Reincarnated as the daughter of my mortal enemy, all I want is to ascend the throne.

Li Qingyan has already made arrangements for who to bring in.

"Don't worry, someone will come in to handle this. Your Majesty can rest now." Li Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief after answering Liu Yao.

The sounds of fighting last night kept Liu Yao awake all night.

Logically, the Queen's palace should have been the first to be attacked, but surprisingly, no one knocked on the palace gates. They did, however, catch a few petty thieves trying to climb over the wall.

Everyone in the palace was watching the vacancies, and Li Qingyan's manpower was limited, so she couldn't fill them all. Therefore, she would put her own people in most of the important positions.

At least three years of peace and stability are assured.

The eldest princess had come with the empress, and now that the matter was settled, the two of them left.

The second princess had a thick stack of account books beside her. "Princess Zhaoyu, we need to carefully calculate our accounts."

Li Qingyan tried to run away, but Li Yan grabbed her. "Let's have a good chat. I have other matters to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

Li Yan placed the person on the dragon throne and left amidst the crowd's respectful farewells to His Majesty. Li Qingyan's lips twitched.

Consort Ling blinked, not understanding what her daughter was going to do, but since her daughter wouldn't let her leave, she could only sit there.

The second princess looked at Li Qingyan and said, "Tell me, what kind of scheme is it for your design bureau to smash up my shop door?"

Li Qingyan actually smashed up a silk shop and took the red silk.

"Isn't it because we don't have enough red cloth?" Li Qingyan said this with a particularly guilty conscience.

The second princess reached behind her, and a palace maid handed her an abacus. "You'll be charged ten taels of silver for breaking two doors. Thirty bolts of cloth, including ten coarse cloth and twenty bolts of silk, will be charged sixty-two taels."

The second princess smiled slightly, "My dear sister, I'll round it down to one hundred taels of silver for you."

Li Qingyan's eyes widened. "Is this how you round down?"

"I can apply it again for you. I haven't asked you for your payment for getting rid of Zheng Taohua a while ago." The Second Princess's eyes lit up, clearly wanting more money from Li Qingyan.

"The weather is nice today, so I got a jade hairpin from a pawnshop in the southwest. It can be used to adorn Consort Ling." Li Qingyan had someone bring the box over.

Upon seeing the hairpin, the second princess looked at her mother and asked, "Does Mother like it?"

Consort Ling heard her daughter calling her and hurried over to take a look. "Extremely warm and smooth. Although it's not the finest jade, it's exceptionally exquisite. It's quite nice. Do you really want it for me?"

Li Qingyan nodded.

Consort Ling was very happy.

Seeing that her mother was happy, the second princess finally gave up her plan, saying, "I can afford that little bit of money."

She looked at Li Qingyan as if she had just thought of something, "You said you'd find me a helper, it wouldn't be Zheng Taohua, would it?"

"Of course, Peach Blossom is fine. She and Yan Li just went out on business." Li Qingyan beautified the fake death.

The second princess shook her head slightly, "I'm so glad I didn't stand against you. It seems it's better to be your wallet."

Aside from the financial loss, everything else went smoothly. She only needed to manage her own business. Li Qingyan kept a close eye on her mother's safety and also helped her pave various paths.

Doing business is about cooperation and mutual benefit.

After the second princess left with Consort Ling, Li Qingyan let out a heavy sigh, "The master of the household is really hard to deal with."

Su Xue wiped her face with a handkerchief. "Is there anyone Your Highness is afraid of?"

"You don't understand, you don't understand my suffering." Li Qingyan said pitifully, then immediately thought of Li Yan running away. Where did this unreliable father go?

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Changning Academy.

Ye Wenzhou clutched his stomach and laughed heartily, "Your daughter is really something, just like Zheng Tongwei, who's been living a miserable life in jail."

Once Zheng Tongwei discovers the truth, he cannot be released; it's safer for him to stay inside.

"You have the nerve to say that? You're covered in dirt and grime yourself." Sui An sat down next to him, supporting her waist.

He handed out brown pastries to everyone.

Suihe distributed the items to everyone, saying, "These are some I made recently. Try them."

Everyone who came today is here.

Li Yan, Yan Xu, Lin Hu, Ting Feng, Yan Li, Zheng Tao Hua, and even Yan Qi Wu were there.

