The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 468: Let Lang Jiu be a widow at the gate?
Emperor Anhe sat upright on the dragon throne, scratching the back of his hand incessantly, while the words of the Rong family head echoed in his mind. He was not stupid; he knew that the Rong family head's suggestion to have Lang Jiuchuan guard the gate of widowhood was mostly out of personal motives, but he did not care.

It is a person without selfishness who is truly feared. The Rong family head was forced to personally cripple his only heir and expose such a shameful secret. If he had no resentment or desire for revenge towards Lang Jiuchuan, that would be truly fake, and such a person would be even more terrifying.

He hadn't expected that the head of the Rong family wanted to trick the royal family into joining the enemy camp. Now he had nowhere to retreat. Rong Huanxuan was crippled. The only successor of the Rong family was Rong Si, who was sitting in a wheelchair. But that person was already like an invisible man and had crippled both legs. If he was willing to stand up for the Rong family, how could the position of young master have fallen to Rong Huanxuan?
The Rong family was already at the bottom of the social ladder. In just half a year, two elders and several capable disciples fell, and their strength continued to decline. The head of the Rong family could only find a powerful patron to rely on.

The Gong family is not an option, and the Feng family are opportunists. Besides the royal family, what other choice does he have?

No!

Therefore, Emperor Anhe was not worried that he would harm the royal family. Once the royal family collapsed, the Rong family would also suffer.

Driven by shared interests, he would only hope that the Tantai clan's strength would steadily increase, rather than being suppressed and beaten by others.

Emperor Anhe was thinking that Lang Jiuchuan's birth chart, which had been matched with the clan's elders, indicated that she was a phoenix pressing down on the dragon's head and had a strange fate. Did that mean that if she entered the royal family, she would immediately ride on the head of the Tantai clan?

Therefore, she cannot enter the school.

However, if she is not confined to the inner palace of the royal family, her destiny allows her to join forces with the Gong family, posing a great threat to the royal family. This is not what he and the Tantai family want to see.

If we follow the Rong family head's suggestion and he's really determined to marry her, she won't be able to kill off one woman after another.
It's hard to get off the tiger and be caught in a dilemma.

Emperor Anhe was extremely agitated; he truly didn't know what to do with Lang Jiuchuan.

The head eunuch cautiously suggested, "Why don't we invite the elders to speak with us? Or perhaps we could meet with Miss Lang. Logically speaking, since you have granted her the marriage, it is only right that you summon her."

Emperor Anhe paused, realizing the logic of this statement. He immediately sent someone to summon the elders, especially the one who could calculate the compatibility of birth dates.

However, before the elders arrived, Elder Ruoxu came to request an audience first. Upon entering the hall, he asked Emperor Anhe to withdraw the imperial decree bestowing the marriage upon him.

Emperor Anhe: "What does this mean?"

Elder Ruoxu was now very weak, especially after learning that Prince Jing was dead and that the one who came to collect his soul was Black Impermanence, he felt a chill run through his body.

"Your Majesty, with the imperial decree of marriage bestowed, Prince Jing died and the Third Prince was seriously injured. Are you also unwell?"

Emperor Anhe's pupils contracted, his scratching motion on the back of his hand paused, and he stared at him with piercing eyes.

Ruoxu was not afraid and said, "Your Majesty, when I was at Prince Jing's residence, I personally witnessed the Gate of Hell opening in the bedchamber. The two previous consorts of Prince Jing would come to devour the prince's body every night at midnight. They had been dead for many years and had entered the Yellow Springs Underworld, but they had not been reincarnated yet they could come out of the Gate of Hell to take revenge, coming and going freely. Why is that? It is because they have been blessed and protected by the judges of the underworld that they are not afraid of the royal family's dragon fortune. I personally saw the Book of Life and Death appear, which is clearly a warning, Your Majesty."

He had been unconscious, so Emperor Anhe was unaware of this. Upon hearing this, his brows furrowed tightly. He looked at his hands and subconsciously rolled up his sleeves. Apart from the chief eunuch, Ruoxu saw this and hissed in shock.

Beneath the dragon robe, there were purple scars on his arm, not to mention the whip marks on his back, which had not faded even after the use of talismans.

