When Ye Jinghe returned to the East Palace, he found it unusually lively today, with people who shouldn't have come all showing up.
Ye Jingyu is complaining to Ye Jingchen.
He remembered clearly how many times Ye Jinghe hit him, where each hit landed, and how much force he used.
Of course, when Ye Jinghe told his elder brother about the force with which he hit him, he exaggerated it by at least three times.
Just as he was playing the victim, Ye Jinghe returned.
Ye Jingyu was momentarily embarrassed, but quickly composed himself and added another charge against Ye Jinghe.
"Your Majesty, Fifth Brother has neglected his duties!"
As soon as he said this, Ye Jingming, Ye Jingyu, Ye Jingyu, Gu Beichen, and Yun Shu all looked at him.
If we're talking about dereliction of duty, then apart from Ye Jingshu and Ye Jingyan, everyone else is guilty of dereliction of duty.
It's one thing for Ye Jingyu to accuse Ye Jinghe, but why drag them into it?
"If you hadn't neglected your duties, how would you be here now?" Ye Jinghe retorted with a cold smile.
"I really shouldn't be here, but you injured me, so I have no choice but to take leave to recover!" Ye Jingyu said matter-of-factly.
Others without a legitimate reason: ...
"I'm injured too! Brother, Fourth Prince was outmatched, so he called out his guards to beat me up. The two of them are bullying me!" Ye Jinghe said, feeling wronged.
"Fourth brother, this is wrong of you. How can you ask the guards for help when it's just brothers sparring?" Ye Jingyu strongly disagreed with this.
"Third brother, if I don't call the guards for help, am I going to be beaten to death by them?" Ye Jingyu asked quietly.
"Even though your fifth brother doesn't get along with you, he wouldn't kill you, would he? You two used to spar a lot when you were kids, and nothing happened to you."
The naive Ye Jingyu didn't realize that Ye Jingyu was trying to gain sympathy; instead, he felt that Ye Jingyu was exaggerating and that it was detrimental to brotherhood.
Ye Jingyu: ......
"Of course he wouldn't hit me in front of my brother, but don't you all know what kind of person he is when my brother isn't around?" Ye Jingyu readjusted his emotions, looking as if he had suffered a great injustice.
"Then why did I hit you instead of someone else? It's because you deserved it!" Ye Jinghe said with a sneer.
"Jinghe, be more polite to your fourth brother!" Ye Jingchen, who had been watching the show for a while, reminded him.
“Brother, look, he speaks to me like this to your face. You can imagine how arrogant he is behind your back!” Ye Jingyu took the opportunity to complain again.
"Fourth brother, do you dare tell me why I beat you up?" Ye Jinghe asked with a sneer.
"I was just trying to be kind and tell you that Young Master Xie will be the Crown Princess in the future. Who knew you would suddenly go crazy like this!" Ye Jingyu clutched his chest, feigning pain.
"Fangfei, go and summon Imperial Physician Zhang to examine the injuries of the Fourth Prince and the Fifth Prince," Ye Jingchen instructed upon seeing this.
"Thank you for your consideration, Your Majesty. It is Your Majesty who cares about me!" Ye Jingyu said gratefully, then smiled smugly at Ye Jinghe.
"Fifth brother, you don't know yet, do you? Father has chosen Xie Chang'an as the Crown Princess. From now on, Xie Chang'an will be your sister-in-law. He hates you so much, do you think you can still enjoy the Emperor's favor all to yourself?"
"Isn't that what you originally said?" Ye Jinghe, with his exceptional memory, repeated Ye Jingyu's words verbatim, even mimicking his sarcastic tone perfectly.
Everyone else looked at Ye Jingyu with subtle expressions.
Everyone here is intelligent, so they can naturally understand the true intention behind Ye Jingyu's words.
"That's not what I said! You're slandering me!" Ye Jingyu vehemently denied.
“Our bodyguards should have heard it all. Why don’t we call them out and ask them? If you don’t believe the bodyguards, you can also call out the guards who were present at the time and ask them,” Ye Jinghe said calmly.
Ye Jingchen understood what was going on and glanced at Ye Jingyu.
Fortunately, he told Ye Jinghe about this beforehand; otherwise, Ye Jinghe might have been provoked by Ye Jingyu and gone to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to cause trouble for Xie Chang'an.
"You're both at fault in this matter. Jingyu's motives were impure, and Jinghe shouldn't have hit anyone. Since you both want me to uphold justice, then apologize to each other in front of me and promise not to make the same mistake again," Ye Jingchen said to the two of them with a serious expression.
Ye Jinghe and Ye Jingyu exchanged a glance but remained silent.
"You've grown up, so you don't listen to me anymore, is that it?" Ye Jingchen's gaze swept over the two of them.
"I'm sorry!" Ye Jinghe said first.
"I'm sorry!" Ye Jingyu said, somewhat annoyed that he was a step behind.
Ye Jingchen frowned. "What are you apologizing for? If you're going to apologize, you need to be sincere. Let's start over. Think it through before you speak!"
"Fourth brother, I'm sorry. Although you provoked me, I shouldn't have beaten you just because I'm better at martial arts!" Ye Jinghe said expressionlessly.
Although it was an apology, it felt more like a provocation.
"Fifth brother, although you disrespected your elder brother and beat your sibling, it was indeed I who deliberately provoked you first. I was also wrong, so I won't hold it against you!" Ye Jingyu's apology was no less effusive than Ye Jinghe's.
Ye Jingchen shook his head inwardly upon hearing this, and instead of making them apologize again, he moved on to the next step.
"Now that you've apologized, let's shake hands and make up!"
The two men held each other's hands with grumpy faces and expressions of disgust. Ye Jingchen silently counted to ten before letting them let go.
"If you do it again, I'll tie your hands together for an hour," Ye Jingchen said casually.
The two of them stiffened and, as if by unspoken agreement, moved a little further away from each other.
After punishing them, Ye Jingchen looked at the others and said, "You should already know that Xie Chang'an will indeed become my Crown Princess. Although our marriage is a helpless move to appease the people, none of the necessary procedures will be omitted, and his name will be recorded in the imperial genealogy."
"So what should we call Xie Chang'an when we see him in the future? Crown Princess?" Yun Shu asked with a strange expression.
"Now that you've married into the Eastern Palace, of course you should be called the Crown Princess!" Ye Jingshu said deliberately.
Although Xie Chang'an was also a victim in this matter, for some reason, Ye Jingshu always felt that Xie Chang'an had gotten a great deal.
Ye Jingchen looked at Ye Jingshu quietly until she felt uncomfortable, then smiled and said, "There's no need to call him Crown Princess. We grew up together and know each other well. We'll get along the same way we did before. There's no need to change anything because of his new identity."
Xie Chang'an, a dignified seven-foot-tall man, was already being wronged by being "married" into the Eastern Palace. Naturally, the fewer people who called him "Crown Princess," the better!
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