In a small courtyard of the Shen Family, Shen Qingxue watched the phenomenon of Ten Suns in the Sky and her eyes brimmed with joy and satisfaction.
"Weren't you going to send me to the Deng Family for a political marriage? You were the ones who handed a genius capable of causing the Ten Suns in the Sky phenomenon over to someone else. It wasn't that I didn't want to contribute to the Shen Family—it was you who abandoned me."
That was right. The person who had triggered the Ten Suns in the Sky phenomenon was Shen Qingxue.
For all this time, Shen Qingxue had been holding back a breath of resentment. They were both direct descendants of the Shen Family, so why was she the one who had to enter a political marriage and marry into the Deng Family?
Was it because her parents had died young? Because she no longer had anyone to rely on?
Shen Qingxue knew that the Celestial Court was realistic, and so was the Shen Family. A Shen Family member like her, who had lost her parents, could only accept the Lineage's arrangements. Otherwise, once she came of age, she would have to follow the Celestial Court's allocation rules, receive a low-grade planet, and scrape together a few negligible resources from her own planet.
Being able to advance to the rank of Middle God-Human in her lifetime would already be an enormous stroke of luck. Entering the ranks of Upper God-Humans was practically impossible.
In truth, with the resources of just one such planet, even the possibility of becoming a Middle God-Human was minuscule.
Thus, Shen Qingxue had obeyed the Lineage's arrangements and agreed to marry into the Deng Family, trading that agreement for better resources to aid her cultivation.
At last, when she