Male supporting role is not a stepping stone

That’s right, Qin Shuiyao is a person who has lived a new life. As the daughter of the second wife of the Marquis of Nanxiang, she had always had a bad relationship with her elder sister, who was born to the first wife. They had always been competing with each other since they were young, competing for clothes and jewelry, talent and character, and the outside world’s evaluation, including marriage.

Because Qin Yunxin’s mother died early, and her mother was in charge of the household affairs, she had always been firmly suppressed by her elder sister, and even married better than her.

Her elder sister only married a prince of the Marquis’s mansion who was on the decline, while she married into the Chengwang Mansion, which was in the prime of the emperor’s favor at that time, and became the wife of the prince and the prince. I don’t know how proud she was when she got married.

Who would have thought that the Chengwang Mansion was a dangerous place, and the Princess of Cheng was used to tormenting people. She asked her to set rules in the cold winter, so that she miscarried a fetus that was only one month pregnant, and injured her body and could never conceive again.

After the incident, Princess Cheng did not feel guilty at all. Instead, she falsely accused her of not caring enough and harming the grandson of the royal mansion. After that, his attitude towards her became even worse. He often punished her to kneel in the ancestral hall and pick beans in front of the Buddha. Those torture methods were unbearable.

The prince of Cheng was not a good person either. Not only did he not feel sorry for her after she suffered such a great injustice, but he also impatiently brought concubines into the mansion one after another on the grounds that she could not conceive.

The Nanxiang Marquis's Mansion has become less and less prosperous in recent years. Her father still relies on the Cheng Palace, but he cruelly ignored her experience and let her live a life worse than death in the palace.

However, the fate of her good sister was completely different from hers. The prince of Jinshou, who was thought to be just praised by others, turned out to be really capable. He won the first place in the imperial examination shortly after the engagement and successfully entered the court.

Later, his career was smooth. When the crown prince died of illness and the emperor passed away, he was favored by the new emperor. He made rapid progress all the way and only a few years later he was in the second-rank high position.

These were enough to make Qin Shuiyao jealous. What was even more infuriating was that Zuo Yangyan was still loyal. After Qin Yunxin married him, they loved each other very much. There was never any concubines that bothered her. In a few years, they gave birth to two sons and a daughter, which made countless people envious.

Qin Shuiyao was living a very bad life at that time. It happened that something broke out at that time. It turned out that her brother-in-law had saved the life of the new emperor, who was then the second son of the Southern King, when he was young. After that, they had been in contact and formed a deep friendship.

The Chengwang Mansion has always had ambitions for the throne. After knowing this, they put the blame on Zuo Yangyan, thinking that if he had not saved the second son of the Southern King, the throne might have fallen on them.

This kind of anger is totally unfounded. When the previous emperor passed away, King Cheng offended His Majesty for some things, and the emperor's favor was transferred to King Nan. However, the people in King Cheng's mansion were not aware of it. They could not do anything to Zuo Yangyan in the court, so they blamed her again, just because her sister was his wife.

After that, Qin Shuiyao's life became even worse. When she heard that Zuo Yangyan was a fake prince from a peasant family, she didn't know how happy she was. She thought that the Jinshou Marquis's mansion would definitely drive him out, and her good sister would naturally have a bad life.

Who knew that although Jinshou Marquis recognized the real prince, Zuo Yangyan also changed his surname back to Su and left the mansion, but this had almost no effect on him. He was still a high-ranking second-rank official, and his sister was still a glorious lady of the imperial edict. The relationship between the two families was very harmonious.

Qin Shuiyao was so angry that she fell seriously ill, and then she was bedridden and suffered for two years, and finally died of exhaustion.

Unexpectedly, when she opened her eyes again after she died, she returned to the time when she was five years old. This time, she did not oppose her elder sister all day long. Instead, she suppressed her hatred and deliberately got close to her.

Qin Yunxin was only two years older than her. At that time, she did not have the scheming of the future. She was easily won over by her and really treated her as a sister and protected her everywhere.

Qin Shuiyao did not do anything while she was young. She knew best how painful it would be for a woman to be entrusted with the wrong person. What she wanted was that she would also fall into a big fall in this matter and live a miserable life to relieve her hatred!

After Qin Yunxin exchanged the engagement letter with the Marquis of Jinshou Mansion, she sent someone to tell Zuo Yangan that Zuo Yangyan was a fake prince. Later, she did not need to do anything else to make this matter a sensation in the capital.

Based on her understanding of her elder sister's mother-in-law in her previous life, she knew that her son was raised in a peasant family and it would be difficult for him to find a suitable noble lady to marry. She would definitely stick to her elder sister.

Even if Zuo Yangyan had great means and left this marriage, it didn't matter. Anyway, she had already saved the second son of the Southern King. He would never be able to reach the height of his previous life in this life. Moreover, he had not yet entered the officialdom, and there would be people who had grudges against him to deal with him.

