Chapter 405: Si Yao, Your Father Is Leaving (4,200 words)
Qin Siyao shook her head hard, driving that unthinkable thought out of her mind.
Qin Siyao turned and glanced at her Father Emperor.
Seeing that her father looked as well as he usually did, she felt a little relief.
Before she knew it, Qin Siyao and her father had arrived at the palace where her eldest and second brothers had lived.
Ordinarily, princes of the Qin Kingdom lived in the imperial palace until they were sixteen, each with a palace of his own. Only after turning sixteen would they move out and establish their own residences.
But because Qin Jingsu and Qin Jingyuan had been so close as children, they had lived together until the year Qin Jingyuan turned sixteen, when they both left the imperial palace.
Although no one had lived here for a long time, the palace's furnishings and layout had all been preserved exactly as they had originally been.
Looking at this familiar place, Qin Siyao could not help thinking of her eldest and second brothers. Her eyes lowered slightly, and her delicate hand unconsciously gripped the hem of her skirt.
But she soon forced herself to brighten up and continued walking beside her father.
"Back then, when your eldest brother was about to be born, I paced back and forth outside, terribly anxious. Only when he finally came into the world did my heart settle.
"But as my eldest son, Jingsu hardly ever saw a kind expression on my face."
The Qin Kingdom's Lord gathered his sleeves and spoke with a smile, dropping the imperial "we" in favor of "I."
"Back then, I was extremely strict with Jingsu. Whenever he did anything wrong, I would scold him at best and beat him at worst.
"And he