After a while

Shan was chasing Mingjie around. He was giggling and laughing, while his twin sister was sitting on the couch with mother, browsing through the book and sometimes glancing at them.

"I think she should enjoy life more," Huobai said, pretending he would snatch her away from Lili's side. Zhuli did nothing. She didn't even crack a smile and looked back at her book.

"She is the same, but she has to be in the mood. But today her afternoon nap wasn't so good, so she is moody and you should be glad she did not smack you like she smacked Papa last time." Lili laughed at Huobai's frightened expression.

"Smacking is good. The last time I tried to make her laugh after she didn't have a good nap, she started crying so hard she stopped breathing. I almost got a heart attack." Chao added one of his stories to the air, and everyone was nodding in horror. Zhuli and bad waking up equaled to everyone being afraid to do anything,