Li Yao also forgot when Yang Shengrui left. She was a little dazed when the Emperor took her to the Empress's palace.
Here, the Emperor and Empress also explained the situation. Even the Empress did not expect that Yang Shengrui would fall in love with Li Yao.
Li Yao was also puzzled. She and Yang Shengrui had no interaction, so why was he so determined to marry her?
Li Yao was unaware that Yang Shengrui, after the age of twelve, saw the beautiful, generous, and unrestrained princess at the palace banquet, and the extraordinary Li Yao, and always felt that he wanted to get to know her, be her friend, and think that she was special.
Later, as Yang Shengrui grew up, he learned about the superior breeds Li Yao had been searching for, her glassmaking skills, and all sorts of strange and unusual things she possessed. He felt that Li Yao was special and unique, and that he admired and was curious about her.
Later, Yang Shengrui gave up going to the frontier and went to the camp in the suburbs of Beijing for training. He then went to the palace to serve as a guard. He wanted to protect his princess and her home. At that time, the princess was still young, and he couldn't explain his own feelings. He just wanted to be close to her.
He knew that the princess was so beautiful and magical that someone would covet her, so he dared not leave, fearing that if he turned around, he would lose even the right to protect her.
Later, he finally got his turn to guard the Nine City Palace, which allowed him to protect her at close range. Twenty steps away from the princess, his heart pounded like thunder; his princess was so beautiful. But he felt something was off, after all, the princess was still so young.
He couldn't say whether he liked the princess, admired her, or was curious about her. But when his mother asked him to get married after returning from the Nine City Palace, he felt very resistant and didn't want to get married.
She knew that her engagement with the princess might have been null and void long ago, due to the dream of the five-year-old girl and the death of the fake princess, but she just didn't want to marry anyone else.
Even today, when the Emperor asked him who he loved and offered to marry her, he knew this was his only chance. He wanted to become her husband and spend the rest of his life with her.
It doesn't matter if he has no children, it doesn't matter if he has male concubines, he is the legal husband and will discipline them well.
The Emperor told him to go back first, as he needed to discuss it with the Empress. He was apprehensive, fearing the princess would dislike him, and also uneasy, worried that the princess would wrong him.
If the princess really doesn't want to marry him, will she compromise because she is the son of a great general who protects the country?
After leaving the palace, Yang Shengrui kept reviewing the events, regretting that he might not have said it, but also feeling fortunate that he finally had the opportunity to speak out and give an explanation for his youthful infatuation. It was as if a devil and an angel were battling inside him.
Meanwhile, Li Yao in the palace felt a warmth in her heart watching the Empress and the Emperor being so careful. In truth, she was quite attracted to Yang Shengrui's looks and lusted after his body, and she didn't feel any resistance or disgust towards having an intimate relationship with him.
The Emperor and Empress have been so good to her, always giving her whatever she wanted. She didn't want the royal family to lose a great general, or for her to cause further estrangement from the General's Mansion because of this.
So Li Yao agreed. The Empress was afraid that she would wrong herself, so she asked her true thoughts again and again. Li Yao said she was willing, but she didn't want to have children because she was afraid of the pain and couldn't bear the suffering.
The next day, before the Emperor issued his decree, Li Yao made a special trip to the General's Mansion. She sat on the wall of Yang Shengrui's courtyard and saw him practicing boxing naked in the yard.
Li Yao drooled over his dog-like waist, his pectoral muscles, and his arms.
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