A life of ups and downs is pure joy

East Palace.

"Father's favoritism towards my fourth brother has reached this point!" Ning Jinyang angrily threw the teacup in his hand to the ground.

The Dakun Kingdom in the north wanted to marry off a princess. Originally, they thought it was just an ordinary illegitimate princess, so they wanted to marry her to the fifth prince Ning Tianchu. However, they never expected that it was the eldest princess Fan Yitang. The Dasheng Emperor Ning Jingchi immediately issued an order to marry her to the fourth prince Ning Junze.

Xiao Yi signaled his servants to pick up the broken teacups.

"Yier, does father want to pass the throne to me?" Ning Jinyang asked.

"You have been the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace since you were fifteen years old. His Majesty will certainly pass the throne to you, and only you." Xiao Yi said.

"Yier, what does your uncle say about this?" Ning Jinyang was able to sit on the throne of the crown prince thanks to the efforts of Xiao Bowen and Empress Xiao. He was not such a smart person and his qualifications were mediocre. The Xiao family's initial candidate for the crown prince was the sixth prince Ning Sijue, but he was held hostage at a young age. If he had not been sacrificed, the eldest son Ning Jinyang would not have been able to sit on the throne of the crown prince.

"The emperor is in his prime. If the Eastern Palace becomes too powerful, the emperor will be uneasy. Zhao Dafang went to guard the west. In order to allow Ajue to be crowned king in Luomen in the future, we can only retreat and advance according to the emperor's wishes, allowing him to maintain a balanced situation as he wishes. If the scale is too tilted, our emperor will be uneasy." Xiao Yi said coldly as he sat beside the desk.

"Then the fourth brother got such a big advantage?" Ning Jinyang said somewhat unwillingly.

Xiao Yi nodded.

"The secret guard reported that Gong Heyu returned to Dayan a few days ago." Ning Jinyang spoke again.

"Before long, something big will happen in Dayan." Xiao Yi murmured.

Dayan's Tokyo City.

"You use such despicable means to force me to the throne. Aren't you afraid that after I become emperor, the first person I will kill will be you?" Gong Heyu said angrily after hearing Gong Zheshan's threat.

"You are my son, so you won't. I am your father, and I will push you to the throne even if it means being cursed by the whole world." Gong Zheshan said.

Gong Zheshan said that if Gong Heyu did not become the emperor, then he, Gong Zheshan, would be the emperor of Dayan, and his noble imperial concubine would be Princess Changping of Dasheng. Gong Heyu knew that if he could exchange the two countries for peace and sacrifice Princess Changping, the emperor would agree, and the Xiao family would agree even more. Now he was forced to become the emperor of Dayan.

Gong Kou Shi hid at the door and looked at her brother who looked distraught. Now that the secret guards had withdrawn, her father dared to do this because he was sure that her brother would not run away again.

"Brother... have you seen Sister Qinghuan?" Gong Kou Shi walked in and lay down next to Gong Heyu and asked softly.

Gong Heyu touched the hair of this sister who was several years younger than Lin Qinghuan. He had been in Dayan for more than two years, and this little girl came to accompany him every day.

"Shi'er, brother will never leave again." Gong Heyu's voice sounded very sad.

"Really?" Gong Kou Shi hugged him happily, "Brother, besides father, you are my only relative. I thought you were going to leave me again."

"Not anymore."

"Brother, do you know how mother died?" Gong Kou Shi suddenly asked.

"I know." Gong Zheshan told him that he couldn't bear the pain of losing his son.

"Have you ever thought about revenge?" Gong Kou Shi asked.

"Revenge?" Gong Heyu looked at Gong Kou Shi strangely.

"Brother, don't you want to? But if he hadn't deliberately concealed it, mother would have survived." Gong Kou Shi said.

"Shi'er, isn't it because mother can't bear the pain of losing her son?"

"Yes, mother became ill after giving birth to you. Back then, that miraculous doctor said that dragon fruit flowers could cure illnesses, so father took mother to find the legendary Dragon Birth Island and finally obtained three dragon fruit flower seeds. Father thought mother could be saved, after all, he had the divine doctor Bu. However, he held back and didn't tell father that she needed to take a certain medicine year-round. So even though the medicine was made, mother didn't survive. Father took his anger out on the chief doctor of the Imperial Hospital back then, Guan, and had his entire family killed. This is one of the few things father regretted in his later life."

"He needs to take Qingmuxiang for seven consecutive years. Why did the master lie to him?" Gong Heyu was still unwilling to call the Sixth Prince of Dayan his father.

"Master, brother, you can't call him master anymore. It was him who stole you away and killed mother. If it weren't for him, Shi'er wouldn't have never seen mother since childhood and could only look at her portrait every day to express her longing." Gong Kou Shi said angrily.

"Okay, I understand." Gong Heyu's life has changed a lot in the past two years. Now he is not so shocked to hear that his mentor is the one who caused his family to be destroyed.

"Brother, you have been in Tokyo for so long and have never been anywhere. I will take you around in the future." Gong Kou Shi said.

"Okay, it's getting late, you should go to bed early."

