"What happened later?" Leah asked softly.
The old lady looked lovingly at Leah and sighed. Later, Wade's child came to tell her that the Cox Family owed its current standing entirely to the Shaw Family, and that the Shaw Family couldn't fall; he alone had to take on the embezzlement charges.
Zachary entrusted his young daughter to the old lady and allowed himself to be accused of embezzlement, luring out the hidden enemies, giving the Shaw Family a chance to breathe and preserve their vitality until they could uncover the culprit from the past. By then, Zachary had already died in prison, and the old lady, having lost two children in succession, was plunged into inconsolable grief. Although finally, a bloody storm sorted out six or seven prominent families in the Imperial City, lives could not be restored.
