Being favored by the paranoid master, the whole imperial capital kneels down

Zhou didn't pay any attention to Su Shizhi at all.

She walked straight ahead, not caring at all about the complicated emotions in Su Shizhi's eyes.

Zhou Mingzhu followed and was furious when she saw Su Shizhi's eyes following Zhou.

Don't think she doesn't know that Su Shizhi and Zhou were truly in love when they were young.

Maybe people are just that mean.

Zhou Mingzhu enjoys everyone's love and unlimited indulgence.

She is used to being pampered by people around her.

So when Su Shi appeared in her life, Zhou Mingzhu was inevitably moved.

Especially when I learned that Su Shizhi was different from those playboys.

He has an elegant and noble temperament, and is well-read and knowledgeable.

Zhou Mingzhu was arrogant and felt that the sons of powerful nobles in the imperial capital were not as good as Su Shizhi at that time.

So when Su Shizhi didn't love her, he proposed to her sister Zhou Xinyue.

Zhou Mingzhu's hatred for Zhou Xinyue reached a new level.

Zhou Xinyue, who is inferior to her in every way.

A bitch who is worse than a transparent person in the Zhou family.

How could she be worthy of Su Shizhi?

Even though Zhou Mingzhu was later betrothed to the Chu family, Lord Chu was willing to marry her, the daughter of a ninth-rank official, as his legitimate wife despite his status as a marquis.

Zhou Mingzhu was very upset.

That's just how she is. She can choose not to have something, but others cannot refuse to give it to her.

She may not marry Su Shizhi, but Su Shizhi cannot help but like her.

Since Su Shizhi likes Zhou Xinyue so much, Zhou Mingzhu will make Zhou Xinyue lose her innocence.

Zhou Mingzhu walked forward and looked coldly at the stunned expression on Su Shizhi's face.

"What's there to see? She's at the end of her rope now, and neither of her two children are with her."

"Compared to me, she is much worse."

Su Shizhi retracted his gaze, turned back suddenly, and looked at Zhou Mingzhu fiercely.

"you shut up!"

"If it weren't for you, she wouldn't be like this now!"

He was blaming Zhou Mingzhu.

For so many years, Zhou Mingzhu always thought that Su Shizhi had long forgotten the grievances and grudges in the past.

But she didn't expect that he had been blaming her all the time!

Zhou Mingzhu looked at Su Shizhi in astonishment, his face pale.

"Blame me? Su Shizhi, do you have a conscience?"

Who accompanied Su Shizhi on his road to exile?

Who helped Su Shizhi gain a foothold in Northern Xinjiang?

Even Su Shizhi's ability to facilitate trade cooperation between the two countries was due to Zhou Mingzhu's indispensable relationship.

But now, Su Shizhi actually blamed her for that bitch Zhou Xinyue?

Su Shizhi looked at Zhou Mingzhu expressionlessly. He didn't want to argue with Zhou Mingzhu in front of the Queen's door because of this matter.

"Go back. We'll talk about it when we get back."

Su Shizhi already knew everything that happened in the palace.

Not only did he know that Su Shujing's skirt was covered in blood, he also saw it.

But Su Shizhi did not show up.

Just like most of the times he was in Northern Frontier, he had a premonition that the situation would be embarrassing, so Su Shizhi left the palace early.

But when Su Shizhi went out again, he still heard endless chatter about Su Shujing's lewdness and doubts about the Su family's education.

Su Shizhi was no longer able to clarify these things.

He appeared at the gate of the palace with his back straight, as if he was untainted by the world.

Zhou Mingzhu was laughing so hard that her whole body was shaking. She looked at Su Shizhi's back as he turned around and left first, and had no time to care about Su Shujing.

She walked up to catch up with Su Shizhi, lowering her voice as she complained to him.

All she said was how difficult it had been for her over the years...

The annoyance in Su Shizhi's eyes became even stronger, and his clenched fists showed his inner anger.

He finally couldn't help but stop, turned around, and looked at Zhou Mingzhu with a pair of red eyes full of hatred.

"If you hadn't treated Xianyue like that back then, you wouldn't have to accompany me to the Northern Frontier."

"So everything you've suffered in Northern Xinjiang is something you owe her, you owe her!"

Zhou Mingzhu was struck by lightning and stood there unable to move.

After a long while, Zhou Mingzhu finally started to laugh so hard that she trembled.

There was a mad look in her eyes.

"I owe her? Su Shizhi! In your mind, do I owe her?"

How did she owe Zhou Xinyue?

Since childhood, Zhou Xinyue's physique has been better than hers.

When Zhou Mingzhu was detained at home by her family, they used her poor health as an excuse to not allow her to move around and asked her to learn the etiquette of a noble lady.

Zhou Xinyue can go wherever she wants.

When Zhou Mingzhu was destined to become the pawn for the family's rise to prominence, Zhou Xinyue did whatever she wanted.

How could Zhou Mingzhu owe Zhou Xinyue anything?

It was clearly Zhou Xinyue, the eldest sister, who should have borne the responsibility, but now it fell on Zhou Mingzhu.

Zhou Mingzhu slapped Su Shizhi hard, and she said to him in despair and sadness,

"Anyone in this world can accuse me, but you, Su Shizhi, don't have the right to do so!"

Zhou Xinyue can marry whoever she wants and like whoever she wants.

Zhou Mingzhu has hated Zhou Xinyue since she was a child because she could be so free.

Why did she do that? Was it because Zhou Xinyue's face wasn't as pretty as hers?

Su Shizhi's face was knocked to one side by Zhou Mingzhu's blow.

But Su Shizhi quickly came to his senses and slapped Zhou Mingzhu in the face.

"If you want to embarrass yourself, look at where this place is."

His tone was full of sarcasm. "This isn't the Northern Frontier where you have so many patrons."

After saying this, Su Shizhi left Zhou Mingzhu.

He went to the restaurant again.

Su Shizhi has been particularly fond of restaurants recently. It seems that only by getting himself drunk can he isolate himself from the outside world's doubts and fabrications about him.

"That's obviously not the case..."

Su Shizhi ordered another pot of wine and gulped it down.

He looked at the waiter standing in front of him with drunken eyes.

"I have returned to the imperial capital and have become an official. I am still a fifth-rank official."

In fact, his current official position is already very high. If he doesn't have high demands, Su Shizhi should be satisfied.

After all, before he was exiled, he was just a poor boy with a little fame.

His father was an official, and it was also his father who offended the emperor at that time by writing poems.

Now that Su Shizhi has returned to the imperial capital, he can become an official of the fifth rank.

It is already several ranks higher than his father's official position back then.

But Su Shizhi was not satisfied.

In his plan, he should be granted a title of nobility and appointed as prime minister as soon as he returned to the imperial capital, at least on par with the marquis of the Chu family.

And at this moment, a soft and boneless hand rested on Su Shizhi's shoulder.

Su Shizhi turned around and saw a girl in cloth clothes, who said to him with tearful eyes,

"Sir, can you save my father?"

"As long as you save my father, I will be willing to work as a slave or a servant."