Dasheng Jinhan City.

It was Jia Zhengran's full moon banquet. Early in the morning, the servants of the Jia family were still decorating the yard when Lin Qinghuan came to Lin Mo's yard with a bunch of gifts.

"Sister Mo, look at Ran'er's beautiful eyes, they are exactly the same as yours." Lin Qinghuan looked at the baby in the nanny's hands happily, but she didn't dare to hug it because it was too small and too soft.

"Can you tell what it looks like when it's so young?" Lin Mo asked the baby in disbelief.

"Well, I could tell at a glance that Daddy and Mom are coming too. I guess they should be here soon." Lin Qinghuan said.

"Why did you get up so early?" Lin Mo asked.

Lin Qinghuan glanced at the wet nurse, and she carried Jia Zhengran out of the room, leaving only the two sisters.

"What did you say? Senior brother came back to look for you?" Lin Mo asked Lin Qinghuan in surprise.

"But he was taken away by the people of Dayan Kingdom. Brother Yu is about to become the emperor of Dayan." Lin Qinghuan's lost eyes were full of unwillingness.

"Huan'er, what do you think now?" Lin Mo asked.

"Sister, I accept my fate. Perhaps Brother Yu and I are just not destined to be together in this life. After he ascends the throne, the Queen of Dayan will be the Empress of the foreign land of China. Perhaps this is the best ending for Brother Yu." Lin Qinghuan said.

"What about Xiao Yi? I heard that he treated you like that in the hunting ground. He didn't treat you well, did he? Huan'er, let's go find daddy. If you don't want to be with him..." Lin Mo said anxiously.

"No, Sister Mo, he treats me very well, and we are already husband and wife." Lin Qinghuan said, suppressing her choking voice.

"You are already husband and wife, you are... Huan'er, do you mean that you have consummated your marriage?" Lin Mo asked.

Lin Qinghuan nodded, "So, now I can only stay in the Xiao Mansion obediently, and from now on I will be Madam Xiao." Lin Qinghuan smiled casually, but her voice became smaller and smaller.

At the lively full-moon banquet, Lin Mutang smiled very happily and kept holding his eldest grandson. He Su was also smiling happily beside him. Apart from Lin Qingyao's son who was far away in Yinan, Jia Zhengran was the first grandchild, so he was naturally very rare.

Jia Ying and Old Lady Jia were also very happy and had smiles on their faces. After all, their in-laws were dukes and marquises, and the people who came to congratulate them were all royal relatives and nobles. Even the wife of General Xiao came with her own daughter, Xiao Qiannan.

"Your fierce brother is not here!" Xiao Qiannan looked for Lin Ancai in the crowd but didn't see him, so she ran to ask Lin Qinghuan.

Lin Qinghuan looked at her in confusion, "An Cai? How could he not come? He probably went to where the fun was going on. What are you going to do?" Lin Qinghuan thought Xiao Qiannan was going to act like a spoiled brat again.

"I... I'm not doing anything, just asking casually. My aunt asked me to bring you some brocade materials from the country of Dasi, and sent them to your Luoyi Pavilion." After Xiao Qiannan finished speaking, she walked away with her proud little head raised high, and when she was alone, she began to look for the lively place that Lin Qinghuan mentioned.

Lin Qinghuan didn't think much about it. After all, in her eyes, it was better to stay away from Xiao Qiannan if possible.

As expected, Lin Ancai was practicing martial arts with Jia Xu and several young men of similar age in the military camp, and a group of young women had gathered around them.

"That's General Luo Feng, the one who won two victories over Nei Chi."

"How old is he now? Is he married?"

"He seems to be almost eighteen. He is going to inherit the title in the future, but he is still unmarried."

"Oh my god, he's so handsome, and so talented and young. What kind of woman can marry into the Marquis's mansion?"

"The eldest son of the Lin family married the seventh princess, the emperor's favorite. I guess General Luo Feng won't marry an ordinary woman either."

Xiao Qiannan hid behind these gossipy women and peeked at Lin Ancai, who was happily fighting on the stage. Then she glanced at these ordinary-looking women from official families and muttered softly, "Humph, of course she's not an ordinary woman like you."

Lin Qingyi stood in the distance and saw Xiao Qiannan hiding behind the crowd. She walked over curiously, stood next to her, and looked at her from the same angle as her cat.

"What are you looking at secretly here?" Lin Qingyi asked beside Xiao Qiannan.

"Ah!" Xiao Qiannan was startled by the sudden sound coming from her ears.

The screams attracted everyone's attention. Lin An, who had just finished a competition, wiped the sweat off his face and jumped down from the stage. The female fans on both sides automatically made way for him.

"You can't beat my fourth sister." Lin An said to Xiao Qiannan as soon as he saw the two of them.

"I... when did I want to fight with her? Am I so rude?" When Xiao Qiannan heard Lin Ancai say this, her face suddenly turned red, and then she turned around and ran away angrily.

"Did you bully her?" Lin Ancai asked Lin Qingyi in confusion.

"Do I have the guts to bully her?" Lin Qingyi waved her hands quickly.

