While writing a diary at Zongwu, Wang Yuyan falls in love with someone else.

This was a choice she made based on her judgment of Jiang Sishui's character.

The purpose was to reduce Jiang Sishui's hostility towards Zhu Wushi.

However, Zhu Wushi also gave Shangguan Haitang another task—

Stay by Jiang Sishui's side and cultivate a good relationship with him.

As the "Number One Secret Agent of the Xuan Character", Shangguan Haitang naturally understood Zhu Wushi's meaning.

This was an attempt to ease tensions and turn enemies into friends, while also planting a spy next to Jiang Sishui...

To achieve this goal, Shangguan Haitang is willing to pay any price.

Zhu Wushi didn't say these words explicitly, but she understood them.

When she received this task, Shangguan Haitang stood there in a daze for a long time.

Thinking of the great kindness her godfather had shown her, she felt incredibly weary.

Putting these distracting thoughts aside, Shangguan Haitang murmured, "Now, it's time to talk about my business, isn't it?"

Although I don't know why Zhu Wushi changed his ways, I've already gotten the benefits, so who cares?

Let's talk about Shangguan Haitang.

In "The World's Finest", she should be a tragic character from beginning to end.

Like Cheng Ying, she had a pitiful background.

When Shangguan Haitang was a child, a group of bandits coveted her family's fictitious treasure and massacred her entire family. Only six or seven years old, she escaped by lying in a pool of blood and feigning death.

However, after killing the people, the bandits did not leave, but instead searched everywhere for the rumored treasure.

The search lasted for five consecutive days.

During this period, young Shangguan Haitang refused to eat or drink and remained motionless in order to survive.

Even if the surrounding corpses are rotting and stinking, making one want to vomit.

Even if flies were buzzing in her ears and crawling all over her face.

Even as the bandits hooked her body with hooks, excruciating pain coursed through her entire being.

[3.7 She persevered through sheer grit and determination, remaining completely still]

Finally, on the fifth day, Zhu Wushi, who happened to be passing by, rescued her and pulled her out of her misery.

As each word appeared on the page, Shangguan Haitang's memories were involuntarily pulled back to her childhood.

It was a harrowing, nightmarish experience that remains vivid in her memory, one she can never forget.

And it was precisely because of this incident that she felt such respect and gratitude towards Zhu Wushi.

At the same time, the women were also shocked and sympathetic to Shangguan Haitang's past.

Playing dead for five days amidst a rotting pile of corpses?

Most adults in the world couldn't do that, let alone someone so young at the time.

A six or seven-year-old child possesses a perseverance that even adults cannot match.

Her plight evokes sympathy, and her resilience is even more heartbreaking.

207 Shangguan Haitang: I treated you like a brother, and you actually wanted to sleep with me?

Cheng Ying remained silent for a long time before letting out a soft sigh.

She lost her parents at a young age and lived a life of dependence on others, which is why she was so precocious and intelligent.

Subsequently, Li Mochou destroyed the Lu Family Manor, and she even took a detour to the Yama's Palace.

Jiang Sishui said that her background was pitiful, and she did not deny it in a pretentious way.

But now, compared to Shangguan Haitang, she feels incredibly lucky!

At least when she was staying at the Lu family manor, Lu Liding's family never bullied her.

Meanwhile, she also has a cousin who has always been with her.

But Shangguan Haitang was truly penniless, and even endured inhuman treatment for five days.

Not to mention, at least she in the story had a peaceful end, while the other party suffered a tragic fate.

After rescuing Shangguan Haitang, Zhu Wushi adopted her as his goddaughter and had her become a disciple of the Master Wuhen, where she studied medicine, divination, astrology, and hidden weapons. She was a man of great knowledge and talent.

At the same time, Zhu Wushi instilled in her the ideas of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, so Shangguan Haitang greatly admired her adoptive father from a young age, even regarding him as a god.

[27. Omniscient, omnipotent, and terrifyingly powerful]

Later, when the Divine Marquis established the Dragon Guard Manor, Shangguan Haitang, who had returned after completing her studies, became the "Number One Secret Agent of the Mysterious Character" within the "Heaven and Earth Mysterious and Yellow" organization.

