Chapter 8 — That Girl Stole My Marriage, Only Then Did I Know Who I Was About To Marry

At the same time, Thanh Hoa also turned pale and ran over: "Miss, the wedding document's accessories are also gone!" In just one night, the two most important items disappeared at the same time. I stood in the middle of the room, but on the contrary, I became even calmer. The person who can know where those two items are hidden at the same time is either an old person of the Marquis Palace, or there is someone in the Palace who has been secretly spreading the news. The Marquis wanted to take back the evidence, but inside the Royal Palace... not everyone expected me to make a big deal out of this. Sure enough, not long after, an older chief historian of the Royal Palace came to advise:

"Miss Tong, the day to enroll in the sect is near. Your Majesty and King Chieu do not want to cause more trouble at this time."

"If the bad things in the family are so unsightly, it's best to save the royal family's face first, wait until their status is stable, then slowly investigate."

I understand what he means. He's not advising me to continue investigating, but he's advising me to step back. Take a step back, don't cling too tightly to the story of lost evidence and not let go; Take a step back, don't expose too much the ugly face between the Marquis Palace and the Wang Palace that are secretly colluding with each other; Take a step back, wait for the name to be written in the message and then continue talking later. But we understand better than anyone that if we retreat once, this name will continue to be viewed by others as something that can be arbitrarily replaced. I only ask one question: "If tomorrow at Tong Tu, someone uses the excuse that I no longer have any tokens to say that I should not be registered, then will the chief historian stand up and admit it for me?" He was silent. No one will stand up and admit it for us, except ourselves. The rain outside the door became more and more intense, and at that moment, more news came in - Tong Oan Nhu cried until she fainted outside the palace gate, saying that she was the one who performed the marriage ceremony first, but her marriage was stolen by her own sister, and wanted to beg His Majesty to give her justice. She really knows her timing. If, before the day of enrolling in the sect, rumors had spread throughout the palace that "sisters were fighting for husbands", and the story of jade pendants and wedding accessories had all disappeared, then I would truly have become someone who relied on King Chieu's favoritism to oppress my younger sister. When Tieu Thua Uyen arrived, I was still standing in front of the window. His body carried the cold breath of rain. As soon as he entered the door, the first thing he saw was not me, but the empty table in front of him.

“Everything is lost?” He asked.

“This king will immediately blockade the Royal Palace to search.”

I turned my head to look at him:

"If I let people search now, what else can I find out? It will only make everyone feel that because they want to protect me, they don't hesitate to turn the Royal Palace that has just accepted their ancestors into a laughing stock."

“That's better than letting her be forced to back down.”

"But if tonight we have to rely on other people's swords to force things down, then tomorrow, in Tong Tu, they will still say that I only know how to rely on force to oppress others."

I looked at him, for the first time not following his wishes anymore.

“Not this time.”

“I want them to personally spit out all the things they stole, modified, and hid.”

His eyebrows furrowed slightly: "Tong Van Ninh, you don't need anything, you have to take care of it yourself."

“I don't have to bear it myself.” My voice is very Light, yet extremely sturdy:

“I want to reclaim my own name.”

“If even this time someone has to stand up to block me, then in the future they will still feel that I am just relying on you.”

The room immediately became quiet for a moment. Outside the window, thunder suddenly rang out. He looked at me, as if only now he truly understood that what I wanted from beginning to end was never just to marry into the Royal Palace. What we want is that from now on, no one will be able to decide our life for us anymore. After a long while, he raised his hand and placed a jade pendant in my palm. It was that half block of dragon-patterned jade pendant. The jade pendant still carried the coldness of rainwater, clearly it had just been found not long ago.

“Have our people found it?”

I was stunned.

“Searched a petty private who had been bribed.” He replied leisurely,

"The king has already remembered those who move hands and feet in the Royal Palace. As for the marriage document's accessories, I will give it to you before tomorrow morning."

“What if I can't find it again?”

He lowered his head to look at the half block of jade in my hand, his voice lowered very low: "Then use another way to force them to reveal themselves."