Ji Huan felt an urge to applaud these people.
And they wanted him to marry into her family.
In ancient times, any man with the slightest ambition would never want to marry into his wife's family.
Unless he was forced, a man would only do so if he couldn't survive otherwise—if he needed to marry in just to feed himself or support his own family.
It meant a life with no dignity and low status. He wouldn't be able to hold his head high in public, would have no say in his own household, and even his children couldn't take his surname.
He would almost certainly be looked down upon.
That last point, in particular, was tantamount to ending one's family line—a fate unacceptable to any man of integrity, especially in a society that prized heirs above all else.
Even a Prince Consort, despite his glamorous title, was secretly ridiculed, let alone a commoner.
'And Huang Junping was actually willing to do it?'
