Immortal Clan: Seeking Dao Companions, Ladies Please Stay

The thirty-sixth year of Great Qian, Yanggu County.

Inside a dim, low-roofed shack, the matchmaker pressed an embroidered handkerchief to her nose and said, “Though you’re a scholar, you’re but a penniless examination candidate. To marry into the Wang family is already reaching above your station. Besides, the Wangs are even willing to pay off your late father’s debts. Such good fortune is like lighting a lamp in broad daylight…”

“Madam Wang, I agree to this. Tell the Wang family to make preparations,” Su Yang replied, wearing coarse cloth and bearing a refined air. Helplessness flashed across his face. To become a son-in-law by marriage—what greater humiliation for a scholar? Had it been any other man of letters, he might have died of shame. Fortunately, Su Yang was not of this world but a quasi-immortal who had transmigrated here.

He had been in this world for over three months and had learned a little about the Wang family. Though they were prominent in Yanggu County, their eldest daughter was lame and rumored to be hideous, scaring away many suitors. Several months prior, the family head had been killed by bandits, leaving the household without a male heir. Greedy relatives sought to seize the estate, so marrying a son-in-law was a strategy to preserve the family fortune.

“Indeed, you scholars know how to adapt,” the matchmaker said approvingly. “Once you marry into the Wang family, you’ll eat well and live comfortably. What’s so bad about that? I’ll go inform them right away.” Joy lit her plump face as she hurried off to the Wang residence, h