Ning Qiao'er became pregnant less than three months after marrying the Prince of Jin.
Ten months later, she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. These were the first twins of their royal family.
Overjoyed to have the Emperor and Empress, his eyes crinkled with laughter, and even Prince Jin himself was overjoyed.
The Prince of Jin was genuinely pleased.
He still remembers the night of his wedding, when he suddenly learned that Ning Qiao'er was a virgin, and he was completely stunned.
"Didn't your ex-husband ever do these things to you?"
When he asked that question, the joy in his eyes was impossible to hide. Although he had known for a long time that Qiao'er was a divorcee and had prepared himself mentally, as a man, he still had a certain possessiveness. Now, seeing that Qiao'er was still a virgin, he couldn't contain his joy.
His woman truly belonged only to him, and only he knew of her beauty.
"Actually, he touched me," Ning Qiao'er said shyly. "But perhaps he saw that my figure was too bad, so he didn't go any further."
"So, I'm really grateful to him. If he hadn't been blind, how could I have gotten my turn?"
"I...I'm very happy too." Ning Qiao'er gently rested her head on Prince Jin's shoulder.
They never spoke ill of Su Xiao from beginning to end, but who is Prince Jin? With a little investigation, he could find out everything.
Even if such an ungrateful person is very talented, the emperor would not dare to employ him.
Therefore, Su Xiao wasted most of his life in the Hanlin Academy.
Even in the year he resigned from his official post, he was only a fifth-rank Hanlin Academy head.
Jia's father did offer him some assistance, but for some reason, all the memorials he submitted disappeared without a trace.
Later, Vice Minister Jia's colleagues gave him some pointers.
Tell him that this Princess Consort of Jin is the very same wife who was abandoned by his son-in-law.
Vice Minister Jia was completely dumbfounded.
So that's how it is. No wonder Su Xiao, no matter how capable he is, hasn't been able to get promoted all these years.
Liu Qinghai, the Minister of Revenue, slowly let out a breath.
In fact, his daughter Liu Ya had taken a liking to Su Xiao that day, but no matter what, he refused to let her go. Liu Ya wanted to go on a hunger strike in protest, but was stopped by her best friend, Hua Linglong from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion.
Since recovering from that illness, Hua Linglong has changed a lot and become more composed. His daughter, Liu Ya, doesn't listen to anyone but Hua Linglong.
Ning Hong was also taken aback at first.
He remembered that in the story, the woman who married Su Xiao was Liu Ya, the daughter of Liu Qinghai, the Minister of Revenue, Su Xiao's teacher, and Liu Qingshan's niece.
Why was the person suddenly changed?
She became Jia Lan, the daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites?
Besides, Jia Lan doesn't seem to appear in that story.
Is it because of Acha?
Because Acha came to do the mission, she changed Hua Linglong's fate, and by extension, Liu Ya's fate as well.
Jia Lan was very upset.
What good is a talented husband?
It's meaningless to never get promoted.
She even regretted marrying Su Xiao in the first place.
In her dreams, Su Xiao eventually became a high-ranking official. How come he ended up confined to this small Hanlin Academy in this lifetime?
If she could enter the cabinet, that would be fine, but judging from her father's words, it was clear that Su Xiao's future was over.
Was it really just a dream?
Jia Lan insisted on marrying Su Xiao for two reasons: firstly, because he was handsome, and secondly, because she had a dream.
In the dream, Su Xiao was young and promising. He married the daughter of a high-ranking official, and his official career soared afterward.
In her dream, she was chasing after the Prince of Jin when she accidentally lost her virginity. Afterward, she married that man, who was just a minor official of the sixth rank. Her life in the dream was quite miserable.
After regaining her senses, she decided that she must plan carefully before she could marry that man again.
Afterwards, when she saw that Su Xiao's exam results were exactly the same as those in her dream, she immediately made up her mind to snatch Su Xiao away from Liu Ya.
But in the end, it was just a dream.
What she wanted could not be forced.
It wasn't just Jia Lan who regretted it.
Su Xiao and her mother also regretted it.
I don't know how it happened, but Ning Hongze, that butcher, has somehow won the emperor's favor and is deeply loved by him. He is clearly just a butcher, yet he can enter the palace at will, and his memorials go directly to the emperor's desk without even needing to be reviewed by the Six Ministries.
Of course, it wasn't until later, after Ning Hongze passed away, that they learned from the new emperor that the glasswork was made by Ning Hongze's family workshop, and that the water conservancy projects, potatoes, and corn all came from the Ning family.
The dowry book of the Princess of Jin has also been made public.
Everyone then realized that marrying the Princess of Jin was like marrying a gold nugget. With such a family heirloom in hand, how could the family not prosper?
For a time, the princess of the Prince of Jin family became the object of everyone's admiration.
Su Xiao stared blankly at the Prince of Jin's residence.
I felt both regretful and sad.
If he had treated Qiao'er well back then, wouldn't the glory of the Prince of Jin's mansion today be his?
Qiao'er, even though she's a beautiful girl, if he were willing to help her lose weight...
Unfortunately, no matter how much I say, it's no use anymore.
Su's mother has passed away.
On her deathbed, she kept clutching a silver hairpin that Ning Qiao'er had given her.
She regretted it too.
I regret it now.
She already had the best wife in the world, but she always complained about her. In the end, she mistook a fish eye for a pearl.
Ning Qiao'er spent her life amidst the envious gazes of others.
Before she turned twenty, her life was dull and uneventful, but after she turned twenty, her life completely changed.
She completely changed after her brother asked her to lose weight.
Her brother wasn't lying to her; she was indeed good-looking and resembled him a lot.
She was a beautiful girl.
After becoming the Princess of Jin, she realized even more deeply how much her brother had sacrificed for her, which made her even more grateful to him.
She had previously worried that her brother would remain a bachelor for life, and even thought of telling Longyuan that she would have more children in the future and give one to her brother to adopt.
She never expected that her brother, who sent her to the capital to get married, would end up marrying her off himself.
Oh, no, I mean he got married.
This made her parents extremely happy; the two elderly people had almost given up on their brother.
If I weren't so old, I would want to have another child.
Unexpectedly, this resolved two long-standing issues, especially three years later when his sister-in-law gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, making his brother a perfect family with both a son and a daughter.
"Qiao'er, come and have hot pot. Your brother sent some chili peppers over a few days ago, and they smell really delicious."
"Hey, wait a minute, don't eat it all."
Seeing her family gathered around a hot pot, Ning Qiao'er's smile deepened.
She was very happy in her life.
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