Wei He froze.
He looked at the calm face before him, at a loss for words.
He truly had not expected Jiang Yuechu to make such a request.
After a long while.
He slowly said, "Now that you have entered Core Formation, there are some things I can tell you."
"However, I do not know much myself."
Jiang Yuechu immediately sat properly, looking like a well-behaved student listening attentively.
After hesitating for a moment, Wei He said, "Do you know the current Empress Dowager?"
"The Empress Dowager?"
Jiang Yuechu was stunned.
What did this have to do with the Empress Dowager?
Wei He shook his head and explained, "If it were only Empress Dowager Liu, it would be nothing... The key lies with the Liu Family behind her."
"The Liu Family is a mighty house of ten generations, an ancient clan of a thousand years. Its origins can even be traced back to the previous dynasty. Moreover, an ancestor in the Lamp-Lighting Realm sits within the clan. Looking across the realm, only lineages like the Imperial Li Clan or the Qinghe Cui Clan, great houses passed down for several thousand years, can compare to it."
"On the surface, the case involving your father, Jiang Xun, was the result of factional strife and political crushing. But behind it all, it was most likely Empress Dowager Liu's doing."
"..."
Jiang Yuechu's heart lurched.
She rapidly searched through the memories left behind by the previous owner of this body.
Nothing.
There was nothing at all.
Let alone having any contact with a behemoth like the Liu Family—she had never even heard of them.
She had originally thought that, since she had taken over this body for nothing, it would not be unreasonable to do something for the Jiang Family if she had the