The real daughter, she became famous all over the world by fortune telling

This is indeed a bloody love story.

In a love story, there needs to be a strong and affectionate male protagonist, an innocent and naive female protagonist, and a supporting female who is outstanding in all aspects but not loved by the male protagonist.

These roles correspond to Zhao Yanshu, Ling Lan and Qin Xiaoyu.

What Zhao Yanshu said earlier was half-truth and half-false, but the real process is actually like this——

Zhao Yanshu is the son of a salt merchant, Qin Xiaoyu is the daughter of a cloth dealer, the two families are family friends, and the relationship has always been good, so the two parents discussed and made baby marriages for the two children.

It can be said that Zhao Yanshu and Qin Xiaoyu are justifiable childhood sweethearts, and they are well matched.

But in that era, there were distinct classes, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants, although they were rich, but if they really wanted to cross the class, they still had to take the route of imperial examination to become an official.

Therefore, Zhao Yanshu planned to go out to study.

He made a promise with the two families that he would marry Qin Xiaoyu in a grand manner after he got the honor in the examination.

Both the Qin family and the Zhao family agreed.

Zhao Yanshu left home to study, Qin Xiaoyu waited at home, and this wait lasted for five years.

Qin Xiaoyu grew up from a young girl at the age of cardamom to an old girl in the age when a woman was about to marry after reaching her age.

But she resisted the rumors from the outside world, kept her promise to Zhao Yanshu, and single-handedly supported the business of the Qin and Zhao families.

The purpose is to let Zhao Yanshu study with peace of mind and relieve him of any worries.

But who ever thought that Qingmei would be defeated by the sky.

When Zhao Yanshu was studying abroad, he met the love of his life, Lily of the Valley.

Ling Lan was born as a peasant girl, her family was poor, her background was miserable, she had patriarchal parents and elders, a gambling elder brother, a bitter sister-in-law, and a naughty younger brother...

The whole family treated Lily of the Valley like livestock, as if trying to suck every drop of blood from her body.

It made her almost unable to live.

Just when Linglan was about to commit suicide, she met Zhao Yanshu who was passing by.

The weak girl, her pitiful background, and her hot tears immediately aroused the man's desire to protect——

Maybe it was love at first sight, maybe it was love at first sight.

In short, Zhao Yanshu fell in love with Linglan just like that, and made a promise to her to stay together for the rest of his life, without even thinking that he had a fiancée who was waiting at home.

Later, Zhao Yanshu took Linglan back to his hometown.

He explained to his parents that he wanted to get rid of the Qin family's marriage and wanted to marry Ling Lan as his wife. When word got out, rumors that the Qin family's daughter was being disliked spread all over the town.

Unmarried at an older age, and then divorced, Qin Xiaoyu's years of waiting have become a joke.

The gossip almost made her unable to live.

Fortunately, the Zhao family's parents are sensible, they know Qin Xiaoyu's infatuation for waiting for her son for so many years, and on the other hand, they also have the intention of looking down on Ling Lan.

They always believe that it is better to get married.

So, they gave Zhao Yanshu two choices:

Or, take Lily Lan and get out of the Zhao family and set up their own family. From then on, the Zhao family's property has nothing to do with him, and the Zhao family will pass on another step-child to inherit the family business and fulfill the marriage contract with the Qin family.

Or, just marry Qin Xiaoyu as his wife and live a good life. After Qin Xiaoyu gives birth to a son-in-law and her position is stable, then it depends on whether she wants to accept Linglan as a concubine.

Zhao Yanshu couldn't let go of Wanguan's family wealth, so he chose the second option.

But he thought in his heart that Qin Xiaoyu was forcing all of this. If she hadn't insisted on marrying him, her parents would never have used such extreme methods.

He vented all his malice on Qin Xiaoyu, even thinking:

It would be fine if Qin Xiaoyu didn't exist.

In this way, he doesn't have to fulfill his marriage contract, he doesn't have to lose his inheritance rights to Wan Guan's family wealth, and he doesn't have to separate from his beloved Ling Lan.

Thus, a vicious plan took shape in his mind.

On the eve of his marriage, he went out of the city alone, found the horse bandits who were robbing houses on the mountain, and negotiated a deal with them...