Aponia, whose inscription is "Discipline," possesses "Word of Power" that can be engraved into the deepest part of one's will and body. The moment that damned word "please" is uttered, even someone as powerful as a thousand tribulations cannot disobey and can only grit their teeth in resentment and obediently comply!

It's just like a rebellious son being helpless in the face of his mother's seemingly gentle but fierce words!

Qianjie felt like he was facing a smiling but ruthless "good mother," which was incredibly annoying!

However, some of the heroes even used the metaphor of "rebellious son and gentle mother" to describe his relationship with Aponia!

The moment this metaphor reached Qianjie's ears, it ignited his rage! He almost burned down this damned golden courtyard!

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"Qianjie, please be quiet."

Just as Thousand Calamities was about to erupt in a raging inferno, Aponia seemed to keenly sense this guy's impending outburst.

A gentle voice drifted over, extinguishing Qian Jie's anger. He gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and helplessly extinguished the flames.

Before Aponia, even the incredibly unruly Thousand Tribulations could only obediently follow orders.

This is what Aponia previously meant by "Thousand Calamities have been getting more and more obedient lately".

In Aponia's eyes, Qianjie was clearly a gentle child, after all, he was willing to volunteer and protect those poor children when he was in the orphanage...

Aponia shook her head and sighed, feeling helpless towards the Thousand Calamities who were giving her a hateful look.

She guessed that Qianjie must have seen the stragglers being teased by the "good mother" in the video and felt the same way.

Indeed, rebellious children are the most troublesome and worrisome. Aponia hopes that Lei Dapao, the filial son in the picture who is willing to share his rice ball and is easily moved to tears, will not become a rebellious teenager...

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On the other side, Greta stared blankly at the easel.

The paintbrush in her hand seemed to have found the pattern she wanted to draw, but the "little tricks" in the picture were still a bit hard for the innocent and naive Gretchen to understand.

She felt that the scene should depict a heartwarming picture of her and Aponia's mother, a loving and filial daughter, but something felt off.

How could Lei Yingdian himself be enjoying the delicious food while mocking Lei Dapao?

Why would Lei Dapao have that blank, bewildered expression, as if he were shocked and heartbroken?

Why does Lei Yingdian have food in her hands? Is it because after giving away the "last" rice ball, she painstakingly used her motherly abilities to find more food?

In short, the innocent little Gretchen couldn't quite understand why she wanted to paint a "warm and loving mother-child scene" but always felt something was off and couldn't put pen to paper for a while.

Unfortunately, Gretchen was unable to extract the key meaning from the video, so she could only save the scene as it was depicted before her eyes and examine it carefully later.

And so, this scene appeared on little Gretchen's drawing board—

A cute little purple mouse is happily munching on two skewers of food, a three-vegetable dumpling in its left paw and a mochi cake in its right, completely absorbed in this delicious feast.

Behind the adorable little purple lightning mouse, a pitiful little clay doll with tears in its eyes stared blankly at the hardworking mouse, looking like a poor abandoned child, even dropping the rice ball in its hand and shattering it on the ground.

The adorable little purple lightning mouse seemed completely oblivious to the little kid behind her, utterly unconcerned about how the child would react to her laughter, and continued to mock him with glee.

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When Kosmo saw the scene of "a good mother teasing her dutiful son" depicted on little Gretchen's drawing board, he nearly fainted again.

Compared to Kosmo, who always seems to have a lot of complaints about Gretchen's paintings and gets all dizzy at the sight of them, Alicia is more like a good older sister.

Alicia's eyes lit up the moment she saw the painting when she leaned close to Gretsch, expressing a completely opposite affirmation to Kosmo's negative attitude.

"Oh, what a heartwarming scene!"

"Good mother Yingbao gave the last rice ball to her child, and then went to find food herself so her child wouldn't worry, letting her child know that she wouldn't go hungry just because she gave up her food."

Alicia expressed great approval of Gretsch, causing little Gretsch to immediately abandon Kosmo and rush to Alicia's side to let Alicia pat her head, indicating that Alicia was her good older sister.

Seeing this, Kosmo's vision went black again. He never imagined that he, a normal person, would be disliked by Gretsch...

Alicia, who blatantly lies, is the one Gretchen loves...

Alicia smiled slightly as she looked at Kosmo, who had fainted from anger, and continued to explain to Gretsch how wonderful her scene was:

"For Dapao, he got the rice ball; for Yingbao, she found food; and for them, one is a dutiful son and the other a loving mother—it's a win-win-win situation!"

Although Gretchen didn't quite understand what Alicia was saying, it sounded like she was being praised, so she smiled slightly and showed a sweet expression of satisfaction, enjoying Alicia's pat on the head.

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On the other side, listening to Alicia's "rational analysis," Eden shook his head and sighed with a helpless expression.

Alicia makes no mention of Ray's statement in the movie that he "wanted to enjoy the food all by himself" or mocked Ray for being moved to tears.

Although Alicia knows that she likes Mei, who has mastered the power of the Herrscher, is Alicia so openly protecting another "identifier" who is just a copy of Mei?

To lie so blatantly and then cover for her to save face for Raiden Mei is truly astounding, showing just how much Alicia loves Raiden Mei and her face.

However, as Alicia's best friend, Eden could understand Alicia's actions, after all, it was the long-cherished wish of this person who loved humanity so much that she gave her life...