However, what she didn't know was that Zhu Wushi never considered the spies as his own people from the very beginning. They were merely pawns that could be discarded at any time, used to decorate the facade of the Dragon Guard Manor.

The true strength of the Dragon Guard Manor lies in its secretly cultivated "Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals" and "Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends."

These 108 people disregarded imperial authority and obeyed only Zhu Wushi's orders, thus falling completely under his control.

In the end, Zhu did indeed discard the few "disobedient" spies.

Inside the room, Shangguan Haitang remained silent.

If it had been a month ago, she definitely wouldn't have believed a single word of what she heard when she saw someone "slandering" Zhu Wushi like this, and she would have been very angry.

But after such a long period of calm, she has learned to look at issues more dialectically and objectively.

In particular, Zhu Wushi's order for her to stay by Jiang Sishui's side made Shangguan Haitang realize that an adopted daughter is ultimately an adopted daughter, not a close relative.

A normal father would not send his daughter to someone he has recently offended.

From that time on, although she still respected and appreciated Zhu Wushi, she no longer blindly trusted him.

However, regardless of whether she was a pawn or not, she had already stepped out the moment she obtained the copy of the diary.

Unless she chooses to, Zhu Wushi can no longer control her destiny.

"But what about my elder brother and Yidao? If my godfather really... wouldn't my elder brother and Yidao be in great danger?"

Thinking of this, Shangguan Haitang couldn't help but feel worried.

In her love life, Shangguan Haitang also experienced many ups and downs.

She secretly loves Duan Tianya, but Duan Tianya can never forget his deceased lover, Liu Sheng Xueji.

Later, under Zhu Wushi's arrangement, Duan Tianya married Liu Sheng Piaoxu, the younger sister of Liu Sheng Xueji.

Shangguan Haitang could only watch helplessly as the person she loved married someone else, and then force a smile to offer her blessings.

"So, there's still no result after all?" Shangguan Haitang smiled bitterly.

Unlike in the story, Duan Tianya in reality did not have a sweetheart, but he still politely declined her previous hints.

So it seems she really isn't Duan Tianya's type.

This made Shangguan Haitang feel dejected, but also relieved.

Perhaps, she should let go of this doomed unrequited love.

……

After drifting at sea for a month, the Yagyu sisters finally set foot on the land of the Central Region.

At that moment, the two sisters looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little strange.

A moment later, Liu Sheng Piaoxu whispered, "Sister, it seems we've misunderstood. The man mentioned in the diary isn't Jue Tian, ​​but this Duan Tianya."

Yagyu Yukihime's eyelids twitched, and she felt a wave of embarrassment.

When Jiang Sishui said that she and her sister died because of the same man, she mistakenly thought she was referring to Jue Tian.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a misunderstanding.

Taking a deep breath, Yagyu Yukihime said calmly, "Even so, Jue Tian was not wronged in our killing of him."

Willow catkins drifted down, and the cicada's head nodded lightly.

Indeed, if they hadn't resisted, their fate would have been much worse.

"Sister, should we go and kill this Duan Tianya?" A cold glint flashed in Liu Sheng Piaoxu's eyes.

The thought that the two sisters died because of the same man, for whatever reason, made her feel uneasy.

Liu Shengxue said helplessly, "This Duan Tianya is probably far away in Jingzhou, thousands of miles from Suzhou, and he has no grudge against us. Just because of one sentence, you went all the way there to kill him?"

"This..." Liu Sheng Piaoxu was speechless.

"Since we're new here, it's not wise to be too high-profile. Let's get familiar with Suzhou first."

"Well, listen to my sister."

However, just because Duan Tianya doesn't love Shangguan Haitang doesn't mean that no one wants her.

[There are three people in the drama who are in love with Shangguan Haitang, and each of them has a more powerful background than the last.]

The first one is Gui Haiyidao, one of the secret agents trained by Zhu Wushi. He fell in love with Shangguan Haitang after accidentally discovering that she was a woman.

The second is Wan Sanqian, the richest person in the drama, the richest man in the country. Even Zhu Wushi's rebellion relied on his wealth.

The third is the emperor, the most powerful and prestigious person in the drama, who also falls in love with Shangguan Haitang after a chance encounter.