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"What does my brother want with me?"

Zhu Qianxiao's voice was slightly hoarse, likely due to her constant crying after her parents encountered a shipwreck while sailing to buy goods.

Yi Yi glanced at her, dismissed all the servants around her, and only instructed the maid who had gone to call Zhu Qianxiao to guard the door, and pulled Zhu Qianxiao into the room.

After the two sat down on the edge of the bed, Yi Yi obediently asked Zhu Qianxiao, following the script, "Xiaoxiao, do you want to marry Young Marshal Ma?"

"What?!" Zhu Qianxiao stood up abruptly, exclaiming in disbelief, "Why would I marry someone I've never even met?!"

Seeing her so agitated, Yi Yi was a little startled, and then began to comfort her, saying, "Then I'll arrange for you to meet someone..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhu Qianxiao interrupted him: "It's not a matter of meeting or not meeting. Brother, why are you suddenly arranging a marriage for me?"

Yi hesitated for a few moments, but finally told her the general story of what had happened in the banquet hall.

Seeing Zhu Qianxiao's gloomy expression, Yi Yi quickly added, "If you are unwilling, I will go and discuss it with the commander-in-chief. Anyway, the marriage certificate has not been exchanged yet. I will go and see if we can cancel this verbal marriage."

“No need, brother,” Zhu Qianxiao said in a low voice. “General Ma is trying to get the Zhu family on board. If you refuse, I’m afraid you’ll lose your position as the head of the family.”

Yi Yi opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she only sighed and said, "It's good that you understand."

"I agree to marry Young Marshal Ma. Anyway, there are still three years left, but before that, I want to study!" Zhu Qianxiao looked intently at Yi Yi, her eyes firm and determined, like bright and fiery stars twinkling in the night sky.

Yi Yi thought excitedly: Here it comes, the story is about to begin!

But he didn't show it on his face, and asked with some doubt, "Didn't your family find a tutor to come to your home to teach you?"

Zhu Qianxiao shook her head and said seriously, "Not the kind of school where I study at home, nor the kind of aristocratic girls' school. I want to go to a school outside!"

Her face showed no hesitation or wavering, only unwavering determination and pursuit of her goal. It was as if she were telling Yi Yi that she was fully prepared, making one want to agree to her request.

But Yi Yi, or rather Zhu Yi Yi, didn't think so. She frowned and blurted out, "No, you are the eldest daughter of the Zhu family, how can you do such a public thing?"

"I don't care, I just want to go to school!" Zhu Qianxiao stubbornly refused to give up her idea.

"No way! I already said, if you go to school now and show your face in public, the prejudices of the world will crush you!" Yi Yi refused without even thinking, and proposed another plan, "Or do you want to study abroad?"

"I'm not going abroad to study, I'm going to Qingshan Academy!" Zhu Qianxiao said, and then came forward to hold Yi Yi's hand and shake it, acting coquettishly.

Yi Yi grasped her hand, looking at her younger sister with a slight headache. Once she made a decision, she was determined to follow through. She asked in surprise, "Qingshan Academy? The Qingshan Academy that refused to be brought under the control of the warlords?"

“That’s right! That’s the one! When I went out before, I saw that this academy was organizing lectures for the people, and I want to be one of them!” Zhu Qianxiao said with sparkling eyes, full of longing.

"That's even more unacceptable!" Yi Yi still refused. "Do you know how difficult things will be for Qingshan Academy after it refuses to be managed by the Marshal? If you go there to study, won't you just be going to suffer?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Qianxiao retorted indignantly, "Why?! Brother, didn't you also graduate from Qingshan Academy?!"

Yi Yi took a deep breath, shook her head, and said sadly, "I admit that the teachers at Qingshan Academy are very knowledgeable and have great integrity, but it is precisely because I have studied there that I know how difficult it is, and that's why I don't want you to study there."

"Why? Once I'm studying, I can help my brother manage the Zhu family's business! Or I can even make a name for myself through my studies, so we'll have more confidence to refuse the Ma family's marriage proposal!"

Zhu Qianxiao tried to reason with her and appeal to her emotions, and it was clear that she had this idea for a long time, but Yi Yi still firmly rejected her proposal, which made her somewhat annoyed and aggrieved.

In the heat of the moment, he heard Yi Yi say the same thing: "You are the eldest daughter of the Zhu family, I can't let you suffer like this in public."

Unable to control her emotions, she angrily shouted, "Why? I could be like my sister too..."

"Zhu Qianxiao!" Yi Yi's rebuke brought Zhu Qianxiao back to her senses, and then she said coldly, "Watch your words and actions."

Realizing that she had almost let slip their family's most important secret, she realized that her sister's forced disguise as a man was actually forced, and that her parents had lied and claimed to have given birth to the eldest son to stabilize the Zhu family's situation of being surrounded by wolves and facing internal and external troubles.

But she spoke without thinking, and almost made such a thing public.

She lowered her head in self-reproach, tears welling up in her eyes, but she forced herself not to let them fall.

Seeing this, Yi Yi sighed and softened her tone to comfort her, "Which option do you want? If you want to study, I'll hire a few more tutors for you to teach you something else, or I'll simply send you abroad to study?"

But the girl's determination, though her tone had softened, did not weaken. Zhu Qianxiao murmured, "I want to go to Qingshan Academy. I want to attend the same academy my brother used to attend."

They looked at each other in silence, neither of them speaking again, but the air was thick with the message that neither of them was willing to compromise.

Yi Yi stared at him for a while, her eyes getting dry. She genuinely felt a headache coming on for a moment because of the female lead's stubbornness. She closed her eyes, rubbed her temples, and finally relented, tentatively asking, "You should know that if you insist on going to Qingshan Academy, you can't go as the eldest daughter of the Zhu family, right?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Qianxiao, as if struck by a sudden inspiration, instantly beamed with joy, her eyes sparkling with excitement: "I know, I know! I will dress up as a boy to go to school, and I will absolutely not reveal that I am the eldest daughter of the Zhu family!"

Seeing that Zhu Qianxiao understood the meaning of her words so quickly, without giving her a chance to hesitate, Yi Yi sighed and agreed: "Since you have already made up your mind, I can't stop you. It will last for three years. You can secretly mobilize a certain amount of resources from the Zhu family. If you can really make a name for yourself, I will no longer discipline you."

Zhu Qianxiao was about to happily thank her older sister when a "but" stopped her.

“But if you don’t make a name for yourself in these three years, you should obediently come back and marry Young Marshal Ma.” Yi sighed as she looked at Zhu Qianxiao, and muttered in a voice only she could hear, “At least even if your brother couldn’t protect you, marrying into the Ma family will ensure you have a life free from financial worries.”

Zhu Qianxiao didn't hear what Yi Yi said afterward, and without any objection to the conditions mentioned earlier, she excitedly agreed.

After getting permission from Yi Yi, he skipped and hopped toward his room, ready to begin his studies at Qingshan Academy.

Watching her younger sister's joyful departure, Zhu Yiyi couldn't help but sigh. She looked up at the sky and whispered, "Father and Mother, I hope you can bless my sister with peace, happiness, and all her wishes coming true."