"Bah! That woman Lin Jiaoyun is fickle, arrogant, and conceited. She even dared to say in a secret letter that you should kill Emperor Yan and marry her as your empress. She's dreaming! Let her wait and see!"
"When the Zhou family fell on hard times, Lin Jiaoyun took advantage of their misfortune. Now that she knows you have a powerful weapon and your chances of winning are much higher, she has changed her mind and wants to get back together with you. Young master, you must slap her face in the future! Make her watch as you ascend to the throne, but she will not be the empress."
"That's right, that's right!"
"Alright, let's go."
Twenty archers were left behind at the inn.
Zhou Cheng then led the rest of his men to Yan City. His goal was to loot the granaries, the treasury, and the supply depots—in short, to leave no stone unturned and plunder them all!
Several hours later.
night.
Yancheng is less than 100 li away from Wangcheng.
Zhou Shiying ended the life of her unborn child with a single palm strike. When Marquis Pingyang heard the news of the miscarriage, he was shocked and immediately sent people to carry Zhou Shiying to Yancheng to see a doctor, fearing that Zhou Shiying would bleed to death.
That night,
Zhou Shiying finally got her chance to escape.
"Marquis!"
"Oh no! The lady has disappeared!"
A sudden shout startled the Marquis of Pingyang, who sat bolt upright in bed.
The soft skin of the maidservant was pressed against the Marquis of Pingyang in her arms. She peeked out from under the covers, her eyes still half-closed. Before she could even ask what was wrong,
The next second.
Marquis Pingyang pushed her away.
He quickly got up and dressed, shouting angrily at the guards outside the door as he put on his shoes: "Isn't Zhou Shiying at the clinic on the next street? I sent so many people to guard her, how could she have disappeared!"
"She suffered a miscarriage, which damaged her body and weakened her vitality, greatly reducing her strength. You bunch of useless trash, can't you even keep an eye on a woman?!"
"Damn it, I knew something was off about her!"
Marquis Pingyang was so angry he was practically fuming.
After Zhou Shiying was taken to the clinic, the doctor said that her body was severely damaged and she had lost too much blood, which might be dangerous. For Zhou Shiying's safety, Marquis Pingyang left her at the clinic.
He then asked for a guest room nearby, where he and his maid finished the things they hadn't had time to do.
The result was unexpected!
He had just finished two hours of intense fighting, covered in sweat, when news spread that Zhou Shiying had run away. When did that divorced woman become so patient?
She had overheard his secret of entering the capital, but she kept it to herself, enduring it, waiting for a chance to escape... Yes, waiting for a chance.
In other words, she's probably also responsible for the child issue?!
Upon thinking this, Marquis Pingyang was furious!
"Find it for me."
"That wicked woman won't get far."
"Even if we have to search the entire city of Yan, we must bring her back to me."
"Bang!"
Marquis Pingyang slammed his fist on the table in anger: "Without the bond of the child, the relationship with the Zhou family is ruined. If Zhou Cheng knew what I had done, he would probably want to skin me alive."
"We can't let Zhou Shiying escape. We must escort her to the capital. I can't cut off the Zhou family's escape route without also getting in touch with His Majesty. We have to save at least one of them! Go find her now!"
Marquis Pingyang didn't care about children.
The problem is, if the child stays, then he will have a hold on Zhou Shiying and the Zhou family's weakness.
Zhou Zhenguang values loyalty and friendship so much. If he doesn't want his treacherous son-in-law, he can't possibly abandon his grandson, can he? Now that he's acknowledged his grandson, is he really going to kill his grandson's biological father?
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