This time, Xu Yanjin was not startled by Gu Qingcheng’s words. Instead, he went with the flow and replied, “Then has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince figured out how to marry me into his household?”
Gu Qingcheng had completely given up caring. Anyway, after saying those things in front of his imperial father, imperial father-in-law/mother, and those court officials, what else was there to be afraid of? “I haven’t figured it out yet. I wonder if the Regent has any suggestions?”
Xu Yanjin chuckled. “Your Highness, your words are always shockingly bold. To put it commonly, you are utterly shameless.”
Gu Qingcheng retorted, “When you are in front of your future Crown Prince Consort, what need is there for shame?”
Xu Yanjin looked at him with a half-smile. “Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince so certain that this prince will marry you?”
Gu Qingcheng smiled, then reached out to lift Xu Yanjin’s chin. “Little Imperial Uncle is so breathtakingly beautiful that even if you don’t marry this prince, it wouldn’t hurt for this prince to marry into your household. Even if you truly resisted the marriage contract, I still have ways to tie you down.”
Xu Yanjin remarked, “His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is certainly scheming well, but aren’t you a bit too young?”
Gu Qingcheng replied, “The Regent is only a few years older than me. Do you have the face to say that?”
Xu Yanjin pinched the hand that was lifting his chin and brought it into his own palm to toy with it. “Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this prince is indeed not much older than you, but my generation is aligned with your elders. By seniority, I am a full generation older than you.”
Gu Qingcheng said unconcernedly, “So what? My imperial father-in-law/mother is also the Regent, and his seniority is a full generation older than my imperial father, yet doesn’t he still end up becoming my imperial father’s empress?”
Calling him Imperial Uncle by day, calling him Imperial Uncle in bed.
“Then…” Xu Yanjin smiled mischievously. “Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know a secret about His Majesty and the Empress?”
“Oh? What secret?” He was quite interested in this kind of thing, especially since the two of them usually kept things so well hidden.
“Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know which of them… is on top?” Xu Yanjin asked.
“My imperial father, of course.” Ever since he was young, he had been brainwashed by his imperial father and had never doubted his imperial father’s majesty for a moment.
“His Majesty is actually… on the bottom.” Actually, he had stumbled upon this purely by accident.
Last time in the Imperial Study, he had inadvertently seen.
Gu Qingcheng’s expression cracked. What on earth? His imperial father was the one on the bottom!
That was impossible; it was absolutely impossible! How could his imperial father possibly be the bottom one? He must have seen it wrong yes, he definitely saw it wrong!
It took Gu Qingcheng quite a while to digest this news before he finally recovered. “Why is the Regent telling me this?” You’re shaking the position of my imperial father in my heart.
But it didn’t matter; it was just a tiny, minor bit of shaking, and it wouldn’t affect his imperial father’s towering image in his heart in the slightest.
“Hah~.” Xu Yanjin chuckled softly. The fish had taken the bait. “If I agree to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, then can I… be on top just like the Empress?”
“Absolutely not.” Gu Qingcheng refused without a single shred of hesitation. Heh~, wanting him to be on the bottom? Keep dreaming!
Xu Yanjin let go of Gu Qingcheng’s hand and stretched lazily. “Fine then, if it won’t work, forget it. But Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince… what is your betrothal gift going to be? If it’s too meager, this prince won’t agree!”
“How about taking the entire realm as a betrothal gift?” Gu Qingcheng smiled as he looked at him.
Xu Yanjin replied, “Very well, then this prince shall wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take the realm as a betrothal gift to marry me.” He didn’t take these words seriously, merely thinking of them as a joke spoken in the ignorance of youth.
“Prince, Your Highness has arrived,” said Chou Yi.
“Please go ahead, Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince,” Xu Yanjin said.
As soon as Gu Qingcheng stepped down from the carriage, he couldn’t help marveling, “Wow! This front gate looks immensely wealthy! When will I ever be as rich as this!” As he spoke, he thought of his two biological fathers and concluded that he probably would never be rich in this lifetime.