In the Imperial Study, Mo Chen was playing hide-and-go-seek with Little Zai to escape Little Yue's makeup tortures. She liked to coat him with white powder and paint his lips with red rouge which Mo Chen found abhorrent since it didn't taste good at all.
Ah Xuan who was six now, was helping his father in arranging the documents according to relevance. He was wiser for his years and always wanted to stay by his father's side, helping him. Rather than playing or slacking off, he found happiness in reading and writing. He wasn't fond of sword too as he found the writing brush more intriguing.
Little Zai on the other hand, even though he was already three had no interest in reading or writing and liked to run around wildly. One day his uncle brought him out for a stroll in the city and from then on, he always wished to be out in the city and he is still inside the Palace because he was still too little to escape by himself and had people to look after him 24/7.