The triplets had clearly fallen asleep but they had to behave like when they were newborns. Their arms were extremely strong. Once they grabbed something, they made known their domineering stance and refused to let go of their hands regardless of the reason.

  As such, the triplets would be alerted if Qiao Nan were to move.

  After discovering this point, Qiao Nan, who had got up slightly, could only lie back completely on the bed and sleep obediently beside the triplets.

  After touching the chubby faces of her three children, Qiao Nan could not help yawning. Her upper and lower eyelids got along very lovingly and were deeply attached.

  When Qiao Nan was dozing off, she was still thinking that she actually did not need to go and call Zhai Sheng. After a while, Zhai Sheng would definitely come back when he gauged that the children were almost asleep.

  At the thought of this, Qiao Nan, whose brains were not very delicate at this moment, gently hugged her three children and even fell asleep with them.

  When Zhai Sheng opened the door and entered the room, he coincidentally witnessed this worrisome scene.

  The triplets were young, had poor memories, and could not recognize people. Hence, it was not strange at all that they would cry and kick up a fuss at the sight of him.

  However, it was most unacceptable to Zhai Sheng how his wife could leave him alone and sleep so soundly with their three children. He was seldom home. Was this really good?

  After posing this question, from a man’s perspective, Zhai Sheng used two words to answer to Qiao Nan: not good!

  Qiao Nan, who felt that she had just closed her eyes, only sensed the earth shaking and the mountains swaying, as if there was an earthquake. Her whole world only had one point as support and it was shaking badly, so badly that she felt that her heart almost leaped out.

  It was only until when she saw the greenish eyes akin to those of a wolf on top of her head that she realized that she was in the midst of a censored act with Zhai Sheng. “Brother…… Brother Zhai?”

  Qiao Nan’s tone was unstable. She was incoherent and stuttering in incomplete sentences.

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  She only had one question: Wasn’t she sleeping well earlier? Before she shut her eyes, the word ‘sleep’ was still a noun. Why had it become a verb now?

  “Yes?” Zhai Sheng’s deep and slightly hoarse voice sounded passionate and sexy. As he felt a sense of pleasure, he shut his eyes comfortably. That restrained shine in his eyes was more striking and soul-captivating than before.

  Qiao Nan could not make out any words. She scratched many marks on Zhai Sheng’s arms and back.

  It was not because of other reasons. It was because the man on top of her seemed to be performing better in this aspect each time. She was just a mortal with an ordinary human body. She really could not take such a change. “Aren’t…… aren’t we supposed to sleep?”

  Zhai Sheng held on to Qiao Nan’s waist as he exerted more strength. He was using his body action to express to Qiao Nan that he was ‘sleeping’ now.

  “.……” Qiao Nan could not help rolling her eyes. “You…… Are you not tired? I am!” Could he not convert the word ‘sleep’ to a noun? Moreover, it was in the middle of the night. Could he sleep quietly?

  In stark contrast to Qiao Nan’s inability to retaliate with strength, Zhai Sheng, who was utilizing the most strength, felt increasingly energetic, and he even replied to Qiao Nan as he handled the task with ease and skill. “No issue. If you are tired, you can go ahead and sleep. I would continue on my own.”

  “.……”

  “Qiao Nan rolled her eyes again. She was as anxious as a kitten that had been stepped on the tail. She reached out her claws and scratched Zhai Sheng with all her might once again.

  Due to the national day, Zhai Sheng had a short holiday and could always stay at home if he did not have anything else to attend to.

  However, she could not. Unless it was the actual day of the national day, she had classes. Unfortunately, she not only had classes tomorrow, but she also had a day full of classes!

  She had to study and take care of the children every day. Just these two matters had drained all of Qiao Nan’s energy.

  Now, she still had to do one more thing: keeping the three children’s father company and doing something that he loved to do. It was terrible.

  After venting out a little of her frustration, Qiao Nan was so weak and soft in Zhai Sheng’s clutches. She could not create any waves at all.

  Thereafter, Qiao Nan was not sure if she had fallen asleep due to exhaustion or fainted due to Zhai Sheng’s ‘torture’.

  When Qiao Nan was awake, the sky was already bright. The triplets also seemed to be kicking up a fuss with Zhai Sheng.

