Embracing, kissing, entangling in passion.

The carriage moved extremely slowly, taking a full hour.

Liu Changning was passionately entangled by her soon-to-be husband, and towards the end, she could only suppress her alluring fragrance with superhuman self-control.

Throughout the slow journey, with all the bumps and jolts, the man and woman inside the carriage were drenched in sweat from their long, intense intimacy.

—

After an hour and a half of exertion, Long Diqing’s legs were a bit shaky when getting off the carriage.

Liu Changning chuckled discreetly, gave him a glance, and said in a low voice, “Your Highness, lean on this humble official as we walk. You should rest well when we get back to the room. If Your Highness has no strength left for the wedding night, wouldn’t that be…”

Pei Yuanshao looked up and glared at her fiercely, his long arm encircling her waist, pinching her soft flesh hard.

With his peach blossom eyes tinged red at the corners, he panted and said, “Wife… you can rest assured. As long as you have the stamina, during the three-day marriage leave, I can also…”

As he spoke, he let out suggestive sounds near her ear, deliberately breathing out hot air.

Liu Changning suppressed the impulse in her heart and coaxed in a low voice, “Be good, Ziyuan, close your little mouth. If others hear those sounds, forget about the three-day marriage leave… hmm, how about making little Shao’er unable to rise for ten days?”

Pei Yuanshao was stunned. His underwear had long been left in the carriage, and now his lower body was empty. A gust of wind blew by, making him shiver from the chill.

He tilted his head and looked suspiciously at the woman who was saying such lewd things with a straight face. He never expected that such beastly words would come from the dignified Prime Minister Liu… This, this, this…

Inexplicably, heat rose in his heart again. Pei Yuanshao lowered his head, his earlobes flushed red, matching the color of his bright red wedding attire.

—

Liu Changning held the hand of the man also dressed in red robes, stepped over the fire basin, and slowly walked side by side into the main hall.

The surrounding friends cheered and congratulated them.

They bowed to heaven and earth, and the guests playfully teased the newlyweds.

They exchanged cups and drank together, finally completing the complex wedding ceremony.

After seeing off colleagues and friends, it was already past the hour of the Dog (7-9 pm).

Liu Changning’s face was tinged with a hint of red. The bright red robe she wore gave her usually cold and immortal-like appearance a touch of earthly charm.

She pushed open the door and entered. As she entered the room, the wind blew, carrying the scent of alcohol that permeated her body, filling the air with a faint fragrance of wine.

Liu Changning squinted her eyes, her alcohol tolerance not good, already half-drunk at this point.

Outside the room, large red lanterns hung high; inside, the window paper was a brilliant red.

The man who should have been sitting properly on the bed was lazily leaning against the Eight Immortals table.

Under the red candles, his side profile was as if carved by a knife, with sword-like eyebrows extending into his temples, peach blossom eyes slightly open, and thin lips naturally curved upwards.

Paired with his bright red wedding robes, it was as if he had stolen all the colors in the room.

He looked up and smiled, calling out to Liu Changning in a low, hoarse voice: “Wife… why are you back so late? Ziyuan’s lower body is burning hot…”

He suggestively lifted his bright red wedding robe, revealing that he was completely naked underneath.

Shamelessly, he said: “Little Shao’er misses Changning!”

Liu Changning, with her eyes half-closed, walked up to him, picked up a piece of candied fruit, put it in her mouth, then bent down to hold his head and passed the fruit into his mouth.

“Is it sweet?” Her voice was slightly intoxicated, her breath fanning across his face, causing the fine hairs to stand on end wherever it passed.

Pei Yuanshao’s eyes darkened, looking seductive. His teeth bit into the candied fruit, filling his mouth with a sweet taste. He nodded slowly and responded, “Mmm…” as he wrapped his arms around her waist.

Liu Changning curved her lips, her half-drunken eyes containing a calmness before the storm. She pulled off his long robe with one hand and said in a husky voice, “It’s not enough for just the upper mouth to be sweet. Your wife still needs to comfort little Shao’er down below.”

After saying this, she smiled ambiguously and reached out her hand, picking him up by the waist and throwing him onto the bright red bed.

In the warmth of the red candles and bed curtains, Liu Changning pulled down the bright red brocade curtains with one swift motion and pressed down on top of him.

