Sanctioned Marriage

Just at this moment the door opened and a girl entered the room.

"Father, Elder Bai", she then greeted the two men.

"Haha, little girl, we were just talking about you,", the elderly man, who she had called Elder Bai, greeted her.

"Oh, then I guess that I cam at the right time?"

"For sure. So tell us how was it?", he then asked in a caring tone. Even though they weren't closely related, since he came from another part of the family, he still saw her as something like a granddaughter.

"Not bad. He signed the contract.", she then paused, before continuing, "It is just aunt Jenny was there."

As soon as these words left her mouth, her father gave her a pitying look. Elder Bai on the other hand, hadn't had any contact with Jenny and could only look at her bewildered.

"Jenny is my wife's sister and quite a meddlesome person. I'm sure that when she heard about the marriage she directly tried to interfere.", Lin's father explained.

"Oh, so that's how it is. So what did she do?"

"She want's to force him and me to live together at her place. She even let it slip, that she hopes for us to have a child soon, so she has someone to pamper.", Lin complained.

Seeing her so agitated, her father had to fight to keep back his laughter. It would be highly unwise to laugh at her at this moment.

"Then what did you expect would happen after the two of you married?"

"I thought we could just life our own lives as before.", she answered.

Hearing his daughters answer he had to shake his head. How could she be so naive? There was no way, that she could continue like before after marrying. After all marriage creates a bond between both parties. In this realm it wasn't as important in this realm, since here the rights and duties of both partners were just about the same. That was to care for the other, which meant that if one partner was in danger the other had to try his or hers best to help. But in the upper realm, it was much more slanted towards the male. As there were additional rules enforced by the system, which were only applicable to the female. And with Lin's talent she would surely enter the upper realm, in the foreseeable future, which meant that she had to then live with this.

Seeing him shaking his head, Lin glared angrily at him. "Don't tell me you think the same?"

He nodded his head. "Yes, I too think it would be good if the two of you would get to know each other better. As for a child, just let nature take it's course."

She huffed, "Whatever. It's not like I can escape."

He had to agree. Usually Jenny was a nice and easygoing woman, but once she had decided on something, there was no way to get her to change her decision. And she would any mean to get to her goal.

"Then what about the guy? Ivan it was, right?", Elder Bai interjected.

"Ah right. Tell me about him. You didn't say much about him before."

"Hm, I don't really know that much about him either. Let me just tell you about what happened during the meeting.", she then proceeded to tell what had happend.

When Elder Bai heard about the Marriage Ring, he gasped. "A Sanctioned Marriage!"

"A Sanctioned Marriage? What is that?", Lin asked when she heard his exclamation.

A bit embarrassed Elder Bai coughed, "To be honest I don't know that much either. It is something mentioned in some of our ancestral teachings. According to them a Sanctioned Marriage is a marriage between members of different mayor bloodlines, which has been approved by at least one of the great powers.

And from what you have told, it wasn't only one great power that has approved your marriage but four."

"So our family's bloodline is a mayor bloodline?", Lin's father asked in interest.

"Yes, but so is his. But that's not what is important. The important part are the ramifications of a Sanctioned Marriage. Sadly the Sanctioned Marriage is only mentioned at the side, since it is extremely rare for it to happen, so there aren't that many information on it available.

But one of the aspects mentioned, is the ability to share bloodlines with each other. Sure for now it won't have any impact on you, but once you reach earth realm it will make a big difference. While others only have one bloodline's skill they can train in, you will have more than ones."

"Huh, but earth rank is still far away.", Lin looks disappointed.

"Haha, with your talent it wouldn't take all that long. Besides because you are a carrier of a prophecy you are eligible to some resources from the current lead family."

The current lead family he mentioned was the part of the family, that was situated in the realm, which was two grades above the realm they were currently in. While the current realm only allowed one to have stats of up to 1 k, the realm above had such few resources that the highest grade was only Mortal King. But the one above that was much richer and according to rumors Mortal Kings were like sand at the beach. There were countless of them, in fact they even counted as one of the lowest grade.

Ages ago the Tang family had started in this realm before entering the upper realm and establishing themself there. After reaching a threshold they had then proceeded to move towards the realm above, which lead to the current state.

Even though their branch was the oldest, because of their lack in strength, their influence had completely vanished. Even the branch in the upper realm wasn't seen as anything important, by the heads of the main family. Many of them didn't even see them as part of the main family. But because of the ancestral teachings, which still were of importance they still had to accept them. Of course there wouldn't be any resources flowing down, except for these required by the ancestral teachings, like the ones mentioned just now.

"Really?"

"Really. But I wouldn't hope for much. Most likely it will just be something they see as trash." As an elder he had experienced the way, these guys from the lead family acted towards these from the lower realms. If one was trying to be nice one would call it arrogance, but in truth it was only disdain.

"Whatever, every bit counts.", she said, without caring.

"Well, tell me about that other woman.", her father then asked the question, which had kept him occupied, ever since he had heard, that there was another woman.

"I don't really know anything about here, besides what Carl has told. But I know that she is in the Capital. And from the direction it should be somewhere in the richer area."

"Oh right, you can sense her location right?"

She nodded, "Yes. And it seems to be quite accurate too."

"Then let's find out who it is.", her father rubbed his hands, eager to find out who the other woman was, which whom his daughter had to share her husband. After all it was an important point for his daughters future happiness.

But to his shock, his daughter shook her head. "I don't think that would be a good idea. It would be better to wait, for Ivan to tell me about her, himself. Besides that, if my guess is correct, then she to should have gotten a ring.

Let's see how Ivan is going to explain that to her.", she then smiled in schadenfreude.

From what she had heard, Ivan and this other woman didn't have a close relationship, so suddenly receiving a ring together with the notification that he had married someone else too, would surely make her angry. Sadly she wouldn't be able to see the scene when he got confronted about it.

"Oh.", her father looked disappointed. But there was nothing he could do, since his daughter didn't want to take the proactive approach.

"But tell me honestly, what you think about that guy.", he then asked the most important question.

Lin hesitated, while collecting her thoughts. "I don't really know. I have after all only meet him three times and one of them we were fighting each other. But from what I have seen, he doesn't seem like a bad guy." She thought back to their first meeting and how he had managed to fight with them against that boss, even though his stats seemed abyssal. "He has a strong determination and seems to be quite talented. I guess only time will show how he really is."

Seeing that his daughter didn't have anymore information on her new husband, or at least wasn't willing to share them, he could only stop asking. But quietly, he decided to let his men check him out. There was no way, he could leave his daughter in the hands of someone he knew nothing about. Besides that his wife would kill him as soon as she came back if he really didn't do anything. It was bad enough that Lin had married without her being asked, so some strategies to reduce her anger at him, for not stopping their daughter were needed desperately.