With Tuyuan's cooperation, Great Qin absorbed Tuyuan without spending any effort, and Yushu was soon successfully persuaded by the Queen to marry the Imperial Preceptor.
Although Yushu did not want to marry someone she had never even met, she had no choice.
She knew that if she refused, Great Qin would send troops against Tuyuan.
For the sake of her parents and Tuyuan's people, Yushu still understood the bigger picture.
Since both sides had agreed, everything was quickly arranged.
However, Meng Tian still had to handle the affairs of Tuyuan's submission, so they would have to wait another day.
Jiang Siming was not anxious in the slightest. Tuyuan's King and Queen also wanted to build a closer relationship with him, so they invited him to the palace as a guest, and Jiang Siming gladly accepted.
Accompanied by the King, Jiang Siming spent the entire day eating, drinking, and having fun in Tuyuan's palace.
But he did not see Princess Yushu.
The King had originally wanted Yushu to meet Jiang Siming, but Yushu refused on the grounds that she did not want to see anyone before her wedding.
Jiang Siming naturally knew why she had refused. Yushu simply did not want to marry him.
He could understand. After all, who would accept being casually married off to a stranger?
His marriage to Princess Yushu was purely a political one.
On top of that, Yushu had recently been deceived by Yi Xiaochuan's honeyed words and developed feelings for him, making it even harder for her to accept Jiang Siming, this "outsider," for the time being.
Jiang Siming found the situation both amusing and exasperating.
This was the first time a girl had hated him, even though she had never interacted with him at all.
Still, this feeling of breaking up another couple