Family affection? Is it important to have rights?

"Is my cousin warning me?" Xu Guangzhu retracted his gaze and turned to ask His Highness with a confused expression.

Ji Qichen also saw his cousin, who was studying with him, smile towards them before leaving. "Hmm... maybe she was saying goodbye to you?"

But when I consider her suggestion just now that she asked her tutor not to tell anyone, I always feel that this is a threat before leaving.

I really don't trust my study partner. He looks like the kind of person who can be fooled!

He is so straightforward that if he were in the palace, he would be framed to death in less than a day!

"Oh, by the way, put your cousin aside and look back at your mother. I think she's very angry."

Ji Qichen watched as the smile on the general's wife's face disappeared immediately after the two men left, and she looked straight at the screen.

If his tutor doesn't go, I'm afraid his mother will come!

Wait, the reading companion cannot leave the screen. It would be bad if seen by others, after all, men and women sit at different seats.

So, does that mean the general's wife will come in person? Then he...

The expression on Xu Guangzhu's face gradually became solemn. He had to help the prince find something to cover his appearance before his mother came.

After all, my mother is well-informed. If she finds out that the good friend he mentioned before is the Third Prince, my mother will probably be even more furious!

Xu Guangzhu looked left and right, and finally tore off a piece of his clothes and handed it to His Highness.

"Your Highness, please cover your face first."

Ji Qichen looked at the black cloth, raised his eyes to look at his companion, and was speechless, "Don't you think it would be weird for me to wear white clothes and cover my face with a black cloth?"

"The combination of these two things doesn't make them seem like good people."

"Is there any other way?"

Ji Qichen looked at the general's wife who was approaching and asked with a complicated expression.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to cover his face with his clothes, but he can’t pull them off himself!

The reading companion is still more powerful.

As for why he didn't let his tutor pull his cloth down, it would have been a very strange scene.

He is a prince after all. He didn't even bother to tear his clothes when he met a general's wife. How would he explain his torn clothes when he returned to the palace?

But looking at the general's wife who was about to walk behind the screen and his tutor who was still trying to find a solution, Ji Qichen fell silent and compromised.

He quickly snatched the cloth from his companion's hand and covered his face with it.

The next second, the general's wife appeared in front of her. Just as she was about to question Kwang Soo, she saw someone acting suspiciously next to Kwang Soo.

General’s wife: “?”

Her first reaction was that a thief had sneaked in.

She glanced at Kwang Soo next to her, "Is this your friend?"

It looks like it's shameful to be seen.

"Yes, mother." Xu Guangzhu nodded heavily.

"Mother, what do you want to talk to me about?" In order to avoid his mother asking more questions, he changed the subject directly.

In order to prevent His Highness from being suspected, he will be trained.

Ji Qichen gave him a look of gratitude, then covered his face with the cloth tighter.

Since he has made this choice as a prince, he must not let anyone find out!

Otherwise, how will he face people in the future?

The general’s wife almost forgot, but fortunately Kwang Soo reminded her, and her face suddenly darkened.

"I asked you to talk to your cousin, but what did you do? You actually brought them back to the banquet! Then why did I ask them to leave the banquet before?!"

"But I'm hungry..." Xu Guangzhu couldn't say that it was his cousin who suggested it first, so he had to take the responsibility himself.

"Hungry, hungry, hungry. That's all you know how to do. You won't starve to death if you eat a little later. Can't you just talk to your cousin more?!" The general's wife was almost pissed to death when she heard this.

"I see my cousin and my cousin are hungry too. We can't let them starve, right?" Xu Guangzhu said with an innocent expression.

"You... why weren't you three more cautious when you entered the banquet? Miss An saw the three of you entering the banquet together!" The general's wife was so angry that her hands were shaking.

"She was so hungry that she saw it. Anyway, mother, don't you want me to marry my cousin?" Xu Guangzhu said in a flat voice, even wondering why his mother mentioned Miss An.

Even though Miss An won the Feihua Order, didn't her mother still choose her cousin?

Otherwise, why would they let them go together?

These words left the general's wife speechless, as she had not explained this clearly to Kwang Soo before.

She was silent for a while, then said, "Your cousin will be the concubine, and Miss An will be the wife."

Seo Kwang-soo looked up in shock, “Huh?!”

He was so shocked that he almost stood up and slammed his hands on the table.

Ji Qichen felt a little sorry for his study companion standing beside him. His mother had arranged everything clearly about who he would marry, but he didn't even know who his legal wife was.

...I hope he won’t be like this in the future!

Ji Qichen's smile gradually disappeared.

"Then why did you let me talk to my cousin before?" Xu Guangzhu felt his thoughts churning in his head.

The general's wife glanced at him and said, "She is your cousin, not a stranger. What's wrong with chatting?"

Seo Kwang-soo: “…”

"But why should I take a concubine?" Xu Guangzhu thought he was just choosing a wife today, but he didn't expect another concubine to come.

The general's wife looked at him in surprise, "Why, do you still want to marry only one wife?"

Xu Guangzhu nodded under his mother's gaze.

"Of course not. You can't just marry one wife to have offspring. What if you don't have children?" The general's wife said without question.

But his expression softened immediately and he advised:

"Besides, don't you want to go to the frontier to fight? As long as you have many children, you don't have to worry about them all dying. This is also for your own good."

"But, but..." Xu Guangzhu felt that there was no room for rebuttal to what his mother said.

Ji Qichen secretly rolled his eyes at the side. Isn't this just bullying the study partner because he is not smart enough?

The general's wife saw that Kwang Soo was silent, she curled her lips in satisfaction, "Don't worry, I will arrange everything for you, you can go to the battlefield and kill the enemy without any worries, and add more prestige to the general's mansion."

Before leaving, she frowned and glanced at the man in white holding a black cloth next to her, "Also, don't make some weird friends outside!"

……

After the general's wife left, Ji Qichen was finally able to take down the cloth.

"Your mother said I was weird?" Ji Qichen asked curiously. This was the first time he was called weird!

"No, no, no, Your Highness, this is a misunderstanding." Xu Guangzhu had just woken up from the news that he had a wife and concubines, and heard his mother say that Your Highness was weird!

He hurried to comfort His Highness.

"Have you thought about what to do next?"

Ji Qichen didn't care much about it. The biggest problem now was his companion's marriage.

When Xu Guangzhu heard His Highness mention this, he immediately fell on the table in frustration, "Marry a wife, take concubines, have children, and go to the battlefield."