On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince's Hidden Illness-Chapter 240 - Crown Prince Seeks to Marry
Chapter 240: Chapter 240 Crown Prince Seeks to Marry
Chapter 240: Chapter 240 Crown Prince Seeks to Marry
“Are you not coming?”
Ye Yiheng raised his eyebrows and slightly tilted his head, waiting for her.
It was then that Leng Yu Yan moved her steps. “Your Highness, since today is about proposing, if my family disagrees, Your Highness must not lose your temper.”
“Is my temper not good?”
“About Your Highness’s temper, I dare not presume.”
Ye Yiheng gave a faint smile. “It would be better if the Commandery Princess supports me as Song Guo prepares the gifts.”
Song Guo grinned and left, heading straight for the storeroom. Since His Highness was going to propose, naturally, the more gifts, the better.
By the time Ye Yiheng and Leng Yu Yan reached the horse carriage, Song Guo led a group of eunuchs to fill the horse carriage that Leng Yu Yan had arrived in to the brim.
A carriage of pomelos arrived, a carriage of gifts returned.
Why couldn’t she be happy about it, though?
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What if her grandfather knew that it was she who had actively requested to marry someone? Would he be furious?
Ye Yiheng’s hand tightened on her arm, and only then did Leng Yu Yan realize and got into the carriage with him.
The two horse carriages arrived at Prince Zhenbei Mansion one after the other.
The entire mansion was astonished at the Crown Prince’s sudden visit.
Especially when he brought a carriage full of gifts and the Crown Prince’s personal eunuch mentioned he had come to propose.
Lai Taihong’s face turned stern on hearing this.
He strode to the front courtyard, assertively saying, “Your Highness, I hold great respect, but your way of bringing gifts and proposing today really isn’t appropriate!”
Ye Yiheng composedly performed the courtesy of a junior. “Old Prince speaks prematurely. My abrupt visit is mainly because the Commandery Princess and I share mutual affection.”
All smiles, Song Guo knew that in this world, only the Emperor and the Empress Dowager could have His Highness perform such a gesture. His salute to the Old Prince showed his sincerity!
Leng Yu Yan’s lips quivered. Mutual affection?
Where did this mutual affection come from?
However, for him to say this, really gave her face. At least he didn’t tell her grandfather that it was she who had initiated to marry him.
Lai Taihong had not expected the Crown Prince to pay such respect, and his stern face softened slightly. When his gaze moved to his granddaughter supporting the Crown Prince, his anger flared up once again.
“Yan’er, come here!”
“Grandfather,” Leng Yu Yan walked over slowly and softly called out.
Lai Taihong then moderated his tone, “Tell grandfather the truth, did the Crown Prince force you?”
The Old Prince, who usually spoke with great vigor, had lowered his voice slightly now, but everyone present could still hear.
Ye Yiheng chuckled lightly. He was curious to hear what she would say.
Leng Yu Yan pursed her lips; faced with such questioning from her grandfather and seeing the pain and sympathy in his eyes, she didn’t know how to respond.
This time, it was her initiative, and the reasons were complex; moreover, the Crown Prince had been quite controlling of her in the past.
She could only cover her face and pretend to be bashful, running toward her own courtyard.
Seeing this, Lai Taihong sighed deeply, thinking, could Yan’er be like her grandmother, attracted to looks?
Look at this Crown Prince, just standing there, his handsome face and noble demeanor add a lot of warmth to this stern autumn.
Thinking back to his younger days, he was also exceptionally handsome and elegant, which finally won him his wife. Now seeing his granddaughter blush so furiously, it really depressed him. It seemed she took after her grandmother in focusing on appearances.
Lai Taihong’s heart chilled, how could his beautiful and delicate granddaughter marry a blind Crown Prince?
But as he was the Crown Prince, him standing like that in the front courtyard wasn’t proper either, so he invited him to the study.
They sat in the study for a while, neither speaking.
Although the other party was the Crown Prince, he was still an elder after all. Since the Crown Prince didn’t speak, he stayed silent.
