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While Sumo was caught in a nightmare and struggling at the other end of the Mirror Lake, at the center of the same Lake, another person related to him was unaware of it.

Zhu Yan slept from early morning to late afternoon, and only woke up because she was hungry. After hastily freshening up, she started devouring a meal, asking while eating, “Where is Father?”

“The King has not returned yet.” Grandma Sheng replied, lowering her voice with some concern, “All the Six Kings are still in the Inner Palace, the nine gates are tightly closed, and all the Primus Troops and the Imperial Cavalry are out in full force, but no word has come out yet.”

“Well… is that so?” Zhu Yan swallowed a mouthful of chicken soup, but in her heart, she was also a little surprised: an entire day gone, it seems that there were a lot of things to be discussed. The emperor just died, and there was turmoil inside and outside of Kongsang, so she wondered if Master was able to take control of the situation. Knowing that Shifu grew up in the Divine Temple, and originally was destined to become a Great Divine Priest, he never learned how to govern a nation. What is by any chance…

Just as she was thinking about this, a sudden clamor came from the road outside, indicating that the Red King had made his return.

“Father!” She didn’t care that she was halfway through her meal and immediately jumped up.

The Red King was extremely exhausted after spending the entire day in the palace, but when he saw his daughter rushing towards him, his eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help but speed up his steps to welcome her, opening his arms wide. However, the moment Zhu Yan was about to jump over, he quickly darkened his face and shouted, “You rotten girl, you’ve been wandering around for the entire night, how dare you still know to come back?”

Zhu Yan had already jumped over to her father’s neck and was about to hug him, when she was startled by the roar and shrank back, her face suddenly turning fearful, and hesitated to go forward.

The next moment, however, she felt her body being pulled forward, and the Red King wrapped her up in his embrace.

“Hey… Father!” She was so stunned that she did not dare to struggle, but only raised her head to glance at her father’s face, and was secretly relieved to realize that the Red King while lifting his daughter up with one hand, was wearing a complicate expression on his face, but there was no sign of anger.

“You damn girl!” The Red King really didn’t hit her, he just hugged his daughter enthusiastically, almost strangling her, until she almost couldn’t breathe, and didn’t question her about where she went last night, his mouth only saying, “It’s good to know that you are home!”

After a pause, he added, “I didn’t expect you to have so much power for a little girl…”

“Huh?” Zhu Yan froze for a moment, ” Have… so much power?”

“Do you think Father doesn’t know where you went yesterday?” The Red King stroked her hair and couldn’t help but laugh a little, whispering, ” Wonderful girl, since when did you actually manage to handle such a difficult character?”

“Huh?” Zhu Yan couldn’t seem to be able to understand what he was talking about, “Manage… who?”

“You still dare to deny it?” Without speaking, the Red King looked at his daughter, squaring her from head to toe extensively and suddenly raised his hand, pulling the hairpin off her head, with a face brimming with joy – the lost but recovered Jade Bone was in the palm of his thick hand, like a tiny toothpick, shining with a crystalline, warm glow.

In that instant, Zhu Yan understood who her father was talking about, and her face instantly swished up in flames, not knowing how to reply for a moment, she could only mutter, “You… what are you talking about!”

The Red King looked around and without saying much, he just pulled his daughter into the inner chamber.

Zhu Yan was embarrassed and mortified when her father pointed the finger at her and wondered if he would scold her. She was apprehensive all the way and could only secretly check the face of the Red King. Only when she saw that he was all smiles and happy, she was able to put her heart at ease. Once inside the room, she carefully inquired, “Did you… you see the Crown Prince today?”

“Yes.” The Red King closed the door and holding the Jade Bone in his hand, he looked at it again and again, overflowing with joy, “The Emperor died last night, and apart from the Green King, all six vassal Kings entered the Palace overnight to meet His Imperial Highness at the Purple Palace and talked with him for a whole day – alas, our new Emperor of Kongsang is truly wise and extraordinary.”

“That’s certainly true!” Zhu Yan couldn’t help but reply.

“You little girl…” the Red King caught her expression and couldn’t help but scratch his daughter’s little nose.

