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Glancing at the dancers as Li Qin poured the tea in the cup. I took a sip of the drink, "Sister Xue'er, these dancers are beautiful. Isn't it?" Qiao Zhu said in a cheerful voice while watching them.

"Indeed, their move is exquisite and beautiful. The musicians and court entertainers all sang and played the musical instruments they were best at." I said softly and looked at Qiao Lian whispering to her mother. I can tell that she wasn't happy to see me since her plan failed.

I notice the maid serving the food for me. I looked at it and saw, was my favourite meal as I looked at the maid. She pointed at someone as I turned and saw Sheng gazing at me with a smile. He knew that I love to eat.

My eyes were staring intently at the food, ready to pounce on it any second. My lips curved up into a small but subtle smile. I looked at him and nodded my head with thanks. I can't believe he remembered the food that I like to eat. Using the chopstick and picking the dumplings as I chew it. It tastes like chicken but it was very delicious and felt like heaven.

In my last life, the emperor asked many unmarried maidens to perform their skills at the stage. I couldn't perform because I don't have the skill of poems, music or dance, Qiao Lian was the best dancer in the Xia kingdom but I wanted to get Xiao Wen's attention.

After 5 years, I force myself to practice a poem which made my mind blank, playing the music which made my fingers bleed and dancing which hurt my feet from the master since Xiao Wen really likes them. Everything I learn in the last life, was hard and harsh from learning the strict master...

To think of myself as the naive girl who wanted his love and gain his attention. Looking at the reflection of myself in the tea as I drank it and sighing. I look at the royal family.

Empress Ai took Xiao Wen as his own son with her 3 children, the 1st princess, Xiao Rong who was an intelligent princess and married the 6th prince from Ying kingdom when she was 18 years old.

(Xiao Rong)

The 2nd prince, Xiao Feng who was a noble prince but he cannot ascend the throne because he's cripple. His leg was damaged by the assassin when he was a child and unable to walk for 16 years until he married the woman that he fell in love with.

(Cui Fen)

His main wife, Cuifen is a daughter of the famous doctor in the Xia kingdom. She was kind and gentle who never left his side for 10 years.

5 years of their marriage that they been trying to make a baby but it didn't work. They were told that she was infertile and couldn't have children which make her sad but 8 months ago, she finally became pregnant which made the 2nd prince happy to hear even the royal family were joyed for hearing the news. She was given a chance to have a child and was blessed by heaven.

(Xiao Feng)

I felt something that chilled my spine. I slowly lifted my head and saw Xiao Wen, gazing at me since it's the first time that he sees me, wearing the dress. In my last life, I wore the dress so nobody would mock me or him.

He smiled at me as I turned my head and ignored him. I'm not the same girl who loves him in this life. He thought I would fall in love with him easily but he's wrong since I know his true face and don't want to be with him again. Eating my food and enjoying listening to the musical.

"Sister Xue'er, do you think his majesty will ask all the maidens to perform their skills?" Qiao Zhu giggled as I nodded.

"Yes, before the performance will be over soon. What kind of performance are you going to show them?" I asked her as she scratched her cheeks.

"Well, I practise music that my mother told me. It was very hard but fun because I enjoyed music a lot." She said in an excited voice but she gave me a nervous reaction, "But what kind of skill that you will perform? You kind of suck at poetry, dancing and music but only know how to fight with the swords."

The memory flashed in my mind, showing me of my mother's music, song and dance but she used the sword to dance. It was very beautiful and the way she swung very gracefully. I enjoyed watching her, playing the sword when she smiles. I told her where she learned this.

She told me that she been practicing the sword dance when she was 12, it make her calm. After she was killed by Yao Ting as I memorized her movement and began to practise the sword dance.

I smirk, "I have skill to perform... A surprise performance..."

Qiao Zhu leaned my ears and whispered, "What is it?"

"I can't tell you..." I answered with a smile and ate the roasted duck as Qiao Zhu looked at me with a dumbfounded.

