The next morning, Rong Shi made breakfast before going to Mianmian’s room.

The little one sat on the bed with messy hair, his pajama collar slumped down, exposing a “little bare shoulder.”

His eyes were half-closed with sleepiness, his head bobbing, almost falling into the covers and startling himself awake.

“Woke up so early?” Rong Shi brought his clothes over and sat by the small bed. “Do you want to get up now or sleep a little longer?”

His fever had only broken in the latter half of the night, and his little face was still flushed.

“Get up.” Mianmian rubbed his eyes and climbed out of bed.

Rong Shi hadn’t dressed his brother in many, many years. He was also afraid of being too rough, so it took him half an eternity to dress him, and he even put the shirt on backward.

Mianmian: “Brother, I can dress myself.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Watching him clumsily dress himself, Rong Shi deliberated for a moment and asked him: “Do you want to come with me?”

Mianmian looked at him with confused eyes: “Come?”

Rong Shi rephrased in words he could understand: “Do you want to stay in your current school with your friends, or come with me to a new school?”

Mianmian, with one sleeve half-on and his little round belly exposed, froze for several seconds before his eyes suddenly lit up.

“I can live with Brother?”

Rong Shi shook his head, “I have school and can’t be with you every day, but your school will be right next to mine, so we can see each other often.”

“I want to go!” Mianmian stood up, using both hands and feet, with one sleeve still hanging off, his little face beaming with joy, “I want to be with Brother!”

Although it was the expected answer, Rong Shi still asked an extra question: “If you go there, you’ll have to leave your current friends.”

“I want Brother!”

Mianmian excitedly bounced from the head to the foot of the bed, accidentally tripping over the blanket and face-planting, his bottom sticking high in the air, his head heavy like a shotput, taking a long time to lift.

Rong Shi: “…”

He reached out and scooped him up, four words popping into his mind—joy turns to sorrow.

Because he needed to handle Mianmian’s enrollment procedures, they left shortly after breakfast.

The Central Military Academy, besides its famous university department, also offered a seamless education from kindergarten to middle school.

It catered primarily to the children of teachers working on the Academy Planet, children of military officers, or children of powerful and influential nobles.

Children of ordinary citizens typically completed their pre-university education on their respective home planets, partly for convenience and partly to avoid excessive financial burden.

It was almost unheard of for someone like Rong Shi to bring his younger brother to study.

At 3 PM, Rong Shi arrived at the Central Military Academy’s kindergarten department. A gentle-looking omega with round glasses was waiting at the main entrance.

Upon seeing them, the omega quickly walked over.

Xu Feng: “You must be Rong Shi? My name is Xu Feng, and I’m the director of education for the kindergarten department.”

Rong Shi nodded: “Director Xu, this is my brother Mianmian. I’ll trouble you to look after him from now on.”

Mianmian was a bit shy around strangers, but with his brother present, his courage was boosted by a tiny bit.

Seeing Xu Feng looking at him with smiling eyes, he timidly greeted: “Hello, teacher.”

Xu Feng’s heart melted, and the smile on his face never ceased.

He invited them inside, introducing the school’s situation to Rong Shi along the way.

Mianmian had never seen such a large school before; his eyes couldn’t take it all in. He gently tugged Rong Shi’s clothes and whispered in awe: “Brother, it’s so beautiful here!”

The wind was strong, so Rong Shi helped him put on his hat: “Do you like it?”

Mianmian wrung his hands, a little uneasy: “Do we have money?”

Such a big, good school must be very expensive.

With Father and daddy gone, their family was very poor.

Xu Feng was walking beside them and chuckled when he heard this: “Don’t worry, because your brother is very capable, you won’t have to spend a single penny to study here.”

Not a single penny? Meaning no money needed?

Mianmian mentally calculated, then became instantly happy: “I like it here!”

Rong Shi stroked his head: “…”

He really wanted to tell this little unfortunate that their family wasn’t so poor that they couldn’t afford tuition.

The kindergarten dorms were two children per room, with professional staff to take care of their daily lives, along with various high-tech measures to absolutely ensure the safety of every child.

Everything was prepared. Fearing Mianmian might not adapt to the new environment, Rong Shi took the little one to the university department, deciding to bring him back tomorrow morning.

Unexpectedly, their journey from the school gate to the dorm caused a sensation throughout the school.

The forum, usually a hub for idle chatter, was buzzing with discussions, everyone guessing who this little milk-bun, who looked so much like Rong Shi, could be.

“Bold prediction: illegitimate child.”

“Damn idiots, how old is Rong Shi to have such a big illegitimate child?”

“If he doesn’t do something no one else would think of, is he still Rong Shi?”

“He just got married and brought a child back. It’s hard not to be suspicious [dog head emoji].”

“Is the milk-bun for sale? How much per jin?”

“@Goddess Song, your husband is calling you to pick up the child.”

Although most people claimed they could tell it wasn’t an illegitimate child just by thinking, they said it wasn’t, but their bodies were honest, and the discussion about the illegitimate child remained heated.

In the dorm, Rong Shi had 01 transform into a regular diagnostic device to check Mianmian’s various physical indicators.

The results showed that, apart from lower immunity due to congenital deficiencies, there were almost no other abnormalities.

Thinking of what happened in his previous life, Rong Shi asked: “What about the glands?”

[Infant glands are not fully developed, so indicators are usually unstable. To perform a more detailed examination, an infant pheromone database needs to be loaded.]

01 was just battle armor; its diagnostic function was merely supplementary.

Professional databases like this were usually not publicly accessible, and obtaining them was also difficult.

To perform a more thorough and comprehensive examination, he would need to find a more professional institution.

Institutions weren’t hard to find, but the key was their safety.

