After I killed him for 9,000 years, he was reborn.

Tong Guoan is a brave and violent warrior. He is good at fighting, but he has an arrogant personality and has offended countless people, both openly and secretly. If he were not the emperor's uncle, he would have died a hundred times.

However, Tong Guoan also has one greatest advantage, which is loyalty. He knows that the reason he could rise rapidly from a mere military man to the current governor of the Nine Gates, in charge of the defense of Yuanjing City, is not only because he is the emperor's uncle, but also because of his absolute loyalty.

Tong Guoan, who is wholeheartedly loyal to Emperor Jiade, is impossible to embarrass Emperor Jiade no matter how stupid he is, how much he dotes on Li Yue'er, or how deeply in love he is. He doesn't have the courage.

It’s just that Tong Guoan doesn’t have the courage, but Li Yue’er does.

The more a person lacks something, the more he or she will want it. Li Yue'er has lacked nothing for all these years. The only thing she lacked is the official identity of a noble lady.

No matter how many times Li Yue'er had whispered in his ear, Tong Guoan just wouldn't give in. Li Yue'er had no choice but to find another way out.

Since her husband could not give her the status of a noble lady, the only way out was her son. Only if her biological son either inherited the title or became a high-ranking official and was highly valued by the emperor could she ask her son to confer the status of a noble lady on her.

For this purpose, Li Yue'er spent a large sum of money to hire famous teachers for her son Tong Wencai since he was a child. However, Tong Wencai was really not cut out for studying. There have been more than a dozen famous teachers in Yuanjing City, and none of them could teach this useless Tong Wencai.

Since learning literature is not possible, he decided to learn martial arts. However, Tong Wencai, who could not endure hardship, refused to learn martial arts after only three days, and even threatened to go on a hunger strike to force his opponent to do so.

In the end, they still loved their precious son. Tong Guoan and Li Yue'er were ultimately unable to defeat Tong Wencai. After several years of struggling with him, they finally had to accept that Tong Wencai was a useless person who was neither good at literature nor martial arts.

Since he is neither good at literature nor martial arts, Tong Wencai has no hope of relying on his own abilities. The only way left is to obtain a title.

Thanks to Emperor Jiade's mother for giving birth to a good son, the Tong family got the title of Duke of Yue for free.

The current Duke Yue has long since stopped caring about worldly affairs and is only concerned with immortality. The most respected person in the entire Tong family in front of Emperor Jiade is Tong Guoan, not to mention that Tong Guoan is the eldest son of the Tong family, so there is no doubt about his position as Duke Yue.

However, even if Tong Guoan successfully took over the position of Duke Yue, the person ranked ahead of Tong Wencai was Tong Wenjie, the eldest son born to Tong Guoan's first wife who had been bedridden for a long time.

For the sake of her precious son, Li Yue'er naturally regarded Tong Wenjie as a thorn in her side and wished to get rid of him as soon as possible.

But Li Yue'er didn't dare.

Tong Guoan was so high-profile in his favor to his concubine Li Yue'er that he wished everyone in the world knew about it. Even Emperor Jiade vaguely knew about it.

Although he looked down on Tong Guoan's confusion over the affairs of his wives and concubines, it was not easy for Emperor Jiade to interfere in the backyard of a minister's home. However, if Li Yue'er dared to reach out to Tong Wenjie, Emperor Jiade would dare to take the life of Li Yue'er's son Tong Wencai.

One time, Li Yue'er found an opportunity to instigate the father and son of the Tong family, and asked Tong Guoan to beat the 12-year-old Tong Wenjie half to death. Even Emperor Jiade could not stand it anymore, so he summoned Tong Guoan into the palace and gave him a severe reprimand, and personally warned him that if anything happened to Tong Wenjie, they would treat him the same way. Emperor Jiade disdained to deal with a concubine, but he would treat the waste Tong Wencai the same way.