A life of ups and downs is pure joy

Xiao Yi pushed open Lin Qinghuan's door, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly. Yun Xiang and Lu Hua beside him looked at their eldest son at a loss.

"Everyone, get out." Xiao Yi said in a low voice. The maids in the room all lowered their heads and left. Chu Xia turned around and looked at Xiao Yi, who smelled of alcohol, uneasily.

Lin Qinghuan stood up from the piano table, walked to his side and looked at Xiao Yi with a puzzled look.

"Brother Xiao, you smell like you've been drinking. Did we walk into the wrong yard? This is not Honglian Pavilion." Lin Qinghuan asked curiously. It was the first time she saw Xiao Yi drinking. Now she was seeing something new. Why did he come to her room so late?

"What did you call me?" Xiao Yi asked in a low voice coldly.

"Xiao...Brother Xiao, is there anything wrong?" Lin Qinghuan thought to himself, isn't this how I usually call him? What happened to this icy face today? He looks completely different from the one I used to have.

"Lin Qinghuan..." Xiao Yi grabbed the chin of the stunning beauty in front of him.

"You pinched me and it hurt." Lin Qinghuan, who was very strong, frowned and complained.

"You called him Brother Xiao, but now that his last name is no longer Xiao, you call him Brother Yu. Have you forgotten your own identity?" Xiao Yi said angrily, not caring at all about the slight pain Lin Qinghuan was feeling.

"I've called him that since I was a child. Did you take the wrong medicine today? Let me go quickly, it hurts so much." Lin Qinghuan struggled to break free from Xiao Yi's slender fingers, and angrily touched her chin which was pinched red.

Xiao Yi looked at Lin Qinghuan, his mind full of the image of her and Xiao Yu kissing in the attic. He suddenly felt a pang of pain in his heart, "You are already my wife, but you don't respect the etiquette that a woman should have. Instead, I indulged you for all these years, allowing you to be so unfaithful to your husband now."

Xiao Yi's cold eyes made Lin Qinghuan feel a chill in her heart, and she couldn't help but feel nervous and scared.

"Xiao...what are you talking about? We...we are husband and wife, but I...we...are just in name only...you...you said you wouldn't make things difficult for me...why are you so fierce..." Lin Qinghuan was so shocked by Xiao Yi's cold expression that she became incoherent and couldn't help but take a few steps back. Xiao Yi was so scary tonight, he looked like he wanted to eat her.

"Lin Qinghuan, I will let you know what husband and wife are right now." Xiao Yi didn't wait for the frightened Lin Qinghuan to stand firm. He hugged her and kissed the woman who made him lose his composure under the influence of alcohol. Lin Qinghuan's eyes widened. For a moment, her breath seemed to be taken away by Xiao Yi's unexpected kiss. When she reacted, she found that she had been firmly pinned to the bed by him and could not break free.

"Xiao...Yi, let me go." Lin Qinghuan finally made a sound of resistance.

"I am your husband!" Xiao Yi once again fiercely kissed the woman who had been challenging his bottom line. Xiao Yi violently tore off Lin Qinghuan's clothes. She could only shake her head desperately and beat him continuously, but Xiao Yi's kiss made her unable to move even her head. How could this weak and sick beauty who could not take care of herself withstand the strength of this big man?

Xiao Yi saw the bracelet given to Lin Qinghuan by Gong Heyu on her fair arm and grabbed her arm angrily.

"Lin Qinghuan, is this bracelet so important to you?" Xiao Yi took off the bracelet angrily and threw it to the ground.

"You bastard..." Lin Qinghuan took a look at the bracelet that was smashed into pieces, slapped Xiao Yi in despair, and couldn't stop crying.

Xiao Yi ignored Lin Qinghuan and continued to tear her clothes madly.

"Please don't do this, Brother Xiao." Lin Qinghuan's clothes were torn to only a lotus-colored bellyband. She begged Xiao Yi desperately.

"I told you to call me husband." Xiao Yi mercilessly tore Lin Qinghuan's bellyband into two pieces, revealing her spring scenery.