Mei's appearance made Alicia realize that her long-cherished wish had been fulfilled, so it's normal for Alicia to like Mei a little more, and it's also normal for her to extend that affection to Mei and smooth over that terrible movie.

As for why the seemingly honest and simple Lei in the scene would do something like playing with children, and whether the pink-clad woman was instigating it, Alicia didn't say a word.

Even though it wasn't her, why did Alicia deliberately omit the fact that Yae no Miko might have instigated Rai to do something bad?

However, Eden, who dotes on Alicia, would never undermine her as her best friend.

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As for Kevin, even though he was taciturn and cold, he couldn't help but twitch his eyelids when he saw Ray, who had the same face as Dr. May, doing such a thing on the screen.

Although Dr. May's intelligence is tempered with a touch of cunning, making her seem somewhat capable of such a thing...

However, it is unlikely that Dr. May would manipulate children's feelings in this way.

Kevin also maintained a tolerant attitude towards Ray's movies, which shared the same face as Dr. May.

Therefore, Kevin silently nodded in agreement with Alicia's behavior of blatantly lying and trying to save face for Ray's movie.

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Only Mebius, Alicia's old nemesis, stared at the suspicious clues about the Yae no Miko in the light screen, and then fixed his gaze on Alicia.

"Alicia, how... how did you manage to trick that lightning purple mouse like that?"

"You've turned a perfectly honest and kind little purple lightning mouse into a wicked mother who manipulates children. You're truly heinous!"

Alicia's smile faltered as Mebius sabotaged her, and her eyes twitched twice.

The Yae no Miko in the picture looked so much like her; that pretty face and that beautiful pink hair clashed with her own beauty. Alicia felt she couldn't explain it no matter what she said, so she had no choice but to avoid it.

Unexpectedly, Mebius decided to sabotage the project.

However, if you ask Alicia, this kind of bad motherly behavior of teasing children's feelings is something that only Mebius would do. It should be Mebius who corrupted the honest and lovely Lei Movie.

Fortunately, just as Alicia was feeling awkward, the network latency in the Golden Garden finally returned to normal.

The video title, which had probably already been seen before, then popped up on the screen:

[Cannon! You're not allowed to treat Uncle Kong like that!]

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The video opens with a close-up of Lei Dapao's head, which is intriguing because it's upside down.

The people outside the light screen all tilted their heads to look, wondering what kind of trouble Lei Dapao, who was standing upside down in the light screen, was causing.

Could it be that Lei Dianying, this good mother, is having some kind of maternal and filial interaction with Lei Dapao again, making Lei Dapao stand upside down?

Family talent show? Corporal punishment? Or some other unimaginable interaction?

However, none of the guesses came true. The upside-down image of Lei Dapao's head in the picture was definitely not a "heartwarming family interaction" at all.

Lei Dapao's eyes were empty and filled with despair, as if he had suffered some major setback.

It wasn't until the camera zoomed out a bit that everyone could see that it was clearly Lei Dapao descending from the sky!

As Lei Dapao plummeted at high speed, he even slowly closed his eyes, as if despair had completely broken him!

Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, Lei Dapao's figure crashed to the ground with a deafening thud!

Seeing Lei Dapao fall hard on the screen, everyone gasped, their brows furrowing in dismay.

Lei Dapao is really in a bad way now.

Even though Lei Dapao was a puppet created by Lei's movie powers and infused with enough strength, the sound of him falling from such a height on screen was so loud that it almost made everyone outside the screen's ears ring...

With injuries of this magnitude... it should be said that it was a high-altitude fall, and people don't really believe that Lei Dapao could survive.

A faint, ethereal sound, like a jade flute, seemed to drift into everyone's ears, as if a shrill-voiced child were singing Western lyrics.

"it's been a long time ~without you my friend~"

"i will tell you all about it when i see you again~"

It should have sounded like a sad song, a tribute to someone's passing, but after being sped up, it turned into something that made people laugh.

It's as if Lei Dapao's act of jumping off a building to commit suicide has become a comedy, as if his death is not a sad or distressing thing, but a joyous and happy event that everyone should celebrate.

The main reason why everyone believes Lei Dapao will die is that Lei Dapao himself slowly closed his eyes in the light screen.

When he fell, there was no panic or fear. In Lei Dapao's eyes, there was only calm and despair, as if his empty eyes revealed a sense of relief that he had already taken life and death lightly.

That look in his eyes, which showed he had completely given up hope of living, was enough to prove that Lei Dapao was determined to die.

In the event of a fall from such a height, if a person has the will to survive, they might be able to salvage the situation through certain means, perhaps using the Wings of Wind or some other method...

But Lei Dapao seemed determined to die from the fall, showing absolutely no thought of survival.

He fell solidly to the ground, probably cracking the ground and creating a huge crater. How could anyone believe he was alive?

People felt saddened, sympathetic, and pitied Lei Dapao for his passing, and they all observed a moment of silence for this poor child.

Everyone speculated that Lei Dapao finally couldn't bear the torment of the terrifying cooking in Lei's movies, and just like when he ran away from home before, he was exhausted both physically and mentally, and after a period of complete mental breakdown, he chose to commit suicide.

Or perhaps he was heartbroken by the shocking truth presented on the screen before the movie, the kind of person who pretended to be kind and toyed with his feelings in order to enjoy the food all to himself, and completely lost hope for life.

Thinking about it carefully, everyone can understand. Although they don't really support such a suicidal act that shows a lack of regard for life, well...

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