Chapter 43 The Emperor's Last Edict

An Yunxi was really confused.

Crown Prince Ling Changyue was one year older than her, and the marriage was decided when they were still babies, but she only heard about it when she was a teenager.

At that time, the Emperor passed away, and the last edict appeared in front of the ministers, announcing that one of the items was that the future Crown Princess would be her, An Yunxi.

From then on, An Yunxi encountered all kinds of jealousy and frame-ups among the rich ladies in the capital, but she was not an easy person to deal with. If anyone bullied her, she would fight back directly, so that the rich ladies would avoid her when they saw her.

They only dared to say bad things about her behind her back.

"Please tell me, Her Majesty!"

The Queen took An Yunxi to sit in the pavilion next to them, "Sit down, I will tell you slowly."

In the Yangxin Palace, the Emperor also set up a wine table and sat opposite Ling Fengxun.

There was no one else in the room at this time, and the atmosphere became more casual.

"Prince Xie, do you know that you have committed a serious crime by snatching the Crown Princess?"

Ling Fengxun nodded: "I know."

"If you knowingly commit a crime, then the crime will be aggravated."

The Emperor's tone was full of annoyance. Looking at his younger brother in front of him, he was furious for a while.

"How does your brother plan to punish me?" Ling Fengxun pinched a cup in his fingers and looked at the emperor thoughtfully.

Emperor Beiling pondered for a while and said, "You will also be confined to the mansion for two months. Stay in the mansion for me."

Ling Fengyan lowered his eyes slightly, and his long eyelashes blocked the light in his eyes.

If he stayed in the mansion with Axi for two months, it would be fine.

But Axi might not be willing. With her personality, she never likes to be locked up. If he really trapped her by force, she would definitely get angry.

Seeing that Ling Fengyan still looked thoughtful, Emperor Beiling narrowed his eyes, thinking that his royal brother might be thinking about something big again.

He gently rubbed his brows: "Prince Xian, you are already an adult. What's the point of snatching your niece's wife? And aren't you infertile due to an injury? Keeping a woman by your side will also delay her. If she marries the prince, she may become the empress in the future. What's the point of her following you?"

He advised him earnestly like an elder brother: "I still say the same thing. An Yunxi is the princess I have chosen. I hope you can think clearly about the consequences of snatching her away."

Ling Feng Xian finally raised his head and looked at the emperor.

His momentum was not inferior at all.

"But if so, can I bear the consequences?"

Emperor Beiling was stunned: "You..."

"I don't know why the late emperor left such a will, nor do I know why the emperor insisted on making Axi the crown princess, but she is my woman, and I will never give her up."

Ling Fengxun's tone was very firm, and his eyes were cold and deep.

"The three-year agreement was made between the emperor and Axi, not with me. It seems that my brother has no control over what I want to do."

Emperor Beiling: ""

Is it still possible? "

The emperor frowned, feeling a sweet and fishy taste in his throat, as if he was going to vomit blood again.

He calmed down his emotions for a while.

"Prince Xian, you don't even listen to me. This is an imperial decree. Do you intend to disobey it?"

Ling Feng Xian nodded: "This is not the first or second time that I have disobeyed an imperial decree."

"If it weren't for our brotherhood for so many years, I would have killed you long ago with your temper."

Ling Feng Xian raised the corner of his lips, "When my elder brother and my second elder brother were fighting for the throne, if I hadn't stood on your side, your throne would have belonged to my second elder brother now."

This sentence made the emperor silent for a long time.

Today, the second prince has been demoted and sent to a poor borderland where he will never be able to turn over in his life. He can still sit on the throne, and it is indeed because of Ling Feng Xian's power.

But these words, spoken in this situation, always carry a sense of threat.

"Haven't I been good enough to you these years? If anyone else dared to talk to me like this, they would have lost their heads long ago." Emperor Beiling said coldly.

Ling Fengxun answered Emperor Beiling with a normal expression.

"The reason why my royal brother didn't kill me was not because of my merits in the past, but because of my importance in Beiling. If I die, Beiling will be in chaos. The crown prince is young, and my royal brother is seriously ill and unable to take charge of the overall situation, so he is so patient with me. Am I right?"

Ling Fengxun's words were so sharp that they tore the surface of brotherly friendship and respect to pieces.

Emperor Beiling's eyes were full of anger, because that was the anger and shame after his thoughts were exposed.

He did not touch Ling Fengxun and let Ling Fengxun do whatever he wanted, which was exactly the same as what the other party said.

He suppressed all his emotions, and his fingers holding the teacup turned slightly white: "Prince Yan, let's not talk about this for now. I'm sure you don't want the little girl from the An family to get hurt. Why don't you and the prince each rely on your abilities during these three years and see who she will choose to marry after three years?"

There was no ripple in Ling Fengyan's eyes.

A Xi would naturally marry him.

"Why did my brother set the deadline to three years?"

He asked the question that An Yunxi wanted to know before.

Emperor Beiling lowered his eyes, looked at the teacup but didn't drink: "I may only live for another three years at most. I will be dead by then, so of course I won't care about anything. But as long as I am still alive, I can't let this marriage fall through."

Ling Fengyan narrowed his eyes, as if he wanted to see through whether Emperor Beiling was lying or not.

"Then why do you have to choose Axi as the Crown Princess?"

Emperor Beiling raised the corner of his lips. At this time, his mentality was calm, but there was a gleam of brilliance in his eyes.

"When An Yunxi becomes the Crown Princess, you will know."

These words made Ling Fengxun's eyes flash with a dark light, and the murderous intent became stronger and stronger .

"What if I can't wait for that day?"

Emperor Beiling looked at Ling Fengxun deeply.

He didn't answer him directly, but smiled, "You are not a child anymore. I have many women of the right age here. Do you want to pick one? You can choose any one you want, or you can take all of them."

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Queen's voice was unhurried: "Back then, the late emperor and the old marquis of the Du family joined forces to conquer the country. The old marquis once saved the late emperor's life, so the late emperor issued an edict to marry you, the granddaughter of the old marquis, to Changyue."

An Yunxi raised her eyebrows.

Did he think she was a three-year-old child?

"Then why is it not a daughter, but a granddaughter?"

The Queen's expression was a little stiff.

If the daughter of the Marquis of Anguo became the Queen, then where would she go?

"Because I was already the Emperor's principal wife at the time, if Miss Du was allowed to be a concubine, it might not be appropriate, and your mother was unwilling to enter the palace."

Although An Yunxi listened carefully

, she didn't believe a word of the Queen's words.

"You don't have to repay a life-saving favor with a marriage."

The queen paused for a moment.

Then she couldn't help laughing: "This is of course only one of the reasons."