Wang Yue was busy trying to make a baby with Mo Shanshan, but he wasn't sure whether it was because they were both highly cultivated or for some other reason. No matter how long they tried, they still didn't have a child. By the time he gave his teacher lessons every seven days, he was so worn out he could barely focus.
One day, a letter suddenly arrived from Chang'an, written by Princess Li Yu.
He didn't bother hiding it from Mo Shanshan. He opened the letter casually and learned that Ning Que, that idiot, had signed a life-and-death pact with Xia Hou.
Ning Que had already reached Fate Knowing, after all. It would only take a year or two for him to reach its peak. If he fought Xia Hou then, the odds would be at least seven to three—in Ning Que's favor.
But what about now? At best, the odds were three to seven. One point depended on how his senior brothers from the Academy helped him, another on whether Si Gu Jian's swordsmanship, which Wang Yue had taught him, countered Xia Hou, and the last on whether Master Yan Se's runes would work against Xia Hou.
Mo Shanshan had initially thought that Princess Li Yu had taken a liking to Wang Yue and was trying to win him over again. She hadn't expected to hear that Ning Que was going to fight a duel.
She knew how much Wang Yue cared about his younger brother, so she asked, "A Yue, if you're worried, why don't we go check on him together?"
Wang Yue thought it over. Everything on Shu Mountain was progressing as usual, so it would be good to get out for a while. Maybe a little traveling would help Shanshan get pregnant. He thought that