Chapter 299 The Difference Is Obvious

But Yan Jin can totally understand.

My father has very few concubines. In order to consolidate the power of the court, Jiang Yi has not had any children in recent years. There are only two masters in the harem, the queen and the concubine, and there are only four princes.

Yan Li is the emperor's only daughter, the queen's legitimate daughter, and has just been named the eldest princess.

Which palace maid dares to neglect her?

Along the way, the palace maids who saluted Yan Jin were almost all those who had just entered Zhaoyang Palace: "See the fourth prince."

"No need to be polite." Yan Jin stood outside Zhaoyang Palace, with a slender figure and a gentle tone, "Go and inform the eldest princess, and say I want to see her."

"Yes." The palace maid turned and entered the palace gate, and walked quickly to the main hall of Zhaoyang Palace.

After a while, Yan Li came out of the palace and saw Yan Jin standing outside the palace gate. He asked calmly, "What's up?"

"I'm sorry to bother you so late." Yan Jin smiled at him with a bit of apology, "I just came from my eldest brother's place. I'm afraid you're not used to it, so I came to see you."

"Nothing to be used to." Yan Li came out, his voice was quite gentle, "Miss Ling will stay with me tonight, so I can't invite my fourth brother in for a chat."

"Nothing, I just want to talk to you." Yan Jin smiled and shook his head, then suggested, "Let's go to the Imperial Garden?"

"Yes." Yan Li nodded.

The two walked along the palace road to the Imperial Garden, and several palace servants followed them quietly.

Palace lanterns were dotted in the distance.

The scenery in the Imperial Garden at night was more quiet than during the day.

Yan Jin's voice also became more peaceful and lonely: "I feel guilty."

Yan Li tilted her head to look at him: "What do you feel guilty about?"

"I feel guilty that you have been wronged in Mu State for so many years, and I feel guilty that Jin State has trapped my mother for so many years, making it impossible for her to be a qualified mother." A self-blaming smile flashed across Yan Jin's mouth, "I feel even more guilty about the deep brother-sister love we showed in front of you."

Because it was fake, I feel guilty.

Yan Li didn't care: "There's nothing to feel guilty about. There are many things you can't decide or control, just like the current emperor couldn't predict the changes in the prince's mansion."

"I hope you don't take to heart what my eldest brother said to you at the palace banquet today." Yan Jin smiled gently, with a gentlemanly demeanor, "He..."

"You really want to find a reason to defend him." Yan Li raised his eyebrows slightly, and the color in his eyes was surprisingly transparent, as if he could see through everything, "but soon found that no reason could give a strong defense for his words."

Yan Jin looked at her in surprise, and laughed for a moment: "My sister doesn't look like a fourteen-year-old girl at all."

"If you've been married, you're no longer a girl." Yan Li said calmly, "But my birthday is in November, the season when plum blossoms are in full bloom, which means I'll be fifteen in a little over a month."

Yan Jin hummed: "On your first birthday in Jin, your mother will definitely give you a grand birthday banquet."

"Don't you plan to fight for the throne, my fourth brother?"

Yan Jin was slightly surprised, then shook his head: "My eldest brother and I are from the same mother--"

"What if he fails?"

Yan Jin was silent for a moment: "Failure is fate."

He always felt that his eldest brother was not suitable to be the emperor, but who among the four princes was suitable to be the emperor?

The incident that year not only severely damaged the national strength of Jin, but also caused indelible damage to several of them. The four brothers became more or less emotional, unstable, eager for quick success, and even a little inferior and sensitive.

Because he was worried about being controlled by others again and was unwilling to let others control his fate, he could not show absolute patience in the fight for the throne. He was too eager, so eager that he could not even pretend and forbear.

Even if a person obsessed with power ascended to the throne as he wished, could he settle down and govern the world well?

"My mother has taken care of us a lot over the years. Maybe I am more sentimental, so I have never achieved much." Yan Jin sighed lightly, and the smile on the corner of his lips was like the breeze and the moon. "I even thought that Jin was doomed before, but it was my mother who forcibly extended the fate of Jin for more than ten years."

Yan Li looked at the scenery in the imperial garden, and his voice was calm and indifferent: "Jin is not doomed, because there has not been a traitor who has brought disaster to the country and the people, and the emperor is not a tyrant who has brought disaster to the country."

Although the various factions in the court have different positions, most of them are for their own interests, but the treacherous and evil ministers and the foolish and cruel tyrants who have disrupted the court before the country's demise have not yet appeared.

The biggest problem in Jin is the excessive oppression of women by men, which has exceeded the limit of "male superiority and female inferiority".

"My sister came from Mu State and is used to women having certain freedom, so she hates the system of Jin State." Yan Jin pondered for a moment, "Does my sister plan to change this situation?"

"I do have this idea." Yan Li said calmly, "Although it is a bit difficult, it depends on human efforts."

Yan Jin looked at her deeply: "For the first time, I saw the heart of a benevolent person in a girl."

Clinging to the strong is driven by interests, and pity for the weak is a kind heart.

And those who pity and are willing to take action to help the weak are benevolent and strong.

But Yan Jin does not want to praise Yan Li too much for the time being. There are some things he knows in his heart, but he can't say it out loud.

Otherwise, praise will also become a weapon to hurt people.

"Don't praise me too much, I don't need it." Yan Li's voice was very light, "I just do what I want to do, it has nothing to do with others."

Yan Jin nodded slowly: "Yeah."

"Fourth brother and eldest brother are brothers from the same mother. I won't ask you to be his enemy, but I sincerely hope that you won't do anything against your will." Yan Li tilted his head to look at him, his tone more sincere, "If there is a conflict between him and me, I hope it is just a matter between him and me, and don't involve other innocent people."

Yan Jin was silent, then raised his mouth, with a sigh in his eyes.

Look, they are both royal blood.

One is the eldest son of the royal family, and the other is a 14-year-old girl who just came back. The two identities are completely unequal, but the difference in temperament is obvious.

If Yan Li was a man...

Yan Jin suddenly had this idea in his mind, and then he was subtly startled and suppressed the idea without making a sound.

How could he have such an idea?

It's ridiculous!

Yan Jin sighed softly and slowly stopped: "My dear sister, please go back first. Don't let Miss Ling wait for too long. I will walk around the garden alone."

Yan Li nodded and left calmly.

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