The subsequent events were exactly as Qin Shuiyao expected. Qin Yunxin had already exchanged the engagement letter. If she regretted it at this time, it would definitely affect her reputation. She could not marry as well as she did now.

Nanxiang Hou could only admit that he was unlucky and accepted this marriage, because the birth date on the engagement letter was Zuo Yangyi's, and the two families agreed to marry her to the real prince.

After the matter was settled, Qin Shuiyao locked herself in the room and laughed for a whole afternoon. Zuo Yangyi grew up in a farmer's household and didn't know a single word until she was sixteen years old.

Although she was tortured by Princess Cheng in her previous life and looked haggard, and there were a lot of beautiful women in the prince's room, she still needed to attend the gatherings of various mansions as the legal wife, so she heard a lot of news about the real prince.

First of all, his appearance is totally incomparable to that of the fake prince, the difference is like heaven and earth. He has no talent or knowledge at all. What can you expect from him if he can't even recognize words?

And I heard that he was rude and rude, and he was full of foul language. In short, he was a complete farmer. Her good sister claimed to be a talented woman. What good results could come from putting these two people together?

Moreover, she used the opportunity of being good sisters to sow discord. Qin Shuiyao knew this sister best, and she was sure that they would not get along.

A country man suddenly became rich, and he was inevitably dazzled by beauty. After a while, he added people to the mansion, and Qin Yunxin would taste the pain she had in her previous life.

As for Zuo Yangyi being valued by the prince, Qin Shuiyao was not worried at all. Anyway, he would die of illness in a few years, and the emperor would not be able to bear the blow and would soon die. At that time, the throne would naturally fall on the head of the second son of the Southern King.

Because of the life-saving grace two years ago, plus some means later, the second son of the Southern King had already fallen on her, and the two families were now discussing marriage.

When she learned that she had refused the position of the Crown Prince's Consort to marry his second son, and the future emperor almost cried when they met in private, Qin Shuiyao believed that she would be cherished after marrying him.

Maybe she would be favored by him when she entered the palace. When Qin Yunxin died, she would dress up and walk to her bedside, telling her about her past life, which would make her angry to death!

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While the heroine was imagining the future, Yang Yan was training the Crown Prince of Jinshou, who had a deep connection with him.

Zuo Yangyi had no talent in studying, but surprisingly, he had a good foundation and was a good candidate for martial arts.

For people in this world, it was a bit late for him to practice martial arts at this age, but Yang Yan knew a lot and was very good at it, and he could come up with a method suitable for him in minutes.

Zuo Yangyi was constantly being beaten and trained in the palace all day long, and at night he was forced to take a medicinal bath that was painful and smelly like needles. He lived in dire straits every day, and he didn't know how painful it was. The only way to relieve his pain was to curse the cripple in his heart.

As he cursed, he slowly found that his physical strength was getting better and better.

When he first came, it took him half a day to run ten laps around the East Palace, and he was panting and almost dying. Now he can run for an hour, and he can finish it without blushing or beating his heart after finishing it. I feel that I can do it a few more times.

He was not such an ungrateful person. When he found this, he probably understood that the real Su Laosi might be training himself, but just when he felt a little grateful, he was asked to tie a sandbag weighing 100 kilograms when running laps, and tortured him to death again.

The little goodwill that Zuo Yangyi had just developed was extinguished in an instant. He gritted his teeth and cursed his stinky brother in his heart (he was born a few minutes earlier), and then continued to "suffer" with gritted teeth.

In addition to weighted running, his training also included martial arts and horseback archery. Whenever he could easily complete the previous project, the next day's content would immediately increase, and he would not stop until he had exhausted the last bit of his energy.

But even if he was so tired that he didn't want to move his fingers every day, after taking a terrible medicinal bath, Yang Yan would still give him cultural lessons. The content was not the Four Books and Five Classics that must be learned for the imperial examination, but some very practical things.

First, he had to recognize almost all the characters, and then some principles of dealing with people and things, and there were also military books to teach him some methods of arranging troops and battle formations.

Zuo Yangyi was naturally very resistant at first, but he couldn't say anything. If he fought, he would only hurt himself. The situation was stronger than the person, so he could only endure the humiliation and bow his head.

Then he found that the things that he always heard from the teacher before were very confusing, but when they came from his stinky brother's mouth, they were very easy to understand. Those words that always gave him a headache and couldn't remember could be easily remembered in his mind after understanding the meaning.

Zuo Yangyi slowly realized the joy of reading, especially since his little brother did not restrict him from liking miscellaneous books and travel notes. On the contrary, he told him interesting stories from all over the world. He learned a lot without realizing it.

However, there was still one thing that made him feel very daunted, that is, writing. The soft brush always did not obey in his hand, and the words he wrote were as big as a bucket, and even he himself found it difficult to read them.

Yang Yan did not make any sarcastic remarks, but only looked at him with a half-smile. Zuo Yangyi could not stand being looked down upon by him, so he squeezed out time from the already tight schedule to practice hard, and slowly he actually got some shape.