The Bully General's Spiritual Husband

With tears streaming down her face, Wen Xin asked, "Master...have I done something wrong?"

In the past, if Shen Feng had seen Wen Xin cry, he would have immediately felt sorry for her and hugged her to comfort her.

But he had no such thoughts at the moment. He threw the letter on the table to her, which Li Ya had found out about Wen Wei killing a respectable woman and how she had helped cover it up.

"Take a good look at yourself and see if you did this."

Wen Xinrou weakly flipped through the letter, her face turning pale after reading it. "Impossible," she thought, "how could the master know about this? I've already had everyone involved dealt with."

There was no way anyone else could know. Suddenly, Wen Xin remembered the meaningful look Shen Jin gave her before she left in the morning, and she understood.

It was Shen Jin, that damned scoundrel, he must have been the one to expose this.

With no way to deal with the situation, Wen Xin lowered her head to hide the hatred she felt for Shen Jin in her eyes.

Shaking her head and crying to Shen Feng, Wen Xin said, "Master... this, this is not what I did. Someone must be trying to harm me. You must believe me!" Wen Xin knew that tears were her best weapon.

Shen Feng was disappointed to see the evidence laid out before him, and to find that his virtuous and kind wife still claimed to be slandered.

"You say it's slander against you? The facts are right in front of us. As the wife of the prefect, you don't set a good example and instead do something like covering up for others. You have disappointed me greatly."

Shen Feng flung his sleeves and stormed out of the study, leaving Wen Xin slumped to the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

Watching Shen Feng's departing figure, Wen Xin's hatred for Shen Jin reached its peak: "You damned bastard, I didn't let you die out there last time, and you actually dug up old things from years ago."

At the same time, Wen Xin realized that Shen Jin was deliberately seeking revenge, and that he already knew that she had hired an assassin to kill him.

The Shen residence was brightly lit that night, and news of Wen Xin angering Shen Feng spread throughout the entire mansion in no time.

But no one knows what exactly happened between the two.

Shen Jin heard the news from Shen Xiaoman early in the morning, and sneered. This is just the foreplay. Wen Xin, you'd better bear the wrath of Shen Jin!

Shen Feng left his residence early in the morning and went to the county government office. He instructed Li Ya to investigate the whole story carefully, because this was a human life at stake!

His most beloved wife and brother-in-law had done these things, and as the county magistrate of the prefecture, he had to give them an explanation.

Wen Xin also had informants in the government office. Just as Shen Feng had instructed Li Ya to investigate, they secretly came to inform Wen Xin.

Shen Jin had anticipated this, and knocked the man unconscious on the way to the Shen residence.

Shen Xiaoman kicked the constable who had been knocked unconscious by Shen Jin's chop to the neck, "Young Master, you're incredibly insightful! You even thought of this."

Shen Jin crossed her arms and said, "Alright, enough with the flattery, drag him away."

"Alright!" Having received the order, Shen Xiaoman dragged the constable, who was much larger than herself, and quickly left.

In the blink of an eye, the master and servant disappeared from this place.

Wen Xin, who hadn't slept a wink all night, was pacing anxiously back and forth in her room.

Why hasn't he arrived yet? If he had found out anything, his informant in the county government would surely have come to tell him. Could something have happened to him on the way?

As soon as Shen Jue got up, he heard from the servants in the mansion that Shen Feng and Wen Xin had a fight the night before. Without even washing up, he ran to Wen Xin's Lanya Garden.

She flung open the door, panting, "Mother, what happened between you and Father? I've heard everything..."

Wen Xin, already agitated, immediately interrupted him, "Alright, Jue'er, this is none of your business. Go back to your own courtyard!"

Shen Jue wanted to say something more, but Wen Xin stopped him with a look. He didn't dare to argue with his mother at all, and left with his shoulders slumped.

The servants of the Wen family also came looking for Wen Xin's mother, who had fainted from anger the day before and had not yet woken up.

