Ling Yunzhou and Xiao Yi arranged to meet at a restaurant. Outside the window, the city lights were just coming on, and inside the restaurant, it was brightly lit and bustling with activity.

Inside the private room, Ling Yunzhou drank cup after cup, his brows furrowed, which puzzled Xiao Yi.

"General Ling, the way you look, I'm starting to wonder if you're troubled by love?" Xiao Yi teased. Since it was just the two of them in the private room, he could make jokes casually.

Ling Yunzhou's eyes reddened, and after hearing Xiao Yi's words, he actually sneered, "It's not so much about love, but there are some things I really can't understand."

"Didn't they say he had regained his past memories and knew where his former wife and children were? This is great news!" Xiao Yi didn't inquire about this matter, as it was a private matter in Lingyun Prefecture. He just didn't know what the Princess would say.

"Your Highness, do you know who my wife and children are?" Ling Yunzhou sneered. "You know them."

"I know him?" Xiao Yi asked in surprise. "How is that possible?"

“How could that be? It’s Tao Wan Niang. Tell me, how could you not recognize her?” Ling Yunzhou sneered. “In the past…”

"Who? Who did you say?" Xiao Yi was shocked. He couldn't have misheard!

“Tao Wan Niang, that is, Sister Tao. You met on the road of fleeing famine. She kept talking about her deceased husband. Didn’t the young master ever ask who her deceased husband was?” Ling Yunzhou said self-deprecatingly. “I also laugh at myself. Calling her ‘elder sister’ so coquettishly, yet the two of you didn’t recognize each other when you were face to face. Do you think this is a joke played by God?”

Xiao Yi looked as if he was stunned, recalling the little things about how he met Tao Wanniang. Her deceased husband's surname was Ling, but he never expected that this Ling was the same Ling as that Ling!

Then, Xiao Yi looked Ling Yunzhou up and down, his feelings indescribable, surprise overshadowing many other inexplicable emotions. "Why doesn't she recognize you? Did you not look like this before?"

"Ha, this body and hair are what we are born with, but she is completely different from the wife I remember!" Ling Yunzhou said resentfully. "And now she has a ten-year-old daughter. I think she has long forgotten me!"

"What does this have to do with that little girl? She's not her biological daughter, is she?" Xiao Yi blurted out.

"What did you say?" Ling Yunzhou slammed his wine glass on the table and stared at Xiao Yi, pressing him for an answer.

"That little girl was someone they met on their way out of the famine. By the way, her biological father has also come to the capital." Xiao Yi didn't know why Ling Yunzhou had such a misunderstanding, so he simply explained the little girl's background.

"Is that so?" Ling Yunzhou was shocked, then his brows furrowed even more as he recalled his own words. "She'd rather I misunderstand than accept that!"

"Sister Tao... what did you say?" Xiao Yi asked tentatively, taking a sip of his drink.

"He wants me to write a divorce agreement and also demands five thousand taels of silver from me," Ling Yunzhou said, his voice filled with dissatisfaction.

"Sister Tao has always loved money, but she's especially ruthless when it comes to you!" Xiao Yi said with a light smile. "And what is the General thinking? Since neither of us is the person we remember, why not move on?"

“A true man has things he will do and things he will not do. She waited for me for seventeen years, so I should take care of her for the rest of my life.” Ling Yunzhou just couldn’t understand. Wasn’t he good enough? Wasn’t the General’s Mansion prestigious enough?

“But Sister Tao doesn’t want to!” Xiao Yi said calmly. “Although I’m not particularly close to Sister Tao, once she’s made up her mind, I’m afraid it’s hard to change it.”

"Am I really going to write a divorce agreement? What will the world think of me? Abandoning my wife who shared my hardships?" Ling Yunzhou said sarcastically. "It's not that I'm afraid of what people will say, it's just... it's just that my heart is uneasy!"

Xiao Yi took a sip of wine, then asked, "The Princess knows about this, right?"

Upon hearing the name of the Eldest Princess, Ling Yunzhou's expression changed again, and he slowly asked, "Does the Crown Prince know what kind of person the Eldest Princess is?"

"The Princess is gentle and virtuous, and deeply in love with you, General. Isn't that something everyone knows?" Xiao Yi said calmly.

"Ha!" Ling Yunzhou tilted his head back and drank a glass of strong liquor. Yes, everyone knows that the princess is gentle and virtuous. The princess waited for him for ten years, so he is a heartless man!

Looking at Ling Yunzhou's appearance, Xiao Yi sighed softly and took a sip of the weak wine. This wine was not as mellow as the wine in the small restaurant!

“I have already decided to give her the divorce papers, and I will have nothing to do with her anymore!” Ling Yunzhou added, “But Princess, I really don’t want to marry her!”

"Hmm, why is that?" Xiao Yi asked, puzzled. The eldest princess had waited for Lingyun Continent for ten years. Now that she had let go of the past, why not accept the eldest princess?

"You can't see into someone's heart. Sometimes, I feel like I can't see things clearly," Ling Yunzhou muttered to himself, then poured himself another drink.

"Drink less, aren't you afraid of having a headache tomorrow morning?" Xiao Yi pondered Ling Yunzhou's words, his heart sinking for no reason. He recalled what Tao Wanniang had once said: that his fate of being a jinx to his wives was also caused by someone. Could it be true?

Outside the private room, Cheng Feng and Qian Feng chatted idly, unaware that the two inside were drinking heavily, one cup after another, until they were completely drunk. When it got late, Cheng Feng heard no more sound from inside, went in, and was immediately dumbfounded.

In the end, each of them carried their master out.

The next day was a clear autumn day. Tao Wanniang and her family rode in a carriage, leisurely watching the Chrysanthemum Festival in the capital, strolling around the streets and dining out, having a great time.

After waking up from his hangover, Ling Yunzhou went to a farmhouse restaurant to give Tao Wanniang a letter of divorce, but he was dumbfounded when he saw the notice on the door: the owner was pregnant. What was she pregnant about?

Undeterred, he went to the Tao family's house, but no matter how much Ling Yunzhou pounded on the tightly closed door, no one came to open it.

Could it be that Tao Wanniang has left the capital with her family? Ling Yunzhou's heart sank. Just as he was about to climb over the wall to take a look, he realized that someone was watching him.

"Are you looking for someone?" Wang Fugui asked as he came out and saw a man knocking on the door and sighing at the Tao family's gate.

“Yes, I’m looking for someone. Are Tao’s family and no one here? I’ve been to their restaurant, but no one was there either,” Ling Yunzhou asked directly.

"He went out to play. He said he hadn't really had a good time in the capital. He just closes the shop for three days and that's considered going out to play. Ha~" Wang Fugui sneered. He couldn't understand how someone could run a business so inconsistently.

"He didn't run away, he went to play?" Ling Yunzhou's expression revealed disbelief. How could someone say he went out to play so confidently?

"Yes, I went to play. I'll be back when it gets dark," Wang Fugui said, shaking his head as he walked away.

The capital city is so big, how could he know where they went? Ling Yunzhou decided to wait a few more days. He didn't actually want to give them the divorce papers.

A hangover, and then she went to find Tao Shi after sobering up? As her subordinates reported these things, the princess's expression grew increasingly grim.

"Some people think I'm a living saint if I don't teach them a lesson!" the princess said coldly.