Quick Transmigration: The main focus is on speed.

Red candles flickered, and the grand hall shone brightly. Today was the wedding day of Marquis Ding'an, Qi Yuan, and Liu Ruyan. The entire Marquis's residence was decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers, and was bustling with activity.

"The Marquis's wedding today is truly a joyous occasion. The Marquis's wife must be both beautiful and talented, a perfect match for the Marquis..."

"Yes, yes, now that the Marquis is finally married, he'll have a beautiful wife by his side from now on. Don't forget about us brothers..."

"Congratulations, Your Excellency! Congratulations!"

Qi Yuan, dressed in a wedding robe, moved among the guests, listening to their congratulations. Behind him followed his eldest son, Qi Jinghuai. Qi Yuan glanced at Qi Jinghuai and gestured for him to step forward and drink on his behalf.

"Is this your son's wedding or yours? You can't just not drink a drop of alcohol. Come on, let's wish the Marquis a happy marriage and a house full of children and grandchildren!" The speaker was Qin Shou, Liu Ruyan's cousin. As soon as he finished speaking, the lively atmosphere instantly turned cold.

Everyone knows that Liu Ruyan is so infatuated with Qi Jinghuai that she chases after him all the time. Unfortunately, she is in love with him but he is not. Qi Jinghuai can't stand her harassment and hides in the military camp at every banquet.

Even though she's hiding like this, Liu Ruyan still manages to find opportunities to chase after Qi Jinghuai. Everyone in the capital knows that Liu Ruyan is so infatuated with Qi Jinghuai that she doesn't care about her own reputation.

But no one expected that Liu Ruyan, despite being so difficult, would not be able to marry Qi Jinghuai as she wished. Also, because of Liu Ruyan's scheming, Qi Jinghuai accidentally hugged Su Lingxi in public.

Summer clothes are thin, and even though the separation of men and women is not strictly enforced here, embracing like this would still damage a woman's reputation. For Su Lingxi's future, Qi Jinghuai used his newly earned military merits to obtain an imperial decree for marriage.

This is why Liu Ruyan is extremely jealous. Unable to have Qi Jinghuai, she decides that if she can't have him, she will become his stepmother, making him grovel before her every day and always have her in his eyes.

Therefore, Liu Ruyan devised a plan to make the original owner of the body drunk after offering incense to the fallen soldiers at the temple. Under pressure, the original owner still married Liu Ruyan.

The original owner, who was busy training soldiers and practicing martial arts all day long, had no idea that Liu Ruyan had fallen deeply in love with his adopted son. He only thought that since he had offended someone else's daughter, he should marry her and treat her well. However, he did not expect that after marrying into the Marquis's mansion with Liu Ruyan, the entire mansion would be in chaos. In the end, apart from Liu Ruyan, none of the members had a good ending.

Thinking of Liu Ruyan, who was in the bridal chamber discussing with her maid how to torment Su Lingxi, Qi Yuan patted Qi Jinghuai on the shoulder, signaling him to follow him.

"Father?" Qi Jinghuai was confused, but his childhood habit made him quickly drink it all down, with wine stains still on the corners of his mouth, and his face flushed as he followed Qi Yuan to the backyard.

"Dad, this won't do..." Seeing that they were heading towards the bridal chamber, Qi Jinghuai quickly stopped them. What kind of behavior would it be for him to follow his father to the bridal chamber on his wedding day? And that Liu Ruyan... Just thinking about Liu Ruyan made Qi Jinghuai feel nauseous and almost vomit. He looked at Qi Yuan with more sympathy.

"What kind of look is that, you brat! Alright, shut your mouth, Dad will show you the world." A slap landed on the back of Qi Jinghuai's head. It didn't hurt, but the sound was quite loud.

Qi Jinghuai didn't dare to say anything more, so he shut his mouth and followed Qi Yuan to his father's bridal chamber with light steps.

"Lord..." The maid was about to speak when she noticed the lord's sharp gaze and immediately shut her mouth, standing quietly to the side. At this moment, the doors and windows of the bridal chamber were tightly closed, and in the candlelight, it could be seen that there was more than one person inside, but what they were saying inside could not be heard very clearly.

The father and son quietly approached the window. Qi Yuan remained calm, gently placing his slender fingers to his lips and slowly pursing them, his movements practiced and gentle.

