(Didn't the author say there would be an extra update today?)
In fact, the trouble the Ning Household faced at that moment was tied to Tang Changsheng.
Every senior decision-maker in the White Lake Ning Household had gathered in one hall. Their faces were grim, but none could speak.
Ever since they had heard, more than a month ago, that Elder Yuan, Grand Academician Wang, and other powerful figures had invited Tang Changsheng to refine pills at Jinghong Temple on Jing Mountain, the Ning Household had sensed that something was wrong.
Now that word had spread of Tang Changsheng's marriage alliance with the imperial family of Great Chu, they could hardly get through a day without fear!
Paper could not wrap up fire. If you did not want others to know, you should not have done it in the first place. They had gravely offended Tang Changsheng, and they were not foolish enough to bury their heads in the sand like ostriches and assume he would never learn what they had done behind his back.
Though the Son of Heaven of Great Chu had long since stopped attending to state affairs and returned governance to the Grand Secretariat, no one dared underestimate the imperial family's power. It was a superpower among the great houses!
Its immense economic might alone was enough to strike fear into anyone.
Sure enough, one Ning Household business after another had begun running into trouble over the past few days. The threat they had anticipated had become real so quickly that they were caught off guard and had no choice but to gather and discuss a response.
For the moment, however, no one could think of a solution. Their silence had dragged on until now.
As if he could bear the oppressive atmosphere no longer, an