Lady Lian had originally planned to wait a few months, and after the Southern Dragon Pillar Meeting was over, summon her people and go to Divine House Mountain to give Zhang Yan a hard time.
Yet she had never thought that this time the Zhongtai Sect would actually be defeated so miserably, and that her two sworn elder brothers would also perish in the battle.
Losing two great helpers at once, even though there were still clansmen supporting her from behind, her status within the sect likewise plummeted, and some concubines who had always been at odds with her saw an opening and went everywhere seeking out her faults.
In such circumstances, she was unwilling to hand others a handle against her, so she restrained her conduct greatly, shut her doors and did not go out, and would not mention the matter of seizing the treasure with so much as a word.
