"Husband!"
Su Fei had also realized how serious the situation was. She hurriedly asked, "Do you think Young Master Lin and the others were the ones who spread this? But our Su family really doesn't have the Supreme Heavenly Book!"
"It wasn't them!"
Wei Jie forced himself to stay calm. He knew the message was aimed at him.
The news had spread through the city several days ago. At the time, the Su family hadn't yet rejected Lin San and Zhao Changsheng, so the two of them had no reason to spread the news then.
Besides, if Lin San and Zhao Changsheng had really wanted to spread the news, they wouldn't have needed to visit the Su family.
They could simply have spread the news and then waited quietly to fish in troubled waters.
After all, the fewer people who knew about a treasure like the Supreme Heavenly Book, the safer it was!
"Then who could it have been?!"
With her pregnant belly, Su Fei looked frantic. "His irresponsible rumor-spreading could drag our entire Su family into this. One wrong move, and our whole clan could be slaughtered!"
"Our whole clan slaughtered?!"
The little maid and the steward looked horrified. They both realized how serious the situation was.
"Who exactly is this person?!"
The more Wei Jie thought about it, the more he broke out in a cold sweat.
He'd thought the Recording Stone was a crude attempt to frame him, but now he realized that his every move had been precisely arranged by the other party. If he wanted to survive, his only option was to expose the contents of Ye Chen's Recording Stone. There was no other way.
And once he exposed what was on the Recording Stone, not only would the other party keep leading him around