The next day!
In the heart of the prefectural city, several yamen runners clad in yamen uniforms hurried to an imposing, majestic residence.
The master of this residence was none other than Xiao Gaoyuan, the Prefect of Mirror Platform Prefecture.
Deep within the residence, in an exquisite and unique garden, there were five or six figures inside a small pavilion at its center.
Among them, a man dressed in loose, casual robes of silk brocade reclined comfortably in a fine wooden chair.
Several young women with alluring figures and revealing clothes were diligently attending to the man.
Directly before him stood three young men dressed like pampered young masters.
These three young masters were the sons of Xiao Gaoyuan, the Prefect of Mirror Platform Prefecture.
The man reclining before the three of them was naturally Xiao Gaoyuan, the Prefect of Mirror Platform Prefecture.
The three had long grown used to their father Xiao Gaoyuan's utterly uninhibited conduct.
Xiao Chenliang in particular had taken the blame for his father in a truly spectacular fashion.
The order to wipe out the Zhang family had been entirely his father Xiao Gaoyuan's idea. It had nothing whatsoever to do with him, a wastrel.
Xiao Chenliang believed that although he had done plenty of outrageous and wicked things in his daily life, compared with his father, he was nothing more than a witch before a sorcerer.
As far as Xiao Chenliang knew, his father had set his sights on the Zhang family's assets, as well as Zhang Yingxue, the Zhang Family's Daughter.
That was why he had ordered the Black Eagle Gang to annihilate the entire Zhang family, all to satisfy his own desires.
On the night the Zhang family was destroyed, Zhang Yingxue had even been personally delivered here by the Black Eagle Gang