Back and forth, finally Lai Taihong could not hold back and spoke first, “Old man would like to ask, how did Your Highness take a fancy to Yan’er?”
“I am blind and do not have many requirements for a future Crown Princess Consort.”
Hearing this, Lai Taihong’s lips twitched, it seemed he didn’t really admire his granddaughter.
Ye Yiheng continued, “Since your granddaughter was first given in marriage to me, I have recognized her as my Crown Princess Consort.”
“At first, I thought that I had to have a wife, and it didn’t matter whom I married.”
Hearing this, Lai Taihong clenched his teeth in anger, feeling like cursing someone.
“Who would have thought that since she moved into the Eastern Palace, my unchanging life began to have ripples. With sorrows and joys, the Commandery Princess made me realize that even the unseen world could be filled with colors.”
Hearing this, Lai Taihong sighed heavily; he knew it, how could his granddaughter not be charming?
“It was not until Father Emperor proposed another marriage that I didn’t realize she was the Commandery Princess and thus refused the marriage. Thinking about it now, it seems that the Commandery Princess and I were meant to be together from the start.”
During the conversation, Ye Yiheng stood up and bowed deeply, “I ask for Old Prince’s permission!”
Ye Yiheng’s half-true, half-false words moved Lai Taihong.
Just as the Old Prince was about to respond, a sharp scold came from the door of the study.
“I do not allow it!”
Hearing that the Crown Prince came to propose, Lai Ran, not caring about the possibility of his awakening being revealed, hurried to his father’s study.
He strode in, had his father sit down, and also had the eunuch beside the Crown Prince help him sit before he himself sat down after lifting his robe.
“Your Highness, I will tell you the truth, Yan’er cannot marry into the Tian Family!”
This remark pulled Lai Taihong out of his previous emotion, and he echoed, “Exactly, Your Highness, please understand!”
Ye Yiheng’s expression beneath his eye veil slightly narrowed—Lai Ran had actually woken up.
Seeing his good complexion, was the sudden illness he suffered when falling from the horse, fishy?
Putting aside his skepticism about Lai Ran waking, Ye Yiheng raised his hand slightly, and immediately Song Guo spoke up, “Prince, my master and the Commandery Princess indeed share mutual affection.”
“After the Commandery Princess was first given in marriage to my master, she had moved into the Eastern Palace, and with such a long time spent together, they naturally developed feelings…”
Song Guo recounted the conversation between the Crown Prince and the Old Prince to Prince Zhenbei.
Listening to this, Lai Ran was shocked—did his daughter genuinely fall for this blind Crown Prince?
But with Yan’er not present in the study, it was not convenient to ask. Moreover, the Crown Prince’s claim of mutual love had been made in front of everyone in the courtyard, noticeably genuine.
Contemplating for a while, Lai Ran could only say, “Yan’er is still young, I want to nurture her for a few more years.”
“If Your Highness can wait, then please wait.”
If he cannot wait, the blame should not fall on others.
Ye Yiheng detected the hidden meaning in Lai Ran’s words, insinuating his frailty which most likely wouldn’t allow him to wait.
He wasn’t upset, but smiled slightly, “With these words from you, I feel at ease.”
“Though the wedding date is not set, with your consent to give your daughter to me, I am deeply grateful.” Ye Yiheng stood up, “I will live a few more years for sure, and will not let down the Commandery Princess’s deep feelings!”
Lai Ran was left speechless, unsure of what to say.
“If the Commandery Princess is willing to marry, and both the Old Prince and the Prince consent, then I shall ask Father Emperor for a decree.”
Ye Yiheng bowed again, his lips slightly curved as he bent over; rising up, he was the picture of calm and easiness, then he bade farewell.
Lai Ran was startled for a moment, and by the time he came to, Ye Yiheng had already gone far.
“Such behavior from the Crown Prince is really annoying. Will he really go ask the Emperor for the decree?”
Lai Taihong pondered and said, “He probably will.”
