Su Jingyang was startled when he heard his words, "I..." He never lied to Ling Li about this matter, should he lie to make him feel at ease for a while? But once he really did leave in the future, it would just make Ling Li even sadder.

Su Jingyang sighed and confessed to Ling Li the reason he married Rong Ci.

Ling Li kept staring at him and listened without blinking, his throat felt sore, like fire was trapped inside.

After Su Jingyang finished speaking, he saw Ling Li staring at him blankly, he raised his hand to touch his face and said warmly: "Partings are sad but for a moment, I haven't completed my tasks yet and won't leave."

Ling Li pressed his lips together and finally smiled through tears, but his pretendingly relaxed voice sounded very feeble: "Alright, I know now, you will marry here, I'll be here, I won't go anywhere, anyway, in short; if you have to go, I will never stop you, I just want to be able to stay with you until the end. I'll be satisfied with this, really."

"Ah-Li." Su Jingyang rubbed the moist corners of his eyes with his fingers, with a little sadness and self-blame, "I... am I too ruthless?"

Ling Li shook his head vigorously, "Why do you think so? It's just that I'm too reluctant to let you go. It's normal for you to want to go home, and your family must be very worried about you."

Family? He has no family, Su Jingyang thought to himself, he'll actually be alone when he returns to his original world, but he just wanted to go back, leave this place that he didn't belong to, and escape the control of the system.

He felt that he was absolutely right, but every time he was confronted by Ling Li, he always feel that he had become a cold villain.

Seeing that Su Jingyang was no longer answering and began to get into a daze, Ling Li retracted the hand that grabbed him little by little. He clasped his hands tight and lowered his eyes to cover the heavy thoughts inside.

Su Jingyang suggested that he wanted to sleep with Ling Li and Ah-Xuan that night. Ling Li held Ah-Xuan in his arms, and glanced at Rong Ci who was sitting next to him, "Jingyang, I still think..."

Rong Ci interrupted him: "You sleep together, after you came here, his spirit has rarely become better. "

Su Jingyang glanced at Rong Ci secretly with his eyes, Rong Ci couldn't help but smile, rubbing his head, and saying, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Su Jingyang hissed, and said to him with an extremely serious expression: "I think it's essential for you to tease me occasionally, otherwise, you won't feel right."

Rong Ci was speechless for a moment, and finally just stared at him: "You're really..."

Su Jingyang sighed, of course he was joking, he put down the teacup in his hand, pulled Ling Li to his feet, and said to him: "Alright, you didn't sleep well yesterday, so hurry up and rest early today."

Rong Ci was about to go out when he saw his actions, he grabbed his hand and got up by himself, "Wait."

Su Jingyang stopped walking in confusion, Rong Ci kissed him on the cheek and said, "Don't walk around, lest you feel uncomfortable. Stay here. I'll go somewhere else."

Ling Li watched Rong Ci leave with a sad expression, but Su Jingyang didn't think anything about it. After taking a shower happily, he lay down on the bed with Ling Li and Ah-Xuan.

Just like how they were before they left Ling house, the three people squeezed into a bed and their hearts were warm.

"Ah-Li, you're really my lucky star, I became so much better as soon as you came."

Ling Li's eyes softly looked at him and said: "You're also my lucky star."

Ah-Xuan lying in the middle was ignored by them. He screamed unwillingly, got up, held Su Jingyang's face with both hands, and shook him, announcing loudly, "Uncle, Uncle! My father changed my name!"

"Oh? Really?" Su Jingyang was surprised, he asked Ling Li: "What's the change? Why didn't I know about this?"

Ah-Xuan rushed to answer: "Jingxuan, my name is Ming Jingxuan!" He turned his head and pointed at Ling Li, saying, "Daddy chose it. "

Su Jingyang didn't figure it out yet, Ling Li first explained: "I proposed a few names and he selected from them."

Su Jingyang smiled, pinched Ah-Xuan's juicy little face, "That's pretty good. Jingxuan, Jingxuan, your Jing sounds like mine! We sound like a family."

Ling Li couldn't restrain his abruptly chaotic breath but soon covered it with a smile. He took back Ah- Xuan, who was tired in Su Jingyang's arms. Ah-Xuan laid back obediently, habitually grabbing Ling Li's hand to play with, but Ling Li didn't move his hand and retracted it, making a fist and saying to him with a slightly stern look: "Don't make trouble, go to sleep."

Ah-Xuan was furious, he pouted unhappy, twisting his body and falling asleep next to Su Jingyang.

