Exiled to Zhenjiang

When Xiaoqing returned to White Manor, she said nothing about stealing the treasury silver. She merely told Bai Suzhen to wait for her wedding.

Though Bai Suzhen wondered how she had managed it, the joy in her heart kept her from asking too many questions.

Bai Fu and the five ghosts did not speak out either. Beforehand, Bai Fu would have urged Bai Suzhen to stop Xiaoqing.

But now that the silver had already been stolen—and he had personally helped do it—he naturally kept his mouth shut.

This, too, was ordained by their tribulation, clouding their minds and leading them, by a twist of fate and yet as though it were only natural, to commit this deed.

When Li Gongfu returned home and saw that the two silver ingots were both official silver, suspicion stirred in his heart.

But Xu Jiaorong said, "White Lady comes from a wealthy household. Why can't she have official silver?"

To conceal the fact that Bai Suzhen was a snake demon, Xu Xian nodded repeatedly from the side.

He did not know where the official silver had come from, nor did he know what crime stealing it entailed.

Though he vaguely felt that something was amiss, disaster was written in his fate, and tribulation clung to him.

The thought flickered through his mind only to be scattered by the joy in his heart.

Thus, the two happily held a wedding, and Xu Xian formally moved into White Manor to live with Bai Suzhen.

Every day, they cultivated together and slept together, living in perfect harmony.

They also planted the Lovesickness Bean Ling Qing had given them in a flowerpot, tending to it morning and evening.

Before they knew it, a month had passed.

That day, Qiantang Prefecture counted the treasury silver and discovered that one