Duke Ping hadn't felt this warm for a long time. He picked up his bowl and chopsticks and served Su Juan a bowl of porridge.

"Eat. You must be tired of entering the government at such a young age and following us old men to court every day. You look so hungry and thin."

Su Juan was excited. Finally someone understood the pain she had been going through. [Yes! I am so tired!]

[The old emperor tortures people in various ways all day long! Life is miserable! ]

Duke Pingguo smiled. He liked the girl, but it was a pity that she was not from his Xie family.

Although Xie Xun thought Su Juan was interesting and funny, and liked to tease her occasionally, he couldn't bear to watch his old man speak so unconscionably.

"Dad, your eyesight is bad again, look at Su Juan's chubby face...hiss!"

Xie Xun grimaced in pain, his eyes wide open, and he felt wronged, "Why did you kick me?!"

Duke Ping glared at his son. As much as he loved Su Juan, he now looked at his troubled son with disgust.

"What do you know?"

He turned to Su Juan and said in a friendly manner, "This kid has nothing good to say. Don't listen to his nonsense. You are still young and it is the time for you to grow up. You should eat more."

No one can change his face so fast.

Su Juan smiled, "Well, thank you, Duke."

Besides the smile, there was also a bit of envy.

[I'm so envious. It must be great to have a father and a home.]

Duke Ping and Xie Xun were both slightly stunned, and only then did they remember some rumors about her in the capital.

I heard that her biological mother died young, and her biological father remarried and sent her to a farm to fend for herself. When she grew up, he brought her back in order to win people's hearts and send her to an official.

Unexpectedly, the emperor granted her marriage and she moved into Prince Jing's Mansion.

But Prince Jing's Mansion was not an easy place to stay. Judging from Song Qianfan's attitude towards her, she knew that her life in the mansion was not easy.

Duke Ping sighed, what a pitiful child. He said slowly, "In my Duke's mansion, there are only the two of us. Usually, not many people come here, so the mansion is very deserted."

Upon hearing this, Su Juan raised her eyes from the bowl and looked at Duke Ping.

Duke Ping: "If you don't mind, just treat this as your own home and think about it as you like. Just don't mind my son being noisy and annoying."

Xie Xun: "Why am I being noisy and annoying?"

Su Juan was touched, "Okay, as long as the Duke doesn't find me annoying, I will come often in the future."

Duke Ping picked up a lot of dishes for her.

Xie Xun suddenly felt ignored. "Just listen to what my old man said. He deceived many girls when he was young. Don't take it too seriously and don't be moved..."

Before he could finish his words, he was slapped on the head by Duke Ping.

"Even eating can't stop your mouth!"

The father and son were unwilling to give in to each other and were quarreling a lot. In fact, it was not as quiet as Duke Ping said.

Su Juan saw it all, and in fact she knew that what Duke Ping said was serious.

She was very familiar with this Duke's Mansion. After all, she could still remember vividly everything that happened during the last restart.

She was an orphan and grew up in an orphanage. In fact, she had always wanted to have a home, so after graduating from college, she worked so hard to make money just to buy a house, thinking that with a house, she would have a home.

It was not until the second restart that she was granted marriage to Song Qianfan and met the family of Duke Ping. Duke Ping was very kind to her, and Xie Xun was also quite nice to her. For the first time, she felt at home.

Duke Ping even specially had someone clean up a courtyard for her so that she could treat it as her own home, even though she didn't understand why Duke Ping was so good to her.

So she recognized Xie Xun at a glance.

So during the court meeting, just by hearing the voice, she knew it was the Duke of Ping.

Su Juan clenched her chopsticks slightly, but all this would eventually be ruined by Song Qianfan. No one could defeat Song Qianfan the previous two times. Would it be different this time?

After all, although this bastard has no brains, he is ruthless. He doesn't care about the life and death of his own parents, and he can even kill his own brother...

When she thought about the Duke Ping's mansion being raided and the family being exiled, she cursed Song Qianfan again, "Song Qianfan, you bastard!"

[I will kill him sooner or later! ]

This scolding scared the father and son. They both looked at Su Juan, wondering why he was scolding people for no reason?

...

That night, when Su Juan returned to the palace, she found out that Song Qianfan had been punished by Prince Jing again. He was forced to kneel in the Buddhist temple, and was not allowed to have dinner. No one was allowed to approach the temple, and someone was assigned to watch over him.

"Sister-in-law, you don't know how angry father is!" Song Qianhang shook his head while playing cards. He had never seen his father so angry since he was a child.

"There were many people watching outside the temple, and they didn't even serve her dinner. Liang Yin wanted to go in, but her mother punished her by making her copy Buddhist scriptures in the yard. She said she was disrespectful to the Buddha and would suffer retribution in the future."

Su Juan glanced at the cards in his hand, but he was actually absent-minded. He thought, "If the Buddha appeared, he should strike Song Qianfan with thunder to kill him, so that he would not bring disaster to the world."

"It's okay. You won't die of hunger if you go hungry for one night."

Song Qianhang was stunned for a moment, then laughed dryly twice, "Sister-in-law, you are quite...good at joking."

Although my eldest brother was a bit of a jerk, he wasn't struck by lightning. What if he was really struck to death? This sister-in-law is a bit cruel.

Su Juan: "Yeah, I also think I'm pretty good at joking."

[Who is kidding me? I wish he could starve to death, so I wouldn't have to worry so much.]

Song Qianhang frowned immediately. Big brother isn't such a jerk that he wants to die, right?

He knew that Su Juan knew some things that would happen in the future. Could it be that his elder brother would do something even more outrageous in the future, which made his sister-in-law hold such a grudge against him?

He couldn't help but test, "Sister-in-law, don't you like big brother?"

Su Juan looked up at Song Qianhang and said with a smile, "What are you talking about? How could I not like your elder brother?"

[Have I been so obvious?]

"He's handsome, rich, and generous. Who wouldn't like him?"

[Ugh...I can't say any more. I'm disgusted by myself.]

Song Qianhang had a complicated expression, but it did not affect his mood for playing mahjong.

Su Juan didn't want to dwell on the topic of whether she liked Song Qianfan or not, for fear that she would not be able to continue and would feel nauseous and vomit.

So, she turned the topic back to Song Qianhang, "You care so much about your brother. It seems that you, as a younger brother, like him very much."

Song Qianhang pondered the cards in his hand, "It's okay. Big brother was very good to me when I was a child. Every time I got into trouble, he protected me."

"Although he rarely speaks now, I still respect him. He is talented and valued by the Emperor's uncle..."

[Poor child, if you knew that your respected elder brother poisoned you for the throne, you probably wouldn't be able to eat anymore.]

With a few "clicks", the cards in Song Qianhang's hand fell to the ground. His expression froze and he looked at Su Juan in disbelief.

I suddenly didn't feel like playing cards anymore.