Quick Transmigration: The main focus is on speed.

The original owner was the sixth prince of the Great Qi Kingdom. Three of his older brothers died young, and only his third and fourth brothers were still alive. His seventh and eighth younger brothers were also alive.

Unlike the ordinary princes who fought for power and resorted to any means to seize the throne, these six brothers were as close as family. Although they were not born of the same mother, they were true brothers.

But ever since the original owner was forced to marry Liu Ruyan, everything has gone in an uncontrollable direction.

The third prince was naturally dull-witted, but as an elder brother, he was very loving towards his younger brothers. It could be said that no matter who ascended the throne, they would not pose a threat to the third prince. However, this very third prince, who loved his younger brothers, was discovered to be having an affair with a concubine on the day of the imperial concubine selection in his previous life. The enraged emperor imprisoned him in his residence, never to step out again.

Not long after, the fourth prince went mad during the morning court session, pointing at his father, the emperor, on the dragon throne and cursing him. In front of all the court officials, even though the emperor favored the fourth prince as the heir, he could no longer choose the fourth prince, and the fourth prince was eliminated. After regaining his senses and remembering everything he had done, he couldn't bear it and ended his own life.

Subsequently, the Seventh Prince was also attacked without cause, on the grounds that he was not of royal blood. Although it was eventually proven that the Seventh Prince was born to the Emperor, his mother felt humiliated and died of illness not long afterward. The Seventh Prince then became a prince whose bloodline was in doubt.

The Emperor's health was deteriorating day by day, and the Eighth Prince was still an infant. The original owner of this body was pushed onto the throne instead of wanting to be an idle prince who relied on his Fourth Brother.

If someone else were to suddenly receive the throne, they would feel like they'd won the lottery. But the original owner of this body felt that the throne was a hot potato, making him very uncomfortable. He couldn't get rid of it, and he was miserable.

For the sake of the people of the Great Qi Kingdom, and for the dignity and reputation of the royal family, the original owner endured all the grievances and learned the way of being an emperor little by little. Just when she had figured out a little bit of the trick, the seventh prince rebelled.

The original owner was more than happy to see someone rebel, let alone his own younger brother. He didn't care about bloodlines anymore. Others might not know, but he knew perfectly well that the seventh brother looked exactly like him when he was a child. If there was something wrong with the seventh brother's bloodline, he himself wouldn't be much better off.

The seventh prince had just barged into the original owner's study when he saw the original owner holding the imperial seal and stamping it on an imperial edict. He said, "Seventh brother, you should have said you wanted the throne earlier! You've made your sixth brother so tired he's almost bald. Honestly... From now on, your sixth brother is counting on you..."

After saying this, he stuffed the imperial edict of succession and the imperial seal into the Seventh Prince's arms. Even though the original owner of this body cooperated so well, the Seventh Prince still locked her up. The original owner of this body understood this quite well. After all, she had once been the emperor, and for the sake of the stability of the Great Qi Kingdom, it was nothing for her to be locked up.

However, the original owner did not expect that his queen had secretly run away at some point. When she returned, she was by the side of the Qin emperor. The Great Qi Kingdom was destroyed, and only the young eighth prince was escorted out of the Great Qi Kingdom, becoming the only bloodline.

The Seventh Prince became a sinner of Daqi. In the mouths of the people of Daqi, the Seventh Prince was the jinx of Daqi. Otherwise, why was Daqi fine when the original owner was on the throne, but Daqi died when the Seventh Prince ascended the throne?

Although the Eighth Prince was alive, he was worse off than the original owner of the body who was waiting to die. He was brainwashed daily by the old subordinates of Da Qi, his mind filled with hatred, and all he could think about was how to restore the kingdom. Without money, power, or superpowers, relying on just a few loyal followers, restoring the kingdom was as difficult as climbing to heaven. It can be said that the Eighth Prince died of depression in the end, saying before his death that he had failed his ancestors and had no face to meet them in the afterlife.

