In my previous life, I killed my whole family. In my next life, I killed the royal family.

After playing a song, Qi Wan looked out the window. She was trying to piece together her memory, trying to find out who the man who called himself "Little Dumpling" was.

Why did he never appear again and no one mentioned him again?

Is this a dream of hers?

Or are they fragments of memories from a previous life?

Her temples ached from thinking about him so much, but she couldn't remember what he looked like.

"Maybe it's just a dream, that's all!" Qi Wan withdrew his gaze and no longer dwelled on it.

She took the teacup offered by Chunmei, lowered her long eyelashes, and took a sip of tea.

Qi Wan was in a very good mood today.

In the morning, she picked out fabrics and jewelry styles in the Upper House. She wanted purple gems for the eyes of a set of gold hairpins with the pattern of a magpie and plum blossoms.

The jewelry store owner Shen said, "If this hairpin had small purple-black gemstones as eyes, it would emit different lights under different lighting conditions, and would be very beautiful."

She sighed and said, "Unfortunately, our shop doesn't have such black and purple gems."

Qi Wan thought to himself: I have so many gems, it won’t be difficult to find two small black and purple gems.

She said to the shopkeeper, "We will make this set of jewelry after we find the gemstones."

"Yes, Miss Qi." Shopkeeper Shen responded.

Qi Wan returned to Yilan Courtyard, entered the bathroom, and slipped into the space.

She immediately discovered that there were several boxes of gold and silver on the ground in the space, as well as 500,000 taels of silver notes.

She flipped through the banknotes in surprise and found a letter among the banknotes. It said: "My daughter is extremely honored to be valued by Your Highness. I have specially sent my eldest son to present gold and silver to help Your Highness realize his wish as soon as possible. Respectfully presented by your servant Lan Tan."

She laughed, "It's amazing. I just want to think that all this gold and silver will be mine."

Qi Wan tore the letter to pieces and said contemptuously: "You are an exiled criminal who calls himself a minister. I will make sure you never stand up again in this life."

She didn't know yet that Lan Jian, who was delivering gold and silver to the Third Prince, was the enemy who killed her father and brother in her previous life, and was killed by an unknown masked man on the way.

Qi Wan put down the teacup and prepared to play another song.

"Sister, I've brought you some snacks to see you." Qi Jiao's voice rang out outside the yard.

Qi Wan raised his eyebrows, stood up, walked into the hall and sat down.

Qi Jiao strode in, holding a blue-flowered porcelain plate with five small snacks stacked on it.

"Sister, the snacks are so delicious. I couldn't bear to eat them, so I brought them to you." After Qi Jiao finished speaking, she walked into the hall.

She placed the porcelain plate on the small table, sat down next to Qi Wan, and said with a smile, "Big sister, have some snacks."

Qi Wan glanced at the snacks and said, "You eat them. I don't like snacks."

Qi Jiao tilted her head and asked, "Sister, are you afraid that I will poison you?" Her eyes fluttered, and her eyes were calculating and cunning, just like her mother.

Qi Wan smiled slightly and said nothing.

She felt regretful in her heart. Qi Jiao was chubby, with regular features and round eyes like black grapes.

She was originally a cute little girl, but she learned to be cunning and calculating from following her mother since she was a child.

Qi Jiao took the snack and ate it, "Big sister doesn't want to eat it, it's a waste, so I have to eat it."

"Yeah." Qi Wan nodded.

Qi Jiao ate five pieces of snacks in one breath, drank a cup of tea, and burped loudly several times.

She touched her swollen belly, a bright smile on her face, and without any polite words, she stated her purpose directly.

"Sister, you are sixteen years old, and you still haven't found a good marriage."

"Yeah." Qi Wan didn't say much. She wanted to hear what Qi Jiao had to say.

"Our family is a general's mansion, not like an ordinary family."

"Yes."

Qi Jiao avoided mentioning that Qi Wan was also a lady from an aristocratic family.

"Sister, you can't marry down. You must marry up." Qi Jiao looked like she was doing good for Qi Wan.

Qi Wan smiled. What Qi Jiao said now was what Lan Ting had been saying to her every day in her previous life.

It seems that after Lan Ting was beaten to death, the task of persuading Qi Wan to marry the third prince fell on Qi Jiao.

"Sister, you are beautiful and have a large dowry. It would be best for you to marry a prince or a royal family."

Qi Wan deliberately asked: "Which one is suitable?"

After all, Qi Jiao is only a girl of twelve or thirteen years old. Although she is very smart, she lacks cunning.

She said bluntly: "The third prince is the most suitable."

She even counted on her fingers, "The prince has a crown princess, but you can only be a concubine."

"The Second Prince already has a princess consort. If you go, you will only be a concubine."

"The Fourth Prince is four years younger than you, and the Fifth Prince is even younger than you. They are not worthy of you."

Qi Wan asked jokingly, "There are several young uncles and so many princes in the royal family, and there is no suitable person?"

"You are really stupid. Their status is not as good as the third prince's." Qi Jiao glanced at Qi Wan with disdain.

Qi Wan raised his eyebrows. It seemed that the third family and Lan Ting had been calling him stupid behind his back.

