After the mysterious voice disappeared, Su Yanqi's eyes fell into darkness. He asked anxiously: "What do you want me to see?"

The only response he got was dead silence.

It was eerily quiet all around, without even a sound.

Su Yanqi panicked and began to run blindly in the darkness, trying to escape from this strange place.

Suddenly, his feet felt empty and he fell as if he was weightless.

"what--"

Su Yanqi screamed and fell to the soft ground.

Then he felt someone approaching.

When Su Yanqi opened his eyes again, he was surprised to find himself in Ninghou Mansion.

The people walking towards them were actually the young Lord Ning and the pregnant Fu Jinye.

Su Yanqi was dumbfounded, and got up from the ground in disbelief, and was about to greet Lord Ning.

Lord Ning, however, supported Fu Jinye and walked straight through his body, enthusiastically greeting the two people Su Yanqi was very familiar with.

"Brother Su, sister-in-law, you are finally here! Ah Ye has been talking about you for a long time."

"Father, mother!"

When Su Yanqi saw his father and mother appear here, he felt an indescribable excitement in his heart and his eyes became moist.

However, the four of them seemed not to see him and walked towards the front hall, chatting and laughing.

Su Yanqi, full of confusion, immediately followed them.

When they arrived at the front hall, they saw the old lady sitting in the hall waiting for them with a smile. The four of them went in and saluted the old lady, then sat down one by one and talked about the business of the day.

It turned out that the two families gathered together today to formally conclude a marriage contract and become a harmonious couple.

Earlier, Fu Jinye had agreed with Su's mother that if the baby in Fu Jinye's belly was a girl, she would be betrothed to Su Yanqi, the only son of the Su family.

The two families exchanged tokens, signed an engagement agreement, and called Ning Zijun and Su Yanqi, who were playing, to the front hall.

Mother Su waved happily towards the young Su Yanqi.

"Qilang, come and see your Aunt Fu. She is pregnant with your future wife."

Su Yanqi looked at his younger self hiding beside his father, frowned, and seemed a little unhappy.

"Mother, the baby hasn't even been born yet, how do you know whether Aunt Fu is pregnant with a boy or a girl? How can you be so sure it's my daughter-in-law?"

His innocent words made the adults laugh.

Mother Su touched Fu Jinye's bulging belly with anticipation on her face: "Qilang, because mother and your aunt Fu are in tune with each other, we already know that your aunt Fu is pregnant with a little girl. You must treat her wholeheartedly and protect her for the rest of her life."

After hearing his mother's instructions, little Su Yanqi walked forward obediently, stroked Fu Jinye's belly with his tender little hands, and promised solemnly like a little adult: "Mother, Aunt Fu, please rest assured, I am a man, and I will definitely love my sister for the rest of my life."

As soon as he finished speaking, Fu Jinye's abdomen trembled slightly twice, as if responding to him.

Little Su Yanqi shouted in surprise: "Sister is moving!"

The adults were infected by his innocence and laughed together, and Su's mother was even more delighted.

"Qilang, your wife heard what you said and was very happy!"

Although little Su Yanqi felt strange, he still patted Fu Jinye's belly seriously.

"Sister, when you grow up, I will marry you!"

……

Su Yanqi looked at this warm and beautiful scene, feeling melancholy.

Before he had time to indulge in sadness, the scene before his eyes changed again.

Su Yanqi suddenly realized that what he was seeing now were all things that happened in the past.

He was puzzled. Why did the mysterious man let him see these?

Next, from the perspective of a bystander, he witnessed how Song planned a conspiracy to kill Fu Jinye in order to seize the position of the mistress of the Ning Marquis' Mansion, and finally got married to the Ning Marquis as she wished.

However, Song had never expected that Lord Ning was deeply in love with Fu Jinye. No matter what tricks she tried, Lord Ning remained distant and cold to her.

The dissatisfied Song secretly took out all her resentment towards Marquis Ning on Ning Zijun and Ning Ziqing. She ordered her servants to torture the brother and sister in every possible way, making their life in the Marquis' Mansion increasingly difficult.

Later, Song became pregnant. While she was happy, she also hoped to give birth to a baby boy to replace Ning Zijun as the crown prince.

But perhaps because of her numerous evil deeds, even the heavens were dissatisfied with her. Since she became pregnant, she had been vomiting and had a loss of appetite. She had to rely on herbal medicine to survive every day, and she almost miscarried the baby in her belly several times.

The Song family, who had originally planned to eliminate Ning Zijun and his sister to prevent future troubles, restrained their efforts after being persuaded by Mother Cui, and considered it as a way to accumulate blessings for their unborn child.

Although she was very unwilling, she also wanted to take this opportunity to establish the image of a good wife and mother, so as to avoid being accused by outsiders of being a cruel stepmother who could not tolerate her stepchildren.

Ning Zijun and his sister thus escaped a disaster.

Until Ning Zilan was born, Song was greatly disappointed. Her dream of her child inheriting the title was shattered. She also suffered from headaches due to childbirth. After that, Lord Ning no longer got close to her.

In addition, Su's mother often came to visit Ning Ziqing. Whenever Emperor Yao and Concubine Wan summoned them, the couple would bring the brother and sister and Su Yanqi to the palace for fun.

The jealous Song did not want to see Ning Zijun excel, and she did not want Ning Ziqing to marry into the Su family when she grew up and hinder her and her daughter's future.

So, she began to play the role of a loving mother on the surface, but secretly kept provoking the father-son relationship between Ning Zijun and Lord Ning.

Once, Song instigated a servant to trick Ning Zijun into going to Fubaozhai to buy cakes for the sick Ning Ziqing and coax her to take medicine, which delayed Ning Zijun's studies in the private school. The teacher reported her to Lord Ning.

Lord Ning was so angry that he used family rules against Ning Zijun, scolding him for being ignorant and unskilled and that he would never achieve anything great in the future.

Song pretended to plead for Ning Zijun, but deliberately revealed many of Ning Zijun's bad habits of not liking to study, loving to play and not making progress, and begged Lord Ning not to force Ning Zijun.

Unexpectedly, Lord Ning became even more furious after hearing this. He beat Ning Zijun severely again and accused the kind mother Song of being a spoiled child.

Song cried and complained about the difficulties she faced as a stepmother, hoping that Lord Ning could understand her.

This action of hers not only won the sympathy of Lord Ning, but also successfully gained the trust of Ning Zijun.

From then on, Ning Zijun became more and more rebellious under the protection of the Song family. He turned a deaf ear to the teachings of Lord Ning, and his grades in private school also plummeted.

Soon after, Su's mother and father passed away one after another. His good friend Su Yanqi resolutely chose to give up literature and go into business, shouldering the burden of the entire Su family alone, with a bleak future.

After this series of blows, Ning Zijun became mature and soon saw the true face of the Song family.

In order to escape the oppression of the Song family, he decided to go to the northern border to join the army. Only there could he accumulate military merits in the fastest way and become a strong support for Ning Ziqing.

That day, he went to the study and told Lord Ning about his plan, but was strongly opposed by Lord Ning.

The two had a heated argument and neither could convince the other.

Lord Ning was so angry that he kicked Ning Zijun out of the study and said angrily: "If you want to leave, leave. If you don't make a name for yourself in the North, never come back to the Ning Mansion!"

Ning Zijun packed his luggage without hesitation. After saying goodbye to Ning Ziqing early the next morning, he followed the new recruits camp to the northern border.

He didn't know that Ning Ziqing's nightmare began when he left.

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