When the prince is reborn, he will only hit me if he doesn't hit the wall!

Qin Xingyue walked into the hall.

Xia Yangtian bowed his hands and said, "Why is Your Highness Prince Xin here? If you have something to say, just let me know. Why do you have to come here in person?"

"I don't need to say much about what happened in the court today and the princess' farce. Lord Xia also knows about it. Although my father did not agree immediately, the person involved is Yaoyao's brother. This king came here specially for Yaoyao."

Xia Qingsong also protected Xia Xueyao behind him and said bluntly: "Thank you, Prince Xin, for taking care of my affairs."

Qin Xingyue's voice was still cold, not as gentle as before: "You are someone Yaoyao cares about, so naturally I have to pay more attention to you."

He spoke to Xia Qingsong, but his eyes were always fixed on Xia Xueyao behind Xia Qingsong.

Seeing her shrinking behind her brother like a little quail, without saying a word, it was hard not to laugh:

Are you scared now? Didn't you say those bold words so smoothly just now?

I was a little angry about what she just said, and my tone was still a little stiff:

"Yaoyao, come here."

Xia Yangtian's heart tightened, and he unconsciously glanced at Xia Xueyao's face, and said with an apologetic smile: "Prince Xin, today's matter has come to this point. Yaoyao must be tired. Let her go back to the courtyard to rest. We will meet again tomorrow..."

Seeing that she was unmoved, Qin Xingyue thought he had frightened her, so he spoke again, his voice much softer than before:

"Yaoyao, come here."

Xia Xueyao just felt very embarrassed. She didn't know how to face Qin Xingyue, who had just said such "ruthless" words. She also didn't know what he was thinking. From the tone of his voice when he came in, he must be angry.

And this face, it really doesn't look like it's presentable to human beings, it's all "lost".

Xia Qingsong turned around and glanced at Xia Xueyao behind him. He probably knew that the only one who could make the decision for her at this time was Qin Xingyue. He gritted his teeth and, regardless of her wishes, took a step to the side, exposing Xia Xueyao to everyone.

Qin Xingyue could see her figure clearly at this moment. He opened his lips and was about to say something, but he saw that she tilted her head and the hidden side of her cheek was red and swollen. He stared at her and took a few steps forward.

"Look up, what's wrong with your face?"

After being slapped in the face by her father and having her face seen by Qin Xingyue, Xia Xueyao felt humiliated and embarrassed. She had completely lost face today.

When Qin Xingyue pinched her chin and forced her to look up, tears of grievance welled up in her eyes, and she pursed her lips, as if she was trying hard not to cry.

Qin Xingyue was a little angry with her, but her tears put all his anger out. His voice softened: "I'm not blaming you. I just wanted to take a look at your face to see if you need to apply medicine."

Just a slap and the swelling went down after applying some compress. There was no need to apply any ointment. Xia Xueyao clearly said "no need" stubbornly, but tears rolled down her face.

Qin Xingyue completely lost his temper, held her in his arms, touched her hair, and coaxed her softly: "I know, I know."

He looked up at the dazed Xia Yangtian and Xia Yuanhong, and immediately frowned:

"Master Xia, don't you even know how much your own son weighs?"

"Yaoyao mentioned to me that he wanted to give me some advice, but I felt that this person was too poor and was too lazy to transfer him. Yaoyao said that he had never mentioned it to save my brother's face."

"I didn't expect that there are people who really don't know what's good for them. They can't see clearly, and their father can't see clearly either!"

He took it all upon himself.

"This...this..." Xia Yuanhong was sweating profusely and didn't know how to answer.

Xia Yangtian was at least more experienced than him, so he said, "It was my fault. I, as a father, misunderstood my daughter."

Pointing out that they are father and daughter, he meant that this was a family affair between blood relatives and hoped that Qin Xingyue would not interfere too much.

"Master Xia, are you worthy of being called father?"

"You've sold your daughter, and now you want to sell your son?"

He couldn't help but think of the first time they met. He thought that Xia Yangtian actually wanted to marry his daughter to that playboy from the Hu family.

The inner dissatisfaction is even worse.

"Prince Xin has misunderstood me! I..."

"That's enough. Since Master Xia knows that he misunderstood Yaoyao, how should he deal with this slap? Do you want her to be beaten for nothing?"

"Well, what do you say?"

"One against ten. Whoever hits me must give me back the same blow. Girls are not as fragile as men. Let's start now. I'll count."

Xia Yangtian was so embarrassed that he felt ashamed: "Your subordinate, your subordinate..."

"Master Xia feels embarrassed. Didn't you ever think about Yaoyao being embarrassed when you took action just now?"

