Chapter 303 - One Hundred and Three - His Yin to His Yang (2/2)

The scents of the meal had not yet faded and Jian Juren sniffed appreciatively. ”Oh, had you just eaten?” He didn't wait for a response before continuing; ”I'm intrigued. What kind of thing did my Grandson-in-law cook? It smells delicious.”

”Does it matter?” Jin Li retorted, rudely. ”There's none for you.” Leon discreetly placed the lid over the leftover's that he suspected would become Jin Li's midnight snack.

”Grandson, you are so stingy when it comes to your things!” His grandfather teased. ”No wonder you seldom got along with your elder brothers!”

”Oh?” Jin Li raised a brow in question. He didn't recall having any issues with his elder brothers. The pair were that much older than him, Jin She was already twenty when he was born, Jin Sha some ten years older still. It would have been quite petty for them to try steal his childhood things like his numerous cousins had attempted to do here and there. And as for later, he was too busy training and cultivating to socialise with them, plus Jin Sha had his businesses, Jin She his own studies. They were brothers by blood, but that really all that connected them.

”D-does G-Grandfather w-want tea?” Leon asked the older man, who beamed as he glanced at Jin Li with some small gloating.

”Alas, Grandson-in-law,” Jian Juren replied, a bit dramatically, ”I shouldn't, I'm lacking the time... ah, pour the tea! One drink won't make a difference!”

”Old man,” Jin Li sneered as his small alchemist poured his tea into a spare cup. ”Is there a reason that you have descended upon us.”

Jian Juren lazily sipped the slightly cooled tea with a sigh. ”I'm going back,” he advised them abruptly. Jin Li froze, hesitant.

”Oh?” He responded after a few moments.

”I've been away from the Higher Realm for too long,” Jian Juren lamented, ”memories are short if left to forget. People will begin to have ideas.”

”If those people haven't learned by now,” Jin Li muttered, thinking of Jian Juren's supposed treasure filled tower with all its tricks and traps, ”they really do deserve death.” Later, he would explain this to Leon, he would also be asked if there was actually some rare treasure inside, only to advise his lover that there was not. This was all a game devised by Jian Juren for his own amus.e.m.e.nt. Most of a certain age were aware, would even use it as a way to temper stubborn brats, though not really let them come to harm. However there was always one idiot every month or so that thought he could breach the tower and take its things.

”Do you have any messages for your parents?” Jian Juren asked him.

Jin Li lifted the lid of the tea pot, only to find it was nearly empty inside. ”Not really,” he replied. ”You may inform my father that I continue to train well and my mother...” he glanced at his small lover who began to redden beneath his gaze. ”Tell mother that I have found the yin to my yang. That is all.”

Jian Juren smiled, his eyes twinkling. But what would his daughter say when she discovered that this yin was actually all yang?