  Despite the sound of her children’s anxious voices, Qiao Nan’s eyelids were still badly plastered together. The eyelids were so heavy that she could not open them. She took a deep breath and told herself that she was being overly anxious about the triplets.

  If she did not open her eyes to look at the situation, perhaps the father and children would create some troubles.

  Qiao Nan lifted her eyelids, looked up, and saw Da Bao and Er Bao red in anger. They were reaching out their chubby and lotus-like hands to push Zhai Sheng away. It seemed like they wanted to push Zhai Sheng off the bed.

  On the other hand, San Bao’s face was full of tears. She was staring at Zhai Sheng with a look of accusation. Besides that, she was grabbing Qiao Nan’s collar with one hand, strongly wanting to wake her up. “Mama, mama……”

  Qiao Nan rubbed her forehead. Moving her hands, she carried her chubby daughter into her arms.

  Those who had not been a mother did not know that it felt a hundred times better to carry such a soft and adorable child. “San Bao, why are you crying again?”

  “Mama!” San Bao spoke with a bright voice and squirmed in Qiao Nan’s arms. “Mama, bad, bad, bad……”

  After enduring for some time, San Bao spat a mouthful of saliva at Zhai Sheng. Without any reservation, she pointed out that Zhai Sheng was a bad guy. He even slept on the same bed as them, scaring them out of their wits.

  Initially, Qiao Nan was sleeping in the middle, the three children on one side, and Zhai Sheng the other. It was just right such that the children and father would not disrupt each other’s sleep temporarily.

  However, as a wife lover, after Qiao Nan fainted with fatigue last night, Zhai Sheng changed his position and was now sleeping in the middle whereas Qiao Nan was sleeping at the side.

  Zhai Sheng had not slept in the same bed as his three children before. Hence, he was not sure if they would be obedient and abiding when they slept at night. Would they, like Zhai Hua when she was a child, kick or punch from time to time after they had fallen asleep? Worse, they might roll about in the bed as if they were sleepwalking.

  After all, he had seen Zhai Hua, this example, before. Zhai Sheng dared not let his guard down when they were sleeping.

  Once the position was changed, things became ‘great’.

  First, San Bao woke up as she had wetted the bed.

  Normally, when Qiao Nan and the three children slept together, Qiao Nan would carry the three of them, one by one, to the toilet to urinate at around five in the morning.

  Today, Qiao Nan was so exhausted that she completely could not wake up at five. Zhai Sheng was also unaware that Qiao Nan and the triplets had such a habit.

  San Bao, who was enduring the wetness on her tummy, opened her eyes unhappily. Her chubby hands immediately touched the person beside her.

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  Babies liked to stay close to their mother and the ‘milk bottle’ that they used to drink their milk from.

  San Bao searched with her soft hands for the familiar feel of the ‘milk bottle’. She touched the person next to her, but she could not feel the familiar and soft touch that she was used to. She was stunned.

  San Bao turned her head to realize that the person next to her was not her mama. Instead, it was the bad guy who came to her house yesterday.

  San Bao turned pale in fright.

  The little girl was indeed smart. She knew that she was not the bad guy’s match and it was pointless to cry. She turned to her brothers who slept by her side and woke them up.

  Once the triplets were awake, they tried to shoo Zhai Sheng away from the bed and get their mother to sleep by their side.

  Zhai Sheng was as tired as Qiao Nan, but he was more alert than her. He held his wife by his side while his children slept next to him. Even though he was woken up by them early in the morning, he was in a good mood. He noticed that the triplets were moving about.

  Since the bullish father was in a good mood, he made use of this opportunity to observe his children. He wanted to know what his children would do under such a situation.

  Da Bao was, after all, the elder brother. He hugged San Bao before he stood up shakily, trying to make it past Zhai Sheng to check if their mother was still in the room and on the bed.

  The triplets had a clear memory that they slept on the bed with their mama yesterday night. Their mama would not leave them.

  Zhai Sheng was glad that Da Bao might be young, but he did not panic. Instead, he was calm and could compose himself and use his wits. He did not provoke his strongest ‘enemy’ but took the indirect approach to look for Qiao Nan.

  Da Bao was still a baby. He knew nothing about strategy. What he did was his natural reaction.

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  Now that Zhai Sheng decided to act as a naughty father, he used his long legs to block his elder son. He refused to let him go past him. If Da Bao moved an inch, Zhai Sheng would move his leg to push Da Bao back to his original position.

