The emperor could not tolerate corruption, especially such a massive corruption case. If she were implicated, it wouldn't just be her who died, but the entire Shen family.
Shen Ning hates this family, but she will take revenge herself, instead of being framed and causing everyone's lives to be lost.
An unprecedented fear gripped Shen Ning, who was extremely anxious and trembling.
She forced herself to calm down, she had to calm down. She was thinking about how she could escape, who could deal with King Zhao, and who could save her.
The image of red I saw at the shooting range today flashed through my mind.
In just a moment, she grabbed it.
Empress, Crown Prince, Qin Zhuo...
A defeated general of King Zhao.
Is the Crown Prince destined to lose to King Zhao? Not necessarily. In this life, King Zhao has lost the Ministry of Revenue and lost an arm. If his ambitions are known in advance, the outcome is still uncertain.
The three forces vying for the throne in the future are: Prince Zhao, the Crown Prince, and the prince born to Consort Han. Consort Han is Han Yin's aunt, and Shen Ning would never side with the Han family. However, Prince Zhao is forcing her to accept this, so her only option now is to become the Crown Prince.
If Qin Zhuo can help her get through this ordeal, it wouldn't be unreasonable for the Shen family to offer half of their future wealth as tribute.
Although they said Qin Zhuo was terrifying, Luo Wanxia was pursuing Qin Zhuo and wanted to marry him. But she wasn't seeking romantic love; she was serving Qin Zhuo. As his subordinate, and a woman at that, she couldn't possibly be hacked to pieces by him.
However, it's still not right.
Shen Ning felt that her thoughts had reached a dead end; she must have missed something or overthought something.
Assuming her suspicions are true, King Zhao discovered that Li Shaobai had met with her, knew that the Shen family's estate was next to the Liu family's estate, and even directly suspected that she was involved.
By the way, Li Shaobai said these cases might be related to her father's death.
Shen Ning: ...Could it be that King Zhao also suspects that she wants to investigate her father's death to avenge him?
Ah, this...
Even though they are her own father, these people seem to be more enthusiastic than she is.
She felt guilty because she revealed the gold brick incident to Li Shaobai. Could it be that King Zhao felt guilty because his father's death was related to him?
Otherwise, why choose her when there are so many other scapegoats? So there really was something wrong with her father's death?
Let's put aside who her father is for now and focus on the present.
If King Zhao really thought that way, she was just a woman, and no matter how you looked at it, she couldn't bear such a serious crime as embezzlement. Even if it was exposed, it wouldn't be able to withstand the investigation by the Dali Temple. In fact, if she directly exposed King Zhao, wouldn't he also be exposed?
As things stand, he doesn't seem to have any leverage to threaten her.
Just then, Mo Lin rushed in: "Miss, the young master has gone missing."
Shen Ning turned around abruptly, about to ask a question, when Mo Lin handed her an envelope: "This is on the table in the young master's room."
Shen Ning opened it; it wasn't a threatening letter, but a house deed.
But this is threatening enough; isn't the Liu family mansion obvious enough?
She was just wondering what King Zhao would use to threaten her, and now he has taken Shen Yu away.
Yes, in the eyes of the world, she is eighteen-year-old Shen Ning, who cares about her family and loves her younger brother and sister. Similarly, she would not know about King Zhao's scheme and his relationship with the Zhang family and Jinbaolou.
If everything she did was to investigate her father's death, then she certainly wouldn't be indifferent to the life or death of the only male heir in the Shen family.
But Shen Ning still didn't understand what he was trying to do.
Should we really let her go into business?
She earns enough to support her family, but it's a drop in the ocean when it comes to maintaining an army and cultivating power.
Therefore, King Zhao's true intention was not to let her make money, but to take her life.
What's puzzling is that her life was worthless and her status was too low to bear the guilt.
Hmm... no, that's not right.
She knew she was outnumbered and outmatched, but was it possible that King Zhao didn't know?
In the past two years, she has been building connections everywhere, contacting her father's old friends, and also getting involved with Li Shaobai's side of power, and above Li Shaobai is Prime Minister Luo.
Uh... could it be that King Zhao thinks she's quite capable?
King Zhao threatened her with the Golden Treasure Tower and even kidnapped her brother. She couldn't immediately earn money from acquaintances, so what could she do? Of course, she had to ask for help.
He took the land deed given to him by King Zhao and went to ask for help.
King Zhao placed a spy, Peach Girl, who wasn't really an eyeliner, to keep an eye on her, making her think that it was only Peach Girl watching her, and that there might be someone else watching her from the shadows.
As long as she asks for help, King Zhao will use some means to get the Dali Temple officials to catch her red-handed.
This relieved King Zhao's crisis and eliminated his rivals at the same time, achieving two goals at once.
Could this be the truth?
But if she couldn't guess even this, Shen Ning didn't know what else she could guess.
Those in power are always cunning.
Having thought of everything, Shen Ning felt she had done her best. If she still couldn't guess correctly, then she could only accept her bad luck.
As for Shen Yu, well, it would be better if King Zhao killed her for her, so she wouldn't hate him but be unable to bring herself to do it.
So, what is she going to do now?
Shen Ning was bewildered.
She didn't care about Shen Yu and didn't want to ask for favors for him. She also didn't want to do anything for Prince Zhao. If she really attracted the attention of the Dali Temple, she didn't want to visit Shen Ming in prison.
But she couldn't do nothing.
If King Zhao thinks she's on the same side as Li Shaobai and Prime Minister Luo, then she deliberately avoids them. Thinking this way, Qin Zhuo becomes her option again, but not as certain as before.
Shen Ning had already sensed the danger, so naturally he couldn't just sit and wait to die.
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