As Lin Mengya said, her voice became gentler.
She stared at Long Tianyu reproachfully with deep affection in her beautiful eyes. Her unusual tenderness gradually eased Long Tianyu’s uneasiness like magic.
He held her deeply in his arms, touched.
Thankfully, she was clear about his affection for her and his situation so that he didn’t have to wait anxiously for the dawn alone in the darkness.
“I know. I know these. So, Ya’er, I won’t…”
Lin Mengya pressed her slender white finger gently against his lips before he finished his words, blinked her eyes, tilted her head to look at him, and said with a smile, “What if I want you to approve of your father’s decision?”
Her words immediately blew Long Tianyu’s mind, rendering him dizzy and confused.
“Ya… Ya’er, what’s wrong with you? Have you lost your mind?”
Long Tianyu asked in a low voice, trying to make sure if she was serious. But when he saw the usual smirk on her face, he suddenly realized she had a plan.
In an instant, he felt relieved, ready to listen to her plan with her in his arms.
“Look, since your father has tried so hard to choose a suitable candidate for your legal wife, we have to be grateful. Report to your father tomorrow that you have thought it through and can accept a new legal wife, but on one condition.”
Lin Mengya said, while staring at Long Tianyu with no jealousy in her bright eyes.
She obviously intended to make use of this imperial edict for her benefit.
It seemed that his wife was subtle.
“You want my father to agree to release your brother?” he asked.
This was the only condition Long Tianyu could figure out at this moment.
However, given his father’s shrewdness, it would not be so easy to get what she wanted.
He had seen how smart and capable Lin Mengya was, so had his father.
As such, his father must have acquiesced in Lin Nansheng’s being framed this time with the intention of holding the Lin Family in check and making Lin Mengya and her father obey him.
Now, if he asked his father to release Lin Nansheng, his father might make use of Lin Nansheng to get what he wanted.
Lin Mengya nodded, but then shook her head.
“You don’t need to bring it up. As long as you show the slightest resistance, His Majesty will threaten you with this. I mean, since His Majesty insists on choosing a woman as your legal wife, he must have found more than one suitable candidates. Since you were forced to marry someone the first time, His Majesty can’t force you to do the same thing again, right?”
Lin Mengya looked at Long Tianyu and made her intention clear to him.
“You are so wicked!”
Long Tianyu said, while rubbing her upright nose. He loved her deeply.
The Emperor’s decision to deprive her of her position as Princess Yu had strained his relationship with Long Tianyu.
Now he even tried to arrange Long Tianyu’s marriage.
If the Emperor did not want to lose his son, he had to slowly carry out his plan to arrange his son’s marriage.
Otherwise, once the Emperor fell out with Long Tianyu, it would provide the Empress and her force with an opportunity that could be exploited.
The Emperor, who was shrewd, was definitely clear about this.
“Sorry, I have to ask you to trick your father. In fact, I didn’t want to do that.”
Lin Mengya nestled in Long Tianyu’s arms and said to him with a sense of guilt.
Ever since she came into his life, she seemed to have brought him endless troubles.
She was probably born to be an unlucky person. Otherwise, why was it so difficult for her to live peacefully?
She got into one and another trouble after living peacefully for only a few days.
Now she had to ask Long Tianyu to challenge his father.
It had little influence on her, but she was the one who caused the conflict between Long Tianyu and his father.
“We’re a couple sharing weal and woe. My father has his difficulties, so have you.”
As he said, he pulled Lin Mengya, who was sighing in distress, out of his arms and kissed her gently on the forehead.
“Alas, I hope everything will go well. Perhaps because I’ve been overanxious, I have an intuition that something serious is going to happen,” she said.
Her premonitions were always correct.
However, she had so many enemies that she might not be able to discover what she had overlooked.
Perhaps she was just overanxious.
Nestling in Long Tianyu’s warm and strong arms, she thought at least he was always on her side, wasn’t he?
After the intimacy last night, the room was filled with an erotic atmosphere in the early morning.
Long Tianyu quietly left before dawn, and Lin Mengya opened her eyes at the same time.
In recent days, she had seldom been able to sleep soundly.
If it weren’t for her reluctance to disturb him, she wouldn’t have tried so hard to pretend to be asleep.
Rubbing her forehead, Lin Mengya, who was a little tired, got up and pushed the window open.
The cool morning wind gradually lifted her spirits.
