Yinreng looked at Kangxi helplessly: "Father, please listen to what I have to say. Just now, Maomao told me that this thing cannot harm me. It has a protective shield on my body, so no one can hurt me."

"Nowhere will do. Who knows if this protective shield is reliable or not? If it's not reliable, then you can forget about this matter and go back quickly. The important thing is to accompany your Crown Princess and help the royal family have offspring."

Cat: 'You're unreliable! Your whole family is unreliable! Big friend, your dad is framing someone, but that person is very reliable! They're going to fight him!'

Yinreng: ......

"Father, the cat is actually really reliable." In order to prevent the system from coming out to fight, Yinreng struggled to salvage its reputation.

"Hmph, how can it be reliable? It can't even handle a simple matter properly. If it had handled it well back then, none of this would have happened today." Kangxi had no trust in this system.

Cat: "Ugh, I'm so angry! I didn't do this! It was God's arrangement, it has nothing to do with me!"

The system was furious!

Yinreng, caught in the middle, experienced the feeling of being a sandwich filling, which was indeed difficult to handle.

However, he still wanted to salvage the system's reputation: "Father, the cat is really reliable. When I was little, it was always the cat that gave me protection when you hit me, so it didn't hurt at all. That's why I trust it. Father, please let me go." Yinreng was focused on restoring the cat's reputation and dealing with this matter, and inadvertently revealed such a big thing.

? ? ?

What did you just say?

Kangxi looked at Yinreng with a complicated expression, whose eyes were firm and who was determined to explain himself.

He spoke calmly, "You said that when I hit you before, you were just pretending, and I didn't actually hit you at all!"

Yinreng: !!

My life is over!

Yinreng stared wide-eyed at Kangxi, trying to appear sincere: "No, Father Emperor, is it too late for me to say that what I just said was an exaggeration, a show of bravado, and that I didn't actually do anything wrong?"

"Hmm? Do you think it's too late?" Kangxi looked at Yinreng with an ambiguous expression.

Yinreng smiled awkwardly, then saw that Kangxi had already picked up the feather duster that was lying next to him—the one Mingxiu had made for him, very convenient for disciplining children. He knew that this was definitely not going to work.

Swallowing hard, he backed away while quickly saying, "Your Majesty, I think this matter should be handled according to your arrangements. I will not get involved and will take my leave now." With that, he turned and ran outside.

Kangxi looked at him coldly and strode after him. Soon after, the sounds of Yinreng's screams and pleas for mercy, along with Kangxi's angry rebukes, came from the imperial study.

"Father, I was wrong. What I said before was not true. Please forgive me, Father." Yinreng said as he ran around the Imperial Study.

Kangxi chased closely behind: "You brat, you have the nerve to cry and complain even though it doesn't hurt, and you even dare to tattle? Do you think I believe you? I think you deserve a beating."

Liang Jiugong, who was listening outside, grimaced in disbelief, wondering what the Crown Prince had done this time that had prompted the Emperor to take action.

The Imperial Study was in complete chaos. By the end, the palace servants of the Qianqing Palace could see that His Highness the Crown Prince, who was usually very particular about his appearance, came out clutching his backside, but the smile on his face never left his face.

Emperor Kangxi also came out supporting his back, and the two slowly walked towards Yonghe Palace.

The palace servants followed at a distance, and they could occasionally hear the two bickering.

When the two arrived at Yonghe Palace, Mingxiu was leisurely sitting in the courtyard preparing to dry some flowers. It's hard to say that Mingxiu brought her bad habit of studying to the point of exhaustion, and she also brought her bad habit of not only dragging herself down but also her parents.

So now she's completely brought this trouble upon herself. Some teacher at Chenghuan's school assigned the task of parents and children making dried flowers together and bringing them to school to decorate. But Chenghuan just can't sit still, and Kangxi won't help with this, so Mingxiu has to do it herself.

When Mingxiu saw Yinreng and Kangxi enter, she was happy and prepared to greet them. Then she noticed their strange posture and quickly came over: "What's wrong with you two? What happened?" Mingxiu asked nervously.

Kangxi and Yinreng smiled awkwardly. Kangxi was holding his waist because he had accidentally twisted it while chasing Yinreng. As for Yinreng, it was because Kangxi had made up for the lack of love and care he received when he was a child.

Neither of them said anything, but judging from their expressions, it wasn't anything serious, so Mingxiu wasn't worried. However, people can't just stand there forever, so Mingxiu had no choice but to help them inside to find out what was going on.

After the two sat down inside and recounted what had happened, Mingxiu had lost the ability to speak. She glanced at them weakly and shook her head helplessly. She didn't know what to say, but she truly hadn't expected the system to be usable in this way.

However, in the end, this matter was handed over to Yinreng, since, as he said, these things would not harm him.

So even though Yinreng was beaten, he still smiled happily.

This way

The academy operates on a six-day break schedule, and today is the last day of the week. After class, everyone can go home. Right now, Chenghuan is leading a group in a very interesting game called beanbag toss. It's not that Mingxiu wanted to play it, but it's because it's the academy's annual sports meet.

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