Chapter 405: The Secret

Xu Xinlan was married when she was sixteen.

Her family was unremarkable. Her father, a cultivator who had reached Qi Cultivation Perfection, perished in the process of attempting to enter the Purple Mansion, which led to their family's decline. Consequently, under the arrangement of her elders, she was married off to a collateral member of the Chen family.

The Chen family was a merchant family in Wanling City. Though they did not possess much power, they had produced several outstanding descendants.

Although Xu Xinlan's husband was highly talented, he was unfortunate to have been secretly harmed by a Sorcerer Gu technique in his youth, which not only cut off his path of cultivation but also left him bedridden and frail for years.

Xu Xinlan's marriage to him was completely out of her control, leaving her with no choice.