The whole family is obsessed with love? The princess woke them up one after another.

"You still have the nerve to let him say that!"

Qi Zhiyu asked with a sneer, "Think carefully, from childhood to adulthood, has he ever asked you for help?"

Have you ever helped him even once?

"Especially after his mother passed away, do you even remember you had such a son?"

The Duke of Wei frowned deeply: "Princess, you should know that I am very busy."

"Hmm, you're so busy that you can take care of all the other kids, but not Jiang Zhongming?" Qi Zhiyu sneered. "You're quite selective about what you do busy with."

Qi Jingxi burst out laughing.

His sister is very funny.

The Duke of Wei was embarrassed by the laughter. He stared at Jiang Zhongming and asked, "You really... have followed Prince Rui?"

Jiang Zhongming finally spoke: "If it weren't for Prince Rui, I would have been dead long ago."

"What do you mean, 'no life'?" Duke Wei asked, displeased.

This wretched child is just spouting nonsense.

"You're still my son, who would dare kill you?"

Don't always act pitiful, as if the whole world owes him something.

"Jiang Baihua, and your wife," Jiang Zhongming said, his tone neither sad nor happy.

He had long since given up on the Duke of Wei and had no feelings for the Jiang family.

Therefore, no matter how they treat him, he will not be sad.

"What do you mean?" Duke Wei frowned, puzzled.

"Stop talking nonsense! Who wants to kill you!" Jiang Baihua shouted sternly.

There was an urgent urgency that seemed to be trying to cover something up.

Duke Wei felt a pang of anxiety, realizing that something was being kept from him.

"From a young age, I learned to conceal my talents," Jiang Zhongming said slowly.

"Back when we were learning to read, if I could read faster than Jiang Baihua, you know your wife already had murderous intent in her eyes."

"In the Duke of Wei's mansion, I was always dumber than Jiang Baihua, otherwise, I would have been dead long ago."

"Isn't it normal for a son born out of wedlock to die from an illness or an accident?"

Duke Wei frowned even more deeply: "Since you're hiding your talents, why don't you hide them in the army?"

Qi Zhiyu suddenly burst into laughter: "Duke of Wei, you are so hypocritical!"

"If you truly care about Jiang Zhongming and genuinely consider him your son, shouldn't you ask him what happened back then after hearing his words?"

"You don't care at all about how he grew up or how difficult it was for him to survive in the Duke of Wei's mansion. What you care about is why he showed his abilities in the army and why he let Jiang Baihua take credit for his achievements."

"You are truly self-serving! Selfish, hypocritical, and cold-blooded. Even tigers don't eat their cubs; you're worse than an animal!"

"Princess Chen'an!" Jiang Shuyi called out loudly.

"Slap her!" Qi Zhiyu shouted coldly, and the maid beside her immediately stepped forward and slapped Jiang Shuyi several times.

"You have no manners!" Qi Zhiyu said disdainfully.

"They don't distinguish between superiors and inferiors!"

Jiang Shuyi's cheeks were swollen and painful from the beating, but she could only suppress all the resentment in her heart and kneel down to beg for forgiveness.

Qi Zhiyu completely ignored her and just made her kneel there.

Jiang Zhongming continued, "You've assigned me to the army; that's what's going to kill me."

Jiang Zhongming sneered, "On the battlefield, how can I leave myself any room for maneuver?"

"Leaving room for maneuver could very well mean dying at the hands of the enemy."

"If I leave no room for maneuver, Jiang Baihua will see my abilities, and he will still find an opportunity to get rid of me."

"Fortunately, I met Prince Rui at that time. Prince Rui taught me how to make Jiang Baihua discover my abilities and at the same time guide him to covet my military achievements."

"That's how I managed to save my life and survive."

Jiang Baihua then realized: "You were faking it all along!"

"You pretended to be weak, you pretended to want your father's approval, you pretended to care about family ties... You lied to me!"

"You are utterly shameless!"

He's really so stupid.

They actually believed Jiang Zhongming's nonsense.

He was initially quite pleased with himself, thinking that he had grasped Jiang Zhongming's weakness.

Jiang Zhongming laughed and said, "Jiang Baihua, you are really stupid."

"I endured a mother who tormented me, a father who ignored me, and servants who fawned over the powerful and bullied the weak... I lived like this for more than ten years."

"How could I want such a heartless and cold-blooded family?"

"Why would I obediently hand over my credit just to gain your approval?"

"Prince Rui is right. As long as I have real military achievements, even if the credit wasn't mine at the time, it will eventually come back to me."

"I believe in Prince Rui!"

Duke Wei swayed and almost fainted.

He really misjudged the situation.

He believed that the rift between father and son began with the severing of ties.

It turns out that Jiang Zhongming's heart had long since left the Jiang family.

What a wicked child!

"The Jiang family has raised you for so many years, and you have absolutely no gratitude!" Jiang Baihua gritted his teeth and angrily rebuked.

Jiang Zhongming chuckled and said, "Living in constant fear, never having enough to eat or wear, and being forced to kneel in the ancestral hall or be whipped for any excuse... It's really impossible for me to feel any gratitude after being raised like this."

Qi Zhiyu chuckled and said, "Jiang Baihua, if you feel you should be grateful, why don't you just live like this for a while? It's only been a little over ten years, it'll be over soon."

"Would you like to give it a try? I'll have someone arrange it right away. It'll be a perfect replica of everything that happened to Jiang Zhongming back then."

"You have to believe that I have this ability."

Jiang Baihua immediately shut up.

Because he knew that Qi Zhiyu was a woman of her word.

He still remembered Jiang Zhongming when he was a child; his face, which was thin and frail, always showed a look of fear.

At the slightest sound, he would be so frightened that he would collapse to the ground.

Back then, he often mocked Jiang Zhongming for his cowardice.

He remembered saying that Jiang Zhongming's courage was not at all like that of the Jiang family.

It seems that his mother, in an effort to toughen Jiang Zhongming up, threw him into a mass grave for a few days.

Later, they did manage to bring him back, but Jiang Zhongming was timid and fell ill, remaining in bed for over a month.

But what does this have to do with them?

That's because Jiang Zhongming himself is useless!

It was precisely because Jiang Zhongming had been timid since childhood that he believed Jiang Zhongming's lies and thought that Jiang Zhongming was really giving him credit!

"Jiang Zhongming, you're such a good actor! You're a shameless scoundrel with a deep-seated scheming mind!" Jiang Baihua gritted his teeth and shouted angrily.

Qi Zhiyu suddenly raised her foot and kicked Jiang Baihua directly in the chest.

Suddenly, this burly military man was kicked away and crashed heavily to the ground.

He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Qi Zhiyu retorted, "Who are you calling a shameless scoundrel?"

"The idea was my dad's, who are you blaming?"

"Jiang Baihua, you've really got guts, daring to insult a prince of the current dynasty!"

"Guards!" Qi Zhiyu shouted. "Jiang Baihua has falsely claimed military merits and insulted the Prince. Seize him and throw him in jail!"

The palace guards rushed over immediately and pinned Jiang Baihua down.

Jiang Baihua: "!!!"