He pressed Xia Xueyao's shoulder, but she didn't respond.

"If Yaoyao doesn't want to see it, then make your voice crisper and louder, but don't reduce the strength. You have to let her hear it clearly."

Xia Yuanhong spoke up to help: "Your Highness Prince Xin, I would like to take my father's place..."

Qin Xing shouted even more sternly: "Get lost! You will need it soon, no need to grab it!"

Xia Yangtian had no choice but to endure the humiliation and slap himself ten times in front of a group of young maids and servants.

He just felt that his old face was put on the ground and rubbed hard, and it was not only his face but also his dignity that was bloody.

"Prince Xin, that's already ten slaps."

Xia Yuanhong looked at his father's toad-like cheeks and answered tremblingly.

Qin Xingyue glanced at him, "You——"

He remembered that Xia Xueyao had just said those chilling words because she was arguing with him, and his anger seemed to have found an outlet: "Fifty of you! Fengming, you come!"

"For ten days or half a month, I don't want him to show up in front of others!"

Feng Ming was one of Qin Xingyue's bodyguards, and he stepped forward following the order.

The hand strength of a person who has practiced martial arts for many years is naturally incomparable to that of a civil servant.

With Feng Ming present, Qin Xingyue didn't need to stay here any longer. He pulled Xia Xueyao out of the front hall. Behind him, he heard Xia Yuanhong's miserable wail accompanied by the sound of a slap:

"Why! Ah! I, ah!! I'm fifty!! Ah!!!"

Qin Xingyue held Xia Xueyao's hand and walked quickly forward, passing through the corridors and aisles without stopping.

His pace was much faster than hers, and his palm tightly clamped her wrist. Xia Xueyao almost jogged to keep up with him.

The phosphorescent clothes he was wearing, set against the light of the snow, made her eyes shine brightly.

"You, slow down."

"We're almost at the gate of Xia's mansion. Where are you taking me?"

Qin Xingyue remained silent and never looked back.

"Aji!"

Qin Xingyue's body froze for a moment.

They had already arrived at the gate of Xia's mansion, in front of his carriage. He put his arm around her waist, jumped lightly, stepped onto the carriage, and pulled her in directly.

Pulling down the roller curtains on the doors and windows, the already narrow carriage space immediately became dim. Qin Xingyue imprisoned her between his arms, still not speaking, his eyes as sharp as a hawk, staring straight at her.

Xia Xueyao was too guilty to look at him and could only murmur, "Are you angry?"

Qin Xingyue narrowed his eyes slightly. She dared to say that!

He leaned forward, sucked and bit her hard as if to vent his feelings, and kissed her until he was aroused. Subconsciously, he wanted to hold her cheeks as usual, but he heard her cry out in pain.

He regained consciousness and sobered up immediately. He looked at her red and swollen cheeks and caressed them lovingly, speaking in a much softer tone: "Does it hurt?"

"Fortunately, it doesn't hurt as much as it did at the beginning."

Qin Xingyue stood up, took out a small bluish-white porcelain box from the simple table under the carriage, scooped out a large amount of thick white cream with his fingertips, and carefully applied it on her face.

It was so funny to see such a large piece of cream on her delicate little face, but Qin Xingyue couldn't laugh at all: "Am I too easy to talk to on weekdays, so that you can be so unscrupulous and say whatever you want, huh?"

"I……"

"Is it said in anger, or is it the truth? Or is it both?"

Xia Xueyao lowered her head, wanting to pause and think for a moment whether to tell the truth or lie to him, but he pinched her chin, forced her to look at him, and said in a serious voice: "You hesitated, wondering whether to lie to me or to coax me? So you are telling the truth?"

"No, there is also some impulse and anger."

The sound became weaker towards the end.

Qin Xingyue's eyes darkened: "I didn't know that you still had this thought. Because of your useless brother, you still want to cut off contact with me?"

"Xia Xueyao, who gave you the courage?"

"Do you think I'm so nice to everyone?"

"No……"

"No?" He raised his voice, questioning. "If I don't come today, will you really cut off all ties with me as you said?"

Xia Xueyao no longer looked at him, lowered her eyes and did not answer.

Qin Xingyue's anger, which had just been suppressed, surged up again, and he tightened the hand that was pinching her chin a little more, and said angrily

"answer me!"

"Xia Xueyao!"

Xia Xueyao felt as if she had been pushed into a corner many times today.

Why are they forced to do things they don't want to do?

The same goes for her brother and herself. She just feels incompetent and can't even stick to her own wishes.

