Chapter 402 No Future (1)

On the day when Shen Xin left the palace and returned home, Shen Miao personally went to meet him at the city wall outside the palace gate.

The other members of the Shen family were naturally dissatisfied with this outcome, especially Old Lady Shen, who thought that Shen Xin was in trouble. She had never expected that Shen Xin's life would be spared after all. However, after hearing Shen Gui explain to her what the confiscation of military power meant, Old Lady Shen became happy again.

With his military power confiscated, Shen Xin could no longer rival Shen Gui and Shen Wan in terms of power and influence. Old Madam Shen was short-sighted, but she hadn't realized that the Shen family was now a unified whole. When people outside looked at the Shen family, they naturally saw Shen Xin's reputation. With Shen Xin's reputation ruined, the Shen family would no longer be as powerful as it once was.

But Old Madam Shen probably didn't care. In her heart, her children, Shen Gui and Shen Wan, were countless times better than Shen Xin. If it weren't for the old general's favoritism, Shen Xin wouldn't have achieved what he has today. Since Shen Gui was already on the verge of collapse, it wouldn't be a bad idea to take this opportunity to expel Shen Xin's family from the Shen family.

But how to divide this family is also a clever idea.

In the Shen Mansion, Old Madam Shen was planning to split the family, but Shen Miao didn't take it to heart at all. Things had come to this point, and she finally had to follow her previous plan. The emperor taking back the military power was one thing, and without the military power, the Shen family was indeed not to be feared. If they continued to stay here, the Shen family had many enemies who would eventually force Shen Xin's group into a desperate situation.

Still have to... retreat.

Suddenly, Shen Miao recalled Xie Jingxing's warning to her that day. This word "retreat" was indeed the only way out for the Shen family. He saw the key point at a glance.

The carriage was parked in a corner of the palace wall to avoid being seen. Adding insult to injury, Chen Xin's colleagues who disagreed with him, as well as some onlookers, might have been waiting at the palace gates. Shen Miao knew the Fu family's character better than anyone else. She pretended to be magnanimous, yet secretly determined to make them suffer. Chen Xin was a renowned figure, but now that his tiger talisman had been taken away from him and he was expelled from the palace, his destitute appearance must have been a source of joy to many.

Shen Miao had suffered a lot in her past life, and she had lost all her face in Ming Qi. She could endure the humiliation herself, but she couldn't bear to see her family treated like this. She had no choice but to stop the carriage here and wait for Shen Xin to come out and take them away.

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Mo Qing's low shout from outside: "Stop!" A gust of wind rushed in, and Shen Miao's eyes blurred. The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and there was suddenly one more person in the spacious carriage.

Guyu screamed in shock, and Jingzhe covered her mouth with his hand. Mo Qing's panicked voice rang out, "Miss!"

Shen Miao looked at the person opposite her.

On the carriage bed, a young man was wearing a dark red official uniform, with peach blossom eyes that were full of romance and a thin, slightly upturned lip. The court uniform, which was supposed to be serious and upright, looked so beautiful and elegant in him that people could not take their eyes off it.

“Mo Qing, step back.” Shen Miao scolded.

"But..." Mo Qing's voice tightened through the carriage curtain. The man's movements were too fast and he had no time to stop him. Putting a stranger in the same carriage with Shen Miao was absolutely unacceptable.

"You can't beat him." Shen Miao said calmly to the outside, looking at Jingzhe and Guyu: "You should go out too. Stand guard by the carriage."

Jingzhe and Guyu had met Xie Jingxing and knew that he and Shen Miao had some friendship, but they were confused as to the extent of this friendship. They were close, but they would occasionally butt heads. They were enemies, so how could Shen Miao be so lenient towards her enemy?

However, having had several experiences, Jingzhe and Guyu also expected that Xie Jingxing would not harm Shen Miao. Shen Miao was so open about asking Xie Jingxing to stay in the carriage, which must have been because she was sure of this. Jingzhe and Guyu did not say anything and got off the carriage as instructed.