In truth, when Old Cui brought this topic up, he did not feel entirely confident.0

The whole world assumed that once Zhao Changhe made it onto the Ranking of Man, this marriage would be a matter of course. Even Cui Yuanyang herself thought so. But the two people who had actually been part of the garden pavilion conversation back then knew things were not quite that simple.0

Back then, it was Cui Wenjing playing tricks and guiding the conversation with clever wordplay, which eventually led to the three-year agreement. If not for that scheme, Zhao Changhe would have outright refused.0

In fact, Zhao Changhe had gone there to refuse, not as the story went—where people believed he had proposed and was being tested.0

Instead, the old fox spun him around until they ended up with a three-year agreement. Cui Wenjing had done it partly for Yangyang’s reputation, and partly because he thought Zhao Changhe might be the crown prince, so keeping a backup plan would be no loss either way.0

His calculations had been so obvious that even though Zhao Changhe was inexperienced at the time, he was not entirely unaware of...0