Lin Qinghuan closed her eyes and could only let Xiao Yi vent his lust on her body. The rough man no longer showed any mercy to her. In an instant, pain spread throughout her body. She could not help but scream out and tried desperately to push Xiao Yi away, but the man did not want to stop.

After a long time, Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yi who was leaning on her with a dead heart, tears silently streaming down her cheeks, "Husband, are you satisfied now?" Lin Qinghuan murmured, her words filled with unwillingness and ridicule.

"You, why are you still..." Xiao Yi looked at the blush on the bed, thinking of what happened in Taohuawu last night... and asked in a low voice.

"Brother Yu would never treat me like you." Lin Qinghuan closed her eyes and didn't want to talk to Xiao Yi anymore.

"If you mention him again, I will kill him immediately." Xiao Yi stood up and put on his clothes and said coldly. As he slammed the door shut, Lin Qinghuan opened her eyes with extreme heartache and weakly pulled up the quilt to cover her body. She was in pain both physically and mentally. Originally, she was going to give up everything and live together with Xiao Yu tomorrow, but now, she could no longer face Brother Yu in this life.

Yun Xiang and Chu Xia outside pushed the door open nervously. They saw Xiao Yi slamming the door and leaving, smelling of alcohol. The room was in a mess, with the young lady's clothes torn and thrown all over the floor. They were shocked and hurried over to clean up.

"Miss, we will serve you..." Chu Xia called Lin Qinghuan softly through the curtains on the bed with some fear.

"All of you go out." Lin Qinghuan said in a low voice.

"Girl..." Chu Xia shouted with a choked voice.

"Chuxia, please go out." Lin Qinghuan pulled the quilt to wrap herself in it, curled up, hugged herself and sobbed secretly.

"Yes." Yun Xiang pulled Chu Xia, indicating that the young lady should stay alone for a while.

"Why does the son-in-law treat the girl like this?" Chu Xia closed the door gently and couldn't help crying. She heard Lin Qinghuan's crying and shouting inside, but she could do nothing.

"Chuxia, this day will come sooner or later, but something must have happened to make the eldest master lose his composure like this." Yun Xiang said with a frown. She didn't know why the situation had come to this point.

Gong Heyu took advantage of Xiao Bowen's absence to sneak into Qingyin Pavilion to visit Liu Ji, who raised him.

"Yu'er..." Liu Ji hugged him and cried, "Mother misses you so much, my child."

"Mother..." In Gong Heyu's eyes, Liu Ji has always been his biological mother.

"Yu'er, how does the prince of Dayan treat you? Has he made things difficult for my son?" Liu Ji touched Gong Heyu's face with heartache, and tears couldn't stop falling.

"Mother, I'm fine. How's your health lately?" Gong Heyu saw Liu Ji's dull complexion and dark circles under her eyes. He glanced at Liu Rong standing beside her and asked, "Aunt Rong, is mother still unable to sleep at night?"

"Yu'er, your elder sister has been missing you all these years. She cries every night. Even if I have the best medicine, it can't cure her heart disease." Liu Rong squatted down and supported Liu Ji and said.

"Mother, please take good care of yourself. I promise I will visit you often in the future. Please listen to Aunt Rong, take your medicine well, and take good care of yourself." Gong Heyu reached out and gently wiped the tears from Liu Ji's face. "Mother, I am leaving."

Gong Heyu looked at Liu Ji deeply for a few more times, then stood up and left.

"Yu'er...Huan'er...don't blame her." Liu Ji shouted at Gong Heyu's back.

On the top of the city wall of Jinhan City, Xiao Yi looked at Gong Heyu coldly.

"Since you're back, why do you only visit your mother and not go to see your father?" Xiao Yi asked.

"He is not my father." Gong Heyu said with his back to Xiao Yi.

"Daddy has always treated you as his own son..."

"My father, who treated me like his own son, let my elder brother marry the love of my life." Gong Heyu turned around angrily and said to his elder brother, whom he grew up with.

