Being wed to the Marquis of Order was a great blessing. Aside from many gains, there was no need to serve the in-laws either. But even with blessings as grand as heaven, one must stay alive to be able to enjoy them.

Later, Gu Yun had to run back and forth between the Northern Frontier and the Western Regions, he did not return to the capital for the past four or five years, and there was no opportunity to take care of this matter. Now that the former emperor was gone, and although the current Emperor was older than Gu Yun by a few years, he had been referring to Gu Yun as 'royal uncle' ever since his childhood. They were separated by a generation. Even if one was the monarch and the other was a subject, it was still not convenient for him to manage Gu Yun's marriage arrangement.

Gu Yun himself did not have the energy to be concerned about it, and thus the matter got delayed until the present.

Shen Yi refused to spare him: "Raising the price? Who do you want to sell yourself to?"

Gu Yun looked up; through the liuli glass, he saw that Chang Geng was staring at him intently, his expression quite tense. Gu Yun assumed that the boy was worried that after getting married, Gu Yun wouldn't love him anymore.

He raised his hand and patted Chang Geng's head in an attempt at comforting him: "I like someone who is intelligent, gentle, and kind. Rest assured, I definitely won't bring back a Ha Dong lion* to bully you."

*a term used to refer to women who are ferocious and violent.

This line seemed to have carved out a hole in Chang Geng's chest, as if the indecent ideas he once thought he successfully suppressed used this chance to rise once again, making a fuss, filling him with sorrow and hopelessness, with no place to free them.

He had to force himself to squeeze out a stiff smile.

With the same effort he used every night to force himself to sleep.

At that moment, there was a sudden noise on the Ting Yuan Platform, a mixture of both drumming sounds and cheering. A few Westerners who were dancing with monkeys and parrots all withdrew from the stage. Afterward, a large iron cage covered with a piece of cloth was brought up. A Western clown in white makeup twisted and turned as he set up a huge flaming hoop. After hovering and posing for a while in an attempt to stir up enough curiosity and interest from the crowd, the cover was finally lifted.

There was an enormous tiger in the cage!

Ge Pang Xiao leaned his whole body out of the window and asked: "Is it real or fake? Is that a real tiger?"

The clown opened the iron cage and led the tiger out by its collar.