In another dorm, Lu Ming and Lu Youqi had another big argument.

Zhang Yi, his head bandaged with gauze, hid in his bedroom, not daring to come out.

Before hanging up, Lu Youqi said with a grim face: “The situation has changed. You no longer need to intentionally befriend Song Yu. The Seventh Legion has a desolate planet exploration mission the day after tomorrow, and I will secure a spot for you. Don’t disappoint me again.”

The Seventh Legion’s desolate planet exploration battle? Lu Ming’s heart skipped a beat.

Wasn’t this where Jiang Xingze was originally supposed to go? Unfortunately, he was disciplined and forbidden from going on missions.

Military merits were always welcome, so Lu Ming immediately agreed.

After they hung up, Zhang Yi walked over, supporting himself against the wall.

The concussion he sustained earlier made him feel like he was on a boat when walking.

“Don’t need to suck up to Song Yu anymore?” He couldn’t hide the delight in his tone. “Does that mean we can go all out against Rong Shi?”

Lu Ming pondered his father’s words and sneered: “The greater Song Yu’s background, the greater the negative impact of marrying someone of the same sex. My father saying this means he has no more use.”

Zhang Yi, enduring his seasickness, wanted to give a cool, handsome sneer, but in reality, his face was distorted: “Rong Shi truly has true love for Song Yu, to flash marry him just to stand up for him. So stupid!”

Which previous president wasn’t glorious? With Rong Shi, it became synonymous with a joke.

Lu Ming took a bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet: “Whether it’s true love, I don’t know, but he’s certainly stupid.”

“Song Yu hit me in front of everyone, I just can’t swallow that!” Zhang Yi walked over, supporting himself on the table, getting angrier the more he thought about it.

The pain was one thing, but what embarrassed him more were the looks people gave him.

Lu Ming swirled his wine glass to aerate it: “Dealing with him is simple, but it’s meaningless. A beating won’t do much. Since Rong Shi said to go after him—”

Zhang Yi’s eyes lit up: “Are you saying?”

Lu Ming smiled: “Don’t we have a ready-made knife?”

That night, Mianmian sat on the sofa, eating a large bowl of sliced fruit while watching cartoons.

Rong Shi sat beside him, looking up information about hospitals.

There weren’t many reports about the 88th Military District Hospital online.

Schools on the Academy Planet were equipped with high-standard medical teams, so minor ailments didn’t require a trip to the hospital.

Rong Shi: “Can you retrieve Lin Mo and Lin Dang’s medical records?”

[Only found registration information and routine physical examination items.]

It didn’t make sense to go to a hospital specifically for routine examinations.

Rong Shi knew that some classified institutions used handwritten paper records to avoid network searches.

However, this hospital didn’t belong to any classified institution. If it also used this method for medical records, it could only mean it wasn’t as simple as it appeared on the surface.

He took out the small medicine bottle from his pocket. There was still half a bottle of pills left inside.

Besides investigating the hospital, the composition of this medicine also needed to be analyzed as soon as possible.

But finding someone to analyze it was a problem. Rong Shi thought for a long time and finally realized that only the “Little Cat” was reliable. At least he was sure the other party wouldn’t harm him.

It seemed they still had to meet.

A knock on the door suddenly sounded. Rong Shi wasn’t planning to answer it, but Mianmian quickly put his fruit aside, slipped off the sofa, and ran to open the door.

“Brother, I’ll open it, you’re busy.”

Rong Shi: “…”

“Why so slow?” The door opened, and Song Yu didn’t see anyone at first glance. He looked down and laughed, “How did Chairman Rong get so small?”

“Pre-pretty brother, I’m Mianmian.” It was an acquaintance, so Mianmian’s nervousness lessened a bit. “Please come in—”

Before he could finish, he was picked up.

Song Yu carried him inside, casually closing the door, then sniffed his hair and chuckled: “A milky little bunny, I really want to bite you.”

Mianmian: “Oh, you can’t eat me.”

Song Yu hadn’t even finished sniffing when the milky bundle in his arms was snatched away.

Rong Shi, with a cold face, rubbed Mianmian’s hair, as if wiping off something dirty.

“What are you doing here?”

Song Yu: “A bunch of people on the forum told me to come pick up the kid, so I had to come see, right? What if I was cheated on?”

Rong Shi: “…”

He let Mianmian go eat and watch TV, while the two of them went to sit at the bar.

Song Yu peeled an orange and casually said: “Lin Feng’s promotion approval was rejected. He might cause trouble. Be careful recently.”

Rong Shi snatched half of the orange from his hand: “I wasn’t the one who did it, so why should I be careful?”

Song Yu sneered: “We’re a married couple, why divide us?”

Rong Shi almost choked: “…” A married couple?

The next morning, after dropping Mianmian off at the kindergarten department, Rong Shi went to class.

When he entered the classroom, he inevitably underwent an eye-wash from his classmates, but the chairman’s authority was still there, so no one dared to rush up to him to ask about the child.

The first class was military theory. After the professor entered the classroom, his first question was: “Rong Shi, my wife asked me, is that child really your illegitimate child?”

Everyone else: “…” Professor, you’re awesome!

Rong Shi: “…”

“He said if it’s true, he’ll never believe in love again.”

Rong Shi: “…”

The classroom erupted in laughter.

As expected of Goddess Song, truly daring to speak.

Rong Shi turned his head, looking coldly at him, and said indifferently: “Ten months of pregnancy, you worked hard.”

Song Yu: “…”

Everyone: “…”

You’re still the most mischievous one, Chairman.

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Author’s notes:

Later—

Bunny: Little Cat, a friend of mine has a wife who can’t give birth, what should they do?

Little Cat: Probably not working hard enough.

Bunny: Got it.