Her father continues to be stuck in bed. He's not especially happy about it. He'd like to hear how she's doing in classes. 

She chatters really excitedly about noticing shapes in words! And how she's drawing art words and the teacher thinks she just has bad penmanship so she's TRICKING her teacher!

She wants to make some art for daddy's walls!!! Being stuck in bed staring at the same walls sounds horrible. She's also learning to read, so she can read him so many stories now! Some of the stories are dumb, though, and should be changed, but she can read the written version first then the better version?

He's very pleased with her using shapes to learn to read and ruffles her hair affectionately about tricking the teacher. 

He would absolutely love if she made art for his walls and told him stories. He will listen to all the versions of the stories.

Yay!

She draws the prettiest art next time she gets enough paper to practice a few different copies, including Fun Art Words. And stories! This one is about a very filial rabbit but it'd be cooler if it was about a rabbit with very sharp teeth, and this other one about the same rabbit having more adventures should have the restless dead in it and the rabbit should have a sword...

She also after some thought makes up a story about two rabbits who can't have children pulling up a turnip from their garden, but actually it's a baby!!! The baby rabbit has a SWORD and goes on COOL ADVENTURES where vague things happen.

"Mm. Not a turnip. A radish." 

"Okay! A radish baby then! Radish rabbit baby..." She giggles.

"Your other father used to bury you up to your neck in the dirt and say you were a radish." 

Awwwwwwwww!!!

She laughs and gently hugs his leg.

"Best radish!"

"Yes. You are the best of all radishes." 

Happy snuggle. "Best daddy!" Pause. Thoughtful face. "Tied with other daddy."

He is pretty sure she is only saying that because she can't remember Wei Ying, who was obviously better. But: "Thank you." 

He is incredibly pleased with all her art and has Xichen attach all of it to the walls since he can't reach. 

He thinks she should probably learn to write words so other people can read them at some point. She can practice in the Jingshi if she doesn't want her teacher to know she can. 

Hmmmmm.

Well, maybe she can write her stories down for daddy. Then he can have them even when she's in class!

That would make him very very happy. 

!! Good!!

She spends some of the time she's hanging out in his room practicing her writing properly, then, until it's good enough he can read it consistently. She also makes up more stories. She's going to have SO MANY to write.

He adores reading and listening to her stories, listening with laser focus to absolutely everything she has to say. He can't go outside with her, tragically, but he can make Brother take her to see the bunnies and climb trees and so on when even the martial arts classes aren't enough to bleed off her energy. 

She has SO MUCH energy. This is a good choice.

She's also very reckless with injury. (She can JUMP from TREES. And also sprint everywhere!)

She damn near gives him a heart attack the first time she jumps out of a tree. He is so incredibly looking forward to when Wangji can do this HIMSELF. 

The first time she encounters Lan Qiren, she is sprinting an everywhere when she crosses his path.

He fixes her with a firm stare. "Running is forbidden." 

She stares back at him.

"I'm not running," she says, after a pause. "I'm sprinting."

"Ah. Sprinting is a kind of running. Now you know." 

And then he sweeps off. 

Her uncle catches up with her a moment after Lan Qiren is out of sight. 

"There you are," he says, scooping her up. 

She turns from sticking out her tongue at random guy's back to smiling at her uncle. "I'm here!"

He carries her back to the jingshi and leaves her with Wangji before heading off to deal with important sect leader business. 

She tells daddy all about her day! She found a cool rock (presented here out of a pocket), and jumped off a tree, and ran a bunch, and met a weird guy who told her sprinting is a type of running and running is forbidden...

Any heart attacks he may have about her jumping out of trees he keeps strictly internal. Her cool rock is very cool. Probably she should be very very VERY careful about making sure she has a place to land if she is going to be jumping out of any trees so she doesn't break her leg. His leg was broken once and it was Very Not Fun. 

Sprinting is a kind of running and running is strictly speaking forbidden, she should probably be more careful not to get caught. Which weird guy was this?