Just when Lin Zan and Bixia were having a great time, Jun Beiqi's voice was heard from outside.

Lin Zhan stopped his hand instantly like a frightened little animal. Bixia had already arranged her clothes, opened the door, and saluted respectfully. "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"You go out first. I have something to say to Lin Zan." Jun Beiqi walked into the room with a serious expression.

Bixia understood and retreated, closing the door considerately. Soon, the only sound in the room was the crackling sound of burning charcoal.

"What does the prince want to see me about?" Lin Zan coughed lightly and spoke first.

Jun Beiqi came over, sat opposite her, and said softly, "The day after tomorrow is the day I will marry the daughter of Grand Tutor Tang."

After the words fell, Lin Zhan felt a little annoyed, his cheeks puffed up, and he raised his head and said, "Why, Prince, if you want to ask for my blessing today, then I wish you and Miss Tang to grow old together and have many children and grandchildren."

After saying that, Lin Zan turned his head away, not wanting to look at Jun Beiqi anymore.

Jun Beiqi smiled softly. "You are just saying this in anger."

"How do you know, Your Highness, that I was just saying this in anger? Maybe I am sincerely wishing you the best." Lin Zhan still didn't look at him, maintaining his little temper proudly.

Jun Beiqi suddenly stood up, walked to Lin Zhan, knelt on one knee, and looked directly at Lin Zhan.

All of this was so sudden that Lin Zhan was stunned, because Jun Beiqi's posture was so much like a modern marriage proposal.

"I don't want to marry her. I want to marry someone else." Jun Beiqi looked at Lin Zan in front of him seriously.

The temperature in the room was getting higher and higher, and a warm and ambiguous atmosphere was rising between the two people.

Lin Zhan's cheeks also turned slightly red, even spreading to her ears. She bit her rosy lips again and again, and finally asked, "You are the prince, can you marry whoever you want?"

"Just because I'm the prince, I want to be willful for once and marry whoever I want to marry." Jun Beiqi's voice was clear and pleasant, and Lin Zan was intoxicated by it unknowingly.

"Wait for me."

Jun Beiqi finally said this and left, leaving Lin Zhan, who was still in the previous atmosphere and had not recovered, with a dazed look in his eyes.

"What did you say? You want to disobey my order and refuse the marriage I have granted you."

The emperor sat there with a grim expression, coughed violently a few times, and looked at Jun Beiqi who was kneeling in front of him.

"Please grant my blessing, father. I already have someone else in my heart and cannot marry Tang Xiu, the daughter of the Grand Tutor." Jun Beiqi said neither humbly nor arrogantly, but his eyes were full of uncompromising determination.

The emperor walked up to him with a look of disappointment and said earnestly, "Do you know what you are saying? You are the crown prince, so you can only marry Tang Xiu, the daughter of the Grand Tutor."

"Your son does not want to." Jun Beiqi continued. These four powerful words made the emperor so angry that his face turned pale.

After a long while, the emperor pointed his trembling finger at Jun Beiqi and continued, "I will give you one last chance now, will you marry me or not?"

"I still say the same thing. I will never marry Tang Xiu, the daughter of the Grand Tutor." Jun Beiqi said again in a firm tone.

In a rage, the emperor drove Jun Beiqi back to the prince's mansion and imprisoned him. This surprised all the civil and military officials. They didn't know what the prince had done to make the emperor so angry.

However, news soon spread from the palace that the prince had rejected the imperial decree granting the marriage.

After hearing the news, Tang Xiu's face turned pale and he fainted. The whole residence of Grand Tutor Tang was in chaos.

"Don't you know, Prince, that marrying the daughter of the Grand Master will be of great benefit to him? Why did you refuse?" Concubine Qin asked casually, holding a golden cat in her hand and stroking it slowly.

Sitting in front of her was Princess Silin's biological mother, Lady Zhang, who said with a smile on her face, "I heard that the prince has someone else in his heart and doesn't want to disappoint his beloved, so he rejected the emperor's marriage."

"Sweetheart, haha, sweetheart is nothing compared to supreme power. The prince is really confused." Concubine Qin sneered, but soon her hand stopped.

Then she said to Madam Zhang, "The prince said he had a lover. How could I not know? Over the years, apart from caring a little about that orphan girl, I have never seen him show special care to anyone."

"The orphan that the Imperial Concubine mentioned must be Lin Zhan. In this case, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does have some different feelings towards Lin Zhan."

Madam Zhang said this with a hint of advice in her tone, and Concubine Qin's eyes lit up instantly. "Could it be that the prince really has other thoughts about Lin Zhan?"

When she thought of this, Concubine Qin suddenly giggled, because she knew that with Lin Zan's identity, there was no way she could be with Jun Beiqi.

However, this incident gave Concubine Qin a good opportunity, so she brought some nourishing chicken soup and went to the imperial study to see the emperor.

"Is Your Majesty still worried about the Crown Prince's disobedience to Your Majesty's orders?" Concubine Qin put down the chicken soup in her hand, massaged the emperor's shoulders, and said tenderly.

The emperor sighed and said disappointedly, "I didn't expect that the prince would be so ignorant of the overall situation."

"Your Majesty, please don't be angry. Has His Royal Highness ever said who his beloved is? If the person he loves is not much lower in status than Tang Xiu, why don't Your Majesty help this couple to be together? It would not be a bad thing."

Concubine Qin said this with a twinkle in her eyes, as if reminding the emperor.

When the emperor heard that Jun Beiqi disobeyed the order and did not want to get married, he was furious. He did not even think of asking Jun Beiqi who Xinyue was. He directly imprisoned him in the prince's mansion.

At this moment, after Concubine Qin's reminder, the emperor frowned. "Over the years, I don't know what kind of woman my son likes."

"I also find it strange. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always been diligent. I have never seen him get too close to other women, except for the late Queen Lin's sister, Lin Zan." Concubine Qin deliberately mentioned Lin Zan.

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then smiled. "Lin Zhan grew up in the palace, so it's understandable that he has a closer relationship with the prince."

"Your Majesty, I have something to say but I don't know whether I should say it or not?" Concubine Qin stopped what she was doing and looked at the emperor with a look of hesitation.

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then he held her in his arms and said lovingly, "My beloved concubine, you can say whatever you want to say. I will forgive you."

This sentence made Concubine Qin smile happily, and then she spoke. "Your Majesty, I think Lin Zan doesn't just want to be the prince's childhood sweetheart."