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This unrest, which lasted less than a day, was enough to cause a sensation throughout the city.
This forced the governnt to deploy manpower to maintain order.
Of course, Pei Zhan and Liang Chen, as the main forces in solving the case, were undoubtedly swamped with work at this mont. Naturally, Fu Zhen could not delay his ti.
After sending off Fu Zhen in the early morning, Mrs. Ning did not close her eyes again. To avoid causing trouble for Fu Zhen and the others, she did not step out of the front gate or even the second door all day. It wasn’t until she heard that Xu Yin was surrounded in a house next to Baiyu Lane, where he had once lived, that she felt relieved. According to her prior agreent with Fu Zhen, she went from the Ning Family to the Wanbin Building.
Due to the curfew across the city, the restaurant was closed today as well. Mrs. Ning paced back and forth in the attic, watching the daylight slanting westward, casting shadows through the gaps in the branches into the room, when Fu Zhen’s footsteps finally echoed up from below!
Ignoring her composure, Mrs. Ning hurried down the stairs, paused for a mont, then stepped forward to grab Fu Zhen’s arms and said, "Nothing happened to you, did it?"
Fu Zhen let out a long breath, shook his head, and embraced her: "I’m fine. Everyone has been captured, and the dust has settled!"
"That’s great!" Mrs. Ning choked up, releasing her and saying, "Your Uncle Xie—Mr. Xie, he sent soone with a ssage just now, briefly ntioning the situation in the palace, and said you personally led people to chase Xu Yin. After receiving the letter, I couldn’t rest easy. That treacherous Xu is extrely cunning. I was so afraid sothing might go wrong with you."
Fu Zhen helped her upstairs to sit down, took a couple of breaths to steady her breathing, and then said, "From now on, you can rest assured. The mystery of Baiyu Lane has been unveiled. The Crown Prince, Xu Yin, Prince Rong and his son—all these people have been brought to justice. We can live peacefully now."
Revenge was not her entire life, but it was a goal she had to achieve after her rebirth.
In the past six months, she dedicated all her energy to her revenge, and from the mont she took down Xu Yin, her life was back on track.
With her great vengeance achieved, this segnt of the past truly beca the past.
From now on, whether she was Liang Ning or Fu Zhen did not matter. What mattered was the anticipation for decades of the rest of her life that she had in her past life, which she could now pursue again from this mont.
Mrs. Ning gently stroked her slightly disheveled hair: "Master Cheng Kong’s words were indeed prophetic. From the mont you escaped death from Baihe Temple, everything began to turn for the better. Henceforth, it will naturally get better and better."
The mother and daughter nestled against each other in the gentle sunset, bringing a sense of tranquility to the entire room.
When the sound of Jin Zhu’s footsteps ca from downstairs, Fu Zhen also sat upright. She accepted the tea from Jin Zhu and took a couple of sips, then said, "There’s an important matter I haven’t had ti to tell you, Mother. Do you know whom Prince Rong and his son killed?"
The matter of the Crown Prince murdering his brother, touching on familial relations, required temporary secrecy in the palace, and it would only be announced later. Thus, Mrs. Ning would currently be unaware of this inside story.
Sure enough, Mrs. Ning was stunned: "Could it be the eldest prince?"
"It was the eldest prince, which makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?" Earlier, when ntioning that fan, there had been vague speculations in both their hearts. Even if they didn’t know it was the eldest prince, they suspected it was soone extrely important.
After narrating the history of the eldest prince, Fu Zhen continued, "I never expected that Grandfather would be the key person with knowledge of the eldest prince’s whereabouts. So it made complete sense for him to instruct Mother to act cautiously.
"I asked Xu Yin if he knew the cause of Grandfather’s death, but I found that he learned information about the eldest prince through that Lian Rong by his side. So, regarding Grandfather’s death, he may not be aware, and even if he knows, it would have been sothing he heard from Lian Rong.
"At that ti, I thought that since the case of the eldest prince had nothing to do with Dayue’s struggle for imperial power, Lian Rong’s faction had no reason to pay attention to these things. How did he co to know then? At that ti, he had just co to Xu Yin’s side not long ago, so he probably hadn’t yet taken over Xu Yin’s guards. Yet sohow, he seed to handle these ssages effortlessly."
If Lian Rong hadn’t just happened to provide such crucial information, Xu Yin wouldn’t have imdiately decided to use this case as a pretext to ask Liang Ning for the dagger, and thus align with Prince Rong’s Mansion.
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