Only after the original owner's death did they realize that the entire outcome of the Great Qi's current situation was due to Liu Ruyan. Without Liu Ruyan, Great Qi wouldn't have perished; Third Brother would have devoted himself to poetry and literature, living a peaceful life; Fourth Brother would have ascended the throne, bringing prosperity to the people of Great Qi; they themselves would have become part of the "royal family," living a carefree life; Seventh Brother wouldn't have been unjustly accused, donning armor to fight when Great Qi needed him, becoming Great Qi's war god; and Eighth Brother wouldn't have been burdened with the mission of restoring the kingdom…

It all started because of Liu Ruyan, who suddenly appeared. Even now, the original owner doesn't know how Liu Ruyan managed to harm so many of his brothers one after another. Knowing that he was powerless to fight against Liu Ruyan, the original owner was able to bring about the arrival of Qi Yuan.

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"Ah, someone come quick! My young lady has fallen into the water! Please come and save her!" Qi Yuan glanced at the person struggling in the pool, paused, turned and left, completely ignoring the maid who was calling for help on the shore.

In his past life, on this very day, the original owner of this body impulsively attended the flower-viewing banquet hosted by the Liu family. While passing by the pond, he heard cries for help and, in a moment of weakness, jumped in to rescue Liu Ruyan. After that, he became entangled with Liu Ruyan and eventually had no choice but to marry her as his princess.

Qi Yuan saw Qin Shou, the hostage from Qin, coming towards the pond from afar. Her eyes flashed, and she hid behind the artificial hill.

At this moment, Liu Ruyan was still struggling in the pond. Only her maid was bending over and talking to her in the water. It was noisy in the water, and Liu Ruyan, confident in her abilities, didn't hear the maid shouting, "Miss, something terrible has happened! The hostages from Qin have arrived..."

Qin Shou originally didn't plan to go down to rescue her, but when he saw that it was Liu Ruyan inside, he suddenly accelerated and plunged in.

The maid on the shore: It's over, Miss's innocence is in jeopardy...

"Thank you for saving me, Sixth Prince..." After getting ashore, Liu Ruyan, with her eyes still closed, grabbed Qin Shou's clothes and softly uttered these words.

Qin Shou was the sixth son in the Qin Kingdom. Hearing Liu Ruyan say this, he did not notice anything amiss and said, "It's alright. As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. I am not the kind of person who would stand by and watch someone die."

Upon hearing the unfamiliar voice, Liu Ruyan, who was in her arms, suddenly opened her eyes. When she saw that the face in front of her was not Qi Yuan's, her eyes were filled with doubt, but it disappeared in an instant.

Qin Shou was busy posing and didn't notice Liu Ruyan's changing expression, missing his only chance to learn the truth.

Noticing the person in his arms begin to shiver, Qin Shou lowered his head and looked at Liu Ruyan with eyes full of affection. Liu Ruyan trembled even more violently, feeling not only cold but also fear.

With the help of her maid, Liu Ruyan escaped Qin Shou's embrace, gave Qin Shou a slight bow, and then hurriedly left the pond.

As Qin Shou watched Liu Ruyan's retreating figure, recalling the soft, fragrant touch of her in his arms, his face gradually turned red. Even a gust of wind couldn't dispel the flush on Qin Shou's face.

Qi Yuan silently adjusted her outer robe behind the artificial hill, shook her head as she looked at Qin Shou's infatuated expression.

From a distance, Liu Ruyan didn't seem to have any special abilities. She just had a little koi fish. She was dragged out by Qi Yuan the moment she passed by and thrown into the system space to become a snack for the animal systems.

Liu Ruyan had no idea that she had a little koi fish attached to her. She always thought that she had the power to make her words come true or that she had some kind of lucky koi body. Since her rebirth, the things she talked about would soon happen, all thanks to the little koi fish.

However, the little koi carp's cultivation was not up to par, and it had to fulfill Liu Ruyan's various wishes, which caused it to lose its ability to communicate with its host.

Liu Ruyan soaked in the bathtub, unable to understand why she had been chanting Qi Yuan's name, yet Qin Shou appeared instead. Could it be that because she had been chanting for the Sixth Prince, Heaven had made a mistake? It wasn't impossible.

"Heavens above, I love the sixth prince of Daqi, Qi Yuan, not that damned hostage Qin Shou from Qin. Please don't make a mistake again. Luckily, something went wrong today, and the person I was supposed to meet didn't show up. Otherwise, wouldn't I have to marry that good-for-nothing Qin Shou?" Liu Ruyan muttered to herself in the bathtub, stopping abruptly when she heard the maid push the door open and enter.

