down this path, something will happen to the baby’s body.
When the woman passed by, he finally moved a little and tried to call for help.
The woman looked at him in surprise, like looking at a little monster she needed to avoid.
“If we leave this thing by itself, it’ll die, right?” She originally wanted to ignore it. After hesitating for a moment, she brought it up again.
The man didn’t even raise his head. “Just mix some milk powder bei. If it dies, the old things definitely won’t give us any more money.”
But mixing milk powder was also something someone needed to do. Who will do it?
In the end, the two reluctantly argued for a long time. The woman went to boil the water, and the man went downstairs to get supplies. Before they drove away, the old couple had stuffed the baby supplies in the car, including milk powder.
The milk powder mixture was very watery, and the water seemed either not boiled or mixed with raw water, but at least it wouldn’t scald anyone.
Ye Zun survived the night.
In the early hours of the next morning, the old couple came to the door and brought a new nanny along.
The young man and woman came back from fooling around and were catching up on sleep. They were forced to get up and open the door. Perhaps it was because they were wanting to go back to sleep, as this time they were far easier to talk to. They just let the old couple be responsible for the nanny’s salary and the expensive of the baby, as well as their ‘hard-earned money’ for taking care of the child.
Ye Zun kept grabbing the old couple’s clothes, hoping that they would take him away, but that young man and woman who held the emperor under control to command his vassals* would obviously never let go of their cash cow.
[T/N: keeping someone hostage so the can threaten people to do stuff]
In the end, the elderly couple had no choice but to leave.
The new nanny watched the strange interactions of her client’s family with cold eyes. At first, she felt a little pity for Ye Zun and was very responsible in taking care of him.
Later, when the young man and woman repeatedly deducted her salary and tried to find ways to find fault in her behaviour, her care also became perfunctory.
The young man and woman only allowed the old couple to come in and visit him when they wanted to ask for money.
Although they were usually under the same roof, the two of them rarely saw him.
The new nanny was often lazy and perfunctory, but she did not do anything abusive.
Ye Zun stumbled around like this until he was one and a half years old.
He started to learn to walk, and whatever he could do, he did his best doing it himself. If he needed the help of an adult, he would ask the nanny.
After all, he was a child who looked cute and was mute, and the nanny’s attitude towards the well-behaved Ye Zun was passable. Although she would not take the initiative to get close to him, she would generally not refuse him when asked for help.
However, after discovering that Ye Zun seemed to be able to live on his own, the young man and woman suddenly seemed to have found a reason. They dismissed the nanny in an ugly manner, and withheld her salary for several months on the grounds that she stole the child’s nutritional necessities and their belongings, and triumphantly drove her out of the house.
Losing the nanny he could turn to, Ye Zun could only ask for help from the more talkative woman of the two when he encountered something he couldn’t do.
Although she was always impatient, it was her own child after all, and still a tool to bring in money. Although the woman dilly-dallied around, she would still satisfy his request one or two times out of ten.
Until one time, she forgot to turn off the camera and Ye Zun accidentally entered the screen of her live broadcast. The beautiful, cute, quiet and sensible child instantly attracted many viewers to give rewards.
Her brain gave birth to an idea, and the woman began to spin a story.
Of course, she wouldn’t reveal that she was married, that she was Ye Zun’s mother, and said that she was his elder sister. Ye Zun was her poor baby brother who was abused by an unscrupulous nanny and became mute. Her parents passed away, and in order to take care of her poor brother, she had to live broadcast to earn money.
Although her words selling pity were full of loopholes compared to the usual lives where she flaunted her wealth, there weren’t many people like Sherlock Holmes who where serious enough to analyse and expose her. They sent her rewards wave after wave, and some scouts approached her, wanting Ye Zun to be a child model .
Ye Zun, who had become a new money-making tool for women, was treated much better than before. The only downside was that he did not have sufficient resting time due to the heavy workload, but nothing posed a threat to his life.
