I traveled through the Cretaceous period and farmed with the ever-changing dog egg.

"Let me go!!"

Let her go? Impossible! Lin Chaoyan cares too much about what others think; that's her weakness. For Ying Zheng, manipulating her has always been an easy task.

"If Ayan won't let me hold her hand, then I'll carry you all the way back!" He was in a good mood. As long as he could resolve Lin Chaoyan's concerns, winning the beauty's heart would be a piece of cake.

...Lin Chaoyan let him lead her, and said nothing more.

"When you meet that gentleman later, Ayan, remember to be careful with your words and actions, and don't reveal anything about the future that you shouldn't say." Ying Zheng didn't miss the fleeting regret in Lin Chaoyan's eyes in the main hall.

Ying Zheng was afraid that his Ayan would soften her heart, but a soft-hearted god only needed to be soft-hearted towards him!

"Yes! I know..."

I'm not kind enough to take risks for unrelated, unfamiliar people, and besides, I'm not kind.

Upon returning to Xianyang Palace, Lin Chaoyan removed all her hair ornaments, letting her long, flowing hair fall freely and instantly liberating her scalp. During the Warring States period, people greatly loved white jade, and they wanted to adorn themselves with everything from hair ornaments to necklaces and pendants.

She was truly beautiful, and she could usually tolerate things to look good, but today she didn't want to do as he wished.

Ying Zheng, who had already changed out of his court robes, stopped Lin Chaoyan from taking off her clothes. "Alright, Ayan, wear them! This is what you meant by matching outfits, right? Anyone who sees it will know we belong to each other."

"The house here is big and cold, I don't want to stay here!! I don't like it here, not at all..." Love is selfish; I love you, but I love myself more. Lin Chaoyan insists on choosing her over him for freedom.

"Did they bully you?" He felt that Lin Chaoyan must have been wronged at Changchun Palace, and that he had tricked her, which was why she suddenly wanted to leave him.

"No, they were very kind. They even gave me a peach blossom as a gift. The peach blossom and its owner were both beautiful, and her zither music was very beautiful..." Her child must be very cute and quirky.

"There are fertility pills in that pile of trash, right? Can I have some?" He knew they weren't good stuff, so even though he longed to have a child with Lin Chaoyan, he didn't even consider it.

"How did you know? Did you touch anything inside?" Lin Chaoyan noticed that the man hugging her from behind was making a lot of subtle movements.

…He would never admit that he had scrolled through all the erotic pictures and wanted to try out every single position with Lin Chaoyan. “I just looked, I didn’t touch anything…” Yes, I just looked… He lied until his ears turned bright red.

"Really? There's nothing good in there. The pills are all poisonous, like that fertility pill, which comes at the cost of the mother's lifespan. Ah Zheng, what are you going to do with it?" Lin Chaoyan decided to go back and check if anything was missing, and also to destroy that pile of junk.

"Although I won't die from eating it, I absolutely will not eat it..." If I'm going to eat anything, it'll be a breast enhancement pill; I want to be a mature, sophisticated woman...

"How could I bear to let you eat it? Since you mind that I will have children with other women in the future, then I will use the fertility pill to give birth to all the children, and I will never touch any other woman except you again." Shen Liangren was pregnant without being bullied. If Ying Zheng had known that Shen Liangren would also go, he would have refused to let Lin Chaoyan go to Wei Shu's Changchun Palace no matter what.

…So poisonous! Lin Chaoyan suddenly transformed into the Virgin Mary! “No way! Those are poison pills! You're harming people. I'll destroy them all in a minute, don't even think about it…”

"Alright, alright! I don't want to, and you're not allowed to think about such things either, Ayan. Come, let me comb your hair and get you ready to see the three old gentlemen. They're waiting for us at Zhangtai Palace! We can't keep the old folks waiting..." Ying Zheng readily agreed, but his deep, ocean-like eyes showed no sign of giving up.

He can comb hair? Lin Chaoyan looked incredulous, but she didn't refuse.

With the help of Zhao Gao and Yu Rong, Ying Zheng reluctantly styled Lin Chaoyan's hair into a simple bun. Then Yu Rong was responsible for finishing touches.

"My Ayan is so beautiful..."

"If I had been an ugly duckling back then, would you have refused to marry me, Zheng?" Good-looking people would marry you, but average-looking people would be reborn as your slaves...

"I admit that initially, it had something to do with your face, but not much. At first, I was attracted to your radiance and coveted your abilities. Possessiveness isn't romantic love; my feelings for you developed over time..." Initially, it was attraction, but there was a significant element of manipulation; later, it became genuine affection...

