Qi Yuan didn’t say anything. In his mind, he felt so lucky seeing Wu Xin was willing to marry him and be his wife. Even if she did not like him now, and everything was nothing but a lie. However, he could wait for Wu Xin to change her mind gradually after they got married. He didn’t expect one day she would love him as much as he loved her. He only hoped that they could live a simple life together.

Red lanterns were hung up high. The mansion of Qi Yuan was not an old mansion. It was built less than two decades ago, not solemn due to the vicissitudes of life at all. It didn’t have a special design and was just an ordinary house.

Half a month later, this mansion was completely renewed on this happy and festive day. The overwhelming and jubilant red color was everywhere. The mansion of Qi Yuan looked warm and full of joy now.

Today was the wedding day of Qi Yuan, the owner of this mansion. Qi Yuan’s wedding looked prosperous and joyous on the surface. However, it was still not as lively as other ordinary marriages.

There was a reason for it. Qi Yuan didn’t have many friends, let alone Wu Xin, so there were not many guests at the wedding banquet. Even if he offered to pay people to be here, no one was willing to come. People didn’t care if this could be a chance to make friends with the leader of imperial guards, including Qi Yuan’s own subordinates.

No one was willing to be here to see those extremely ugly servants. Everyone knew that the bride was also a disfigured woman. Rumors said that she had scared many people on the night of the Lantern Festival on the Seventh Night of July.

As a result, there were not many people attending the wedding ceremony. The bride and groom had no relatives. Only the servants of the mansion were here. Qi Yuan hired a celebrant woman. It took him a long time and a lot of money to convince her to take the job. And the host of the wedding was just one of Qi Yuan’s servants, which had saved money and made things much simpler. Fortunately, the bride and groom didn’t care about these formalities. Such trifles didn’t affect their mood at all.

In the morning, Wu Xin didn’t need to get up as early as other ordinary brides. She woke up naturally. After she took time to enjoy her breakfast, she then dressed up nicely as a bride.

However, putting make-up on her disfigured face would take a lot of time. Therefore, Wu Xin refused it without any hesitation. She changed into a bridal gown, only wearing her simple pearl hairpin. She didn’t want to wear any heavy bridal jewelry.

Fortunately, Wu Xin was disfigured, but she had a good temperament. She looked amazing in the wedding dress with an aura of grace. Wearing the red bridal veil, she looked like a peerless beauty. However, no one knew that Wu Xin had hidden a dagger in her wedding dress.

The mansion of Qi Yuan was nominally both the place she left as a bride and the place she married into as Qi Yuan’s wife. As a result, she didn’t need to walk too much. A big red bridal sedan symbolically walked around the mansion with people playing celebration music. It then went back to the gate of the mansion of Qi Yuan.

Today, the groom, Qi Yuan, looked handsome and energetic. He was indeed the most handsome man in the mansion of Qi Yuan.

The young and handsome groom lifted the curtain of the bridal sedan. He led bride Wu Xin out and held her delicate and soft little hand as the warm temperament touched Qi Yuan’s heart. This was the only woman he had fallen in love with. She finally became his wife. Holding her little hand tightly, he took her to step astride a brazier, a doorsill, and step into the door of happiness. The two red figures looked so matched.

Everything about their wedding was so simple without the complexity of most weddings, which was quite comfortable. They were about to begin the ceremony. The most good-looking female present, the celebrant women, handed Qi Yuan and Wu Xin two ends of a red ribbon with a red ball tied in the middle. They held the red ribbon and were about to begin the ceremony under the host’s instruction.

At this moment, an unexpected guest came in. He was a very special guest! No one would expect that the emperor Yun Su would come.

This time, Yun Su came as an ordinary guest. Instead of wearing the imperial robe that symbolized the throne, he wore casual clothes to attend the wedding of his right-hand assistant. He was here with a lot of imperial guards and confidential guards who also wore casual clothes. In this way, the wedding suddenly had many guests, which made the mansion of Qi Yuan much livelier.

The most good-looking woman here was the old celebrant woman who was over 50 years old. Facing so many disfigured people in this room, the guests could pretend to be calm, but they must be screaming secretly. Imagine the feeling of standing among so many ugly women with distinct characteristics. It must feel like being surrounded by monsters!

As the noblest man of the Empire of Yun, Yun Su sat in the center of the living room naturally. He stared at the bride, who was said to be disfigured. A red bridal veil had covered her face. However, seeing the beautiful and pure figure, his heartbeat started to uncontrollably increase.

From the first moment Yun Su saw her, he felt that Wu Xin was familiar. He was about to come up with the answer, but he didn’t dare to confirm it. He couldn’t help being nervous as the couple was about to begin the wedding ceremony.

The only happy person at this moment was probably the groom Qi Yuan. He never thought that Yun Su would come to his wedding. This was a great honor! But was it true?

The bride should be excited and happy on this day. However, Wu Xin, who was always pretending, couldn’t control the complex feelings in her heart since she saw Yun Su. Her body became a little stiff. The servant girls on both sides had to hold her arms to help her bow and kneel. In such a weird atmosphere, the new couple Qi Yuan and Wu Xin was about to finish the last step—entering the bridal chamber.