Ye Zun earned a lot, but the couple spent a lot more. Ye Zun himself didn’t know why they had so many unexpected ways to spend money.
When Ye Zun was around three years old, the couple finally couldn’t squeeze any more money from the man’s parents, and at the same time, the woman’s parents didn’t have much money for them to draw out.
The two people moved their minds elsewhere.
Having the Same Name as the Demon Lord of the Abyss
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The train continued moving. Different from the grey world in Ye Zun’s nightmare, the scenery outside the window was beautiful.
Quiet and distant.
There were endless green wheat fields, and time seemed to flow in a confusing manner. If it is kept under watchful eyes, the wheat fields can be seen creeping in the direction of the wind, transitioning from emerald green to light yellow, then to golden ears of wheat, and then to the stubbly plains of harvested wheat.
Sometimes you can see the sea of flowers in spring, sometimes you can see the shadows cast by the large white clouds in summer, sometimes you can see the low branches of the village bearing many fruits in autumn, and sometimes you can see the mirror-like blue lakes and snowy mountains.
The world outside the carriage window was different from Ye Zun’s world inside the car window.
It looked like another world that was beyond reach, but also as if there was only superficial beauty. If he jumped off the train and fled towards that world with no care for anything else, would he touch the false veil at the edge of the world? Or will it bring horror to the peaceful beauty*?
[T/N: literally, beautiful and good (everything good in life)]
Ye Zun didn’t do anything. He just sat in the carriage, looking out the window.
The sky was dark, and everything inside the carriage windows became quiet at some point.
Ye Zun came back to his senses and noticed that everyone was asleep, including the priest beside him.
With the man’s tall body leaning against his shoulders, his posture wronged him slightly.
Ye Zun made an utmost effort to sit up straight so that the man could lean on him more comfortably.
He looked at Lin’s sleeping face, the perfect outline of his nose and eyes. He watched over him quietly for a long, long time.
There was a light knocking sound from the next carriage. In the dead silence of the train, the rhythm seemed abrupt and eerie, as if urging.
Ye Zun gently supported Lin’s head with his hands, letting him slowly lean against the back of the chair.
It took some trouble going out while trying not to disturb the priest who sat near the aisle.
Ye Zun walked towards the carriage where the knocking sounds came from. The moment the connecting door opened, he was fully prepared for anything.
Maybe it will be like the nightmare, where he will forget something, or maybe he will become a scary person, unrecognisable to even himself.
There was no other way but to believe in oneself.
The knot on his throat rolled slightly. Ye Zun turned back to look at Lin, who was still asleep, then stepped into the next carriage.
……
Ye Zun did not lose his memory. He still remembered Lin, he remembered himself, he remembered the 404 train, he remembered the Demon God Amusement Park, and he remembered why he was here.
It’s just that he had turned into a baby around five or six months old, currently sleeping in a cradle.
The world appeared distorted, big and indistinct.
Vaguely, he remembered, it is said that the vision of babies are blurred and they could only see things very close to them.
The off-white translucent dialogue box was very close to him when it appeared in the air. Scrolling red letters floated above his head as if about to drip down.
【 You have five attempts to reload the file, but…try to survive ba. 】
There was a creaking sound, like a door opening, and a tall black shadow came over with distinct footsteps, like a giant.
It wasn’t until the black shadow looked down that Ye Zun could see clearly that it was a woman’s face.
The woman had an honest and docile face, holding a feeding bottle, skillfully tested the temperature on the back of her hand, and then placed it next to Ye Zun’s mouth.
Infant milk powder had a fishy smell, Ye Zun had used it by chance in the past, but maybe because his body was that of a baby now, he didn’t feel repelled.
The woman looked at him patiently, as if she would wait until he finished drinking before she left.
Ye Zun had no choice but to follow his instinct and finish drinking.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief, revealing a smile on her face. She gently rocked the cradle and hummed a song to put him to sleep.
Ye Zun closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep, but he was in fact trying his best to resist the baby’s body’s need for sleep.
