Chapter 492

“No, don’t worry!” Xu Qingshi said, patting her small chest as a guarantee.“Ladies, no more problems, can you open the door now?” Xie Jincheng, standing beside Xu Heming, called out toward the courtyard.

“Your... Your Highness, in the princely mansion, between you, the old princess, the princess, and the heir, who is the most important, and who is the least important?” the young girl asked nervously.

Xu Heming, who had been frowning, now understood everything. The little traitor inside was none other than his own son, Xu Qingshi.

“Xu Qingshi, if you don’t open the door right now, don’t blame me for being rude!” Xu Heming didn’t answer the question but instead shouted toward the courtyard.

Xu Qingshi’s eyes widened. He thought, how did his father know he was here?

“Your Highness, you mean the heir is inside?” Xie Jincheng asked, breaking into a smile.

So it turned out that the gate of Banyue Pavilion hadn’t been opened all this time because Xu Qingshi was inside and wouldn’t allow it.

Thinking of this, Xie Jincheng couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

“Lao Xu, your son doesn’t approve of you marrying the princess!” Xie Jincheng said, barely suppressing his laughter, patting the shoulder of a gloomy-faced Xu Heming.

“Xu Qingshi!” Xu Heming called his son by his full name, his tone full of menace.

Meanwhile, inside the room, Cheng Qingli was also curious why it was taking so long for Xu Heming to enter.

As she walked out, she saw the somewhat tense scene.

“What’s going on?” Cheng Qingli asked Chuntao beside her, looking confused.

“The heir won’t let us open the door,” Chuntao said, both anxious and troubled.

“Little Devil, are your skin itching for a beating?” Cheng Qingli looked at Xu Qingshi and asked disapprovingly.

She knew that any further delay would miss the auspicious time.

“What do you know?” Xu Qingshi rolled his eyes, not wanting to bother with that Witch Cheng Qingli.

“I don’t know much, but if you keep blocking the door, we’ll miss the auspicious time. What are you all standing around for? Why not open the door now?” After Cheng Qingli’s words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

They dared not offend Xu Qingshi, nor could they defy Cheng Qingli. Now with Cheng Qingli giving the order, they quickly opened the main gate.

“Don’t ​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‍open the door!” Xu Qingshi shouted, remembering that Xu Heming hadn’t agreed to his terms.

“Little Devil, if you don’t want to go home and get a whipping from your father, don’t spoil the mood here,” Cheng Qingli said, shoving him aside.

At this point, the young girls who had been blocking the door opened the gate of Banyue Pavilion.

Li Zhiwei had now changed into her bright red wedding dress and wore a phoenix crown.

Though a round fan partially covered Li Zhiwei’s face, it still made Xu Heming’s heart skip a beat.

“Zhiwei, I’ve come to take you back to the mansion,” Xu Heming said, looking tenderly at Li Zhiwei.

“Your Highness,” Li Zhiwei said, naturally noticing the burning passion in Xu Heming’s eyes as he looked at her. She thought, she was about to marry Xu Heming.

Li Zhiwei remembered, as if she were back in her past life, when she married Lin Jitong. Back then, Lin Jitong hadn’t come to Li’an County to escort her.

Even when she arrived in the capital, the Runhou Marquis’s mansion had left her waiting outside.

Later, she finally entered the gate of the Runhou Marquis’s mansion, and that had marked the beginning of the nightmare of her previous life.

Now, she was getting married again.

“Zhiwei, let’s go bid farewell to your father and mother,” Xu Heming said gently, taking Li Zhiwei’s hand.

At that moment, in the main courtyard of the Li family, Li Tianyou and Lady Yao were already seated in the hall, waiting.

“Husband, why hasn’t she come yet?” Lady Yao asked, growing a bit anxious after waiting for a while, knowing that Xu Heming had arrived at the mansion long ago.

“Don’t worry. Perhaps it’s just young people enjoying some fun,” Li Tianyou said, though he too was anxious. He reasoned that since Xu Heming had come, there shouldn’t be any real problems.

Beside them, Jiang Yuanrang let out a light scoff, thinking that Xu Heming was too useless, unable even to answer a few young girls’ questions.

Jiang Yuanrang didn’t believe that a child like Xu Qingshi could truly stump Xu Heming.

How could such a man be worthy of his sister?

Thinking this, Jiang Yuanrang turned a dissatisfied gaze toward Li Tianyou and Lady Yao on the dais.

If these two hadn’t failed to guard his sister’s choices well, how could she have ended up marrying that widower, the Prince of An?

“They’re coming, they’re coming! The Eldest Miss and His Highness are here!” Soon a servant boy ran in, shouting as he came.

Hearing this, Li Tianyou and Lady Yao quickly composed themselves and sat up straight.

“The newlyweds bid farewell to their parents!” Sure enough, within moments, the voice of the ritual official came from outside.

Then, with the help of the wedding matron and Xu Heming, Li Zhiwei walked in.

Seeing her parents seated respectfully at the head, Li Zhiwei’s eyes began to redden.

It felt as if she were back in her past life, in Li’an County, when her parents sent her off joyfully on her wedding day, only for her to marry the wrong person.

“Father! Mother!”

Li Zhiwei choked up as she knelt before Li Tianyou and Lady Yao, performing a deep bow.

“Father-in-law, Mother-in-law!”

Xu Heming knelt without hesitation beside Li Zhiwei and also performed a deep bow.

Aside from the emperor and his own parents, Xu Heming had never bowed so formally to anyone. But today, the day he was marrying Li Zhiwei as his princess, he performed this bow willingly and wholeheartedly.

Li Tianyou and Lady Yao exchanged a glance, surprised that Xu Heming would kneel to them.

Li Tianyou then raised his back straight—they were Li Zhiwei’s biological parents, worthy of Xu Heming’s bow.

He also lightly patted Lady Yao’s hand.

Tears in her eyes, Lady Yao looked at her daughter.

Her daughter’s marriage had been full of twists and turns.

“Thank you for your kindness in raising me. Today, your daughter is marrying into the Prince of An’s mansion. I hope you, Father and Mother, will take good care of yourselves from now on,” Li Zhiwei choked out. After speaking, she kowtowed to Li Tianyou and Lady Yao three times.

Hearing this, Lady Yao wept uncontrollably.

Li Tianyou’s eyes also reddened.

“Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, thank you for raising such a wonderful daughter. Today, I am taking Zhiwei back with me. Rest assured, just as Zhiwei was a precious treasure in your hands while she was in the Li family, from now on, when she comes to the Prince of An’s mansion, she will be the most treasured person in our entire household,” Xu Heming said sincerely to Li Tianyou and Lady Yao.

Li Tianyou looked at them, red-eyed, cursing in his heart this reckless young man who was taking his precious daughter away, home and all.

“Zhiwei was raised with great care by my wife and me since she was little. In the future, if she does something that displeases you, don’t hit her or scold her. Just tell me, and I will discipline my own daughter properly,” Li Tianyou said, looking at Xu Heming with tears in his eyes.

He paused, then continued, his voice choking: “If the day comes when you take a liking to another woman and grow tired of her, you need only tell me. I will naturally come and take my daughter back. I will not covet even a single coin from your Prince of An’s mansion.”

Upon hearing this, Xu Heming felt a pang of sadness. Did Li Tianyou truly think so little of him?

Then it dawned on him: if he himself had a daughter one day, he too would not want her to suffer any grievance.