"These scars on me, were they inflicted by those two vile women?" Emperor Anhe said coldly, "Yin and Yang are in harmony. I am the emperor of the mortal realm, the true Son of Heaven. Do the judges of the underworld dare to defy Yin and Yang and use Yin magic on me? Aren't they afraid of the punishment of Heaven?"

Is there anything more outrageous than this?

The underworld and the mortal world are two separate worlds, each with its own ruler. The judge of the underworld is in charge of the Book of Life and Death, but he only acts after people have died. However, if he oversteps his bounds, the Heavenly Way will not intervene.
This is impossible!

"Your Majesty, perhaps this is a warning? What if Your Majesty makes a mistake first..."

"What wrong have I done?" Emperor Anhe was furious, his eyes widening like copper bells.

He, the emperor, could not be wrong. Ruoxu said, "Your Majesty, all these matters were made after the marriage was bestowed. Could it be that there is something wrong with the marriage itself, and the underworld is in the right?"

"What's the problem?" Emperor Anhe was a little confused. What could be wrong with an arranged marriage?
"Your Majesty, if this woman is already betrothed, your granting of another marriage would be tantamount to marrying one woman twice, forcibly breaking up a predestined relationship..."

"I've never heard of Lady Lang being engaged," Emperor Anhe interrupted him. "Besides, how many times have I bestowed marriages upon women who were already betrothed? Not to mention distant examples, even the second wife of Prince Jing, Lady Chen, wasn't she..."

He suddenly paused. The Chen family had also been engaged, but he was the emperor, and his bestowed marriage could only invalidate the engagement between the Chen family and their prospective in-laws.

This isn't the first time a marriage has been forcibly broken up.

Emperor Anhe's face turned as green as if he had eaten shit.

Ruoxin, exhausted, said, "That's the problem, Your Majesty. What if her marriage is a ghost marriage? In that case, the underworld would have a reason to uphold justice, and Heaven would naturally not punish her."

Emperor Anhe was stunned, his lips moved slightly, and he said, "Is the Underworld so bored that it meddles in such matters, or is it overstepping its bounds to interfere in human affairs?"

Ruoxu said, "Your Majesty, it's not that the Underworld is meddling idly; what if it has no choice but to intervene?"

"What does this mean?"

“Lang Jiuchuan.” Ruoxu frowned and said, “This woman is the only one in the history of our Great Dan who has been able to obtain such a phenomenon as the Golden Lotus’s attainment of Dao. Elder Cheng said that her fate is strange and difficult to calculate. Isn’t this a kind of hint? It is because the secrets of heaven cannot be revealed that it cannot be calculated. I heard from several elders that when Prince Jing died, it was Black Impermanence who came to collect his soul. This woman also used the existence of Lord Impermanence to provoke and warn the Rong family head several times, but Lord Impermanence did not show the slightest impatience.”

Emperor Anhe gasped, quickly realizing the key point in those words, and said, "You mean she's become so powerful that even the underworld's ghost messengers can't do anything to her?"

Ruoxu shook his head and sighed, "It's far from that. What if she deliberately borrowed power from the underworld to bring all this to light?"

Emperor Anhe was greatly alarmed. It was more accurate to say that he was taking advantage of the situation than borrowing power. Lang Jiuchuan was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage and sought someone to take charge. This person was not a powerful figure who controlled the rules of the human world, but a ghost or god from the underworld.

Her move was a decisive, bloody strike—a warning, a deterrent, and a demonstration.

That's outrageous! If you're unhappy, fine. Let's keep human affairs separate. Why drag the underworld into this?

Emperor Anhe, his rebellious nature resurfacing, said with a dark face, "The imperial decree of marriage has been issued, and a ruler's word is law. What if I insist that she fulfill this marriage agreement?"

Boom!

Bang!
A loud crash came from outside, as if something had hit the ground. Soon after, a guard came in to apologize.

"What happened?" the chief eunuch demanded angrily.

The guard replied tremblingly, "Your Majesty, it was the dragon-head ornament on the roof that was struck by lightning and fell down."

The chief eunuch immediately knelt down, his face pale.

Emperor Anhe: "!"

The dragon-headed creature, with a dragon's head and a fish's body, is called the dragon's head. It is one of the nine sons of the dragon, a guardian that protects against evil. It is believed that if placed on the roof of a palace, it will be safe for a hundred years. Now it has been struck by lightning.

(End of this chapter)