The youngest God of War of the Da Zhou Kingdom, the Duke of Zhenguo's son, the Prince Jun bestowed by the emperor, quickly spread throughout the entire capital after pointing at a dragon with a rabbit in the court.
Then it's the whole world.
This use of the rabbit to point at the dragon is even more arrogant and domineering than Zhao Gao's previous act of pointing at a deer and calling it a horse.
Prince Jun's move was not only telling the world that he had control of the entire court, but also informing everyone that the true emperor was nothing more than a Rabbit in his hands, easily manipulated.
The emperor can be replaced at any time, as long as Prince Jun is willing.
The reason why Prince Jun did this was because the actions of the emperor and several Prince Jun had angered him and crossed his bottom Prince Jun.
Not to mention the thirteen Thrusting in six months, the emperor and several princes even colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country in order to eliminate Prince Jun.
It is chilling that a dignified emperor would betray his country and collude with the enemy, merely to kill his own ministers.
The Duke of Zhenguo's family has produced three generations of generals, each generation dying on the battlefield to defend the Da Zhou Kingdom.
He can be described as a pillar of the Da Zhou Kingdom.
Now, only Prince Jun remains of the Duke of Zhenguo's family, and the emperor wants to exterminate him completely, even at the cost of colluding with the enemy and betraying the country.
In less than twenty days, the reputation of the Da Zhou Kingdom family was utterly ruined and became infamous.
The old emperor wasn't entirely idle; first, he found someone to take the blame.
The blame for hiring someone to Thrusting Prince Jun was shifted to the First Prince, while the blame for treason was shifted to the Sixth Prince.
The eldest prince was Sealing in the imperial mausoleum and never left again, while the sixth prince was demoted to a commoner and exiled to a border town.
Later, he even bestowed upon Prince Jun the title of Father of the Nation, and even the emperor himself had to pay homage to Prince Jun.
After two moves, it did have some effect.
However, Prince Jun did not respond to this, and he never attended court again afterward.
"Imperial edict has arrived!"
At the main gate of the Shen residence, the Shen Family all knelt down.
The eunuch delivering the imperial edict read aloud, " The Shen Family has a daughter of marriageable age, sixteen, a perfect age for marriage. Our Father Emperor Zhao Yan has fought for many years without marrying, and the desire to continue the family line is of great anxiety to me..."
"By imperial decree, the Father of the Nation is to be married to Shen Wanwan, the second daughter of the Shen Family. This is the imperial order!"
The Shen Family family members were all dumbfounded.
Shen Yunchen, the head of the Shen Family family, serves as a clerk in the Ministry of Revenue, holding Sixth Pin official position.
Sixth Pin official is quite a high position outside the capital.
The local county magistrate was only Ninth Pin.
Sixth Pin official was roughly equivalent to a prefectural governor.
But in this capital city, he was a nobody, a minor official who couldn't even be considered respectable!
"Sir, is there any error in this imperial edict? Are you sure it's for the second daughter and not the eldest daughter?" Shen Yunchen asked cautiously.
"How dare you!" the imperial eunuch shouted angrily.
"This imperial edict was obtained by the Father of the Nation from His Majesty. Do you dare to question the Father of the Nation and His Majesty?"
"No, I wouldn't dare!" Shen Yunchen quickly kowtowed.
"However, I dare not hide it from my father-in-law. The second daughter of the Shen Family has an unsightly image, which is an insult to the emperor's dignity. She is truly unworthy of the Father of the Nation's status."
"That's why I asked this question."
The eunuch who delivered the imperial decree knew that the decree was accurate, and he had also heard about Shen Wanwan, the second daughter of the Shen Family.
It is said that he is ugly and obese.
On the contrary, it was the eldest daughter, Shen Qingqing, who was extremely presumptuous, and she and Prince Jun had known each other since childhood, and could be considered childhood sweethearts.
He couldn't understand why the Father of the Nation would choose Shen Wanwan instead of Shen Qingqing.
Twenty days ago, when the Father of the Nation asked the Emperor for the imperial decree to grant him the marriage, the old Emperor couldn't help but ask if there had been a mistake.
However, the Father of the Nation repeatedly confirmed that it was his second daughter Shen Wanwan, not Shen Qingqing.
"Hmph, this matter has been confirmed repeatedly by the Father of the Nation, so there is certainly no mistake. Which one of you is Miss Shen Wanwan? Please accept the imperial decree."
The Shen Family family members looked at each other in bewilderment, because since Shen Wanwan returned and caused a scene, she had been living in the inner quarters of the Shen residence and had hardly come out for the past twenty days.
Shen Wanwan isn't here at all.
Shen Wanwan's status is different now; she has become the wife of the founding father, and her status is probably even higher than that of the empress in the palace.
The story of the Founding Father using the rabbit to refer to the dragon is from just a short time ago.
Shen Yunchen was covered in cold sweat, while Shen Qingqing beside him was trembling like a leaf.
Everyone else was in a similar situation.
Shen Wanwan was once treated worse than a servant in the Shen Family.
Among the people present, almost all of them had bullied Shen Wanwan.
Now that Shen Wanwan has gained power, she's likely to be purged.
Even if they were all killed, no one would dare utter a single word.
"What, is he not at the Shen residence?" the eunuch delivering the imperial decree asked, frowning.
The Father of the Nation has said that the imperial edict must be personally delivered to Shen Wanwan in twenty days.
It cannot be handed over to any member of the Shen Family.
"Go and call Wanwan over quickly," Shen Yunchen shouted to a butler beside him.
"No!"
Just then, a light and melodious female voice rang out from behind the crowd.
Everyone turned around and looked, then were dumbfounded once again.
A woman of stunning beauty, as graceful as a Liu Fufeng the breeze, wearing a long blue dress, walked out from the backyard of the Shen residence.