"Miss, I just asked. The maid who went to fetch someone suddenly fainted when she passed by the rockery, which is why she didn't..." The maid who went to fetch someone was the cousin of Lvwu, Liu Ruyan's head maid. The cousin said that she kept circling around the rockery and couldn't find her way out no matter how she walked.

How could Lvwu dare to tell such an outrageous reason? She could only make up a story that her cousin had fainted, and after colluding with her cousin on the story, she returned to report.

"Good riddance, it seems even God knows he made a mistake... cough, well, give that little girl a tael of silver to help her recover." Liu Ruyan pouted. Lvwu didn't care whether her young lady was saying something strange or not. After hearing that her cousin would give her a reward, she hurriedly thanked her. After helping Liu Ruyan bathe and change, she went to find her cousin.

In the hostage's residence, Qin Shou sat by the window, playing with the jade in his hand.

"Master, we've found out. Miss Liu jumped into the lake herself just to wait for you..." The more the guard spoke, the higher Qin Shou's lips curled up, almost reaching his ears.

"Master?" The guard asked, but Qin Shou did not respond for a long time.

"Okay, I understand, you can go now." When Qin Shou first arrived in Daqi, he fell in love with Liu Ruyan. There was no other reason than that Liu Ruyan had spoken up for him, which made Qin Shou feel that Liu Ruyan was a kind-hearted person, unlike any other woman he had ever met. He fell in love at first sight, but he hadn't found an opportunity to get close to Liu Ruyan, so he didn't make any moves.

Qin Shou and Liu Ruyan were each lost in their own thoughts. Qi Yuan was quite content being the useless prince, not having to attend court and having his brother take care of everything. This feeling couldn't be better.

Half a month later, at the flower-viewing banquet, it was also during this time that the Third Prince was found lying with his father's concubines.

"Sixth Prince Qi Yuan jumped into the pond to save me. Sixth Prince Qi Yuan jumped into the pond to save me. Sixth Prince Qi Yuan jumped into the pond to save me..." Liu Ruyan kept repeating this phrase. Perhaps because she hadn't yet managed to marry Qi Yuan as she wished, she didn't try to frame the Third Prince.

In this way, Qi Yuan would no longer need to keep her third brother by her side.

"Third Brother, it seems that Seventh Prince wants to see you." Qi Yuan pointed to the location of the Seventh Prince. Just then, the Seventh Prince looked up and saw him. The Third Prince thought that his seventh brother was looking for him, so he nodded to the Seventh Prince and walked over.

Seventh Prince: ? ? ? No?

Qi Yuan gestured to the Seventh Prince, who rolled his eyes but nodded to indicate that he understood.

"Everyone saw Qin Shou and Liu Ruyan alone in a room." As soon as he finished speaking, the talisman in Qi Yuan's hand burst into flames and vanished in an instant.

"Sisters, I heard that the lotus flowers over there are in full bloom..." With so many people around today, Liu Ruyan knew she wouldn't be able to find a quiet time to jump down, so she set her sights on these noble ladies.

As the legitimate daughter of Prime Minister Liu, Liu Ruyan's words were sure to be accepted without question. The young ladies accompanied her and stood by the pond.

"The lotus flowers in the palace are blooming so beautifully..." Liu Ruyan said while observing the distance between herself and Qi Yuan, and did not notice that Qin Shou was staring intently at her.

Suddenly, Liu Ruyan slipped, lost her balance, and fell into the pond with a cry of surprise. The ladies around her were stunned by the sudden turn of events, but Qin Shou, who had been watching Liu Ruyan closely, rushed out of the crowd and jumped into the lotus-filled pond.

The lotus flowers blocked Liu Ruyan's view, so she didn't know that it was Qin Shou who jumped down. Hearing people on the shore shouting "Sixth Prince," she thought it was Qi Yuan who jumped down, so she simply didn't struggle.

"The Sixth Prince is truly righteous. Although he is from Qin, he jumped into the water without hesitation to save our Miss Daqi. We, the men of Daqi, are ashamed of our own lack of virtue." It was Qi Yuan who spoke. Once Qi Yuan spoke, the others echoed him, praising Qin Shou's act of saving the girl to the skies.

Qin Shou was smug, while Liu Ruyan's face turned pale. Qin Shou thought Liu Ruyan had caught a cold from falling into the water because of the cold weather, and fearing that his beloved would catch a cold, he ignored Qi Yuan and the others' praise and carried Liu Ruyan to the side hall.