The news of Zheng Nianru's departure from the palace was not widely known, and everything was conducted with great discretion. Yet such subtlety could not fool the watchful eyes of the prominent aristocratic families—the Shiping Aristocratic Clan was the first to receive the news.
Nanmen Yuyan was slightly taken aback. Was this the Crown Prince's strategy?
Although the Shiping Aristocratic Clan did not show off its power, it possessed something that other families couldn't match—the control of all sorts of intelligence. Public and private networks intertwined in complex patterns but corroborated each other. In the past, all of this was in Lady Zou's hands, but since she had come to the Zheng Capital, Lady Zou had been intentionally or unintentionally revealing these details to her only legitimate daughter, Nanmen Yuyan.
