Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands

Chapter 874 - 3: An Irresistible Fate (Conclusion)

Ling Luo lowered her head and quickly followed.

Ling Yuezi took Ling Luo to a small courtyard.

She had two maids guard the door and took only Ling Luo into the room.

"There’s no one else here, tell me everything that happened over these days, one by one." Ling Yuezi walked to the head seat, sat down, and looked at Ling Luo with a cold expression.

Ling Luo dared not lie and had to confess honestly.

"You sure have guts, if this were in Nanyue, you would be sent to Shenxing Pavilion for punishment!" Ling Yuezi rebuked coldly.

Ling Luo knelt down, "Eldest Princess, I... I don’t want to marry the Emperor in an arranged marriage. You promised in Nanyue that I would be marrying the young Emperor, but now, the Zhao Country has an older Emperor who ascended the throne, and I’m only sixteen. I don’t want to marry a man older than my father!"

Ling Yuezi looked at her and said in a deep voice, "As an Imperial Family princess, everything is for the sake of the country, how can you only think about personal feelings and love? Since you and your family enjoy the treatment of a princess, you must sacrifice freedom and personal feelings for it."

Ling Luo started to cry, "Ling Luo would rather die than marry the Emperor, Eldest Princess, please put me to death!"

Ling Yuezi kept a calm face, "Who asked you to marry the Emperor?"

Ling Luo was stunned and looked up, "Then you... The late Emperor passed away, and the arranged marriage document is still there. Isn’t it... meant for me to marry the Zhao Country’s current Emperor?"

Ling Yuezi laughed, "Is there no prince besides the Emperor in Zhao Country? Marrying a prince is also an arranged marriage."

Ling Luo glanced at Ling Yuezi and secretly let out a sigh of relief, "Then... which young prince does the Eldest Princess want Ling Luo to marry?"

Her heart started to feel uneasy.

Ling Yuezi laughed, "Alright, I won’t make it difficult for you anymore, nor will I scare you. I chose you as the Princess of Heqin to marry far away, and that has already put you through a lot. It won’t be too hard for you. The Third Prince is still unmarried, I will ask the Emperor to arrange the marriage for you."

Ling Luo looked up, surprised at Ling Yuezi, "Eldest... Eldest Princess?"

Ling Yuezi lifted her lips, teasingly saying, "You disagree? You have been living in his residence for so long, aren’t you afraid he might recognize you and gossip about you in the future?"

Ling Luo lowered her head, "Yes, I will follow the Eldest Princess’s arrangement."

"Don’t worry, no matter what, you are my cousin, I won’t let your reputation suffer, you and I are on the same boat."

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Ling Yuezi ordered for Ling Luo to be housed in the guest room of the Eastern Palace and assigned two maids from Nanyue to serve her.

While waiting for bathing water to be prepared, Ling Luo opened the package Li Xing’an had organized for her.

Inside, besides the two sets of women’s clothes and a pair of women’s shoes she originally brought, along with a set of undispensed jewelry, there were also three silver notes of hundred taels, and a bag of exchanged broken silver.

Ling Luo looked at this thoughtful arrangement, and her eyes gradually reddened.

She was willing to marry Li Xing’an, but she didn’t know if Li Xing’an was willing to marry her.

It seemed like he still didn’t know she was a woman.

Ling Luo felt anxious.

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After arranging Ling Luo, Ling Yuezi came to find Li Xingsheng.

Li Xingsheng was playing with two kids.

Ling Yuezi let the two wet nurses go down to rest and started talking to Li Xingsheng about Ling Luo.

"That third son! Doesn’t he know that the person he’s living with is a lady?" Li Xingsheng looked contemptuous.

Ling Yuezi glanced at him, as if everyone in the world was as cunning as him? "You should come with me to the palace to see the Emperor. My third brother has hidden my cousin in his house for more than half a month. If this spreads out, how can Ling Luo marry in the future?"

Li Xingsheng raised his eyebrows, "Make him take responsibility! I’ll talk to the Emperor!"

Ling Yuezi hugged Li Xingsheng’s waist, "Thank you, husband."

Li Xingsheng raised his eyebrows at her and laughed, "We sleep in the same bed every day, as if I wouldn’t know what’s on your mind?"

Ling Yuezi blushed, "Besides, there are kids! Mind your words!"

Li Xingsheng immediately straightened his face, "Yes, yes, my wife’s reminder is correct."

But he couldn’t resist giving Ling Yuezi a big kiss behind their four-month-old son and daughter’s backs.

The kiss ignited their passion, almost leading to a loss of control.

Ling Yuezi hit his back speechlessly, "I’m going to change clothes, let’s enter the palace together later, and stop... stop fooling around."

"Change clothes together."

Ling Yuezi, "..."

Just a simple change of clothes?

Li Xingsheng always found opportunities to take advantage of her, like when changing clothes together.

At this rate, she feared she would soon conceive their second child...

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Every time Ling Yuezi and Li Xingsheng went to the palace, they would bring the children along because the two elders in the palace liked children.

This occasion was no different.

After letting the elders play with the children and adjusting their mood, Li Xingsheng then dismissed irrelevant eunuchs and palace maids and began discussing the matters of Li Xing’an and Ling Luo.