Ye Junfei looked at her and said, "You said you dreamed that I married Princess Anle, then I obtained the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, and finally became a murderous maniac."
"This kind of life is quite pathetic if you think about it for a moment."
“I don’t want to live my life like this, so I plan to get married before the imperial decree is issued.”
Lin Xiuyan: "..."
Lin Xiuyan: "!!!!!"
His actions are absolutely baffling!
Ye Junfei continued, "If I had already married the Crown Princess before the imperial decree was issued, I could still refuse the marriage even if the imperial decree arrived."
Lin Xiuyan asked, "Do you intend to defy the imperial decree?"
Ye Junfei's expression was gentle: "This is not disobeying an imperial decree, but rather persuading people with reason."
"After all, even an imperial edict cannot force someone to divorce their wife and remarry. If this gets out, the dog emperor will lose face."
"And I will not divorce my wife and marry another, so if that princess insists on marrying me, she can only be a concubine."
Do you think that noble princess would agree to become a concubine?
"Of course not." After saying this, Lin Xiuyan understood his thinking.
He is defying the imperial decree in a different way, and he is doing so with reason and evidence.
But what does this have to do with her?
Ye Junfei seemed to have guessed her thoughts and said calmly, "In this world, you are the only woman I know who is of marriageable age but has not yet married."
"So I want to ask you for help with this. Marry me and help me rewrite my life from now on."
Lin Xiuyan: "..."
She'd be a fool to believe him!
She looked at him and said, "Your Highness, if I remember correctly, it is rumored that you have so many confidantes in the capital that they could stretch all the way to Chongqing."
"Don't you feel any remorse saying things like that to me?"
Ye Junfei glanced at her sideways: "You believe the rumors too?"
Lin Xiuyan actually believed it!
Ye Junfei leaned closer to her and said, "This is actually easy to verify. We'll sleep together tonight, and you can feel it for yourself to see if I'm telling the truth."
Lin Xiuyan: "...You pervert!"
Even if she were incredibly dense, she could tell that his mention of "sleeping together" wasn't the peaceful sleeping they'd been having lately, but rather...
Looking at her flushed face, Ye Junfei said gently, "My wife, don't just listen to what others say; feel it with your heart."
"Putting everything else aside, just the fact that you previously thought I was cruel and ruthless is simply untrue."
"How could someone as gentle as me do such a thing?"
Lin Xiuyan wanted to give him a big "heh heh." Didn't he feel embarrassed for lying through his teeth like that?
Ye Junfei's voice was seductive: "Whether I'm good or bad, you'll know once you marry me and time goes on."
Lin Xiuyan looked at him and said, "Just tell me the truth, what will you do to me if I don't marry you?"
Ye Junfei replied, "I won't cause you much trouble. Anyway, your parents have always wanted me to marry into the Lin family, so I'll go and urge them to arrange the marriage tomorrow."
"Anyway, I don't care much about formalities, and marrying into another family isn't a big deal. I think it can be done in the next few days."
Lin Xiuyan pressed her hand to her temples and asked, "Why me?"
Ye Junfei took her hand, his face serious: "The reason is simple, because I like you."
Lin Xiuyan looked back at him, and his peach blossom eyes gazed intently at her, the tenderness in them almost overflowing.
She quickly turned her head away and said, "Could you please stop looking at me like that?"
Instead of answering, Ye Junfei asked, "How would you feel if I looked at you like this?"
She would want to pin him to the ground and then take advantage of him!
Of course, she would never say that to him.
She took a deep breath and said, "Judging from the tone of your voice, I'm marrying you to defy the imperial decree on your behalf."
"May I ask, what benefits can you bring me if I marry you?"
Ye Junfei looked at her tenderly and said, "My wife, feelings are the most precious thing in the world. How can we measure them with worldly things like benefits?"
Lin Xiuyan was about to give him a piece of her mind and then firmly reject his suggestion.
He then said, "But if you marry me, I can't guarantee anything else, but at least I can protect you and your family for the rest of your life."
Lin Xiuyan was slightly surprised. He said calmly, "In your dream, you and your family must have met a terrible end, right?"
"How did you know?" Lin Xiuyan realized she had asked a stupid question as soon as she finished asking it.
As intelligent as Ye Junfei was, it was easy for him to deduce what had happened in her past life based on her previous words.
Sure enough, he said slowly, "You hate Zhou Chenyang to the bone, and he will surely make you suffer terribly."
"Given Zhou Chenyang's ruthless style, he must have treated your family very badly as well."
"So in your dream, you and your family will definitely not have a good ending, which is why you protect your family so fiercely."
Lin Xiuyan looked at him without saying anything.
Ye Junfei said gently, "I know I'm not exactly a good person, and I do have some ambition."
"But I'm also very protective of my own. No one in the world can bully the people I'm protecting."
"Zhou Chenyang dared to send troops to attack the Lin residence last night, and you were prepared to escape unscathed, but can you guarantee that you can always be so lucky?"
Lin Xiuyan fell silent upon hearing this. Whether she was willing to admit it or not, his words had hit the nail on the head.
This is what she's most worried about!
Although they escaped unharmed this time, it doesn't mean they'll be safe next time.
After all, Zhou Chenyang still had at least four thousand men. Even if she had powerful weapons, her chances of protecting herself were slim given the vast disparity in strength.
Not to mention that Zhou Chenyang is still holding the title of the City Lord of Yucheng, so it's really just a matter of him talking to the Lin family if he wants to make things difficult for them.
This time, Zhou Chenyang was forced into a very awkward situation by her, but she did not sever his foundation.
She knew that these few things alone were not enough for the emperor to completely dismiss Zhou Chenyang.
She asked Ye Junfei, "If I marry you, will you protect me and my family?"
Ye Junfei nodded: "Yes."
Lin Xiuyan lowered her gaze slightly, took a deep breath, and said, "I can marry you, but I also have conditions."
"Go ahead." Ye Junfei wasn't too surprised to hear her words, because he knew how much she cared about her family.
At this moment, he inexplicably wanted to thank Zhou Chenyang. If this guy hadn't been so vicious, Lin Xiuyan wouldn't have agreed to marry him so readily.
Such gratitude could only be truly expressed by turning Zhou Chenyang into mincemeat.
Lin Xiuyan bit her lip and said, "Before I state my request, I have a few more words to say."
Ye Junfei gestured for her to speak directly, so she said, "To be honest, I don't believe your claims of liking me."
"I feel that if we were to establish any kind of relationship between us at this point, it would be a transactional one."
"It's too early to talk about feelings; we lack a foundation of trust in each other."
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