[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool":3,"chapter-marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-183":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marrying a White Snake Wife is Super Cool",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},540300,791,"Chapter 183 - 119: Gu Gaoxu Multiplication Factor: 9, Reward: ’Medical Heart","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-183",183,"\u003Cp>Looking at the ever-so-adamant Lu Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Governor shook his head helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It seems what I just said was no use. How can there be someone who doesn’t want to be an official...?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some thought, the Governor figured Lu Yuan was just too young and lacked perspective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he didn’t say anything more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Lu Yuan was intent on staying in Taiping City, then so be it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Governor immediately said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since that’s the case, I won’t press the matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you change your mind in the future, just come and tell me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I hope you decide quickly. After all, I won’t be here for much longer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「The next morning.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as dawn was breaking, a carriage departed from the Provincial City, heading toward Taiping City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous night, Lu Yuan and Song Meiqin had shared a room and a bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had simply held each other all night; nothing else happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It wouldn’t have been right to do anything, not when we were guests in someone else’s house. Never mind the noise we might have made—if we’d left the room a mess, who would clean it up? So, it was better to just behave and wait until we were home.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This trip to the Provincial City was quite fruitful.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I snagged a County Magistrate position.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Of course, the most important thing was getting on good terms with the higher-ups.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’From now on, the Zhao Family will be secure.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’We won’t have to watch our backs all the time, guarding against this person and that person.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can finally make some real money in peace in Taiping City.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Once I get those hybrid crops developed...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’...won’t life be sweet?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan figured that if things continued like this, he’d have at least twenty years of good living ahead of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could just coast from then on, spending his days eating, drinking, and enjoying life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As for a potential change of dynasty in the future...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Well, I’ve already established something of a rapport with the King of Yan’s faction.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As for the future Good Saint Grandson, and then... there’s also the famous Emperor Men.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Hmm...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Actually, none of that really has much to do with me.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’After all, by the time the King of Yan—that is, the future Emperor Yongle—ascends the throne...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’...I’ll already be almost forty years old.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’By the time Emperor Yongle’s reign is over, another twenty-some years will have passed.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’At that point, I’ll be in my late sixties, pushing seventy.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Then you add the reigns of Ren Zong and Xuanzong, and that’s another decade or so.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’By then, I’d be eighty or ninety years old.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I might even have kicked the bucket long before then.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why worry about what happens after I’m dead?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Pointless.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he thought about it that way, it was actually pretty great. The era he was in was heading into a long period of prosperity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A genuine golden age, not one of those so-called prosperous eras where people were still eating chaff to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can pretty much just coast from now on.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Perfect.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether he, as a transmigrator, could change the course of history...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Hmm...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan thought it over carefully. ’It’s too difficult.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’First, there’s Empress Ma. She’s likely going to pass away this August.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What can I do about that?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I don’t have any way to help her.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’None of the random things I’ve come up with can save a person’s life.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So what can I do?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’All I can do is watch.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Then there’s Zhu Biao.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are basically two theories about Zhu Biao’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One is that he was scared to death by Zhu Yuanzhang, or that the pressure Zhu Yuanzhang put on him was simply too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, he couldn’t take it anymore and just... snapped, and died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that theory is the most outlandish of historical rumors. It’s absolutely impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s the kind of thing you’d see in the TV series with Hu Jun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, Zhu Biao was nowhere near as weak as he’s portrayed in television dramas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Always crying at the drop of a hat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhu Biao was kindhearted, he was also an extremely strong-willed man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the most classic example: the story where Old Zhu was executing Meritorious Officials, all while claiming it was for Zhu Biao’s own good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Zhu picked up a thorny branch and handed it to Zhu Biao, telling him to take it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Biao said it was covered in thorns and that he didn’t dare to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Old Zhu, with his bare hands, stripped all the thorns from the branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then told Zhu Biao that he, his father, was stripping away all the \"thorns\" on his path to the throne, so that his reign would be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the TV dramas, this is where Zhu Biao would burst into tears, terrified by his father’s iron-fisted methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, Zhu Biao didn’t cry. Instead, he said with great scorn:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With rulers like Yao and Shun above, there will be people like Yao and Shun’s below.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This statement was the height of passive-aggressiveness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did it mean? It meant that the quality of the officials reflects the quality of the Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re not a very good Emperor, so all the ministers under you are flawed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you were a ruler like Yao and Shun, wouldn’t your ministers also be as wise and virtuous as theirs were?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s like the saying, \"A kind father raises a filial son.\" If the father isn’t kind, how can the son be filial?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This remark made Old Zhu so furious that he grabbed a nearby stool and went to smash it over Zhu Biao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Biao was smart, though; he turned and fled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Incidents like this happened between Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang all the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Biao wasn’t afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang in the slightest, and would even talk back and sass Old Zhu from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps Zhu Biao knew he was the most secure Crown Prince in history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what he did, his old man would never truly harm him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, for a Crown Prince like that to be scared to death by Old Zhu, or to die from too much pressure?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the most secure Crown Prince in five thousand years of history, he was definitely not some weakling who only knew how to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, there was only the second possibility for Zhu Biao’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sudden, virulent illness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This illness could very well have been an acute condition like a cerebral hemorrhage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the time between when Zhu Biao fell ill and when he died was incredibly short.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a bit like the death of Huo Qubing—one moment he was there, and the next he was suddenly gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An acute condition like that... how could anyone be saved?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget about saving him in this era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the modern world, a patient with this kind of condition would need constant monitoring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’d have to be ready to resuscitate them at a moment’s notice, and even then, survival wouldn’t be guaranteed.\u003C\u002Fp>",1186,"2026-05-30T14:11:52.988Z","2026-06-01T04:31:25.829Z",1,"novelbin.me","94f54fcad320e3faf126a39f83c489e27c8f80f70e8cc4cf9f3b7595a2277ff4","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-138","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-137",258,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-cover.jpg"]