Chapter 692: Chapter 693: Let’s Talk
Nian Shutong assertively left these words behind, turned around, and departed with a few people in tow.
Wherever they went, not a soul dared to stop them.
Who would dare? Didn’t they see how a single person, Shutong, had suppressed the entire Ji Family, and most crucially, without them being able to fight back at all?
What kind of strength was this?
It was a force they could not contend with.
In the crowd, Yu Zeming, who was prepared to make his move, and Zhou Zhen, who was ready to reveal his identity, silently retreated.
Yu Zeming: A boss is a boss, the strength is really extraordinary.
Zhou Zhen: With this kind of strength, there’s no need for me to act.
The departure of Nian Shutong and her group finally gave the Ji Family a chance to catch their breath; they collapsed on the ground nearly simultaneously, gasping for air, utterly drained.
Just who was this woman?
It seemed now that Ji Sisi had found such a powerful supporter, they felt she was no longer someone they could touch.
The leader of the group also harbored this thought but persisted and stood up, walking over to Ji Tiantian. He gave her a forceful tug.
“Ji Tiantian, what did you say?”
“Heh heh…hehe… so funny.”
Ji Tiantian, drooling at the corner of her mouth, no longer had any schemes or pretense in her eyes, replaced only by a pure simplicity.
She had gone mad.
The team leader punched the ground in fury, glaring in the direction Nian Shutong had left, his suppressed voice seething through gritted teeth.
“This is too much to bear.”
Ji Tiantian was the most talented of the younger generation, and they had simply ruined her.
They had not only failed to get Ji Sisi back but had also lost someone else—bravo indeed.
The team leader, with a bad tone, commanded the Ji Family members to stand up; he had two people help the foolish Ji Tiantian return home first—they would not settle the account so easily.
With the two main characters gone, the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed.
However, the “Mr. Nian” mentioned by Ji Sisi certainly caught many people’s attention.
Beautiful and powerful, decisive and ruthless when necessary—a Ji Family’s most important talent destroyed without hesitation—impressive!
As the crowd dispersed, the Emperor and the Empress also left and soon caught up with Nian Shutong, who had left earlier.
Nian Shutong, looking at the two figures that caught up, did not know why they came here. But from the look in their eyes, she understood they had come for Dou Dou.
“Would the two of you mind coming to sit at my home?”
Nian Shutong straightforwardly invited them; at this point, clarification was the best choice.
“We don’t mind.”
“Very good.”
The two of them, without saying much more, followed Nian Shutong on her Shadowless mount to her home in the first district.
When the six of them finally entered the house, Nian Shutong first squatted down and spoke to Dou Dou, “Dou Dou, you go back to your room to rest or play for a while. After everything is cleared up, your aunt won’t hide it from you.”
“Got it, Auntie.”
Dou Dou, very sensible, hugged her Little Pink Pig and, accompanied by Lian Qing, went upstairs.
The Empress was about to speak, but Nian Shutong cut her off.
“Walls have ears, and our neighbors’ ears are particularly sharp. Please, let’s move to the study,” said Nian Shutong softly.
The study was specially soundproofed.
The Empress glanced sideways and nodded her head, following Nian Shutong into the study.
Inside the study, four people sat facing each other in two different directions.
“I’m here today just to find out who Dou Dou’s real parent is.”
The Empress liked to get straight to the point.
For people like Nian Shutong with their capabilities, there was nothing to beat around the bush about.
“There are suspicions, but nothing is certain.”
“What are your suspicions based on?”
Nian Shutong countered with a question, “What are your suspicions based on? When you left Blue Star, you hadn’t figured it out, so what brings you back now?”
The Empress didn’t mind Nian Shutong’s attitude and spoke bluntly, “Dou Dou gave me a stone that carries the Royal Family’s special telekinesis, which can help grant the wishes of those Dou Dou truly likes.”
“And Dou Dou bears a strong resemblance to the Emperor.”
The Empress saw Nian Shutong roll his eyes ever so slightly before standing up and bowing, “So it turns out to be the Emperor and Empress; my apologies for not welcoming you properly from afar.”
The Empress definitely rolled her eyes as if offended and said mockingly to Nian Shutong, “Was that necessary? Didn’t you already know? You only think to do this now.”
“You just said it yourself, how could I dare to make such an assertion otherwise?”
Despite their age difference, there was a feeling of mutual respect between the two powerful women. Once you take into account Nian Shutong’s age in her past life, they weren’t very far apart in age after all.
“Enough about that, what is the basis of your judgment?”
Nian Shutong sat down and explained to the Empress the issue of the Crown Prince’s destiny.
“Dou Dou has a better destiny; such a destiny is unlikely to be just a coincidence.”
“I see,” the Empress went on to ask her most pressing question, “So is Dou Dou…?”
Her gaze turned to Ji Sisi, who shook her head, looking toward Nian Shutong.
“There’s no use looking at Sisi; she doesn’t know. All she remembers is that she was unconscious for a while, and not long after waking up, she realized she was pregnant.”
“As for who the father of the child is, she doesn’t care.”
Nian Shutong raised her hand to stop the Empress, who was about to speak, making the Empress wonder for a moment who was really the Empress, as this young lady seemed stronger in presence than herself.
“I’ve got a rough idea of what happened from Ji Tiantian, but clearly someone intervened at some point, resulting in the current situation.”
Nian Shutong’s words had the Emperor and Empress listening intently, eager for her to continue.
“To sum it up, Ji Tiantian was jealous of Ji Sisi’s talents and wanted to destroy her, so she took the sperm of someone from the Ji Family, and while Ji Sisi was unconscious, she secretly implanted it, and that’s how Dou Dou came about.”
“As I understand it, her plan was to use Ji Sisi’s father’s sperm to create a scandal to hold over Ji Sisi, but someone meddled along the way and the sperm got switched.”
Nian Shutong’s words made Ji Sisi grimace in disgust; she hadn’t imagined that Ji Tiantian could stoop so low. She knew Ji Tiantian was malicious, but she never thought she would do something so vile. It was simply sick in the head.
The Emperor and Empress were also shocked; how could such a malicious scheme exist in this world?
“You only rendered her stupid; you were too soft-hearted.”
The Empress was already calculating in her mind that Ji Tiantian could not be left at large, no matter what.
“She must die within the Ji Family’s hands; how could she die by mine?”
This statement from Nian Shutong made the Empress ask with a hint of excitement, “You left yourself a way out?”
“Empress, please don’t speak carelessly, I am a law-abiding citizen.”