"Dad, Uncle Cui, it's so rare for you to meet. Yu'er is here too, would you like to see him?"

Yu'er was very accommodating to her mother, babbling along with her.

Mother then picked up Yu'er, and Father, with a smile on his face, excitedly took him in. The Prime Minister also joined in, playing with the child. Little lives are always the most cherished, and Yu'er's presence helped to ease the tension.

I pulled Xie Yuancheng over and shook his hand.

Father and the Prime Minister are childish too; their immaturity really doesn't discriminate by age. They're even trying to teach Yu'er to speak! He's so young; all he does is cry. It will take him a while to learn to speak.

The mansion was bustling with activity. Everyone assumed that Xie Yuancheng's old friend had come. Anyway, we were used to seeing him hugging and kissing in the mansion.

He brought Yu'er along, and he also captivated all the maids in the manor. The servants admired his abilities, so they tacitly accepted our relationship.

If the household knew I was Yu'er's birth mother, they would probably gossip about me for days and nights.

I could only sit for a short while, and I felt ashamed of myself for being so weak that I couldn't even drink alcohol.

Fortunately, Yu'er was with his father and the Prime Minister, so they treated him as if he had grown up and chatted and drank with his maternal grandfather and great-uncle.

I heard laughter coming from inside when I left, which lessened my guilt considerably. If Li Ruowei could come, the whole family would be complete.

Father left in the middle of the night, and the Prime Minister left earlier in the evening. I saw Mother secretly crying; now that Father is gone, when will we see each other again?

My father took me to a corner to talk, so that no one else could hear.

“Ying’er, you should be more understanding of Yuan Cheng. He was in Yu Bei City, and he had a large group of people lying in ambush. He almost killed the Crown Prince. But because someone betrayed him, and the Crown Prince had reinforcements, he was able to find out in time. The Crown Prince still doesn’t know who the assassin in Yu Bei City is.”

He really did go to ambush the Crown Prince; that foolish husband of his just wanted to play the hero.

"Father, why would the Crown Prince go to Yubei City?"

"This is strange, but it is very likely related to the Empress's relatives."

I almost forgot to tell Xie Yuancheng what Li Zhaole had said: the Empress and the Crown Prince are definitely involved in this matter.

"Father, it's the Empress, it's them."

I whispered something in my father's ear, and he lost his balance. I couldn't support him, but luckily Xie Yuancheng was quick.

"father in law!"

"master!"

The mother threw herself on the father and cried. The father's breath had gone stale, so he circulated his qi again. Xie Yuancheng was also there to help, and that's how he recovered.

"father."

"Don't worry, Ying'er, they won't amount to much."

Mother whispered a suggestion to Father not to leave yet, as General Yan and General Li, who were waiting outside, had already come in and said that time was running out.

After General Yan was separated from us last time, he was recalled to Sizhou, and now he is accompanying Father on his travels.

"Don't worry, Madam, I will come back whenever I get the chance."

The two generals, dressed in plain clothes, put on their masks and left from behind.

"Ying'er, let's go back."

"Father and the others."

"rest assured."

I sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Yu'er's sleeping face. My mother said that I looked exactly like Yu'er when I was little. I was also a sleepyhead, and when I woke up, I would pinch her and my father's fingers to play.

"Mother, please take Yu'er to sleep first."

"Ying'er, I am your mother. You can talk about this without hiding it from me."

"Mother~"

I thought Xie Yuancheng would take his side, but he actually said that we're all family, and he'd already made all the arrangements; this should just be a family chat.

Fine, if Mother wants to know, I'll tell her.

However, Xie Yuancheng and she both overestimated their ability to withstand the shock. Yu'er was awakened, but they were still petrified.

"Wow~"

"Yu'er, be good, sweet baby, go to sleep."

Yu'er is all bark and no bite; after crying a few times, she gets some warm milk and stops wailing.

I looked at my mother, worried that she couldn't handle it. Xie Yuancheng stood beside me, and I couldn't figure out what he was thinking.

"Mother, Yuancheng, are you two alright?"

"Yu'er, come to Grandma's."

The mother hugged Yu'er tightly, pressing her face against him affectionately, which made Yu'er giggle.

"It's getting late. I'll take Yu'er to rest first. You should all go to sleep early too."

Is Mother unable to understand, or has she automatically deleted her memories?

"Yuancheng~" Could he also leave suddenly like his mother?

I was completely stunned at the time, and I didn't feel anything at all.

Xie Yuancheng suddenly hugged me tightly, as if he wanted to embed me in his arms.

"Ying'er~"

"Um."

"We're leaving the capital; we'll leave tomorrow."

"But."

“I can’t let you go in there anymore. Last time you could use the excuse of fighting a war to stay there, but not now.”

"Then, sister."

"It's my fault for ruining her, pushing her into the fire, and causing you to be seriously injured and still recovering."

"Yuancheng, you're holding me too tight, I can't breathe."

He's always like this, blaming himself for no reason. It's not like he pushed me out and got slapped, it's not like it's the end of the world.

Xie Yuancheng let go, and I moved a little distance away from him. He still had his head down, looking like a child who had done something wrong.

I brushed his hair aside and gently leaned closer.

Fortunately, he remembered that I was injured, so he stopped there.

"I'm still very lucky."

"What?"

"I can be with you, and I have Yu'er. Most importantly, my silly husband knows how to bow his head to me. He looks so cute when he does something wrong."

"Ying'er~" I discovered that Xie Yuancheng has a new skill: he's incredibly good at acting cute. His shy and bashful demeanor makes me want to dress him up in women's clothing to see what he looks like.

Once I recover, I'll go back and fight them. I'll at least vent my anger if I can't bring them down, otherwise it would be a waste of my month and a half of suffering from illness.

As soon as I mentioned my idea, Xie Yuancheng became unhappy again. He wrapped me in his blanket and wouldn't let me sleep for a long time, and even forced me to say that I wouldn't go back.

That bastard! I was just feeling sorry for him, but now I feel even more sorry for myself.

"You bad guy, I'm going to go and bring Yu'er over."

"Yu'er is already asleep. It's just past midnight now. Ying'er, go to sleep. I'll take you for a walk in the courtyard tomorrow morning."

"What happened just now doesn't count; you threatened me."

"What's not counted? We have the written agreement."

"That's because you put rouge on me and kissed me. You bad man, you carry rouge with you, which slut wife are you going to put it on?"

"I'm just applying it to my scumbag wife in front of me. I'm already a bad guy, so it would be a disservice to the title if I didn't marry a scumbag wife."

"Yuancheng, if you don't give me the written agreement, I'll have my mother kick you out."

"Ying'er just knew how to drive her husband away. Who is she planning to find as a second wife?"

"Continue my foot! Get up now."

"hehe."

I always fell for his tricks; how come I never noticed his wicked nature back then?