The three evil young masters are kind-hearted

  I sat like a pin cushion, watching Mom help Dad apply iodine, and Dad would occasionally whine in pain.

  "What's your name, kid?" Yan Wanching eyed Hua Jingyan up and down.

  "He's called Hua Jingyan." I said hastily.

  "Don't let you answer." Yan Wanching glared at his daughter.

  "He doesn't speak Chinese very well," I explained, catching Hua Jingyan's gaze. After the commotion earlier, Dad already knew that Hua Jingyan could understand Chinese. But how much? The less he understood, the fewer problems there would be.

  "You said!" Dad didn't believe me at all.

  "Hua Jingyan." Hua Jingyan gazed at me for a moment before turning to Dad, answering in a clear and round tone.

  "You speak Chinese pretty well." My dad glared at me fiercely. I lowered my head.

  "My grandmother is Sino-French mixed blood, my grandfather is Sino-British mixed blood. Since I was a child, they communicated with me in Chinese. In daily conversations, I can understand what they say, but I don't speak very well." Huajingyan's eyes looked at me again.

  I stared at him in surprise. When did this guy change his ways? He's actually giving me an out?

  "Hey, mixed-blood kid, you're really good-looking!" Mom said in her dialect-accented Mandarin with a warm smile, "You're too modest, your Mandarin is better than ours!"

  "There is still room for improvement." Hua Jingyan had a humble and polite expression, "Dad, Mom, I'm really sorry, I thought Mi Ru'er met some bad people..."

  Hua Jing Yan apologized and made amends repeatedly.

  Dad shrugged his shoulders, and Mom's lips curved into a faint smile.

  "You can't call out for Dad and Mom." I leaned in close to Hua Jingyan's ear and corrected her quietly.

  "Why?" Hua Jingyan's face was full of innocence.

  "They are my dad and mom." I explained in a tone used for teaching little kids.

  "I know." Huajing Yan blinked uncomprehendingly.

  "Then shout again!" I glared at him.

  "I followed you and shouted, didn't you shout 'Dad' and 'Mom'?" Hua Jingyan said with a wronged tone.

  ……

  "You should call them uncle and aunt." I vomited blood.

  This guy's role development is a bit too fast! He said his Chinese wasn't good, and he really thought of himself as illiterate.

  Yan's mom and dad exchanged a glance, such a polite kid doesn't seem like a bad person. Looking at the two kids whispering to each other, their posture intimate, they seemed like boyfriend and girlfriend. She must not want her parents to know, that's why she's so nervous.

  Yan Wanching cleared his throat twice and was about to get down to business.

  "Ah, it's nothing." Yan Dad looked at Hua Jingyan's school uniform and said, "You're from the same school?"

  "Ah. Hana Kyou... " I cut in, "He's an exchange student at our school."

  "Dad, Mom, Hua Jingyan is very pitiful. He has been without parents since he was young, and recently his grandmother who took care of him also passed away. There's no one at home to take care of him, and he's living a lonely life in a foreign country, it's really sad. The school initiated a "Care Relay" activity to bring warmth to his family. Hua Jingyan came to our house today, and tomorrow he'll go to another classmate's house."

  "Sleep together tonight?" Mom stopped applying the medicine, her eyes with a deep meaning, "Our house has only one master bedroom left, except for your room, you two sleep in one room?"

  Before I could explain, my pale-faced dad slammed his hand heavily on the dinner table.

  "Are you two dating?"

  "No!"

  "That's right!"

  Two different tones.

  I gazed sideways at the yellow flowers swaying in the breeze.

  "Hey!?" I glanced at Hua Jingyan sideways, "Do you know what 'dating' means in Chinese?"

  "Are you two dating?" Mom's gentle face showed a hint of embarrassment, and Hua Jingyan's response was somewhat casual.

  "Yes. We love each other very much." Hua Jingyan looked at her mother seriously.

  Ouch, I feel like I've been stabbed in the gut.

  "Dad, Mom, I'll say it, his Chinese is no good, he's talking nonsense. Stop asking questions." I got anxious and pulled Hua Jingyan to head towards the bedroom to settle this privately.

  Mom and Dad's eyes fell on our tightly clasped hands in an instant.

  "Yan Xiaotong!" My dad yelled out my childhood name, "Do you think your mom and I are idiots?!"

  I feel like jumping into the Yangtze River can't wash it clean either. Dad gave Mom a look.

  "Honey, come here and help Mommy cook."

  "I don't understand, please don't talk!" Before walking into the kitchen, I asked Huajing Yan, my heart racing with doubts. The infamous three evil young masters of the school, notorious for being cruel, vicious and demonic, were actually kind?