After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband

Afraid of being questioned by her mother, Miss Li had run.

Young Master Zhou, elated by the news of the betrothal, hurried back to the mansion to report this good news to Old Master Zhou and Mrs. Zhou.

When Young Master Zhou spoke of this matter, Old Master Zhou was in the middle of drinking tea.

Upon hearing this, he was directly choked by the tea, coughing incessantly.

"What did you say?"

"The Prince Consort arranged a betrothal for you?" Old Master Zhou asked in between coughing.

Mrs. Zhou was even more anxious than Old Master Zhou.

She doubted whether she had remembered correctly and asked the maid, "I recall that the legitimate daughter from the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Mansion is the fourth daughter or the third daughter?"

"I think it’s the third daughter," the maid cautiously replied.

Although the young master is excellent, marrying the legitimate daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Mansion seems improbable.

Mrs. Zhou looked at Young Master Zhou, "Is it the legitimate daughter from the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Mansion?"

Mrs. Zhou asked somewhat unsurely.

She felt that a mistake might have been made and thus wasn’t that overjoyed.

Marrying a concubine’s daughter from the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel still made him the son-in-law of the minister, but the upbringing of a concubine’s daughter was far inferior to that of a legitimate daughter.

If possible, Mrs. Zhou would rather have a legitimate daughter from a suitable family as a daughter-in-law than a concubine’s daughter from a prestigious family.

Old Master Zhou chuckled, "Since it’s the Prince Consort who acted as the matchmaker, how could it be a concubine’s daughter?"

If it were a concubine’s daughter, his son wouldn’t be so happy.

This time, Mrs. Zhou was truly delighted, "Our Zhou family is truly blessed this time."

Young Master Zhou said, "This blessing was obtained by me through a beating."

Obviously, he was complaining about Old Master Zhou beating him.

Old Master Zhou shot him a glance, "You didn’t learn the skills of the Prince Consort, but you have already learned how to seek a beating like him!"

Young Master Zhou, "..."

The maids found it hard not to laugh, holding it in until they almost went crazy.

The news of the betrothal between the eldest young master of the Capital City Governor Mansion and the legitimate daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Mansion quickly spread throughout the Capital City.

Many people held suspicions about this mismatched marriage.

But because the matchmaking was done by Su Yang, the Prince Consort, coupled with the fact that Young Master Zhou and his companions often mingled with him, the story gained some credibility.

The position of the Capital Governor wasn’t high, but the status of the Prince Consort was esteemed.

It was appropriate for the good brother of Marquis Dongxiang’s son to pair with the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

Moreover, someone asked Young Master Zheng and his companions, and they said, "This matter is true."

Soon, this matter reached the palace.

King Beimo, "..."

Beimo Crown Prince, "..."

King Beimo raised his hand to rub his forehead.

There was an overpowering urge to beat up his son-in-law.

Sent him to investigate the case involving the nephew of the Minister of Revenue, but instead, he shoveled off the case and involved himself in matchmaking.

Being so leisurely, one wished to beat him until he couldn’t get out of bed for half a month.

Hold on!

"Who is engaged to the son of the Capital Governor?" King Beimo asked.

"The third daughter from the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Mansion," the palace attendant replied.

King Beimo suddenly laughed again.

As expected of the son of Marquis Dongxiang.

What a cunning fox.

After Old Master Zhou learned of his son’s engagement, he had Mrs. Zhou prepare generous gifts and personally went to the palace to offer thanks.

Su Yang then relayed the information obtained from the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel to Old Master Zhou.

He advised him to investigate the Minister of Revenue as an old minister of the Beimo Cheng King.

This came as a surprise to the Capital Governor, as Beimo Cheng King had previously sought military aid from Nanliang under the guise of rescuing King Beimo.

Even knowing his ambitions, his reputation couldn’t be easily tarnished.

Only later was Cheng King’s plot revealed, and by then, most of his old ministers had escaped or gone into hiding, unlike other traitors whose defeats had led to far-reaching consequences and rivers of blood.

"If the Prince Consort’s guess is correct, with a direction to investigate, toppling the Minister of Revenue is within reach," said the Capital Governor.

After the Capital Governor left, Su Yang remained worried.

Since the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel chose to ally with the Capital Governor’s Mansion through marriage, it indicated certainty that the Minister of Revenue was indeed a remnant minister of Cheng King.

Once alerted, the Minister of Revenue would surely strike ruthlessly.

Su Yang had visited the Capital Governor Mansion before, the guards there...

Erasing the Zhou family was an effortless task.

Worried, Su Yang went to find the Beimo Crown Prince, asking him to secretly assign people to guard a few of the brothers’ homes.

The Beimo Crown Prince did not object; if those at the Capital Governor Mansion could indeed resolve the issues burdening his father’s heart, their promotion was only a matter of time.

Keeping them under his watchful eye brought nothing but benefits to him.

It didn’t even take three days for the Beimo Crown Prince to realize the precision of Su Yang’s arrangement.

On a moonless, windy night, assassins broke into the Capital Governor Mansion.

If prior arrangements hadn’t been made, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

The ground was littered with corpses, blood flowing everywhere, leaving Mrs. Zhou pale-faced and Old Master Zhou drenched in sweat.

The weapons the assassins used were marked, directly pointing to the Minister of Revenue.