After dying early, I traveled to ancient times and became a boy

Xie Hui interrupted, "I asked you to persuade him to give up his dream of becoming an escort, not to urge him to become one right now."

Ye Xunqing smiled and asked, "But your child doesn't want to do it, do you really have to force him to do it?"

"I..." Xie Hui was stunned. He remembered his past.

"Forget it, second brother, you go back and rest first. Your Uncle Ye and I have something to talk about." Xie Hui asked Xie Zhixing to go back.

Xie Zhixing asked: "Do you still have the delicious food you mentioned?"

Xie Hui smiled and said, "Greedy, go to the kitchen and check, there should be some left."

"Oh." Xie Zhixing was not picky and ate all the leftovers.

When there were only three of them left in the pavilion, Xie Hui started talking about his own affairs.

He first looked at Feng Jingheng, "You know that I am different from your wife, right?"

Feng Jingheng understood the reasoning, but it sounded strange to him. "Ah Qing said he came from a world different from mine, where there are tall buildings, planes flying in the sky, submarines diving in the water, and high-speed trains running on land."

"Yes," Xie Hui said, "I don't know what this dimension is like, but your wife and I should be from a similar era. Where we are, there is an exam similar to the imperial examination, called the college entrance examination."

Feng Jingheng heard Ye Xunqing mention it. Ye Xunqing was diagnosed with bone cancer after the college entrance examination. There was no cure, so he could only delay death and wait for death.

Xie Hui continued, "I was born into an ordinary family. Our family conditions were good—not great, not bad either. I have a younger sister who is twelve years younger than me. When I was very young, I started attending various cram schools. My parents were very busy and didn't have time to take care of me, so I was sent to school in the morning and to daycare in the evening. They would pick me up when they returned."

"Every day I was the last one to leave the nursery class. Although the teacher had no problem with me and was very kind, I always felt bad about letting her go home last. So I didn't want to go there anymore, thinking I could be alone at home."

"My parents didn't agree. They spent a lot of money to hire a full-time nanny for me. The nanny would cook for me every day and supervise my studies. From childhood to adulthood, I have always been the best student, not because I was smart, but because I attended more cram schools than others."

Ye Xunqing has never attended cram school. His parents practiced happy education, and when he was born, his parents had already prepared the funds for his education. Every year, they also gave him a lot of dividends from the company, so he didn't have to worry about whether he would have a good future.

Xie recalled the past with a touch of sadness on his face. "I was admitted to a key high school with the third highest score in the city. The workload was very heavy. From my freshman year, I had to study until midnight every night. By my junior year, I would go to bed at two in the morning and wake up at six to go to school. There were no days off. I was either taking extra classes or on the way to take extra classes."

He asked Ye Xunqing, "Do you know how I died?"

Ye Xunqing asked: "Could it be a sudden death?"

Xie Hui smiled. "I fell to my death. I remember after my last exam, everyone around me was rushing downstairs, planning to find a place to celebrate. I was walking alone at the end, my mind blank, thinking that I would finally not be forced to attend cram schools when I went to college. But just then, I missed a step and fell down the stairs. I died immediately."

Ye Xunqing felt that he was quite miserable. He studied hard for more than ten years, but fell to his death on the last step.

"Then do you feel regretful?" Ye Xunqing asked him.

Xie Hui said, "I have no regrets, nor am I sad. It's just that I haven't said goodbye to my sister properly. She's very cute and obedient. But she shares my sorrow, having been taking tutoring classes since she was a child."

"I hope the doctor will write in my diagnosis report that I died from excessive stress. Maybe then my parents will stop forcing my sister like this." Xie Hui had tears in his eyes. "In fact, when I die, my last thought will be that I am finally free."

Yes, finally I don’t have to go to endless cram schools, and finally I don’t have to listen to my parents say “We do all this for you” and “All our family’s money is spent on you”.

Xie Hui knew that his parents wanted him to be successful, but Xie Hui was not that kind of person. Parents should be able to accept their children's mediocrity.

Good parents have to accept that their children have genetic mutations, and ordinary parents have to accept that their children have inherited their mediocrity.

It's rare for a phoenix to fly out of a chicken coop, and only a few chicks will hatch from phoenix eggs.

"Alas, as I reach middle age, I've slowly become like my parents," Xie Hui said with emotion. "I used to resent my parents for forcing me to go to school, but now I'm forcing my children to do the same thing they did to me. Forget it, if I don't want to be a prince, then don't be one. What good is this crappy title?"

Ye Xunqing said, "There are many people who want your position. Besides, if you really don't want to be a prince, why did you come here in the first place? I heard that you are not the heir of the old prince."

"You must have heard wrong." Xie Hui said, "I am the legitimate descendant of the old prince, no difference at all."

"Brothers who are related by blood?" Ye Xunqing asked.

"No, Xie Hui is Xie Ling's son." Xie Hui said, "He and his nurse had a child, but the old prince didn't recognize him, so Xie Hui was taken away by the old prince's men as soon as he was born."

"Fuck!" Ye Xunqing was even more surprised. He had almost guessed who Xie Ling was. If Xie Hui was Xie Ling's son, then wouldn't he be Uncle Xie's child?

"Don't be surprised. Except for a few old people, no one else knows about this." Xie Hui said, "Oh, Huai Xin knows too. He knows that Xie Hui is Xie Ling's child, so he stayed here to wait for Xie Ling."

"No, I'm not surprised by that." With so much information, Ye Xunqing's brain was a bit overwhelmed. "How can you be sure that Xie Hui is Xie Ling's child?"

"The old prince said it himself," Xie Hui said. "When I came through, Xie Hui was being hunted. Oh, or should I say, he was already dead. The person who was chasing him shot an arrow through the heart and he died. You don't know, I almost fainted from the pain at that time. Fortunately, my mental strength was quite strong, and I managed to pull through."

"The name Xie Hui was changed later. He didn't have a name before. When the old prince saw me, he said that from now on I would be called Xie Hui, with the courtesy name Niangui. I heard from the guards who used to be around Xie Hui that the old prince always knew that Xie Hui was alive. To be more precise, it was the old prince who hid Xie Hui. His purpose was to make Xie Ling give up and stop having an affair with his guard. It's a pity that the Annan Palace is full of stubborn and infatuated people."