Two days later, Su Jingyang and Rong Ci both attended the ceremony before the wedding. It was also on that day that Su Jingyang saw Rong Ci's infamous mother and his younger brother Rong Xia. They stood beside the elders of the Rong clan.

He didn't know if it was an illusion. Su Jingyang felt that the little fellow Rong Xia looked at him with a bit of resentment in his eyes, while Madam Ru stared at his stomach thoughtfully for a while before looking at him again. The corners of her mouth seemed to be tinged with sarcasm, and of the two, big and small, neither seemed to have good intentions.

Su Jingyang remembered the incident of Madam Ru apparently cursing Rong Ci that he had heard about from Rong Hua at the beginning, and the look in his eyes also revealed a distasted look, however, he was able to suppress his nausea. It wasn't easy to pay homage to the ancestors of the Rong family with Rong Ci on the altar, there was no time to pay attention to them for a while. Besides, he now knew that neither of these two actually had any blood relationship with Rong Ci.

"Hold on for a while." Rong Ci glanced at him from the side, squeezing the palm of his hand and whispering.

Su Jingyang sighed vigorously, suppressing the rush in his stomach, and nodding, "Alright."

When Su Jingyang turned his eyes slightly, he caught a glimpse of the brave jade¹ pendant on Rong Ci's waist. He was dressed like a grandly and this jade pendant looked really shabby. Su Jingyang wanted him to take it off this morning, but he insisted on wearing it.

Thinking of his stubborn look, Su Jingyang couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth, he was afraid of being discovered and quickly pressed his lips.

"What are you laughing at?"

Su Jingyang didn't look at him and said in a low voice: "You're the patriarch, why don't you pay attention when worshipping? Beware being blamed by your ancestors."

Rong Ci suddenly laughed. Su Jingyang couldn't stand it and asked strangely, "What are you laughing at again?"

Rong Ci said, "Nothing, my face suddenly hurt." He thought of the first time he saw this guy, he was still muttering in disgust; the one who would marry such a stupid guy must've accumulated the bad luck of eight lifetimes.

Unexpectedly, he didn't expect that he would be the unlucky one, he was quite content though.

Rong Hua and Master Wizard, who were closest to the two of them, watched their tit for tat and lovey-dovey. As if they hadn't seen the two of them messing around, the clansmen behind them kowtowed and bowed, no one could notice any abnormalities.

At the end of the last prayer, Rong Ci suddenly took his hand and clasped it, his dark eyes fell on the cold and misty Wuqun Mountain in the distance, "Jingyang, I want to make a wish in front of our ancestors and elders."

Su Jingyang asked: "What is your wish?"

"I hope you'll soon fall in love with me sooner." Rong Ci's line of sight turned back to him, his eyes seemed to be saying something, he paused and then continued: "When that time comes, I'll tell you one thing."

...Su Jingyang really hated him! ! ! Because of that sentence, he seemed to have suddenly gained an obsessive-compulsive disorder, he couldn't sleep for days and nights, as if his every cell was clamouring! What was it, what was it, what's the secret he's hiding from him! ! !

Su Jingyang even got up in the middle of the night once, pinching Rong Ci's neck and viciously questioning him, forcing him, and torturing him! As a result, Rong Ci remained unmoved, squeezing his cheek, and continuing to hug him to sleep with his mouth bent. Su Jingyang was almost driven mad by him!

Thousands of speculations flashed through Su Jingyang's mind, he finally figured out a certain possibility- this was basically Rong Ci's conspiracy, just to force him to admit that he had fallen in love with him! ! !

However, this was already after they got married.

"Despicable!" Su Jingyang suddenly cursed, holding his rice bowl a little further away from Rong Ci, and sitting next to Ling Li.

Rong Ci's action of scooping up soup paused. He probably guessed what was causing his nerves and squinted his eyes. "Look at you, come over and drink the soup."

"No! I won't drink it!"

Rong Ci cold voice came: "You don't want to test me..."

Su Jingyang complained: "Before I got married, I was obedient to you. After we got married, you want to restrict my freedom, damn scum man!"

Rong resigned, "Before I saw that you were pitiful and wanted to treat you better. Now you're just an idler making trouble all day long."

Su Jingyang's ball was now three months old, his morning sickness was much better, he was able to eat and drink freely again. But his buttocks really can't sit still on the stool, he had to jump up and down every day. But after all, he still had two balls in his stomach, it's just that he often took advantage of Rong Ci's absence and ran to the streets to find a chance to gather energy. Once he was out late at night, Rong Ci personally went and escorted him back in person.

