Over the years, the original owner of this body has given him a lot of money and goods, and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor have also given him rewards from time to time.

It would be more than enough to make a betrothal gift.

Qingyou's plan is to let Chasiu Bao squander almost all of her private funds, so that Shi Lingqiao will most likely not bring back the betrothal money.

Instead, she intended to use the money to develop her businesses and provide the fourth prince with funds for his bid for the throne.

When the Fourth Prince's poisoning is exposed, the Shi family, who colluded with him, will definitely be raided. So, let's just consider all the money in Cha Siu Bao's private coffers as a contribution to the national treasury.

Two days later.

To spite his mother and to save face for Shi Ling, Huo Jiwen took out two-thirds of his private treasury and, accompanied by a matchmaker, went to the Shi family to propose marriage.

This also shocked the people in the capital, who never expected that the young master Huo would actually marry the young lady of the Shi family.

They had previously heard that the Crown Prince had forced the Princess to agree by going on a hunger strike, but now it seemed that the Princess had compromised.

Seeing so many betrothal gifts, everyone was even more shocked; this betrothal was far too generous.

Even when the Duke of Zhenguo married the eldest princess, it didn't cost this much.

Besides these shocking facts, what surprised everyone even more was that Huo Jiwen personally handled the entire marriage proposal and betrothal ceremony.

Nobody has ever heard of such a practice. Shouldn't it be the elders who should step in?

However, this also shows that although the Crown Prince forced the Princess to agree to his marriage, he was not satisfied with his daughter-in-law and was even too lazy to arrange their marriage.

So, the marriage arranged by Prince Huo was truly a bizarre and incongruous affair.

But what shocked everyone even more was yet to come.

On the very day Huo Jiwen successfully proposed to the Shi family, the two families had just tied the knot, and before he had even left the Shi family, the chief eunuch of the emperor's household arrived at the Shi family with an imperial edict to announce the decree.