A servant guarding the gate came to report, "Madam, something bad has happened. Someone from the Wen family said that the old lady fainted yesterday and hasn't woken up yet."

Upon hearing this, Wen Xin turned pale. How could this be? Everything was going wrong. Lifting her skirt, she walked towards the door, thinking maliciously as she went: It's all Shen Jin's fault, that jinx. Everything has gone wrong since he came back.

Meanwhile, with Shen Jin's help, Li Ya and others quickly found witnesses to Wen Wei's murder of a respectable woman.

Wen Xin thought she had done everything perfectly, but Shen Jin still found some clues.

Wen Xin used money to silence the woman's brother and sister-in-law, but he forgot that there was another person who knew about it: the murdered woman's childhood sweetheart.

He was determined to take revenge, but he was powerless and had no chance against his brother-in-law, who was the prefect.

Shen Feng looked at the witness kneeling before him, as well as the victim's brother and sister-in-law, his face dark and gloomy. He then shouted to Li Ya, "Go and invite Wen Xin over."

The word "please" carried a hint of suppressed anger.

Wen Xin rushed back to the Wen residence and looked at her mother, who had fallen into a coma, with extreme anxiety on her face.

How could this be? I was perfectly fine when I left yesterday.

He yelled at the servants who were taking care of Madam Wen, "How have you been taking care of the old lady? The steward sold them all off."

The maids and servants who cared for Madam Wen knelt down and begged for mercy, "Miss, please spare us..."

Before the servants of the Wen family could be dragged away, the people sent by Shen Feng to "invite" Wen Xin arrived.

Li Ya clasped his hands in greeting to Wen Xin, then said, "Madam, the magistrate requests your presence at the yamen."

Wen Xin, her face pale, followed Li Ya and the others away, leaving the servants of the Wen family looking bewildered.

The steward looked at the maids and servants kneeling on the ground and waved his hand, "Get up, you all take good care of the old lady."

He knew perfectly well that the old lady had fainted from anger caused by Wen Xin, and what if he sold off these servants and the old lady came after him when she woke up?

Upon arriving at the county government office, Wen Xin saw the three people kneeling on the ground, and her ominous premonition intensified. "What's going on? Who are these three people?"

The maid standing next to her changed her expression instantly. These were the man who had killed the woman's brother and sister-in-law. The lady had asked her to bribe them back then, and she still remembered their greedy and obsequious faces!

Looking at Shen Feng's disappointed and cold eyes, Wen Xin felt utterly ashamed.

"Master...I..."

Many passersby who were watching the commotion in front of the yamen were whispering among themselves, "What's going on? Why is the prefect judging his wife?"

"I don't know? They've always been a loving couple, how could this happen..."

Standing in the crowd, Shen Jin and her servant listened to the noisy commotion around them, their eyes fixed on Shen Feng, who sat high in the hall.

Shen Feng spoke sternly and coldly, "Wen Xin, as the wife of the prefect, failed to set an example by protecting her brother Wen Wei's crime of murder. She is sentenced to one year in prison and twenty strokes of the cane."

As soon as Shen Feng finished speaking, the crowd of onlookers erupted in an uproar. Wen Xin slumped to the ground, staring at Shen Feng as he left, her face filled with disbelief.

The person who has shared a bed with me for many years shows no affection whatsoever and punishes me like this.

Unbeknownst to Wen Xin, a letter of divorce drafted by Shen Feng awaited her.

Although Shen Feng dotes on Wen Xin, she has broken the law. As the prefect of the city, he cannot have any stain on his record. Even if this person is his bedmate of many years, he will never tolerate it.

Before long, the news of the prefect's wife being imprisoned spread throughout the streets and alleys.

Wen Xin received the letter of divorce sent by Shen Feng, and coupled with the fact that she had just been flogged, she was overcome with anger and fainted.

When Shen Jin learned of this news, he merely sneered. This was his good father; when you touch his sore spot, all his pampering vanishes.