Su Yiqian was about to lose her mind, she had always been more than confident while facing the Empress because she believed that her elder brother, father and second brother were all appointed or were going to be appointed to influential positions because of this she had offended the Empress who came from a small family.
The family of the Empress held high social status in the last dynasty but after the Late Emperor was thrown off, they lost all the favour and became a small family of scholars. The Empress and Emperor were in fact married because of nothing but political reasons but they ended up falling in love with one another.
This was the reason why the Empress could act arrogantly in the harem but the power of the harem had been balancing out because of her family.
She had used the power and authority that the Su family had and acted like a tyrant, it was clear that the harem was distributed in two sections. One supported Su Yiqian and the other section supported the Empress.
Su Yiqian whose soul belonged to a countryside woman hoped that she would rise higher and higher which was why all her hopes were placed on the men of her house. If her second brother had become a scholar she would have become even more powerful, even the Empress and Emperor would have to be careful in front of her.
Even her child would have more influence than the crown prince.
She wanted to slap those who were bullying her and she wanted to show off to the woman who kept on stepping on her head by showing that she was the winner in life.
So what if the Shen family was not by her side? Su Yiqian did not want a sleazy Shen family but a prideful and strong Su family!
However now that her second brother had been harmed to this extent he could neither become a scholar nor could he become a general he was useless! Which meant that her powerful family was going to stand still, no wonder her parents said that the child in her belly was their only hope.
Su Yiqian however did not want to place all the hope on the child in her belly, what if it was a girl? What then? If the second brother became the prime minister then she would have had another chance to get her hands on the Emperor’s seeds. But now that the power balance had been moved, what was she supposed to do? The entire game that she had set was ruined.
" The merchants did not expect that someone would dare to spill blood thus they left without looking back."
Though everything happened at the dead hour of the night, the beggars who roamed around the city were always awake thus Eldest Master Su was able to find out what happened last night.
Elder Master Su could not understand why his second brother had to cause trouble for others. If he wanted to get that woman there was more than one way to get his hands on her, why did he have to cause trouble for himself?
He also knew that his second brother was angry at the fact that he was stopped from taking exams. Of course, he understood his brother’s anger but there was no need to take that anger out on those who were simply beyond his control. At least he should have known that there were not enough bodyguards to protect him, how could he act like that?
His second brother not only lost his ams but he also lost his future.
Elder Master Su thought that he would be able to help his brother in his career but now that he had gotten his arms chopped off, Elder Master Su did not know what to do anymore.
All their plans had gone down the drain and they have become a joke in the eyes of others.
Su Yiqian turned to look at her elder brother and asked, " Did you catch the culprits?"
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