Time Travel: The Heroine Has Arrived!

The Old Prince Ping glanced at his son and suddenly asked in wonder, "What happened to make you so happy?"

Qi Chengxuan couldn’t help but touch his face upon hearing this and wondered, "Is it so obvious?"

Now that it was mentioned, indeed it was!

Looking at the obvious joy on his son’s face, the Old Prince Ping said, "Who knows a son better than his father? Besides, the smile on your face has never once disappeared."

Qi Chengxuan laughed and said, "I did encounter two pleasant matters."

The Old Prince Ping showed interest, "Oh?"

Looking at him, Qi Chengxuan said, "The first matter I want to keep hidden for now and will tell you later. As for the second one..."

He elongated his voice and then spoke under the expectant gaze of the Old Prince Ping, "I met an interesting girl."

An interesting girl?

The Old Prince Ping’s eyes lit up.

This is indeed a big matter!

He had a deep affection for the Princess Consort, and when she passed away, he stubbornly refused to take any concubines.

Qi Chengxuan is quite grown up now, and he’s been alone for so many years.

Qi Chengxuan’s mother was the Eldest Princess of the Da Ming Dynasty, the Emperor’s full-blooded sister.

Theoretically speaking, a Prince Consort is forbidden from taking concubines, but with so many years since the Eldest Princess passed away, Prince Ping was on his own, and the Emperor in the palace felt for his brother-in-law’s hardship.

He once had the thought of bestowing a marriage upon Prince Ping, only to be firmly declined by Prince Ping in the name of longing for his beloved wife.

Thus, in this large Prince Ping’s Mansion, the true masters were only the Old Prince Ping and Qi Chengxuan.

Over the years, the Imperial Family favored Prince Ping’s Mansion so highly, partly due to this relationship.

Logically speaking, Qi Chengxuan, being the highest-ranking King with a Different Surname in Da Ming, holding military power in a real sense, is one of the best candidates for alliance through marriage with the prominent families.

Even before Qi Chengxuan came of age, many families started to inquire.

Even the Revered One of the Nine-Five in the palace once expressed the desire to select a good marriage for this nephew.

Yet somehow, each time Prince Ping favored a family, or when that one in the palace hinted at wanting to give a noble lady to the Crown Prince of Ping, within three days, something unexpected would undoubtedly happen to the girl from that family.

Whether it was catching a cold and being bedridden or suffering a minor injury in an accidental fall during an outing.

Honestly, these incidents were not caused by human intervention; they were coincidences to the extreme.

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After such occurrences a few times, the reputation of Crown Prince of Ping bringing misfortune to wives spread among the upper circles of the Capital City.

Although no one dared to speak of it openly, those who truly cared for their daughters certainly wouldn’t dare let them marry into such circumstances.

There were those who coveted the power of Prince Ping’s Mansion, willing to sacrifice a daughter for such a high connection, yet even then, Prince Ping wasn’t interested.

Hence, as time went on, the former Crown Prince of Ping became the new Prince Ping, now already twenty-two, and still, there was no prospect of marriage.

The Old Prince Ping felt a little anxious about it, but Qi Chengxuan seemed rather content with his current life.

He wasn’t particularly fond of those delicate noble ladies and couldn’t imagine spending a lifetime with a woman like that.

When he talked about this with the Old Prince Ping, the Old Prince Ping worried privately, wondering if there was some unspeakable affliction or a proclivity for "cut sleeves" in his son.

For a long time, the Old Prince Ping fretted about how to discuss it openly with his son without harming his son’s pride.