10: Chapter 10's question is way beyond the syllabus! It's suitable for both men and women!

"Huo Yuhao! Huo Yuhao!"

"Hmm?"

"I want to eat honey pancakes! Just like the ones you made last time, soft and sweet!"

In the kitchen early in the morning, Huo Yuhao was skillfully beating eggs. Tianmeng, wearing a small-sized pair of pajamas, was clinging to his back like a koala, constantly ordering food in her crisp voice.

Huo Yuhao tossed the pan expressionlessly. "We're out of honey."

"Out of honey?"

Tianmeng slid down from his back, her movements so agile she didn't seem like someone who had just transformed not long ago. "Then I'll go buy some!"

Before her voice could fade, she transformed into a beam of white light with a "whoosh," flying straight through the wall and disappearing.

Huo Yuhao's eye twitched. He had gradually grown accustomed to this unconventional way of entering and exiting.

A cold voice came from beside the dining table.

"Ignore her."

Gu Yuena sat upright in her chair, her long silver hair cascading down like a waterfall.

She looked at Huo Yuhao, a trace of hard-to-detect anticipation in her eyes, but on the surface, she still maintained her calm, queenly posture.

"Where is my roasted fish?"

"...Who eats roasted fish first thing in the morning?" Huo Yuhao grumbled helplessly.

Gu Yuena's reply was concise and brooked no argument.

"I want it."

Huo Yuhao sighed and resignedly set down the egg mixture in his hand.

He turned around, scooped a lively, flopping fish out of the water jar, and began to light the fire, scrape the scales, and clean the innards.

He now highly suspected that when Gu Yuena "picked him up" from the White Tiger Dukes Mansion, her main purpose might have been to find an exclusive chef who knew how to make roasted fish.

Before long, the rich aroma of roasted fish wafted from the kitchen.

Tianmeng also happened to fly back from outside, carrying a jar of honey that was larger than her head.

"Huo Yuhao, I'm back! Look! Top-grade honey!"

She slammed the honey jar onto the table with a thud, then sniffed hard. "Wow! The roasted fish smells so good! I want some too!"

As she spoke, she reached out to grab the one Huo Yuhao had just finished roasting and was preparing to serve to Gu Yuena.

*Smack.*

A silver chopstick struck the back of her hand with precision.

At some point, Gu Yuena had already stood up beside Huo Yuhao.

She picked up the plate of roasted fish, gave Tianmeng a cold glance, and then carried the plate back to her seat with elegance.

Tianmeng clutched the back of her reddened hand and looked at Huo Yuhao aggrievedly. "Huo Yuhao, she's bullying me!"

Huo Yuhao placed another roasted fish in front of her and said crossly, "If you don't go buy pancake mix, you really will only have roasted fish to eat."

"Oh, oh, oh, right!" Tianmeng's attention was instantly diverted, and she hurriedly ran to rummage through the cupboards again.

Looking at this scene, Huo Yuhao deeply felt that his home, rather than a home, was more like a zoo with a bizarre atmosphere.

In the afternoon, the sunlight was just right.

The doorbell of the small villa rang.

"I'll get it!" Tang Ya put down her book and ran over on her own initiative.

Standing outside the door was a shy young girl, who was none other than Jiang Nannan.

She held a food box in her hand. When she saw Tang Ya opening the door, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked politely, "Excuse me, is my benefactor... Huo Yuhao here?"

"Yes, please come in." Tang Ya stepped aside to let her in.

Hearing the voices, Huo Yuhao walked out of the living room.

The moment Jiang Nannan saw him, her eyes lit up, and a cute blush appeared on her cheeks.

She jogged forward and handed over the food box.

"Benefactor! These are osmanthus cakes my mother made with her own hands. She insisted that I bring them for you to try!"

Huo Yuhao took it and opened the lid. A sweet scent of osmanthus wafted over him.

"Thank you. How is your mother's health lately?"

"Much better! It's all thanks to you!"

Jiang Nannan's tone was filled with gratitude. "My mother said that as soon as she can get out of bed, she will definitely come in person to kowtow and thank you!"

"There's no need to kowtow. It's enough that she is fine." Huo Yuhao smiled.

Just then, a platinum-blonde head peeked out from behind Huo Yuhao.

"Huh? Another little beauty has come to see Huo Yuhao?"

Tianmeng, holding a half-eaten pancake in her hand, sized up Jiang Nannan curiously. "Tsk tsk, Huo Yuhao, you really have quite some luck with women~"

Jiang Nannan's face turned completely red from her blunt words.

She looked at the incredibly beautiful silver-haired woman who had suddenly appeared, and then at the intimate and natural posture between her and Huo Yuhao. Her heart inexplicably felt a trace of indescribable disappointment and bitterness.

She felt like she was an outsider.

Meanwhile, on the second floor of the living room, behind the railing, Gu Yuena silently watched everything happening downstairs.

She didn't say anything, only letting her gaze linger on the food box Jiang Nannan had brought for a moment before turning back to her room.

But Huo Yuhao, who had been covering the entire villa with his Mental Energy, could clearly feel that the air temperature around Gu Yuena seemed to have... dropped by another two degrees.

In the yard, Tang Ya was practicing the movement technique Huo Yuhao had taught her.

In a month's time, under Huo Yuhao's guidance and with sufficient nutritional supplements, she was no longer that frail little girl who looked like she would fall over at a gust of wind.

Her figure was still slender, but her movements had already taken on a sharp aura.

Huo Yuhao sat on a stone bench, correcting her movements.

"Tang Ya, watch your center of gravity. You need to exert force from your waist the moment you strike, not just rely on your arms."

"Like this, watch my hands."

Huo Yuhao got up himself to give a demonstration.

