"Do you think that Shadow will follow us?"
After a while, Bonaparte asked.
Georgiana suppressed a laugh. At last, she understood why he had suddenly shown such "mercy."
The problematic pages had already been taken away by members of the French Ministry of Magic, though they would most likely bring them back to densely populated Paris.
"I haven't read that far yet," she said.
"How far have you read?"
"To where Cao Xi was arrested," she replied.
He was visibly growing impatient.
"Do you know where the devil hides? In the details." She turned the pages as she spoke. "Be patient, Lyon."
He fell silent again.
Georgiana secretly watched him for a while. Once she saw that he was not truly angry, she continued reading.
After seeing off the imperial envoy, they returned to Huai'an and rode in sedan chairs back to the South River Governor's Palace. As Cao Xi's sedan chair passed through an alley, a squad of constables lying in wait at the street corner suddenly pounced on it and captured him. He did not even have time to resist, nor did he know what crime he had committed.
The constables who arrested him were expressionless and unwilling to reveal a single word. Cao Xi was escorted to a prison within the city.
Nick and the provincial graduate were "invited" into sedan chairs and taken back to the Guan Di Temple beside the Governor's Palace. The place had now been taken over by the River Defense Camp; it could be said that they were under house arrest as well.
It was not until evening that the provincial graduate received word: Cao Xi was allegedly a member of the White Lotus Sect.
Nick found it unbelievable. Then the provincial graduate received further news: the Emperor had issued an edict