“Do you think Feng Zidie is qualified to be my legal wife while she isn’t from the imperial family?”

Long Tianyu glanced contemptuously at the woman standing by the side, whose face turned pale in an instant.

His father’s face became extremely distorted. Long Tianyu instantly experienced how great it felt to retort people.

“It’s no wonder that Ya’er always got into verbal arguments with others in the past. This feels great.”

“You don’t need to worry about that. The Feng family has already made some contributions. Besides, they’ve been helping take care of my health, so you don’t need to worry about Ms. Feng’s family background. It’s up to me to decide this matter.”

With a thick skin, the Emperor of Dajin obviously wanted to attribute all the credit for Lin Mengya’s hard work to the Feng family.

Long Tianyu stood there, but his eyes were cold and disappointed.

“In the past, he taught me in person how to be a wise, honest, and polite man. Although he was serious and strict back then, he was not as shameless as he is now.

“I finally got to see what it is like to use all means.”

“Father, If you insist, why don’t you let Ms. Feng settle in your harem? The Empress can’t stay any longer, and the harem can’t be ruled without a master. I think it’s appropriate that Ms. Feng settle there.”

This time, no matter how angry the Emperor of Dajin was, Long Tianyu would no longer look at him with respect and fear.

Although the Emperor was still sitting at the highest position in Dajin, for some unknown reason, he felt that both Dajin and his son were completely out of his control.

Under the cover of the loose dragon robe, his palm loosened and tightened.

Finally, the Emperor of Dajin took a long breath.

It seemed to be a compromise or final struggle.

“As long as you marry Ms. Feng as your concubine, I will let Princess Rongan be the vice Princess. What do you think?”

He raised his head and looked at his son as if he was no longer the high and mighty emperor.

He was merely a father begging his son to compromise.

But Long Tianyu, who had always been obedient and sensible, just raised his head and glanced at him lightly.

“I don’t want to. Feng Zidie can marry anyone except me. I won’t have anything to do with her anymore. Father, since you’re in poor health, you should stop worrying about certain things. Your safety is the blessing of the entire Dajin.”

If this matter happened in the past, Long Tianyu would not have been so heartless.

He turned around and left the imperial study. The place where he used to be full of expectation and excitement now made him feel absurd and ridiculous.

“Could Father betray his conscience and morals for his so-called ambitions?

“As a ruler, shouldn’t he be a role model for all his people?

“He’s such a double-dealer, and he’s shameless beyond belief. What difference is there between him and those pop rogues?

“Perhaps he is even not as open and aboveboard as those hooligans.

“At the very least, those people would not flaunt themselves as a man of honor.

“This Imperial Palace was once the only place I cared about.

“However, that appears to be very absurd now.”

Long Tianyu felt a chill in his heart, but the face of the woman who occupied his heart emerged in his mind.

A sense of warmth rose from the bottom of his heart again.

He was glad that he still had her. Fortunately, he would not become as despicable and shameless as the man on the throne.

“Didn’t Father call for you urgently? Why did you come out so soon?”

On the way out of the palace, Long Qinghan, who was responsible for maintaining order in the palace, walked side by side with his third brother with some suspicion.

He was no longer the idle prince.

In the battle of the imperial city, like a hidden blade, he finally emitted a dazzling light.

There were many things that Long Tianyu did not have time to deal with, and he would leave them to Long Qinghan.

It was only then that many realized that the seemingly frivolous Seventh Prince was in fact a formidable figure.

Many aristocratic clans wanted to curry favor with this prince, but they were all rejected by him.

This move was to accomplish a great task with little effort through clever maneuvers, and he was very good at it.

“He asked me to marry Feng Zidie. Why did you ask? Do you want to do it for me?”

Long Tianyu glanced at his younger brother from the corner of his eyes. The more he thought about the matter he discussed with Ya’er, the more he felt that it was feasible.

Long Qinghan turned to look at his royal brother inadvertently.

That pair of black eyes seemed to be sizing him up like an animal, which suddenly made his hair stand on end.

He thought that his royal brother really wanted to use him as a scapegoat.

To be honest, he didn’t want to marry a crazy woman.

“I… I think I’ll pass. I’d rather marry a woman like my sister-in-law. Even if she is powerful, smart, and a little frightening, it’s better than marrying a selfish idiot who would disturb the peace.”

Long Qinghan had no idea that he was digging his own grave. In fact, he just wanted to praise his sister-in-law and mock his royal brother for his determined cowardice.

But he didn’t know that it was his words that convinced Long Tianyu to have him take over the position of emperor in a few years.

Long Qinghan was destined to take over the burden.

However, he did not know what the burden was.

