Lin Yuxin looked at Qiu Jingfan like this, and he looked a bit like when they first met.

"You can smile more in the future, it's quite handsome!"

Lin Yuxin looked at his smile and praised him openly.

"What?"

Qiu Jingfan paused with the corner of his mouth raised, and asked softly, as if he was asking himself.

He has been valued since he was a child. Although he has no brothers or sisters, they have the support of their strong maternal family. Even if they get into trouble, their father will not touch them and will only scold them at most.

But like him, he and Qiu Qiyi were both children of palace maids. When Qiu Qiyi was born, his mother died of dystocia, and he was raised by a palace maid who had a good relationship with his mother, but she was executed when he was 18 years old.

Because his identity as a prince was exposed, the concubines tolerated him and wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Qiu Qiyi, but accidentally killed the palace maid who raised him.

From then on, no one brought Qiu Qiyi food, so he began to hide from place to place, stealing food to eat. Sometimes he was caught and beaten severely. The palace maids and eunuchs, who received orders from the concubines, would never show mercy.

Even if the emperor knew, he would not care. After all, the child was an accident in the first place, and it didn't matter whether he died or not.

Qiu Qiyi's character became more and more extreme and brutal. Anyone who dared to attack him would be killed by him using extremely cruel methods.

One time, because his mother was bullied, he was in a good mood and hid himself. I accidentally saw him taking a stone and smashing it viciously on the head of an eunuch, until the blood and bones were bruised and he didn't let go.

He stopped only after the eunuch died, and then buried the eunuch in the Imperial Garden. He was the only one who knew about this.

From then on, he began to feel jealous of Qiu Qiyi.

Later, no matter how he fought with those brothers, he dared not openly compete with Qiu Qiyi.

But now he had to fight to stay alive.

And he was just luckier, because his mother was promoted to a higher position after marrying her, but she was just a beauty. In the palace where there were so many concubines, she was just a small figure who could be crushed to death at any time.

In addition, the emperor liked his mother and had never been to their courtyard. However, those concubines would come to bully them from time to time.

His mother was also struggling to survive and raised him, so he knew from a young age the ugliness of human nature.

When he grew up, in order to make his mother's life easier, he began to work hard, and gradually stood out among the princes. He also caught the eye of his father, the emperor, and began to study in the Imperial College with the crown prince and his younger brother.

While those brothers were fighting with each other, he just wanted to fight for a place for his mother to live.

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Lin Yuxin didn't say anything else. The two sat for a while, and then Qiu Jingfan went back. The two agreed that they would go together next month after deciding the number of people to go.

"The princess is going with you too?"

Qiu Jingfan looked at Lin Yuxin in surprise.

"Why? Can I go on a trip and see the sights of Zhao?"

Lin Yuxin rolled her eyes. What's the matter? Are you looking down on women?

"Let's go back and have fun! It'll kill people! Is it okay for you, a princess, to stay in the capital?"

Qiu Jingfan was very confused. Why did Lin Yuxin like to go to dangerous places?

"This is all your business. Are you okay? If you are, go back! I have to go back for lunch."

Lin Yuxin thought he was talking nonsense and just chased him away.

As a result, Qiu Jingfan had not been gone for long, and Lin Yuxin did not succeed in taking a lunch break because Cheng Tinghao came.

"Xiaohao? Why are you here?"

Lin Yuxin was very surprised to see Xiaohao. She took his hand, touched his head, and asked curiously.

"Sister, are you really going to marry the Regent King?"

Cheng Tinghao held Lin Yuxin's hand and asked reluctantly.

"Haha, what? Why do you ask that?"

Lin Yuxin looked at Cheng Tinghao's aggrieved face and asked with a smile.

She hasn't seen such expressions on Xiaohao's face for a long time. He usually looks like a normal person. Is it that the sun rises from the west today?

"Xiaohao wants me to get married. Sister, I want you to wait for Xiaohao. When Xiaohao grows up, he will marry you."

Xiao Hao gritted his teeth and looked at Lin Yuxin seriously.

"Haha! Xiaohao, what are you thinking about? Even if I get married, I'm still Xiaohao's sister. I won't want you. Besides, you are only six years old now, and I am already sixteen. When you grow up, I will become an old maid. Who will want me?"

"And when you grow up, you will meet a good girl like your sister to be your wife, and you will be happy for the rest of your life."

Lin Yuxin looked at Xiaohao with amusement and spoke softly.

She probably knew what Xiaohao was thinking. He was afraid that she would live a good life after getting married, or that she would want him, so he would feel at ease and wanted to get comfort from her.

It was a bit like pre-marital phobia, feeling uneasy about the certainty of the coming, except that this phenomenon did not occur to her son, Li Xiaochen, but to a child.

This made Lin Yuxin smile.

"I just want my sister to accompany me, I don't want anyone else!"

Cheng Tinghao hugged Lin Yuxin's waist coquettishly and said coquettishly.

"Let me go!!"

A sharp voice came from outside, which frightened Cheng Tinghao so much that he shivered and quickly hid behind Lin Yuxin.

Lin Yuxin looked in the direction of the voice and saw Li Xiaochen walking towards her in slow steps, followed by Xiao Lizi and a group of palace maids, carrying a tray covered with red cloth.

"Why are you here? Eunuch Li, what are you doing here?"

Lin Yuxin looked at them puzzledly, why did they gather at her house every day?

"I asked the Emperor for an imperial decree for the wedding date, and Little Li came here to announce it. I wanted to see you, so I came here with you."

Li Xiaochen glared at Cheng Tinghao who was hiding behind Lin Yuxin, "Don't think that I can't do anything to you just because you are the prince. If you dare to dig into my corner, you'll be in trouble!" Then he spoke softly to Lin Yuxin.

Lin Yuxin:……?

Can the emperor issue an imperial decree so casually? ? Even such a small matter requires an imperial decree?

Lin Yuxin chuckled twice, then said politely to Little Leo:

"Thank you for your hard work, grandpa!"

"Haha! Where? Princess, you are too polite! Princess, please accept my order!"

Little Leo smiled widely and spoke respectfully to Lin Yuxin.

Lin Yuxin quickly asked Xiaodie to ask Zhao Hanya to come out and receive the imperial edict. Although this imperial edict was not issued to her, usually the whole family would receive the imperial edict together to show the importance the emperor attached to her.

And I asked someone to ask my second brother to come back. My second brother was in the military camp, and when he came back, my second brother was in the Ministry of Justice, so it would take a lot of time to ask for leave back and forth.

The only person Lin Yuxin could think of was her second brother. Her second brother was busy with his business in the capital recently. He went out early and came back late every day, and sometimes he would be out of the capital for a few days.

It just so happened that my second elder brother had not been out in the capital these two days, and his Baixianglou was also far away from the Zhao Mansion.

Half an hour after Zhao Hanya came out, Lin Shaoyang also came back.

"What's wrong? Why are you calling me back so urgently? What happened?"

Lin Shaoyang asked his mother anxiously.

He was just negotiating with a boss when he was told by a servant to go home quickly. He thought something had happened at home, so he hurried home and didn't even pay attention to the boss.