After dealing with Tian Xuezhen, Shen Ningning and the others did not rush back to the Capital City.
Ling Mountain City had been hit hard by the disaster, and there was still some clean-up work that required the Crown Prince and Xie Suzhi to oversee.
Governor Ren's crimes were tantamount to treason. Compounded with the attempted assassination of the Princess and the Crown Prince, he was immediately sentenced to the confiscation of his property and the extermination of his clan.
Fortunately, the men Mo Lingwei had dispatched also discovered that Ren Si was not Governor Ren's daughter at all.
Instead, she was a child Tian Xuezhen had him adopt and raise as his own flesh and blood.
This was because Tian Xuezhen had vaguely seen in a dream that a man of exceptionally high status would come to Ling Mountain City. Therefore, Governor Ren's original plan was to offer Ren Si to this noble person as a wife or concubine.