"Sister Xue'er, you're mean!" She pouted with puppy eyes.

I put the roasted chicken in her mouth as she chewed it, "You will see after the performance is over soon..."

Meanwhile Xiao Sheng enjoyed watching Song Xue. Admired how beautiful she wears in the red dress and wearing the veil, he can see her lips as she lifts her veil and eats the buns. Imagine he would kiss her and bite her lips while ravishing her body until she screamed his name so she wouldn't be able to walk.

But there's one thing he didn't like where all the men were looking at her with lust and also noticed his 4th brother was staring at her with a smile which made him angry but he was glad that she ignored his stare and watched the dancers.

He also notices Song Xue glare at his 4th brother. Not just anger but a hatred on her eyes just like the past when her mother was killed. Wonder why she glares at his brother as he notices Song Xue staring at him. He could see through her veil as she smiles, he felt lucky to have her as his wife and couldn't wait for their marriage.

"3rd brother, I never realized how beautiful your fiancé was, in the dress. You're lucky to have her." The 2nd prince said while drinking with his wife.

"I'm lucky to have her and I would imagine having children with her... A lot..." He said while smirking, imagine Song and him with lot of children.

"Tsk tsk tsk... I never realized how possessive you are but there's something I wanted to tell you." He grinned evilly.

"And what's that?" Xiao Sheng asked with a curious look.

"I wanted you to make her pregnant so our unborn child won't be alone. Even if it's the boy or the girl, it doesn't matter as long, our unborn child will spend time playing with your child." The 2nd prince said with a smirk as Cuifen choke at his words and began to blush in anger. She turns and punches his arm as he pretends to be hurt by her punch.

"Husband, how dare you say such with a shameless word! We're at the banquet and sister in law would be embarrassed if she hears you!" She whispered with glare in her eyes.

The 2nd prince looked at his adorable wife with her big belly as he pulled her in his body and whispered, "I wanted our child to play with other kids so he/she won't be alone. Didn't you want our child to have a normal?"

"I do want our child to have a normal life but why did you ask your brother to make Song Xue pregnant?" She asked whispered as the 2nd prince curve with a devilish smirk

"While our child played with them so I can take you in our bedroom and fuck you so hard in day and night until you are pregnant with our 2nd child or... Even more." He darkly whispered at her ears, which shivered her body as he gently rubbed her belly with a puppy eyes.

Her face paled at his dominant word and cried out in her mind, "God, help me! This man is sex demon!" She remembered at their first wedding day where he took her 22 times until she fainted... 22 times! As her sore body arched and couldn't take it anymore for day and night.

Xiao Sheng chuckled and would love to have a big family with Song Xue as his 4th brother spoke.

"True, Song Xue accepted the marriage with 3rd brother because she didn't want to hurt him." He said while lazily drinking his wine.

"What do you mean, 4th brother?" Xiao Sheng asked with an darken expression. He didn't like everyone provoke him or Song Xue.

Xiao Wen smirk at his reaction and wanted to provoke him more as he slowly put his cup down and spoke, "I heard she's only thought of you as a brother since childhood but she didn't want to break your heart when you proposed to her. After all, you're a prince and she's the general. She wouldn't want to anger father because he favours you." He said in a sarcastic voice.

"4th brother, that's enough! You know that father and 3rd brother would never force her." The 2nd prince said in a stern voice and couldn't believe what he say to his 3rd brother.

Xiao Wen rolled his eyes, "But it's true. What if she has a feeling with someone else than the 3rd brother? Will she accept him without love?" Mocking him with a smile.

Xiao Sheng clenched his fist in anger and wanted to punch him but his mind recalled when he proposed her with a marriage and expressed his feelings for her.

She was shocked and didn't know what to say until she only thought of him as the brother which made him sad but she also expressed her feelings to him as he felt shocked to hear. He never realized his childhood friend was also in love with him as she accepted the marriage. He looked at her eyes shine bright and her smile, telling him that she's happy to be his wife.

