Shen Ningning's heart pounded with excitement.
No wonder the Crown Prince's personal soldiers had entered the city so easily. With her father here, there was a chance to turn everything around.
'The city gates must have been breached by now, right?'
Governor Ren froze. He stared intently at the man's face, scrutinizing it until he finally recognized him.
It was Xie Suzhi...
Xie Suzhi's tone was icy. "Ren Pengyi, thirty years ago, you traveled to the capital for the imperial examinations. You ran out of silver and were on the verge of becoming a beggar. It was my wife who sponsored you. Have you forgotten?"
Ren Pengyi's lips trembled as he pressed them into a thin line.
Taking the examinations had been the idea of a powerful figure who advised him from the shadows. That person had told him he would meet a kind woman on his journey.
Seeing his poverty and destitution, she would give him a sum of silver to support his continued studies for the examinations.
