Marrying a White Snake Wife is Super Cool

In a room on the second floor, Su Liyan’s mother was about to take a nap when she heard a commotion outside. She slipped on her slippers, pushed open the door, and went to see what was going on.

The moment Su Liyan’s mother pushed the door open, she saw her daughter and son-in-law locked in a fiery kiss, in full view of the crowd.

Su Liyan’s mother was mortified. She slapped her thigh and hissed, keeping her voice as low as possible, "Oh my goodness, what are they doing? Heavens..."

Su Liyan’s mother didn’t dare to shout. It wasn’t that she feared disturbing the young couple, but that she didn’t want any passersby to look at her. It was simply too embarrassing.

On the principle of ’better you than me’, Su Liyan’s mother slammed the door shut with a BANG, pretending she didn’t know the two of them.

’Let them kiss,’ Su Liyan’s mother thought. ’I’ll just go to sleep. I’ll pretend I saw nothing, know nothing.’

Su Liyan’s mother lay on her bed, tossing and turning. The image of her daughter and son-in-law embracing in public was seared into her mind, impossible to shake.

Su Liyan’s mother pulled the blanket over her head. "Honestly, those two are going to be the death of me from embarrassment."

’Young people are so wild these days!’

Lu Yuan’s arms were wrapped tightly around Su Liyan, the only thing keeping her from collapsing to the ground.

After a long moment, Su Liyan knew this couldn’t go on.

Unable to speak while being kissed, she used the Sound Transmission Skill to send a message to the man holding her. "Darling, stop. If this keeps up, we’re going to lose all control."

Hearing his wife’s voice in his mind only stirred him further.

Lu Yuan sent a transmission back. "Darling, are you still jealous?"

"I’m not, I’m not! I’ll never do it again, I promise," Su Liyan immediately pleaded.

Only then did Lu Yuan reluctantly pull away from his wife, licking the corner of his mouth.

Su Liyan took two deep breaths to compose herself, then said playfully, "Darling, you’re terrible~"

Lu Yuan didn’t mind. All that mattered was that his wife wasn’t angry anymore.

Amidst the whistles and catcalls from the crowd, Lu Yuan took Su Liyan’s hand and led her back to their room.

While Lu Yuan and Su Liyan were lost in their sweet moment, a brutal scene was unfolding inside the Imperial Prison of the Northern Town Patrol Department.

Several Jinyi Guards were taking turns whipping more than a dozen men who were bound side-by-side to wooden crosses.

The Jinyi Guards swung their whips so hard they practically smoked. "Speak! Was it your men who attacked him on the street yesterday?"

One had to admire the efficiency of the Jinyi Guard. The Emperor had given them seven days to capture the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on Lu Yuan.

And yet, on just the second day, the Jinyi Guard had already rounded up a group of men who had been lying in ambush, ready to strike.

The men, beaten until their skin split and their flesh was raw, were all coughing up blood. Several had already passed out from the pain.

A few of the Jinyi Guards chatted as they swung their long whips. "This bunch talks tough, but their bodies are weak. We’ve barely even started, and several have already fainted."

"Sir!" The Jinyi Guards at the entrance to the Imperial Prison shouted in unison upon seeing their superior arrive.

Wang Xiaojie, the North Guard Commander of the Eastern Guard, shuffled in and asked, "Have they confessed?"

A Jinyi Guard at the entrance replied, "Sir, they’re being interrogated under torture inside, but they refuse to admit anything."

"Let’s go take a look," Wang Xiaojie said, heading deeper into the Imperial Prison.

As Wang Xiaojie appeared, a Jinyi Guard quickly brought over a stool.

The moment Wang Xiaojie’s rear touched the stool, he shot back up, clutching his backside and letting out a few yelps of pain.

The nearby Jinyi Guards saw this and struggled to stifle their laughter.

’Damn it all,’ Wang Xiaojie cursed inwardly. ’I’m the only one with such rotten luck. Besides those whose corpses were flogged, I’m the only one who received a hundred strokes of the imperial punishment.’

’If I weren’t so robust, a hundred strokes of the imperial punishment would have killed any normal person. Even if it didn’t kill them, their kidneys would have been shattered.’

The thought made Wang Xiaojie seethe with rage. He glared at the man being tortured and roared, "Damn it! Who sent you!"

When no one answered, Wang Xiaojie continued, "Tough bones, are we? Let’s see what’s harder—your mouths, or my instruments."

At a nod from Wang Xiaojie, a Jinyi Guard named Liu Ming set down his leather whip and picked up a pair of tongs, glowing red-hot from the fire.

One Jinyi Guard held the prisoner while another pried his mouth open.

The Jinyi Guard Liu Ming was about to stuff the tongs into the prisoner’s mouth. "If you don’t speak now," he said, "you won’t get the chance to speak ever again."

If his tongue were burned away, he would be as good as dead.

A prisoner who couldn’t speak was worthless. Even if the initial torture didn’t kill him, he would surely die from infection.

Before the tongs even touched his face, the prisoner could feel the searing heat. He immediately begged for mercy, "Sir, I’ll talk! Please... no more torture!"

"Wait!" Wang Xiaojie moved closer, leaning in to listen...

After obtaining a signed confession, the North Guard Commander of the Eastern Guard submitted it up the chain of command.

Emperor Gu Yuanzhang read the confession submitted by the Jinyi Guard. "This... Tu Lei," he asked. "Who is he? And why did he try to have Lu Yuan killed?"

Jinyiwei Commander Mao Xiang replied, "Your Majesty, Tu Lei is the man who placed fifth in the martial arts tournament the other day."

It had only been two days, so the Emperor remembered him. He was the large man who wielded a long axe with ferocious power, the one who had been eliminated when the other contestants ganged up on him.

At the time, the Emperor had rewarded him with a Human Level Middle Level Healing Pill, one of the very elixirs Lu Yuan had presented to him.

Emperor Gu Yuanzhang looked at the evidence laid out on his desk. It all pointed to Tu Lei. The man came from a major family; his father was a Military General serving as a Capital Official, one of the Old Huai West Nobles.

The Emperor had purged a great number of the Old Huai West Nobles a few years prior. The Tu family had been spared at the time because they were still weak. He never expected that they would manage to rise again in recent years by seizing various opportunities.