"Exasperated? Ha."

"Why am I getting so angry? Even if you know this dream is fake, so what? Can you get out of this dream?"

Ning Chi gave a cold snort, his eyes fixed on Jiang Yuan like sharp blades.

So he said it's not good for women to be too smart. If only Jiang Yuan could be like Ru Yan, how wonderful it would be if she were just a national advisor with little ability.

Sometimes even he didn't understand why Jiang Yuan wouldn't have been better off just being a pretty face by Ning Yuan's side.

If she had been willing to be a fool, she could have become the Empress of Li Kingdom instead of being separated from Ning Yuan by death.

One person in this world sacrifices himself in exchange for her, and through countless reincarnations, he searches for her.

A naive young Yama king in the underworld.

One was too obsessed, while the other had forgotten everything from the past.

If she hadn't insisted on sealing him away back then, how could they have ended up like this?

He didn't want the moon in the sky, nor did he want to be an emperor on earth, competing with Ning Yuan for that useless imperial throne. He simply wanted to be on equal footing with Ning Yuan.

Ning Yuan will be a good emperor, and he will be a good ghost king.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if humans and ghosts could live in harmony?

Other countries dared not covet Li, much less make any moves against it. They even had to pay tribute to Li, fearing and respecting them, and taking them as their leaders.

With him around, it's like having a powerful support system.

What can be done?

Is Jiang willing to give him this chance?

She ruined his grand plan!

“I can’t get out of your dream, but you seem to be unable to get out either, right?” Jiang Yuan said coldly.

Ning Chi's expression changed slightly as he looked at Jiang Yuan, his brows furrowing slightly.

He was certain that her eyes were useless in the dream, so how did she know?

"Looks like I guessed right again." Jiang Yuan smiled faintly, her expression calm and composed.

Looking at Jiang Yuan in front of him, Ning Chi felt as if he had returned to the past.

Every time Jiang Yuan faced him, she always had a look that showed she understood him perfectly yet remained calm and composed.

He heard that Xingchen Mountain had sent a five- or six-year-old girl into the palace, and that Emperor Yuan had also gone mad with the people of Xingchen Mountain, actually appointing a five- or six-year-old girl as the national advisor of Li Kingdom, entrusting the fate and future of Li Kingdom to a little girl. So he wanted to meet her.

When he greeted her at their first meeting, she didn't show the fear that others might have shown; instead, she looked up and met his gaze.

Just like it is now.

In her eyes, there seemed to be no distinction between high and low, noble and lowly; everyone was equal in her eyes, including him, the prince.

He disliked her at first sight.

Yes, I hate it.

An immediate feeling of disgust arose.

He still remembers that she asked him to tell his fortune.

After all, just because she's bold enough to look him in the eye doesn't mean she's more capable than him.

As a child, he was frail and sickly. His father, concerned for his health, sent him to study under the Celestial Master Xuanyin. Initially, he did odd jobs to recuperate under Xuanyin's care. Later—

Seeing that he had some talent, Celestial Master Xuanyin made an exception and accepted him as a disciple.

He lived up to expectations and learned all of his master's skills.

This study lasted for three years.

Three years is neither a long nor a short time, but it's not without its gains.

He not only learned new skills, but his health also gradually improved, and he was no longer as weak and sickly as before.

He returned to the capital in the third year after his master passed away.

He had thought his father would be proud of him and happy that he had achieved so much.

But on the day he returned to the capital, his father gave him a 'big surprise'.

He passed the throne to his elder brother, and then bestowed upon him the title of Prince of Chi.

He and his elder brother were twins. When he was young, he was smarter and more intelligent than his brother. Even his father and ministers praised him repeatedly.

He could recite poems at four, memorize articles at five, and speak fluently in couplets at six…

The only two things he lost to his elder brother were that he was born a year later and he didn't have a healthy body.

Even if his father announced his abdication some time after he returned to the capital, allowing his elder brother to succeed him, he would feel better.

But it just so happened on the very day he returned to Beijing.

Later he learned that his father had sent him away with Celestial Master Xuanyin not for his health, but because...

I want to send him far away.

After he left with Master Xuanyin, his father kept his elder brother by his side and personally taught him.

Personal instruction?

What does this mean?

His father praised him repeatedly, but never personally instructed or taught him anything, yet he kept his elder brother by his side.

It's obvious that his father was grooming his elder brother to be the next emperor.

Even until his father died, he didn't understand why his father treated him this way.

From that moment on, he hated his blood brother, the emperor, and wished him dead!