This was bound to be an unsettling night.
The ancestral home of the Shen family was in Dark Art Street, a place teeming with prominent families. After Shen Cong was driven out of the Shen family, he bought a small house in the remote West Street. The house, smaller than his previous courtyard and situated in such an outlying place, had cost him five hundred taels.
Although he'd acquired properties over the years, they were all confiscated by Madame Shen, justifying the act by saying they were bought with the Shen family's silver coins. When he finally left the Shen family, he was left with nothing but a title deed to a piece of land in Xishan.
Madame Shen even didn't let him take decent clothes with him.
He could hardly say he left with nothing. His previous personal servant, Xiaotao, insisted on following him.
Firstly, master and servant had a good relationship.
