"What? The prefectural governors of the other Direct Prefectures invited me to a meeting?"
During this period, to avoid assassination attempts, Zhou You had remained in the Zhou Clan Western Sect, never setting foot outside.
Staying in his own stronghold was safer. If anything went wrong, he could retreat into the ancestral shrine space.
In truth, assassins were not as godlike as the rumors made them out to be. So long as he did not throw himself into disarray, the enemy would have no opening to exploit.
There had been nothing unusual about the family members he dealt with daily, nor had there been any sign of the so-called "disguised infiltration."
He had thought he could simply drag things out like this, but then news suddenly arrived: the prefectural governors were holding a meeting.
It turned out that people at the prefectural governor level often met for internal conferences. In the past, they had been summoned by a Sealed Lord, but now that there was no Sealed Lord, the rulers of the Eight Direct Prefectures had been gathered internally.
This meeting was extremely important—at least for a "usurper" like Zhou You. It was an opportunity to gain recognition from others of his kind.
Even that Young Master Buying from Maijing Prefecture had received an invitation, one of the eight invited to attend.
The matter reeked of something suspicious. How could it be such a coincidence? Zhou You had shut himself away to avoid disaster, and suddenly he was being called out to attend a meeting.
Yet he could not refuse. As the saying went, meetings were not scary—the one who was absent was the awkward one!
Because when you did not know what kind of disgusting hat the others would pin on your head while you were absent.
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