With a flick of his wrist, three pebbles flew in a triangular formation, precisely embedding themselves deep into a tree trunk ten meters away.

Tang Ya watched seriously, nodding repeatedly.

But a lot of times, she would unconsciously daze off.

She would look at Huo Yuhao's earnest profile in the sunlight, and at his deep eyes that seemed able to see through everything.

Looking at the slight curve of his lips when he explained patiently... and then, she would forget what movement she was supposed to do next.

"Tang Ya?"

Huo Yuhao's voice pulled her back from her daze. "Try that technique again."

"Huh? Oh, oh! Okay! Sorry, sorry!"

Tang Ya's face flushed red instantly. She began gesturing in a flurry, almost tripping herself as a result.

Not far away, Tianmeng was lying on a hammock, leisurely swinging her legs while cracking melon seeds, taking in the whole scene.

She let out a meaningful "tsk tsk" sound.

"It's over, it's over, this little girl has fallen too~ Huo Yuhao's charm really captivates both men and women, young and old alike!"

Hearing her voice, Tang Ya's face turned even redder, like a ripe apple. She stamped her foot and shouted in Tianmeng's direction, "I... I did not! Don't talk nonsense!"

Her bashful look, far from being convincing, seemed to confirm Tianmeng's teasing instead.

Huo Yuhao rubbed the bridge of his nose, feeling exhausted.

If the daytime's jealous feuds were just undercurrents, then the "bed allocation" issue at night was an outright war.

And the core of this war was naturally Huo Yuhao's not-so-large bed.

"Move."

In the hallway on the second floor, in front of Huo Yuhao's door, Gu Yuena and Tianmeng faced off once again.

Gu Yuena crossed her arms, her entire body radiating a cold "keep away" aura.

Tianmeng, on the other hand, stood with her hands on her hips and her cheeks puffed out, blocking the door without showing any weakness.

"No! Why do you get to sleep holding Huo Yuhao every day! I want to too! I want to hold him today too!"

Gu Yuena's purple eyes narrowed slightly as she spat out five words.

"Because I am stronger than you."

Simple and brutal, but effective.

Tianmeng's momentum instantly weakened. She also knew she couldn't beat this woman of unknown origin who was outrageously strong.

But the temptation of sleeping while holding Huo Yuhao was simply too great; she was unwilling to give up just like that.

"You... you're just using twisted logic! Bullying me with your power!"

Gu Yuena was too lazy to waste words with her and asked directly, "Do you want to fight?"

"..."

Tianmeng instantly chickened out. After agonizing for a long time, she finally squeezed out a sentence, "Then... then at least half each! The bed is so big, we can each sleep on one side!"

In the end, after a round of intense (one-sided) arguing and bargaining, the two reached an agreement.

Thus, when Huo Yuhao finished washing up and returned to his room, he witnessed a scene that made him lose all hope in life.

Gu Yuena had already occupied the left half of his bed as usual.

While Tianmeng, with a victorious expression, occupied the right half of his bed.

Between them, only a narrow gap was left, just enough to accommodate a six-and-a-half-year-old child like him.

"Sigh..."

Huo Yuhao let out a sigh that was extremely mismatched with his age, climbed onto the bed resignedly, and lay down as straight as a stick between the two girls.

Just then, outside the door, Huo Yuner walked past carrying a glass of warm milk.

She saw the situation in the room through the crack in the door, and a knowing, motherly smile appeared on her face.

She shook her head gently and left silently with the milk.

"Ah, it's so good to be young~"

"Yuhao, come here, Mom has something to say to you."

That evening, before Huo Yuhao went to sleep, Huo Yuner called him into her room.

"What is it, Mom?"

Huo Yuner pulled her son to sit on the edge of the bed and said earnestly, "Yuhao, Mom knows you've grown up now and have become capable. These girls, Mom thinks they are all quite nice—each one prettier and more sensible than the last..."

Hearing this opening, Huo Yuhao instantly had an ominous premonition.

"Mom, you've misunderstood. There's nothing between us, we're just friends..."

Huo Yuner immediately gave him a "do you think I'm blind or stupid" look. She extended her fingers and began counting them off one by one.

"Nothing? Nana doesn't go back to her own room every night, insisting on crawling into your blanket, and you call that nothing?

That girl named Tianmeng clings to you like sticky candy every day, wishing she could grow onto your body, and you call that nothing?

And that little girl from the Jiang family, every time she comes to see you, the light in her eyes is bright enough to set you on fire.

And that girl from the Tang family—when you teach her martial arts, she spends more time looking at you than at the secret manuals! And you call all of this nothing?"

Huo Yuhao was left speechless by his mother's barrage of words.

"..."

Looking at her son's handsome yet helpless little face, Huo Yuner sighed, patted his shoulder, and softened her tone again.

"Son, Mom isn't trying to oppose you. Mom has been through this and can see things clearly.

Mom just wants to tell you that you have to take responsibility. If you like them, you like them; if you don't, you don't. You need to think it through and make it clear early on. You can't lead any of these good girls on."

Huo Yuhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Mom, I'm being serious with you. I'm only six and a half years old this year..."

Huo Yuner glared at him.

"What's wrong with six and a half? Can't a six-and-a-half-year-old fall in love? Let me tell you, that irresponsible father of yours was already sweet-talking the little girl from the neighboring village into giving him her candy when he was six!"

Huo Yuhao was completely speechless.

"..."

What else could he say?

He couldn't very well tell his mother: Mom, although my body is only six and a half years old, my soul is already that of an Old freak who is hundreds of years old.

Even when I was a Divine King in my past life, I couldn't figure out these matters of love. Now you want me, a six-and-a-half-year-old kid, to figure it out?

This question is way beyond the syllabus!