The real big guys are those with connections in the eyes of the system!

The couple spoke each word, and every word was full of concern.

Although Yiqing couldn't get a word in for the moment, she felt exceptionally warm in her heart.

After they calmed down a little, Yiqing said frankly that he had had contact with the Regent, and those rumors about his character were actually just false rumors, and he himself was not actually scary.

Ordinary people are easily looked down upon for trying to climb the social ladder because the wealthy and powerful attach great importance to etiquette, but ordinary people are busy making a living and have no time to pay attention to such details. So an inadvertent action becomes a violation of the rules, and when a person's vision has been restricted since childhood and encounters something new, his or her appearance of not understanding it will become a laughing stock.

Yiqing thinks she is different from them.

She grew up in the prime minister's mansion and learned all the rules very well. Even if she married into the prince's mansion, she would not be rude or make any jokes about the rules.

She told the Su couple not to worry, that she was not afraid of the Regent and that she had the confidence to be a good princess.

Su's mother thought Yiqing said that because she really wanted to be the princess, and was trying to persuade her not to be blinded by wealth and fame, and to make her understand that men in this world are the best at weighing the pros and cons, and they attach great importance to the power of their wife's mother's family.

If the maternal family is weak, they can be bullied; if the maternal family is strong, they will be feared.

Their family conditions may not be bad among ordinary people, but they are insignificant in front of the powerful and wealthy.

She wanted Yiqing to think carefully, but Father Su had already understood what Yiqing meant. "It's an imperial decree and cannot be refused. Even if you ask Prime Minister Jiang for help, it will be useless, right?"

Yiqing pursed her lips, and after several seconds she slowly nodded.

It wasn't that she wanted to marry the Regent, but no one could survive and refuse the imperial decree.

There was no choice in the road ahead, they had no choice but to accept it.

Su's mother finally understood.

She opened her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but for some reason she couldn't utter a word. Only crystal tears fell from the corners of her eyes.

"How could this be?"

She threw herself into Su's father's arms and cried sadly.

Father Su's eyes also turned red without him noticing.

Yiqing watched from the side and hesitated to speak, "Actually, things are not as bad as you think. Even without the imperial decree, I am willing to marry the regent."

As soon as she finished speaking, two surprised eyes fell on her.

She explained briefly, "I think he feels very much like a human being to me."

"Who?"

"Someone I like."

"..."

After a strange silence, Su's mother took a breath and said, "You use the Regent as a substitute?"

Although Su's father didn't say anything, his surprised look showed that his inner thoughts were consistent with Su's mother.

This misunderstanding...

Yiqing couldn't help but hold his forehead.

But thinking back to the regent's jade-like ears that she had seen before, and the fact that there was no star mark left by her, she did not deny their speculation in the end, but just said, "That's fine if you want to understand it that way."

Su's mother burst into tears again.

She was saddened by the imperial decree that she could not disobey, she regretted that her daughter's lover had passed away at a young age, and she was afraid that the regent would be discovered as a substitute.

Yiqing: “…”

There is no need to imagine so much.

She was helpless.

There is a feeling of helplessness that I want to explain but don't know where to start.

He opened and closed his lips several times but no sound came out. In the end, he could only hand Su's mother a handkerchief and listen to her vent her emotions in silence.

Just as she guessed, although Su's mother seemed weak, she actually had a strong ability to accept things.

After she came to her senses, she realized that things could not be changed, so she stopped constructing those unrealistic fantasies.

She began to prepare for Yiqing's wedding.

She knew that they could not give Yiqing any help in terms of status, so she planned to work hard on her dowry.

They prepared a total of 28 dowries for Yiqing.

In this imperial city filled with dignitaries, such a number is not considered large, but the love behind it is incomparable to others - in order to prepare these things, they almost emptied their family savings.

They knew that the palace had no shortage of these things, but they always thought, what if a little more could earn them a little more respectability for their daughter?

Please give her more, this is their only daughter now.

Give them a little more. After all, they are not old yet and they can earn the money back eventually.

A little more, a little more. They don’t eat much, so they can support themselves with just a little bit of money.

Money is something you can’t bring with you when you are born and you can’t take with you when you die. Why keep it? Give it to me! Give it all!