The emperor Yun Su had not uttered a word during the whole ceremony. However, he suddenly made a suggestion that everyone present would agree—they wanted to see what the bride looked like. After all, everyone felt curious no matter how disfigured the bride was. They didn’t expect her to be good-looking, but they still wondered how ugly the bride could be.

If other people mentioned it, Qi Yuan could ignore it completely. However, Yun Su was different. His words sounded casual, like a joke. However, once he said it, it was a command from the emperor. No one had the nerve to say no.

Wu Xin clenched the ribbon in her hand desperately, suppressing the fear and anger in her heart. She stared at the ground and didn’t want to raise her head. Her red bridal veil was uncovered by Qi Yuan next to her. The unveiling ceremony that should take place in the bridal chamber was finished ahead in front of all the guests.

When the red bridal veil fell to the ground, the atmosphere suddenly became very awkward. Yun Su couldn’t believe it. Although he felt suspicious, he was still not sure before.

The woman in front of him was dressed in a red wedding dress with a simple pearl hairpin on her head. She was Sister Xi that Yun Su had been thinking about. Even though her face was full of red spots now, he could tell those eyes certainly belonged to Sister Xi. Even if people all over the world couldn’t recognize her, Yun Su would still do.

The emperor had always been a gentleman with a poker face and never showed his emotions. However, at this moment, he showed a look that he was going to kill someone, which surprised everyone. Yet, no one had the nerve to make a sound.

It was so silent at the wedding, and such silence was disturbing. Yun Su stood up suddenly. With crazy anger and deep coldness in his tone, he no longer sounded gentle, “Sister Xi, long time no see.”

“Your Majesty, I don’t know who you are talking about.” Wu Xin felt so nervous since Yun Su recognized her immediately, but she still wanted to deny it.

“You don’t want to admit it?” Staring at the woman who was talking nonsense, Yun Su hated her so much. However, he hated her because he loved her so much. “It’s okay. Someone, call an imperial physician over to check what happened to my empress’s face.”

As soon as Yun Su finished speaking, someone went to the palace to look for an imperial physician immediately.

All the people present knelt the moment Yun Su stood up, including the groom Qi Yuan. If the emperor didn’t speak, no one had the nerve to get up! And everyone was shocked when he called the bride “my empress”.

Qi Yuan was still holding the red ribbon tightly in his hand. He peeked at Wu Xin, feeling complex as Yun Su did, and he also felt very bad.

When Xuan Zhi appeared that night, Qi Yuan didn’t want to think about it. Then, his wife turned out to be Princess Xi, the second woman he hated the most. However, he didn’t hate her anymore. Instead, he felt so afraid of losing her. As long as Wu Xin did not admit it, Qi Yuan would still feel hopeful. He ventured to say, “Your Majesty, Wu Xin is a lady from the Zuo Family, not Princess Xi.”

“Shut up. You don’t have the right to talk to me. I will make you pay for marrying my woman later.” Yun Su glanced at Qi Yuan, and then he continued to stare at Wu Xin.

Wu Xin had been nervous all the time. Knowing that she could no longer hide, she stopped kneeling and stood up. She closed her eyes to calm herself down.

Wu Xin opened her eyes again, ready to face everything. She raised her eyes to look at Yun Su. She no longer hid the hatred in her eyes anymore, carelessly showing her feelings to Yun Su. She knew that such a day would come sooner or later when she faced Yun Su, the person she hated the most. However, she didn’t expect that this day would come so fast. She was caught off guard.

Man proposed, but God disposed. Things were constantly changing!

Yun Su still looked as gentle and elegant as he was seven years ago. He still seemed so harmless, but he was much more mature than he was back then. Despite all the people kneeling on the ground, they looked at each other, and no one spoke again.

Time didn’t stop and passed second by second. However, the atmosphere was so quiet and strange, sending shivers down people’s spines, until the imperial physician’s arrival broke the silence.

Wu Xin rejected the imperial physician directly. She took out a pill and swallowed it. Then she said coldly, “No need. It is a kind of Heat Poison. I just took the antidote.”

“Sister Xi, let him check on you. I don’t want you to take medicine indiscriminately.”

“Yun Su, don’t worry. You are still alive, so I will not poison myself.”

“Well, then I want to live forever, and you have to accompany me.”

“Yun Su, how can you always be so shameless!” while she talked, the red spots on Wu Xin’s face began to fade slowly. In the end, they disappeared completely.

A beautiful and pure face was revealed in front of everyone slowly, looking even more stunningly beautiful in the lobby full of ugly girls. It was the face that belonged to the sacrifice princess, Yun Xi. However, her immature, simple, beautiful, and clean temperament had disappeared. She was like a completely different person.

At this moment, Qi Yuan could no longer deceive himself. Seven years ago, he witnessed all the princess’s sufferings with his own eyes. At that time, he was just an onlooker. Naturally, he did not feel anything. He even hated her because she affected Yun Su so much. But now, he had fallen in love with this woman deeply. His heart was so hurt. He looked at Wu Xin and began to regret—she should not be exposed to Yun Su. He knew how perverted Yun Su was facing her, but he was powerless. He could only call her softly, “Wu Xin”.

His voice was very soft. Wu Xin was standing next to Qi Yuan. Naturally, she could hear it. She turned her head and smiled. She stared at him. That smile made her pure appearance look charming and enchanting like a fairy that made the world lose its color.