After barely finishing a plate of food, Ye Jingyan noticed that the number of people watching her eat had increased to seven.

Besides her elder brother, elder sister, and younger sister, her three younger brothers were also staring intently at her, as was the chubby boy.

Meanwhile, everyone else had already finished their breakfast, but they didn't pay any attention to her.

"Royal brother and sister, can I stop eating? I can't eat anymore!" Ye Jingyan looked pitifully at Ye Jingchen and Ye Jingshu.

Unlike Ye Jinghe's feigned pitifulness, Ye Jingyan genuinely felt sorry for herself.

Ye Jinghe looked at her thoughtfully, feeling that he still had a lot of room for improvement.

“Each of us, including the fourth and fifth princes who are only four years old, eats more than you,” Ye Jingchen said with a smile.

"But I've always eaten so little..." Ye Jingyan's voice grew softer and softer under Ye Jingchen's gaze.

"Imperial brother is giving you two choices: either convince me or my sister, or finish the food in front of you." Ye Jingchen still smiled kindly.

Actually, the remaining food doesn't have to be eaten. One can gradually increase their appetite; you can't become fat overnight. As long as Ye Jingyan is firm and clearly expresses her desire not to eat, Ye Jingchen will give in and stop asking her to continue eating.

Unfortunately, Ye Jingyan was unaware of Ye Jingchen's inner thoughts. She felt that she had been bullied. If she were in Biyue Palace, she might have lost her temper and fought back, but this was in the completely unfamiliar East Palace, and she dared not.

She glanced at Ye Jingchen, then at Ye Jingshu, hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to continue eating.

However, being stared at while eating was too uncomfortable, so Ye Jingyan had to speed up her eating.

After struggling to finish the dish of food, Ye Jingyan subconsciously touched the area above her stomach, which was bulging. She felt that if she pressed down hard, she might vomit up everything she had just eaten.

This thought terrified Ye Jingyan. Was her body going to break down?

Seeing Ye Jingyan's furrowed brows and distressed expression, Ye Jingchen realized he had miscalculated.

Although he had anticipated that Ye Jingyan's appetite would be smaller than Ye Jingyu's, he did not expect it to be so small. Ye Jingyu ate at most 80% full, but she was stuffed.

Now he really is the villain who bullied his sister.

"There's still a quarter of an hour before class. Eating too much will upset your stomach. Why don't you take your second sister for a walk, elder sister?" Ye Jingchen said awkwardly to Ye Jingshu.

Ye Jingshu had been watching Ye Jingyan closely and noticed that she had eaten too much. Although overeating wasn't a big deal, it would still make her feel uncomfortable.

"Second sister, let's go." She immediately pulled Ye Jingyan up, and Ye Jingyu silently followed.

Ye Jingyan was exhausted and didn't want to move, but Ye Jingshu forcibly dragged her along at a fast pace. She felt extremely uncomfortable and didn't dare to resist. She just walked while wiping away tears.

"Elder sister, you're walking too fast," Ye Jingyu noticed and reminded Ye Jingshu.

Since she started exercising in the morning, Ye Jingshu has walked very fast and has gotten used to taking long strides. She hadn't even noticed this until Ye Jingyu reminded her.

"If you're feeling unwell, why don't you say so?" Ye Jingshu stopped and asked Ye Jingyan.

Only the elder and younger sisters were present, so Ye Jingyan was a bit bolder.

"Will my sister let me go if I tell her?" she asked, somewhat indignantly.

"How do you know you can't do it if you don't try?" Ye Jingshu retorted.

"I don't want to stay in the East Palace anymore, and I don't want to study in the Wenhua Hall. Can my elder sister let me go back to Biyue Palace?" Ye Jingyan asked hopefully.

"No!" Ye Jingshu replied coldly and ruthlessly.

Ye Jingyan: ......

A child's breakdown can happen in an instant.

"Waaaaah... You're all bullying me..." Ye Jingyan burst into tears on the spot, just like Ye Jingshu.

"Who taught you to cry when you don't get what you want?" Ye Jingshu asked her, frowning.

"Waaaaah..." Ye Jingyan didn't speak, she just cried.

Ye Jingshu: ......

She just couldn't understand it. She had always thought that crying was a sign of weakness, and that shedding tears, especially in public, was shameful. How come Ye Jingyan didn't feel that way at all?

Did she think that if she cried and shed tears, others would give in to her?

If it were in the past, Ye Jingshu would definitely have turned around and left if she saw Ye Jingyan crying incessantly.

But now, she feels that since she was the one who forcibly brought Ye Jingyan to the East Palace, she has to take responsibility for her.

"I wasn't playing a trick on you. If you asked me to slow down, I would have agreed," Ye Jingshu explained with a sigh.

"As for bringing you to study at Wenhua Hall, it's truly for your own good. Although you can study at Biyue Palace, your mother—some of her ideas are wrong. She herself is bound by those things, so she habitually tries to use those things to bind you as well. Your elder sister also wants you to take the initiative to break out of that framework," Ye Jingshu explained patiently.

Was Mother bound by something?

And what is a framework?

Ye Jingyan didn't understand what Ye Jingshu was saying. The only thing she understood was that she couldn't go back to Biyue Palace now.

So her tears never stopped.

"She cries too much, I can't do anything with her, so please, Your Highness, take care of her!" After walking slowly with Ye Jingyan for a while, Ye Jingshu led her to the Wenhua Hall and presented her directly to Ye Jingchen.

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