"Be careful..." Xiao Yi flew over and pulled Gong Heyu over, and Da Sheng's secret guards surrounded Gong Heyu.

Gong Heyu shook off Xiao Yi's arm, and Xiao Yi whispered, "It's not me."

Da Sheng's secret guards are all top masters, and they only take orders from one person.

"Young Prince, please." The leader of the secret guards stepped forward and said.

"Let him go!" Xiao Yi stepped forward to stop him.

"Young Master, the emperor's order cannot be disobeyed!" said the leader.

Xiao Yi looked at the leader coldly and drew the white jade sword from his waist.

"Young Master, please don't make things difficult for my subordinates." The leader stepped back and said.

"Let them go." Ning Jinyang's voice came from behind.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" The secret guards knelt on the ground one after another, and Xiao Yi put his sword back into his scabbard.

"Yu'er, don't come to Jinhan City from now on. You shouldn't come to Dasheng with your current status, and your father also remembers the humiliation Ajue suffered in Yan State." Ning Jinyang stepped forward and patted Gong Heyu on the shoulder and said.

"Has he recovered now?" Gong Heyu's eyes softened when he heard Ning Sijue's name, so he asked.

"Don't worry, the medicine you gave me is real." Ning Jinyang said.

Gong Heyu nodded, jumped up, and disappeared into the night. The Dayan secret guards who were preparing to attack in the dark also rushed towards the direction where Xiao Yu disappeared.

Xiao Yi smelled the scent of Lao Gui's Blood Mo Knife, looked around, and signaled the secret guards to escort the prince back to the East Palace.

Lin Qinghuan kept frowning as she looked in the direction of Taohuawu. Now that she was no longer a virgin, how could she have the face to go look for Brother Yu.

"No, Brother Yu won't mind. He knows I've been married to Xiao Yi for so many years, but he still comes to find me and wants to take me away." Lin Qinghuan muttered to himself, quickly got up and wanted to pack her things, then threw everything down and ran out.

Xiao Yi stood in the courtyard of Luoyi Pavilion, looking coldly at Lin Qinghuan who ran out and was panicked when he saw him.

The entire yard was empty at some point, with only Xiao Yi and Lin Qinghuan looking at each other from afar.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Yi asked Lin Qinghuan coldly.

"What are you...doing...what are you doing here?" Lin Qinghuan started to tremble with fear when she saw Xiao Yi.

"Is there any place in the Xiao Mansion that I can't come to?" Xiao Yi kept looking at Lin Qinghuan and said in a low voice.

"Brother Xiao, you have already got what you wanted. Please let me go." Lin Qinghuan said to Xiao Yi with tears in her eyes.

"What have I gained? Lin Qinghuan, you can only be my, Xiao Yi's, wife in this life." Xiao Yi slowly walked towards Lin Qinghuan, looking at this beautiful face coldly and said.

"No... I don't want to be your wife... I want to go find Brother Yu..." Lin Qinghuan pushed Xiao Yi away while shaking her head desperately, then ran out of the yard.

"Lin Qinghuan, the young emperor of Yan State is dead, and Gong Heyu is the only heir to the Great Yan State. You want to go to the Great Yan State with him. Have you considered the sin that the entire Lin family will bear?" Xiao Yi asked in a very cold voice, looking at Lin Qinghuan's back.

"What Great Yan Kingdom? Brother Yu said that we don't want anything and no one can find us if we go there." Lin Qinghuan turned around and denied it.

"Yu'er's current identity makes it impossible for him to do whatever he wants. He was taken away by Dayan's people last night." Xiao Yi said, but his eyes were always on Lin Qinghuan.

"I don't believe it. I don't believe he will abandon me." Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yi in disbelief, and then ran out like crazy.

There was a carriage parked at the door. Lin Qinghuan saw that the person sitting in it was Xiao Yi's personal bodyguard Da Yuan, and quickly wanted to change direction.

"Madam, I'll take you to Taohuawu." Da Yuan put down the riding stool. Lin Qinghuan glanced at him, then turned back to look at the Xiao Mansion, and got into the carriage without looking back.

