Three Years After Falling Off the Cliff

Striding into the inner hall, Sui Tingheng subconsciously looked at Yun Fuyi who was sitting next to the queen.

"Heng'er, why are you here at this time?" The Queen saw Sui Tingheng suddenly walk in hurriedly. After a moment of hesitation, she said, "You know too?"

Sui Tingheng's heart skipped a beat and he felt an unbearable pain in his heart. What did his mother just say about beauties? Did she want to choose a princess consort for him?

His eyelids trembled, and he bowed and saluted: "Your son greets you, mother. Your son has just got a can of scented tea, and I want to bring it to you, mother, to try."

"Sit down and talk." The queen took the tea and asked the maid to make it for her: "So you don't know what's going on."

Sui Tingheng raised his head and shifted his gaze from the Queen to Fu Yi: "I wonder if Miss Yun can help me solve this puzzle?"

"Your Highness." Fu Yi stood up and replied, "Please forgive me for my reckless behavior, Your Highness and Your Majesty."

Sui Tingheng wanted her to sit down and answer. He glanced at the palace servants in the hall, stood up, took the teacup handed to him by the palace maid and placed it in front of the queen. He put his hands behind his back and asked, "Miss Yun, why do you say that?"

Fu Yi told the story of everything that happened after she noticed that something was wrong with the middle-aged man and arranged for someone to follow him.

"In a desperate situation, I had no choice but to use this trick to arrest the counselor. Please forgive me, Your Majesty and Your Highness."

"Hahahahaha, you acted according to circumstances. Not only are you innocent, but you have also made great contributions." The emperor walked into the hall with a smile and raised his hand to signal Fu Yi that she didn't need to salute: "As expected of a daughter of the Yun family, you have a smart brain."

He took the Queen's hand and pulled her to sit down together. He said to Sui Tingheng and Yun Fuyi, "Heng'er and Fuyi, sit down and talk too."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Fu Yi had just sat down when she heard the emperor curiously ask her, "What kind of beauty could make me abandon the queen and be completely fascinated by her?"

"This..." Fu Yi raised her head stiffly, looking at the Queen on the left and the Prince on the right. "As an emperor, you shouldn't be so curious. If someone is brought into the palace for you to take a few looks at, won't the whole capital know that someone is planning to use the beauty trap against you?"

Unfortunately, the emperor did not care about his reputation and immediately ordered the Dragon Guards to bring the three beauties to him.

When the three beauties were brought into the palace, the emperor lost interest after taking one look at them. He waved his hand and had them taken away: "You have thin arms and legs, not even half as good as the queen. How could I fall for such a low-brow evil scheme?"

"Your Majesty and the Queen are deeply in love, so other women naturally don't catch your Majesty's eye." Fu Yi smiled, "However, there are few men in the world who are as affectionate as your Majesty. In the eyes of those men, women are just icing on the cake. Your Majesty didn't change his mind because there was no suitable woman."

Hearing Fu Yi praising the deep love between him and the queen, and saying that he was deeply in love, the emperor smiled even more satisfied: "I am the Son of Heaven, of course I am different from those ordinary people."
Beauty is common, but sincerity is rare. What do those vulgar men know about love?

"But these three beauties may not all be found for your Majesty." Fu Yi looked at Sui Tingheng with a smile.

"Hmm..." The emperor responded, and he looked at Sui Tingheng and said, "What kind of girl do you like? Your father will find you one sooner, so that you won't be targeted by a beauty trap next time."

"Father, I don't want to get married yet." Sui Tingheng looked at the Queen: "And I don't like talented beauties who are as cold as the moon."

The queen was puzzled by her son's look at her. If he didn't like her, then he didn't like her, so why was he looking at her?

Seeing that the emperor and his family of three were talking about the prince's marriage, Fu Yi lowered her head to reduce her presence and prepared to find a reason to leave.

"If you don't like those who are as cold as the moon, then you like those who are as passionate as fire?" The emperor asked Fu Yi: "Fu Yi, you are familiar with the young girls in the capital. Which girls have passionate personalities?"

Fu Yi: “…”
Is it appropriate to ask her about this?
I am just the daughter of an outsider, not your daughter. You really don't treat me as an outsider.
Looking at the Queen again, she was actually looking at her expectantly. Fu Yi really couldn't understand why the Emperor and the Queen trusted her so much.

