"Old Ancestor, that is the Star Moon Princess!"
"The Late Emperor's thirteenth daughter, and the current Empress's younger sister by the same mother."
Wen Lingyun's face was filled with terror, his voice trembling and choked with sobs.
He did not believe that his own Old Ancestor could be ignorant of the crushing weight behind those identities!
"If Your Majesty learns of this, then no matter how capable our Wen Family is, we will likely be unable to escape utter annihilation and die without even a burial ground!"
Wen Lingyun collapsed onto the icy floor, his face as white as paper and utterly bloodless.
Trembling, he raised one hand and pointed a rigid index finger at Wen MoChen, that single fingertip shaking uncontrollably.
Then Wen Lingyun lifted his head, fixed his gaze on his Old Ancestor, Wen Fengyuan, and spoke hoarsely.
"Old Ancestor!"
"What this vile creature has done is simply driving our great Wen Family toward a dead end! He is going to destroy the entire family!"
Everything Wen Lingyun did at this moment was merely the final struggle of a trapped beast.
Things had come to this; everything had already settled like dust.
No matter what the Wen Family did now, it would be in vain. It was already too late.
The Wen Family, once a family of great prominence throughout the Great Xia Dynasty.
Now, it had completely embarked upon a dead end from which there was no return.
That Empress in the Imperial Capital possessed unfathomable Heavenly Might, wielded ruthless and decisive methods, and had a bold, unyielding temperament.
She had always punished without mercy any act that offended the royal dignity. How could she easily forgive the Wen Family's transgression?
Even though the Wen Family Old Ancestor had once been the Duke Rong personally bestowed by