The day after Xiao Shi returned to the capital in triumph, the official edicts for all rewards were issued.
Among them, the most shocking was the marriage bestowed by the Sovereign of Qin.
When the Holy Decree from the Sovereign of Qin, arranging the marriage between Xiao Mo and the Third Princess Qin Siyao, spread throughout the Imperial City, men and women alike wailed in despair.
The men, in fact, took it relatively well.
They knew the Princess, hailed as the most beautiful woman in the Allied States and the apple of the Sovereign's eye, was never within their reach. She was always destined to marry some powerful noble.
Now that the Princess was marrying the Frost King, it was, in a way, keeping it all in the family.
But many women, especially the high-born ladies, truly believed they had a chance to marry the Frost King.
'And even if I can't marry the Frost King,' they thought, 'as long as he doesn't marry anyone else, doesn't that mean he belongs to everyone?'
