Sheng Zui saw the complete message on Mu Mengbai's Listening Wind Ruler.
The woman named Chu Jin was known in Qingyang Imperial Capital as the Little Medical Saint. People said she was beautiful and kindhearted, with profound medical skills, and that she had saved many lives.
Someone with such a sterling reputation happened to be his half-sister.
When he was little, Sheng Zui had even wondered whether Gu Gan was Nangong Ming's illegitimate son. He had never imagined that someone else was the illegitimate child kept hidden outside the family.
He read on, line by line, his expression growing darker.
When he saw Xu Qianqian claim that the Nangong Family had worked with the rebels, he let out an angry, scornful laugh.
They had deliberately set a trap while he was away, getting Suisui to attend the Golden Pearl Banquet, then using Chu Jin's situation to smear the Nangong Family and provoke Suisui. They had exploited the information gap between Taiyi and Qingyang to magnify the Nangong Family's scandal and make everyone laugh at them.
He didn't believe his father would collude with the rebels. Even if, against all odds, he had, his father would never let anyone find out.
The way they targeted people and things connected to him without coming at him directly, deliberately going after those close to him just to disgust him, filled Sheng Zui with fury.
His bloodied hands clenched around the Listening Wind Ruler. It was as if he were treating it as Su Xingchao, wishing he could crush it and grind it into the dirt.
The only true thing said at the Golden Pearl Banquet was that Chu Jin really was a child of the Nangong Family, the biological daughter of Nangong Ming and Lady Su.
Sheng Zui was no longer the little