Lately, Shen Junshan's temper has been growing more irritable with each passing day.
After much difficulty, he helped to clear the Wenyuan Bo Mansion of its unjust charges. While Yun Chu softened towards him slightly, the Empress Dowager started causing trouble again, wielding the late Emperor's marriage decree like a mandate, leaving him with no choice even if he was angry.
To make matters worse, the Sun Family's involvement in the Wenyuan Bo Mansion case was yet to be fully investigated, and the patriarch of the Sun Family committed suicide by poisoning himself in the Ministry of Justice Prison.
Shen Junshan's instincts told him that although the Sun Family was responsible for the case, it was actually the Empress Dowager who was behind the scenes stirring up trouble.
But without evidence, suspicion wasn't of any use.
Right now, what troubled him most was the late Emperor's marriage decree, which he couldn't annul but also couldn't consummate.
