For a moment, everyone around Li Sui's expression turned grave. As the horns sounded, some of the soldiers in the distance were gathering in this direction as well. Everyone began readying their trump cards.
"Mm~~ Stop fighting." As a voice that was half male, half female rang out, the tense, drawn-sword atmosphere gradually eased.
As the crowd parted, Li Sui saw a round-faced man who looked to be in his thirties, dressed in green silk, emerge from within.
Looking at the injured Li Sui, he raised one finger and wound a lock of hair at his left temple around it. In an unhurried manner, he said, "A Black Tai Sui Heart Essence? Hmph~ How interesting. It can even speak so fluently. A sight rarely seen in a thousand years."
Calling him a man did not seem quite right, yet he was not exactly a woman either. Looking at him, Li Sui thought of the eunuchs in the palace, except he seemed even more womanly than they did.
"Sir, are you a eunuch who serves the Emperor in the palace? Do you know the Emperor?" Li Sui felt that the Emperor of Daqi surely knew her father.
"Hmph~" After letting out a soft snort, the half-man, half-woman-looking figure said, "Not every intersex person is a eunuch. Back when I was six, I truly wanted to enter the palace and find work, but they would not take me. They said I was not qualified. Nothing to be done—people have to eat. So now, I can only scrape together a position as the Director of the Celestial Surveillance in the Celestial Surveillance Division."
"You're the Director of the Celestial Surveillance of Daqi? You really are the Director of the Celestial Surveillance of Daqi?" Li Sui immediately grew excited. After running around for so