Seeing her brother's nervousness, Qingyin tried to comfort him.

"General, the Fourteenth Prince has arrived," Xiao Hong came over and reminded him.

Aruna frowned. Had the Fourteenth Prince been visiting too frequently lately? Something just didn't feel right. Looking at Yinzhen, who was clinging to his sister, Aruna felt increasingly uneasy. With a forced smile, she forcefully pulled Yinzhen away. "Your Highness, why don't you catch up with me first? There's no need for you to keep coming to my brother's place."

Yinzhen looked at Aluna with a guilty conscience; after all, he had abducted her younger brother, and he was indeed in the wrong. He gave Qingyin a wronged look, then obediently sat down to keep Aluna company.

Qingyin felt a little guilty for not having given her brother an explanation for so many days. She reassured him with a look from Yinzhen and then made an excuse to go out for a while, which made Yinzhen wish he could go out with Qingyin.

After everyone left that evening, Aruna looked at Qingyin with a sullen face and asked, "Sister, what exactly is going on between you and the Fourteenth Prince?"

Seeing the serious-looking Aruna, Qingyin wanted to slip away again, but she knew she would have to tell her brother sooner or later. She suppressed her urge to run away and said seriously to Aruna, "Brother, I'm with the Fourteenth Prince."

Aruna sighed, not too shocked. After all, his sister was beautiful and capable, so it was only natural that the Fourteenth Prince would fall for her. He looked at Qingyin with concern: "Then the prince knows that you are a woman, right?"

"have no idea."

Aluna's heart, which had just settled, jumped again. "!"

"I don't know, you didn't tell him?!"

Qingyin smiled and said, "Brother, actually, whether I say it or not, I don't plan to get married. I plan to stay in Tibet for the rest of my life. Yinzhen is a prince. He has the emperor and his mother. He can't be willful, so it won't last long."

"I won't!" Yinzhen climbed in through the window at some point, staring at Qingyin with red eyes. His tall and strong figure looked somewhat pitiful at this moment.

Aruna watched this scene awkwardly. It was not a good time for him to stay. He quietly left the room and closed the door behind him, leaving the two of them alone.

Yinzhen looked at Qingyin with tears streaming down his face, each tear falling onto the padded floor with a loud "tick-tock" sound.

Qingyin looked helplessly at Yinzhen, who was crying in front of her again. It was the first time she had ever met a man who cried so much. Helplessly, she handed her handkerchief to Yinzhen.

Yinzhen didn't take the handkerchief away. Instead, he took her fair and slender hands and pressed them against his chest. The sound of her heart pounding through his hot and strong body came through. Qingyin looked at him in surprise.

"Asa, my wife, I will prove it with time, as long as you don't abandon me, okay?"

The hand holding Qingyin's hand wasn't very strong, so Qingyin easily broke free from that large hand. She picked up the handkerchief and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Yinzhen's eyes, saying "Okay" just like the first time she had agreed to his request.

After that night, Aluna didn't say anything as she watched Yinzhen and her sister become even closer.

The wedding of Aluna and Princess Wenxian was held smoothly, and Qingyin saw a familiar figure at the wedding banquet—Zhu Zhixiang.

Qingyin's expression shifted slightly, and Yinzhen whispered in her ear, "Wife, he is a descendant of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty. He exchanged his possession of several gold mines for a pardon and a sinecure, but he will have to stay in the capital and be monitored for the rest of his life."

Qingyin nodded knowingly, ignoring the flirtatious glances thrown at her by the person opposite her, but Yinzhen returned a fierce warning look to her.

Zhu Zhixiang raised his wine glass and downed it in one gulp. What to do? The beauty already had a vicious dog by her side. How could he possibly snatch her away? No problem, he had plenty of time. Zhu Zhixiang looked at the empty wine glass with a drunken smile.

After Wen Xian got married, Consort De turned her attention entirely to Yin Zhen, who did not yet have a primary consort. She inquired about Yin Zhen's intentions and invited many young ladies from famous families.

What followed was a thoroughly enjoyable display of the Fourteenth Prince's sharp wit and biting remarks.

"Too ugly!"

"She walks too slowly, and she seems to have a soft personality."

"That's too forceful, it won't work."

"Why do you like wearing red and green hairpins? Your taste is terrible."

...

These words made Consort De's head spin. She was so angry that she chased away the belatedly rebellious Yinzhen and then comforted the young lady who had been made to cry.

Yinzhen ignored his mother's anger and excitedly left the palace to find Qingyin at the General's Mansion.

After comforting the young girl, Consort De planned to go and gauge Yinzhen's opinion to see what kind of girl he was looking for. Consort De walked out of the main gate and looked at the empty side hall. She gritted her teeth: "Where is the Fourteenth Prince?"

The maidservant guarding the side gate answered her: "The Fourteenth Prince said he had something to attend to, so he went straight back to his residence."

Consort De suddenly felt her non-existent headache return. She sneered angrily, "When I ask him to wait, he won't say he has something to do, but as soon as I ask him to check on the Fujin, he suddenly has something to do?"

The trusted nanny Gui comforted Consort De, and Consort De's anger subsided slightly.

— — — — — — — — — —

Meanwhile, Yinzhen had already skillfully climbed up the general's mansion again and found Qingyin feeding the fish.

On the surface, the Prince's Mansion was his home, but in reality, Yinzhen didn't even sleep there at night. Ever since Aluna moved to the Princess's Mansion, Yinzhen secretly spread his bedding on the floor of Qingyin's bedroom every night and slept there for several days in a row, successfully getting permission to get into bed. Now he walks with a swagger, and his eighth brother, ninth brother, fourth brother... have long been forgotten by him.

Without looking over, Qingyin said, "Fourteenth Prince, could you please find a different place to climb over the wall next time? That spot is practically worn smooth from all your movements."

Yinzhen chuckled and said, "Okay, I'll do whatever Asha says." As early as when Yinzhen learned Qingyin's true gender, he already knew Qingyin's real name, and he smoothly changed his address.

"Asha, my dear wife, let me tell you, Mother has introduced me to a bunch of women again, and I've seriously rejected them all. I got kicked out by Mother and came straight to you." Yinzhen stared at Qingyin with bright eyes. He had read all the love stories in the capital and deeply understood that the most important things between husband and wife were honesty, patience, and thoughtfulness... Beauty. Thinking of this, he worriedly touched his bronze face. A man's good looks are a magic weapon to please his wife. He couldn't become ugly and be disliked by his wife.

Qingyin ignored the man's little tricks. Hearing about how Yinzhen was kicked out of the palace right after his blind date, she couldn't help but feel annoyed for a second for Consort De in the palace. Just how bad was her own son that Consort De kicked him out?

Seeing Yinzhen's expectant look, Qingyin gave a perfunctory compliment, "Yeah, great."