As the sun rises, clouds and mist gather, and the vast mountains stretch and undulate in the morning fog.
Ji Fengyao sat atop the cliff of Chongxiao Peak, overlooking a sheer drop of a thousand feet, surrounded by layers of clouds. The scenery before her was breathtakingly beautiful, yet she felt a touch of melancholy.
A day ago, she was transported to another world.
Yes, "again".
"Miss, Miss!" came a young woman's penetrating voice calling out repeatedly from the path leading up the mountain behind them.
That was the host's personal maid, Xique.
Hearing the magpie's loud voice, Ji Fengyao felt her head throb even more. She struggled to sit up, her body numb from sitting, but before she could turn around, she heard a piercing scream behind her: "Miss, you mustn't do something rash! If you jump, the Master and Madam will be heartbroken!"
Ji Fengyao: "..."
Which eye of hers saw that she was going to jump off a cliff?
Joyful sounds of gongs and drums echoed from the village halfway up the mountain. Ji Fengyao turned around and walked back to meet Xi Que's extremely worried gaze. "They're here?"
"Yes, they're in the process of holding the wedding ceremony." Xi Que looked anxious and quickly grabbed Ji Fengyao.
Ji Fengyao: "..."
She, the bride, is still here. Who did they bow to in the wedding ceremony with?
Xi Que dragged Ji Fengyao several feet further in, and only after confirming that Ji Fengyao could not rush off the cliff under her control did she speak angrily again: "That damn Ninth Prince is really too much. He actually took advantage of his leg injury to skip the wedding ceremony and had someone bring up a chicken. The chief was so angry that he almost stewed the chicken on the spot."
"Is it stewed?" Ji Fengyao swallowed.
"Not yet, the young master is holding Little Yellow and bowing to the chicken. After the ceremony, he'll stew it."
cough!
Ji Fengyao stumbled and nearly tumbled down the narrow mountain path.
The magpie continued chirping, "The young master said that a rooster and a dog are a perfect match, and that after the wedding ceremony, he'll stew all the chickens in the village and serve them to the Ninth Prince. If the Ninth Prince dares to leave even a drop of soup, he'll refuse to confess and will have the Empress Dowager and the Emperor personally lead troops to besiege our Vulture Village, so that the world can see how ungrateful the royal family is."
A rooster paired with a dog—is this an insult to the Ninth Prince or to her?
Ji Fengyao's lips twitched, and she was filled with black lines, feeling a little sorry for the Ninth Prince.
There are at least twenty chickens in Vulture Village. If they were all stewed and eaten by the Ninth Prince until not a drop of soup was left, the Ninth Prince would probably get a stomachache whenever he sees a chicken from now on.
Why would the mighty God of War of the Great Zhao Kingdom, the most noble prince of the royal family, marry a female bandit?
This story begins a month ago.
It is said that a month ago, the late emperor appeared in the Empress Dowager's dream, instructing her to go to Puhua Temple to offer incense. On her way back to the capital after offering incense, the Empress Dowager was robbed by a group of petty thieves near Vulture Mountain. Coincidentally, the host of the story went down the mountain to rob someone and rescued the Empress Dowager, bringing her back to Vulture Village.
Bald Vulture Village was a notorious bandit stronghold in the Great Zhao Kingdom. Every year, the imperial court would send several detachments of soldiers to besiege it, but due to the treacherous terrain of Chongxiao Peak, they were repeatedly unable to conquer it. Not only were they unable to conquer it, but the number of bandits on the mountain also increased with each campaign. After more than a decade of development, Bald Vulture Mountain had become a miniature kingdom within the Great Zhao Kingdom, and all the civil and military officials in the court trembled at the mere mention of it.
Seeing that she had established a good relationship with Vulture Mountain, the Empress Dowager conceived the idea of bestowing a marriage upon them and granting them amnesty. After discussing it with the Emperor, he immediately issued an edict summoning Prince Su, also known as the Ninth Prince, to Vulture Mountain to welcome the bride and, incidentally, to bring the Ji family father and sons to the capital to accept amnesty.
The Ninth Prince was young but had made outstanding military achievements, and everyone in the country knew him.
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