The whole family is reborn, and their five-year-old child becomes the darling of the entire capital.

Mu Yunchao didn't pack anything and just tossed it to Mu Yunnan.

He had a rather distant relationship with his family, the only one being Yu Xi, whom he met when he went to Yinzhou.

She saved him.

It was only much later that she learned that she knew he was from the Mu family and knew what he looked like, which was why she saved him on a whim.

Mu Yunnan took the jade pendant and looked at the character "Nan" engraved on it with some disdain.

Why would a military general like her carry something so fragile?

However, since this was the first gift he had ever given her, she could accept it with a bit of leeway.

Mu Yunchao became the Crown Prince's companion at the age of five and became the top scholar at the age of fourteen, breaking the Yue Kingdom's tradition that officials over the age of eighteen could become officials.

As a result, she rarely communicates with her family. She can be eloquent and persuasive when talking to foreigners, but she can't say a word to her family. She can only silently force her third son to read books. When she was injured in Yunnan, she was kept under surveillance and not allowed to touch any weapons.

These are all extremely extreme things.

"Aren't you going to say anything? Second Brother?" Yunnan's eyes held a hint of cunning. She knew Mu Yunchao wasn't used to her calling him "brother," but she insisted on doing so.

This fox is nice to everyone, but I'm too lazy to bother with her.

She was determined to drive him crazy.

Humph.

Mu Yunchao's fingers twitched slightly. He didn't like talking to Mu Yunnan because before he was five years old, he was often pinned to the ground by the extremely strong Yunnan, who would dress him in a skirt, tie him to a chair, and pretend that he was studying at a girls' school in the house. Then he would run to his grandfather's military camp and practice martial arts with the soldiers.

And every time she did this, she would sweetly call out "Second Brother".

After he turned five, he took the initiative to become the Crown Prince's study companion, eating and living with the Crown Prince in order to avoid her.

However, the more they avoided each other, the more estranged they became.

"Happy birthday," Mu Yunchao said softly.

Mu Yunnan pursed his lips and hung the jade pendant at his waist. "Fine, I get it. Still a civil official, and you can't even... speak properly..."

Mu Yunchao paused for a moment, then looked up at her with a cool gaze.

Mu Yunnan's eyes darted around, and he immediately fell silent.

"May every year bring you joy and happiness. Are you satisfied?" My little darling.

Mu Yunnan suppressed the smile on his lips, tilting his head slightly, "It's barely passable. All that pedantry, who can understand it anyway..."

The Duchess chuckled softly, covering her mouth with a handkerchief. This child…

Xiao Yuxi climbed onto Mu Yunchao using both her hands and feet.

Mu Yunchao quickly reached out to protect her, afraid that she would fall. "What happened?"

The export is another form of pampering exclusively for Xiao Yuxi.

"What did Second Brother mean by what he just said?" Little Yu Xi nestled in Mu Yun Chao's arms, her eyes almost closed with sleep, still wondering what her Second Sister had said that no one could understand. She was determined to help her Second Sister understand.

Mu Yunchao glanced at Mu Yunnan, who was illiterate, and then patted Xiao Yuxi's fluffy hair. "I wish you, my lord, that every year, you will encounter many good things and happy events, and that everything will go very smoothly."

Xiao Yuxi squinted her eyes slightly, her voice soft and indistinct, "Then Xixi also wishes Second Sister that every year, everything will be auspicious."

As soon as she finished speaking, she buried her little head in Mu Yunchao's arms and fell asleep.

Seeing Mu Yunchao take Xiao Yuxi back to her room, Mu Yunnan raised his hand to put away the gifts one by one, looked at Yun Chen's mother who was holding her as she slept, and said softly, "I'm very happy today. Mother, it's late, please rest early. I'll go back now. Good night, Mother."

Without waiting for the Duchess's reply, he left the courtyard directly.

It wasn't until they entered their own courtyard that they suddenly realized there was an extra small room in the yard.

Mu Yunnan stood at the courtyard gate for a long time before slowly walking forward and pushing open the wooden door.

The weapons inside were neatly arranged, the most numerous of which were the large swords she loved to use before her hand was injured in her previous life.

And the large knife she was most used to in her previous life was placed in the most conspicuous center.

Mu Yunnan walked forward step by step, touching the large knife that her grandfather would give her two years later, and held back her tears.

She pulled it down with a sudden force. The knife, which had cracked after her mother's death, was reborn and, after many twists and turns, became a gift from her mother.

Mu Yunnan looked up at the weapons room.

She always knew that her mother wanted her to be a role model among noble ladies, just like her sister, and to be praised by everyone she met, instead of being called a female Yama by those people after becoming a general.

She had only walked the same path as so many men, and her path was even more arduous than theirs, so why couldn't she be tolerated?

The more people couldn't tolerate her, the more determined she became a great general who would be recorded in history, protecting the country and its people and ensuring its peace and prosperity.

She wanted to make all women eligible to serve as officials in the imperial court.

There's no such thing as a woman being born to be a wife and mother.

She knew she didn't share those people's ideas, but she didn't care.

My mother liked ladies from noble families, so she would dress up in dresses and style her hair at home.

Try to make your mother feel comfortable at home.

She was rebellious enough, but when it came to her mother, she still wanted to be more accommodating.

She knew that her mother was also a woman with broken wings, trapped in this grand mansion, devoted to her husband and children.

But one day, an armory appeared in her own yard, an armory that belonged exclusively to her.

In other words, her mother agreed to her insistence, her insistence across two lifetimes.

She had been holding back her tears in the courtyard, but at this moment she could no longer hold them back, and they fell drop by drop onto the knife in her hand.

All the guilt and resentment she felt towards her mother in both lifetimes finally vanished at this moment.

Mu Yunnan hung the knife back in its place, looked at each weapon one by one, took a step back, and said, "Mother, sweet dreams."

"Nan'er is crying?" The Duchess had just finished looking at Yu Xi when she heard this and subconsciously looked towards Yunnan's courtyard.

"Did I do something wrong before?"

The maidservant beside her shook her head repeatedly and hurriedly said, "Madam is praised by everyone outsiders, how could she do anything wrong?"

As the Duchess looked at the servants in the courtyard hurriedly tidying up the still flickering candlelight, she seemed to see herself in her past life, the one who adhered strictly to the rules.

He shook his head, and her figure grew fainter and fainter until it disappeared. "What do I care about what others say? If any servant dares to disrespect the General of the Nation in the future, I'll beat them up and sell them off."

The maid was somewhat stunned; this was the first time the madam had referred to the second young lady as the Protector General of the Nation.

The maid didn't know if the lady was serious or just having a whim, because among the lady's children, the second young lady was the one she disliked the most in the eyes of the servants.

The maidservant still lowered her head and said, "Yes."