The Taohuawu in front of him had become a ruin, and Lin Qinghuan silently burst into tears.

"Taohuawu is gone..."

Lin Qinghuan sat at the door of Taohuawu and waited until the sun set and the sky was completely dark. Only then did she believe that Brother Yu was really gone, and her dream was shattered like the bracelet.

"Brother Yu, you left me again." Lin Qinghuan muttered to himself as he sat there, his eyes as sad as dead water.

Taohuawu was burned down by the Yuan Dynasty, and the childhood sweethearts of Lin Qinghuan and Gong Heyu were also burned down. Lin Qinghuan suddenly realized the distance between them. Maybe it was just like Xiao Yi said, if she left, the Lin family would be charged with the crime of killing all nine generations of the family. They were born to be two parallel lines, which would never intersect.

"Miss, it's cold and dewy, let's go back home." Yun Xiang and Chu Xia had arrived at some point. Chu Xia took a cloak and put it on Lin Qinghuan, then helped her get into the carriage. Xiao Yi had been sitting in the carriage for a long time.

The two of them didn't communicate at all along the way. Lin Qinghuan stared at the ground of the carriage in a daze, and Xiao Yi kept looking at Lin Qinghuan.

After returning to the Xiao Mansion, the two went straight to Luoyi Pavilion.

"If you can't accept it, you can just give me a divorce letter. I won't complain..."

"Huan'er, live a good life with me from now on, okay?" Before Lin Qinghuan finished speaking, Xiao Yi suddenly hugged her from behind and said softly.

Lin Qinghuan was a little surprised, but she couldn't help shivering when she thought of what happened last night. She was now very afraid of the man behind her.

Lin Qinghuan thought about it and finally nodded. She was so tired now and just wanted to sleep. Maybe everything would be fine when she woke up.

"You are tired today, go to bed early. I still have some official business to take care of. I will come to see you tomorrow." Xiao Yi turned the person in his arms over, kissed her on the forehead, called the maid in, and left Luoyi Pavilion.

Li Jiaxin had not gone to bed in Huaying Pavilion either. Ruyi knocked on the door and pushed it open.

"Madam, the eldest master did not stay at Luoyi Pavilion. He sent the young lady into the house and returned to Qingbo Courtyard shortly afterwards." Ruyi said softly to Li Jiaxin.

"Haha...am I ridiculous? She is the legal wife. What can I say even if my husband stays with me every day?" Michelle Reis loves Xiao Yi deeply and has liked him since childhood, but he has never cared about her.

"My lady, it seems that the eldest master treats you only with courtesy. I haven't seen him go to Luoyi Pavilion many times, but he goes to Honglian Pavilion very often." Ruyi said angrily. She never thought that the most beautiful woman in Dasheng could not compare to a maid who was flirting with others.

"No, he treats Qinghuan differently, completely different from Hu Taoniang." After Li Jiaxin finished speaking, a tear slipped down her face, and her eyes were full of loneliness. No one else could see it, but she was the only one who could feel that Xiao Yi had become a different person because of Lin Qinghuan.

"My lady, it's late, you should go to bed early." Ruyi said helplessly to the sentimental aunt.

In Qingyin Hall.

"Eldest sister, Luo Yun said that the young lady had not had her period yet. Yi'er did stay in Luoyi Pavilion for quite a while yesterday. When I went to clean the house, the child's clothes were left on Yi'er... ah... the bed..." Liu Rong was at a loss for words.

"How could Yi'er treat Huan'er like this?" Liu Ji also felt a little bit sorry.

"Yier got drunk yesterday, but today the two of them returned home together. Luo Yun said they didn't have a fight." Liu Rong said.

"Alas, the old lady found out about Huan'er's past with Yu'er, and now she's angry with the master."

"The old lady has always favored Yu'er, and now she is still so confused. I feel sorry for Yi'er." Liu Rong said angrily.

"Don't say such things casually in the future." Liu Ji said.

"Ah."