However, he was lucky. That night, he helped a pair of brothers who had misunderstandings to untie the knot, and the progress bar reached 7.2%! ! ! This gave Su Jingyang endless motivation!

Although Rong Ci kept him in confinement for two days, he still tried to run outside, causing Rong Ci to get angry at him several times.

Su Jingyang had heard him say this, so he wasn't convinced, "You can't stay with me all the time, so why don't you allow me to go out and play! Why?"

Su Jingyang regretted it after speaking, why did his tone sound like that of a lonely and bored wife!?

Rong Ci's black eyes quietly stared at him for a while, his red lips moved, and his tone suddenly eased a lot when he spoke again, "I have to deal with some important official duties these past two days, and I have to go visit Wuqun Mountain. After this, you can relax for a while, wherever you want to go, I will take you."

Su Jingyang snorted dullly while picking at his meal.

Ling Li originally used chopsticks to poke at the rice in the bowl. He was surprised when he heard the two of them arguing and suddenly raised his head.

Su Jingyang saw that his hand was still wrapped in gauze. He put down his chopsticks, frowned, and grabbed his hand, his mouth moved a mile a minute: "Ah- Li, is your oil-burned hand not well yet? Was the medicine that Dr. Li gave you not working well?"

Su Jingyang's hand had just touched him when Ling Li's hand shrank slightly to avoid, Su Jingyang hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I hurt you."

Ling Li shook his head and said it was fine, he looked at Rong Ci, hesitated for a while, and finally put down his chopsticks to say to him: "Rong Ci, I... would like to ask for your help."

Actually, it wasn't a very big request, it's just that Ming Zhan's eight guards followed him and Ah-Xuan around all the time. Even when he was cooking in the kitchen, those people would stay outside. Ling Li felt uncomfortable and wanted Rong Ci's help to send a few people away.

After all, this was Rongcheng, it wasn't really appropriate to have so many of the Prince's guards staying in the main hall.

Rong Ci accepted it, and in the end, only one Song Hui was left beside Ling Li. Within two days, Ling Li asked Rong Ci for help again. He wanted to pray for his adoptive father, so he set up a memorial tablet in the shaman's side hall and retreated for two days to copy the Buddhist scriptures.

Ordinary people shouldn't approach the Grand Wizard's hall. Song Hui had to bow his head under the eaves, he could only stay outside for two days and two nights.

In the end, Ling Li was taken out of the side hall by Rong Hua because of sickness. Li Yin only said that it was a sudden illness and that he needed to stay in bed.

Su Jingyang stood by the bed, looking at Ling Li's pale face, and scolded him with distress: "Ah-Li, it's fine to just to pray slowly, why did you have to tire yourself so much? Look at how sick you're now, your father would be sad to see you like this."

Ling Li shook his head, his light-coloured eyes seemed to be filled with tears, and his voice was a bit weak: "I'm fine, don't stay here, you may get infected will my illness."

"What kind of sickness can I not..."

"You're pregnant, if you really get sick because of me, it'll cause me to worry. Go back now." Ling Li pushed him away with an unusual stubbornness.

"How can I get sick so easily... well, I promise you then." Su Jingyang became helpless in front of him, so he could only agree, "Then you rest, I'll see you tomorrow."

Ling Li slowly turned his gaze away, just to meet Rong Ci's sharp eyes, and the silent and sad Rong Hua. His pale lips trembled, and his eyes seemed to be avoiding them.

Su Jingyang, Rong Ci and Rong Hua had just left. Ah-Xuan was originally lying on the bedside holding Ling Li's hand when he suddenly raised his voice. He now had clearer memory. He remembered that the mole on the palm of his father's hand has become deeper, but now, it had changed back again. Ah-Xuan blinked and looked at him strangely with his big eyes: "Daddy, your..."

Ah-Xuan caught a glimpse of Song Hui coming in with the medicine and panicked for Ling Li. He hurriedly raised his hand to cover his small mouth.

Song Hui was generally only responsible for taking care of him, Ling Li never thought that he would suddenly do this kind of subordinate work of delivering medicine. His chest heaved up and down, and his body was laid there stiffly.

Song Hui walked over very slowly, he gently put the steaming medicine bowl on the bedside table, making a slight noise. Ling Li swallowed hard following his movements, breathing seemed to be unusually difficult.

Song Hui stared at Ling Li's clenched hand and was silent for a moment, he finally closed his eyes. Without saying anything, he turned around and left in big strides.

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Notes:

1- It has the effect of driving away evil in place, bringing joy and good luck.

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