Yun Chu's heart skipped a beat, a faint pain spreading from her chest to every part of her body.
It wasn't that she was heartless, she had to be heartless.
The investigation into the Uncle Wen Yuan's Mansion case pointed directly at the Empress Dowager.
The influence of the Jibei Marquis Mansion in the Capital City was significant, but to shake the Empress Dowager's power, it was like reaching for the impossible.
Even if she got closer to him, with Shen Junshan's personality, he would definitely confront the Empress Dowager to the end.
This was a grudge between the Uncle Wen Yuan's Mansion and the Empress Dowager; she had already warned him. If the investigations continued, lives might be at stake.
Moreover, she recently discovered that her elder brother was getting close to the Empress Dowager's faction, which angered Yun Chu the most.
