Chapter 55 - Greed For Sweets

A blissful scene could be seen in Dai Chen's house, where everyone can be seen eating their meal with beautiful smiles and loads of expression of joy, Fu Li can be seen berating the kids, especially Teng Peng who had been eyeing the sweets brought by Li Jie, but Fu Li had already instructed them that they will be getting the sweets after finishing their meals.

After everyone finished eating their meal, the maid Xiao Chu can be seen looking at everything with utter disbelief, while she showed no expression outside, that wasn't the case inside her heart, as she didn't know what would the other maids of the Li family will think, if they were to witness this scene, they might faint from seeing the eldest young master happily playing with the kid of slums.

The maid Xiao Chu had already decided not to let anyone know of what she is witnessing, despite disbelief she was happy seeing the eldest young master to be sparkling, that was when she recalled that the eldest young master has always been mature in intelligence despite his age and this was known by almost everyone in the Li family, which was also why he was always treated as an adult by everyone despite his age, "but he is still a kid in the heart our eldest young master", thought the maid Xiao Chu.

Suddenly she felt something and when she looked at where the remaining sweets were, she noticed all of them to be gone, after some time she removed her gaze from the bowl which had sweets, as it wasn't worth her notice and she felt that maybe it was the kids who had eaten the remaining sweets.

"TENG PENG where are the leftover sweets", shouted Fu Li, she wasn't furious because she wanted to have them for herself but to store them in a container for eating at a later time for everyone, and when she noticed all of them completely gone, she was ready to pound Teng Peng, but Teng Peng shrieked and swore that he wanted to eat the leftover sweets badly, but it wasn't him that had eaten them, finally Fu Li calmed down after Dai Chen told her, that there are more sweets brought over by Li Jie, but Fu Li wanted to distribute everything equally among themselves, she didn't want to spoil her younger siblings of bad habits.

Faint noises of laughter were made, which couldn't be detected by anyone present in the room, and the ones who were laughing were the shadows as the leader of the shadows can be seen eating the sweets which were yellow in color and it had green and red cherries on it as decoration, his left hand had more sweets, while he was biting and eating all the sweets one by one, which actually infuriated the other shadows more and more as for the one who wanted to punch their leader in the face were the two shadows, who were residents of the slum but were rescued by Sir Patriarch when he was young.

"Boss, don't you feel any shame in stealing poor kid's sweets", said one of the shadows who was from the slums, "Yes Boss, I feel ashamed of calling you boss, and seeing your smug expression of stealing sweets from these poor kids is revolting", said the other shadow who was also from the slums.

"Humph, so what if I ate the sweets, I was feeling hungry and what is with this happy annoying atmosphere these people have created, I almost wanted to vomit, I had heard a lot about how hellish the life of slums is, but look here it's so peaceful and annoying, here I thought I will get some fun but looks like I was hoping too much and what is wrong with me eating a bunch of leftover sweets and if you guys find it so problematic, then why don't we spar for a bit", said the leader of shadows while revealing his white teeth which gave a very creepy sensation to the two shadows who felt wronged, but they knew in their heart how strong this leader of their is, and the worst part is his bloodline, which is quite rare and according to Sir Patriarch, if there is someone who is strongest after him in this continent, then it is this man in front of them, the two shadows felt frustrated at their leader's taunt but were helpless.

After all, despite the cultivation stage their leader was horridly strong and had a weird personality where for long times he will be quiet and will only say something serious related to missions, but sometimes when he opens his mouth, it is filled with vulgarities and many weird things, especially his actions are completely weird towards anyone he fights, despite having high cultivation stage, he lowers his cultivation stage to that of his opponent and crushes his opponents with pure strength, the most unique thing about him is his bloodline, which they felt to be quite devilish in nature.

"For even a second don't fool me you dolts, I know you two also want to try this sweet, I honestly never knew this sweet was this tasty, while I had seen it many times, I had never tried it in all honesty, maybe when I return I should try tasting more types of sweets or maybe I have chosen the wrong path, instead I should have become a baker, where I can cook all kind of sweets and eat them all day, while also competing with other bakers for the hegemony of sweet making, it's not like I am a very talented assassin", said the leader of the shadows while thinking aloud.

Listening to him made the other shadows clench their fists in anger, with a pissed-off expression, as in their heart they knew how they worked their ass off to reach where they are, as their status in the Li family is very special, they are the only ones in all of the Li family who can kill anyone despite their status without any regard for the consequences and the leader in front of them in someone who had beaten them black and blue, no matter how much they tried, they can never beat him in a fight, as that was the prerequisite of becoming the leader of the shadows, being the leader of shadows comes with unimaginable benefits.

But here their leader is sighing of how untalented he is, and how he should be a baker, and even then he wanted to compete with those poor bakers, sighed the shadows.