Many children, many blessings; my family helped me win over the ultimate fairy.

Ji Yuanwei turned her head and glanced at Wang Waling.

Wang Wuling caught her gaze, subtly reached out from under the table, patted Ji Yuanwei's hand, and then picked up where Yun Rou left off.

"My mother-in-law is right. It is we who are foolish and have failed to appreciate my husband's good intentions."

Wang Wa Ling seized the opportunity to climb the social ladder, even changing her address from "Empress" to "Mother-in-law," her face displaying just the right amount of annoyance and shyness.

"I originally thought that my husband was too busy with official duties and dared not disturb him by going to the Wutong Palace or the front courtyard, for fear of annoying him. But after hearing what my mother-in-law said, I realize that I was being too pretentious."

"It's good that you can figure it out."

Yun Rou gave Wang Wa Ling an approving look.

Although the patriarch of the Beiyuan Wang family was a bit old and had a complicated mind, he was a wise man who understood things immediately.

"Living life is like cultivating oneself. When opportunities are presented to you, if you don't reach out and grab them, do you expect them to just fall into your lap?"

Yun Rou glanced around and said, "Especially you young ones, you're all so shy, you always shrink back when something happens."

There are too many people in the Emperor's palace. Yuan'er only has twelve hours a day, and he still has to find time to kill people. If you continue to be so reserved and aloof, after a while, he'll bring back a few more from outside, and you won't even have soup to drink."

These words, though crude, were not without merit, and Wen Qing, Ye Youlian, and the others felt a jolt in their hearts upon hearing them.

"Mother-in-law is right, Qing'er will remember it," Lu Qing'er replied softly, biting her lip.

Sitting next to her, Luo Changyun blinked her big eyes, shook her sister Luo Changfeng's arm, and said in a clear voice, "Sister, does Grandma mean that we should go to Big Brother's room to sleep tonight? But Big Brother is still fighting outside."

Luo Changfeng blushed deeply and quickly covered his sister's mouth with his hand: "Don't talk nonsense."

The atmosphere in the courtyard was completely enlivened by the little girl's interruption.

Wang Wuling's eyes darted around, and seeing that Yun Rou had a gentle temperament, she became a little bolder.

She leaned forward slightly and asked with a smile, "Mother-in-law, I've kept all the lessons you taught us in mind. However, there's something I've always been curious about, but I'm not sure if I should ask it."

"There are no outsiders here, what can't you ask?" Yunrou picked up her teacup.

"As far as I know, my father-in-law was born with the Supreme Holy Body, which made all the geniuses of his time unable to raise their heads. He was destined to be the Great Emperor of this era."

Wang Waling blinked, her tone carrying a hint of teasing gossip among female cultivators, "Besides, when my father-in-law was young, all he could think about was practicing swordsmanship and finding someone to fight. He was a complete martial arts fanatic. How did my mother-in-law manage to win over such a stubborn and ruthless man like him back then?"

The courtyard fell silent instantly upon hearing this.

Everyone's ears perked up.

Even Su Xiaoxiao, who had been hiding behind Chu Wanning, couldn't help but peek half her head out from behind her senior sister's shoulder and stare at Yun Rou with wide eyes.

That was Emperor Hengyu!

Two hundred thousand years ago, a powerful figure who crushed the Heavenly Tribulation with his bare hands and suppressed all the heavens and myriad realms!

Just now, outside the courtyard, the way this emperor looked at Yun Rou was as if he wanted to hold her in his hands and melt her in his heart.

Which of these female cultivators present didn't want to be like Yun Rou in controlling Jiang Hengyu, and also have a firm grasp on Jiang Yuan's thoughts?

This is a genuine "passing guide"!

Ji Yuanwei, Chu Wanning, Yu Meiren, and even the usually aloof Luo Changfeng and Luo Shenyue were all staring intently at Yun Rou.

Yun Rou's hand, holding the teacup, froze in mid-air.

She never expected that after hearing the lecture, these younger people would turn around and inquire about her and Jiang Hengyu's old story.

Recalling those absurd events from over two hundred thousand years ago, a blush actually rose on the fair cheeks of the Jiang family's Empress, who had just attained the Dao of Emperor and was used to all kinds of storms.

She put down her teacup, coughed lightly, and reached out to touch her burning earlobe.

"Why are you asking about this... that's an ancient almanac from hundreds of thousands of years ago."

"Please tell us, Mother-in-law!" Seeing that things were looking promising, Wang Waling quickly stepped forward and pleaded, "You just told us to take the initiative, so you should at least show us the way and let us learn from your methods, right?"

"That's right, Grandma, I want to hear it too!" Luo Changyun clapped her hands and cheered.

Unable to bear their pestering any longer, Yun Rou glanced outside the courtyard gate to make sure Jiang Hengyu wasn't eavesdropping nearby. Then she sighed, her fingers tracing the rim of her teacup, and slowly began to speak.

"Actually, there's not much of a method... Your father-in-law wasn't lying about one thing just now. When he was young, he was indeed a blockhead, ten times more stubborn than Yuan'er."

"I was born into a collateral branch of the Gu family. Although I was considered a genius back then, I only had the aptitude of a divine body. In a place like the Gu family, there are countless geniuses in the direct line. As a disciple of a collateral branch, even if I cultivated to the level of a quasi-emperor, I wouldn't have much say in the clan."

The courtyard was quiet, with only the rustling of the osmanthus leaves in the wind.

The women held their breath, afraid of missing a single word.

"At that time, Heng Yu had not yet become the imperial son of the Jiang family, and his cultivation was at the eighth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm. But his name had already resounded throughout the thirty-six great worlds. Among those of the same realm, even an ancient freak from a forbidden zone was cleaved in two by him with a single sword strike."

Yun Rou looked at the tea in her cup, her gaze drifting into the distance.

"Back then, countless imperial goddesses and holy maidens from holy lands lined up to send invitations to the Jiang family. Even the current imperial daughter of our Gu family declared that she would not marry anyone but Heng Yu. At that time, I was just like you, thinking that such a person was like the sun in the sky, too far away from me, and I didn't dare to even think about it."

"And then?" Qu Nishang couldn't help but ask.

She herself had climbed up from the bottom, so she understood all too well the disparity Yunrou was talking about.

"Later, in an ancient secret realm, I was besieged by three late-stage Quasi-Emperors from opposing forces in order to compete for a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass that could repair my Dao Foundation. I was seriously injured and was about to have to use the only life-saving item of the Gu family."

Yun Rou chuckled as she said this, "Guess what? Your father-in-law just happened to fall from the sky and sat on one of the quasi-emperors who was attacking me, killing him instantly."

The courtyard was deathly silent.

After a few breaths, Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but burst out laughing, then quickly covered her mouth.

Did he sit...sit until a late-stage Quasi-Emperor died?

The way that great emperor of the era, dressed in a blue robe and carrying a sword, with an air of supreme prestige, actually made his entrance was like this.

"He had just fought an ancient beast in the core of the secret realm, destroyed its lair, and was exhausted. He fell out of the spatial rift and crashed right into our battlefield."

Yun Rou shook her head, her face full of smiles. "The remaining two quasi-emperors saw that things were not going well and turned to run away. I was seriously injured at the time and couldn't move. I saw him climb out of the pit, pat the dirt off his butt, and the first thing he did was not to check if I was dead or alive. Instead, he bent down, pulled out the nine-leaf sword grass on the ground, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it."