Chapter 462: Hypothesis

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

As soon as the man said this, not to mention Lin Suisui, even Mo Enze, who had come over after hearing the news, couldn’t help but stagger in shock.

What the hell?!

Cousin?!

“You’ve got the wrong person.” After Lin Suisui glanced at the man, she understood what he wanted to do. She calmly gave Lu Ze, who was about to come over, a look before continuing, “I know what you want to say. Before you say anything, I want to tell a joke. I just recalled it at this moment.”

Ignoring the man’s slight change in expression, Lin Suisui lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before continuing without changing her expression, “In the past, I heard a story from travelers from the empire.

He said that although the empire was filled with outstanding people, there were also many ruthless people who would do anything to earn money.

Among them, their targets were often naive girls.

The women were naive and were doted on by the elders in the family, so they were innocent and ignorant of the dangers of the world.

Their usual method was to arrange for men to appear in front of the woman and claim that she was his cousin or the fiancee of an elder in the family.

He would keep saying how he had made many mistakes in the past and ask for forgiveness. Then, someone would take the opportunity to explain to the surrounding people that this woman was either engaged to this man first or that her cousin had eloped. In the end, they would drag the woman away.

With those ridiculous explanations from before, passers-by wouldn’t interfere. Therefore, after those evil people attacked, they often succeeded.

In the end, most of those women were sold by those evil people for money. Originally, I thought that this kind of thing was just a legend, but I didn’t expect to encounter it again.

Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”

Lin Suisui’s calm attitude made the expressions of the man blocking her and the people around him change at the same time.

It had to be said that this story was damn familiar!

They really had this plan. They wanted to destroy Lin Suisui, the ‘Goddess’, while she was unprepared!

Even if they couldn’t completely destroy her, at least they could ruin her reputation.

After all, how trustworthy could a goddess who had eloped with someone be?

However, before this plan could be implemented, it was directly exposed by the ‘goddess’.

How could they continue their plan?

“I think you’ve misunderstood. My friend only thinks that you look a little similar to his cousin. He didn’t mean to say that you’re his cousin.”

Just as the situation became awkward, someone finally came out to save the day.

The person who spoke was a refined and gentle-looking man. The elegance in his every move was like a breeze that could make people let go of their hostility at a glance.

From everyone’s attitude towards him, his status in this group was self-evident.

Before Lin Suisui could speak, Lu Ze had already rushed over and stood in front of her. He met the man’s kind and apologetic gaze as he said coldly, “Since you’ve admitted your mistake, can we leave now?”

The man didn’t speak, and Lu Ze had no intention of continuing to talk to him. He shielded Lin Suisui as they left.

“They actually thought of such despicable methods!” Bai Guo still felt a lingering sense of fear when she thought of the scene just now. If they really succeeded, no matter how she explained it, rumors, especially similar rumors, were especially convenient to spread, so it would have been too late for her to remedy the situation.

Lin Suisui patted the back of Bai Guo’s hand to comfort her. Then, she said softly, “It’s imaginable. After all, the Siamese Kingdom is powerful.

“They have ambitions that are incompatible with their country’s strength. If they don’t use such despicable methods, how can their plans succeed?”

It was impossible for them to plot openly!

Even if the entire Siamese Kingdom joined forces with the southern border, such as Vietnam, they might not be able to break through the southern defense line of our empire. That was why they targeted the northern barbarians in the north of the empire and tried to join forces with the northern barbarians to attack the empire at the same time. In this way, the empire would no longer be united.

However, it was obvious that their plan didn’t go as smoothly as expected this time.

Perhaps something had gone wrong. Lu Ze had told her more than once that when dealing with all kinds of unexpected situations, the greatest taboo was panicking.

Once this happened, everything that was originally planned would gradually go out of control.

For example, everything was controlled by Nina at first, but when did things start to go wrong?

That was the moment Gu Han escaped.

However, what disrupted everything wasn’t a foreshadowing that had just been planted, but an even earlier one.

If they had not used the refugee riot to return to the northern region, met Gu Han along the way, and fought, they naturally wouldn’t have taken the risk to enter the pass and ask them for help.

Of course, without all of this, with Gu Han’s own strength, he might be able to gather a portion of the northern barbarians’ strength to resist the Imperial Court, but Gu Han might not have the upper hand.

When everything in the northern barbarians stabilized and if the northern region of the empire was still under the rule of that muddle-headed General Gao, the consequences…

The Siamese Kingdom would have already attacked the soldiers in the northern region!

At that time, who would be able to resist the northern barbarians’ cavalry?

In the end, if war broke out in the northern region and the southern region at the same time, what would happen to the empire?!

Lin Suisui didn’t dare to think about the consequences. For some reason, she raised her hand and covered her chest, as if she had suffered a heavy blow. It was so painful that she could barely breathe.

“What’s wrong?” Lu Ze pulled Lin Suisui into his arms as he asked her anxiously.

“I’m fine. I just suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.” After Lin Suisui calmed down, she looked up at Lu Ze and held his hand comfortingly as she said in a low voice, “It was just for a moment. I feel much better now..”