The storm descended, and the bed creaked and groaned, making sounds of being unable to bear the weight.

—

In the first year after Long Diqing married Prime Minister Liu, rumors spread in the city that the great Liu had compromised and endured humiliation, predicting that sooner or later, he would divorce Long Diqing from the household.

All the unmarried gentlemen in Jinling City were hoping for this.

But after waiting for ten years, despite their confrontations and opposing stances in court, in private, these two were as harmonious as a well-tuned zither, loving and affectionate.

Many years later, during a holiday when both the Prime Minister and Diqing were at home.

One day, a friend visited and asked, “How has the Great One arranged for his original husband?”

Prime Minister Liu took out a marriage contract, pointed at Long Diqing beside him, and said, “From the beginning, there has only been Pei Ziyuan. The original husband is also the current one. I keep him by my side at all times.”

The friend was shocked, his eyes fixed on the contract. The engagement date written on it was clearly the fifth month of the fifth year of Yifeng, when Liu Changning of Xiqiao Village married her husband Pei Yuanshao.

—

In the tenth year of Chongguang, Prime Minister Liu Changning and Long Diqing both resigned from their official positions and retired from public life.

Empress Chongguang knelt down to persuade them to stay, but could not change their minds.

On Liu Changning’s last day in court, she said to all the civil and military officials: “My husband and I have dedicated the first half of our lives to the Pei Dynasty, building the current peaceful and prosperous world for the common people. We have fulfilled our duty to the ancestral emperors above and to the common people below. For the latter half of our lives, we must be true to each other. There’s no need for you to try to keep us here. I hope you will wholeheartedly assist the Empress in maintaining this dynasty’s prosperity.”

On the day Long Diqing and Prime Minister Liu left the capital, the people of Jinling City knelt on both sides of the road, bidding them farewell with tears.

Historical records state that during the ten years when Prime Minister Liu Cangyun and Long Diqing Pei Yuanshao jointly controlled the government, they brought the entire Jin Feng Dynasty to an unprecedented period of prosperity.

The two supported each other, assisting the young Empress in deepening reforms, innovating tax laws, rectifying discipline, reforming the imperial examination system, and appointing people based on merit.

During their tenure, the Jin Feng Dynasty had strong armies and horses, and the people lived in peace and prosperity. No barbarians dared to invade.

They created an unprecedentedly prosperous dynasty, which continued for over a hundred years, demonstrating the solid foundation they laid for future dynasties.

This legendary wife and husband pair added a vibrant stroke of achievement to the prosperous era.

—

In this life, Pei Yuanshao lived for seventy years.

At the moment of his death, memories of three lifetimes flooded in. With tears in his eyes, he looked at the woman holding him and used his last bit of strength to call out: “Dog disciple… I’m sorry, I can no longer… accompany you!”

Liu Changning held his hand, their five fingers intertwined.

She rambled on: “Old monster Pei, you’ve remembered, huh? It’s alright, trust me, we have lifetime after lifetime…”

But unexpectedly, the person in her arms had already closed his eyes, a smile on his lips. Even though the years had passed and his face was no longer young, it couldn’t hide his once peerless beauty.

Liu Changning bent down and kissed his forehead.

She closed her eyes along with him, her soul floating out of her body.

Taking one last look back, she saw the two figures nestled together on the bed, then turned and floated away.

That night, the star chart was chaotic, the constellations greatly changed.

A white shadow and a black shadow surged into the starry sky together.

“Liu Cangyun, you…” An angry roar came from within the star chart.

“Thank you, Demon Lord, for activating the immortal formation.”

The white shadow paused, then bowed.

“Why? What did you do in the grand formation? Trapping my demon body in the star chart. Liu Cangyun, you are so cruel.”

“…When the demon of love appears, the world falls into chaos. I’m sorry, Liuguang, once the immortal formation is activated, only the true self can return. There’s a formation within the formation. As long as your demon body flies into it, you can never get out. Goodbye!”

As the white shadow finished speaking, it quickly darted into the entrance of the formation, its silhouette quickly disappearing without a trace.

The black shadow, trapped in the star chart, struggled and howled, suddenly self-destructing, its black fragments dissipating into the formation’s eye.

“Liu Cangyun… you think you can really go back to when you first met him? How naive!”

— The main text has ended, side story in the female-dominated cultivation world —