Jiang Yingcheng had said she would personally write an "instruction manual" for her handsome imperial father, but that heavy burden had ultimately fallen on Yuan Liangping.
And this burden was far heavier than usual.
"Hmm..." Jiang Yingcheng knew only one way to begin a letter. "May opening this letter bring a smile to your face..."
Yuan Liangping put brush to paper.
Jiang Yingcheng played the family card first. "Great-Grandmother says to come home for dinner-"
Yuan Liangping hesitated for a moment, then, after an internal struggle, wrote it down exactly as she had said it.
Jiang Yingcheng then began playing the pitiful victim. "Daddy isn't here, and Consort Shu and Fourth Prince have come to bully Chengcheng again..."
The first day after Father left. I missed him.
Yuan Liangping: "..."
Yuan Liangping: "???"
He looked the little girl over several times, up and down, left and right. Only after confirming there wasn't a single mark on her did he slowly breathe a sigh of relief.
Consort Shu and the Fourth Imperial Prince had both been released from house arrest the day before Emperor Mingze left on his campaign.
The Crown Prince was still inexperienced. He could not oversee court affairs while also handling all the officials' little schemes. If they drove the Pan Residence into a corner at a time like this...
It truly would not be a wise move.
Jiang Yanchuan had made ample preparations for this as well.
-Except those preparations consisted of verbal orders to everyone useful in the palace, instructing them not to let the little girl suffer even the slightest grievance because of it.
Those verbal orders had not mentioned his own poor biological son at all.
Bitterness welled up in Yuan Liangping's heart.
He had thought work had come knocking, but the little girl