"Then why is her face as red as a monkey's butt? Did you get the chicken leg I asked for?" Lin Ancai said curiously, and then he plundered the things in Lin Qingyi's hand.

"No, no, my second sister has left a lot of food for you and your brother-in-law in the room next door. Go quickly." Lin Qingyi patted Lin Ancai's hands and said, and then the two of them walked towards Lin Mo's Baisangyuan, playing and laughing.

Xiao Qiannan hid behind the pillar in the corner and looked at Lin Ancai for a long time. "Humph, it's not like I beat people up every day."

When Lin Qinghuan, Liu Ji and Xiao Qiannan returned to the Xiao Mansion, Xiao Yi had already returned from the East Palace and was sitting on the chess couch in Luoyi Pavilion. Yun Xiang and Lu Hua were standing in the yard and were very happy. Now that the young lady was not in the yard, the eldest son came over on his own and was sitting inside waiting for the young lady.

"What are you two doing standing here?" Chu Xia and Lin Qinghuan asked when they saw the two smirking figures when they returned to the yard.

"Young Madam, you're back." Yun Xiang ran over happily, took the food box from Chu Xia's hand, and said to Lin Qinghuan.

"You two found some silver. Why are you so happy?" Lin Qinghuan asked with a smile.

"hey-hey."

"This is the delicious food that the young lady brought for you." Chu Xia pointed at the food box and said, and was about to accompany Lin Qinghuan back to the house, but was pulled back by Yun Xiang.

"Chuxia, Luhua has hidden something good for you. Come with us to find it. Madam, I will come to serve you after I put the food box away." After Yunxiang said this, he and Luhua pushed Chuxia away.

"What are these girls doing?" Lin Qinghuan laughed and walked into the house and went straight to the dressing table behind the screen.

When she looked up at the bronze mirror to take off the hairpin on her head, she found a person sitting on the chess couch. She was so scared that she screamed and turned around to look at the culprit.

"Why are you keeping quiet in my room?" Lin Qinghuan said with her eyes wide open, looking at the ghost-like man.

"Did you get scared?" Xiao Yi stood up and slowly walked to Lin Qinghuan and said.

"I... was really scared." Lin Qinghuan quickly turned around and looked at the dressing table.

Xiao Yi hugged her from behind, buried his head in her neck and asked, "Huan'er, do you think you and I will live in Qingbo Courtyard in the future, or should I move into your Luoyi Pavilion?"

"Ah? I... I don't know, I haven't... thought about it." Lin Qinghuan said nervously. Now that Xiao Yi was so intimate with her every day, she was almost scared to death.

"Huan'er, would you like to live with me in Qingbo Courtyard? We are husband and wife, and we shouldn't live in two courtyards." Xiao Yi said as he reached out to untie Lin Qinghuan's belt.

Lin Qinghuan's panicked little hand quickly pressed down Xiao Yi's dishonest big hand, "I... I haven't washed yet."

"You smell so good like this." Xiao Yi said in Lin Qinghuan's ear, and his breath made her almost itchy to death.

"I...ah..." Lin Qinghuan suddenly felt herself being lifted into the air. Xiao Yi carried Lin Qinghuan to the bed.

Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yi shyly and fearfully.

"Huan'er, don't be afraid. I was wrong last time. Did I hurt you?" Xiao Yi gently touched Lin Qinghuan's little face and said.

Lin Qinghuan thought about it and nodded, then shook her head. She didn't know what she wanted to express.

Xiao Yi's kiss gently fell on Lin Qinghuan's pink lips, and his slender hands kept touching Lin Qinghuan's face, all the way to her ears, and then to her neck.

The other hand also very sensibly undressed Lin Qinghuan, revealing her fair shoulders. Xiao Yi's kiss lingered around Lin Qinghuan's ears again, and Lin Qinghuan had been trying hard not to make such a strange sound.

"Huan'er, take off your clothes for your husband." Xiao Yi took Lin Qinghuan's slender hand and placed it on himself, "Just like you untied your belt as skillfully as you did that day." Xiao Yi said in Lin Qinghuan's ear, and then he licked her red ear lightly in a teasing manner.

Lin Qinghuan couldn't help but hum, and then covered her mouth shyly.

"Huan'er, I love to hear you scream." After Xiao Yi said that, he kissed Lin Qinghuan's mouth again, and his hands took off all the girl's clothes.

The completely different experience from the last time's astringent pain forced Lin Qinghuan to involuntarily hug Xiao Yi's strong arms tightly.

"Huan'er, call me husband." Xiao Yi said while panting.

"Husband." Lin Qinghuan could no longer suppress her heartbeat and the feeling of fulfillment every time the waves hit the beach. Her throat kept making sounds that made it difficult for Xiao Yi to control the fire burning in his heart.

As the man's low growl and the woman's most primitive moans overlapped, Xiao Yi kissed Lin Qinghuan exhaustedly, then lay aside and gently held the soft, hot person in his arms, slowly calming his panting.

"Huan'er, do you still want it?" After a long time, Lin Qinghuan heard a voice in her ear.