Then, with his damp fingers, he carefully inserted them into the paper pasted on the window, the whole process being completely silent and without making a sound.

Qi Jinghuai, standing to the side, stared wide-eyed at his father's series of practiced movements, his face filled with undisguised shock.

But curiosity prevailed in the end. In order to see what was inside, he hurriedly followed suit, put his finger in his mouth to wet it, and then poked hard at the window paper, making a small hole with difficulty.

The two hurriedly approached the cave entrance, their eyes eagerly peering inside.

Inside the room, Liu Ruyan was furious. "Today is my wedding day! How dare you, a junior, not come to pay your respects? This is unfilial! Go and bring that bitch Su Lingxi here, and see what I'll do to her..."

Hearing this, Qi Jinghuai was furious. He didn't expect that Liu Ruyan would want to torment his wife. Thinking of his wife's weak and cowardly nature, she was obviously a pushover. How could he let this happen?

"Who! Who's outside!" Liu Ruyan's ears were very sharp and she heard the noise outside. Qi Yuan glared at Qi Jinghuai, then made a gesture to the maid who had just left.

"Madam, a servant has come to report that the Marquis is drunk and will likely arrive later. He asked me to inquire if you would like a meal."

The maids and servants in the Marquis's mansion were all brought back from the border by the original owner. They were capable of fighting ten men at once on the battlefield, and their commands were so simple that they could understand the Marquis's intentions with just a gesture. Therefore, the maids could lie without any hesitation.

"Perfect, let that little bitch come and serve me my meal. You go and order something troublesome, like fish that requires picking out bones..."

Qi Yuan pulled Qi Jinghuai outside. Once outside the main courtyard, Qi Jinghuai still couldn't swallow his anger. He hadn't married a woman to be tormented. Moreover, if it weren't for Liu Ruyan, he would never have married Su Lingxi. However, it was also because of this that Qi Jinghuai was finally able to get rid of Liu Ruyan's entanglement. For this, Qi Jinghuai felt not only a sense of responsibility but also a touch of gratitude towards Su Lingxi.

Unfortunately, it hasn't developed into any other kind of relationship yet.

"Father, why are you stopping me?" When no one was around, Qi Jinghuai finally couldn't hold back and asked, his face full of doubt and resentment.

Qi Yuan glanced at him, rolled her eyes in annoyance, and interrupted before he could continue, saying, "Otherwise what? Are you going to let me cause a scene in your father's bridal chamber? If word gets out, your crime of being unfilial will be confirmed!"

Qi Jinghuai was speechless for a moment, opening his mouth but not knowing how to refute.

Looking at his son's innocent appearance, Qi Yuan sighed inwardly. Qi Jinghuai had never been exposed to the affairs of the inner quarters since childhood, so he naturally knew very little about the intricacies of the inner quarters, which was why he was so naive.

Indeed, the original owner never imagined that she would one day get married.

Over the years, he had focused his mind on raising Qi Jinghuai to adulthood and on military campaigns. As for Qi Jinghuai, he only hoped that he could find him a good marriage in the future and then hand over the heavy responsibility of the Marquis's mansion to him. In this way, he would have fulfilled his responsibilities and could retire successfully.

As for things like the continuation of family bloodlines and the inheritance of the Marquis's mansion, the original owner didn't care about them at all.

As long as the heir of the Marquis's mansion is a responsible and conscientious person who cares about the country and its people, that's enough. As for why the position of heir isn't Qi Jinghuai yet, it's because the original owner's stepmother is still alive. Every time the original owner tries to request a title for Qi Jinghuai, his stepmother, Liu, will stop him, crying and saying that Qi Yuan has let down the ancestors of the Qi family by handing over the title to someone else...

Although she wasn't his biological mother, she was still the original owner's mother. If this got out, the original owner would be branded as disobedient and unfilial. The original owner didn't care about that, but he was afraid that his son, Qi Jinghuai, would be implicated.

They had planned to wait until Lady Liu passed away before requesting that Qi Jinghuai be made the heir apparent, but unexpectedly, Liu Ruyan married into the family and became pregnant a few months later.

No one knew that the original owner had been injured in a battle more than ten years ago and lost her ability to have children. In addition, Qi Jinghuai's father died to save the original owner, so the original owner recognized Qi Jinghuai as her son. At that time, in order to put Qi Jinghuai in the family genealogy, Liu Shi even made a big scene in the ancestral hall.

