Bai Wanyi frowned, but then shook his head: "I believe he will find someone to replace him, but he may not know where my people are."

"Oh, you still have something to hide from Marquis Pingyang?" The Fourth Prince looked Bai Wanyi up and down and smiled meaningfully. This woman really didn't tell the truth.

Bai Wanyi adjusted his sitting position, no longer showing his previous fear: "So, let's discuss the terms."

The Fourth Prince sized up the woman before him. From her initial fear to her current composure, she had transformed so quickly. Of all the women he knew, only the Queen had such a mindset. "Tell me what your conditions are. It's up to me whether I agree or not."

Bai Wanyi smiled faintly: "My conditions are very simple, and I will definitely not make it difficult for you. It's just a matter of a word from you."

"Oh? I can get a lot of things done with just one word. But do you have something that you need me to say?" The Fourth Prince couldn't help but lean forward.

Bai Wanyi's eyes were firm: "I want to divorce Lu Yan."

"What?" The Fourth Prince was shocked. He had expected Bai Wanyi to ask for money, things, and power, but he hadn't expected her to ask for a divorce. He scratched his ears and asked, "What did you say? Divorce from whom?"

"Who am I marrying? That's who I'm going to divorce." Bai Wanyi laughed and repeated, "I want to divorce Pingyang Hou Lu Yan."

The Fourth Prince shifted his sitting position. "Have you thought it through? You went through so much trouble to marry the Marquis of Pingyang, how could you want to divorce? Are you willing?"

Bai Wanyi looked at him resentfully, "Isn't it because of you, the Fourth Prince? Giving him a woman is fine, but you also gave him a concubine. I don't want to share a husband with anyone, and now there's a concubine to share power with me, and she'll compete with my son for the throne in the future. Naturally, I don't want to live with him any longer."

"If you're truly worried about losing the crown prince position, there's no need to divorce. I can promise you that the crown prince position will definitely be your son's." The Fourth Prince didn't believe her at all. "Besides, when you were with him, you knew he had a wife. Why didn't you say you didn't want to share a husband with anyone else?"

Bai Wanyi stared at the Fourth Prince, her hand subconsciously touching her belly, a hint of helplessness on her lips: "Life is difficult for women in this world. If I hadn't followed Pingyang Hou, I would be in a place like the border, and the situation was like that. How could I survive if I didn't follow him? Now that I can stand firm in the capital, I don't have to rely on a man. Divorce is naturally my best choice."

What kind of situation?

The Fourth Prince narrowed his eyes and said, "You're still not telling the truth."

The Fourth Prince stared at Bai Wanyi, not missing any subtle expression on her face. "As the saying goes, it's better to demolish a temple than to ruin a marriage. You have to give me a convincing reason."

Bai Wanyi sighed, but ultimately spoke the truth. "When I first met Pingyang Hou, he was decisive and a master at leading his troops on the battlefield. Who could have known that after returning to the capital, he became like a toad at the bottom of a well, lost and unaware of the immensity of the world. Why should I follow him around? To watch him die of stupidity in the future? To drag me and my child down with him?"

The Fourth Prince only smiled after hearing her truth. "You're afraid that he's tied to me now, and if I fail in my bid for the throne, you'll die with me, right?"

Bai Wanyi didn't comment, but her attitude was very clear: she was afraid of death.

The Fourth Prince was very unhappy, with murderous intent in his eyes: "So you have no confidence in my succession?"

"The road to succession has been doomed to be bloody since ancient times. I don't want to get involved in a scandal and end up losing my life." After Bai Wanyi told the truth, his attitude became more relaxed.

The Fourth Prince didn't believe her: "But you have close ties with the Crown Prince."

Bai Wanyi's eyes flickered: "He is the crown prince. His Majesty entrusted the firearms affairs to him, so it is inevitable that I will be close to him."

This was a perfectly legitimate reason, Bai Wanyi said frankly, "As the crown prince, the Crown Prince naturally has many close friends, and I will eventually cut ties with them. But how can I get rid of you, Your Highness the Fourth Prince?"

After the Fourth Prince calmed down from his anger, his expression became calmer: "Are you certain that I will fail?"

Bai Wanyi shook his head: "Of course I hope you succeed. If you succeed, Marquis Lu will be a follower of the dragon, and the Pingyang Marquisate will become more prosperous. But by then, Wu will be yours, so what am I?"

"I just said that no one can snatch the position of Crown Prince from your son." The Fourth Prince felt that this woman didn't listen to him and was very impatient.

Bai Wanyi looked at him and said, "You will be the emperor by then, so will your words count?"

She grew up watching countless palace fighting dramas. Sometimes the emperor would say it nicely, but to put it bluntly, he was just a son-in-law. He would favor the daughter of the family he needed, make her a concubine, give her rewards, and give her children.

A good emperor sometimes seems like a breeding pig, and sometimes like a tool controlled by his ministers.

Haven’t you seen that a certain wise ruler was still scolded by his subjects?

Bai Wanyi looked at the Fourth Prince with a hint of sympathy, "Becoming an emperor doesn't guarantee you'll be able to call the shots."

The Fourth Prince's face darkened completely: "Forget about the divorce. You must stay with the Marquis of Pingyang."

The Fourth Prince still wanted to control Bai Wanyi. Since he couldn't take her into his harem, he could only tie her up with someone else. "If you're worried, I'll give you a secret guard. If I fail, they can protect you. If I succeed, they'll also be your personal guards. Then, no one will be able to do anything to you and your son."

Bai Wanyi's eyes lit up: "For me? I don't have the money to support them."

"I'll keep him for you, but I'll be at your disposal." The Fourth Prince threw out a token, "Are you relieved?"

Bai Wanyi just wanted to give herself some protection. After she got the token, she finally smiled from the bottom of her heart: "Okay, when the snow stops, I will send someone to the capital to bring the person to the palace."

After finishing her words, Bai Wanyi stood up and was about to leave. The Fourth Prince tossed a box at her and said, "Take it."

Bai Wanyi was surprised: "What is this?"

"Silver notes. You've been here for so long, will Marquis Pingyang feel comfortable if you don't take something out?" The fourth prince's eyes were filled with teasing.

Bai Wanyi met his gaze, blushed inexplicably, rolled her eyes at him, turned around and left with the box.

The housekeeper saw the token in her hand and immediately sent for the secret guards to come over: "Don't worry, they will only appear when you need them. Otherwise, no one will know they are with you."

"good."

Although this is equivalent to being monitored, Bai Wanyi values ​​her life, and these people obey her orders for her safety, so it doesn't matter.

As for people, it is naturally impossible to give them all to her. If she hands over all her cards, she will be useless. How could Bai Wanyi let herself become a useless person?