After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

is love.

The master always said that she didn’t understand love, but it turns out this is love.

Then she really didn't understand that being loved felt so good.

She would not be able to grow up without love. Before the fight with the Five Paths Patriarch in her previous life, she was just a five-year-old child in the human world.

In this life, she thought, she should be able to grow up...

Zhao Ying looked at the peaceful sleeping face of the baby in her arms, lowered her head and kissed him. Beside her, Shangguan Shu's eyes turned red with envy and jealousy.

He took a deep breath, sat up straight, and adjusted his mind.

I kept telling myself not to be jealous of a little kid, saying it was not proper, but I couldn't help feeling jealous.

He coughed twice and said unnaturally: "Ying'er, are you still angry with me?"

Zhao Ying felt powerless for a moment. Was this a question of whether to be angry or not? She was too lazy to keep him in suspense. She had already revealed her cards to him, so she simply stopped hiding them.

"Shangguan Shu, I'm not angry," she looked at him, her eyes calmer than ever before, so calm that Shangguan Shu didn't even feel scared.

"I just don't know how to get along with you anymore."

"I have been married to you for more than ten years and have been accustomed to being your wife. It is only now that I realize that my love and my marriage are all fake."

"You don't have to explain anything. You can deceive my father and my brother, but I won't believe you."

"For so many years, I haven't asked you for anything, but if... there comes a day like that, I only ask you to treat our children well. They are innocent. Zhao Zihua and Zhao Ziyin are your flesh and blood. I know you love Huai'an, and you must love those two children, but at least... take care of my children a little bit. In this way, even if I die, I will be at peace."

Zhao Ying leaned against the wall of the car calmly and said these words with a bitter tone.

Before she could finish her words, she was hugged tightly by the man.

Perhaps Zhao Ying was afraid of waking Shangguan Qingyue, so she did not struggle.

Shangguan Shu's heart was crushed by her words.

He hugged her tightly and said in a trembling voice, "Don't talk nonsense! What's the point of dying? I won't let you die! Ying'er, I won't hurt you or the children. I love you! How could I not love you!"

He kissed her cheeks sloppily and hugged her tightly, as if he wanted to rub her into his body.

Zhao Ying endured the discomfort in her heart. When she thought about the fact that Shangguan Shu had betrayed her long ago, she couldn't help feeling sick.

This man never told her the truth, never!

Even at this moment, he seemed sincere, but he was just afraid that she would ruin his plans...

She, Zhao Ying, had actually fallen to the point of begging for mercy from a man who had betrayed her...

What a shame...

But in a situation where the enemy was strong and she was weak, she could only rely on this to save her children.

She could see that he still had true feelings for the children.

He just didn't love her...

It doesn't matter, she never lived on love.

"Ying'er..." Shangguan Shu held Zhao Ying's face, and his warm breath sprayed on her face, his movements filled with cautious pity.

Zhao Ying put one hand on the man's shoulder and choked up, "Runlang, I'm afraid..."

"Ying'er, what are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid...you're lying to me again...you always lie to me..."

"I'm afraid that what you did today was just a pretense to confuse me..." She shook her head, tears welling up in her eyes, "I saw Huai'an was so sad. You loved her so much, how could you treat her like this? You must have been lying to me! Woo woo..."

The woman in his arms was shaking like a sieve. Shangguan Shu felt as if his heart was being squeezed by a big hand. It was a pain he had never experienced before...

Zhao Ying...his Zhao Ying...

I've been deeply hurt by him...

Shangguan Shu didn't know what to say to comfort her and make her believe him. He knew that no matter what he said, she would not believe him. His Zhao Ying didn't believe him anymore...

Shangguan Shu felt panicked and painful in his heart. A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and then the thought became stronger and stronger... His eyes gradually became firm.

This decision was too crazy, but in order to reassure the woman in his arms, he wanted her to feel at ease... He found that she was in pain, and he was in more pain than she was...

"Don't be afraid, Ying'er. If you are worried that I will rebel, then I will resign from my post and hand in my military token to His Majesty tomorrow. I don't want anything else, Ying'er. I only want you!"

Zhao Ying's body froze, and he couldn't believe his ears for a moment.

She straightened up in a daze and looked at Shangguan Shu, "What did you say?"

Shangguan Shu stared at her without blinking, gently stroking her cheek with the back of his hand, and whispered, "I resign and hand in my military order."

Zhao Ying looked at Shangguan Shu quietly. Although she didn't show it on her face, a thousand horses were galloping through her heart...

? ?

So Shangguan Shu fell for this?

Ah this...

Zhao Ying still didn't quite believe it until the next day, when news came from the palace that, after Shangguan Shu's repeated requests to resign, her father had no choice but to agree, take away his military command, and allow him to stay at home without work.

Her brother even came to her and cried to her, blaming her for causing his princeling to lose an arm!

Not only the prince went crazy, but Shangguan Shu and his party also went crazy.

But they didn't think they were crazy, they thought Shangguan Shu was crazy.

Shangguan Zhu had a big fight with Shangguan Shu in the study and even smashed Shangguan Shu's study...

Even though Shangguan Zhu tried to persuade Shangguan Shu with emotion and reason, Shangguan Shu just wouldn't listen.

Shangguan Zhu began to suspect that Zhao Ying had cast a spell on Shangguan Shu. Shangguan Shu also vaguely felt that he was abnormal, but he did not want to delve into it. Sometimes being too clear-headed is not a good thing. Like this, he not only did not feel anything wrong by following his own temperament, but instead felt comfortable all over.

Now, he wanted to see if Zhao Ying had any reason to give him the cold shoulder again!

He has had enough of Zhao Ying's coldness!

Now, although Zhao Ying has not allowed him to stay overnight, at least she can stop that mean servant Li Ma from guarding the door every day and preventing him from entering Qian Garden.

This is progress!

Given time, he will be able to regain control of Qian Garden!

study.

Zhao Ying took a grape and put it in her mouth, then looked across at Shangguan Shu teaching her three-year-old daughter how to write...

It's scary when people have nothing to do.

Shangguan Qingyue was still excited at first and gave her father a little face, but as she wrote she became impatient and kept poking at the paper with her father's treasured wolf-hair brush, which made Shangguan Shu angry, and the father and daughter began to glare at each other.

Shangguan Shu was often the one who was defeated.

Today, the two of them were glaring at each other when an invitation came from the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion. The Yong'an Marquis's wife gave birth to a boy. After giving birth to eight daughters, the Yong'an Marquis finally had a legitimate son.

As for why the wife of Marquis Yong'an sent an invitation to the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion when she gave birth to a child, it was of course because the wife of Marquis Yong'an was Shangguan Shu's biological sister, Shangguan Wenshuang.

In fact, she was not Shangguan Shu's biological sister. The old Duke's wife only gave birth to one son, Shangguan Shu. Shangguan Wenshuang was the daughter of the old Duke's wife's personal maid. She was made a concubine. Because she was so loyal to the old Duke's wife, after her death, the old Duke's wife registered Shangguan Wenshuang under her own name and married her into the Marquis's Mansion as the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo.

Shangguan Wenshuang was pretty nice to Zhao Ying, so Zhao Ying had a good impression of her.

She finally had a son, and Zhao Ying planned to prepare a generous gift.

She put down the invitation, took a sip of tea, and said to Shangguan Shu: "Your sister has finally gotten her wish after all the hardship she's endured. She has given birth to a baby boy."

"Well, it's no wonder she's been seeking divination all day. She's almost driven herself crazy."