Chapter 33

Mo Huijun watched his daughter's expression carefully. "That's not what you said was it?"

The baby nodded.

"You were saying something about me needing to grow up." Mo Huijun smiled like the coming of a spring breeze.

She nodded again.

To the baby it was the sign of incoming winter. She never thought her other father could read her mind like papa. No that's not it! Agh, stupid her! Why did she nod her head? Something told her that she needs to quickly fix the situation.

She searched for her papa, if there was anyone who could save her it'll be her papa! He'll definitely help her.

She called out for her papa's help, "Ah, ah!" Papa, papa please save this daughter of yours!

"Ah?!" Papa, why are you avoiding me?!

Her papa met her eyes and immediately avoided her, his head moved to the side, the movement was slow enough for her to realise that he was ignoring her on purpose! The baby was shocked. A low chuckle drew her attention back to her other father.

Mo Huijun couldn't help but tease, "You are still a baby, and you're telling your Daddy to grow up?" It was entertaining to see how fast her daughter's expression went from cheeky, to realization, to despair, and hope, then hopeless when she realized Ming Yongnian won't save her. He hummed in a good mood, he could use this time to his advantage.

"Since you have no respect towards your elders it's only right that I punish you." His daughter looked at him, terrified. Her lips were wrinkled and her eyes were slightly red. He sighed, it was worrisome, he needs to bully her daughter frequently from now on. "What punishment should I give you?" He hummed.

"She's a baby." Came Ming Yongnian's cold voice.

Hope returned to the baby, she began to reach her hand out for Ming Yongnian to pick her up. "Ah, ah!" Papa, save me!

Mo Huijun clasped his hand around his daughter's tiny ones, tucking the child's hand away from Ming Yongnian's direction, turning his back towards Ming Yongnian for good measure.

Ming Yongnian's aura grew colder. "The child is in distress, you're breaching the contract if you go on."

Gasping mockingly, Mo Huijun pretended to be surprised. "I'm teaching my child how to behave. It's natural she's distressed, it means she recognizes her faults. Golden Crowned Lord, won't you agree that as parents, when your child has forgotten their manners we as parents should discipline them?"

"Whatever your idea of punishment is, she's still a newborn baby." Ming Yongnian clenched his fists.

"No need to get testy now. You said she is a newborn baby, but she does not represent herself as a newborn. For some reason she seemed to understand what we were speaking of. Care to explain, or would you rather let me play a guessing game?" A mischievous glint appeared in Mo Huijun's eyes. He had asked the same question regarding his own daughter while they were in Dongfu. But none of them answered him, unfortunately.

He guessed that they needed a push, threatening his own child was one such push. He would not actually go through with his words and punish a baby, but Ming Yongnian didn't know this.

Feng Delun who had remained silent the moment they arrived in the Barren realm said, "Then you may make your guess, we are not attempting to hide the facts."

"Why not inform me when we were in Dongfu, before I agreed to the contract?" Mo Huijun questioned.

"I'm not fully aware of the Devil Venerable's stance on otherworlder or transmigrator." By telling Mo Huijun, Feng Delun was playing a gamble. Ming Yongnian knew this, Kaijun who had just been informed a few seconds ago knew this, the three of them knew the risks.

If the Devil Venerable was one of those people who hunts otherworlders, Ming Yongnian's child may not survive. It was best for them to reveal the baby's peculiar situation now, now that the contract was in place.

Mo Huijun scoffed. "No wonder you wrote all of those clauses in the contract focusing on my child's safety, rather than focusing on restraining me and Ming Yongnian."

The knot of worries tied in the three men's hearts was tightened at once.

Mo Huijun was well known to be a man who will not change his mind once made. If the Devil Venerable labelled his own child a danger to himself he would kill her. Especially the already existing preconception most people as a whole viewed otherworlder and transmigrators. They were a chaotic element best be destroyed than nurtured.

Mo Huijun spoke with a smile on his face, "Since my daughter is a transmigrator, that usually means she has memories of her past life. Which made her not a child in mind, hmm?"

Your face is scary even when smiling other father, the baby thought. For some reason after her papa, pretty teacher uncle, and handsome man explained why she was so smart to her other father, she felt more threatened by him more than ever!

"No, ahem, Xiaobao doesn't recall anything of her previous life. Though she has knowledge of the other world." Feng Delun tried to fish the baby out of murky waters.

"Oh, I understand she has regressed into a child's mind." Mo Huijun glanced at the three men that were obviously worried. Ming Yongnian might mask his worries. But to Mo Huijun who had faced the Golden Crowned Lord who wore a flat wall for a mask in combat many times. Reading the Immortal's expression became an easier task. "But when my child behaves, as a parent, it is my responsibility to punish her."

Kaijun felt that his hair was gradually turning white from all the stress he was receiving. Today's stress was perhaps equivalent to a one hundred year's worth of stress in his previous work. "Mo Huijun, what could a baby do? Fetch you water?"

Mo Huijun's eyes lit up, his smile sickly sweet. "Yes, that is a very good idea."

Ming Yongnian glared at Kaijun for giving the Devil Venerable ideas on how to torture the baby.

"Maybe you can punish your child at a later date, perhaps when she is old enough?" Feng Delun tried to barter, his palm was sweating. Getting squashed by his Ming Yongnian wasn't something he was looking forward to.

Seemingly thinking the suggestion over carefully, Mo Huijun then outrightly deadpanned, "No. Unlike you, Feng Delun, I don't keep tabs on my small grievances, I'll soon forget it. That's why I prefer to deal with it immediately."

"Mo Huijun you — be reasonable." Ming Yongnian gritted.

Ignoring the three men, Mo Huijun thought of the best punishment he could hand out to his daughter. There was no way he could send her to do physical labour, as much as he wanted to. Heh, no physical labour, his own father would say otherwise, knowing the sadist he'll send his granddaughter to perform physical tasks regardless of age.

Giving too hard of a punishment would also backfire on him. His child seemed to be a cry baby, she was indeed a baby. How vexing, he should've agreed with Feng Delun after all. There wasn't much his daughter could do—

Chu~

His right eye shut in reflex expecting some sort of impact, his brows raised in confusion. There was a wet feeling on his cheeks. Mo Huijun wasn't sure what he should feel. His whole body freezes up.

In an attempt to save herself the baby thought of ways to bribe her other father. She thought of giving her other father puppy eyes, but the man didn't seem to be moved when he saw her on the verge of tears, so she'll have to scrap that idea off the board. She thought of it many times and remembered that her papa seemed to like it when she kissed him.

So she launched a full attack on her other father's cheeks!

But her other father turned into a statue… was her kiss cursed, no she got it wrong, it's supposed to be "true love's kiss breaks the curse". Not kiss and curse someone. Or had her other father's brain short circuited? His brain must be short circuited! She knows she was a very pretty baby, when both of her genes came from two pretty other father and papa!

That's right she was too pretty her father was stunned-stupid!

The baby was acting like a baby duckling that thought itself the prettiest duckling out there. Mo Huijun wondered what his daughter was imagining for her to seem so proud, all she did was kiss him. He was surprised that the baby had the courage to kiss him. No one had touched his face in centuries, no one. He even made sure to avoid Ming Yongnian's direct attack on his face many times. Now a baby had sneakily kissed him. Well it was worth boasting of.

Hehehe, my daughter has potential.