Warmth and gloom

Ying Nan nodded. In fact, he did not mind Yu Dong leaving him alone, he was used to fending after himself ever since his father died. His mother was a coward who did not have a mind of her own and listened to his step father who rose to the position of official husband after the death of his father.

His step father was someone who only cared about his daughters, in his eyes a mer was a useless existence. Sooner or later he would get married and thus in the eyes of Old Master Ying, wasting any resources on him was useless. 

Something that Ying Nan found really funny as he was the one who brought the delicious meals and the games that Song Yixu sent to the house because of him. If anything he was the one raising their family rather than those useless beings!