Sui Tingheng frowned slightly: "Father, it is inappropriate for you to let Miss Yun talk about this."

Fortunately, fortunately, there is at least one sober person in the royal family.
Fu Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

"If this gets out, it will cause Miss Yun to suffer criticism and trouble."

Is this the point?
Prince, you don't look very sober.

"You are right. It is indeed not appropriate." The emperor and the empress nodded in unison. The emperor waved his hand and said to Fu Yi, "I was mistaken. I will let someone else go tomorrow..."

"Father, I don't like passionate women either." Sui Tingheng couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted, "You don't have to do these things."

"You don't like this, you don't like that, you like fairies?" The emperor looked suspicious: "Or do you already have a favorite woman?"

"No." Sui Tingheng lowered his eyelids. He knew Fu Yi was also looking at him at this moment. He took a deep breath and said, "Now the national treasury is empty, and the neighboring countries are eyeing us covetously. I am in no mood to love."

"No matter how empty the treasury is, your father has enough money to marry you..."

"Okay." The Queen interrupted the Emperor: "This matter is not urgent, we can talk about it later. It's time for lunch, let's have lunch first."

After lunch, the emperor stood up and said, "Heng'er and Fuyi, accompany me for a walk."

Fu Yi followed the emperor all the way to the Imperial Garden. Suddenly, the emperor pointed to a rockery in the far corner and said to Fu Yi, "When I first saw you, you were not even as tall as my legs, and you were lying on the rockery and asked me to carry you down."

Fu Yi followed the emperor's finger and looked at the rockery he was pointing at, and a memory gradually emerged in her mind.

At that time, she was about five or six years old. Because the monks kept by the late emperor said that she had a good fate and could bring prosperity to the Purple Star, the late emperor often summoned her to the palace to stay for a while.

She didn't like the maids in the palace to control her, so she sneaked to the imperial garden to play. After climbing up the rockery, she was afraid of heights and didn't dare to come down. She was also worried about being discovered by the maids, so she had to squat on it and wait for kind people to pass by and rescue her. She was lucky. Not long after, she met a man in an old robe passing by. After she waved to him to pick her up, she saw that the man looked dejected, so she pulled his sleeve and asked, "Are you crying?"

The man ignored her, but she still leaned her head closer to him and asked, "Are you really crying?"

"I never cry." The man sat down with her on the steps with a stern face, and took away half of the candy in her purse: "What's the use of crying?"

"Who said crying is useless?" She saw the wound on the man's forehead, wiped his forehead with a handkerchief, and gave him the remaining half bag of candy: "You adults care too much about your reputation, so you think crying is useless."

The man chewed the candy and it made a crackling sound: "What do you know about face, little brat?"

"Who said I don't understand?" She was unhappy and snatched back the half bag of candy she had given away: "I am very proud in front of my friends. They all call me the boss."

"You want to save face, but you want me to cry without face?"

"You're so stupid." Fu Yi put her hands on her hips in disdain: "You only cry when you should. For example, I only cry in front of my father, mother and His Majesty."

The man finished the candy in two or three bites and stretched his hand in front of her: "Give me some more."
"No." Fu Yi covered her purse with her hands. As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the man lying on the ground, pretending to cry.

She was afraid of attracting Mammy, so she quickly stuffed the candy into his hand and said, "Oh, don't cry, don't cry, I'll give it to you."
The man chuckled and nodded while eating the candy: "Crying really does help."

"Hmph!" Little Fu Yi stood up and stepped on him while he was not paying attention, then ran away holding up her skirt without looking back.

It had been so long since this happened that Fu Yi could no longer remember the other person's appearance. All she knew now was that a shameless adult had cheated her out of half her bag of candy.

Thinking of her own naughty behavior of having to see whether others were crying or not, Fu Yi wanted to cover her face with her sleeves.

"I didn't expect that you are so young, but you are as strong as a calf. My legs were hurt by your kicks for two days." The emperor couldn't help laughing when he thought of this. Seeing Fu Yi wanting to cover her face but not daring to, he laughed even more happily: "Let's go and take a look at the rockery."