Soon, the woman believed he was fast asleep and stood up, leaving the room with the baby bottle.
After the woman left, no one else appeared. Ye Zun slowly relaxed and fell asleep.
Things went like this for several days without any abnormalities. An old couple often came in to hug and play with him.
On one sudden day during the daytime, after Ye Zun woke up, no one showed up for a long time.
Ye Zun could still bear it, but under the ravages of the terrifying hunger, the body that belonged to a baby began to cry for help.
The baby’s voice was a little noisy, and it was a long time before someone came over.
Ye Zun tried his best to control this young and small body, telling it to stop crying. He instinctively felt that something was wrong.
The sound of footsteps walking in was familiar. It was the same woman who took care of him usually, but this time she directly stuffed the bottle into his mouth.
The boiling hot sensation instantly made Ye Zun try to push it away at all costs, and the baby’s body subconsciously let out shrill cries in the face of danger.
The woman looked down at Ye Zun with a docile face and stretched out her arms to pick him up.
Not in the normal way one should hold a baby, but using two hands to pinch the baby’s neck as she lifted it up, directly putting an end to all that noise.
Ye Zun already knew the situation was dangerous, but he couldn’t do anything.
The woman laughed giddily and happily, and treated the child’s body like she was playing with some toy. The torturous killing process lasted for a long time.
She seemed to be confused by Ye Zun’s tenacious vitality.
In the end, the woman muffled his entire face with a pillow.
With his mouth and nose covered firmly by the soft pillow, he finally died from the terrifying and long suffocation.
【 Ding dong, you died. 】
【 Automatically loading save file, you have four attempts left, please cherish it. 】
The darkness disappeared, and Ye Zun found himself still lying in the cradle. He tried his best to hold his breath in order to restrain the noise that his body made instinctively.
But the woman had already walked in.
Just like before, the scalding bottle was forced into his mouth.
This time Ye Zun didn’t push it away, enduring the horrifying heat. He didn’t dare to move.
The woman’s face was gloomy and frightening. If he observed carefully, he could see treachery with malicious intentions.
She looked down for a while as if watching a good show. Holding the milk bottle in her hand, she poured the contents into Ye Zun’s mouth. The woman saw that even though Ye Zun’s premature lips were burned red and his eyes were pooling with physiological tears, he still held back his urge to cry out. When the bottle was emptied all the way to the bottom, she was finally satisfied and left the room.
Ye Zun remained silent the entire time.
All the way until a long time afterwards, when the old couple came to see him and picked him up, coaxing him with loving eyes.
“Baobao* is also very, very good today, you have to grow up quickly ah.”
[T/N: baby]
That woman was also standing at the door, appearing as gentle and honest as in the past. “Baobao has always been very obedient…”
Ye Zun began to cry, but he couldn’t make a sound. Giant teardrops just kept falling, and he looked at the woman with all his strength.
The colour in the woman’s face began to worsen a little bit.
“How strange, what’s wrong? Did something bad happen?”
“The way you’re holding him is probably making him uncomfortable ba.” The woman immediately came to take over.
Ye Zun cried even harder, trembling slightly, tightly clutching the elderly’s sleeve, waving his hands to refuse the woman’s approach.
“Why does it seem like Baobao is unable to make a sound?”
“Did something happen during the day? Did someone come in here?”
Under Ye Zun’s anxious warning, the old couple who were slow on the uptake finally realised that something was wrong.
They first sent the woman away with gentle voices, then quickly checked the surveillance footage, and finally discovered the unusual bottle feeding event.
Then they called the police and took Ye Zun to the hospital for examination.
“The vocal cords were exposed to high temperatures, we can’t rule out the possibility of permanent damage.”
……
“Wu wu wu, how could that person do such a thing? We have always had a good relationship. We even raised her salary and lent her money for emergencies.”
……
“People say that she was under too much pressure, her parents often asked her for money, her boyfriend kept pushing back on getting married, spending her money and finding a mistress, then coming back home to beat her. She’s also quite pitiful.”
