You Are the Cheeky One, and That Makes You the Boss!

Everybody was immersed in the excitement from the dramatic breakthrough except for Leng Yehan and Yun Yao who soon re-focused on Yun Cheng. Chu Haoling caused quite a commotion but they didn't forget that it was about whether Yun Cheng could eat normal food or not. They cared more about this than the leveling-up of the entire crew.

"Che, did Cheng actually eat fish?"

Yun Yao wasn't so sure about it, so she turned to Yun Che for confirmation. Subconsciously, she always saw Yun Che as the most dependable person.

Everybody stopped making noises when they heard the question. They first looked at Yun Cheng, then at Yun Che, waiting for an answer.

"Yes, he did, or else he wouldn't have swallowed it, right? Yehan, try to feed him with chicken meat."

Yun Che nodded but he wasn't 100% sure, either. He never experienced this before, they needed to grope for the right method.

"OK."

Leng Yehan was as reticent as usual. Before he got up to get the chicken on the other side of the table, Fang Rui put a chicken thigh on the plate which he then passed to Leng Yehan. Leng Yehan courteously nodded at him. He stripped a piece of soft, tender chicken meat, blew it till it wasn't hot, and put it near Yun Cheng's mouth. But before he said anything, Yun Cheng sucked it into his mouth.

"Yummy!"

Since meat wasn't new to Yun Cheng anymore, He put his thumb up right after he ate the chicken meat. He gazed at the rest of the chicken thigh with his twinkling eyes wearing colored contact lenses. Although he preferred fruit over meat, there was no fruit left, so he had no other options.

"Eat more, then."

Leng Yehan tensed up and gave him the plate at once. He then looked up at Yun Che. "What else was from your Space?"

Yun Che never publicly mentioned it but they all knew that he'd been growing crops and raising poultry in his Space, or else all the fish and games wouldn't show up on the table. However, no one could ever imagine the special effects that the crops and animals had. Yun Che's Space was like a parallel world!

"Just fish, chicken and that rabbit."

This was thawed seafood and the vegetables and the rice weren't technically from Space, but he did get a lot from Space. Leng Yehan stood up and put a bit of everything in a bowl. When he sat down, he saw Yun Cheng munch on the chicken thigh in his hand. He paused, realizing that Yun Cheng couldn't even use chopsticks. Terrible feelings struck him all of a sudden. Yun Cheng used to be a straight-a student who won every professor's approval, but now, he didn't even know how to use chopsticks.

"It's OK. We'll teach him everything from scratch."

Yun Che noticed it as well, but he was committed. Yun Cheng couldn't even speak right after he came out of Space, remember? And now he was even able to bathe himself. Yun Che was sure that his clever brother would tackle chopsticks and the straight-a student would come back in no time.

"Sure." Leng Yehan nodded.

When Yun Cheng finished the chicken thigh, Leng Yehan cleaned his mouth using wet wipes. He then put the chopsticks in Yun Cheng's hand and tried to tutor him. The scene broke everybody's heart, the old ones even turned away to weep. "God is so cruel to this wonderful kid."

"Let's eat, the food is getting cold."

A moment later, Yun Che picked up his chopsticks and encouraged the guys to resume the lunch. At the very least, they had confirmed that Yun Cheng could eat the food from Yun Che's Space.

"Yeah, I'm starving. These are all good stuff. I warn you, Lu Haixuan, if you take my food away again, I'll fucking challenge you to a duel!"

"A duel? You and him? You fight in the day and make love in the evening. You two dudes are better off solving your problem in bed."

"What are you talking about? Can't you see the ladies and a boy here? Can you watch your language?"

"So you can swear, huh?"

The jolly crowd started making fun of each other again to lighten up the mood. Zhan Yafei raised her hand and chimed in, "Um, don't mind me. I'm basically immune to your dirty jokes, you know."

"Haha."

What she said embarrassed Chu Haoling, all the diners burst out laughing. As the room got more cheerful, even the elders joined them by making some jokes. They had put the sad moment behind them.

"Why aren't you eating, Chenchen. Aren't you hungry?"

Asked Yun Yao when she noticed that his son wasn't eating the food that she got for him. Even his favorite meat couldn't tempt him.

"Yeah, I'm full. I want Ultraman cake!"

Chenchen replied with a heavy nod and touched his round tummy. The very reason he was at this table was that his uncle promised to get him an Ultraman cake.

"Sis, give him a break. Chenchen ate a lot of fruits, Cheng just ate the leftovers."