She slapped his hand away and decided to throw the pot away. "Yes, there's nothing wrong with breaking it. The Xia family is a rotten pond, and it's impossible to get rid of it. If it breaks, you will be free and at ease, and I will be at peace too."

Qin Xingyue was slightly startled, probably because he didn't expect her to say that, and asked, "Then what are we doing during this period?"

Xia Xueyao retorted: "I am confused and weak-willed. When I first met you, I never thought we would end up like this."

"You've touched my body, so what do you mean? Do you want to abandon me after having sex with me?"

Xia Xueyao blushed: "Don't talk nonsense, I never touched you!"

Qin Xingyue pulled at his collar to reveal the red mark on his collarbone: "This is evidence!"

"It's been so long, why are you still——"

Xia Xueyao was puzzled. Her eyesight was poor, and the light in the carriage was dim, so she unconsciously looked closer, only then she discovered that the red mark was actually created based on the original mark!

"You, pervert! Why do you want to get this tattoo?"

She tilted her head in panic and fumbled to straighten his collar.

"After drinking that day, I knew you might deny your guilt, so I kept the evidence."

"In that case, what else do you have to say?"

Xia Xueyao lowered her head and said nothing. After a long silence, she whispered:

"But don't you find it troublesome?"

"I am in trouble too, the Xia family is in trouble too, Qingsong's matter is also..."

Qin Xing understood more and more why Xia Xueyao subconsciously avoided their feelings like a coward. Perhaps it was because the two siblings had been relying on each other for a long time and faced everything with the mentality of not causing trouble to others.

He couldn't help feeling annoyed: How could the children raised by the Xia family, the legitimate sons and daughters, live like dependents in his own house!

She also thought that she seemed to have lost her mother very early, and her father was so hypocritical that he promoted his concubine to be his principal wife, and lived in harmony with her children and the whole family.

If it weren't for the help from my maternal grandparents, I probably wouldn't have lived to this age.

Looking at it now, how can the children of the original wife not be considered "living under someone else's roof"?

She has an eye disease, and it is really rare that the two siblings have survived until now and have not gone astray...

No wonder she longed for freedom so much. For her, there were indeed many restrictions in the Xia Mansion.

Thinking of this, Qin Xingyue couldn't help but feel distressed, and he softened his voice and whispered, "It's not a problem. Everything about Yaoyao is not a problem."

He gently stroked the corner of her eye with his fingertips: "You are not a problem, and the Xia Mansion is not difficult to deal with. As for your brother, although I don't know what Qin Yuling thinks, I think she seems to have some purpose, and it's not that she really has to have him. In this way, there is still a chance. I will help you with everything here."

He pressed her forcefully into his arms: "So Yaoyao, you and everything about you are not a problem to me."

"Don't shut me out when things get tough, okay?"

Xia Xueyao rested her chin on his shoulder and whispered in his ear, "I'm just afraid that 'when love is strong, love is longer than the sea and sky, but when love is weak, life is more fragile than thin paper'..."

"It's already difficult for me to live in the Xia Mansion, and I'm not as confident as Yueyue to start my own business and leave the mansion on my own. I have a younger brother, and he's still young. If he follows me, without the support of his mother's family, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to survive for long..."

Qin Xingyue felt a little blocked in his heart. After all, she still did not consider herself as her confidence.

How can you be so stupid!

That's it!

"In the future, I will help you gain the confidence you want. Can you check the accounts and manage the store?"

Xia Xueyao moved away from him and looked at him blankly, nodding and then shaking her head.

She knows how to check the accounts, but the Xia family’s shops are no longer under her control, including the two left by her mother.

"No problem, we will solve them one by one."

The time was almost up. Qin Xingyue used a handkerchief dipped in tea to wipe the ointment on her face bit by bit. Sure enough, her red and swollen cheeks returned to normal. He then breathed a sigh of relief.

He placed the porcelain box in her hand and said, "This medicine can be used for common injuries and swellings. Keep it for yourself."

"As for your brother, you don't need to worry. I will go and find out what Qin Yuling is thinking in the near future."

Xia Xueyao held the porcelain box, wiped the corners of her eyes, and nodded.

Qin Xingyue watched her calm down, then he pinched her nose and said teasingly:

"You little crybaby, you cry so much. Your tears just flowed like a spring, you couldn't stop them, right?"

Xia Xueyao said shyly: "No way!"

"Whether there is any or not, go back first and wait for my news about today's incident. I will tell you what happened when I come back."

"Ah."

After Qin Xingyue sent Xia Xueyao back to the Xia Mansion, he left in a carriage.

"To the palace."