Pei Zhi gently patted her shoulder, "I've gotten used to it over the years, today is nothing."

Pei Yuance felt inexplicably embarrassed, after all, he knew perfectly well how Consort Lin had treated Pei Zhi over the years.

He never stopped it, and even exaggerated the situation.

Pei Yuance felt a little uncomfortable and didn't speak first.

"Yesterday, the Empress summoned me and said she had selected several families to marry me off to."

Pei Yuance perked up and asked, "The families the Empress chose for you must all be good. Which families are they?"

"Brother, do you know what the Empress said to me yesterday?"

Pei Yuance asked, "What?"

"She said that if I were raised by her, she would marry me off to her mother's family."

Pei Yuanze was also somewhat surprised: "Your Majesty the Empress would actually say such a thing?"

The Empress is the third Empress of the Zhong family, and her elder brother is currently the Minister of Personnel.

It is in charge of the appointment, evaluation, promotion, conferment of honors, and transfer of civil officials throughout the land.

Pei Yuance was initially hesitant if the Empress accepted him.

But what if the Empress's family is unwilling to help him?

So what if Pei Zhi marries into the Zhong family?

His younger sister married the eldest son of the Zhong family, and he became the adopted son of the Empress.

The Zhong family had no reason not to help him.

Pei Zhi shook her head with a wry smile and said, "Perhaps Her Majesty the Empress is joking with me. How could she possibly let me marry into the Zhong family?"

Pei Yuanze couldn't help but interject, "Why is it impossible?"