After hesitating again and again, Yan Yue made a decision that would not betray Xia Fan's trust—while submitting her resignation to the Affairs Bureau, she laid out in full why she had come to Jinxia and what the Bureau of Military Affairs intended. As for her family, she planned to go to Xu State in person and confront the Seven-Star Envoy.
It later proved to be the most correct decision of her life.
Not only did Xia Fan refuse to accept her resignation, after learning the situation, he instead had her use some less important intelligence to keep the Bureau of Military Affairs placated. Then Olina and Chi began a covert rescue operation. Because of the Yan Family's important medical skills, the Bureau of Military Affairs had not openly monitored or imprisoned the Yan Family, giving Jinxia tremendous room to maneuver. After all, by conventional thinking, letters would take one or two months to travel back and forth. Yet the letter had only just been sent when Chi had already brought Yan Yue back to her hometown.
What followed went as naturally as water flowing downhill. The family head, still in the dark, was persuaded by her to send the main family's disciples out of the city to gather herbs. She and several important clansmen, meanwhile, leaped over the city walls with Miss Dragon's help one night and vanished into the darkness. Since all of the family's businesses had been abandoned and even their pharmacies were still operating normally that day, no one noticed the Yan Family's escape.
Yan Yue did not know how the Bureau of Military Affairs had reacted, but upon returning to Jinxia, she immediately wrote an exceedingly long letter and cursed them out so thoroughly they were drenched in blood from head to toe. Even now,