Liu Bao also looked at Bai Chaosi, who stood pale-faced at the door. Terrified, he turned to Shen Yue.
"Female mother, Liu Bao didn’t make you angry. Don’t make Liu Bao go with him. Liu Bao only wants to be with you, female mother."
They had heard everything from the doorway just now.
They heard their female mother say she was going to let these men take them away, one by one. They didn’t want that.
They wouldn’t go anywhere. They only wanted their female mother.
Listening to them, Shen Yue’s heart ached.
She immediately crouched down, and the little ones all rushed into her arms.
Shen Yue held her little cubs, especially Liu Bao. ’It seems he heard all the harsh things I just said to Bai Chaosi,’ she thought.
She quickly explained:
"Good boy, Liu Bao. Of course you didn’t make your female mother angry. How could I ever be angry with you? I won’t let you go. I won’t let any of my babies leave me!"
"Just now, I was just heartbroken for my babies. After all, those uncles scared you. So I was teaching those rude men a lesson, so that they’ll be polite grown-ups in the future. When you scare someone, you have to say you’re sorry. You can’t just throw a tantrum, and you can’t throw things around to frighten my babies! That’s wrong."
Hearing this, the little cubs finally relaxed.
They all said obediently:
"It’s okay, female mother. Dabao already made his little brothers and sisters dry themselves off!"
"Mhm, Wubao is all dry now. Wubao dried himself off!"
"And Er Bao! Er Bao was very good and even helped Sanbao dry off!"
"And Si Bao! Si Bao went and picked up the broken shovel. Look, female mother! Even though Si Bao is sad that it broke, we can still play with it!"
"Mhm, we can play with it even if it’s broken. Don’t be sad, female mother. Liu Bao isn’t sad either."
The group of grown men standing outside the door listened, their hearts filled with guilt.
They weren’t even as mature as their own children, who had only recently hatched.
Shen Yue had originally found that iron shovel for the little ones to play with. They loved playing in the mud, but just moments ago, Mu Silin had been using it to stir the mud and had snapped it!
One could only imagine how the little ones felt, watching him break their favorite toy right before their eyes.
Right now, Mu Silin felt so ashamed he wished the earth would swallow him whole.
Lan Cangyue felt even worse. The bucket of water he’d been holding had splashed almost entirely on the children. The little ones had been subjected to his anger for no reason at all.
He could still remember the hurt in their eyes.
’Damn me to hell!’
Listening to them, Shen Yue’s heart felt heavy and sore. Her Angel Babies. They hadn’t done anything wrong, yet they were frightened for no reason, had their toy broken for no reason, and had to endure someone else’s foul temper.
Yet they were so warm and so understanding that they were comforting her in return, trying to ease her worries.
’So how could I ever bear to let such wonderful children be wronged? How could my heart not ache for them?’
She just wanted to give them all the love in the world.
Shen Yue wrapped her arms around the little ones.
"Okay, your female mother isn’t sad. I just think my babies are so good and so understanding. I’m so happy."
She couldn’t help but kiss each of the little ones on the forehead.
"Having you, female mother, makes Dabao happy too."
"Mhm, Xi Xi is happy too."
"Er Bao too. Being with you, female mother, makes Er Bao happy every day."
Warmth flooded Shen Yue’s heart again. She ruffled the little ones’ hair and looked at the broken shovel.
"But don’t play with this shovel anymore. You could poke your hands."
"After we eat, I’ll get you a new one to play with, okay?"
The little ones, nestled in her arms, nodded happily.
"We get a new one? Yay!"
"Okay, Dabao understands!"
’I took this shovel from my dimensional space before. If I just toss it back in, it should repair itself.’
’And if it can’t be repaired, I’ll definitely find a way to get them a new one.’
She remembered it all too well. When she was little, her parents would fight and smash everything in the house.
They had ripped apart her beloved teddy bear and scattered her favorite building blocks across the floor in pieces.
She had cried and screamed:


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