"Sweet! Extremely sweet! A hundred times sweeter than grapes!"
The world is not at peace these days, and opportunities for the two of them to flirt quietly without talking about anything else are few and far between.
In the blink of an eye, the carriage stopped in front of the Yan residence.
"Your Highness, we have arrived."
The two were deeply in love, and Yue Xiyuan was about to savor the luscious red lips again when An Shi interrupted them.
Yue Xiyuan's expression turned gloomy and angry. His brows furrowed, and the corners of his mouth turned down, as if a surge of anger was welling up inside him. His eyes flashed with fury, making it impossible for anyone to look him in the eye.
An Shi's heart raced and his breathing became rapid.
[Oh no, the prince is angry... Did I interrupt his good time? It seems being in the Dark Fourth Division isn't so easy after all.]
However, the Regent's Palace was only half an incense stick's distance from the Yan residence, so there was no room for An Shi to slow down any further.
After that incident at the moat, An Shi resolved to train even harder so that he could replace An Si as soon as possible and become the most sought-after person by the Queen's side.
Who would have thought that this very first time would ruin the prince's good deed?
An Shi closed his eyes tightly and gripped the hem of his clothes with both hands, as if silently praying that he could overcome this difficulty.
"Today, the carriage driven by Dark Ten is much slower than that driven by Dark Four."
Yan An could walk for half an hour, but today it took him half an hour by carriage.
When An Shiyi heard the princess say this, he instantly felt as if the heavens had opened their eyes.
Yue Xiyuan felt a little embarrassed and cleared his throat. "Slow? I didn't feel that way?"
Yan An walked ahead, inwardly criticizing Yue Xiyuan: [That guy's really stubborn!]
Seeing that Yan An had already entered the mansion, Yue Xiyuan hurriedly followed after him.
The weight on An Shi's heart lifted instantly, and he breathed a sigh of relief. "From now on, I will definitely follow the Queen's lead."
After this incident, An Shi fully realized who was the real boss in this royal palace.
The three people in the Yan residence were having lunch.
"You're not young anymore, you're almost thirty. I don't know what you're thinking all day. You're never home. Do you think you've gone to that 'Immortal's Drunkenness' place again?"
“Oh, Mother, I didn’t. I haven’t been there since then.”
"Father, Mother, and Elder Brother, I'm back."
"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, and elder brother."
When Jiang Luo saw Yan An arrive with Yue Xiyuan, he quickly got up and pulled Yue Xiyuan to sit down beside him.
Have you eaten yet?
"not yet."
"That's perfect. I'll have the servants bring two more sets of bowls and chopsticks so we can eat together."
"Thank you, Mother-in-law."
Yue Xiyuan addressed his mother-in-law so affectionately, which made Jiang Luo feel incredibly comfortable.
It's true what they say about mothers-in-law looking at their sons-in-law: the more they look, the more
"I feel more comfortable here than when I return to the Regent's Palace."
“That’s right, that’s right,” Yan Yi echoed his father.
But Jiang Luo scared him back with a glare.
"Can you even speak like a human being? So what if your brother-in-law came to our house? So what? Is that right, madam?"
Yan Cheng's expression was simple and silly, his eyes were squinted into slits with a smile, and his mouth was wide open, revealing his neat row of teeth.
Yan Yi's face showed a shocked expression, his eyes wide open, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing. His mouth was slightly open, revealing half of his tongue, as if he was too shocked to speak.
Finally, he managed to utter two words, "You're awesome!"
Yan Yi never expected that his father could change his attitude so quickly; it seemed that he was the most humble one in the family.
"Xiyuan, do you think Yan Yi has been to Xianrenzui recently?"
Immortal's Drunkenness is a property owned by Yue Xiyuan; this is a fact known to the Yan family.
When Yan Yi heard his mother ask Yue Xiyuan, he immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks, put his hands together, and prayed to Yue Xiyuan continuously.
Jiang Luo noticed all of Yan Yi's subtle actions.
"Ignore him. Just tell me if Yan Yi has been to Xianrenzui these days. If he has, I'll break his legs today."
"What? Mother, am I still your biological son? How could you be so heartless?"
"You're thirty years old and still can't find a wife. You might as well disown your son."
"Was it that I didn't want to look? Was it that I couldn't find it?"
"Besides, I'm not thirty, I'm only twenty-five."
Yan Yi watched as his mother's face darkened, her voice growing softer and softer until even he could no longer hear it.
"You can't find it yourself and you still have the nerve to argue? I told you you're thirty and you still won't admit it. You're almost twenty-six, and that was before the Lunar New Year. You'll be two years older after the New Year, and you'll be twenty-nine by the traditional Chinese age reckoning. Is it too much for me to say you're thirty?"
Even Yan An was quite shocked by Jiang Luo's words; so that's how age is calculated.
"Isn't your calculation excessive? It's not just excessive, it's excessive to the point of bordering on a moat."
"What did you say? If I don't break your legs today, I'm not a Jiang."
Fortunately, Yan An pulled Jiang Luo back, otherwise Yan Yi would definitely have been beaten up today.
"Mother-in-law, why don't we eat first? An'an and I have been starving for a long time."
"Okay, let's eat first, and I'll deal with him after we finish eating."
Yan An placed a piece of meat on Jiang Luo's plate and asked, "Mother, why are you so angry today?"
Although Jiang Luo always scolded Yan Yi for being all alone, she had never gotten this angry before.
“An’an, you don’t know, a friend of mine from out of town has a daughter who came to Beijing. Since you weren’t home, I thought I’d ask Yan Yi to take care of her and make sure she was settled in properly. But when he got there, he said that the girl was ‘ugly and dreaming.’”
A look of surprise flashed across Yan An's face, and his eyes revealed a sense of disbelief.
“Mother, you know my elder brother well. He has never been such a frivolous person. There must be some misunderstanding here.”
Upon hearing his sister plead for him, Yan Yi was so moved that he almost burst into tears and nodded frantically.
"real?"
Jiang Luo looked at Yan Yi, trying to see from his face whether he was lying to her.
“I really did take good care of that girl as you said, and arranged for her to stay at Yuelai Guest House. The prince can find out about it with a simple check. But the girl immediately said that she had taken a liking to me and wanted me to go to her house to propose marriage in a while. She also said that once she was married, she would separate from your family, especially An'an. She said that once she left home, she could not come back. She said that An'an was like water spilled out after marriage.”
"And...and she also said that she would demand double the dowry An'an had."
Upon hearing this, Yan An realized that this person was not only narcissistic but also arrogant and unexpected.
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