Wang Yang had been in an exceptionally good mood lately!
First and foremost, Baoyue had written to say she had sorted out his identity!
Not only had she secured his household registration with the Department of State Affairs, she had even obtained "foolproof" genealogy records for him!
These records were so authentic that not only did the Imperial Court recognize them, even the Langya Wang clan itself did!
Then didn't that make them fucking real?!
He had even acquired an actual set of "relatives," who wrote specially to Wang Yi, asking him to forward their letter to Wang Yang. They reminisced about old family ties and inquired after their kinsman, with phrases like "May you carry on the bonds our families have cherished for generations" and "Our ancestral shrine has been swept clean; the entire clan awaits your arrival with eager anticipation." Their words were so earnest, their feelings so sincere, that Wang Yang actually began to feel a faint pang of a swindler's guilt!
The family had also made a point of thanking Wang Yi for looking after a wandering scion of their branch, sending him a chest of gifts. Nominally, these were congratulations on his promotion; in truth, they were thanks for taking care of Wang Yang.
They had left Wang Yi questioning everything, turning the same thought over and over in his mind-Could this boy really be one of the Langya Wang?!
The question of his identity had always weighed like a boulder on Wang Yang's heart.
Sometimes, with the sun shining and everything going smoothly, his mood would suddenly grow heavy because he had remembered his assumed surname and started worrying about when the buried mine might explode. He was like a fugitive living in constant fear of arrest.
Now that he had genealogy records and