Surprise! The villain is my brother, stay calm!

The fourth prince tapped the table with his right index finger, making some soft sounds. He slightly lowered his cold eyes, making it impossible to discern any emotion in them.

After a while, he said, "Don't pay attention to this person."

In his previous life, Lu Zhanxing was a brainless and dissolute young man who was always causing trouble for his cousin Yang Jingyi. They fought every other day. If it weren't for the protection of his brother Lu Zhanyan, he would have been dealt with by those children from aristocratic families long ago.

Since he was reborn, he must trample Lu Zhanyan under his feet. As long as Lu Zhanyan fell, what good ending would this playboy Lu Zhanxing have?

There is no need to worry about it at all. A playboy like Lu Zhanxing will be dealt with by the children of the noble families who have offended him.

The man with a handsome mole frowned when he saw that His Highness didn't care about Lu Zhanxing. He felt that although the Fourth Prince had recruited him as an aide, he didn't care about his opinion at all. Was he really a good lord?

The Fourth Prince saw his aide frowning, and knew that he had been a little arbitrary since recruiting him and had not listened to his opinions at all. However, he had the memories of his previous life, so how could he listen to others? If this person had not been Lu Zhanyan's aide in the previous life, why would he send someone all the way to Zhangzhou to recruit him in advance?

But now he is his own staff, so he explained: "Qingli, she is just a playboy. Even if our plan is hindered by him, it must be Lu Zhanyan who came up with the idea. Therefore, this playboy is not worth your attention. You just need to help me come up with a plan to deal with Lu Zhanyan."

Since the master said so, Mu Qingli could only nod in agreement.

But judging from Lu Zhanxing's performance yesterday, this dandy second young master is not as brainless as the rumors say. Moreover, he just controlled the young master of Duke Qing with just a few words and even got benefits from it. Is he really an ordinary dandy?

Although he didn't understand why His Highness didn't deal with other princes but only targeted Lu Zhanyan, he also proposed to win over Lu Zhanyan, but the Fourth Prince seemed to have a grudge against Lu Zhanyan and just refused to agree, so he had to give up!

Now that the Fourth Prince has been kind to him and he is already his master, he will just listen to his master for now!

After thinking for a while, he said, "I thought that letting Young Master Lu marry Miss Su would make him lose face, but he resolved it. They have temporarily stabilized the Prime Minister's Mansion and cannot form an opposition. However, the Anguo Mansion is in urgent need of a stable ally, so Young Master Lu will definitely choose another candidate for marriage who is as powerful as the Prime Minister's Mansion. I wonder who your highness will choose?"

It has to be said that Mu Qingli is indeed a resourceful aide. The Fourth Prince couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and look up to him.

He was very glad that he had recruited him under his command early on. As long as it was Lu Zhanyan's, he would grab it in advance and make Lu Zhanyan isolated and helpless. To see how he could still be as arrogant as in his previous life.

The fourth prince frowned and said, "There are three powerful officials in the court now. The second daughter of the prime minister's mansion has been taken down by this prince. Now there are only the granddaughter of Wei Gelao and the eldest daughter of Zhongyi Marquis's mansion. One has great influence in the court, and the other has great military power. Which one do you think he will choose?"

"Your Highness, both of them are possible. Your Highness must be on guard."

"Well, in that case, neither family should let him succeed." A cold light flashed in the Fourth Prince's cold eyes.

In his previous life, if Lu Zhanyan had not controlled the government, how could he have failed in his bid for the throne and died at Lu Zhanyan's hands? In this life, he would never let Lu Zhanyan have the opportunity to climb up.

Tianxianglou box.

Lu Zhanxing invited all his friends over, and they ate, drank and had fun together, and "comforted" him from time to time.

"Ah Xing, I know your hardship, but don't worry. Just marry a wife and keep her at home. We can still eat and drink as usual, so just relax." A handsome and lovable baby-faced man put his arm around his shoulder and poured wine with the other hand, constantly comforting him.

Lu Zhanxing was speechless and pushed his brother's hand away: "I've already said that I'm not wronged. Stop talking nonsense. My wife is not ugly."

The three of them all showed an expression of "we understand", and Lu Zhanxing was so angry that he didn't bother to pay attention to them.

He just drank by himself, but in their eyes, it was a sign of how miserable he was to marry an ugly woman.

Another burly young man clinked glasses with him generously: "Okay, let's drink. If anyone dares to make fun of you, I'll help you beat him up."

Another slightly plump young man with squinty eyes also nodded repeatedly in agreement: "That's right, don't be depressed, let's go to the pleasure boat to have some fun later. Miss Shishi has been talking about you all the time, I'll pay for it."

The three of them comforted him separately.

Among the three, the one with a baby face is Sun Qiming, the son of the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites. Once he was bullied by Yang Jingyi, Lu Zhanxing helped him out, and the two naturally became friends.

The rather generous young man is Yu Wei, the second son of General Yu, the deputy general of the Lu family army. The two can be considered close friends.

The plump young man with squinty eyes is Lin Tao, the son of an imperial merchant.

He was not like others. He had wanted to make friends with Yang Jingyi and then enter the circle of the second generation of officials, but was rejected. In the end, he took the initiative to join Lu Zhanxing. Most of the daily expenses were paid by him, and he also received the protection of the Anguo Mansion. It was a mutually beneficial situation.

Sun Qiming and Lu Zhanxing originally had the same status, both were sons of ministers, but who made Lu Zhanxing born in the Duke of Anguo's Mansion?

Naturally, she is more confident than Sun Qiming, so she can go against Yang Jingyi unscrupulously. Others naturally do not have such a strong background, so they are naturally bullied.

Lu Zhanxing has always adhered to the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. She does not despise them because of their backgrounds and still gets along well with them.

Looking at these three playboy friends, Lu Zhanxing remembered their ending, which didn’t seem very good either.

Because the Anguo Mansion fell, the family that depended on Sun Qiming was also thrown into prison.

Yu Wei and his family were stripped of their military power and exiled to a remote area.

As Lin Tao was from a royal merchant family, he was also implicated. The Fourth Prince accused him of relying on the Anguo Mansion to amass wealth, and confiscated his property and expelled him from the capital.

None of the families that followed the Anguo Mansion had a good ending.

Therefore, in order to be able to be a playboy with peace of mind, she could only put an end to those who wanted to harm the Anguo Mansion.

She needed a powerful family that could protect her, and naturally she couldn't really watch the Anguo Mansion fall.

"I won't go to the painting boat. I still have things to deal with at home. I'll just get together with you guys today to prove that I'm no longer single. You guys should hurry up too." Lu Zhanxing knew that they all liked freedom, but he still had to get married.

The book says that the marriages of these three people are not very good.

Sun Qiming was arranged by his family to marry the daughter of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, which was considered a good match. Perhaps because his wife was from the Ministry of Revenue, he was very calculating and he and his wife would quarrel for a long time every day over the same thing.

Yu Wei only married his cousin, but the two were not in love, but were married at the behest of their parents and the matchmaker.

Lin Tao's situation was even more difficult. He was only the son of an imperial merchant, and it was difficult for him to marry the daughter of a high-ranking official. Marrying someone of a lower rank would not give the family any motivation. In the end, he only married the concubine's daughter of a fifth-rank official, and he also subsidized the concubine's family with a lot of silver, which drained them badly.

In short, everyone has his own difficulties. Anyway, I have married an "ugly" woman now. Since we are good brothers, let's suffer together!