Xu Yuan had always been skeptical of Su Jinxuan's words.
Just as Su Jinxuan didn't trust him, he couldn't simply take her word for it, either.
However, the information in the confidential report had confirmed that Su Jinxuan's family had suffered a terrible upheaval when she was young.
While her parents were alive, Su Jinxuan's family had been quite well-off.
Her parents had run a medium-sized chamber of commerce around Jiangnan Prefecture and Jin City.
Su-Qin Cloth Shop.
Its main business was fabric and silk, along with various spices and rouge intended for women.
Su Jinxuan's father had been a schoolmate of one of the people in charge of the Tian'an Chamber of Commerce in Jiangnan Prefecture at the time.
Though they weren't particularly close, the connection, combined with some generous gifts, had allowed Su-Qin Cloth Shop to establish a trade partnership with the behemoth that was the Tian'an Chamber of Commerce, supplying it with various odds and ends.
And because of that, when Su Jinxuan's family was wiped out, the Black Scale Guard had secretly investigated the matter.
One of their partner businesses had vanished out of nowhere, its entire household slaughtered. Naturally, they had to look into it.
The other party had been very discreet, but the Black Scale Guard had still pieced together a rough picture of what had happened through its own exclusive information channels.
Su Jinxuan had two groups of enemies.
One had paid for it, and the other had done the dirty work.
The ones who paid were three chambers of commerce in Jiangnan's cloth trade.
The ones who did the dirty work were a band of bandits outside the prefectural city.
After the job was done, the bandits were wiped out by the three chambers of commerce that had hired them.
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