  Da Bao did not come back to his senses on his first try. He fell back on his bottom and sat on the bed, blinking. He had a serious expression on his face as he made the second try.

  On the third time, Da Bao finally realized what was going on. His eyes turned red and he shot accusing glares at the naughty father who teased his son.

  It was obvious what happened thereafter.

  Since Zhai Sheng teased Da Bao, there was no reason for him to ignore Er Bao and San Bao.

  Given how he teased them, it was no wonder that they ended up in tears.

  Qiao Nan carried her chubby daughter and checked the time. It was half past five.

  She touched her daughter’s tummy. It was bloated as if she was full from her meals. Qiao Nan sat up without another word but was stopped by Zhai Sheng. He pushed her back onto the bed.

  Zhai Sheng looked toward her. “What are you doing?”

  “The children need to go to the toilet at five in the morning.”

  “Go to sleep. I will do it.” Zhai Sheng took his chubby daughter from his wife and reached the restroom in a few steps.

  San Bao did not want to cooperate with Zhai Sheng, but she felt bloated and had to go to the restroom.

  There was no need for Qiao Nan to teach him. After San Bao was done, he took Da Bao and Er Bao one by one to the restroom.

  “Is it time for them to wake up and brush their teeth and wash their faces?” Zhai Sheng was used to waking up at five in the morning. He thought that Qiao Nan had developed this habit in the children as well. He took the babies’ shirt and pants from the wardrobe. Perhaps he should learn how to put on clothes for them.

  Qiao Nan shook her head. She reached toward the triplets and moved them to her side. “It’s still early. After I bring them to the restroom, they will sleep for another hour and wake up at around six. It is too early now.” As babies, there was no need for them to wake up at such an early time. They did not need to go for training or go for lessons.

  “Brother Zhai, stop teasing the triplets. They may be young, but they have a huge temper.” She used to think that the elders at home would spoil the triplets, so she and Brother Zhai had to be strict with them so that they would grow up to be well-behaved children.

  Perhaps she could be a strict mother. As for Brother Zhai, apart from being fierce, he was simply a bullish father!

  “Let me tell you beforehand. The old master and Mom are very protective of the triplets. My master dotes on them as well. If they catch you bullying the triplets, I won’t be able to help you.”

  Zhai Sheng did not get up early in the morning, unlike his usual routine. He lay down on the bed, encircling his iron arms around Qiao Nan’s waist. “Don’t worry. I know what I am doing.” Even though he was not at home, he had made an intelligent guess from the little information that Zhai Hua told him.

  “Aren’t you getting up now?” Qiao Nan lay on her side and cuddled the triplets, blocking Zhai Sheng from the triplets so that they would not be upset. She did not want them to lose their temper at Zhai Sheng endlessly.

  Zhai Sheng pushed Qiao Nan’s long hair to the side and kissed her on her fair and smooth nape. “There’s no hurry. I can keep you company for a while. I will wait until the four of you are asleep before I get up.” He was finally back home. He would not be too hard on himself. It was necessary to take breaks.

  “Alright.” Qiao Nan did not really hear Zhai Sheng’s words. Zhai Sheng seemed like a fish that would give her a bite on her nape from time to time. The slight pain could not be compared to the pain that he put her through when he pressed down on her last night.

  She did not feel very comfortable being bitten by him. There was a tickle coupled with slight pain.

  But she had been through more painful and exciting ‘tortures’. This was nothing compared to them. Qiao Nan was able to ignore them. True enough, she had already drifted off to sleep.

  Their mother was by their side and Zhai Sheng was blocked from their view. The triplets could not see the bad guy. They blinked and looked toward the space next to their mother before they yawned twice and fell asleep in no time.

  Zhai Sheng smiled when he heard the slight snores of the triplets and he got up from the bed. Ten minutes had passed since he got up and went back to bed again.

  Zhai Sheng fixed his gaze on his three chubby babies while he put on his clothes. There was a look of tenderness and adoration in his cold and dark gaze.

  He would definitely dote on his babies.

  They would turn one year old in a few days. But he had never seen kids who were as smart as them at this age.

  This morning, he was surprised by Da Bao’s behavior. It was then did Zhai Sheng realize and understand that this must be how the old master and his father felt when he was born.

  They were his children. The same blood flowed in the triplets’ veins. They were his successors.