They ate as a family and Xia Xue went to the room which Shentu Tianyin had had prepared for her. Xia Lei and Shentu Tianyin returned to their room. 

Shentu Tianyin had been able to laugh and chat during dinner but she was a whole other person when she went into the room. Her eyes grew clouded with thought and it looked like there were things weighing heavily on her mind. 

She could not make herself happy. 

There were many people who’d embezzled state-owned assets in China, and it was common to see officials and businessmen clash too, but punishments were rare. It was because of this norm that Shentu Tianyin had taken Gu Kewen’s advice back then, and purchased the Gu clan’s old assets with her help. She had not expected that her smooth acquisition of these assets would become the guillotine above her neck, ready to fall at any time! 

“Tianyin, I don’t get it. You have...