"Father, what... what do you want to do? Father, you made a mistake last night."
Shen Qinghua felt a little uneasy looking at Shen Youji's gloomy face, so she emphasized urgently.
"You're right, I made a mistake. Now I'll give you two choices: one, pretend nothing happened and I'll find you a good man to marry; two, I'll send you to the Floating Cloud Temple to cultivate. You can choose one."
Shen Youji closed her eyes in sorrow, then opened them again, and said dejectedly.
"Father, I want to get married. I want to marry Shen Jinchen, the imperial son-in-law of the current emperor, even if it's as a concubine."
Shen Qinghua didn't understand her father's thoughts for a moment, but if she had to choose one, she would choose to get married. All she did was to get married.
"You've already lost your virginity to me, how can you still marry Jinchen? Stop dreaming! Think about whether there's anyone else in the capital you could marry!"
Shen Youji glanced at Shen Qinghua with complicated emotions, then said awkwardly.
"Father, you have ruined me like this, and you still want your daughter back? What have I done wrong? My only wish in this life is to marry my elder brother. Father, can't you even grant me this wish?"
Shen Qinghua's eyes filled with tears as she spoke accusingly.
"How dare you! In your current crippled state, how could you possibly be worthy of him? Besides, he doesn't even like you. Why would I send you to his side? Since you're so persistent, there's only one other path to choose from."
After giving a reprimand, Shen Youji closed his eyes, remained silent for a long time, and then made a decision for Shen Qinghua.
"Father, aren't you afraid I'll expose our affair to the world? You'll be despised by everyone. How can you live in this world with the face of your own father doing such a despicable thing?"
When Shen Qinghua heard the words that her crippled body was unworthy of her elder brother, she was stunned for a long time, then suddenly sneered. After laughing, she looked at her ridiculous father in an extremely sarcastic tone.
"I have no face to live in this world. Since you choose neither, then this general has no choice but to kill you."
Shinobu Yuki's eyes suddenly sharpened as he glared at the daughter who was threatening him, but he ultimately made a painful decision.
Threatening him, what a good daughter of hers.
Seeing the murderous intent in her father's eyes, Shen Qinghua was shocked. She had never imagined that her father would react this way after this incident. Instantly, all her previous confidence vanished.
Knowing her father as she did, he shouldn't have made this choice, how could he...
Just as Shen Youji was about to grab her by the neck, she struggled fiercely, fled in panic, and shouted:
"Father, you did nothing last night. I was so eager to marry my elder brother that I framed you. The red marks on my neck are from scratching myself. Nothing happened between us last night!"
After Shen Qinghua finished speaking, Shen Youji, who was frantically trying to kill, finally stopped.
"Stop right there! Don't run, I won't kill you."
After the turbulent emotions in Shen Youji's eyes subsided, she slowly parted her lips.
"Father! Qinghua was wrong, Qinghua shouldn't have been so blinded by greed!"
Shen Qinghua had truly felt her father's fury just now, and dared not disobey him in the slightest.
“Since you haven’t done anything wrong, and your father hasn’t done anything wrong either, then we’ll hold a marriage selection banquet in a few days and marry you all off. Qinghua, I used to really think you were a good person, but now it seems you were just putting on an act in front of your father. Fine! Very well! I gave birth to you all, and now that you’re married off, it’s no longer my responsibility as your father. You’d better behave yourself from now on.”
Shen Youji let out a long sigh, sat down with his arms around the table, and spoke coldly.
He used to think that this daughter was most like Yu Hua, but now he feels that she is not even one ten-thousandth like him. Over the years, he has been searching desperately but has never been able to find someone who is completely like Yu Hua, which has made the General's Mansion a mess. He feels sorry for Yu Hua and also sorry for the feelings he had for her.
He needs to wake up.
Since all the daughters in this household are obstacles to her son, then let's get rid of them one by one.
A stand-in is always just a stand-in, never the real person. He's lived a ridiculous life all these years.
"Father…!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Qinghua instantly collapsed to the ground. She had tried to steal a chicken but lost the rice instead; her scheme had backfired and harmed her instead.
Unfortunately, she had always maintained the demeanor of an empress since childhood, which made it impossible for her to accept this situation.
"snort!"
Shen Youji glanced at Shen Qinghua with disdain and walked away. It was his fault for not raising his daughter properly. She was shameless enough to scheme against even her own father. He, Shen Youji, deserved to not be able to get the one he loved.
...
For the past two days, Cen Xi has been hiding in the mountains, fifty miles away from that group of people.
Strangely, after the other party discovered her escape, they chased her relentlessly on the first day, and desperately on the second day, but on the third day, they chased her slowly.
Cen Xi felt that their behavior was very abnormal. She clearly sensed danger, but she really wanted to find out what the face under that mask looked like, and what connection they had that made the other party unable to bring themselves to do it.
So even though she knew it was quite dangerous, she stayed. On the fifth day, she saw that the group had tied up a pregnant woman, which made her even more curious.
After that, six more pregnant women arrived one after another.
Cen Xi felt that things were getting increasingly strange. She had no clue what this Yan Taizu was trying to do.
In an attempt to gather information, she secretly knocked someone unconscious, hoping to extract some information from him. Unfortunately, the man was a suicide soldier, and upon waking up and seeing her, he died from poison.
Cen Xi could only sigh helplessly.
It seems we can only wait until the very end to find out the answer.
Ten days later, Xiao Qiliang, who had previously inoculated Cen Xi with the plague at Qingshan Academy, and a masked man in black finally appeared.
Unfortunately, these two were highly skilled in martial arts, and Cen Xi could only hide silently a hundred miles away.
She had no idea what the other person was talking about.
As soon as Xiao Qiliang returned, before he even sat down, he said to Yan Shengxiao:
"My lord, I heard that the woman has run away."
"Yes, she escaped, and Zhu Que was killed by her."
Yan Shengxiao's calm reply suggested he wasn't in a hurry at all.
"Then, my lord, what should we do next?"
Xiao Qiliang asked anxiously, "The woman has run away. Do I still need to go and catch her?"
This time, I'm afraid I won't be as lucky as last time, and it will be difficult to fool the other party again.
"No rush, no rush. Let's set up the formation first. There's a saying that the most dangerous place is always the safest place. I think that woman thought so too. I've already set up a mountain-sealing formation on this mountain. Unless she finds the core of the formation, she will never be able to get out. It's her own fault for not escaping back then, so she can't blame us. It seems that the so-called calamity is nothing more than that."
Yan Shengxiao had already realized that the woman was still on the mountain, so he wasn't in a hurry at all. He had already laid a trap for her, just waiting for her to fall into it.
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