“You woke up so early. Why didn’t you sleep a little longer?”
Qinghu showed up as usual and spoke.
Lin Mengya turned to look at him and said with a helpless and bitter smile, “My health condition seems to have worsened.”
Hearing this, Qinghu frowned and grabbed Lin Mengya’s wrist.
He was flustered at feeling her pulse which was so weak that it was almost undetectable.
“We can’t postpone our trip any longer and must set out to seek the medicine at once. If you keep postponing it, you’ll die,” Qinghu said reproachfully.
The great concern in his voice made Lin Mengya feel a little ashamed.
She thought herself, who had worried Qinghu all the time, too selfish, as she wanted to share her burden with him.
She grabbed Qinghu’s hand tightly, looked pleadingly at him with her watery eyes, and said, “I know. So please keep it a secret, okay? We’ll set out after I handle these things in one or three months at most. Besides, besides…”
“You still can’t bear to leave him, right?” Qinghu asked.
Lin Mengya, whose thought was pointed out by Qinghu, instantly fell silent.
She turned her head away to dodge his eyes which seemed to be able to see through her mind.
Perhaps Qinghu was right.
Even if the Lin Family didn’t get into this trouble, in order to stay with Long Tianyu, she would make up another excuse for postponing their trip.
“One month at most. If you can’t make up your mind, I’ll help you,” Qinghu said.
This was the first time he acted in a domineering manner in front of Lin Mengya.
However, Lin Mengya could not disobey him.
“Okay.”
Lin Mengya said in a soft voice like a docile kitten, which distressed Qinghu.
He clearly knew that her mind was stuffed with her affection for Long Tianyu, but why did he still have a little expectation?
The news of Prince Yu’s consent to have a new legal wife and her father’s returning to the Capital City reached Lin Mengya’s ears at the same time.
Although Long Tianyu treated Lin Mengya as usual, everyone in the Marquis Zhennan’s Mansion knew clearly that once Prince Yu had a new legal wife, Lin Mengya would be in an awkward situation.
Moreover, the Lin Family was going through a period of trouble. It was a bit too heartless for Prince Yu to marry someone else at this time.
But without Lin Mengya’s instruction, no one dared to do anything about it.
The depressing atmosphere lingered in the entire Marquis Zhennan’s Mansion.
The only unaffected person was probably Lin Mengya, who was in the center of the storm. Well, the ignorant baby also stayed out of the storm.
Lin Mengya stared at Moyan, who was grinning, in surprise, thinking he grew so quickly.
She took care of the baby every day. Unexpectedly, she accidentally found that he had been capable of standing.
He struggled to stand on his legs, which were as chubby as lotus roots, on the bed.
Although he still couldn’t stand firm, he was extremely complacent, as if he had learned an amazing skill.
“Good boy, you are amazing!”
As Lin Mengya said, she picked up the baby and kept kissing him, who was in her arms.
Perhaps because she had taken care of the baby all the time, even Ms. Tian said that the baby bore a little physical resemblance to her when she was a baby.
Perhaps it was because the baby was white and chubby with delicate features.
“First Miss, Master’s vice general is outside.”
While Lin Mengya was amusing Moyan, the butler came in to report in a hurry.
“Let him in. I’ll meet him in my father’s study.”
After saying that, she intended to hand Moyan to the wet nurse, but he curled his lip, grabbed her by the collar, and refused to let go with an aggrieved look.
Lin Mengya had no choice but to carry him to her father’s study.
She had told her father to enter the Imperial Palace to report his returning as soon as he came back and then resign from his position as the general.
It seemed that her father had decided to follow her advice, so he sent his vice general to inform her.
In the study of the Lin’s Mansion, the vice general, who had no time to change his armor yet, seemed a little nervous in front of Lin Mengya and the baby in her arms.
Fortunately, Lin Mengya was not a wordy person. After finding out his purpose in coming, she immediately sent someone to take him to have a rest.
Lin Mengya and Moyan were left alone in the study.
At this moment, the baby seemed to be tired of playing and fell asleep in Lin Mengya’s arms.
Meanwhile, Lin Mengya was thinking over the news brought by the vice general with Moyan in her arms.
Her father had entered the Imperial Palace to resign as she planned.
However, she didn’t expect one thing.
Her father was stationed at the important border town contiguous to the Nan’an State, which was ready to wriggle in invasion.
If it weren’t for their fear of her father, they probably would have invaded Dajin now.