The wife travels through time and space to honor her husband: The heirless prince raises a child

Chapter 160 Cui
Qin He was still angry when the group arrived at the garden.

After settling down in the pavilion, a maid brought tea. Qin He, on a whim, ordered, "Go to my shop and get some iced drinks and popsicles. It's so hot in the summer."

"There are iced drinks! That's great!" My little cousin cheered first.

The guards quickly left, and Qin Yan and the others happily discussed the iced drinks.

"Sister Qin He, you're amazing! You can run a shop with men and it keeps getting bigger and bigger." Qin Yan said with admiration, pulling Qin He along, "I could do that too if I had half your skills."

Qin He basked in everyone's praise, but then, as if thinking of something, her smile faded slightly: "What's the use of being good at running a shop? It's better to marry well. Even a dodder vine that knows nothing can have everything if it marries well."

Qin Yan immediately thought of Qin Bi, and let go of Qin He's hand, saying, "Sister Qin Bi married well, but what can she do? Just because she married well, she got huge benefits for nothing."

Qin Bi was the most low-key among the concubine's daughters. She liked to stay in the courtyard. She didn't have any nice clothes or much jewelry. Qin Bi was also older than them and didn't have the youthful beauty of the others. She was truly useless.

Yet this is the very person who stands above them.

Frustrated, jealous, and generally unable to accept that everything Qin Bi has now is a free gift.

Qin Bi was lucky to marry Prince He. There were more than one eligible woman in the Marquis's mansion, and each of them was younger and more beautiful than Qin Bi. If Prince He hadn't been destined to be childless and have no wives, he wouldn't have married Qin Bi.

The young ladies of the Marquis's mansion were talking when Qin Han arrived at the Marquis Qin Yan's mansion.

Qin He immediately called Qin Han aside to talk. At the round pear wood table, only Qin He and Qin Han were there. At this time, the guards had brought iced drinks, and the other young ladies of the Marquis's mansion were eating iced drinks and helping Qin Han take care of the children.

"Do you know that Qin Bi is scheming?" Qin He asked with a tense face.

Qin Han asked seriously, "What is it?"

"The child she gave birth to is Rong Yang." Qin He looked at Qin Han and said the words she least wanted to say: "She said it was the child of Prince He."

Qin Han's eyes widened in surprise. How could this be? It took her a while to react before she said, "Isn't Young Master Rong Yang the child of Young Master Rong? How could he be the child of Young Master He?"

Prince Rong is a god of war, a nobleman in fine clothes and riding a spirited horse; such a person would never raise someone else's child.

"Where did you hear that from?" Qin Han shook her head, disbelieving. "Don't you know what kind of person Prince Rong is? He wouldn't raise someone else's child. That's nonsense."

Qin He also pondered. Yes, the Crown Prince Rong's temperament wouldn't allow him to raise someone else's child. Absolutely not. Well, I didn't expect Qin Bi to have used tricks to scheme against the two powerful princes of the Great Yan Dynasty.

Qin He got angry again and said sullenly, "Hmph, the entire court knows."

Qin Han was stunned. Now that the entire court knew, there was no way to fake it.

“Prince He will definitely want to acknowledge the child back.” Qin Han was much more rational than Qin He.

"It's said that the entire He family has returned." With no outsiders present, Qin He made no attempt to hide her anger in front of Qin Han, coldly snorting, "The He heir is no longer pure. I don't want him anymore. He's hopelessly stupid, having been schemed against by a woman." Qin Han was stunned, only then realizing what Qin He had said. She frantically looked around, only relaxing when she was sure no one was nearby. Qin He was married now; the Xue heir wasn't as amiable as he seemed.

"Be careful not to be overheard," Qin Han reminded Qin He.

"So what if I heard that?" Qin He looked fearless, her eyes, though not particularly imposing, were filled with coldness as she said angrily, "He kept saying he was good to me and would protect me for life, but he had a child with another woman. I'm going to ask Prince He for an explanation."

Qin Han said timidly, "Isn't that unnecessary? You've all gotten married."

Qin Han regretted getting involved in this mess at this time. Given Qin He's temper, she might actually confront Prince He. Who was Prince He? A powerful minister of the Great Yan Dynasty, not just anyone could yell at him.

"Don't promise me if you can't do it." Qin He was so angry that she was dizzy and her mind was not clear, but she spoke very decisively: "He promised to be with me for life and he didn't keep his promise. Now he has a child with another woman. I don't want him anymore."

Qin Han didn't know how to comfort Qin He and stop being angry, so she only said, "Prince He doesn't have any children. It's not easy to have a child..."

Speaking of this, Qin He got even angrier: "Why did she have to have a child with my half-sister? It's infuriating!"

Qin Han hesitated, but back then, Prince He and Qin Bi got married to pave the way for you, and you didn't stop them. You were waiting to enjoy the path that Prince He had paved for you, so where did this talk of a lifetime of being one with one person come from?

Besides, even if Qin He wanted Prince He, she couldn't have him; you couldn't afford him.

Qin He did want to marry Prince He, and she waited for several years without giving up, hoping that Prince He would stop being a jinx to his wives before she could marry him. She was engaged twice, and she almost died both times!

You want Prince He, but you can't.

There is nothing anyone can do about a person destined to be widowed and childless.

Qin He only got married after accepting her fate, so why are they bringing up old grievances again?

Qin He spoke recklessly in front of Qin Han, making it sound as if Prince He couldn't live without her, and that even after she married, Prince He still couldn't forget her. Qin Han believed her to some extent because of her certainty.

Qin He returned to the second courtyard, and before leaving, she didn't forget to say to Cui Shi, "Mother, I'm going to the Duke of Yan's mansion to find out what happened to Prince He. Marriage is supposed to be a divorce, so how come there's a child?"

Cui's hand trembled, and the teacup almost fell to the ground. A surge of anger welled up in her, and Cui said, "Go ahead, I won't stop you. If Prince He has wronged you, just ask him. Your reputation is more important than anyone else's."

"I'm not just saying that," Qin He said, worried that Cui would look down on her. "I'm really going to ask."

Cui's face darkened, and she waved her hand: "Go ahead, if you dare to ask, I dare to kill you."

Qin He was stunned, and tears welled up in her eyes: "Mother, Prince He has betrayed me."

"You eat their food, drink their drinks, and everything you eat, wear, and use comes from the Duke of Yan's mansion." Madam Cui was furious. She knew it; this illegitimate daughter's return was never a good thing. "Your twenty-mile-long dowry for your wedding was all given to you by Prince He. He didn't wrong you at all! How dare you say he wronged you? There's a limit to sucking blood. How can you be so shameless? Prince He delayed your marriage for several years and gave you more than enough. How did he wrong you? Prince He was destined to have no children. He finally had a child, and instead of being happy for him, you're pretending to be so affectionate? Did you not marry because of Prince He? You already have two children, a husband and children, and you're perfectly content with both a son and a daughter. But when Prince He has a child, you're jumping around like crazy. How can you be so hypocritical?"