Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 494 Qi Lin

Yunyi glanced at the jade pendant: "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be."

"Then he..." Chen Rui frowned, "Why didn't you mention him?"

“He’s also wary of me.” Yunyi smiled. “Don’t worry, as long as what I have here is useful to him, he will come looking for me.”

"But does he know you?"

"When you brought me into this body, didn't you do any background checks?"

Chen Rui lowered her head and drank her tea guiltily.

"The original owner was already quite famous in the capital. When Qi Miao'er was still around, she was famous for two things: her beauty and her love-struck brain. From the time she was old enough to understand, she chased after the Third Prince. For the Third Prince, she fought with this person and argued with that person, offending a lot of people. She usually had a good temper, but when it came to the Third Prince, she was a powder keg. Unfortunately, the Third Prince was extremely annoyed by her. So, this love-struck brain can also be described as stupid, famously stupid."

Chen Rui gave a dry laugh.

“In the capital, even those who haven’t met Fang Yunyi have heard of her name.” Yunyi sighed. “Do you know what’s even more outrageous? If someone has a grudge against another person but can’t do anything about it, they’ll go to the original owner of this body and say that the person they have a grudge against is coveting the Third Prince or badmouthing the Third Prince. Regardless of whether it’s true or false, the original owner of this body will go and fight with them. To put it nicely, you can call it being straightforward; to put it bluntly, you’re stupid, hopelessly stupid.”

"Hehe, boss, I'm sorry, I didn't really investigate that thoroughly back then. I just sensed that your soul resonated with this body, and that's all..."

Yunyi waved her hand: "It's already like this, I won't scold you anymore."

"I knew the eldest brother was the best."

"Didn't you notice that the shopkeeper just mentioned 'young lady'?"

"Did you say that? I didn't hear you."

"So, you're actually better suited to working with data."

Chen Rui pouted, looking aggrieved.

Just as Yunyi was about to say something, there was a knock on the door, followed by Qingsong's voice: "Is Miss Ruier inside?"

Chen Rui couldn't help but look at Yun Yi.

"Why are you looking at me? Your man's guards are looking for you."

Chen Rui pouted even more: "To be honest, that person is really unlikable. I don't know why Fang Yunyi was so infatuated with him."

Yunyi didn't say anything.

“My young lady is having tea with Miss Fang,” Banqiu said.

“My master is next door and knows that Miss Rui’er is here. He would like to invite her to come and sit with us.”

"No need," Chen Rui said from behind the screen. "I'm quite happy chatting and drinking tea with my friends here, so I won't bother Your Highness."

Qingsong responded and then left.

In a private room next door, Zhou Jingxuan was sitting opposite a handsome man in white.

Zhou Jingxuan was already very handsome, a combination of the best features of his parents, making him one of the most beautiful men in the entire royal family. However, when he was next to the man in white, he actually appeared slightly inferior.

Qingsong's reply brought a playful smile to the white-robed man's face: "Third Prince, your fiancée is no match for Miss Fang." Zhou Jingxuan raised an eyebrow: "Qi Lin, what are you trying to say?"

"Didn't you know?" Qi Lin toyed with his teacup, raising an eyebrow slightly. "I told you before that if you wanted that position, you should treat my niece well. Even if you didn't like her, you could marry her and keep her as a decoration. After all, women with Qi clan blood are quite extraordinary. But you wouldn't listen, and now..."

At this time, it was Qi Lin, Qi Miao'er's cousin, who used the surname Qi in public.

Although she is only in her early twenties, she is of the same generation as Qi Miao'er, and in terms of social status, Yun Yi should call her uncle.

“You know, back then, Fang Yunyi…” Zhou Jingxuan frowned, “was truly impossible to like.” If it were the Fang Yunyi of today, he would never let her down.

"Tsk tsk." Qi Lin chuckled. "You can't have your cake and eat it too. Now that girl has really awakened her ancestral bloodline, her personality has changed drastically. It's a pity that she no longer likes you."

Zhou Jingxuan immediately drank the tea in his hand in a gulp, feeling frustrated, but unfortunately it wasn't wine.

Qi Lin slowly took a bite of a pastry and said, "Women, especially girls, need to be coaxed. Look at my cousin, she was coaxed by Fang Tang for more than ten years, but in the end she ended up with a tragic end."

"I've always been curious, since the women of the Qi tribe are so amazing, is Qi Miao'er really... dead?"

Qi Lin also fell silent. He was also puzzled. His cousin was no ordinary woman. She wasn't the kind of person who would just accept whatever came her way. Instead of fighting back, she committed suicide after being framed. This was completely unlike her. Even if she liked Fang Tang a lot, she wouldn't do something so foolish.

However, even if she didn't die, it's been two years and there's still no news of her. Her uncle has been in seclusion for almost three years now, and she doesn't know if he knows anything about her daughter.

"Whether she is dead or not, you have already lost the protection of the Qi clan."

"Heh," Zhou Jingxuan chuckled, "Even if I lost Qi Miao'er, I still have you, don't I?"

“I am from the second branch of the family, and I am not qualified to be the clan leader.”

"Since I'm the third child, I probably won't have a chance to sit in that position, right?"

Qi Lin suddenly looked up and met Zhou Jingxuan's ambiguous smile.

"Ah Lin." Zhou Jingxuan leaned forward and lowered his voice slightly, "It's all up to us."

Qi Lin's eyes flickered violently.

"Otherwise, why would you want to befriend me?" Zhou Jingxuan sat up straight, picked up a piece of pastry and examined it. "It can't just be so I can treat you to tea and a pastry, can it?"

"I must say, it's so easy to associate with smart people, haha." Qi Lin laughed.

"Shall we... have a drink?" Zhou Jingxuan raised his teacup.

"I think it might be better if it were a wine glass."

"How about we go somewhere else? Let's drink until we drop tonight!"

Meanwhile, Yunyi and Chen Rui had finished eating and drinking and got up to find a place to eat.

Actually, Yunyi wasn't hungry anymore, but Chen Rui couldn't accept it. She felt that these were tea snacks, not a proper meal. It was lunchtime, and they should have a proper meal with noodles, rice, stir-fried vegetables, and meat.

Yunyi had no choice but to promise to take her to Taibai Tower for a proper meal.

The two had just stepped out when they ran into Zhou Jingxuan and Qi Lin, who were also leaving the house.

When Yunyi saw Qi Lin, her eyes narrowed slightly. Although she had never met him before, he looked about 40% like her mother. Her intuition told her that he must be a relative of her mother. However, since the original owner of this body had never returned to the Qi clan with Qi Miao'er, she could only treat him as a stranger at this moment. She glanced at him and then looked away.