But that was when the old Marquis was still alive, and he learned about the original owner's physical condition from His Majesty, reprimanded Liu, and dragged her away, which is why Qi Jinghuai was given an identity.

For the sake of his son's reputation, and because Liu was a stepmother, the old Marquis did not tell Liu the truth.

At first, seeing that Qi Jinghuai was greatly favored by the old Marquis and that Qi Yuan cared for him as if he were his own son, Madam Liu secretly began to plot her own scheme.

She knew that given her and the old Marquis's physical condition, they naturally couldn't have children. Moreover, the position of heir apparent had been firmly in Qi Yuan's hands for a long time. If she wanted to scheme against them, she could only do so against Qi Yuan and Qi Jinghuai.

When she married into the Marquis's mansion, Qi Yuan had already grown up, making it difficult to foster a mother-son relationship. Moreover, given the small age gap between them, it was even more important to avoid risks.

For the sake of the Liu family's future, the Liu family set their sights on Qi Jinghuai. If Liu Ruyan could marry Qi Jinghuai, the Liu family's status in the capital would surely rise to a higher level.

Therefore, she repeatedly tried to get her niece Liu Ruyan to visit the Marquis's residence, ostensibly to allow the younger generation to get closer and interact more, but in reality, she had other plans.

Before Liu Ruyan came to the Marquis's residence each time, Madam Liu would always praise Qi Jinghuai incessantly in her ear, embellishing his talent, character, and status in the Marquis's residence.

Under her aunt's deliberate guidance, Liu Ruyan's affection for Qi Jinghuai deepened day by day. Unknowingly, she had fallen in love with this young master of the Marquis's mansion.

However, to the surprise of neither the aunt nor the niece, Qi Jinghuai avoided Liu Ruyan like the plague, and their schemes came to naught.

Seeing that Qi Jinghuai was willing to marry a stranger, Su Lingxi, rather than marry her, Liu Ruyan was devastated. She made a scene at home, threatening to kill Su Lingxi, and was slapped hard by her father.

The Liu family has no standing in the capital now, and killing the future Crown Princess would be an impossible task. A slight misstep could lead to total defeat, and they would not risk their entire family for the sake of a woman.

Later, it was only after Lady Liu secretly sent Liu Ruyan a storybook that Liu Ruyan changed her mind.

Qi Yuan recounted all the past events to Qi Jinghuai without reservation.

The story begins with Qi Jinghuai's background, detailing the identity of his biological father, Qi Zhong. Judging from the name, one can tell that this person must be related to Qi Yuan.

Qi Zhong was the long-lost son of the original owner's uncle, but the Qi family did not know this. Moreover, the original owner's uncle and his wife had already passed away. If the original owner had not recognized Qi Zhong at a glance that he looked exactly like his uncle, they would have missed each other.

At that time, Qi Zhong was just a lowly soldier, while the original owner was a prince and a general. After hearing the original owner recount his background, Qi Zhong hated the Marquis's mansion. Every time the original owner offered to take him back to his ancestral home, Qi Zhong would refuse.

Later, Qi Zhong died saving the original owner of the body, and before his death, he finally agreed to let Qi Jinghuai acknowledge his ancestors and return to the family.

As for Qi Zhong's father leaving home and eventually dying, that's another story. It's simply that he was young, mistreated by his stepmother, misunderstood by his father, and his older brother was often away from home, so he had nowhere to confide in about his grievances, and that's how it happened...

In short, it was another old story. The original owner knew who had harmed her uncle and brother's family, but her stepmother had already passed away, so there was nothing she could do. She could only tell the old Marquis about it. After the old Marquis found out, her stepmother's family was severely suppressed and forced to leave the capital. Naturally, Liu Shi was unaware of all this.

Previously, the original owner had always been unwilling to mention these past events. In his view, there was no need for Qi Jinghuai to know about the rights and wrongs in the inner quarters.

He thought that as long as he patiently waited for Liu to pass away, many potential conflicts and problems would naturally dissipate, and there would be no need to waste words.

However, Qi Yuan did not think so. He knew that some storms must ultimately be faced and borne by the younger generation.

Only by letting Qi Jinghuai clearly understand the ins and outs of the matter can we avoid unnecessary misunderstandings in the future, and prevent the tragedy of father and son turning against each other and killing each other due to misunderstandings.