Zhou Qiongyue only wanted to lie flat and chill—
Instead, she transmigrated into a novel she once read, full of backstabbing household drama.
Worse yet, she wasn’t even the heroine....
Zhou Qiongyue didn't know what happened in the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion.
Anyway, by the time Zhou Qiongyue brought her two children back to the Cheng'en Marquisate, her grandfather and grandmother had already returned to their ancestral home in the south, and the household expenses had returned to her mother, Jin.
This time, Zhou Qiongyue returned home because her mother Jin asked her to go back, not because she took the initiative to go to the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion.
She had wanted to go back when her father Zhou Wencan was first ennobled, but her mother, Jin, sent her a message asking her not to go back for the time being. That’s why Zhou Qiongyue didn’t rush back to Cheng’en Marquis Mansion.
Jin didn't want her daughter to return home and get involved in the mess.
This time, Jin asked Zhou Qiongyue to return to Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion because she had regained control of the mansion. She found a day off and asked her daughter to return to the mansion for everyone to get together.
In reality, it was mainly because Zhou Wencan missed his daughter, and Jin Shi missed her grandson. As for Zhou Zhiquan, who was still studying hard at the academy, both Jin Shi and Zhou Wencan said that they hadn't thought about this bastard yet.
So when the family gets together, it means Zhou Qiongyue gets together with her parents.
When Zhou Qiongyue arrived at the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion, her parents stood at the gate to greet her.
Zhou Qiongyue immediately ran over quickly, and Zhou Wencan and Jin still bowed.
"Dad, Mom, what are you doing?"
Zhou Wencan listened to his daughter's coquettish talk with a smile. After Jin stood up straight, she ran directly towards Yuan Chaochang and Yuan Chaokang behind Zhou Qiongyue.
Yuan Chaochang and Yuan Chaokang immediately slipped out of their respective wet nurses' arms, both obediently calling out, "Grandma!"
Yuan Chaokang directly reached out to Jin, "Hug me!"
Seeing his brother like this, Yuan Chaochang quickly reached out and said, "Hold me!"
When Jin saw this, her heart melted. She squatted down and reached out to hug one of them in each hand, preparing to hug them both together. She didn't want to favor one over the other.
But imagination is beautiful, and it is impossible to hold on to it now.
Jin tried twice but failed to lift the baby up, and the scene suddenly became quiet.
Even Yuan Chaochang and Yuan Chaokang looked at each other in disbelief.
Yuan Chaokang was determined not to admit that he had turned from a ruthless emperor into a child, but his attempt to act cute failed.
Zhou Qiongyue and Zhou Wencan obviously also noticed the situation here at the Jin family.
Zhou Wencan was more restrained, only smiling a little more as he watched his wife doubting her life. But Zhou Qiongyue was different; she was practically staggering with laughter.
Zhou Wencan would occasionally have to support his daughter who was smiling happily, for fear that she would accidentally fall.
Jin turned around and saw the two laughing father and daughter. She angrily asked, "Is the excitement beautiful? Why don't you come over and hug our Chang'er and Kang'er?"
Zhou Qiongyue shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly, "Mother, why do you think they are both held by the wet nurse? They are so eager to compete for my favor. As long as I hold one of them, the other one will explode like a pot of boiling water and make a lot of noise.
Sometimes the two brothers would even fight over who was holding the baby with the left hand and who was holding the baby with the right hand."
As for why Yuan Chaokang, despite his adult soul, was so childish, it was simply because being a child was too boring, especially for a child his age. There were many places he couldn't go, many foods he couldn't eat, and besides sleeping, all he could do was tease his older brother.
Zhou Wencan went over and squatted down, holding one in each hand and picked them up very easily.
He didn't even ask the two brothers which of them wanted which hand to hold, he just held whoever he wanted.
Zhou Wencan held his two grandchildren in his arms and weighed them, commenting, "They are not light!"
But there was no expression of difficulty on Zhou Wencan's face.
Zhou Qiongyue saw that her father picked up the baby so easily, and even had the mind to chat with her mother and her. She couldn't hide the surprise on her face.
Jin looked at her daughter with amusement, "Another person who was deceived by the Marquis's refined appearance."
When Zhou Qiongyue entered the yard, she realized belatedly that her sister-in-law and nephew were not there. She couldn't help but ask, "Didn't we say we were having dinner together? Where's Fifth Brother? Where are Sister-in-law and Rong'er?"
Zhou Wencan smiled proudly. He had chosen a good day on purpose. "Oh, I forgot to tell you. Your fifth brother is in the academy, and the imperial examination is approaching. He's under a lot of pressure, so we didn't invite him.
Your sister-in-law and Rong'er are going back to their parents' home today."
"So it's just me, my parents and I, the three of us eating together?" Zhou Qiongyue felt inexplicably happy. Why?
Jin didn't even look back at her daughter. She kept teasing the two grandsons in Zhou Wencan's arms, "And our Chang'er and Kang'er!"
Zhou Qiongyue glanced at the two grinning children. "Ignore them," she thought. "Today, I can have all my parents' love to myself."
Zhou Wencan looked at his daughter who was shaking her head with joy, and he was also very happy holding his grandson.
Zhou Qiongyue spent a happy day with her parents. The three of them had lunch and dinner together and played chess together.
Mainly, she played with her father, while her mother, Jin, gave random orders beside her. Zhou Qiongyue didn't have much spirit to play chess, and occasionally destroyed one or two chess pieces.
Zhou Wencan also smiled and let the mother and daughter make a fuss. Afterwards, the three of them even had a fishing competition in the mansion's lake. However, none of them had much luck today. Only Zhou Wencan caught a small fish the size of a palm.
This alone made Zhou Wencan extremely happy. No man would not care about his reputation in front of his wife and daughter.
As for the two children, they ate their fill and fell asleep while Zhou Qiongyue and the others were playing chess.
While Zhou Qiongyue and the others were fishing, the two of them were playing in a nearby sand pit. Yuan Chaochang was the main one playing, while Yuan Chaokang, a little disliked the dirt, just sat nearby and watched his mother, grandparents, and grandfather fish.
Yuan Chaokang watched his mother and grandfather interact with each other, his eyes full of smiles. Although he was an emperor in his previous life, his childhood was probably far less happy than it is now.
At that time, Yuan Chaokang's father raised all his sons like raising a poisonous insect. He only liked the most powerful and capable ones. As for the others, they would still be posthumously honored after their death.
This was the love of his "good father." As for his mother, she might have been nice to him. But his mother's control was too strong. She even wanted to place someone in her grandson's backyard. He didn't know if his mother loved him or not.
But compared with his current mother, he felt that his mother in his previous life did not love him, and perhaps only loved power.
So Yuan Chaokang just felt very happy just by watching his mother and grandfather interacting with each other in a daze.
As for whether anyone would destroy this happiness in the future, Yuan Chaokang felt that even if someone did, it would not happen.
Zhou Qiongyue stayed at the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion with her child for a day, but she didn't go back. She settled directly in Qiongyue Pavilion, where she lived before she got married.