If Yiqing hadn't discovered their intention in time and firmly refused, they would have almost wanted to sell the house.

Isn't it just marrying a prince? There is a slight difference in status between the two parties.

It won't come to this.

Not really!

After finally appeasing this side, the Regent said he wanted to propose marriage.

Yiqing realized belatedly that the wedding date had not yet been set.

So the parents were too hasty in preparing the dowry. People who don’t know the situation might think that they were afraid that their daughter wouldn’t be able to get married!

She was complaining in her heart when she saw the Regent's betrothal gifts being carried in box by box. It took a long time to see the end of the gift, but when she looked up, she saw it coming in again.

Yiqing: “…”

What? Are you planning to sell the palace too?

This world is a little bit crazy.

She would not comment much on the Su couple, who doted on their daughter, but the regent's love-brained look was too familiar to her!

……

Yiqing felt that if she continued to live in such a loving environment, she would lose her original intention and forget her mission.

Although she didn't need to do anything in this world, as long as she created a sense of crisis for Jiang Yutang, she was almost killing herself.

Originally, Yiqing thought this was quite interesting, so she chose to watch from the sidelines most of the time.

But those who do it for a long time will get bored, and she suddenly starts to dislike it because it is too slow.

Anyway, the Prime Minister's wife has already seen part of Jiang Yutang's true face, and she must have a certain psychological endurance, so there is no need for me to worry too much like before.

So, Yiqing chose a day with good weather to go to the prime minister's residence.

She went in under the pretext of missing her adoptive parents, and deliberately got intimate and joked with the Jiang couple in front of Jiang Yutang.

Sure enough, Jiang Yutang soon couldn't hold it anymore.

"Why are you treating such a fake so well? I am obviously your biological daughter!"

"She has occupied my identity for more than ten years, so of course I hate her in my heart! If you still care about your daughter, then kick her out now!"

"You think I have no rules? You just don't want her to leave, so you use rules to pressure me! Do you really think she is a good person? She is already the daughter of a merchant, and she can climb up to such a high position as the Regent. Her methods are really clever!"

"Mom...you hit me? You actually hit me for this fake! You...you don't actually want me to come back, right?"

"These days, my mother won't let me go out, and she asked Master Li to keep an eye on me every day. On the surface, she claims that she is doing this for my own good, but in reality, she despises me because I was raised by a merchant family and don't know the rules. She wishes she hadn't recognized me in the first place, right?"

"I'm talking nonsense? Am I wrong, or are you feeling guilty because of what I said?"

Jiang Yutang became more and more agitated, and even hysterical in the end.

During this period, the system ignored her, her parents were overly harsh on her, and even her adoptive parents no longer secretly found someone to give her things like they used to. For a while, she seemed to be abandoned by everyone.

Her emotions had already reached a critical point.

I just kept holding on until now when the full effect finally occurred.

In her memory, every time she encountered something she couldn't accept, as long as she made a big enough fuss, the Su couple would always compromise and be the first to bow their heads. She was used to being coaxed and persuaded, and subconsciously thought that this time the prime minister and his wife would also bow to her.

But after secretly waiting for a long time, what she got was an order from Prime Minister Jiang to put her in solitary confinement.

Jiang Yutang's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it, "Dad, do you hate me so much too?"

Prime Minister Jiang frowned slightly, he wanted to say no.

But he was used to being a strict father and was not used to explaining his behavior to his children, so until Jiang Yutang was taken away by the servants, he did not explain his actions.

Yiqing watched silently, and when Jiang Yutang's hysterical shouting could no longer be heard, she suddenly asked, "Father, mother, don't you blame me for deliberately angering her?"

Yes, she was deliberately irritating.

Just as she expected, her adoptive parents saw through it but didn't say anything, so there was no surprise on their faces when they heard her say that.

"Why should I blame you? How can I, as your mother, not know what your child is thinking? You don't have any bad intentions. You probably just know that I invited Li Yu, the best female teacher in Kyoto, to teach her, and you came to help me test the effect of the teaching today."

"It's a pity that Yutang is such a disappointing child." Mrs. Jiang changed the subject and sighed softly.

Prime Minister Jiang had no intention of blaming her. "You didn't do anything. It was obviously her who couldn't control her temper."