Song Yaoyao: [This Teng Yetao is no good at all. He needs someone to fight his wars and risk his life for him, yet he still suspects him.]
[He wants to play the whore and erect a monument to his own virtue. Honestly, I'm speechless.]
[If he's that worried, he can lead the army himself. With military power in his own hands, surely he'd finally feel secure?]
Guagua: [Emperors in ancient times rarely led their armies into battle themselves.]
Song Yaoyao said sarcastically:
[True. With Teng Yetao's intelligence, someone could put a cuckold's horns on his head right under his nose, and he wouldn't even notice.]
[Fight a war? Could he even win?]
Guagua agreed:
[Exactly, exactly.]
[Host, let me pick up where I left off.]
[Ji Chengyuan knew perfectly well that his marriage could ultimately have only two outcomes:]
[First, he could marry a woman with no family standing or influential background, temporarily dispelling the emperor's suspicions.]
[Second, the emperor could bestow a marriage on him, choosing one of his own people to marry Ji Chengyuan and keep him under constant surveillance.]
[Ji Chengyuan decisively chose the former.]
[Besides, by then, Ji Chengyuan and Lin Xiqian had developed feelings for each other. That was how they got together.]
Song Yaoyao: [Thankfully, Ji Chengyuan married a woman he loved. Otherwise, he really would have suffocated under all that injustice.]
[By the way, how did Lin Xiqian react when news spread that Ji Chengyuan was dead? She didn't side with the emperor, did she?]
Guagua: [When Lin Xiqian learned that Ji Chengyuan was dead, she fainted on the spot.]
[She wanted to leave the palace to hold a funeral for Ji Chengyuan, but Teng Yetao feared that Ji Chengyuan had faked his death and refused to let her go.]
*[Lin Xiqian