"Oh..." Lin Ting'er thought about the situation where they couldn't even look at the mark and hugged each other. She had never expected her brother to be the one being bullied. Alas, beauty can be deceptive. "Your Highness, don't worry. I understand. I will never tell anyone about what happened today."
Her expression was far from understanding. Xiao Tang felt a little embarrassed, but the more he tried to explain, the more confusing it became. "I will take responsibility for your brother."
Since Lin Su is Shuang'er, it should be fine for him to take responsibility.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is indeed a gentleman. I'll be waiting to drink in your wedding wine." Lin Ting'er moved towards the door. "I'm being too much of a bother here. Can I leave now?"
"No, you need to escort His Royal Highness the Crown Prince out." Lin Su stood up, leaned over and pinched Xiao Tang's earlobe, saying, "Wait for my good news."
"Well, I'll be leaving first." Xiao Tang resisted the urge to touch his earlobe, gathered his cloak, and walked to the door. "Thank you for your help, Miss Lin."
"No trouble, no trouble." Lin Ting'er waved her hands and sent him out.
On the second day after Xiao Tang visited him, Lin Su had his pulse checked by the imperial physicians. However, more than a dozen imperial physicians were shocked after the examination. After several discussions, they came to the same conclusion.
"The Prince of the Protectorate is Shuang'er?!" Emperor Ming Cheng raised his hand, but accidentally knocked over the tea bowl beside the table.
Although Shuang'er can do things as a man, she will eventually get married, so there are very few people who can inherit the title. The Duke of Huguo has one son and one daughter, so how can the daughter's inheritance be as good as Shuang'er's?
"Yes, more than a dozen doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau have examined the case, so there is no way they could be wrong," said the head of the hospital with a bow.
It is not considered as deceiving the emperor for Shuang'er to inherit the throne of the crown prince, but with this identity, many things become much easier to handle.
"I remember that the Duke of Huguo's son and daughter were twins. Were they born together?" asked Emperor Mingcheng.
The chief eunuch bowed his head and said, "That is exactly what is happening, Your Majesty."
"Lin Ting'er is infertile, but Lin Su can. Since they are a match made in heaven, the future queen mother will naturally be the one who can conceive. I made a mistake with the person before, and now I must correct it. Pass on my intention. The marriage is with the son of the Duke of Protectorate. This is the will of heaven and earth. If the Duke of Protectorate forces his daughter to marry, he will have the intention of destroying the foundation of our Xiao Kingdom." Emperor Ming Cheng said.
"Your Majesty..." The eunuch looked at him hesitantly, "Will being so tough..."
"The Duke of Huguo's mansion was at fault first. Their daughter is barren, yet they want to marry the Crown Prince. Doesn't this mean they don't value the royal family's legacy?" Emperor Mingcheng said. "I have done my utmost."
The news that the Imperial Hospital diagnosed that the Prince of the Protectorate was Shuang'er spread throughout the capital in an instant, much faster than the news that Lin Ting'er was infertile.
"You, are you really Shuang'er?!" Father Lin felt a headache when he saw the mark on Lin Su's shoulder.
"Didn't I say at the time that my brother has such delicate skin and tender flesh that he looks like Shuang'er no matter how you look at him." Lin Ting'er was cracking melon seeds on the side, making a crunching sound.
Father Lin patted her on the back of the head: "How can he look like a delicate and tender person now?!"
"My brother is Shuang'er, why are you hitting me? It's not me who turned him into Shuang'er. He is your son, not mine... Dad, I'm wrong, wrong, wrong." Lin Ting'er jumped up and down.
Father Lin couldn't do anything with her. Looking at Lin Su's straightened clothes, he wanted to dig the flesh off his shoulders: "How can this be Shuang'er?"
What made him angry was not the fact that Lin Su was Shuang'er, but the imperial edict of Emperor Ming Cheng.
After the announcer left, Father Lin threw the imperial edict to the ground. He looked like he wanted to stomp on it a few times. "This is too much! Do you really think I, Lin Chengyuan, am easy to bully?! Su'er, Dad won't let him succeed. We will return to the southwest now. It's better not to be a minister anymore."
Lin Ting'er calmed down and continued to eat melon seeds: "Dad, didn't you see that my brother is not angry?"
Father Lin looked at Lin Su, who had picked up the imperial edict, and seeing that he was indeed not angry, he patted his shoulder and said, "My son is indeed a steady person. Don't worry, I will never let others force you to do anything you don't want to do."
"Dad, I'm not unwilling." Lin Su said as he looked at the imperial edict granting the marriage.
"Well, let's..." Father Lin stopped talking mid-sentence, "You agree?! Why are you willing?!"
"My brother's sweetheart is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Lin Ting'er chewed melon seeds with a crunching sound.
"Don't you like the prince?!" Father Lin felt a little confused.
"I didn't. Don't talk nonsense. What if my brother gets jealous and kills us for the sake of justice?" Lin Ting'er said.
"Then why do you want to marry the prince?" Father Lin felt a little confused.
"I was probably just possessed by a ghost back then," Lin Ting'er said with a frown. "I didn't know my brother liked the prince then. It was a mess anyway, and I can't figure it out even if you ask me to. Just know that my brother and the prince were in love with each other, and don't bring me into this."
She just let go, as if saying, "This is it, you can do whatever you want," which made Lin's father want to beat her up.
"If you marry the Crown Prince, you won't be able to inherit the title of Duke Protector of the Country and the 100,000-man army in the southwest." Father Lin looked at him and said, "Are you really willing? You need to think carefully. Once the Crown Prince ascends the throne, the harem will inevitably be filled. Even if you become the Male Queen, you won't be the only one."
"Dad, I've thought it through a long time ago." Lin Su said with a smile.
"You are really bewildered. You two are such a worry. Since you are willing, I will write a letter to your mother and tell her that it is her son, not her daughter, who is getting married." Father Lin sighed.
"Then won't my mother come directly to the capital to kill us?" Lin Ting'er said.
"Dad won't help you carry it anyway." Father Lin said, waving his sleeves. "You can do whatever you want."
When the imperial edict was issued, the Duke of Huguo's Mansion showed no intention of resisting, but instead accepted it. This went so smoothly that Emperor Mingcheng, while delighted, also had a few doubts: "Do you think this is a delaying tactic?"
"The Duke of Protectorate's Mansion is really preparing for the wedding and is in contact with the royal family. In my opinion, it shouldn't happen." The eunuch said with his head down.
"If that's the case, it would relieve me of a major worry." Emperor Ming Chengdi looked quite relieved. "In that case, we will speed up the preparations for the wedding and cut out any unnecessary procedures."
First, the prince of the Duke of Protectorate became a twin, and then His Majesty ordered to change the candidate for the Crown Princess. Anyone with a discerning eye could see what His Majesty was trying to do, but the Duke of Protectorate was indeed not in the right in this matter. If this move really cut off the lineage of the Duke of Protectorate, the southwest would no longer be a threat.
"If Southwest loses power, how can Lin Su be so arrogant again?" Xiao Jin was quite complacent in the Empress Dowager's palace. "When he marries in, Mother will give him a good scolding. How dare a Shuang'er be so rude to Mother?"
The Empress Dowager didn't look quite so happy. "You've just been released, so you must be cautious in everything you do. Although this matter seems to benefit the royal family, it's inevitably too smooth. Mother always feels that something is amiss. It's best not to act rashly for the next few days."
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