Three years after marrying into his wife, Chen Yuan was trampled to pieces by his mother-in-law, slapped in the face in public, and forced to sleep in a utility room and eat the leftovers. The whole Jiangcheng knew that the Su family had a useless son-in-law. No one knows that the seal on his chest will be broken tonight.
It was Su Zhenshan's sixtieth birthday, and more than two hundred decent people in Jiangcheng raised their glasses to celebrate. Brother-in-law Su Hao took out a fake IOU worth three million and slapped it on the table, forcing him to pay back the money. Mother-in-law Wang Guihua crushed the steamed buns with her foot, pointed at the ground and shouted: "Pick it up and eat it, don't make me say it a third time!"
Chen Yuan tore up the IOU and crushed the wrist bones with his bare hands. The whole place was silent. He stood up, walked to his wife, who had not looked at him in three years, leaned over and said a word. Those words made Su Zhenshan's hand holding the wine glass freeze in mid-air, Wang Guihua covered her face and slumped against the pillar, and Yin Yue, who was holding a knife at the window on the second floor, let go of the short blade.
He went back to the utility room and waited for the seal to break, and the poison backfired and hurt into his bones. He didn't make a sound, and the blood slowly dripped from the corner of his mouth. In the darkness, a golden pattern cracked open in the Suppressing Dragon Seal—three years later, it finally woke up.
On a snowy night three years ago, Su Wanqing gave him a bowl of hot porridge and a cotton-padded jacket. Three days later, the richest man in Jiangcheng will kneel in front of him and kowtow to acknowledge his master. Three weeks later, the ancestor of the Chen family in Kyoto personally apologized via phone: "Yuan'er, come back."
Chen Yuan hung up the phone. He opened his eyes in the darkness and looked at his trembling right hand. Tomorrow, 300,000 troops from the Western Region will be waiting for him to return. After three years of forbearance, the dragon appears.
He is not recognized by the Su family. He only remembered the words three years ago: "Drink, keep warm."
"She gave me a cotton-padded jacket, and I gave her peace for the rest of her life."
