Chapter 227 An Unexpected Guest

It was not until the princess had become ill and was on her deathbed that she told the scholar the truth. The ancestor of the Ying family was filled with regret upon finding out the truth, so he began searching high and low for the last surviving child of the Gui family. Finally, before he died, he found the little girl and ordered his son to marry her. He even changed the family names of their children to Gui. Afterward, he hired a priest to place a curse on all his descendants, the contents of which ultimately became the Ancestral Behest. According to the behest, any male descendant of the Ying family who had the mark of the Totem on his body must marry a woman who was the descendant of the Gui family and whose body also bore the mark of the Totem. The pair must stay with each other and grow old together, never to part for the rest of their lives. Indeed, the behest had also mentioned that any violation of its decree would bring utter destruction to the Ying family. "We already k