At Daggers Drawn

Shen Family Old Patriarch's Palace.

Knock, knock!

As the palace doors were knocked upon, Shen Peng's impatient voice rang out.

"I'm telling you, Jiang Zheng is here to pick you up. Get ready and hurry over."

"You two!"

Shen Peng turned to the accompanying maids and instructed, "Hurry up and attend to our eldest young lady. Take her to the front hall."

Having said that!

Regardless of whether there was any response from within the palace, Shen Peng turned and left.

After Shen Peng departed, the two maids stepped forward.

"Eldest Young Lady, may we come in?"

"..."

The two maids had barely finished speaking when they were about to push open the palace doors and enter.

"You may wait outside!" Qiao'er's voice sounded.

Inside the grand hall!

Qiao'er had already finished dressing Shen Yi.

Draped in rosy clouds, adorned like a phoenix!

With Shen Yi's peerless beauty, even a smile that toppled cities and kingdoms was nothing more than this.

"Miss, if you regret it now..." Qiao'er hesitated.

"Qiao'er!" Shen Yi said coldly. "Grandfather has cherished me so dearly. How could I stand by and do nothing? Let alone marrying Jiang Zheng—even if my life could be exchanged for Grandfather's health, so what?"

Shen Yi rose and walked toward a room within the palace.

Inside the room, an elderly man with a head full of white hair and a haggard face lay quietly on the bed, his eyes tightly shut.

Shen Faguan!

The current Old Patriarch of the Shen Family, and the very foundation of the Shen Family.

It could be said!

The reason the Shen Family could become one of the three great families of the Mystic Sky Continent was inseparable from Shen Faguan.

Likewise!

If the Shen Family had no Shen Faguan to hold the fort, it