"Let's go! Stop overthinking! Even if you lose this face one day, knowing you as I do, I have countless ways to spot a fake." Ying Zheng believed no one understood Lin Chaoyan better than himself, including Lin Chaoyan herself. For example, she would kick off the covers, cling to him to sleep, hold grudges, be grumpy in the morning, be a picky eater, and even dreamt about KFC last night. She had a cinnabar mole above her right breast and a black mole below it that she herself couldn't see or know…

She fell silent, because she realized she couldn't win an argument with Ying Zheng.

Inside Zhangtai Palace, Lin Chaoyan was immediately surrounded by three powerful figures as soon as she entered.

"When the great man descends to earth, what instructions does the will of Heaven have?" They spend their entire lives trying to comprehend the will of Heaven and get closer to Him.

"There are things you want to know that I may not know, and there are things that even if I knew, I couldn't tell you. The world is in chaos, and you are all so old; you should focus on your studies and not get involved in worldly affairs. He has given me my way of doing things, which is not something you can interfere with." Everyone present is a representative of wisdom, and Lin Chaoyan respects them and doesn't want their remaining years of life to be wasted.

"Your disciples had better not do anything foolish like the Yin-Yang School. If you have time, speak to the Yin-Yang School's manager. Since they dared to attack me, no matter the outcome, I will personally seek revenge when I have the chance. After all, the moment my heart was pierced was truly painful!" The Yin-Yang Vajra in Ying Zheng's hand flew into Lin Chaoyan's palm. She expressionlessly spun it as if searching for her next target.

"Please help me return this thing!..." She was always vengeful! After saying that, she made the Yin-Yang Vajra Pestle float in front of the three of them.

"We will certainly live up to our mission..." After learning that Lin Chaoyan was the unlucky one who had been chosen, the three of them were all sweating for the Yin Yang School.

"Would you be willing to live in seclusion with us, my lord?" They did not want the mortal world to taint her sacredness.

Before Lin Chaoyan could speak, Ying Zheng coldly refused on her behalf. "She can't go anywhere except by my side."

"Even if you are the King of Qin, how can the Lord allow you to desecrate him?" In their eyes, Lin Chaoyan represents the Way of Heaven, a sacred and inviolable existence.

"Blasphemy? So what?" Whether it was right or wrong, blasphemy had already been done. Ying Zheng had no intention of arguing with the three about this issue; it was pointless.

"May I ask, Your Excellency, did you choose the King of Qin because he is a person who influences the fate of the world?" Wang Xu respected Lin Chaoyan's choice; he only cared about the affairs of the world.

"No, the choice he made had nothing to do with his identity. Countless people influence the world. The world, after a long period of division, will unite; after a long period of unity, will divide. What has been will be again; what has been done will be done again. Everything is just a cycle, one after another!" Humanity is always doing the same things, one after another. Time and again, they are reborn from destruction, only to perish again and again…

"We believe that the current Qin laws are not suitable for governing the country and ensuring its stability. What do you think, sir?" They felt that the Qin laws were too rigid and easily broken.

"It is good that you have a clear understanding of this..." Emperor Wu of Han would do all this. Confucianism on the outside and Legalism on the inside is more suitable for those in power to govern the country and more in line with human nature.

"Is there really no such thing as lasting peace?" Lie Kuang cared deeply for the world and longed for a peaceful land.

“No, human desires are like a boulder rolling down a mountain; once they start, they can never be stopped.” History is the best proof, and the man beside her is no exception. Lin Chaoyan felt she had failed in her duty as an observer.

The three were no pushovers either, their words riddled with traps, so Lin Chao chose to remain silent... listening as Ying Zheng and the others discussed the world and scholarship.

The conversation of these clever people was indeed profound; Lin Chaoyan, for one, didn't quite understand it, and seeing that noon was almost over, she slipped into the inner room and started preparing a small hot pot...

The aroma of the beef tallow hot pot base instantly filled the entire Zhangtai Palace.

Cilantro, beef balls, egg dumplings, shrimp paste, tripe, lamb rolls, potato slices, mushrooms, pork belly...

The dipping sauce wasn't quite right, and just as she finished cleaning the tripe, someone came to freeload.

After the palace servants left, Ying Zheng moved a small stool and sat down opposite Lin Chaoyan around the hot pot.

Ying Zheng dipped a piece of tripe in hot water and put it in his mouth. "Isn't it missing some seasoning...?"

"It's good enough that there's any. Eat up." Lin Chaoyan listlessly poked at the lamb rolls next to her. "There aren't many left. I haven't tried making my own hot pot broth yet, so I don't know how many more meals we can have."

"They're gone? It doesn't seem so bad to live in seclusion with them; you could learn a lot." The three big shots' words were like a sudden enlightenment, turning even a fool into a genius.