The courtyard was bustling with activity.

Li Yan, Yan Xu, and Ye Wenzhou shuddered involuntarily when they saw the brown pastry; they knew without a doubt that it was bitter.

Ye Wenzhou quickly said, "My wife..."

"What's wrong? Eat up." Sui Anxing eagerly picked up some food for Li Yan and Yan Xu, "Try it and see if it tastes the same as the Six God Soup I made for you back then."

Li Yan and Yan Xu picked it up with a death-defying spirit.

Just then, they heard the sound of the door being kicked open. "So, you're all abandoning me now?" Li Qingyan said breathlessly, sitting down next to Li Yan. "If I hadn't prepared everything in advance, that creditor would have killed me."

Li Yan wiped the sweat from her face. "What's all the fuss about? How did you manage to dodge it?"

"A hairpin that cost forty taels of silver incurred a debt of one hundred taels of silver." Li Qingyan chuckled, thinking it was well worth it.

Li Qingyan looked at the pastries on the table. "May I eat some?"

Sui An nodded and handed one to Li Qingyan, "Try it."

"The young lady is so kind." Li Qingyan excitedly put the pastry into her mouth, but as soon as she put it in her mouth, she realized something was wrong. She wanted to vomit, but Li Yan pressed her mouth down, and even Ye Wenzhou from across the table came over to help.

Ye Wenzhou whispered, "Your mistress made this, so don't throw it up, or she'll cry."

Li Yan nodded.

Li Qingyan forced it down; she felt as if she had drunk a huge bowl of medicinal soup. Why was it so bitter?

Sui An quickly asked, "How is it? Does it taste good?"

Under everyone's gaze, Li Qingyan nodded repeatedly, "Delicious, especially delicious, even better than the imperial chefs in the palace."

Sui An clapped her hands happily, "I told you it would be delicious, but my dad didn't believe me. I'll go to the kitchen and make another one."

She ran towards the kitchen to find Lao Zhu. Lao Zhu doted on Sui An the most, so naturally he wouldn't stop her from making pastries.

Li Qingyan was lost in thought for a moment when several pastries were placed in front of her.

Li Yan put his arm around her shoulder, "Son, your father is getting old and really can't eat anymore. Please bear with it."

Ye Wenzhou nodded. "I'm thirty-three now. My life depends on you."

Li Qingyan pointed at Yan Xu, "Shut up, you're the youngest, only twenty-five."

Then, pointing at Lin Hu and Ting Feng, he said, "One of you has cultivated to the point that your appearance remains unchanged, while the other is a fox spirit who, judging by her age, has just come of age in the fox clan."

Listening to the wind, she shook her fan and sighed, "It's a pity I couldn't dodge it."

He took a piece of pastry and stuffed it into Lin Hu's mouth, then took one for himself and ate it, saying, "We'll share the hardships together."

Yan Li slapped his thigh and said, "I must have been out of my mind today to come out with you guys." He almost threw up after taking a bite, but Zheng Taohua was quick enough to cover it up.

Just then, Li Qingyan felt something tugging at her clothes. Looking down, she saw Yan Qiwu. "Sister... Sister..."

Li Qingyan paused, looking into those eyes. They were dark and bright, unforgettable.

Yan Li was stunned. "Good lad, you don't call me 'father' but 'sister' first? What? Are you going to marry into my family?"

Yan Xu nodded to Zheng Taohua, "Thank you for your trouble, sister-in-law."

Zheng Taohua slapped him on the head, "If you talk nonsense again, you'll kneel in the ancestral hall."

Yan Li grimaced in pain; he knew he would never have any freedom in his life and would be controlled for the rest of his days.

Li Qingyan held Yan Qiwu in her arms, "You'll be my little follower from now on, since you'll be my sister's first sister."

It was him.

Li Qingyan hummed in agreement. "Flying Fork is him, the boy I adopted. I didn't expect him to come here with me. What a coincidence, siblings at heart."

"Then you'd better be careful, that kid's very cunning. He almost discovered me back then."

Only a smart child can support the Yan family.

Yan Qiwu picked up the pastry from Li Qingyan's hand and stuffed it into his mouth. It was so bitter that his mouth watered, but he kept eating it.