Yun Che preempted his sister because he knew she would say something. His eyes were full of joy and love when he looked at Chenchen. If it wasn't for Chenchen, they wouldn't have found out that Cheng could eat the food from Space. Chenchen was their lucky star.

"You should be on a diet, got it?"

Yun Yao could do nothing with her son. Sooner or later, he'd be spoiled.

"Heehee!"

Chenchen giggled. He took the box that Xing Feng gave him this morning from Space and opened it. Inside the box was a black sports car, the logo showed it was a Ferrari. It was actually quite expensive before the doomsday but now, it was just a toy.

It was over 1 o'clock when they finished eating. Before Yun Yao cleaned things up, Ye Xingchen put the birthday cake that they took out of the refrigerator on the table. People sniggered when they saw the mini dog and the chubby Ultraman on the top of the cake. They didn't know that Aunt Chen could sometimes be humorous, too.

"Damn, that's one asshole-looking dog."

Heiyu wasn't aware of anything. He yelled on Yun Che's shoulder, which drew everybody's attention immediately. "Come on, he should have at least noticed something." Sure enough, he pointed his forepaw at the cake and asked, "Wait a minute, is that me?"

Finally!

No one answered him but their eyes were telling him "you're right".

"Uh…"

Heiyu felt deeply offended. But when everybody thought he'd go berserk, the puppy hopped to the table, walked in circles around the cake before he went back to Yun Che's shoulder.

"It's kind of cool if you look closely, right? See that athletic body, sharp claws and formidable eyes? How majestic!"

"What?"

Those who heard Heiyu all dropped their jaws. How cheeky was he to say that? How was that mini cartoon-style monster dog on the cake majestic?

"What do you mean, what? Am I not majestic? Do you want to taste my invincible claws?

"No, no, no."

Heiyu threatened the objectors by scowling at them and showing his sharp claws. They all shook heads. Who the hell would want to taste those claws? Those were some lethal claws.

"You're cheeky, you're the boss!"

"Haha."

When Yun Che mocked Heiyu, everybody couldn't help but burst into laughter. Yun Che's mockery was so precise. Yes, Heiyu was cheeky.

"Yeah, you keep laughing until you can't breathe and die!"

Heiyu couldn't talk his master back, so he cursed all these gloating bastards. He glared at each and every one of them. If eyes could kill, they would have been dead.

"What's wrong with Chenchen?"

After the joke, Yun Che saw the birthday boy hold his chin with two hands and his big pout.

"The Ultraman is fat!"

Finally, someone noticed him. Chenchen dropped the pout when he made eye contact with his uncle and tears started to accumulate in his eyes. To the boy, Ultraman had always been the greatest hero and his uncle was a real-life Ultraman, but this one was a little fat guy. He didn't like fat Ultraman.

"Duh, it's made based on you!" Everybody thought.

No one said anything though, not even Heiyu who was generally mean. They all knew that the birthday boy would be in floods of tears if they did say so.

Yun Che fumbled for an appropriate explanation, he pointed at the Ultraman on the cake after quite a while and said, "Chenchen, don't get it wrong, it's not fat. It's, uh, baby fat. Yea, baby fat. Look, isn't he short and tiny?"

"Baby fact, again? Is that all that you can come up with?"

Everybody was kind of sick of the phrase at this point and to be fair, the phrase deserved better.

"Yes."

Chenchen couldn't read the adults' sarcastic expressions, he just put all of his attention on the chubby Ultraman. Yun Che smiled. "That's right. He's a tiny, tiny Ultraman at the moment, just like you. You two have the same baby fat. When he's older, he'll be lean and powerful, again, just like you because when you're at my age, you'll be cool and powerful like me."

Finally, the crisis was resolved. Yun Che kind of admired himself for making stuff up.

"Really?"

Chenchen looked at the Ultraman and then at his uncle, but he was still uncertain. Yun Che affirmatively nodded. "Yes. When did I lie to you? And look again, isn't he cute? Still like you, my cute little nephew."

"Yes."

Chenchen beamed upon Yun Che's sweet talks.

"Where are the candles? Light the candles."

Xing Feng was aware that it must be hard for Yun Che. In case of more problems, he urged the candles. The Ultraman must be gone as soon as possible.

"Here, here!"

The guys wouldn't really want to see the birthday boy's tears even though they were amused. Ye Xingchen hurriedly put the candles on the cake once Xing Feng mentioned it. Chu Haoling snapped his fingers, the candles in the shape of 3 were lit up.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you…"

People started clapping hands and singing the birthday song. In the chanting crowd, Chenchen didn't care about the size problem anymore but wore a big smile on the face!

This day, Yun Che impressed everybody through demonstrating his ability of winding people up.