Yun Wanyin was stunned.

"You're retiring from the military and going back to your hometown?"

Fu Junshi nodded.

"I return the tiger tally to His Majesty."

Yun Wanyin quickly realized why he did this after a moment's thought.

The emperor must have pressured him with the marriage proposal for him to make that choice.

The power that you risked your life for over a decade or two to obtain, you can just give up like that.

How could there be such a foolish man in this world?

"You're such an idiot."

Yun Wanyin smiled wryly, her eyes brimming with tears.

Is it worth it?

Fu Junshi chuckled.

"worth."

Nothing is more important than her.

Yun Wanyin silently took some medicinal wine and rubbed his knees.

She thought to herself, "She must have been a good person for ten lifetimes to be able to be husband and wife with this person in this life."

...

When Xiao Qingyin returned from the General's Mansion, she received a box of purple pearls and a letter.

It was given to me by a beggar.

He said someone gave him a dime and asked him to deliver it to the Yun residence.

Without a doubt, this was someone arranged by Qiu San Niang.

In her letter, she repeatedly apologized to Xiao Qingyin and the Yun family.

He said he hadn't considered things thoroughly enough and had dragged them down with him.

"...If you ever come to Nanyue, please be sure to visit the Red Flag Gang to find Third Sister. She will definitely apologize to you in person..."

The letter that Ji Yunhua and Xiao Qingyin read together.

I laughed out loud after reading it.

"With her admission, the charge of you colluding with pirates is now well-deserved."

Xiao Qingyin glared at her.

“Having more friends means having more options,” Ji Yunhua laughed. “The day you can’t resist killing the emperor and are wanted by the whole country, you’ll have a ready-made place to go.”

Xiao Qingyin really did have thoughts of assassinating the emperor.

Emperor Cheng Tai, day after day, doesn't know how to be a decent person, but insists on acting like a dog.

She was getting a little itchy to do it.

Dog: I haven't offended any of you.

When Yi Jiu came to hand in his homework that night, she asked him, "Why does the Emperor always have a problem with the Yun family? The young and strong members of the Yun family sacrificed their lives for the country, didn't they? They didn't betray Da Xi, did they?"

Yi Shuihan sighed.

"I don't know either. Speaking of which, the Marquis of Zhongyong once taught His Majesty martial arts, so he practically watched His Majesty grow up."

"What?"

Xiao Qingyin was greatly surprised.

"Isn't that his master? He doesn't appreciate his kindness and wants to kill him?"

Did the Marquis of Zhongyong mistreat him when he taught him martial arts?

“My father told me that the Marquis of Zhongyong and His Majesty used to have a very good relationship, but their relationship has become distant since His Majesty ascended the throne.”

Yi Shuihan replied.

Xiao Qingyin secretly wondered, could it be that the Marquis of Zhongyong knew that Emperor Chengtai wanted to kill his father and tried to stop him, thus incurring Emperor Chengtai's wrath?

The crime of patricide is far more serious than the crime of harming siblings.

The wise king used this banner to start his rebellion.

But he produced no evidence, and the rebellion failed. The princes and ministers turned a deaf ear and pretended they had never heard of it.

Xiao Qingyin sighed.

Why is it so hard to be an ordinary, law-abiding citizen?

Why doesn't she follow Yun Shu's example and kill the emperor to become empress?

But after thinking about Emperor Yongzheng, who had to get up at three in the morning to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, attend the morning court session, and not go to bed until eleven at night, she gave up on the idea.

Let's just be lazy people who sleep until we naturally wake up every day and count money until our hands cramp.

She, however, started thinking about something else.

Have you thought of a way to help me break off the engagement?

Yi Shuihan's eyes flickered.

"not yet."

Xiao Qingyin rested her chin on her hand and said with a smile, "I have thought of one."

"What method?"

"If we were to consummate our marriage and your prince happened to see it, wouldn't he take the initiative to break off the engagement?"

Yi Shuihan: "..."

I'm afraid not.

It will only make people watch them more closely.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xiao Qingyin straightened up, moved closer to him, and blinked.

"What, you're not happy about it?"

Her face was so close that Yi Shuihan could even feel the heat emanating from her breath.

I couldn't help but take two steps back.

“Of course that won’t do,” Yi Shuihan said quickly, coming up with a reason. “What if the prince gets so angry that he kills us?”

"If the two of us join forces, he can't beat us."

Xiao Qingyin smiled.

"I think it's more likely that he saw it, and instead of being angry, he wanted to join in."

Yi Shuihan: "..."

He glared at the woman in front of him through gritted teeth: "You'd love for this to happen, wouldn't you?"

Two dragons and a phoenix, how did she come up with that?

No, not at all.

Xiao Qingyin answered honestly.

She only ever fantasized about the two of them.

Yi Shuihan didn't believe a single word.

He began to worry that if he were to actually marry this woman in the future, he would become anxious and unable to concentrate on anything if he couldn't see her.

That definitely won't work.

He'll have to learn from the old man later.

Xiao Qingyin suddenly remembered something and asked him, "Do you know the seventh young lady of the Xuanyi Marquis's mansion? The one who was given to Fu Junshi as a concubine."

She returned in the afternoon and didn't know whether Fu Junshi had successfully broken off the engagement.

“She…” Yi Shuihan hesitated for a moment, but still said, “She seems to have feelings for His Majesty.”

"Oh?" Xiao Qingyin's eyes lit up. "Could you tell me more about it?"

“She was always running to the palace. At one point, the Consort forbade her from entering the palace. Later, she probably saw that there were more new people in the palace and that she was not as favored. She wanted to find a helper, so she started associating with her again.”

Yi Shuihan replied.

"His Majesty only sees her as a junior and has no such intentions."

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