Although his principal wife from the Zhu Family had died, Dai Hao had felt no sorrow these past few days.
Dai Hao's life had seen its share of setbacks over the past few years, but every setback brought even greater benefits.
For instance, there was the time Sun Moon's second- and third-rate divisions routed his forces, and his wife's failed attempt to have his illegitimate son Dai Luoli and the boy's mother assassinated exposed the boy's existence, shattering Dai Hao's image as a devoted, romantic hero. Afterward, Dai Hao had instead become emperor of the West Star Luo Empire.
Thus, Dai Hao had grown accustomed to these setbacks.
After the Dai Family Dynasty was restored, the Dai Family and its affiliated factions bullied men, tyrannized women, and committed every evil imaginable within the West Star Luo Empire, amassing plenty of wealth along the way.
Not long ago, the empress-that very same Duchess-had also been killed by Huo Yuhao! To Dai Hao, that truly meant he had enjoyed all three great joys of a man's life: promotion, riches, and a dead wife.
Perhaps this is my destiny! Fate keeps chasing after me to spoon-feed me! How is that my fault? Dai Hao sometimes thought in a daze.
Dai Hao's only regret now was this: why had Huo Yuhao killed only that Zhu bitch and Dai Huabin, just one of her two sons?
Ever since he had gotten together many years ago with Dai Luoli's mother, Xu Xiaoyu-the noblewoman the Xu Family had sent to supervise the army at the time-the Dai Family had begun considering a marriage alliance with the Xu Family.
The Dai Family understood perfectly well that even under their original plan, in which they took advantage of the Xu Family's dwindling numbers and decline over several generations to