Zhou Lian laughed, "The government won't care. Zhou Daquan has a younger brother who was sent away to learn martial arts in his early years and made a name for himself. When he heard that his mother and brothers had died, he rushed back to mourn. I was afraid that things would be exposed, so I ran away with the family's money. I didn't expect him to not let me go and to keep looking for me, threatening to kill me!"
Su Jinxia gradually understood.
"So, you found out that Lin Que likes married women, and pretended to be a pitiful woman to gain his sympathy and help, but in reality you wanted to use his power to find a place of refuge."
Su Jinxia remembered that Zhou Wenshu had mentioned Zhou Lian.
To say she fought back fiercely and vowed to die rather than submit—is that some kind of sentiment?
Zhou Lian felt no shame whatsoever, and even thought her method was extremely brilliant.
How pitiful, how pathetic!
Su Jin felt great sympathy for Zhou Lian, but...
"What can you do if you arrest me?"
Zhou Lian smiled and said, "I have already inquired about it. The daughter of the magistrate of Pingyang County is a concubine in the palace. She has powerful backers and has been the most powerful person in recent years. She is a local tyrant. However, unlike Lin Que, he likes pretty girls like you. I have no choice but to take you with me to surrender to him."
Su Jin down...
"How do you always manage to find out about people like this?"
Zhou Lian replied matter-of-factly, "In this world, it's not easy to find a good person, but it's not hard to find a bad one."
Su Jinxia knew that the court was inhumane, the emperor was incompetent, and the people suffered greatly because of the example set by the emperor.
But she had never personally experienced the suffering of ordinary people in either of her lives, yet she was already so cruel and inhumane.
Su Jin thought about it more deeply and realized that in her previous life, until her death, the people had never escaped this miserable state, and were even worse off.
Shen Qianxue fought for ten years, surely for the sake of bringing peace to the world, but he…
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