Among the four male protagonists, Nangong Xuangui is the prince, Jian Yuyan is the eldest son of the prime minister's family, and Shao Jingyu is also the descendant of a famous general. Only Jiang Yi is from a truly humble family.
The Jiang family is not in Jinling, but in Luoyang, north of Jinling. The Jiang family is not a wealthy family. The current head of the Jiang family, Mr. Jiang, Yan Yiming's biological father in this identity, is a fifth-rank official and the co-magistrate of Luoyang Prefecture.
Compared with Jian Yuyan and Shao Jingyu, he was an insignificant minor official, but in a foreign place where the emperor was far away, he did have some status.
Such a family background is not actually considered poor, but Jiang Yi's identity is very embarrassing, so considering his status in the Jiang family, he is even more miserable than the average poor family kid.
Master Jiang of the Jiang family has five brothers and three sisters. Among them, the only ones who are legitimate children like Master Jiang are Master Jiang Wuye and Miss Jiang Da. The rest are all illegitimate children.
And Jiang Yi is the legitimate son of Master Jiang Wu.
Logically speaking, if the son of his younger brother came to seek refuge, both Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang would definitely welcome him. But in reality, this was not the case, because Jiang Yi was not Mr. Jiang Wu's biological son.
Even Yan Yiming, who knows the background of the game, does not know who Jiang Yi's biological father is. According to the background story, Jiang Yi's father passed away shortly after he was born. His mother raised Jiang Yi alone until he was three years old, and then due to financial difficulties, she remarried to Jiang Wuye.
Mr. Jiang Wu's status was actually very good, and he was still very young at that time. For Jiang Yi's mother, who had a child, to marry Mr. Jiang Wu, in the words of Mrs. Jiang, was simply a daydream.
But Master Jiang Wu was stubborn and fell in love with Jiang Yi's mother. He returned to the Jiang family and told his mother and eldest brother that he wanted to marry Jiang Yi's mother. The Jiang family naturally disagreed and prepared to quickly arrange a marriage for Master Jiang Wu so that he would give up the idea.
Master Jiang Wu couldn't resist his family. Being young and frivolous, he simply ran away from the Jiang family and left Luoyang with Jiang Yi's mother.
Old Mrs. Jiang was so angry at her youngest son that she almost fainted. She scolded her son for being so useless and having his soul seduced by a vixen. She also scolded Jiang Yi's mother for being a woman who brought bad luck to her husband and actually kidnapped her youngest son. Many years passed in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Yi's mother fell ill when she gave birth to Jiang Yi, and she had no children after marrying Master Jiang Wu for many years. She was in poor health and felt guilty towards Master Jiang Wu. She was depressed for many years and finally passed away when Jiang Yi was nine years old.
Master Jiang Wu is actually a very free and easy person. He was able to abandon everything and elope. Later, when Jiang Yi's mother was unable to give birth to a son or a daughter for him, he never blamed her. Instead, he raised Jiang Yi as his own son. Later, Jiang Yi's mother passed away, and Master Jiang Wu quickly became depressed. He raised Jiang Yi alone until he was thirteen years old. That year, Jiang Yi passed the examination for a student and became a scholar. Master Jiang Wu was so pleased that he talked to Jiang Yi for a whole night and then ended his life which had been in a daze for several years.
Master Jiang Wu always felt guilty towards the Jiang family and had never returned to the Jiang family for so many years. It was not until he was determined to die that he wrote a letter and entrusted Jiang Yi to the Jiang family.
No matter how much Old Lady Jiang and Old Master Jiang blamed Master Jiang Wu for disregarding his relatives for a woman, they still burst into tears after Master Jiang Wu died. Old Lady Jiang cursed Jiang Yi's mother for being a unlucky woman who had killed her husband in the past and now had killed her own son.
Old Madam Jiang had too much hatred towards Jiang Yi's mother, so she didn't want to take Jiang Yi, who was born to that woman and had nothing to do with the Jiang family, back home. She wished that she would die on her own and not get in her way.
Although Mr. Jiang was heartbroken, he was more rational than Mrs. Jiang. He agreed to his brother's last wish, no matter how unhappy he was.