"Are you Wanwan?" Shen Yunchen asked in confusion.
"Father, you don't recognize your daughter after only twenty days? How has the Shen Family's outhouse been these past twenty days?" Shen Wanwan chuckled.
"You rebellious daughter, it's you?" Shen Yunchen was immediately enraged.
For the past twenty days, everyone in the Shen Family has been suffering from diarrhea.
I consulted a doctor, and took a lot of medicine, but nothing worked.
They couldn't even find the cause of the diarrhea.
The Shen Family has been through a lot of trouble lately.
"Yes, don't worry, this is just a little interest I got back for Shen Wanwan. The good days ahead are long!"
"I will take back from you everything that Shen Wanwan suffered, tenfold, a hundredfold."
The Shen Family all turned pale upon hearing Shen Wanwan's words.
Shen Yunchen, who was already furious, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine from his heels to the top of his head.
Shen Wanwan walked up to Shen Qingqing, bent down, and pinched her chin.
"Especially you, my dear sister!"
"Sister, I..."
"Shh, don't talk!" Shen Wanwan shook her finger.
He then turned to the eunuch who was delivering the imperial edict and extended his hand. "Sir, please give me the imperial edict!"
Normally, one is supposed to kneel to receive an imperial edict, but considering the status of the founding father of the nation, no one dared to utter a single word.
"Yes, Prince Jun!"
There's really no fixed way to address the wife of the founding father; even the eunuch delivering the imperial edict dared not address her carelessly.
Since the founding father was Prince Jun, it's always appropriate to call her Prince Jun.
" Prince Jun? Interesting!" Shen Wanwan turned to look at the Shen Family family members.
"You have one day to prepare ten times the amount of dowry my mother left me, and then send it to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion."
"If it had been even a day later, or a minute less, you would have lost your position as a clerk in the Ministry of Personnel."
"Okay!" Shen Yunchen dared not say anything reckless at this moment.
Whether we can gather the money or not, we can talk about that later; we absolutely cannot refuse now.
At the same time, he was filled with regret.
Who would have thought that Shen Wanwan, after losing weight, would be so beautiful, far surpassing her eldest daughter, Shen Qingqing, in looks?
No wonder the Father of the Nation chose Shen Wanwan instead of Shen Qingqing; perhaps the two had already met and arranged their affair?
But when exactly did the Father of the Nation and Shen Wanwan meet?
A sudden thought flashed through Shen Yunchen's mind, and he remembered something.
It seems that Zhao Yan and Shen Wanwan returned on the same day.
On the day Shen Wanwan returned to the manor, she caused a huge scene, beating up everyone in the household, including Shen Yunchen.
They finally let them go after he demanded two thousand taels of silver notes, and then they went to the backyard.
The next day, Shen Qingqing was expelled from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion by the king and told him that Zhao Yan had returned to the mansion.
He knew that Shen Qingqing had sent people to kill Shen Wanwan.
That means Shen Wanwan was likely rescued by the Father of the Nation, and they probably had physical intimacy.
After all, he knew the effects of Spring Fragrance Powder better than anyone.
He used this Spring Fragrance Powder to obtain Shen Wanwan's biological mother.
Thinking about this, Shen Yunchen felt a pang of heartache.
What is this? Like Shitou yourself in the foot!
That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that if Shen Wanwan knew that the cause of her biological mother's death and the reason for her obesity were both because of her...
Then he's doomed.
"By the way, didn't my dear sister always want to stay in the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion? So I granted your wish." Shen Wanwan said to Shen Qingqing.
"Sister, I... I know my place, and I dare not have any more improper thoughts."
Now, Shen Qingqing dares not return to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion.
One is Zhao Yan, and the other Shen Wanwan.
One was a ruthless man, the other underwent a drastic personality change, and he almost got himself killed.
If I were to go to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, how could I possibly have a good life?
Even if they don't die, they'll be badly injured.
"From now on, you'll stay by my side as my maid!" Shen Wanwan completely ignored what Shen Qingqing was saying.
Instead, he turned and walked out of the mansion.
" Prince Jun, I don't know what brings you here..." the imperial eunuch asked.
"Of course, I'm going to see my husband."
"So, Prince Jun is just going to pass away like this?"
"What else?" Shen Wanwan shrugged, then pointed at Shen Qingqing with her finger.
"Good sister, let's go. Your little sister will take you back to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion!"
Shen Qingqing wanted to refuse, but in the end she didn't dare to say anything more and could only get up and follow.
Only the imperial eunuch delivering the decree and the Shen Family were left looking at each other in bewilderment.
Even though Ling Yi was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by Shen Wanwan's beauty when he saw her again.
The original storyline only mentioned how beautiful Shen Wanwan was after losing weight, but it was just a written description, leaving it entirely to the imagination.
Now that he has met Shen Wanwan, Ling Yi finally understands the meaning of the saying, "What you read on paper is never enough."
However, it's absolutely impossible to use this to stop Ling Yi's progress from 96%.
He already has Shen Mengli, Cheng Biyun, and Chen Qianqian.
For the past twenty days, Ling Yi has been shuttling between these two worlds almost constantly.
That shameless bastard wants to cause trouble again? Not a chance...
"I'm pregnant." These were Shen Wanwan's first words to Ling Yi.
"What did you say?" Ling Yi was dumbfounded.
"I said, I'm pregnant. What, you don't want to take responsibility?"
No, she's pregnant?
Oh right, that's how it was in the original storyline too. After Shen Wanwan had sex with Zhao Yan once, she immediately got pregnant.
She's pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl.
The finale coincides with the birth of the child.
In other words, the time span of this world's storyline is less than a year.
Ling Yi gave the sky the middle finger. "You win!"