Dressed as a Man, I Became Tycoon's Sweetheart novel Chapter 571

Chapter 571: Chapter 571 Shen Jinyou Turns Evil

Gu Tianlin, after reading the imperial decree, retracted his intention to come clean.

If he told Xia Qingshao now and she refused to help him obtain the Qiankun Cover in a fit of rage, all his efforts would have gone to waste. It would be better to secure the Qiankun Cover first, and then explain everything to her once they were back in the Imperial Palace. It wasn’t too late.

Gu Tianlin concocted a ruse, deceiving Xia Qingshao to go to Hengshan Sect to steal the Qiankun Cover for him.

At that moment, Xia Qingshao, deeply in love, complied with every request from her lover without a second thought, using her identity as the daughter of the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch to smoothly enter the Nine-story Tower and steal the Qiankun Cover.

Once Gu Tianlin had the Qiankun Cover in his possession, he and Xia Qingshao hastened toward the Imperial Palace on horseback.

Meanwhile, Shen Jinyou, suffering from the bouts of the Ice and Fire Poison, remained in an unconscious slumber.

In his dreams, his body alternated between being as cold as ice and as hot as fire, muttering about his senior sister in a daze.

Even a powerful figure like Revered Wen was helpless and could only watch over his beloved disciple with heartache.

It wasn’t until the middle of the month that Bian He arrived at Qiankun Mountain with the first course of the medicinal herbs he had developed. After being fed these herbs, Shen Jinyou finally awoke, and his first words were, "Where is my senior sister?"

Little did he know that the world had drastically changed during his days of slumber.

Overjoyed by Gu Tianlin’s acquisition of the Qiankun Cover, the Emperor appointed him as Crown Prince.

With the Qiankun Cover in hand, the Emperor was now confident and fearless, leading the attack against the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch Xi Chongming. Realizing too late that she had been deceived, Xia Qingshao was furious and attempted to leave Gu Tianlin, only to be imprisoned by him in the Eastern Palace and forcefully taken as a concubine.

The Xia Qingshao of now was no longer the daughter of the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch but the first Crown Princess Consort of Desert North.

Upon hearing this news, Shen Jinyou felt a heart-piercing pain, overwhelmed with grief. He drew his sword, determined to rescue his senior sister from the Imperial Palace.

But as he left his residence, he encountered the father of Xia Qingshao, Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch—Xia Chongming.

As it turned out, the Qiankun Cover Xia Qingshao had stolen was not the genuine Qiankun Cover; the real Qiankun Cover had always been on Xia Chongming’s person. In the midst of his battle with the Emperor of Desert North, he surprisingly received a secret letter from within the Imperial Palace.

The sender of this letter from the Imperial Palace was none other than Shen Jinyou’s birth mother—Imperial Noble Consort Shen Jialin.

Imperial Noble Consort Shen Jialin had recognized her own son when Gu Tianlin, Xia Qingshao, and Shen Jinyou had entered the palace to steal the Carefree Flower.

Knowing her son was still alive and exceptionally gifted brought Imperial Noble Consort Shen Jialin’s wilted heart back to life. She fueled her vengeful desires during Xia Chongming’s rebellion.

In her secret correspondence to Xia Chongming, she proposed that if he supported Shen Jinyou, and once they succeeded, they would endorse him as Emperor, they could collaborate from within and without to overthrow the rule of Desert North.

Xia Chongming had not rebelled to become Emperor but for the well-being of the people and the commoners. Hesitant all along to act because, as a commoner, his cause for rebellion could be questioned, he was delighted to discover that Shen Jinyou was the Crown Prince of the former dynasty and an exceptional disciple of the Hengshan Sect. He readily agreed to the plan.

Xia Chongming and the masters from Qiankun Mountain explained everything to Shen Jinyou and together persuaded him to join the cause of restoration. After learning the truth of his heritage, Shen Jinyou went down the mountain to confirm it with the deaf and mute couple who had raised him.

However, upon reaching the foot of the mountain, he found that the village had been razed, and all its inhabitants slain by the Desert North army amidst the crackdown on the Hengshan Sect and Qiankun Mountain.

With his birth father murdered, his mother taken by force, his beloved senior sister now the concubine of the man responsible for his father’s killing, and even the parents who had raised him dead by the sword of the Desert North Royal Family, Shen Jinyou was shattered.

Shen Jinyou let out a heart-wrenching cry to the heavens, his heart filled with nothing but hatred for the Desert North Royal Family, a hatred that flowed through his veins and was carved into his bones.

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Three days later, Shen Jinyou succeeded Xia Chongming as the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch.

On the day of his succession, he dressed in a dark, narrow-sleeved python robe, adorned with a Jade Gold Crown that held up three thousand strands of his dark hair, and donned black brocade boots. His eyebrows inked, his temples sheared like blades, his long robe with auspicious cloud patterns billowed in the cold wind.

Below the Observation Platform, tens of thousands bowed in submission, while the man atop exuded a chill, murderous aura, gone was any trace of the once tender and gentle junior brother.

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