“No matter how pitiful, you can’t just abuse your employer’s child ba.”
“Don’t you guys know, some children are also very annoying ah, crying and crying all the time, throwing their limbs everywhere. They torture and oppress others at such a young age, and they grow up to be nothing good…”
“If he was obedient and didn’t bother people, would the nanny treat him like this? He must’ve been too noisy.”
“Bear child*…future capitalist…deserved it…”
[T/N: always up to mischief]
“Is this seriously something a human is saying? A six month old baby is a bear child? A baby should die?”
“We’re not talking to people, of course we’re not speaking with human words. We’re talking to you, you dog spirit capitalist ah.”
There was a long page of swear words and mutual insults on the news articles online.
……
On the day they were discharged, a young man and woman came to the hospital.
An angry accusation was directed at the old couple, holding them responsible for failing to take good care of their child.
In the end, Ye Zun was forcibly taken away by the two people.
The man drove, and the woman held him and sat in the back seat of the car. The two ignored the old couple and drove away with no delay.
The young man and woman seemed to be the parents of this body, and the old couple, as the grandparents, had no rights to stop them. They could only let Ye Zun be carried away.
Ye Zun was carried into a new place, a big house that was more spacious and newer than the previous house.
There was no baby room in this room, he was placed directly on the sofa. If he moved a little bit, he might slip and fall on the marble floor.
Ye Zun lay there quietly, motionlessly.
The man and woman sat together, both of them playing on their phones.
“Hee hee hee, those old people won’t be able to do it anymore ba, how much are they going to pay this time?”
“Who made them useless to the point of being unable to take care of a single child. This time if they can’t cough up a hundred and eighty thousand, see if Laozi won’t take them to court to sue.”
“How is a hundred and eighty thousand enough, have them transfer the house to our name, otherwise they won’t be allowed to see their grandson.”
Not long after, a call came.
The two didn’t answer at first and hung up several times with giddy laughter, delighted at how anxious the old people on the other end of the phone might be.
In the end, the man finally picked it up impatiently and spoke with a gruff and rude tone. He did not have the slightest resemblance of someone talking to their parents, calling them old things.
“How can we have that much money, we only have 30,000 on hand, that is why we are calling you right now. You two need to take good care of the child ah…”
“I know, I know, cut the bullshit, transfer the money first and then we’ll see.”
The woman beside him chimed in, “How your grandson lives depends on your sincerity and attitude.”
“This is your son too ah, how can you say that? You are like a kidnapper…”
The woman suddenly became angry. “What’s wrong with me saying that? What’s wrong with it? Do you know how hard it is for me to carry on the family line, do you know how harmful it is to a woman’s body to have a child!”
“Heaven’s, listen to yourself. Us old people never said anything that forced you to have a baby ya…you were pregnant before you two got married…what ever in the world did we do…”
The woman’s complexion suddenly turned bad, and the man also looked pissed off. “Whatever, since you say that, then don’t even think about seeing your grandson!”
They hung up the phone, cursing up a storm.
The man and woman also criticised each other for a good while. The woman scolded the man for not being able to make money, the man scolded women for only knowing how to buy, buy, buy.
In the end, the two got into a fight. The woman scratched the man’s neck, and the man slapped the woman twice.
It wasn’t until the neighbour knocked on the door to ask about it that the two finally united against an outsider. They shooed the neighbour away, swearing all the while.
And then it was considered a reconciliation for the two.
One ordered takeaway, the other finished putting on makeup. After the two people finished eating, one started a live broadcast and the other played games.
In the middle of the night, the two livened up and decided to go to a nightclub.
Ye Zun had been trying his best not to make a sound this entire time, but if things continue down this path, something will happen to the baby’s body.
When the woman passed by, he finally moved a little and tried to call for help.
The woman looked at him in surprise, like looking at a little monster she needed to avoid.
“If we leave this thing by itself, it’ll die, right?” She originally wanted to ignore it. After hesitating for a moment, she brought it up again.
