On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

Su Sui'an frowned.

"Ms. Su... Miss Su... What did I say that you find offensive? Can I take it back?"

Rong Xian was almost scared to tears by her.

"Why do you think I don't want to get married?" Su Sui'an's eyes were fixed on Rong Xian's every expression.

The internal force began to gather at the fingertips, ready to tie the person up at any time.

"You... the expression on your face is so obvious, it's impossible not to know. Also, which bride-to-be would run around half a month before the wedding? Anyway, I haven't seen it..."

As he spoke, Rong Xian's eyes became redder, as if he was about to cry the next moment.

"Is it really obvious?" Knowing that Rong Xian had no internal strength and noticing that there was nothing unusual in his expression, Su Sui'an suppressed his murderous intent and let go of his hand.

"Don't you ever look in the mirror when you wake up in the morning?"

Rong Xian shrank aside tremblingly, rubbing his wrist while looking at the account books that were scattered on the ground with heartache, not even daring to look at Su Sui'an again.

Su Sui'an's eyes flickered slightly, and she stepped forward guiltily to help him clean up, but he took two steps back to the side as if he had seen a ghost, afraid to have any contact with her again.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it just now." Su Sui'an apologized, but he had already stood up and had no intention of clearing the account book for Rong Xian.

I took two steps and felt the people behind me heave a sigh of relief.

She took out her personal dagger and was about to cut Rong Xian's throat.

Rong Xian was unable to dodge, screamed, and fainted on the spot.

If Su Sui'an hadn't put away the dagger quickly, he would have been killed by her by now.

Looking at the pale and fainted person in front of him, Su Sui'an's eyes flashed with surprise: He really doesn't know martial arts...

"Okay, what kind of incense do you use..."

She muttered something under her breath and then called the servants.

"Carry him back to the ward room in Ruoliyuan first."

As the descendants were about to leave, she added, "He was sent by the Ninth Prince. Find a doctor to see him. Don't let him die in our yard."

"Yes."

...

Because of the delay by Rong Xian, when Su Sui'an arrived at Changlong Pawnshop, it was already 9:00 p.m.

The pawn shop is not open yet.

Only one clerk at the counter glanced at her impatiently.

When he saw her clothes clearly, the waiter stood up straight and called out attentively, "Is it the young lady?"

Su Sui'an felt a strange sense of awkwardness in her heart. The guy in front of her looked only about fifteen or sixteen years old, younger than her...

Soon, she suppressed this strange feeling and said, "I want to find Shopkeeper Fu."

"The shopkeeper has been waiting for the young lady for a long time. Please come in, young lady."

The clerk very attentively invited Su Sui'an to the back hall of Changlong Pawnshop.

When Manager Fu saw Su Sui'an, he immediately came forward to greet him enthusiastically.

"Little Miss..."

"Manager Fu, I have limited time to come out today, so let's make it short. Do you really have the token representing the Marquis of Changping?"

Shopkeeper Fu nodded solemnly, turned around and took out a locked brocade box from a locked cabinet.

Under Su Sui'an's gaze, he slowly opened the locked brocade box.

A gold nugget the size of a baby's palm, deformed by the burns, lay quietly on the soft red satin.

Su Sui'an took a closer look and vaguely recognized the word "Changping" that had been severely burned and deformed.

The pattern on the token is different from the current pattern of the Changping Marquis Mansion.

"This is..."

Shopkeeper Fu picked up the gold nugget with shaking hands. His cloudy eyes showed his excitement. "This is the token of the Changping Marquis's mansion during the time of the old Changping Marquis."

For every noble family, as long as the head of the family changes, the pattern of the token will also change accordingly.

If that's really the case...

Su Sui'an's pupils shrank slightly, and he asked Shopkeeper Fu tentatively, "But is there a hidden secret behind this token?"

Shopkeeper Fu nodded.

"When the young lady asked me to deliver a letter to General Su and the master, she also mentioned the abnormal hostility of the Marquis of Changping Mansion towards the second branch. I was more careful and investigated it carefully. During this investigation, I basically found out everything about my son-in-law. Back then, my son-in-law was brought back to the mansion by the old Marquis from an old couple. Coincidentally, before they met the old Marquis Su, the old couple had pawned something in our branch shop, which was this token that had been burned and deformed."

"The couple didn't know where the token came from. They just said they picked it up and burned it to make sure it was real gold before pawning it. However, the place where they pawned the token was thousands of miles away from Luojing, and the Marquis' wife had just given birth at that time..."

Hearing this, Su Sui'an's heart started beating wildly and his hands and feet began to feel weak.

"So, a child might have been lost in the Changping Marquis' Mansion back then, and that child is most likely my father?"

Shopkeeper Fu nodded and shook his head.

"The noble families in Luojing have always had a custom of sewing a token representing the identity on the soles of the shoes of newly born legitimate sons and daughters, so that in case they are lost, there is still a token to prove their identity. I think this token was sealed in the sole of the little marquis's shoe when he was still a baby, so he escaped the fate of being replaced.

But now, several decades have passed, the old marquis and his wife have passed away one after another, and the Changping Marquis's Mansion even has a legitimate marquis. It is difficult to determine the identity of the son-in-law based on a token that has been burned and deformed. There is also a question. The old couple has no children. Did they adopt other children before adopting the son-in-law? Whether the token belongs to the son-in-law is also an unknown number..."

A token only proves that Su Qishun's bloodline is questionable.

"No," Su Sui'an rubbed his brows, "Back then, the old marquis and his wife were very affectionate, and the Marquis of Changping was the only hereditary marquis in Luojing who did not have a concubine..."

If it weren't for this, the old marquis' wife wouldn't have been angered to death by Liang when she suddenly appeared.

Although she had long suspected that Su Qishun was not the old marquis's wife's child, this matter was really too absurd.

"If that's true, then how did Su Qishun get transferred to the Marquis of Changping's mansion? Or is it possible that the old Marquis' wife gave birth to twins?"

Shopkeeper Fu sighed, "I asked an old woman who was in charge of delivering the Marquis' wife. She was awake the whole time when she gave birth. She fell asleep only after she was sure that she had only given birth to one child."

"How many people who were involved back then do the shopkeeper still have in his hands now?" Su Sui'an lowered his eyes, and his gaze finally focused on the piece of gold in front of him.

"The only person we can find is that old woman. Although the old lady said she has a good memory, the people around her have always said that she is crazy and never says anything accurate." Shopkeeper Fu looked helpless.