"sigh I finally understand why widows wail as if the sky is falling. Their whole world has collapsed!" After this period of recuperation, Qian Yong had fully recovered. He'd just been waiting for a chance to stretch his limbs when he received this thunderbolt from a clear sky. Even a heartless man like him couldn't help sneaking off to cry. He cursed Shen Youli for being inhuman. How was this any different from a scumbag abandoning his widow and orphans?
They'd pushed the campaign to conquer the realm to sixty percent. They were on the verge of sweeping through the rest, and now this woman had abruptly decided to entrust her child to them? His mind had gone blank.
Wei Shou said mournfully, "We're still better off than women."
Young widows were easy prey for their relatives and clans, who could eat the orphanage clean, leaving nothing but scraps of meat on the bones. These civil officials and military generals could protect themselves. What relative or clan could eat them out of house and home? The real danger was that they might turn on one another.
The danger lay within, not without.
And Shen Youli had even brought a new life into the world right in front of them.
No, wait. That was the heir apparent.
Everyone had watched the heir's birth with their own eyes. There was no question about his bloodline. Wei Shou came from a different people; even if the ministers fell into factional infighting and fought for power in the future, he wouldn't have anything to do with it. Ah, no... He would, after all. Wei Shou and Chu Jie were both dyed-in-the-wool members of Chu Wu Hui's faction.
Qian Yong: "..."
He wiped his face. "Shen Youli is inhuman!"
Wei Shou tilted his head suspiciously