Li Ruoxuan said, “It’s likely because of Si Jin. There have been rumors out there saying that Si Jin wasn’t actually powerful to begin with, and that he ascended to a realm beyond a grand master after getting close to you!”

Qi Qingyao, “…” What was this nonsense?

Li Ruoxuan continued, “I surmised that the little empress will be calling you to the palace soon. You best be prepared.”

“Again?” Qi Qingyao cradled her forehead as she started feeling it throbbing.

Li Ruoxuan frowned. “If you’re the Harbinger, the matter about the canceling of the marriage…”

“Not necessarily,” Qi Qingyao countered.

“What do you mean, not necessarily?” asked Li Ruoxuan.

Qi Qingyao said with a gaze deep, “I myself am doubting if I am the Harbinger. The little empress is a paranoid woman and she is even more unlikely to let me go since there is no evidence to prove that I am the Harbinger. She likes Jiang Yeqian a lot and suspects that he likes me. She would rather kill ten thousand people wrongly than let one person go, and she won’t just terminate this engagement where she could kill two birds with one stone without evidence! ”

“…” She had certainly thought this through very thoroughly.

Qi Qingyao waved her hand somewhat troubledly and said that she would return to the courtyard to rest…

Li Ruoxuan’s gaze followed her as she left.

When Qi Qingyao returned to the courtyard, the three kids were eating roasted sweet potatoes. Erniu was even brandishing her hand.

“Mommy, come eat sweet potatoes quickly!”

Qi Qingyao had barely sat down when Xiaobao passed her a sweet potato obediently!

Qi Qingyao accepted the potato and began chewing on it quietly.

The kids sensed that their mother seemed troubled and exchanged glances. “Mommy?” asked Xiaobao carefully.

Qi Qingyao was sprawled on the table, her left hand cradling her cheek while she chewed on the sweet potato in her right hand. She muttered listlessly, “I can’t tell if my luck is good or bad.”

“??”

The kids looked at their mommy obediently, but their cute faces were also lined with worry.

Like a tiny adult, Xiaobao put down his sweet potato and spoke with the air of a wise old man.

“Mommy, you can talk to us about anything.”

“I told you about where I came from previously…” Ever since Qi Qingyao came clean to the kids, she rarely looked at them as young children anymore. She knew that they were still young and might not understand what she had to say, but she did not have a lot of people she trusted.

“Yes, yes.” The kids nodded repeatedly. They recalled her telling them that she was someone who transmigrated and was reborn as Qi Qingyao.

Qi Qingyao continued as if she were talking to herself, “I’ve always thought that my luck was pretty rotten that I ended up here. My starting point really wasn’t all that impressive! I started out in a village, unlike others who’d have transmigrated as some noble lady, or some subjugated princess.”

The triplets, “??” Was she complaining? Just because she was not a subjugated princess…

Qi Qingyao was afraid that the kids did not understand her and explained, “Thing is, we have all sorts of novels there that describe some very exaggerated stories. I think… I am now the protagonist of one of those stories? My experiences were not really one of a protagonist, at most they’re the experiences of a ninth-rate supporting actor, since I didn’t start out as a princess or an empress. At the very least I should be the daughter of the State Preceptor or a minister’s family! But my starting point is really piss poor.

“It’s only poor when compared to a princess or noble lady.” Xiaobao’s eyes were bright and watery and his expression was rather solemn.

“??” Erniu and Dabao blinked their big round eyes vaguely.

“I started out with such a poor placement, and now there are hearsays out there saying that I am some kind of Harbinger,” Qi Qingyao lamented.