The next morning, Lord Shen took Shen Ming on a carriage to the palace to meet His Majesty as ordered.

Along the way, Lord Shen worriedly warned, "When you see His Majesty later, no matter what His Majesty asks, you must tell him the truth. Don't hide anything. Understand?"

"Your Majesty, like the late Emperor, has always been magnanimous. Since I have already forgiven you in the court yesterday, I will definitely not hold it against you again..."

Lord Shen thought for a moment and said, "His Majesty summoned you to the palace today, probably to inquire about the situation in Donglai Kingdom in recent years. Although the two countries have signed a truce, they are still essentially hostile. Now that you have returned to North Vietnam, you must make your position clear."

Shen Ming smiled and nodded: "Grandfather is right, I will remember it."

There was a coldness in his drooping eyes. Is the Emperor of Beiyue generous?

It's just that it didn't affect his interests. It was just a small matter. As an emperor, in order to win the hearts of his subjects, he didn't care about it.

Once his interests are affected, he becomes a cold-blooded wolf!

If not, how could he have insisted on executing all 76 members of his maternal grandfather's family in his previous life even though he knew that they were wrongly accused?

Even when my uncle took out the Imperial Sword bestowed upon him by the previous emperor, the Emperor of Beiyue could still twist right into wrong, relying on the fact that no one else knew about it, and openly denied the incident...

This caused my uncle to commit suicide on the spot!

Thinking of this, Shen Ming felt heavy in his heart.

What happened to Tieshan will never happen again in this life, but judging from the Emperor of Beiyue’s fear of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, who knows what else might happen?

We have to think of ways to avoid it in advance...

If there really were any signs of this happening one day, he would kill the king just to save the lives of his grandfather's family.

But before that, I still have to take care of my grandfather, my sister, and my mother...

The carriage creaked as it moved forward, and neither the grandfather nor the grandson spoke.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the carriage became a little solemn.

Lord Shen thought that his grandson might be nervous because he was about to go to the palace to see the emperor, so he smiled and changed the subject: "Beiyue, you are not young anymore, and it's time to put your marriage on the agenda."

"What kind of woman do you like? Tell Grandpa, and I'll ask someone to keep an eye out for you."

Last night, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren had a good chat, and Lord Shen already knew that his grandson was not married or engaged in Donglai.

Now that his grandson is back, his son is missing, and his daughter-in-law is in such a bad state, living in a daze all day long, it is inevitable that this old man will have to worry about his grandson's marriage.

Thinking that his well-behaved grandchildren had to deal with such an unreliable pair of parents, Old Marquis Shen felt so angry that his heart ached.

Although his son was mediocre before, he was at least good to his daughter-in-law and filial to his father. But later, for some reason, he insisted on taking a concubine, turning the good family into a mess...

The same goes for the daughter-in-law. Even if she has lost the favor of her husband, she still has two children to raise. But she is obsessed with competing for favor with the concubine who is not worthy of being on the stage, or she stays in her small courtyard all day long, never going out of the front door or the back door.

The two children don't care about anything...

But after all, it was her son who wronged her first, so Lord Shen couldn't say anything and could only let it go.

Shen Ming fell silent when he heard his grandfather's question.

A picture of a woman's playful smile emerged in his mind, and then it turned into a tearful look. Her eyes, which should have been bright and lively, were filled with grievance...

Shen Ming felt a pang of pain in his heart, but he smiled and replied, "Grandfather, I've experienced life and death. Now I just want to be with you and my sister. I have no plans to get married."

Old Marquis Shen's long white eyebrows twitched, and his face became stern. "How can that be? If you don't get married, do you want the Shen family to lose its lineage?"

Shen Mingxiang said, doesn’t he have a half-brother Shen Yan?

But then he thought that if the current father was fake, then Shen Yan and Shen Zhiyi might not be descendants of the Shen family.

He endured it and didn't say anything, but thought about it and said, "If my sister gives birth to two children in the future, I will adopt one of them to the Shen family."

However, it would have been fine if Shen Ming hadn't mentioned it. As soon as he mentioned it, Old Marquis Shen's beard curled up: "Your sister just divorced Prince Jing, and she's got two children. Who are they going to have them with?"

When talking about this, Lord Shen got angry: "Don't expect your sister to marry again. Do you know who she has her eyes on?"

The corners of Shen Ming's mouth twitched. Of course he knew...

Old Marquis Shen didn't expect him to answer. He said with a dark face, "Your sister has fallen for Fu Jiuli!"

"I can't even have two children!"

Don't think that his eyesight is blurry because of his old age. He saw it in the court yesterday.

That Fu Jiuli clearly coveted his granddaughter!

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