After the Empress Forced Me to Marry Her, I Could No Longer Hide My Identity

After guarding the Heavenly Dao for a hundred years, Qin Yun had completed his duty and was ready to retire to the lower realm and enjoy life. But a red thread wound around his wrist, and Empress Lin Xingyao of the Wu Yan Dynasty forced him to marry her. When he learned she was an empress, Qin Yun immediately accepted the marriage and began imagining the good life ahead. Only after arriving at the palace did he discover that this continent was divided among countless dynasties, with innumerable reclusive powers lurking in the shadows. One of many small dynasties, Wu Yan was struggling to survive between greater powers, its position precarious. Faced with powerful enemies circling them, Qin Yun couldn't bear to lose his meal ticket, so he immediately declared: “Let me see what the problem is! I'll take a look!” … My name is Lin Xingyao, and I am the Empress of the Wu Yan Dynasty. The dynasty is beset by troubles at home and abroad. Its foundations are shaky, and it could collapse at any moment. I rejected a political marriage and placed my hopes in the red thread of matchmaking left behind by my ancestors. I prayed it would lead me to an exceptionally powerful destined husband who could protect my realm and its people in my stead. Sadly, the man before me may be handsome and dashing, but he has not the slightest cultivation. Has the Wu Yan Dynasty's fate truly run out? But gradually, I began to notice all sorts of unbelievable things! The Black Feather Tower was slaughtered to the last man, and every rare treasure it had collected somehow ended up in the imperial treasury… The masters of all thirty-six blessed lands came to my wedding, each of them fawning over me… The Cold Pool Dragon Serpent suddenly moved its descendants to the borders of Wu Yan and swore to serve me for a thousand years… Then one day, I heard the head of one of the nine great clans address my husband, who supposedly had no cultivation, as “Sovereign”…