Chapter 625: Planning to Kill Her?

Chapter 625: Planning to Kill Her?

Shen Yuansong turned around and saw a strange man. His bloodshot eyes instantly became as vigilant as an eagle's.

"Third Young Master, I am Second Young Master's man, called Li Si. I was originally in the Bai family gathering information for Second Young Master. Who would have thought that just after delivering the message today, I was captured by the Bai family!" Li Si was still shaken. "I didn't expect the Bai family to be so formidable, with so many experts! Fortunately, I managed to send the message to the Shen family early."

Shen Yuansong couldn't tell if this man was telling the truth or if he was sent by that woman to test him. But after being locked up here for several days without anyone to talk to, he could no longer bear it. After a moment of silence, he followed up with a question: "What message?"

Li Si said with pride, "Third Young Master, you've been locked up these past few days and might not know, but Shen Nan has been betrothed by the Emperor to General Tuoba. However, I found out that she was already pregnant before coming to the capital! Now she's in a hurry to get rid of the child to avoid being discovered!"

"She's pregnant?" Shen Yuansong was stunned. Seeing Li Si's absolute certainty, he didn't gloat but instead frowned tightly. "How do you know?"

"I heard it from her own mouth outside her courtyard... Third Young Master, is there something wrong?" Seeing Shen Yuansong's strange expression, Li Si's joy also froze.

Shen Yuansong frowned deeply: "Those shadow guards aren't from the Bai family; they're Shen Nan's own. If the Bai family had such capabilities, they wouldn't have nearly been wiped out. Shen Nan has at least a hundred shadow guards under her, possibly more. Under their surveillance, how could you have overheard such important information?"

Finally, after hearing this, Li Si also realized something was wrong, and his expression completely froze: "Third Young Master, you mean..."

"This Shen Nan isn't Shen Nan at all."

Shen Yuansong's intuition told him that this Li Si wasn't lying, and Shen Nan didn't need to extract any information from him. So this person might indeed be the spy Second Brother originally placed in the Bai family.

It's likely that Shen Nan knew about this person's existence from the beginning, and now this message was deliberately leaked to let the Shen family know!

What does she want to do to the Shen family?

Since realizing that woman's strength, Shen Yuansong found it terrifying. After knowing that she wasn't Shen Nan at all, the disdain he originally felt for her identity completely disappeared.

After all, the original Shen Nan, no matter how troublesome she was, was still a member of the Shen family, an overlooked illegitimate daughter. The Shen family had the right to discipline her and teach her a lesson, always believing she wouldn't truly harm the Shen family.

But all of this was based on the premise that this woman was really Shen Nan.

Because she was an unloved daughter in the family, anyone in the Shen family could feel superior to her, neglect her, bully her, and threaten her. But if she had no relation to the Shen family at all, it meant none of this was valid. They had no right to treat her that way.

She could deal with the Shen family without any reservations, and the Shen family had no way to bind her with any blood ties!

This made Shen Yuansong finally separate this woman from the initial附加条件, regarding her as a truly brave, resourceful, capable, and formidable opponent.

Looking at it this way, the Shen family was truly in peril. Recalling the days since Shen Nan entered the mansion, their self-righteous threats, neglect, and even coercion seemed utterly ridiculous.

She was probably laughing at them from the very beginning!

Li Si didn't think that far, but the more he thought about it, the more terrifying it seemed, and he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine: "Third Young Master, then who is she? She can't be a ghost, can she? Where is the real Shen Nan?"

"Dead," Shen Yuansong answered coldly.

He had no thoughts whatsoever about a sister he had never met.

"Dead?" Li Si found it even more terrifying. "Then, what does that woman want by taking Shen Nan's identity?"

Thinking of that woman's actions, Shen Yuansong uttered a sentence: "To avenge the real Shen Nan."

She killed Meng Ziyu precisely to avenge Shen Nan, even though he had no idea why Meng Ziyu killed Shen Nan in the first place.

Li Si took a sharp breath. After racking his not-so-bright brain for a while, he finally understood: "I never expected this woman to be so audacious, deceiving everyone, even the Emperor, all to avenge Shen Nan! Who knows who she really is and what her relationship with Shen Nan is..."

These were things Shen Yuansong naturally also pondered, but after two days of thinking, he still had no clue. Coupled with being locked up in this sunless place, his mood grew increasingly irritable.

"Had I known earlier that she wasn't the real Shen Nan, I would never have lowered my guard these past few days! This woman has no blood ties to our Shen family and is completely unbound by the Shen family's constraints. Father, Mother, and Second Brother were mistaken from the very start... Now she's plotting some sinister schemes again."

Li Si sighed, "Third Young Master, forgive this servant for speaking out of turn, but Shen Nan has not been in the Shen family since childhood and has no familial bonds with the master, my lady, or the young masters and misses. Even if she were still alive, she might be just as unbound as the current one."

This was Li Si's own opinion. He had once seen a cousin's illegitimate son who was falsely accused by the stepmother of not being the biological child and was driven out of the house. Later, when he succeeded in business, the cousin's family rushed to cling to him, but he ignored them completely.

In Li Si's view, even if the real Shen Nan were brought back, she would have no affection for the Shen family. If something happened, she would not be bound by this non-existent familial bond.

Moreover, he had heard that Shen Nan's birth mother might have been killed by the master and my lady!

If that were true, then if Shen Nan were still alive, she would definitely be at odds with the current Shen family.

So he couldn't understand why the Third Young Master still thought of using this non-existent familial bond as a reason. They had never treated Shen Nan as family, so why did they always think Shen Nan would treat them as family?

Shen Yuansong was stunned, not expecting a servant to dare to contradict him, and his face turned angry. Seeing this, Li Si quickly lowered his head and changed the subject, "Third Young Master, there seems to be a path over there, shall we go and take a look?"

"That area is full of traps. If you want to turn into a porcupine, go ahead," Shen Yuansong said irritably.

He had been here for two or three days and had certainly tried to get out. If he could have left, he wouldn't still be sitting here.

Hearing this, Li Si completely fell silent.

He stopped talking, but Shen Yuansong became even more agitated.

What did Li Si mean by saying that even if the real Shen Nan returned, she would still deal with the Shen family like this?

What if there was no familial bond? They were connected by blood, and even if the bone was broken, the tendon would still be connected. Could she really kill them?

Just as Shen Yuansong was about to sneer at this thought, Li Si suddenly asked again, "Third Young Master, how did you end up here? Did you come with Meng Ziyu that night, intending to kill the fake Shen Nan?"