Chapter 269
[Master assumes the reason Ling Yuanhang would accept Jiang Yan is because his meal ticket, the Second Princess Gan Tang, is getting married.
Gan Tang's feelings for Ling Yuanhang are complicated. She was born into the royal family, and because Nanyue, like Nanzhao, has an open-minded culture, even as a woman, it's not impossible for her to fight for the throne.
So she married down to You Hong, the great general who held command over a hundred thousand troops in Nanyue.
At first, she treated Ling Yuanhang as a male pet, but later discovered he had quite a talent for military affairs, so she wanted to train him for her own use.
She used a little honey trap, never expecting that this sweet trap would not only ensnare Ling Yuanhang but also herself.
As for Ling Yuanhang and Jiang Yan, half of it was because he truly liked the pretty and cute Jiang Yan, and the other half was to spite Gan Tang.]
"If you want to use someone, aren't there many ways? Why throw yourself into the mix?"
[Master, for us, there are plenty of ways to control someone. But for mortals, especially young men and women, using love is a relatively fast way to achieve one's goal.
Furthermore, Ling Yuanhang has always had feelings for Gan Tang. She only needs to beckon with her finger, and he will obediently submit.]
[Since that's the case, why did he go and provoke Jiang Yan, and even provoke her with some genuine affection?]
"This Ling Yuanhang is a bizarre scumbag. He indeed likes Gan Tang, but he also has feelings for Jiang Yan, and both are genuine.
So when Gan Tang proposed sending him to the army to gain experience, he agreed without much hesitation.
He still holds a grudge against the Wei family for breaking off the engagement, waiting to return home in glory and take revenge on them!"
"Little Zhu, does your 'return home in glory' mean Ling Yuanhang wipes out the Wei family? Or does he lead the Nanyue army to invade Dayan himself?"
[He invades directly and bathes Lanshan in blood! From then on, he even earned the title of Ghost Hand General!]
The rulers and ministers of Dayan: !!!
These people, who considered themselves the most cultured group in Dayan, could no longer look straight at the phrase 'return home in glory'. They felt it was dripping with blood.
"Another traitor leading the way! I just wonder what the Ling family will think when they see this version of Ling Yuanhang!"
[Ling Yuanhang spent five years in the army and rose to the position of general, and he also married Jiang Yan.
Nine years from now, the twenty-six-year-old General Weinan, Ling Yuanhang, will lead the Nanyue army to invade Dayan and bathe Lanshan in blood.
Although he did not touch the Ling family, the entire Ling family was full of people with integrity.
The clan leader, Ling Yuandao, led fifty-six men, women, and children of the clan to open the ancestral hall and expel Ling Yuanhang from the clan.
The furious Ling Yuanhang killed the thirty-five-year-old clan leader on the spot and appointed himself as the new clan leader.
But the Ling family refused to acknowledge him. On that day, apart from a few young children, everyone else in the Ling family died. This included Wei Shumin, who had waited for him and never married her whole life.]
Hearing this, Yue Fuguang felt a sigh in her heart. The Ling clan members had integrity, yet Ling Yuanhang, this piece of rat feces, brought shame to his ancestors and disaster to his clan.
With Ling Yuanhang's actions, if Dayan hadn't fallen, the Ling family would have no place to stand in Dayan!
"This Ling Yuanhang is truly a menace!"
[Ling Yuanhang's title of Ghost Hand General was not for nothing. From then on, every time he conquered a city in Dayan, he allowed his soldiers to burn, kill, and loot.
This person could definitely be described as a great villain.
Although he married Jiang Yan, he didn't break things off with Gan Tang. Because he conquered Dayan, he made a great contribution, thus becoming an even more powerful general than You Hong.
After Dayan perished, not only did he force Gan Sheng to abdicate and help Gan Tang ascend to the throne, but he also schemed to kill You Hong, becoming the number one person by Gan Tang's side.]
