In the evening, after Brother Sheng returned, he followed An Zhichen to the study.
By this time, Kexin already knew what was going on. Kexin, holding Yueyao's hand, tearfully said, "Mother, you can't let my younger brother marry the Princess! Mother, I am willing to marry the Second Prince." She couldn't bear to let her brother marry the Princess for her sake. Marrying the Princess would end a lifetime of career prospects, and she couldn't bear that.
Yueyao also did not want her son to marry the Princess. They had worked hard raising him, and seeing that he would never enter officialdom for a lifetime, she couldn't bear it either. But Brother Sheng's situation was different from Kexin's. Kexin had already set an engagement, which could be used to tactfully refuse, whereas Brother Sheng had no way to decline.
Yueyao wiped Kexin's tears and said with a smile, "Stop crying; crying won't solve the problem." Since things were already like this, they could only think positively.
