Five years later, I returned with my child.
I thought this revenge would be a war I had to fight alone.
Before coming home, I hired a retired veteran who sold used cars online to be my driver. His monthly salary was eight thousand yuan.
He was a man of few words, but whenever I found myself in danger, he always took the full force of the trouble for me.
I thought he was just a poor older man with quick reflexes, until he stopped a bullet aimed at me with his bare hand and casually wiped away the blood. “Attorney Shen, some things are faster if I handle them.”
Only later did I learn the truth:
He commanded not a gang of thugs, but an army. And when he said he would “handle” something, it meant bringing down an entire family.
This man, who haggled over groceries, picked up my child after school, and always “happened” to resolve every crisis, was actually the empire’s powerful Regent!
And to marry me, he would first have to overthrow the entire imperial court!
