Bring a scumbag girl to bully me, and you are afraid of using modern weapons.

"Mother..." Emperor Kunming was helpless. If he transferred his younger brother's fiancée to his elder brother, and this matter were to be spread out, would the royal family still have any face?

But he knew that once his mother made a decision, no one could stop her.

He could only look at Beitang Yuan and Xie Jinglan, "Since you two love each other, I will grant you marriage."

"Your Majesty, I do not..."

Beitang Yuan suddenly leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Agree to be engaged to me first, so that Beitang Hong and Lin Yuansheng will be wary.

We'll set a one-year deadline. You'll remove the curse for me, and I'll protect the Duke of Li's mansion. After a year, we'll cancel our engagement. How do you do that?"

Xie Jinglan thought about it and felt that his conditions were good. After all, she needed help now. With the prince as her backer, Beitang Hong and Lin Yuansheng would no longer dare to shout and kill them like they did in the morning, at least not openly.

After some consideration, she said, "I am willing, but I have a request that Your Majesty agrees to."

"You say." Emperor Kunming nodded.

"You are aware of the situation at Duke Li's Mansion. My grandmother is old and in poor health, my younger brother is still young, and there is no one to take care of the family business. I don't want to get married so early. I want to wait at least a year. I beg Your Majesty to agree." Xie Jinglan said.

She is only sixteen years old this year, and even if she has someone she likes, she doesn't want to get married so early.

"This..." Emperor Kunming frowned. Yuan'er was already nineteen years old. If it weren't for the prophecy, he should have married and had children long ago. His mother dreamed of letting the prince get married early so that he could have a child to leave behind.

"Father, it's only a year. I can wait." Beitang Yuan glanced at Empress Changsun and her son, saying, "Don't worry. I won't die so easily."

"In that case, I agree." Seeing his son say this, Emperor Kunming had no choice but to agree.

At least the prince is willing to marry, which may change his fate.

The marriage was a done deal. Xie Wanying stood up and knelt with her two grandchildren to express her gratitude. "Thank you, Empress Dowager, and Your Majesty, for your grace."

Beitang Yuan also knelt down and said, "Thank you, Grandmother, and Father, for your help."

"Everyone, get up!" Emperor Kunming looked at Xie Jinglan deeply, and felt that she was not as terrible as the legend said.

The fact that she could attract the attention of this cold-hearted son and cause such a big commotion today, causing both King Mu and Lin Yuansheng to suffer great losses, shows that she is definitely not an ordinary woman.

Beitang Hong felt very unwilling to see Xie Jinglan being betrothed to Beitang Yuan again, as if something that originally belonged to him had been snatched away by someone else.

Humph! He doesn't allow others to pick up things he doesn't want, even if they are destroyed.

Beitang Yuan is a short-lived man who won't live for many days. Once this person dies, he will become the crown prince, and this woman will still not be able to escape from his clutches.

When the time comes, I will make sure this bitch knows what the consequences will be for betraying him!

"Lin Yuansheng, you were so arrogant this morning! Are you scared now?" Beitang Yuan walked up to Lin Yuansheng and stared at the top of his head.

Lin Yuansheng felt a powerful pressure descending upon him, his body trembling uncontrollably. "Your Highness... please forgive me. I was blind and didn't realize that you, Your Highness, had offended me. I beg Your Highness to forgive me."

I've been really unlucky these past two days. Things in several warehouses disappeared overnight. Even if I kill someone, I might as well meet the prince.

It was all because of that damn Xie Jinglan who was blocking his way, otherwise, everything in the Duke of Li's Mansion would be in his pocket now.

He had been planning and managing for so many years and finally took control of the entire Xie family. He was just one step away from success, but he didn't expect to fall into the hands of this little bitch.

"You don't recognize a great man? Just because you don't recognize me, the prince, you can kill people at will? If we didn't have some skills, we would have been killed by you now." Beitang Yuan suddenly kicked Lin Yuansheng hard in the chest.

"Ah!" Lin Yuansheng was kicked over and rolled on the ground for several times before stopping, with a mouthful of thick blood spurting out of his mouth.

Lin Ruyan was kneeling beside them, but she didn't dare to speak or help anyone, for fear that the emperor and the prince would vent their anger on her.

"You bastard, this kick is to collect some interest for this prince's future princess." Beitang Yuan retracted his foot and turned to Emperor Kunming and said:

"Father, Lin Yuansheng intended to kill three of us today. Such vicious people who disregard the law must be brought to justice and sentenced to death."

"Your Majesty, please spare my life! I really didn't mean to offend His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Lin Yuansheng kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty, although Lin Yuansheng was wrong, there were reasons for it. If Xie Wanying had not divorced her husband first and ignored his decades of dedication in the Duke of Li's Mansion, he would not have been so angry that he wanted to kill someone. I hope Your Majesty can understand this." Beitang Hong already hated Beitang Yuan in his heart, and he would never let these two people have an easy time.

"Decades of hard work? What did he give up? He was trying to get the title and property of my Xie family!" Xie Jinglan pointed at Lin Yuansheng, exposing his ambition.

"My parents' deaths are still suspicious; my grandmother was suddenly poisoned and paralyzed in bed; Lin Ruyan pretended to be sick and cut my heart blood, trying to kill me. When I refused, they became angry and wanted to kill my entire family. These things, one by one, show Lin Yuansheng's ambition, it's obvious!"

Although there was no evidence of her parents' death and her grandmother's poisoning, she still had to expose Lin Yuansheng's conspiracy.

Even if they accuse her of slander, with the Crown Prince and the Queen Mother on their side, she is not afraid that the Queen and Beitang Hong will use the imperial power to suppress them and bite back.

"If we were all killed by Lin Yuansheng today and the public were to claim that our deaths were accidents, even if there were doubts, who would come to seek justice for the three of us, our grandparents and grandchildren? If we were all dead, Lin Yuansheng would naturally be able to take everything in the Xie family for himself."

In the previous life, this was the fate of the Xie family.

As expected, Lin Yuansheng immediately bit back, "Xie Jinglan... you're slandering me. Do you have any evidence for what you said?"

"I'm glad I didn't pretend to be sick." Lin Ruyan looked at Beitang Hong, feeling so wronged that tears were about to fall. "Your Highness, you know I didn't do anything. You have to make the decision for me!"

Beitang Hong couldn't bear to see Lin Ruyan looking so pitiful, and immediately spoke up for her: "Xie Jinglan, you are simply making things up. The one who took your heart's blood was me, not Yan'er. Why are you blaming this on her?"

The Crown Prince immediately followed up, "Very well, Beitang Hong, since you admit that you took the blood, then you will bear the responsibility for this matter. The blood of my future Crown Princess is extremely precious. As brothers, I will charge you fifty thousand taels for a bowl of my heart's blood."

"Fifty thousand taels? Beitang Yuan, why don't you just go and rob me?" Beitang Hong was so angry that he jumped up and down, pointing at the two of them, "Xie Jinglan, you've been planning this all along to extort money from me!"

"Dare to address this prince and the future princess by their names; the amount will be increased to sixty thousand taels." Beitang Yuan said softly.

"You..." Beitang Hong's face was gloomy. He knew that he couldn't win over Beitang Yuan with words, so he looked to Emperor Kunming for help. "Father, they are obviously trying to extort money from me."