In the dead of winter, half a year after Master Jiang Wu's death, Master Jiang finally took Jiang Yi back to the Jiang family. Jiang Yi was only thirteen years old that year.
Yan Yiming finally figured out the twists and turns here. Thinking of Jiang Yi, who later became a charming and graceful man who thrived in official circles, who could have imagined that he actually had such a pitiful identity.
Yan Yiming was sad for a while, which was rare. But before she could be sad for a few minutes, her heart began to ache slightly and her chest suddenly started to feel stuffy.
Yan Yiming covered his chest with his hands and closed his eyes in pain. His beautiful eyebrows were furrowed, and his skin, which was already whiter than that of ordinary people, became even paler. Only the still glaring red mole at the end of his eye still had some color.
This is the biggest feature of this identity, congenital heart disease.
To be more specific, it is congenital heart disease.
The youngest daughter of Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang was called Jiang Shaoqi. She was sixteen years younger than Mr. Jiang’s eldest son. Mrs. Jiang was nearly forty years old when she gave birth to such a daughter. But perhaps because she was too old, Mrs. Jiang was not in good health when she gave birth to her little daughter, so Jiang Shaoqi was born with a congenital disease.
Mr. Jiang gave his youngest daughter a boy's name because Jiang Shaoqi was too weak. It was said that Jiang Shaoqi did not cry after she was born. The midwife patted her feet for a long time before she finally cried weakly. It was also at that time that Mrs. Jiang gave her youngest daughter the nickname "A Ming".
As an old man with a daughter who has been weak since childhood, Old Madam Jiang dislikes her sickly look and thinks she is annoying, but Mr. and Mrs. Jiang as well as Jiang Shaoqi's brothers and sisters are afraid that she will get hurt and spoil her to no end.
I have had the best food and the best clothes since I was a child, and I have never stopped getting medicine, as if it cost no money.
The youngest daughter couldn't be stimulated and couldn't be surrounded by too much noise, so she was given the best courtyard in the southernmost part of the Jiang family to live alone, and she had many more maids and servants than her other sisters in the family. People with congenital heart disease are afraid of cold. Now it's winter, and every room has a certain amount of charcoal. Only Yan Yiming can get as much charcoal as he wants. As long as his daughter is comfortable, Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang are willing to do anything.
The maids in the room were all wearing very thin clothes because the room was too hot, but Yan Yiming was still wearing a lot of clothes and holding the heater to keep warm because of his illness.
She arrived earlier than Jiang Yi and has been staying at the Jiang family for nearly a month. It was only after a month that Mr. Jiang sent someone to bring Jiang Yi over.
At this moment, Yan Yiming was curled up in bed, studying Jiang Yi's card with Xiaopingguo.
The name of Jiang Yi's card is "Top of the Imperial Examination", which means that the timeline of this card must be after Jiang Yi passes the imperial examination and becomes the top scholar.
But Jiang Yi is only thirteen years old now. Yan Yiming roughly calculated that Nangong Xuan is fourteen years old now, Jian Yuyan is thirteen, the same age as Jiang Yi, and Nangong Ye is still a ten-year-old kid.
Kind of interesting.
Yan Yiming laughed for a while, then realized something when he calculated his age.
Jiang Yi is thirteen years old now, and although he was still very young when he passed the imperial examination, he was already seventeen years old. That is to say, to complete this strategy, Yan Yiming will have to stay in the dungeon for at least four years. Even if the strategy has been completed and the favorability has been maxed out, he must wait until the story line of this card is completed.
So, she had to drink Chinese medicine day and night, endure occasional heart pain, be afraid of the cold in winter and the heat in summer, and use this broken-pot-like body to survive for four years.
Yan Yiming suddenly felt unwell, and immediately coughed twice as his emotions fluctuated. Yan Yiming covered his chest and coughed for a long time before he asked Xiao Pingguo doubtfully, "Can this body really survive for four years?"
"Logically, no," Xiao Pingguo said, "In fact, you became Miss Jiang's because she died of a heart attack. So now every day you live is a gift from the system to you to prolong your life. As long as the system agrees, you can live as long as you want."