Zhu Yan blushed for a moment and inquired in a small voice, “So… you guys spent the whole day in the palace today, what exactly did you talk about?”

“Don’t worry, it’s all good news.” The Red King gave her a meaningful look and nodded, “With the Crown Prince presiding, we all sat down and negotiated calmly in the Inner Palace for a whole day, settling the remaining issues – the original marriage contract is all but null and void: the Crown Prince doesn’t have to marry Princess Xue Ying, and you don’t have to marry Bai Fenglin.”

“Great!” Zhu Yan blurted out, unable to contain her joy, “I really don’t have to get married?”

“Why are you so happy?” When the Red King saw her expression on the verge of bursting with joy, he couldn’t help but stop his hand from reaching for his wine glass, stunned, “You actually dislike that boy Bai Fenglin so much? What’s wrong with him? The eldest son of the White Clan, so handsome and promising, many people from the six clans would like to marry their daughters to him!”

“Of course I don’t! He’s a pervert, a womanizer and a gambler, his mouth is full of honey words but he is a killer… What’s so good about him except that he’s having a pleasant face?” Zhu Yan was aggrieved.

She looked at her father with hatred and anger, “Do you see, you promised me in marriage without asking my opinion! How could you?”

“You rotten girl!” The Red King scolded, yet after thinking about it for a moment he couldn’t help but feel a little apprehensive and asked his daughter tactfully, “Then… if this marriage contract wasn’t cancelled, were you planning to run away from the marriage again?”

“…” Zhu Yan glanced at her father and didn’t reply.

“Oh damn! You really planned to…!” The Red King was so angry that he lifted his hand and stared angrily at his daughter for a long time, but his raised hand slowly lowered, and a hint of serendipity actually surfaced on his face as he sighed, “Fortunately, you don’t have to marry. If you had really run away, how would your mother and I have survived?”

Zhu Yan’s heart warmed and her eyes reddened a little, so she sullenly walked over and hugged her father’s shoulders, muttering “I’m sorry”.

“It’s all right now,” the Red King rubbed his daughter’s long, thick hair, “the late emperor issued a decree before his death, breaking the engagement between the Crown Prince and Princess Xue Ying – today the Crown Prince and the White King had a confidential talk for an hour together. As soon as the White King came out, he spoke to me and broke the engagement between Bai Fenglin and you.”

“Huh? It was actually the White King who brought it up?” Zhu Yan was stunned, unable to speak for a moment – breaking the marriage contract with Xue Ying was only a matter of principle, after all, it was a decree issued by the Bei Mian Emperor when he was still alive, but Shi Ying had actually convinced the White King to give up the marriage contract with the Red Clan, which was really surprising.

The White King was not a man to be trifled with, so why on earth had he agreed to such a thing? Could it be that Master had made some condition that he could not refuse?

“Then…” she asked timidly, “you consented to it, Father, didn’t you?”

“What a joke! How could I agree to that?” The Red King sneered coldly and raised his bushy eyebrows, “How dare that man back out of my daughter’s marriage? When I heard that, I was so angry that I almost punched that old man in the face!”

” Ugh…” Zhu Yan remembered his father’s fiery temper, and was feeling a cold sweat on behalf of everyone in the Purple Palace: the White King was well-mannered and old, he could have not withstand a blow from a fist as huge as his father’s vinegar bowl.

The Red King drank another sip of wine and exhaled, “If I weren’t being restrained by the Crown Prince in time, I would have beaten that old man to death on the spot.” Speaking of this, he squinted at his daughter and a peculiar smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth, “Ah-Yan, you are really worthy of… being my only daughter.”

“Huh?” She didn’t immediately understand what her father was talking about, “What are you saying, Father?”

“Don’t play dumb! The Crown Prince already told me,” the Red King released a laugh and pinched his daughter’s cheeks with an expression of great amusement, “just don’t pretend to be stupid – you rushed off to the Inner Palace alone yesterday to look for him, didn’t you? You didn’t come back for the whole night… Heh, heh, you actually did something of that magnitude without saying a word!”

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