Soon this news reached to the Emperor, who had no intention to pay any visit to his new concubine and planned to check the memorials, but then he put down the memorials and looked at his more than 1 year old Crown Prince, who was crying nearby in the maid’s arms.

The Emperor: *took the Crown Prince in his arms and called for his personal eunuch* “Prepare, we are heading to Iris Palace!” Declaring so, he carried the sobbing Crown Prince and walked towards his new concubine’s palace, Iris Palace.

And without waiting for their answer, he walked in towards the Iris palace, with the crown prince in his arms. He then heard shallow breathing of that father and son from outside the door. He knocked on the door lightly, after hesitating for a good few minutes and heard them —

(Sleepy) Edward: *pushing his son* “Baby go and check who is it?”

(Sleepy) Eden: *trying to resist his mom* “Mom, you go what if it is those assassins from the tree outside?”

The emperor was shocked hearing them, but then he heard them further—

(Sleepy) Edward: *pushing his son* “It is okay! Just kill them, I will take care of dead body tomorrow!”

(Sleepy) Eden: *trying to resist his mom* “Mom, no. This is a palace, we can’t just kill them! You go and kill them. and I then dispose immediately.”

The emperor couldn’t tell, what he felt at that moment, but the way they are talking felt like this was nothing more than their normal talks…?

(Sleepy) Edward: *pushing his son* “I don’t think they would come to mess with us. I had just warned them!”

(Sleepy) Eden: *trying to resist his mom* “Then it can be your nominal husband?”

Emperor resisting the urge to break into the room and cut open their head to check what it is filled with… There are really people who are not afraid of defaming the emperor… He then cleared his throat and knocked again, and this time the crown prince was also helping, by fussing and making noise.

(Sleepy) Eden: *trying to resist his mom* “Hey, it really is your nominal husband!!! Now go and open the door” 

(Sleepy) Edward: *finally pushed his son out of the bed* “Then he is your stepfather too, so go and take care of it. You slept whole this time, now let me sleep”

(Sleepy) Eden: *walked towards the door with a stick* “Fine! But remember, you are my mom and dad both, I won’t acknowledge just anyone my father.”

Emperor: *speechless* ‘I didn’t know, I would be so unwelcomed one day!’

Eden used that nearby stick as his weapon, and pointed it at the emperor, just after opening the door. And both the emperor and the shadow guards were speechless whole this time.

(Sleepy) Eden: *can’t open his eyes properly, but the aim was clear* “Tell me your purpose of coming this late! If nothing serious then come back tomorrow.” then he tried to close the door again, but the emperor stopped him in time…

Emperor: *speechless* “The crown prince was unable to sleep, so we planned to leave him under your father’s care!”

Anyone who got this opportunity to raise the next emperor would feel honored and happy, that’s what the emperor and the shadow guards thought. But what they didn’t expect was Eden’s opposition over this opportunity.

Eden: *instantly opens his eyes wide —his sleep jumped into the well nearby* “Who wants a younger brother? I won’t acknowledge a crybaby as my brother. Yuck—”

The emperor: speechless…

The shadow guards: speechless…

Emperor: *don’t know what to say for a while* Our son would be despised like this, we didn’t ever think of this in our dream…

And instantly, the crown prince reached out his hands to go towards Eden. Which really melted Eden’s heart.

Emperor: thought that Eden would accept the crown prince now…

Eden:*snapped out of it and said* “Come in, let me discuss this with my daddy.”

He then threw the stick into the same pot from where he picked it up, and make a way for the emperor and the crown prince. Emperor was shocked seeing a 6 years old child being sharp, even his own kids are not like him, let alone him when he himself was a child.

Eden: *let out a weird smile and jumped on his sleepy mom* “hahaha~ mom look your husband and his son are here!!!”

(Sleepy) Edward: *holds his son from falling* “He is your father too, now let me sleep, I can’t open my eyes, and you are heavy.”

The emperor has never seen any father and son being so comfortable with each other. Although he carried or played with the crown prince. it was for a moment only, other times, it is either the maid or the trusted eunuch near him would handle the crown prince for him.

He was not a favored son of his father, so it was out of option that he had felt fatherly love in his childhood. Being not killed by his father emperor was already a grace. So he maintained a proper distance with his other children, and only took the crown prince with him after the empress died of illness, when the crown prince was hardly one year old.

Eden: *continued messing with his mom* “Mom, what should we do? Your husband asked us to take in the crybaby!”

(Sleepy) Edward: “Hmmm— don’t mess around, lie down properly. And what crybaby, you used to cry allot too.”

(Sleepy) Edward: “And about taking him in, let your stepfather write three decrees and I will think then… You negotiate properly, and let me sleep, and if your stepfather agrees then take care of the baby and I will tell what should be written in the decrees tomorrow… *snors*”