"The Ghost Bride?"
"A tree can take a wife? That's some wild shit."
Jiang Qiao was at a loss for words.
Although he had encountered the wedding procession outside Ninggu City, he had never imagined it had anything to do with a tree.
Goddamn.
What kind of world was this?
Even if a tree had the right to pursue marriage...
Shouldn't it marry another tree?
Why was it crossing species?
"Exactly! A Ghost Tree taking a wife—it's an affront to the natural order," the evil spirit agreed.
"Heh."
Jiang Qiao glanced at it.
"Go on. How did the Hu Family handle it? Did they keep finding Ghost Brides for it?"
Speaking of the Ghost Bride...
For some reason...
He suddenly thought of the Double Happiness Bride.
She was the first vicious ghost he had encountered after arriving in this timeline. She had already possessed Long Peiyun and was showing signs of developing into something even stranger.
Come to think of it...
What was the Double Happiness Bride doing now?
Had she returned to the Dragon Family, or was she still wandering outside?
Judging by what happened in later years...
The Double Happiness Bride eventually became the God of Joy. Dropping one of the two "joy" characters from her name probably meant something...
"What could the Hu Family do?"
"If it wanted an ordinary woman, or a woman of noble birth..."
"Or even a special ability user..."
"They might have been able to work something out."
"But a Ghost Bride... that wasn't something they could afford to meddle with."
The evil spirit had no idea Jiang Qiao's thoughts had wandered far away. Seeing his unchanged expression, it assumed he was listening intently and continued, "They had no choice. The Hu Family could only flee."
"Oh?"
"Flee?"
"Wasn't the entire Hu Family