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What Yanqiu said makes sense.

But here's the problem: what if it's not a son?

Upon hearing this, Yan Qiu felt hopeful and immediately added, "It doesn't matter if it's a daughter or not, give her to me too. At least it proves that Shen Shu and I are capable of having children, which can hold those people off for a while. You two can work harder in the future and try to have a son. As soon as you get pregnant, Shen Shu will get pregnant immediately as well."

"Even if you two don't plan to have any more children in the future, it's okay. Yuhe can have any children. They'll all be of the Li family bloodline, and I want them all."

Fan Liuer: "..."

Li Chenbi: "..."

Li Chenbi: "Get out. Don't make me say it a fourth time."

Yan Qiu grew anxious and was about to speak when Fan Liuer pulled Li Chenbi back, "I think what he said makes sense, so why don't we..."

Li Chenbi stared wide-eyed at Fan Liuer, "Fan Liuer, have you gone mad too? That's our child, and you're just going to give it to someone else like that?"

"Well, there's no better way, is there?"

"Then ask someone else, not me. Ask Li Qiuping. He also has the surname Li, so he's also a member of the Li family."

Yanqiu immediately said, "No, you must be related to this child by blood, so that you will be able to wholeheartedly assist him in the future."

"I have to assist him? What? Buy one get one free? He's arranging everything for my whole family?" Li Chenbi was furious.

"Get out! Get out of here!"

"I won't leave if you don't agree. If you want to go out and say it, go out and say it. Anyway, I'm tired of being the emperor. If we're going to have a hard time, then we'll all have a hard time together."

Li Chenbi: "..."

Fan Liuer: "..."

"How about..." Fan Liuer tugged at Li Chenbi and whispered to him, "Let's do it his way? As long as we know it's our child, that's fine. You can be the child's teacher and visit him in the palace every day."

Li Chenbi remained silent; this matter was also giving him a headache.

Finally, after being persuaded by Fan Liuer and subjected to Yan Qiu's shameless behavior, Li Chenbi finally agreed.

Yan Qi and Li Chenshu left satisfied.

The next day, Li Chenshu used the excuse of the heat in the palace to set off for a summer palace in the suburbs to escape the heat and prepare for childbirth, and invited Fan Liuer to go with her.

Li Chenbi was worried and naturally insisted on going along.

More than a month later, Fan Liuer and Li Chenshu went into labor at the same time, and after two hours of labor, they gave birth to their children one after the other.

Mr. Li Chenshu is blessed with a son.

Fan Liuer, a young woman, was overjoyed to have a daughter.

Not many people knew that Fan Liuer was carrying twins; apart from the doctor who diagnosed her, only a few family members knew.

Now that the doctor has been bribed, one of her twins was absorbed by the other in the early stages of her pregnancy.

She only has one baby, and that's what she told her family.

The two stayed at the temporary palace to finish their confinement period before leaving. The day after Li Chenshu returned to the palace, Yan Qi announced to the world that he had named Li Chenshu's son Crown Prince, and named him Yan Qing.

At the same time, Fan Liuer's daughter was also granted the title of Princess, with the honorific title of happy, the formal name of Li Le, and the nickname of Li Xiaogou.

The name was given by Li Chenbi, which made Fan Liuer very angry.

"Are you picking on dogs? It sounds awful for a young lady to call a dog 'little dog'."

Li Chenbi disagreed, "Her father is Old Dog Li, so naturally she is Little Dog Li."

Fan Liuer: "Are you never going to stop?!"

"Alright, let's not talk about nicknames, we'll just call her that at home. The formal name is a bit too casual. Yuhe's daughter's name is so grand, like Mountain Lord or Tiger. It sounds like someone who's going to do great things."

Li Chenbi glanced at her and said, "Li Shanjun will inherit the Li family business in the future and will be the head of the family, so his name should naturally be grand."

"Li Xiaogou doesn't need one. Her father is the Grand Tutor, her mother is a princess, her uncle is the Emperor, her aunt is the Empress, and she herself is a county princess. She was born to enjoy a life of luxury. Why would she need such a grand name?"

Upon hearing his words, Fan Liuer immediately felt that the name was good.

Adding her title, Joyful Joyful, what a wonderful meaning!

Every few days, Li Chenshu would summon Fan Liuer to the palace, ostensibly to give the two children a companion to play with. In reality, Fan Liuer knew that Li Chenshu felt guilty and was using this as an excuse to let Fan Liuer come to the palace to see the children more often.

After having children, time seems to flow by like water, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The two children are three years old.

On this day, Fan Liuer, Li Chenshu, and the Empress Dowager were playing with the children in the Imperial Garden.

Fan Liuer looked at Li Le, who was being bullied by the Crown Prince again in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh, "Li Le is too honest. He's been tricked by the Crown Prince so many times, how come he always falls for it?"

Li Chenshu laughed from the side, "Hahaha, maybe Li Le took after you, so honest and simple, looks like he's easy to bully."

Li Le was indeed too honest, which gave Li Chenbi a real headache.

Li Chenbi, notoriously cunning and treacherous, was quite helpless to have such an honest daughter.

Fan Liuer initially thought it was quite good. "Isn't being well-behaved good? Our little puppy is so obedient, he doesn't make a fuss at all. He's the easiest child I've ever seen to take care of."

