The prince disliked her, and the legitimate daughter was reborn and married to the regent

"elder brother!"

"Brother, did you see that just now? The crabapple flowers I picked?"

"Brother, I will never talk to you again!"

"My brother is the most outstanding man in the entire Luochuan City. No one can compare to you."

Everyone in Luochuan City knows that the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion is very spoiled, and her brother loves her to the core, and he would love to pick the stars and the moon for her.

Yun Shuo was only a few years older than Yun Nian. Under the influence of his parents, he also used all his energy to pamper this well-behaved but spoiled, fragile and lovable sister.

Yun Nian became willful under such pampering, but she also knew the limit of mischief and never did anything outrageous. At most, she would sneak attack the dandy boys with Zuo Mingyuan, or secretly pick fruits in the imperial garden with Xiyu.

But as long as it is not discovered, it does not matter.

So even if some women from official families secretly talked about it behind his back, Yun Shuo just pretended not to know and secretly taught those gossipers a lesson.

He had stopped taking money from Yun Fang a long time ago. As long as Master Yun wrote some calligraphy and paintings, it would naturally attract the attention of those people in Luochuan City who were interested in culture.

These eventually became his gifts to Sisi: snow fox fur, peacock feathers, gems from the mines, and pearls from the shells.

His sister was the most precious treasure in the world, so he had to use his jewels to honor her.

"Brother, why can men have three wives and four concubines but women can't?"

At that time, Yun Nian was still a long way from coming of age. Apart from her parents who had been with her for the rest of her life, she saw another kind of life of the powerful officials in Luochuan City.

Perhaps other people would think that her words were too contrary to the will of heaven and rude, but Yun Shuo never thought that there was anything strange in what she said.

He half-knelt down and looked at Yun Nian at eye level.

"In history, there have been women who kept many male lovers, all of whom were powerful men. But even a princess can only have one male lover."

"Doesn't that mean that women can never have many princes-in-law like men? That's so unfair. It's better to have a couple like my father and mother."

Yun Nian pouted, and then said to him earnestly,

"Brother, you can't be as heartless as those men. If you have a girl you like, you must be sincere to her."

Yun Shuo patted her head and laughed.

"You are still a child, you can't say whether you like it or not. I am naturally not a person who is indecisive."

Later, there was another time when he finally graduated from the Imperial College and walked out with two or three good friends. When they stepped out of the gate, they saw the carriage of the Prime Minister's Mansion parked on the neat road.

Yun Nian was probably a little bored of waiting, so she lifted the curtain of the car window, propped up her head lazily, and rested her slender fingers on her chin.

Intense summer, intense colors, the girl whose white skin is so bright that it seems brighter than the sun, doesn't know that she has already become a scenery in the eyes of others.

He saw that most of his classmates had stopped walking, staring at the girl in front of them in a daze, and his best friend even stopped walking and held his breath.

"elder brother?"

The next moment, the girl suddenly saw the person she had been waiting for for a long time. Her lazy and dilated pupils were suddenly filled with vitality, as if all the others were no longer in front of her, and the only one she was staring at was Yun Shuo.

He walked quickly forward, and for the first time, he forgot to say goodbye to his friends. He almost roughly pulled down the curtain to cover her beautiful face, and then glanced at the people who were staring at him without any emotion.

"What? I came here specially to pick up my brother. Why do you look so unhappy?"

Yun Shuo had just stepped onto the carriage at this time, and had not yet had time to adjust his expression. When he heard these words, he paused.

It was at that moment that I realized that this was not the emotion a brother should have when facing his sister.

He should have laughed and knocked on his friends' heads, warning them not to covet his sister, and then got on the carriage and pretended to be angry but actually talked to her with joy.

Instead of being like this now, with an unknown anger rising in my heart, as if something that belongs to me is coveted by others,

"You... don't come here to pick me up again. Besides, showing up like this is not something a young lady should do."

The girl in front of him widened her eyes in anger and looked at him angrily.

"Brother, why are you like this? I'm going to tell mother that you've really gone too far! You clearly know that I'm the one who told those people that women can't do this or that!"

Later, Yun Nian got angry, so he emptied his own coffers and took great pains to choose a gift to apologize, and only then did he get her forgiveness.

But from then on, it seemed that the feelings had changed unconsciously.

When Yun Shuo realized that something was wrong with his feelings, his first reaction was that maybe he shouldn't get so close to Yun Nian.

Boys and girls should not sit at the same table when they are seven years old. He should not treat her the same way as when she was a child. Maybe keeping a little distance would be the best choice.

He quietly increased his reading time, and even on holidays he often returned home very late. Occasionally, when his mother nagged him to go home for dinner, he tried not to talk to Sisi.

But seeing her right in front of me, how could I suppress my desire to love her?

The more you suppress it, the more painful it will be, and the greater the backlash will be.

In just ten days, he was already out of control, but Yun Nian seemed to have noticed nothing. She just thought he was studying too hard and treated him the same as before.

"Brother, I'm waiting for you to pass the imperial examination~"

She smiled coquettishly. Something dark was growing in Yun Shuo's heart in the dark night. He suddenly wanted to hold Yun Nian in his arms. He didn't care about the moral principles and gentlemanly conduct.

If only I could...if only I could do what?

For the first time, Yun Shuo returned to his yard in a somewhat embarrassed manner. A crabapple tree was quietly blooming. He sat alone on a stone bench, looking up at the pouring moonlight and the dark pink crabapple tree.

His thoughts had become too dirty, and he no longer had the courage to face Yun Nian. The more he saw her innocent face, the more he felt his own meanness.

Thinking about her, she grew up too fast and possessed such a fascinating charm. He was just in a trance and saw her in full bloom, and realized how many people tried to get close to her.

She is a budding crabapple, finally welcoming her own spring after the cold winter. As a diligent flower grower, how could he not fall in love with the flowers he carefully nurtured?