Ye Jinghe certainly knew what the Crown Princess meant.
Her elder brother's legal wife, and the future mistress of the Eastern Palace.
Long ago, palace servants deliberately gossiped in his ear, saying that no matter how good his brother was to him now, once he married the Crown Princess and had his own children, he would no longer give him a second glance!
He might even be expelled from the Eastern Palace.
At that time, he was still young and was very scared when he heard this. He even asked his older brother to confirm it.
His brother told him that it was something far away and that he shouldn't think about it too much.
In the blink of an eye, my brother has reached the age to marry the Crown Princess.
Back then, his brother only comforted him that it was still a long time before he could get married, and he didn't make any promises about it. Did his brother also think that he would abandon his younger brother after marrying the Crown Princess?
Ye Jinghe's heart was filled with fear and unease.
He only had his older brother, and the Eastern Palace was his home. He couldn't imagine being driven out of the Eastern Palace by his brother!
Ye Jingchen knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.
The palace servants in Chengqian Palace are all well-trained; how could they possibly make the mistake of 'disrespectfully criticizing their master'?
"Don't worry about it, they're just saying it for you to hear. Marrying the Crown Princess is Father's idea, I don't want it to happen," Ye Jingchen said, patting his head to comfort him.
Ye Jinghe was incredibly intelligent, and he immediately understood that this was all part of the emperor's scheme.
A flash of ferocity crossed his eyes, and he grabbed Ye Jingchen's hand, taking half a step forward to stand close to him.
"Since my brother is unwilling, then I will not marry him!"
No one can force my brother!
Ye Jingchen touched the sketchbook hidden in his pocket with his other hand.
In his previous life, his parents were just ordinary people, and their forced marriage was something he couldn't handle, almost leading him to sever ties with his family. In this life, the one forcing him to marry is the emperor, which will probably be even harder to resist.
Ye Jingchen let out a long sigh.
Hearing the sighs, Ye Jinghe felt a pang of heartache.
In his eyes, his brother was almost omnipotent; he would never have sighed like this before.
It's all the emperor's fault! He's the one who made things difficult for my brother!
"Achoo!" In Chengqian Palace, the emperor sneezed several times in a row after Ye Jingchen left.
He felt that someone was cursing him, and he could even guess who it was, but he couldn't care less about his own son, since he had already been stabbed in the heart!
That little wolf cub must be furious right now!
Hmph! You're still too green to fight him!
"I'm just not willing to marry now, but if I meet someone I like in the future, I'm still very willing to marry them!" Ye Jingchen knew that most of the people around them were the emperor's spies and informants, so he said this on purpose.
Although theoretically, the Crown Princess should come from a noble family, the Emperor is currently in good health and his position as Crown Prince is secure, so there is no need to be so demanding about the Crown Princess's family background.
If the emperor knew that he didn't not want to get married, but just wanted to marry someone he liked, perhaps he wouldn't have been so insistent on it!
Upon hearing this, Ye Jinghe felt a pang of anxiety and a sharp pain in his heart.
"Brother, if you marry the Crown Princess in the future, will I no longer be able to live with you?" he asked tentatively.
"I don't even know when I'll marry the Crown Princess. Maybe by then you'll have already left the palace and established your own residence!" Ye Jingchen said with a smile.
"Why do I want to leave the palace and build my own residence?" Ye Jinghe asked nervously.
“Once princes come of age, they can no longer live in the palace; they all have to leave the palace and build their own residences!” Ye Jingchen said matter-of-factly.
Ye Jinghe unconsciously tightened his grip on Ye Jingchen's hand. "Brother, can I not leave the palace to build my residence? I don't want to be separated from you."
"I'm also reluctant to part with you, but Jinghe, everyone is an independent individual. There will always be things you want to do and people you like. When you meet them in the future, you'll know it's time to say goodbye," Ye Jingchen said earnestly.
"So, brother, do you have anything you want to do now, or someone you like?" Ye Jinghe asked nervously.
He only loves his older brother, and the only thing he wants to do is be with his brother. However, he is worried that his brother will abandon him once he has something he wants to do or someone he likes.
"I haven't met anyone I like yet, but as for things I want to do—"
“I can help you, brother. Whatever you want to do, I will help you!” Ye Jinghe said quickly.
“I’ve always been doing what I wanted to do, and Jinghe has always been helping me.” Ye Jingchen patted his head.
Ye Jinghe was somewhat bewildered, but then, thinking of the people in the Wenhua Hall, he seemed to understand what his brother wanted to do.
The older brother had something he wanted to do, but he didn't leave him. Does this mean that as long as the older brother doesn't meet someone he likes, he can stay with him forever?
He hopes his brother will never meet someone he likes, because he will always be there for his brother and his brother will never be lonely!
An eleven-year-old child doesn't understand the difference between his "like" and the "like" Ye Jingchen talks about.
For Ye Jingshu's birthday this year, Ye Jingchen still plans to give her a storybook.
Now that she has left the palace to establish her own residence and run an academy, and wants to make the academy famous, no matter how much Ye Jingchen tries to guard against it, he cannot prevent her from interacting with outsiders.
As long as you interact with people, you're bound to be deceived emotionally by handsome, talented, or simply womanizing playboys.
So this year, he commissioned someone to write a story about a woman who was deceived and cheated on by a scumbag in her previous life, had her family property taken away, and her family members killed tragically. She and her unborn child were also killed by the scumbag. After that, she was reborn and returned to the time before she married the scumbag to avenge herself and her family.
The writer of the storybooks was still his go-to person—Liu Wenxuan.
However, Liu Wenxuan is now a compiler in the Hanlin Academy, a scholar of noble birth.
As for why Liu Wenxuan was still willing to write storybooks for him after becoming a compiler in the Hanlin Academy, it was probably because writing storybooks was an addiction.
Although Liu Wenxuan was exceptionally talented and had a brilliant writing style, he was just an ordinary scholar in this era. The stories he had read most often were nothing more than the usual tales of scholars rescuing courtesans, encountering fox spirits, or beautiful ghosts. Even if someone wrote them in a more elaborate way, the plots were all the same and became quite boring after reading them too many times.
However, every time Ye Jingchen came to him to write a story, he would provide him with an outline.
Ye Jingchen always provided him with particularly novel angles and fresh content in his outlines. Not to mention how enthralled the readers of the storybooks were, even he himself was filled with excitement as he wrote them.
Therefore, even though he knew that he was no longer suitable for writing storybooks after entering the Hanlin Academy, he still did not break off his contact with Ye Jingchen. He even took the initiative to ask Ye Jingchen to write storybooks, just so that he could write novel storybooks that would surprise even himself.
Of course, he also enjoyed the feeling of his novels becoming bestsellers throughout the capital.
As far as he knew, his fans were all over the capital, and even several of his colleagues were obsessed with his stories!
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