The man didn’t even raise his head. “Just mix some milk powder bei. If it dies, the old things definitely won’t give us any more money.”
But mixing milk powder was also something someone needed to do. Who will do it?
In the end, the two reluctantly argued for a long time. The woman went to boil the water, and the man went downstairs to get supplies. Before they drove away, the old couple had stuffed the baby supplies in the car, including milk powder.
The milk powder mixture was very watery, and the water seemed either not boiled or mixed with raw water, but at least it wouldn’t scald anyone.
Ye Zun survived the night.
In the early hours of the next morning, the old couple came to the door and brought a new nanny along.
The young man and woman came back from fooling around and were catching up on sleep. They were forced to get up and open the door. Perhaps it was because they were wanting to go back to sleep, as this time they were far easier to talk to. They just let the old couple be responsible for the nanny’s salary and the expensive of the baby, as well as their ‘hard-earned money’ for taking care of the child.
Ye Zun kept grabbing the old couple’s clothes, hoping that they would take him away, but that young man and woman who held the emperor under control to command his vassals* would obviously never let go of their cash cow.
[T/N: keeping someone hostage so the can threaten people to do stuff]
In the end, the elderly couple had no choice but to leave.
The new nanny watched the strange interactions of her client’s family with cold eyes. At first, she felt a little pity for Ye Zun and was very responsible in taking care of him.
Later, when the young man and woman repeatedly deducted her salary and tried to find ways to find fault in her behaviour, her care also became perfunctory.
The young man and woman only allowed the old couple to come in and visit him when they wanted to ask for money.
Although they were usually under the same roof, the two of them rarely saw him.
The new nanny was often lazy and perfunctory, but she did not do anything abusive.
Ye Zun stumbled around like this until he was one and a half years old.
He started to learn to walk, and whatever he could do, he did his best doing it himself. If he needed the help of an adult, he would ask the nanny.
After all, he was a child who looked cute and was mute, and the nanny’s attitude towards the well-behaved Ye Zun was passable. Although she would not take the initiative to get close to him, she would generally not refuse him when asked for help.
However, after discovering that Ye Zun seemed to be able to live on his own, the young man and woman suddenly seemed to have found a reason. They dismissed the nanny in an ugly manner, and withheld her salary for several months on the grounds that she stole the child’s nutritional necessities and their belongings, and triumphantly drove her out of the house.
Losing the nanny he could turn to, Ye Zun could only ask for help from the more talkative woman of the two when he encountered something he couldn’t do.
Although she was always impatient, it was her own child after all, and still a tool to bring in money. Although the woman dilly-dallied around, she would still satisfy his request one or two times out of ten.
Until one time, she forgot to turn off the camera and Ye Zun accidentally entered the screen of her live broadcast. The beautiful, cute, quiet and sensible child instantly attracted many viewers to give rewards.
Her brain gave birth to an idea, and the woman began to spin a story.
Of course, she wouldn’t reveal that she was married, that she was Ye Zun’s mother, and said that she was his elder sister. Ye Zun was her poor baby brother who was abused by an unscrupulous nanny and became mute. Her parents passed away, and in order to take care of her poor brother, she had to live broadcast to earn money.
Although her words selling pity were full of loopholes compared to the usual lives where she flaunted her wealth, there weren’t many people like Sherlock Holmes who where serious enough to analyse and expose her. They sent her rewards wave after wave, and some scouts approached her, wanting Ye Zun to be a child model .
Ye Zun, who had become a new money-making tool for women, was treated much better than before. The only downside was that he did not have sufficient resting time due to the heavy workload, but nothing posed a threat to his life.
Ye Zun earned a lot, but the couple spent a lot more. Ye Zun himself didn’t know why they had so many unexpected ways to spend money.
When Ye Zun was around three years old, the couple finally couldn’t squeeze any more money from the man’s parents, and at the same time, the woman’s parents didn’t have much money for them to draw out.
The two people moved their minds elsewhere.