The rulers and ministers of Dayan were grinding their teeth so hard they were about to shatter. Yue Fuguang slightly raised her eyes and saw the crowd gnawing on lamb legs without any regard for their image.
Were they treating the lamb legs as Ling Yuanhang?
The lamb leg: Bite lighter, my dead mouth! How innocent is my little leg!
"And then what? I don't believe those two could live happily ever after."
The profession of an emperor has a kind of magic. No matter who sits on the throne, they will become a political creature, regardless of gender.
An emperor has three palaces and six courtyards. Didn't the only female emperor of Great Xia also keep a group of male pets?
They are all people of 'passion'!
She would bet a pack of spicy strips that Gan Tang, having sat on the throne, would absolutely not tolerate someone whose merits overshadowed the sovereign.
A mountain cannot abide two tigers, unless one is male and the other female, but that's in the animal kingdom.
When it comes to imperial power, even a male and a female won't work.
[Once Ling Yuanhang became the great general, naturally there were people who wanted to curry favor with him, sending him money and beautiful women.
The arrogant and confident Ling Yuanhang naturally refused no one.
He embraced women on his left and right, yet he couldn't stand Gan Tang taking in a large harem and dividing her affection.
The children Gan Tang had with You Hong, regardless of gender, were all placed under house arrest by him.
He wanted to have a child with Gan Tang, and then let this child inherit the throne in the future.
Little did he know, Gan Tang had been guarding against him all along. Before he invaded Dayan, she had secretly given him a sterilizing drug.
Master must remember the medicine seller. It was the same medicine seller who sold the drug to the Xue brothers, causing all four Xue brothers to lose their fertility.
After he went on the run, he ended up in Nanyue, and the sterilizing drug found its way into Ling Yuanhang's mouth.]
"Could it be that Ling Yuanhang wanted to wait for Gan Tang to give birth to their child, then kill Gan Tang and assist the young child in succeeding the throne, while he acted as the regent?"
She was way too familiar with this trope!
[Master guessed right, that's exactly what Ling Yuanhang was thinking. Although he had feelings for Gan Tang, he loved power more.
What he truly wanted was to lie drunk on the laps of beauties and awaken to grasp the power of the world, the kind of absolute power.
He planned to drag Gan Tang off the throne and make her the Supreme Emperor.
It was also because of this that he was a bit slower to make his move.
Unfortunately, he didn't expect Gan Tang to understand him too well. First, she chemically castrated him, and then she schemed to cripple him.
Once Gan Tang completely took control of the army in his hands, she killed him without mercy.]
Well done! If a woman isn't ruthless, her position isn't stable. Shouldn't someone like Ling Yuanhang be killed early as a sacrifice to the heavens, or were they supposed to keep him around for the New Year?
This man was promiscuous, lustful, and greedy for power. Not only did he live off a woman, but he also wanted to covertly steal her entire legacy and truly take control of Nanyue into his own hands.
What a pity he was one move short and eventually got counter-killed!
Hearing this, the rulers and ministers of Dayan, although dealing with an enemy country, had to praise Gan Tang for being decisive enough.
Just then, the Crown Prince had changed his attire and slowly walked over with the Crown Princess, Shen Junshu.
[Master, is the Crown Prince done with the wedding night? Isn't that a bit too fast?]
Hearing these words, the Crown Prince's footsteps visibly staggered, and his handsome face turned bright red, then black.
[Master, look, I was right. Just from this little bit, the Crown Prince's legs are already soft. Tsk, tsk, tsk, he's both fast and incapable!
Master, Little Zhu has some wine soaked with tiger bones here. You should have given him that as a wedding gift instead of useless things like the salt-making method.]
Hearing the system's teasing, Yue Fuguang couldn't help but want to roll her eyes. She really wanted to ask the system: do you still remember that you are a merit system, not a gossip system?
Moreover, she really didn't want to participate in complaints unrelated to the mission.
Was she exposing gossip every day? She was exposing points!