30 Meet Father-in-law

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2-days pass - The Great Phoenix empire - Crimson grandeur hotel

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The white kirin carriage moving through the bustling street of the capital the carriage is painted in blue and decorated with a white platinum ice valley crest. This crest belongs to only one clan in this Great Phoenix Empire, The Gu clan and the only one that can use kirin to pull their carriage is Zhu Yinbing or Gu Yinbing if we talked about her maiden name.

Even she married out of her clan, but with her great influence, the Gu clan would still welcome her as long as she had her strength and power within the empire, So it's normal for her to use her own clan.

The white carriage stop outside of the entrance of the hotel and 4 figure exit from the carriage. One of the four figures is a woman in white-blue heavy armor with Gu clan crest at the center of her snow-white cape.

The other three are wearing black from head to toe, and no one can see their face except the gender from their shape. One of the black cloth figures is a man while the other two are women.

They are entered into the hotel and go straight to the 5th floor. They are walking and stopped outside of a typical single room with no decoration nor any significant thing that would stand out from the rest of the room.

"Please come in" A sincere but beautiful voice of a man that gave a scholarly feeling sound out behind the door in a welcoming tone.

Zhu Yinbing and the 3 black figure looking at each other before entering into the room.

In the room, There are 3 figure 2 stand behind the one that sat on a golden jade wheelchair. The one on the left is a beautiful youth unknown to their gender who wore a pitch black-red trimming cloth while the one on the right who wore green cloth is the one that Zhu Yinbing find it familiar, It's fatty Pao the servant from her manor.

"Shang'er" Zhu Yinbing call the last one whose sitting on the wheelchair. She pounces and embraces him with loving and care.

"Mom.." He mutters with a warm feeling within his chest and looking at the three figures who are removing their cowl that hidden their face.

The three figure is Tian Xiulan and Tian Xue'er that have white-silver hair like her daughter, and the last one is a handsome looking man in late 30 in appearance, his demeanor and commanding aura around him tell Zhu Wushang that this man has been in a position that controlled people for a long time. And he came with Tian Xiulan and his godmother that's only mean one thing.

Zhu Wushang waves his hand to throw the talisman around this room and seal the space within. He stands up, cupped his hand and bow in respect.

"Son-in-law greets royal father-in-law may you live with happiness for ten thousand years." Zhu Wushang said with a beaming smile while the man has an urge to kick this brat in front of him.

"What son-in-law, what father-in-law! Don't be presumptuous!! This emperor didn't recognize your marriage with my Lan'er even one bit!" Emperor sternly denied in disdain while Tian Xiulan and her mother just smile wryly.

"Dad! don't be like this!" Tian Xiu'lan tug at her father cloth and urging him to stop acting childish.

Zhu Wushang heard what the Emperor said he just acting like he didn't understand and continue to smile like an idiot.

"Oh? But… I already did what the married couple should be done on their wedding night with Lan'er. Isn't this recognizable enough?" He asked shamelessly, This cause Tian Xiu'lan faces to red like a tomato even hot air nearly blew out of it.

The emperor quickly pull Zhu Wushang collar in a fit of fury, he really wants to strangle this brat and beat him to a pulp!

"What did you say!? Punk!? Huh? You want me to beat up your ass, and f**king beat the shit out of your mom!?" Once this word out of his mouth, the temperature within the room sharply decrease.

[Oh... S**t]

He thought and a shiver run down his spine and he slowly looking at Grand General Zhu whose coldly smile at him and looking at him like looking at a corpse.

"Oh? Beat the shit out of me? Tian Xiang oh… Tian Xiang, I really wanted to see you try." A slow and cold voice is out from Zhu Yinbing whose cracking her knuckles.

"Er… Grand general Zhu it's a misunderstanding I did not mean to…" The Emperor quickly try to give out an excuse.

"Ok ok, both of you stop acting like a child. Didn't we come here to catch up with him?" Tian Xue'er cut in, and both Zhu Yinbing and the Emperor stop arguing.

"Right! Mom where's dad? He didn't come?" Zhu Wushang curiously ask.

Zhu Yibing heard that, and she carefreely smiles and explains.

"Oh! One of us need to watch the northern border, and your father lost a rock-paper-scissors game to me, So here I am." She said and smilingly shrugged in a carefree manner.

After fooling around for a bit, everyone started catching up with each other and Zhu Wushang tell them everything that happened to him after The Black Merchant brings him to the center of The Great Forest of Nowhere except the specific place of the Black merchant house that he kept secret.

And Zhu Yinbing and Tian Xiulan also updated him on the outside world and the war in the north. This makes Zhu Wushang know a lot about the world and the civil war that The Great Phoenix Empire is facing.

Right now, many forces under Duke Tian Dong has continued to surrender themselves after the news of Duke Tian Dong death. But, What comes after is that the northern tribe join in full-scale wars in this trouble times.

"Did anyone know why the northern tribe had decided to declare war against us?" Zhu Wushang asked after they already catching up with each other.

The northern tribes are the faction outside the northern border which is Duke Tian Dong home base. Duke Tian Dong defend the invasion from the northern tribes flawlessly since the first time he starts serving the Tian dynasty as the northern general.

When the civil war started, Duke Tian Dong have a truce with the northern tribes but now that the force of Duke Tian Dong begun to crumble, The Northern tribes began to swoop in and raid a lot of food and resource from the northern border.

"Hmph! Why? It's because they are barbaric and want to destroy our Great Phoenix Empire! That's what barbarian do!" The emperor snorts and dismisses Zhu Wushang question even he knew it he won't tell this brat!

It's not because he hates this brat or he tries to make it difficult for this brats it's a matter of pride of the father that his precious daughter had been stolen by the rascals that he didn't even know personally!

"No father-in-law. These northerners might be brutal and barbaric, but they're not mad. At least they can come to an agreement with Duke Tian Dong. This indicated that they are not a mad warrior who knows only killing and destroying." Zhu Wushang said as he continued to ponder while ignoring the Emperor that's glaring at him in anger because being ignored.

"If I remember correctly, the northern land always cover in snow, and people there can't farm for food, they only hunt because it's their tradition am I right?" He asked and looking at his mother-in-law while completely ignoring the emperor who nearly getting mad out of anger.

Tian Xue'er saw this, and she smiles wryly don't know whether to laugh or cry in this situation.
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