"Your Majesty." Fu Yi said weakly: "I am young and ignorant..."
You are such a grown up, but you still cheated a little girl out of her candy, and you don't seem to understand much.

"It turns out that father and Miss Yun have known each other for such a long time." Sui Tingheng spoke up, alleviating Fu Yi's embarrassment: "It's really fate."

When he was a child, he and his mother were very afraid that the late emperor would summon his father to the palace, because every time his father entered the palace, he would be insulted and beaten by the late emperor, almost without exception.

After he was eight years old, the late emperor gradually became less interested in summoning his father to the palace. Whenever he mentioned his father, he would say that he was cowardly and incompetent, without any warmth or kindness.

The rockery that seemed so high that I dared not jump down when I was young was actually not that high. Fu Yi looked at the rockery and smiled awkwardly at the emperor.

"Here." The emperor took out a purse filled with royal candy: "I'm returning the candy to you."

Fu Yi: “…”
You’re returning the candy you cheated me of more than ten years ago now?
She took the purse and said with a smile, "Thank you for the reward, Your Majesty."

"Yun Fuyi, listen to my order." The emperor smiled and said, "The daughter of the Minister of Revenue, Yun Wanggui, is young and intelligent, and has made contributions to the country. I hereby grant her the title of Princess, a carriage with red birds and red wheels, and a fief of 300 households."

"Your Majesty?!" Fu Yi, who was kneeling on the ground, looked up at the emperor in shock. His Majesty actually rewarded her with food and fiefdom?
A fief of three hundred households is not a lot, but having a fief means it is a real title.
His Majesty, who is so stingy, is actually willing to give her a fief? !
"You helped me solve the border military pay, helped me weaken the power of Prince Ning, and helped me eliminate the conspiracy against me and the crown prince. If you were a man, you would have been promoted because of these merits. I cannot erase your merits just because you are a woman." The emperor looked at her with a very gentle and intimate look, and did not hide his love for her: "If it weren't for my dear Yun's reluctance, I really want to adopt you as my adopted daughter."

Sui Tingheng reached out to help Fu Yi up, and when he heard the word "adopted daughter", he looked up at the emperor.
According to our ancestral family rules, brothers and sisters cannot get married.

"How can a minister be worthy of such a title..."

"Don't worry, I won't compete with Lord Yun for my daughter." The emperor laughed, "Didn't you say before that all the people in the world are my subjects? So even if I don't recognize you as my adopted daughter, I will still treat you as my daughter."

He stretched out his hand and pinched the bun on Fu Yi's head: "You go play with Heng'er, I will go back to the imperial study to handle government affairs."

How could a child understand how sweet the handful of candy she gave to a grown man with kindness was when he was driven to the point of death by his father, unable to protect his wife and children, and bullied by everyone to the point of having no where to go.

He used crying to trick her into giving him the remaining half bag of candy, and also used crying to make his father think of him as a coward and a waste, causing him to completely ignore him.
From then on, the three of them had a chance to breathe and survived until he successfully ascended the throne.

"Your Highness." Fu Yi covered her hair that was flattened by the emperor and turned to look at Sui Tingheng.

"Father is sometimes... a little casual, but he never jokes about things like this." Sui Tingheng helped her down the rockery: "He really treats you as his own son or nephew."

Biological children and nephews?
Aren’t your Majesty’s own sons and nephews dead, leaving only their descendants?
This nephew...is not a good one.

Looking at her expression, Sui Tingheng knew what she was thinking and chuckled, "Don't think too much. Just think of you as your father's only niece."
Fu Yi smiled.

"Don't take the words of my father and mother to heart. I don't have that kind of thought."
"What?" Fu Yi didn't react for a moment. She jumped lightly from the stairs, and Sui Tingheng quickly reached out to help her.

"The words of those women I like." Sui Tingheng held Fu Yi's wrist steadily through her sleeve: "I don't like those women."
I didn't like it before and I won't like it in the future.

Fu Yi looked at him curiously: "Then Your Highness..."

"Your Highness?" Outside the path outside the rockery, Princess Kangyang stared at Sui Tingheng's hand holding Fu Yi's wrist in horror, her whole body trembling: "Why are you..."
How can you be with such a playboy?
Ancestors of the Sui family, don't sleep, wake up quickly and bless the prince to open his eyes!
(End of this chapter)