Word spread that the emperor intended to arrange a marriage for Su Mubai. Eligible young ladies across the capital rushed to become nuns, because he was not only cold and cruel, but also cursed with the fate of a lone star. Even a dog could not survive three hours in his care!
After Ling Feiyu married Su Mubai, the other young ladies finally breathed a sigh of relief. On the first day, everyone was betting on whether the Tutor's wife would survive her wedding night. By the third day, word got out that the Tutor's wife had been beaten and left bedridden. Every funeral paper shop in the city eagerly awaited a big payday. No one expected that, on the Nth day, the Tutor would make a grand public appearance with his wife. Su Mubai had shed his cold demeanor and kept patting his wife's slightly rounded belly. It was clearly beginning to show!
His colleagues saw how obsequiously he fawned over her and laughed at him. Su Mubai, however, couldn't care less. "How could people like you understand how wonderful my wife is? We are of one heart, and our love is deep and enduring. I will never hide anything from her, or may the heavens strike me with five bolts of lightning!"
Ling Feiyu looked up guiltily at the darkening sky. After all, everything about her, from her name to her identity, was fake. She was nothing but an impostor who had taken someone else's place in the marriage!
