After the Affectionate Second Male Lead Reincarnated

9

As I pulled my brother out of the imperial study, he was still seething with anger.

In the novel, Jiang Huai Zhi was the same way; when it came to matters involving Jiang Luo Yu, he always became agitated.

During the past twenty years since I arrived here, he had pampered and protected me, shielding me from most of life's storms.

In my heart, he was like my true elder brother, and I didn't want anything to happen to him.

"Pei Du didn't know all these years?" he asked me.

"I already told you, it was because I was being playful..."

"What kind of snow do you have to go so far to play in? Do you think I don't know the truth?" Jiang Huai Zhi's questioning left me speechless.

"I just felt it wasn't necessary to tell him."

When I thought Pei Du loved me, I didn't want to speak out and be doubted. When I found out he didn't love me, saying these things would only be self-humiliating.

Jiang Huai Zhi sighed. "Then how did you get that injury on your neck?"

"The emperor mistook me for someone else and accidentally hurt me. Brother, you don't need to worry about it."

According to the novel's plot, Pei Du had already started dismantling Jiang Huai Zhi's power in the court.

Although I had always tried to maintain a balance between them, I feared that my brother's actions today would disrupt this balance.

"Really?" Jiang Huai Zhi didn't believe me.

"Really."

Jiang Huai Zhi sighed again, shaking his head.

"If you're unhappy, just tell me..."

Before he could finish, I hugged him with tears in my eyes.

"Alright. Brother, please remember not to act so impulsively in the future. After all, you are a minister, and he is the emperor. If he ever punishes you, what would happen to sister-in-law and my nieces and nephews?"

"Also, the emperor may have seemed gentle and easy to control on the surface, but he was actually very suspicious and disliked being controlled. The court had always been wary of any single faction becoming too powerful. Now that Xiao Yan had achieved outstanding military merits, you must not make enemies with the Xiao family, no matter how much you looked down on them..."

Jiang Huai Zhi laughed. "Why are you more long-winded than me today, as if we siblings will never see each other again?"

"After all, I'm the empress now. It's inconvenient to leave the palace often, and we see each other less. I just wanted to remind you of a few things. Are you annoyed with me?"

I pretended to be angry and asked him.

"How could I dare find the empress's words bothersome?" he teased me.