Cāng Hán naturally understood City Lord Su’s intention: he hoped Zhao Lie would not provoke the Lu family, a colossal entity and an existence not to be crossed.
During the recent registration of private assets, Lu Xiangping and Lu Xiangpo had indeed declared everything visible on the surface. Yet who knew how much wealth they had secretly hoarded? The Lu family was immensely wealthy and influential; the assets they had previously registered were merely a drop in the ocean.
Zhao Lie certainly knew this. However, these wealthy people deliberately put on a pitiful display of suffering great losses just to win sympathy from others.
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