Standing in the center of the kitchen in her floral headscarf. Moreover, Bright Yellow Bunny Apron, Empress Luo Qingxue stood frozen in place with the porcelain plate of five glowing blue Ice-Crystal Eggs hidden behind her back.
In front of her, standing in a sleepy row by the hallway door in their pajamas. Moreover, Slippers, were all five children: twelve-year-old Gu Nian, thirteen-year-old Ye Xiao, ten-year-old Su Nuannuan, nine-year-old Jiang Tuntun, along with toddler Little Fifth (Ao Xing).
For ten years on the Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Pillar, Luo Qingxue had imagined that when she finally reunited with her children. She would be a warm, capable mother who cooked them delicious breakfasts just like Gu Changsheng did.
Instead, on her very first morning home, she had frozen the stove, turned the kitchen into a walk-in freezer, and crystallized their sunny-side-up eggs into five pieces of solid blue diamond!
“N-Nian’er, Xiao’er, Nuannuan, Tuntun, Little Fifth... why are you all awake at 5:30 AM?” Luo Qingxue stammered, her cheeks burning crimson as she tried to edge sideways toward the trash bin to dispose of the frozen eggs before the kids could see them.
“Don’t come in yet, the floor is a little chilly... Go sit in the dining room for ten minutes and let your father cook you real breakfast—”
