Chapter 37 Imperial Decree

"It's not difficult. I only ask you not to meet with the Regent Prince Ling Fengxun within three years, and not to marry anyone else. After the three-year period, if you still have no intention of becoming the Crown Princess, then I will allow you to marry freely. At that time, you can marry whoever you want. What do you think?"

The voice of Emperor Beiling was clear and gentle.

With a solemnity like a golden word.

His eyes also fell on An Yunxi, as if he had made a promise to her and was just waiting for her answer.

Ling Fengxun's face changed, his eyes turned cold: "I haven't seen you for three years, I don't agree!"

Beiling Emperor smiled and said: "You went to war last time and didn't come back for several years. You haven't seen this girl during this period. Why can't you leave her now?"

Ling Fengxun's face was tense and his eyes were solemn: "It's different now than it was then."

"Why is it different? I also said that she will not be married to anyone else within these three years, so, Prince Xian, you don't have to worry about her not waiting for you. After three years, you can marry her into the palace openly and make her your Princess Xian. No one will stop you then."

The emperor's voice was always very calm, with a tone of negotiating with the two of them.

He had already retreated a lot, giving them room to ease the situation.

An Yunxi lowered her head and remained silent, quietly thinking about the meaning of the emperor's words.

To be honest, this was not a particularly difficult request for her to meet.

The emperor's words were golden, and if it really didn't work, he could also ask the emperor to write an imperial edict in person as evidence, and he would definitely not break his promise at that time .

However, An Yunxi didn't know why, but she felt uneasy in her heart.

Why another three years?

You know, in the last life, she and Ling Fengxun died almost at the same time

in September three years later. It was only three years and six months from now.

An Yunxi raised her eyes, her eyes were clear and transparent.

She shook her head slightly and said in a calm voice, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I do not want to agree to this condition."

Emperor Beiling's eyes darkened instantly. He tapped his fingers on the table lightly and looked down at An Yunxi.

The light in Lingfeng's eyes flickered slightly when An Yunxi said this.

His fingers hanging at his side tightened slightly, and his eyes were firmly locked on An Yunxi.

It was impossible for him to let go.

The empress turned her head slightly at this moment. She was still kneeling with the prince. She was in the mood to take care of this matter. "Miss An, the emperor has been very tolerant of you and even willing to disobey the late emperor's will to give you a chance. If you are still not satisfied, you will be asking for too much!"

An Yunxi said, "Yunxi cannot guarantee that she will not meet His Royal Highness Prince Xie."

Emperor Beiling nodded slightly. "So this is why you are here. Well, I will not restrict you from meeting Prince Xie, but there is a prerequisite. From now on, you two must pretend to be unfamiliar with each other in front of outsiders, and you must not be discovered to have any private affair with each other. If you violate this, I will revoke my order and order you to marry the prince immediately!"

His words were coercive and full of threats.

An Yunxi couldn't bear the threat from the emperor.

So

She couldn't refuse, and had no way to refuse, so she could only agree temporarily.

As for whether she would do as the emperor said

Is it possible?

An Yunxi slowly raised her eyes, hiding all the emotions in her eyes, "Yunxi obeys the order."

She just obeyed the order, not agreed.

Ling Fengxun's eyes revealed a bit of darkness, like a sign of his impending blackening.

Not allowing him to get married?

Not allowing him to marry a wife?

Who stipulated this?

He turned his head to look at An Yunxi and said, "Axi, you don't want to marry me?"

An Yunxi smiled slightly, turned her head to look at Ling Fengxun, blinked, and said firmly, "I must marry the prince openly, and I want the prince to give me the most grand wedding?"

Wait for three years?

Agreeing to the emperor's condition was just to solve the urgent problem and prevent the old emperor from forcing her to marry the prince.

As for the future,

An Yunxi sneered in her heart. What

if the emperor changed? Who would care about the previous imperial edict, and who could still control whether she married or not?

Ling Fengxun heard this, as if he saw her little thoughts, and his eyes became much softer.

He raised his thin lips slightly, as if he also agreed with An Yunxi's words.

"Okay."

Since An Yunxi agreed to marry him, he decided to trust her one last time.

Three years later, Axi will be the Princess of Prince Xin whom he married in a formal ceremony.

The prince, who was kneeling beside them, was trembling with anger as he listened to the two people talking.

Even though he had known for a long time that An Yunxi had fallen in love with someone else, he was still furious when he saw with his own eyes how she and Uncle Xin were deliberately being affectionate.

What made him most angry was his father and mother's attitude towards An Yunxi. He didn't know what kind of magic the late emperor's will had that made them favor An Yunxi so much.

A woman who had already lost her virginity to the uncle actually made them care so much. What was so good about An Yunxi? How could she compare to An Ruxue?

Emperor Beiling said, "If that's the case, then it's settled. Within three years, you will still be the prince's fiancée. I will keep this position for you, and you cannot refuse it."

Now that it has come to this,

An Yunxi naturally has nothing to argue about.

After all, the marriage has not been retired, so she will just take on this identity.

Anyway, she doesn't have to marry the prince, and the engagement will be automatically cancelled after three years.

Moreover, she can use it, and then

"Your Majesty, words are not enough, I want a handwritten order."

Emperor Beiling was slightly stunned.

Then he couldn't help laughing, "Okay, you are very cautious, but my words are golden, can I deceive you?"

"You won't deceive me, but I don't have any proof, and I'm afraid others won't believe me."

An Yunxi answered as a matter of course.

The emperor nodded: "Eunuch Wu, bring the imperial edict here."

"Yes."

Eunuch Wu laid out the imperial edict for the emperor, ground the ink, and then waited respectfully by the side.

The emperor wrote quickly, and wrote down the conditions he had just agreed with An Yunxi on the imperial edict.

"It's done, take a look."

Eunuch Wu handed the imperial edict to An Yunxi.

Ling Fengxun stood beside her and watched the imperial edict together.

An Yunxi cherished this imperial edict very much, because it was her chance to escape from this engagement through legitimate means.

The future has changed, and this time she will definitely be able to get rid of all this without any worries and become a free person!

In her last life, she was framed because she was not on guard against Father An. In this life, she was alert and would never fall for the same scheme again. Therefore, she was not worried about the conspiracy three years later!

After reading it, Ling Fengxun said, "There is nothing wrong

with the imperial edict." Emperor Beiling did not do anything in it. Everything was the same as they had agreed before.

An Yunxi put away the imperial edict and immediately bowed: "Thank you for your grace!"

Emperor Beiling looked calm, as if giving her the imperial edict just now was just a trivial matter.

"Xiao girl, you are still the prince's fiancée, so I give you the right to deal with the woman who seduced the prince."

[Spoiler: They didn't wait for three years, they got married in three months, and they even had a child, because the regent king didn't keep his promise]