Rescue!
Daliang nodded heavily. "Yes, but Young Lady, what do you want tattooed?"
Yun Zhiyi bit into a candied skewer. "Hmm... a full sleeve, an over-the-shoulder dragon, and Guan Yu across his entire back."
"After the tattoos are done, break his legs, cut off half his tongue, and throw him out of the Imperial Capital. Tell his family to behave too, or they'll be fed to the fish!"
With that, she left.
Hou Ze was completely dumbfounded.
"Are you trying to ruin me?" he roared.
He had just arrived to take up his post!
Yun Zhiyi stopped, turned around, and glanced at him. "Tattoo a Heaven's Eye on his forehead too!"
Hou Ze's entire body went limp.
"Miss Yun, I was wrong, I was wrong! I won't dare do it again, I really won't!" He immediately gave in.
Yun Zhiyi said understatedly, "You were wrong, but not severely enough. Otherwise, you'd already be dead."
"Oh, right. You asked whether I was married just now. I can answer you: not yet."
"But I have a husband. His name is Shen Wuxiao. Next time, I'll bring him along, and we can get together!"
The moment Hou Ze heard the name Shen Wuxiao, his eyes rolled back, and he nearly fainted.
When you came to the Imperial Capital, you might not know any high-ranking officials. You might not even know who the Top Leader was at any given time.
But you could never not know Shen Wuxiao.
The Imperial Capital Crown Prince—he was a brutally ruthless man.
Hou Ze immediately tried to kneel, but Daliang and the others held him up, leaving him unable to kneel.
He had actually called Crown Prince Xiao's woman "Zhiyi," asked her out, and even vaguely threatened her earlier.
Any one of those offenses was enough to get