“There is only one person like Ya’er in the world. You’d better give up and stop harboring evil intentions toward your sister-in-law. This is not cool, Long Qinghan.”

Long Qinghan glared at his gloomy third brother and immediately pointed at the heavens and swore to prove his innocence.

“It’s a misunderstanding, absolutely a misunderstanding! She is like a mother to me. No matter how much of a jerk I am, I would never have evil intentions toward my sister-in-law. By the way, Third Brother, you know Father’s temperament. He won’t give up on this matter. You’d better put an end to this as soon as possible.”

Long Qinghan quickly changed the subject. He was afraid that his third brother, who loved his wife as much as his life, would kill him because of what he said.

Speaking of this, even he was a little surprised. Long Tianyu, who had always been cold-hearted, actually treated his wife as his life.

However, their father repeatedly tried to take advantage of Lin Mengya.

Long Qinghan thought that what their father had done made his third brother disappointed in their father-son relationship.

Long Tianyu nodded and looked at his brother beside him, who was full of warm smiles.

He lowered his eyes and spoke with a much gentler voice.

“You’ll probably remember that thing forever.”

Only the two of them were able to hear those words.

Also, only the two of them were able to understand the meaning behind those words.

Long Qinghan was stunned for a moment, and his brown eyes, which were always gentle, were filled with insuppressible rage for no reason.

However, in merely a short moment, it disappeared like smoke in thin air.

His self-control was no less than that of Long Tianyu.

“There are some things that I will never forget. Even if I am to fall into hell in the future, I will seek justice for her.”

Every word he uttered was clear and distinct, like numerous extremely sharp knives that were deeply engraved in his memory.

Long Tianyu breathed a sigh of relief. Even his mother thought they were too young to know about that matter.

But he clearly remembered how that night, the wet nurse who accompanied Long Qinghan, taking care of and protecting him, sadly told him the truth about how the woman who gave birth to him back then died a miserable death.

Qinghan, who was only five years old back then, witnessed with his own eyes how the wet nurse was tortured to death.

That night, Qinghan felt freezing cold all over while returning to his chamber.

In order to cover up his feelings, he hit the younger brother whom he had always doted on for the first time.

All of this was because of their father, the emperor.

The man Long Qinghan used to look up to had used the blood of a woman in exchange for secret information about his ambition.

Qinghan gave up the ridiculous father-son relationship earlier than Long Tianyu.

Because he had long recognized that only interests mattered to their father.

“Don’t worry. That can be done soon.”

It was unknown whether Long Tianyu was comforting Long Qinghan or telling himself that he could not take it anymore.

They raised their heads at the same time and saw the gate of the Imperial Palace, which was filled with holes.

The Crown Prince used to be their big brother.

When on earth did their big brother, who was always kind to his younger brothers and took care of them, turn into a madman who only cared about fame and wealth and would not even let go of his own kin?

Perhaps it was because of the one in the imperial study.

What they had suffered, as well as the Crown Prince and the Empress, was caused by that man.

It was all because of his ambition that all the good things had been ruined.

Now that the greatest danger in Prince Yu’s Mansion had been removed, Lin Mengya and the ones she cared for finally returned to the mansion.

They didn’t have to hide anymore, nor did they need to fear that a calamity would suddenly come to them.

At this moment, everyone was gathered in the Liuxin Courtyard.

Even the cold winter couldn’t stop the heat between them.

After getting along with each other for a while, everyone had become a real family now.

Old Uncle Bai, who was a man of few words, squatted at the gate and smoked. At the same time, he stirred the sugar-fried chestnuts in the pot.

Aunt Bai and Baiji, whose needlework was comparable to royal seamstresses, were sewing new clothes for Lin Mengya for the New Year.

At the same time, they engaged in chitchat with Ms. Tian.

Brother Ning, who had become the steward of the outer courtyard of Prince Yu’s Mansion, sat under the eaves and discussed something with Baili Rui, who had almost recovered.

Baizhi, Baishao, and Baisu were sitting around a table, playing cards with Baiji’s younger brothers and sisters.

The older female servants in the yard were also sitting together and drinking hot wine in twos and threes, joking with each other.

Lin Mengya leaned lazily on the warm couch in the pavilion and chatted with her maidservants while looking at Moyan, who was wearing a cute coat and a tiger-head hat. He hobbled his chubby legs and threw himself into her arms with a smile.

“This kid is smart. He knows Miss dotes on him the most.”

Baishao glanced at Moyan with a smile. Although he always smiled, he was the closest to her master.

Throwing himself into his aunt’s soft and fragrant arms, the little boy laughed happily.

His facial features were already delicate and lovely, and now they looked even more adorable, which made all the people in the yard adore him.