Chapter 946: The Wasteful Prince vs. the First Female Official 1
Chapter 946: The Wasteful Prince vs. the First Female Official 1
What a pity, you can hide above but not below.
In the end, it actually made things more convenient for Lingyao.
The stars outside the window were shy and hid in the dark clouds.
Xuan Yanjing was trapped in the quilt, sweating all over, and the strands of hair on his forehead were already wet with sweat.
He had no experience and didn't know how to restrain himself, so his breathing was very loud, and every groan hit Lingyao's ears.
At the last moment, he hugged Lingyao while shaking, and couldn't hold back two lines of tears rolling down his long dark eyelashes, adding a bit of fragility to his bright and sharp facial features.
"I love you, Yaoyao."
There was a trembling cry in his voice.
Lingyao was delighted to hear this.
She raised her hand to touch Xuan Yanjing's face, but then remembered that her hands were dirty, so she didn't move.
Xuan Yanjing, on the other hand, seemed to have suddenly developed a skin hunger syndrome. Even though he was extremely hot, he still kept sticking to Lingyao.
Or maybe it was because Xuan Yanjing felt that Lingyao was not hot at all, but instead had a cool and warm feeling.
In short, Xuan Yanjing just held Lingyao and refused to let go. Lingyao wanted to push him away and get up to wash up again, but he refused and just held Lingyao.
She whined and acted like a spoiled child: "Wait a moment, we'll be together later, I want a hug now."
Lingyao had no idea what to do.
What made Lingyao even more helpless was that no matter how hard she tried to hug him, he ended up standing up again.
Xuan Yanjing saw the look Lingyao gave him, his face turned red, and he blinked his eyes, not daring to look Lingyao in the eye.
What else could Lingyao do? She had to wash up anyway, so it didn’t make any difference once or twice.
Half an hour later, Lingyao pushed away Xuan Yanjing who was still trying to get close to her.
And issued a warning: "If you make trouble again, go back to sleep."
Xuan Yanjing blinked and said obediently, "Stop making trouble."
No more trouble today.
Xuan Yanjing felt that he was very sensible in exchanging temporary surrender for long-term happiness in the future.
Who would have thought that Lingyao would be transferred the next day.
Concubine Wen finally came to her senses and realized that something was wrong with the female official Lingyao, and she also remembered that Xuan Yanjing fell into the water and was rescued by Lingyao last time.
Concubine Wen used her remaining connections to transfer Lingyao away on the pretext of replacing Xuan Yanjing with a more capable tutor.
When Xuan Yanjing received the news, he was furious and wanted to go to the emperor to argue.
Xiao Fuzi followed him and tried to persuade him, "Your Highness, you can't go now. You've finally regained the Emperor's respect. How can you go against him at this critical moment?"
Xuan Yanjing didn't listen at all. Who needs his attention? Xuan Yanjing never thought about pleasing his father. His mother gave her true love to the wrong person because of his father's suspicion, and she almost died of depression in the second half of her life.
He was unwilling to play any drama of loving father and filial son with the emperor. He only wanted her. He didn't want anything else, not even the position of crown prince.
But just as he walked to the front of Baohua Palace and before he went in, he saw Lingyao walking out.
Xuan Yanjing was stunned, then his expression changed. He no longer cared that they were in Baohua Palace, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold Lingyao's hand and looked her up and down.
"Father didn't do anything to you, did he?"
He was afraid that the emperor would find out about Lingyao and him and blame her.
Lingyao shook her head. Although she didn't know why Xuan Yanjing thought so, she still explained: "It's okay, what are you doing here?"
Xuan Yanjing didn't tell him the purpose of his visit, but simply said, "It's nothing, my father wants to talk to me about something."
Baohua Palace was not a suitable place for discussing matters, so Xuan Yanjing quickly let go of Lingyao's hand and let her leave. He then stepped forward and asked to see the emperor.
The emperor was also surprised. However, such a small matter as transferring a female official was first suggested by a minister, and then the female official came in person to exchange bargaining chips. Now, even the prince of Xuan Yanjing came in person.
On ordinary days, Xuan Yanjing would never come to the temple unless there was something important.
The emperor looked at Xuan Yanjing who knelt down as soon as he came in, and his forehead twitched unconsciously. He always felt that something that would give him a headache was about to happen.
As expected, as soon as Xuan Yanjing opened his mouth, he felt like he was about to get a headache.
Because the first thing he did was to ask him to grant him a marriage with the female official.
Xuan Yanjing is the crown prince, so the selection of the crown princess must be extremely cautious. Even he had to go through numerous rounds of screening at the concubine selection banquet before choosing her mother as the queen.
Now it would be understandable if he asked for a concubine or another type of royal concubine.
Asking to marry a female official as the Crown Princess, and a female official with no background and no status, isn't this nonsense!
However, the emperor did not attack Xuan Yanjing directly. Instead, he asked, "Do you know why Wen Lingyao came to see me just now?"
Xuan Yanjing didn't know, but he also wanted to know, so even though he knew it was not right for the emperor to mention this at this time, he still asked.
"Why?"
"She came to me to discuss her resignation from her official position. Moreover, according to Lord Wen, she will get married soon after resigning."
After all, if a female official in the palace wanted to get married, she had to obtain the emperor's permission and abide by the palace regulations.
Usually, they could only marry men from official families or within the imperial court, and there were strict requirements on the timing and manner of marriage. Furthermore, even after marriage, female officials were required to continue serving in the imperial court, balancing family and work.
The emperor could understand Lingyao's proposal to resign, because she did have something the emperor had been looking for for a long time, the second volume of a secret book in his collection.
Therefore, the emperor agreed to the other party's request without much hesitation.
"Yan Jing, you asked to marry Master Wen. Does Master Wen know about this? Or does Master Wen agree? You still have the mind of a child and have never grown up."
Xuan Yanjing was in a daze and didn't know how he walked back to the Prince's Palace.
That night, he did not go to find Lingyao, but locked himself back in the bedroom.
He couldn't understand why Lingyao wanted to resign from her official position. After she resigned, wouldn't he be able to see her anymore? Or was it really like what his father said, that she didn't want to stay in the palace at all and had found someone to marry outside the palace?
Maybe it was a childhood sweetheart, maybe it was a man I met at some point, or maybe it was Helian Ke...
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