Qi Wan asked with a smile: "Fourth sister, are you worried that your elder sister won't get married and will delay your marriage? You said the third prince is good, why don't you arrange this marriage?"

Qi Jiao's chubby face was flushed, even her ears turned red, revealing a rare shy expression.

She pulled her handkerchief with both hands and stammered, "Eldest sister, elder sister, you are making fun of me, of me."

Qi Wan laughed out loud.

She revealed the plot of the third room and Qi Jiao, but Qi Jiao was too young to hide her thoughts.

Xiao Dingshi indoctrinated her daughter, "The eldest daughter has a large dowry and is stupid, so let her marry the third prince first. In a few years, when you grow up and replace her, the dowry will also be yours."

Qi Wan was laughing at Qi Jiao, and also at himself.

It was such an obvious inducement, but she actually followed other people's routine in her previous life.

Qi Wan also wanted to understand a truth:

In this world, the people who can be deceived are often themselves, not others. Because only the unwillingness, greed and uncontrollable delusion deep in one's heart can make oneself willingly step into the scam.

In her previous life, she had not yet found a marriage at the age of sixteen, and her heart was filled with anxiety and resentment.

At this time, people kept coming to tell her that there would be many benefits if she married the third prince.

So, she couldn't help but fantasize: If she became a princess, she would be able to hold her head high and bring honor to her family. Once this thought came to her, she could no longer suppress it. However, she never thought about what a difficult situation her family would fall into after she married the prince.

At this moment, Qi Jiao looked at her with sincerity in her eyes, and said solemnly: "Sister, don't laugh. I am really doing this for your own good. The puppy lied to you!"

In order to make Qi Wan feel threatened, she also said, "Yuan's cousin still wants this marriage."

Qi Wan smiled without commenting.

A maid came in and reported, "My aunt has returned home to visit the old lady. Please ask the two young ladies to go to the upper courtyard."

"Aunt is back." Qi Jiao stood up, "Sister, let's go to the upper courtyard."

"Okay, let's go."

Qi Wan did not change her clothes either. She wore a pink and green short-sleeved shirt that was neither new nor old, and a dark green pleated long skirt.

Outside the upper courtyard, Qi Wan heard Qi Yuehua slamming the table and yelling, "How dare you seize the old lady's power as head of the household, and even imprison her, not allowing me to visit her, Pei, what are your intentions?"

"Do you believe it or not, I will go to the government office today to sue you for the crime of being unfilial?"

The eldest lady said kindly, "Don't be so upset, it's the old master's idea. Why don't you go and ask him first?"

Qi Yuehua yelled, "You are using chicken feathers as a token of authority. The old master never asks about the affairs of the backyard. Who are you trying to fool?"

Qi Wan walked into the room, bowed, and asked, "Aunt, are you here to visit me? Or are you here to show off your power?"

Qi Yuehua was extremely angry and scolded Qi Wan: "It's all your fault. It's the mother's fault if the daughter is not well educated."

"That's well said." Qi Wan clapped his hands.

She questioned, "Did the Madam teach you this? A married daughter, going back to her parents' home to act arrogantly towards her eldest sister-in-law?"

Qi Yuehua flew into a rage and waved her hand to slap Qi Wan in the face, cursing, "Look, I'm going to teach you a lesson today."

"Stop." Pei became anxious and stood up to save her daughter.

"What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson?" Qi Wan grabbed Qi Yuehua's hand.

Qi Yuehua struggled desperately but couldn't pull her hand free. She looked at Qi Wan in shock.

"Uncle San and Aunt San were punished by the family law and were each beaten with five boards. Do you want to try being carried back to the Yuan family?" Qi Wan looked at Qi Yuehua with a pair of deep black pupils and asked her coldly.

Qi Yuehua shook her head repeatedly, "No, it's impossible, it won't happen!"

"Aunt, don't be angry, come here and talk." Seeing that her aunt was being pinched and unable to move, Qi Jiao hurried forward to persuade her.

The two cousins ​​also stepped forward and shouted, "Let my mother go."

Pei said, "Awan, let her go."

Qi Wan then let go.

Qi Yuehua looked at the purple marks on her left wrist, feeling angry and horrified. She had never thought that one day she would be bullied by a junior, and this junior was her eldest niece. "How come you are so strong, you little girl?" She rubbed her wrist and glared at Qi Wan.

Qi Wan sneered, "Aunt, you are really joking. I just pinched you lightly, and you can't stand it?"

She paused, then said meaningfully, "That's right. My aunt was rarely beaten, and her skin is delicate and tender. If she is pinched, it will leave marks, but if she is pinched more, it won't leave marks." After saying that, she deliberately raised her eyebrows and looked at Qi Yuehua provocatively.

Qi Yuehua was so angry that she was out of breath and couldn't speak for a long time after pointing at her. She never expected that her niece, who had always been well-behaved and obedient, would suddenly become so difficult to deal with, which made her a little overwhelmed for a while.

Everyone else in the hall lowered their heads and chuckled secretly.

They originally thought that the eldest aunt was so tough that she would definitely beat the eldest daughter, but unexpectedly, the eldest daughter got the upper hand in the end. What's more interesting is that not only did the eldest daughter not suffer any loss, but she also made the eldest aunt suffer a setback, which was really surprising.