The Consequences

Jiang Nan seemed to know that her request was excessive. Her voice grew even softer; if Zhang Chen had not mastered Sound Wave Divine Power, he likely would not have been able to hear her whisper.

"My father was killed by the Yellow Heaven Dao, and my relatives in the estate were slaughtered by them as well. I must take revenge on the Yellow Heaven Dao. Yet I have no power to avenge them myself. My only chance is to marry a husband who can avenge me. Looking over everyone around me, only Eldest Young Master Zhou Zhen meets that condition. If I can marry Zhou Zhen, I can borrow Zhou Qiucheng's power to strike back at the Yellow Heaven Dao." Jiang Nan stared at Zhang Chen with scarlet eyes.

"I know this condition of mine is excessive, but I truly have no other way. I want to rely on my own abilities to take revenge, but I simply do not possess that strength. I know my own limits. I've already been driven into a desperate corner. I have no choice!" Jiang Nan's voice was pitiful, yet it carried an unyielding resolve.

"If you marry Zhou Zhen, what will happen to Shen Qiu?" Zhang Chen asked.

Jiang Nan's expression turned cold. "If the Shen family still existed, then as the Shen family's noble young master and sole heir, I naturally would have married him and borrowed the Shen family's power to avenge myself upon the Yellow Heaven Dao. But now the Shen family has been destroyed. He is no longer the Shen family's young master. The one I want to marry is not any particular person, but a member of the Privileged Class who holds power. So long as that person has power, he can be Zhang San or Li