Su Xuerong blushed and avoided his burning gaze, whispering, "My...my mother has already asked the matchmaker in town to start looking for a husband for me, I..."
She bit her lip, looked up at him, and asked, "Will you marry me?"
Xiao Yuan's surprise came unexpectedly, and he couldn't help but smile: "You...you're willing to marry me?"
The young lady didn't even know his true identity, yet she wanted to marry him?
This sudden happiness left him speechless with excitement.
Looking at his undisguised foolishness, Su Xuerong suddenly frowned and asked, "Tell the truth, have you ever been married?"
Although she knew that Xiao Yuan married Fang Mingzhu two years later, she still felt very uncomfortable.
Xiao Yuan quickly shook his head: "No! I'm not married yet!"
"Do you have a fiancée you're interested in?" Su Xuerong squinted at him.
Chen Siyi was his original fiancée, but the old prince chose someone else for a marriage alliance because he had chosen the wrong side.
But that doesn't mean they hadn't discussed marriage at that time.
Xiao Yuan's face stiffened, and he hurriedly said, "That was a marriage arranged for me by my father. I... I've never seen that woman. I can..."
"What can I do?" Su Xuerong looked up at him, a mischievous glint in her eyes. "For me, can you break off the engagement?"
Xiao Yuan nodded without hesitation: "Okay!"
He could take advantage of the fact that they weren't formally engaged yet and marry the young woman directly, then find an opportunity to annul the engagement later.
Su Xuerong frowned slightly and asked again, "What if your father makes things difficult for you?"
Xiao Yuan immediately shook his head: "No way! He's always been indifferent to me..."
To his father, the emperor, he was merely a tool for political alliances, born to an unfavored concubine, to advance his own interests.
He wasn't opposed to the Chen family's arranged marriage before, but ever since he met this Lady Su, he felt that he could no longer accept anyone else in his heart.
Moreover, he had recently received some news that the Prince of Xiangyang was secretly having close contact with his cousin.
If he can successfully marry the young woman in front of him, he will definitely find a way to break off the engagement with the Chen family.
Su Xuerong looked at his burning gaze, her expression somewhat unnatural, and asked softly, "Then you..."
Why did he marry Fang Mingzhu in the first place?
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