Later, when Fan Liuer saw that Li Le was often bullied by other children, she also felt that being too honest was not good.

However, Fan Liuer was at ease knowing that Li Le was by the Crown Prince's side. The Crown Prince was very protective of his own, and only he could bully his sister; no one else could say a bad word about it.

In a way, the Crown Prince inherited Li Chenbi's cunning and treacherous nature completely. Under Li Chenbi's daily careful guidance, he even showed signs of surpassing his predecessors. At a young age, he displayed astonishing scheming and manipulated the servants around him every day.

That bad temper was exactly like it.

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, he made Li Le cry again, while he himself was still laughing on the side.

The Empress Dowager sighed, "This child is too naughty; I wonder who he takes after."

Li Chenshu chuckled, "Of course he's like his father, he has the exact same temper as his father."

The Empress Dowager retorted, "That doesn't seem like it. The Emperor was very well-behaved and obedient when he was a child; he never caused any trouble."

Fan Liuer knew who Li Chenshu was referring to as her father, so she shrank back and remained silent.

Few people knew about this, including the Empress Dowager, who was completely unaware and believed that the Crown Prince was Yan Qi's biological son.

She sized up the Crown Prince, and then suddenly clapped her hands. "I know! Everyone says a nephew resembles his uncle, and Qing'er looks just like his uncle!"

Then she added, "You know what, they do look quite alike."

Fan Liuer's heart tightened, and she immediately said, "Hehe, the Crown Prince looks like the Empress, and the Empress looks like Li Chenbi, so you think he looks like the Crown Prince and Li Chenbi."

After hearing Fan Liuer's words, the Empress Dowager looked at Li Chenshu and nodded, "That's true, but I still hope that Qing'er can be more like his uncle, so that no one will bully him in the future. His father is too soft-hearted."

Fan Liuer could only laugh awkwardly and didn't know what to say.

Li Chenshu wasn't worried at all. She laughed heartily beside the Empress Dowager, and after laughing, she said, "Don't worry, this child is guaranteed to be just as bad as his uncle."

Li Chenshu's words proved prophetic. The Crown Prince's temperament became increasingly unruly, and he would often sneak into the court when Yan Qi was attending court to play pranks on the civil and military officials.

Everyone was angry at him but dared not speak out. They could only frantically urge Yan Qi to have more children and put more pressure on the kid so that he wouldn't be so audacious.

Yan Qi always agreed, but never took action. When Yan Qi got annoyed by Yan Qi's words, he would send the Crown Prince to stay at the other party's residence for a few days.

No one in any of the residences that had hosted the Crown Prince ever again suggested that Yan Qi take a concubine.

When the Crown Prince was five years old, Yan Qi suddenly contracted a serious illness and almost died. Although he survived, his energy was not as good as before. The imperial physician said that this disease was most aggravated by overexertion.

Yan Qi nestled in his recliner and said to Li Chenbi, who had come to visit him, "Brother Chenbi, it turns out I'm really not cut out to be an emperor, nor do I have the destiny for it."

"I took a position that didn't belong to me, so I've been really tired all these years. I haven't had a single night of restful sleep, and I even dream about reviewing memorials."

"If I had known being an emperor would be this tiring, I wouldn't have fought with Yanling in the first place."

Li Chenbi couldn't help but roll his eyes and said irritably, "Don't give me that crap, just say what you mean."

Yan Qi smiled. "I want to abdicate and pass the throne to Qing'er. You can become the regent and assist him in handling state affairs. What do you think?"

"I don't think so." Li Chenbi turned and left.

A few days later, bad news suddenly came from the palace: the emperor had fallen seriously ill and gone into a coma. Li Chenbi had no choice but to enter the palace to act as regent.

Yan Qi remained unconscious for several months, occasionally regaining consciousness only to faint again shortly afterward.

Li Chenbi couldn't take it anymore, so he went into his bedroom in the middle of the night, dragged him out of bed, and beat him up.

Yan Qi, who was almost forty, was crying bitterly in Li Chenshu's arms.

"I'm so tired. I'm so tired every day. If I continue to be the emperor, I'll really die. I want to die. I'm living a life worse than death every day. I'm really suffering."

A few days later, Yan Qi abdicated due to health reasons, and Yan Qing ascended the throne. Li Chenbi was appointed regent to assist the new emperor in handling government affairs.

On the night she received the imperial decree, Fan Liuer suddenly sat up in the middle of the night and shook Li Chenbi awake.

Li Chenbi opened his eyes and looked at her. "What's wrong?"

Fan Liuer looked at him and whispered, "My dream is real!"

"What kind of dream?"

"Sixteen years ago, I had a dream in the military camp on my way to Beijing. I dreamt that you were sitting behind the young emperor at the end. Do you remember that?"

Li Chenbi also remembered, "It seems like I did have such a dream."

Fan Liuer found it too amazing and couldn't help but exclaim, "Back then you said that Yan Qi left you his only son, but I never expected that this son would actually be your own."

Upon hearing this, Li Chenbi suddenly burst into laughter.

"That old fox Yan Qi treats me like a thief. He probably never imagined that the throne would ultimately be occupied by a descendant of my Li family."

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