Yan Yiming: "...Can we change to a better word?"
"Ah, then we'll just have to muddle through," Little Apple quickly changed her words, "Because Miss Jiang is actually dead, so once you max out Jiang Yi's favorability and complete the story of this card, this body will completely perish when you leave."
Yan Yiming felt inexplicably that the story had not even begun, but how come it had already started to be so cruel?
The back of the card is the same as other cards, with Jiang Yi's slogan on it.
——Even though I have accomplished nothing, I still want to have the power to protect you.
"The future Prime Minister says he has accomplished nothing. He is so modest," Yan Yiming couldn't help but sigh. It turns out that people are different.
In addition, Yan Yiming was curious about when Jian Yuer, who was far away in Jinling, and Jiang Yi, who had been wandering outside with Master Jiang Wu, had met each other, and how Jiang Yi could remember her for so many years, and even the reason for all his efforts was because of Jian Yuer.
There were too few clues now, so Yan Yiming could only put his curiosity aside and continue looking at the card of Jiang Yi.
Jiang Yi has the highest IQ among the four people, which is also the biggest reason why he can hold an important position at such a young age after getting three top honors. Nangong Xuan and Jian Yuyan both have above-average IQs, and their initial card values are around 100 according to SR standards, while Jiang Yi's IQ is as high as 145.
This is just like Jian Yuyan's emotional intelligence and Nangong Xuan's decision-making ability, there is always some data that stands out.
But unlike these two, Nangong Xuan and Jian Yuyan both have obvious shortcomings. Nangong Xuan's emotional intelligence is too low, and Jian Yuyan's decision-making ability is too low. But apart from his extremely high countermeasures IQ, Jiang Yi's other three items are not bad either, and are all at an upper-middle level.
Judging from the card, Jiang Yi has no shortcomings.
Even though he was only thirteen years old, the card's stats hadn't changed because of his young age.
In other words, Jiang Yi can no longer look at him with the eyes of a child. He has an IQ beyond that of an adult.
Even for such a genius, if I heard correctly just now, the maid serving Yan Yiming even said the word "wild" with contempt.
What wild?
Bastard.
Because he is not a child of the Jiang family, and because Mrs. Jiang hates Jiang Yi's mother so much, she only calls Jiang Yi "bastard".
Now even the maids dare to call him that behind his back.
Yan Yiming turned over from the bed, and the maids came over hurriedly, "Miss, do you want some water?"
"Make up."
"Dressing up?" The maids were all stunned, looking at the flying snow outside and said in surprise, "Young lady is going out!"
The young lady is very afraid of cold, so she would definitely not go out in such weather. Why did she suddenly want to go out? If the lady knew, she would definitely scold her.
Yan Yiming really didn't want to explain to them. After repeated attempts to stop them, Yan Yiming couldn't help but get angry and told them to shut up in a cold voice, "I'll talk to mother. Go get dressed."
Although the young lady had a cold personality, she was never in a good temper. The maids dared not say anything and quickly helped Yan Yiming to dress up and finally put on a thick cloak.
It was snowing heavily and the wind was freezing. Even though I was wearing very warm clothes, I was still very cold.
When Jiang Yi first came to the Jiang Mansion, the first person he wanted to meet was Old Madam Jiang.
Old Mrs. Jiang's courtyard was at the northernmost end of the Jiang Mansion, and was the farthest from the courtyard where Yan Yiming lived. Yan Yiming walked for nearly a moment before he finally saw the vermilion gate.
When approaching the yard, you can hear the laughter of Old Mrs. Jiang and the Jiang family's children in the house. Looking up, you can see the thin young man in thin clothes standing quietly in the snow. Perhaps his body is too thin, even the snow cannot stay on his shoulders for long.
Yan Yiming stood at the door and watched for a long time. Under the confused gaze of the maid, he turned and went to the courtyard of Master Jiang and Madam Jiang.
It was unknown how long it had passed before Master Jiang sent someone to bring the already frozen Jiang Yi into the house. That night, Jiang Yi was placed in a dilapidated courtyard at the southernmost part of the Jiang Mansion. On that freezing night, the frail boy was feverish and unconscious, but no one knew about it.
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