Bonus Chapter: Zhu Pengfei (1)

I have a pair of very unreliable biological parents. After I was adopted by my mother, she would take me with her to work. My mother said that children of the Zhu family have to be toughened up from a young age, and are destined to have no childhood.

I thought I would see my parents less often, or even not at all, and I was worried about whether they could take good care of themselves.

Unexpectedly, the very next day after I was adopted, my biological parents, whom I now call my uncle and aunt, moved into my mother's house with their luggage.

They came in under the pretense of taking care of me, saying they were afraid I wouldn't adapt well to the new environment.

If I hadn't basically grown up at my mother's house, I would have believed their nonsense. They would come to my mother's house from time to time, saying they were afraid she would be lonely.

Even though Mom said she liked living alone, they just wouldn't believe her. They insisted that Mom was just putting on a brave face and would come over no matter what.

I follow them here every day. What's the difference between me and someone who grew up here?

Now they're not even pretending anymore, they're just laying their cards on the table. They're uninvited and can't be driven away, it's practically robbery.

They were always around my mother, and I reasonably suspect that they adopted her just to get closer to her, and that I was just a tool in their scheme.

The following year, my second younger brother was born. Because he was born in autumn, his unreliable parents named him Mingqiu (meaning "bright autumn").

My younger brother was born unexpectedly in the third year. He was born in winter, so we named him You Dong (游冬). I've never seen a child named so casually.

Although the family planning policy had been implemented, my uncle was not a government employee, and my aunt had my mother's approval, even though they still had to pay a considerable amount of fines.

My mother's house is full of arrays. She said she didn't want to do housework and didn't want to do it herself, so she asked someone to set up arrays. She can activate the arrays by simply channeling her supernatural energy into the house every day.

With a cleaning array at home, a little bit of supernatural power is all it takes to clean the house from top to bottom, making it much cleaner than a human could do.

Especially in the kitchen, you don't even have to wash the dishes yourself.

Because we have a spirit pet at home, we built a very large villa. The first floor has a study, a kitchen, and several guest rooms, each with its own bathroom.

The second floor is inhabited by Snow Blade and its little brother.

My mom and I live on the third floor.

In the yard, my mother found a century-old tree from somewhere, and a golden eagle built its nest in it, flying out for a stroll every day.

Time flies, and on this day, my uncle and aunt came over with their two younger brothers who were already in elementary school.

My uncle and his wife took a bunch of snacks and went upstairs to find my mom, leaving my two younger brothers on the first floor.

I couldn't help but sigh. My two younger brothers' intelligence was truly beyond words, and their childish behavior was unbearable to watch.

Mingqiu and Youdong saw Xuedao lazily sunbathing in the house.

The two idiots thought they had superpowers and wanted to catch Snow Knife. Just like other people treat their pets as toys, they wanted to do the same.

Previously, Xue Dao would roll her eyes and look down on them, but now when she sees them, she only uses her superpower to fix them in the air, letting them struggle.

I slapped my forehead helplessly. I didn't even look at who the owner of the snow knife was. My mother is a domineering person. How bad could her pet be?

Even when I sparred with Xue Dao, it never held back.

Xue Dao has never respected anyone except his mother.

I could only soften my tone towards Xue Dao: "Xue Dao, they are still children, don't worry about them, I'll discipline them."

The truth is, Xue Dao's fighting power is beyond the control of ordinary people, so he had no choice but to use soft words.

Xue Dao glanced at her two foolish younger brothers, stood up haughtily, and went back to her room.

Mingqiu and Youdong refused to admit defeat: "Are you looking down on us? Xuedao, don't go, let's fight three hundred rounds."

After saying that, they were about to chase after me, but I stopped them both in their tracks: "Come with me to the study. I heard the teacher complained again, saying you got the last and second-to-last places on the test."

The two younger brothers are only one year apart, but the unreliable couple simply let them go to school together, and now they are in the same class.

All I can say is that without his care, I don't know how this family of three would be doing.

Since I started school, I've gotten perfect scores in every subject and never come in second. But my two younger brothers have absolutely no talent for studying, yet they're always so happy about it.

It's simply unbearable to look at.

He will be taking over his mother's job in the future and won't have time to fulfill his filial duties, which is why he wants his uncle to have another child to keep him happy.

I never expected to have two children in a row. Although my younger brother was an unplanned pregnancy, I never expected that both children would have questionable intelligence.

From now on, I will not only have to support my mother, but also my uncle and aunt. I have nothing to say about this, as one is the debt of giving me life and the other is the debt of raising me.

But judging from the current situation, I also have to support these two silly younger brothers.

This is absolutely unacceptable. I must raise my younger brother to be successful; he can't hold me back.

Mingqiu and Youdong cried out in surprise, "Brother, we were wrong, we don't want to study!"

No, no! They didn't dare to be disrespectful when they saw their brother's face. If they recited it wrong, their legs would tremble at that face, which was even more serious than their homeroom teacher's. They were afraid that he would kill them.

I was still angry: "If you don't study, you'll get beaten."

They couldn't withstand a mental attack.

Sure enough, the two silly younger brothers burst into tears: "Mom and Dad, come and save your precious son!"

As expected, my uncle and aunt didn't react at all. If they dared to plead for them, I would give them a political lecture.

They and their two younger brothers—someone has to go to school.

I watched my two younger brothers recite their lessons, learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

When I had taught them five times and they still hadn't made any progress, I finally lost my temper: "Come and train with me, and I'll see if you've improved."

The two stupid brothers wailed in pain, and with my merciless punches and kicks, they collapsed to the ground, completely powerless.

My mood improved after that. No wonder Mom always smiles and offers to teach others their superpowers after someone has upset her. It turns out that it really does make you feel better after a fight.

The two brothers on the ground, utterly despondent: ...They will never come back again.

Around noon, my uncle and aunt reluctantly came downstairs and took my two younger brothers with them, finally bringing some peace and quiet.

My mother patted my shoulder and said, "Back then, your grandfather felt the same way about your uncle."

It's not that we're disappointed in them, but rather that they're so useless they can't even be considered iron; they're practically just elm wood, and we'd rather chop them up and use them as firewood.

Me: ...I'm the older brother, not the father, thank you.

Mom's eyes turned cold: "Get ready, we're going to Wazhai with the team leader. I heard there's a genius alchemist there who refined high-grade pills at the age of eighteen."

I was puzzled: "Even if he's a high-level alchemist, is it really worth it for Grandpa and Mom, the team leader, to go along?"

Since I was adopted by my mother, she has been very busy and takes me with her to work and on assignments. Now I am also a member of the Dragon Group and my mother's little assistant, learning from her side.

And Mom's expression was off; could something have happened?