Second Marriage

Marquis Ningyuan did not have a choice but to fake his death. When it came to this matter, he had to follow the Late Emperor until the very end.

The Late Emperor was the di son of the Gaozu Above him, there was a shu brother. All the brothers in the imperial family competed for favor and legitimacy, especially the shu brother who was the eldest son.

Before the Late Emperor ascended the throne, the shu Prince Wu, who held a note from the Gaozu, said that the Late Emperor was ordinary, stupid, and lacked the virtue to seize the imperial throne.

The Late Emperor had already made preparations, but he didn’t know there was a spy in the palace who stole the jade seal first. Later, Prince Wu rebelled and failed, but he died without saying where the jade seal was hidden. Prince Wu had four sons, two who were di sons, one who wasn’t, and one who was nowhere to be found. The jade seal was mostly in the hands of this son of Prince Wu.

If it was just any official seal, then it was fine if it was lost. When the Emperor ascended the throne, the seal could be replaced. However, the Gaozu said that there was a treasure map from the previous dynasty hidden in the official seal. The previous dynasty’s Emperor knew that the tides were turning against him, and ordered his people to move the country’s treasures out and hid them, so that future generations could have the capital to make a comeback.

Later, when the previous dynasty fell, the country changed dynasties, and that map also fell into the hands of the current family: the Song.

But the treasure map was actually just a reference. The real map was ordered by the former dynasty’s Emperor to be scattered among key people. No one knew who had the pieces to the maps. After the war, the whereabouts of these people were unknown, and the reference fell into the hands of the Emperors of the Song Dynasty, but it was not very useful.

The world was so big that to find those people would be looking for a needle in a haystack. Thus, the seal was stored away. The ancestral Gaozu of the past was not going to spend the manpower looking for the treasure but passed on the secret to frighten the next Emperor.

It was handed down from generation to generation and reached the Gaozu. As a result of the eldest son, Prince Wu’s rebellion, the jade seal was stolen. When the Late Emperor captured Prince Wu, he discovered that Prince Wu already knew what was hidden in the jade seal, and he had to arrange a trap to force Prince Wu’s second di son to appear. However, he had already made a copy of the reference. Ultimately, the second di son of Prince Wu was rescued and disappeared.

The enormous treasure and the second di son of Prince Wu who escaped became a secret worry for the Late Emperor. He began to look for clues with the reference. With the current Emperor, he still needed one-third of the map to find the final location.

The descendants of Prince Wu survived and did not give up looking for the treasure. They wanted to use the treasure to change their fortunes. Thus, this worry passed on to the current Emperor.

The Emperor did not know where to get new information. The descendants of Prince Wu had also defected to the enemy making the situation at the border even more critical. Marquis Ningyuan, as a general trusted by the Emperor, was aware of this, as was the Late Emperor. While guarding the border and forcing the enemy to retreat, he was looking for the descendants of Prince Wu, and he happened to find traces of them in a battle this year.

Unfortunately, the other side was too cunning and escaped again. 

For this reason, the Emperor was anxious and ordered Marquis Ningyuanto to fake his death, and create a “crisis” on the border to lure the descendants out.

That’s why the border was in a win or lose situation to make the situation known for the trap.

The Emperor passed the order and Marquis Ningyuan and his son had to obey. What’s more, the Emperor promised that he would protect his daughter. In the end, the Li Family had cruelly and unexpectedly divorced his daughter. Marquis Ningyuan could only clench his teeth in hatred. After all, he could only be angry and not dare to reveal his whereabouts. His daughter had found him now, and she was brought here by that ruthless Ye Shen.

At first he thought that Ye Shen might have heard of his location from the Emperor, and he waited a long time for the Emperor’s letter to say this before he realized that it was Ye Shen’s own initiative!

Ye Shen was so outrageous to force him to appear. He was disobeying the Emperor’s command. And what did he see as a result?

He saw his daughter pulling another man’s sleeve and bringing that man to him. His daughter looked at him shyly and wanted to say something but hesitated. How could Marquis Ningyuan not know what this meant?

How could his daughter have a relationship with this person?!

Marquis Ningyuan seemed to have fallen into a sea of thunderstorms. He was hit by a wave of worry and anger. He was facing a situation of every type of crisis in front of him, but he was helpless and powerless all over.

Xiao Youning, who did not know how many dramatic scenarios her father had played through his mind, whispered to Ye Shen, “You must already know my father. He looks fierce, but he is actually very talkative. Don’t be scared by him.”