Li Bingchen quickly helped her up, and after she steadied herself, he said with a look of disgust, "How can you be so clumsy? You can even fall down while squatting. Can you be any clumsier?"

"Yes, yes." Yun Duo nodded 'seriously', then 'performed' a 'fake accident' for Li Bingchen.

Watching the cloud slowly fall to the ground, Li Bingchen burst into laughter. Pointing at the cloud and barely suppressing his laughter, he repeatedly said, "You, you..."

Yun Duo got up from the ground, sat down next to Li Bingchen, and said with a smile, "What's wrong with me? Aren't I great? I also think I'm great. Since you helped me, I volunteered to be your source of joy. Did I do a good job?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it was a great success," Li Bingchen said with a 'helpless' expression. However, his previously low spirits had improved considerably.

"Then why don't you tell me why you're suddenly unhappy?" Yun Duo said, gently nudging Li Bingchen with her elbow, acting like they were 'best buddies'.

"I'm not unhappy," Li Bingchen said stubbornly. Seeing that Yun Duo didn't say anything, but just looked at him with her big, bright eyes, Li Bingchen suddenly thought, 'This dark-skinned girl's eyes are really beautiful,' and then, for some reason, he felt an urge to confide in her.

"Actually, I'm really not unhappy."

"I'm just... a little disappointed."

"Okay, actually, it's not just a little, I'm very disappointed."

“My father was very wealthy, so he married many wives, including my mother. However, I have never seen my mother at my father’s house since I was old enough to remember things.”

“My father’s house is very big, extremely big. My mother said that they used to live in my father’s house.”

"But later, the Japanese invaded. We couldn't fight them ourselves, so we accepted foreign aid and their conditions. They wanted to... implement new policies, the most important of which was the new law. The new law included a marriage law, stipulating that a man could only have one wife. My father, in order to... Anyway, after the new law was promulgated, he divorced everyone except his first wife. My mother was one of the divorced women. She moved to a small house. Actually, the house wasn't small; it was more than enough for her and her maid."

"But my mother was not willing to give up. She still wanted to go back to live in my father's big house. Actually, I also wanted her to go back to my father's big house so that I could see her more often. I rarely had the opportunity to see her, so even though I knew her idea was somewhat unrealistic, I still wanted to give it a try."

"As long as I can become my father's heir, my mother can go back to live in the big house."

“That day… Father asked us a question, and my answer was different from my brothers’. Father seemed very angry, so…”

“Originally, I could have gone to special training like my brothers, but my father suddenly wanted me to go to the countryside to learn farming. I refused, I made a bet with my father, and then I lost, so I had no choice but to come and learn farming.”

“My brothers are all learning amazing skills, but I can only learn to farm. Tell me, what use is my intelligence? Will farming earn me special treatment from my father?”

“That depends on what your father does,” Yun Duo said slowly.

“This…” Li Bingchen hesitated for a moment, looked at Yun Duo and shook his head, saying, “This, I can’t say.”