"Alas, please go!"
At the entrance of a grand residence in Yan Capital, the steward wore a helpless expression as he sighed and urged the person lingering at the gate, unwilling to leave, to go.
Wang Liufang, daughter of Wang Heng, formerly one of the Capital City's Four Commanders, was also the former wife of Song Yanqing, the Senior Brother Niu Youdao had known back in the Shangqing Sect.
Wang Liufang, stubbornly refusing to leave the doorway, clutched the doorframe with tear-filled eyes and sobbed, "Steward Chen, please speak to the old master for me once more. Father is gone, our home has been confiscated. If I leave here, I truly don't know where I can go."
After Wang Heng saw the Song Family collapse, he had forced the Song Family to write his daughter a letter of divorce, severing her ties with them. Naturally, he could not let his daughter remain alone for the rest of her life, so the following year, he found her another husband.
Though Wang Heng was one of the Capital City's Four Commanders, his daughter was remarrying after all. Great clans and wealthy houses of equal standing would never take a remarried woman as a wife, while families of comparable standing but poorer foundations were beneath what he could force himself to accept. He could only settle for the next best thing. Yet even after settling, Wang Heng's power still stood there, and he found his daughter a respectable husband from one of the Capital City's notable merchant families.
That family had gladly sought to curry favor with him. With Wang Heng as their in-law, their business naturally sailed with the wind at its back.
But now Wang Heng was dead, having supposedly committed suicide out of fear of punishment after being implicated in