He tilted his head with a smirk, "True, she thought of me as brother but you're wrong. Song Xue didn't hesitate until she expressed her words and also fell in love with me. I'm happy to hear the woman I love who also fell in love with me."

Xiao Wen seemed stunned to hear and ask, "Are you sure about that?" Did Song Xue really love the 3rd prince and accept the marriage with him.

"Her words did not lie as she accepted the marriage." He looked at him with a dominant aura around his body, "Now brother, if you're trying to provoke me with your filthy tongue of yours then I will have no mercy on you and don't think that I let you go easily because I'm not man who spared the people's life." He darkly said.

His words sounded cold as Xiao Wen went pale and trembled in fear. He never saw the 3rd prince speak to him with frightening words as he notices his hand shake and quickly holds it. His anger boils in his veins and glares at him with hatred.

"Xiao Sheng, how dare you threaten me with your mouth! One day, I will become an emperor and steal the woman you love so much then force you to watch her, get violet by me!" In his ruthless mind as the empress notices them glaring at each other with blood lust.

"My sons, is everything all right?" She asked, the blood lust has vanished as they look at her with a smile.

"It's nothing, mother. We were talking, that's all..." Xiao Sheng spoke in a lowly voice as they went silent.

The empress nodded and looked at her son with a worried expression. She knows Xiao Sheng and Xiao Wen never liked each other since they were children. The 4th prince may be the son of the Consort Ding but he's still an emperor's son. She couldn't forgive what she did to her and her family, even her beloved youngest daughter, Xiao Quinyang.

(Xiao Quinyang)

She's the youngest princess who's been always spoiled by her siblings and parents except Xiao Wen who never liked her much. Song Xue was 7 years old and acts like a big sister to Quinyang. She always followed her wherever Song Xue went and wanted to spend time playing with her.

15 years ago, Consort Ding and her family sent assassins to kill the royal family. The 2nd prince protected his siblings from the assassin but his legs got cripple by the sword contained with poison. He was about to be killed but lucky the 3rd prince managed to kill all the assassins and save his brother except their youngest sister, Quinyang.

All consort Ding's assassins were eliminated by the royal guards and went to the 5th princess palace until it was too late. There was a fire in the palace where everyone was burned alive including Xiao Quinyang.

The 2nd prince's leg was seriously injured and cannot be healed because of the poison which went through his bone marrow. He will not be able to walk for the rest of his life which made the emperor furious and ordered his men to execute Consort Ding and her entire family by beheading which made Xiao Wen become an orphan.

He despised him so much because Consort Ding was planning to make him a future emperor of the Xia kingdom by eliminating all the royals. The empress couldn't forget the day of her daughter's death and cried in tears for failing to protect her which shattered her heart.

The emperor noticed the empress's eyes filled with sadness, "My empress, what's a matter?"

The empress looked at him and shook her head, "It's nothing, dear. I'm just thinking something about the past..." She said sadly. "Don't you think it would be more entertaining if the subject's daughters performed for us with their talents?"

He nodded and smiled at her idea, "Anything for you, my empress." The emperor announced all of the subject's daughters performed for us with their talents at the stage which makes them excited.

"Whoever performs on stage, shall be rewarded!"

Lady Kaka looked at Qiao Lian, "It's time to show your move. Song Xue may be beautiful but she doesn't have a skill like you. This is your chance to prove yourself to be worthy... Worthy than others... Worthy to become the 4th wife... Worthy to be a ruler of Xiao kingdom!"

Qiao Lian smiled, "Yes, I will show the others my talent so nobody will ever mock me!" She said in excitement and looked at the 4th prince who was still handsome as always and admired his beauty. She wanted to show her dance so the 4th prince would look at her.

"I can't wait to show them with my skills!" The girl chatted with her friend in excitement.

"I hope the princes would love our performance! These princes are handsome and strong!"

They gossip each other as someone speaks.

"I wish the 3rd prince would see my performance but I heard he's already engaged with someone." The other cried sadly which made others gasped in shock.